Assignment 2

Write an essay of 5 paragraphs each with each citation.

1.How did plantation crops and the slavery system change between 1800 and 1860? Why did these changes occur? 

2.Why was the Constitution a controversial document even as it was being written? 

3.In what ways did the emerging industrial economy conflict with artisan republicanism? How did wage laborers respond to the new economy? 

4.What was the relationship between the collapse of the Second Party System of Whigs and Democrats and the Republican victory in the election of 1860?