ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY
Homework Assignment
Henretta: Chapter Eight

Directions: Read Chapter Eight and answer the following questions in complete sentences.  Your responses must be either typewritten or hand-written in black or blue ink.  All responses must be written on a separate sheet of paper. Answers written on this sheet will NOT be accepted for credit under any circumstances.

1.       What were the key aspects of Republican policy in the early republic? How did Republicans pursue these objectives?

2.       What were the official and unofficial causes of the War of 1812?

3.       How would you reconcile Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana with his belief in a strict interpretation of the Constitution?

4.       In what ways was the American political economy of the early nineteenth century a mix of Federalist and Republican philosophies?

5.       How did John Marshall use his position as chief justice of the United States to strengthen the power of the national government?

6.       How did the emergence of capitalism out of a market economy restructure economic and social relationships?

7.       Read American Voices, Red Jacket: A Seneca Chief's Understanding of Religion in Chapter 8 of the text. After reading the document, write a brief paragraph-length response to each of the following questions.

The Seneca chief Red Jacket was ardently bent on defending Seneca beliefs and culture against white influences. He cringed especially at the rising popularity of Christianity. His second wife's conversion to Christianity in 1826 actually prompted him to leave her and move to a neighboring reservation. They were later reconciled, but his distrust of missionaries remained firm. Tired of white deception, Red Jacket told missionaries visiting the Buffalo Creek Reservation that before proselytizing Christianity among the Senecas, they should look to the moral and spiritual lives of the citizens of Buffalo, New York, who cheat Indians all too often: "Let us know the tree by the blossoms, and the blossoms by the fruit."

a.    For Red Jacket, is there a connection between the Seneca supreme being and the European supreme being? Does this affect Red Jacket's perception of Christianity?

b.    How does Red Jacket explain the existence of one God but multiple systems of worship?

c.    What is Red Jacket's final decree on religious conversion?

8.        Read Voices from Abroad, Alexis de Tocqueville: Law and Lawyers in the United States in Chapter 8 of the text. After reading the document, write a brief paragraph-length response to each of the following questions.

a.       What about American society impressed Tocqueville? Why?

b.      Did Tocqueville think that the restraining arm of the law was commendable or dangerous to American society?