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A summary about the profession the Americas IIb. The summary follows the summary of the Americas IIa and continues on other themes (such as the American "West") in the 19th century.
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Summary the Americas IIbExam
1 MAIN THEMES (19TH CENTURY AMERICA)
- Week 11: Nations & Empires – Expanding Boundaries
- Week 12: Confederacy & Confederation – Union & Disunion
- Week 13: Emancipation and Post-Emancipation
No lecture (see week 2)
- Week 14: Native Americans and American States
- Week 15: Civilizing Americans
No seminar (see week 6)
- Week 16: Capitalism and its Discontents
1.1 EXAM INFORMATION
- Digital exam
- 3 hours
- 2 parts
Section A (70%): choice of 10 questions, answering 7 (200 – 300
words), describing historical events (mention year or decade) and
describe primary sources in detail (use quotes).
Try to be detailed to show knowledge of the subject.
Section B (30%): choice of 2 – 3 essay questions, and basically just
write an essay in which to use clear arguments with good evidence. No
worrying about presentation and no need for a works cited list.
1.2 STUDY STRATEGIE
- Read notes from seminars + slides from lectures
- Read LEP chapters partially + read primary source texts partially
- Make a summary from week 11 to week 16
Main historical events of the periods (mention dates)
Texts analysis’s of primary sources (mention quotes)
1.3 LIBERTY, EQUALITY & POWER
- Relevant chapters in LEP: 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
- Relevant primary sources of weeks 11 - 16
, 2 WEEK 11 – NATIONS & EMPIRES –
EXPANDING BOUNDARIES
2.1 LECTURE
From Texas to California and Beyond – An Empire in the West
- Monroe Doctrine (1823)
US opposed further European colonization
Supported independent American Republics
Opposed changes in status quo
- Mexican independence in 1821, starts in 1810 by a priest evoking
Christianity and argues that Mexico should be free
Was declared an empire, just like European nations
- Plan of three guarantees
Catholic nations
Entirely independent (from Spain)
Equality (mainly for people of Spanish decent or the elites in “new”
Spain
- Mexico becomes a Republic in 1824
Missouri Compromise (1820)
- Henry Clay of Kentucky
Compromise that Missouri would be a slave state and Kentucky a free
state
To keep balance
Clay was a supporter of growing American industry
A slaveholder who knew they had to maintain balance (slavery
controversial)
The Black Legend
- The environment created by our stories from the homeland about Latin
America / colonial Spain
Told by Dutch and English competitors over colony
- First Mexican President: Guadalupe Victoria (RESEARCH)
- Captures cruelties that occurred during occupation against natives
“holy violence”, ideology and religion used as excuse
- Sam Houston & Stephen Austin
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