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Create a fictional character (or real-life character but placed in your creative historical fiction writing) to fit a topic in Chapters 10-11.  Be SPECIFIC, lengthen your paragraphs, and use Internet source if you wish, but keep the comment in your own words.  The SEVEN-PARAGRAPH (or more) comment is due October 26, will get a ten-point deduction if turned in by November 2 and will not be accepted (or you must use your makeup comment) afterwards. (You can use Internet sources, but use your own words and cite your sources). Your choices are below:1. You are a common-person Jacksonian invited to the White House for Jackson's inaugural in 1829.2. You are Peggy Eaton, a Jacksonian cabinet wife implicated in sexual scandal in Washington, D.C.3. You are Sen. John C. Calhoun defending the nullifiers during the South Carolina crisis of 1832-33. 4. You are a Cherokee native forced to march on the Trail of Tears in 1838.5. You are Nicholas Biddle doing all you can to preserve the Second Bank of the United States in 1832-1836.6. You are Solomon Northup, a free black captured and forced into slavery from 1841 to 1853. 7. You are a plantation wife - the word is mistress - in the Old South of the 1850s.  (Please do Internet research).8. You are a free African American black in the Old South who owns a farm - but also owns slaves!9. You are Celia, a slave who murdered her rapist Missouri master and is put on trial (True story -- Google Celia, 1855.).  10. You are Nat Turner leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in Virginia history in 1831

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