COR 100

The revivalist doctrines of salvation, perfectionism, and disinterested benevolence led many evangelical reformers to believe that slavery was the most God-defying of all sins and the most terrible blight on the moral virtue of the United States. While white interest in and commitment to abolition had existed for several decades, organized antislavery advocacy had been largely restricted to models of gradual emancipation (seen in several northern states following the American Revolution) and con...

COR 100 Final Exam review topics with summaries

Think of the world you will be living in the rest of your life. Actually, you are already living in it. Groups making demands, sometimes peacefully, sometimes violently but almost always disturbingly. Politicians making promises of a brave new world, or at least one from which the troubles of the day are banished. Mass murders in Africa and the Middle East. The clash of religions. Debates over climate change and threats to the environment, balanced against economic growth. What are you to make o...

In his Report on Manufacturers, excerpted below, Alexander Hamilton articulated an ambitious plan to support the new nation’s infant industries and to encourage industrial development.

Poem by Langston Hughes - Let America Be America Again

Is it upon mature consideration we adopt the idea, that nature is thus partial in her distributions? Is it indeed a fact, that she hath yielded to one half of the human species so unquestionable a mental superiority? I know that to both sexes elevated understandings, and the reverse, are common. But, suffer me to ask, in what the minds of females are so notoriously deficient, or unequal. May not the intellectual powers be ranged under these four heads— imagination, reason, memory and judgment.

Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, entered in office on March 4th 1929. On October of that same year, the stock market crashed and the nation started to fall apart. By 1930, four million people were out of work and by the next year six million, and nearly half of the banks of the country had failed.