United States History

Homework due Monday, January 6

AP:     Making America, pp 353-365 (up to “The Human Dimensions of the War”)

           

            Review outline, “Slavery in Antebellum America”

           

            Read:  “The ‘Mudsill’ Theory” by James Henry Hammond

                        George Fitzhugh Advocates Slavery

                        Abolition Excerpts

                        Doc. 4 Fragment on Slavery by Abraham Lincoln

            Be prepared to discuss the readings on January 8 in AP Elective class

Reg:    America: Pathways to the Present, pp 380-389, 395-396 (Emancipation and the War)

            Read: Abolition Excerpts

                      Doc. 4 Fragment on Slavery by Abraham Lincoln

            List these documents in two columns:  Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery.  Which document(s) in each category make(s) the strongest statement?

Both:   Terms