After Midterm:
William Loyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
The Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 19, 1863

The 5 copies of Gettysburg Address
Henry Clay
Missouri Compromise, 1820-1821
The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, Introduction by Ryan Simmons
Lowell Mill Girls

Final:
Nullification, Dec. 10, 1832
Nat Turner, his rebellion and confessions
Samuel Slater
"Trail of Tears", of Cherokee
Leading Up to War, Abolitionism
The Second Great Awakening

Essay one:
Did Jefferson remain a "Jeffersonian" after his election in 1800? In other words, was he, as president, faithful to his earlier philosophy? Cite examples to support your position.

Essay two:
How do Emerson and Thoreau use the concept of self-reliance differently? Compare and contrast their views.
Example

Essay three:
The "Age of Jackson" is often referred to as the "Age of Democracy". Why is the Jacksonian Era associated with democracy? Is "democracy" a good way to describe this period? Why or Why not?
Examples

Essay Four:
Based on the documents you have read for this week, in what ways did American writers think of themselves as culturally distinct from European nations? Did that conception change during the period between 1775 and 1800? What were some of the proposals for making the United States distinctive?

Essay Five:
In what ways was Andrew Jackson (in the period before he was a presidential candidate) a symbol of theAmerican nation? Is his life before he entered presidential politics a goo reflection of what pre-1820 America was about?

Essay Six:
How and why might Douglass's Narrative have converted someone who had been indifferent toward slavery into someone opposed to slavery?

Essay Seven:
In what ways are the experiences of Martha Ballard and the factory girls either a reflection of or a challenge to the Cult of True Womanhood"?

Essay Eight:
Assess Tocqueville's views of the strengths and weaknesses of American democracy.

Reference:

• The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents. ed. by John Grafton ed.
  
• Liberty and Order: The First American Party Struggle, ed. by Lance Banning
  
• Alexis De Tocqueville. Democracy in America, introduced by John T. Morgan
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson. Self Reliance and Other Essays
  
• Henry David Thoreau. Walden, or, Life in the Woods
  

  From 1845 to 1847, Thoreau moved to a hut on the edge of Walden Pond, a small glacial lake near Concord. Guided by the maxim "Simplify, simplify," he strictly limited his expenditures, his possessions, and his contact with others. His goal: "To live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach."
  

• Robert V. Remini. Andrew Jackson
  
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Written by Himself, ed. by David W. Blight.
  
• Eve Kornfeld. Creating an American culture, 1775-1800

Other Readings:

• Constitution, 1789
• The Writing of Thomas Jefferson in 1808. (Regarding his hope to civilize the Indians)
• Monre Doctrine, Dec. 2nd, 1823
• Andrew Jackson Message to Congress, Dec. 28, 1829. (Regarding to Cherokee Nation)
• Andrew Jackson Signed the Removal Bill in May, 1830.
• Andrew Jackson Signed the Bank Bill, in 1832.
• "The Mill Girls", from Slaves from Free Slaves
• Walter Barbara. "The Cult of Womenhood, 1820-1840".
• Abraham Lincoln. "The Gettysburg Address", Nov. 16, 1863.