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Robert Pierce

History 17A Fourth Essay -- Summer session

You will be asked to answer one of the following:

1. Had you lived between 1820 and 1860, which reform movements would have been most attractive to you? Select three and tell why these seem to be of special importance to you. Give historical examples of why these would have occupied your attention.

2. Explain how slavery affected economic and political life in the United States in the period 1836 to 1850. How did slavery affect expansion of the United States in this period?

3. Discuss the problems of immigration that America's urban centers faced and were unable to solve in the 1830s-1850s. To what extent do these problems exist today?

Part Two--50%

You will be asked to Identify and give the significance of four of the following. Remember to explain why each was important in the period under study.

1. Henry David Thoreau
2. William Lloyd Garrison
3. Sam Houston
4. Nat Turner
5. Hinton Helper
6. Tejanos
7. John C. Fremont
8. American Anti-Slavery Society
9. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
10. Oneida
11. Margaret Fuller
12. Dorothea Dix
13. The "burned over district"
14. David Wilmot


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