Chapter 10: The Other Civil War
1. What was the cause of the economic crisis of 1837 (cited on pg. 212)?
2. Identify the link between the beginning of this chapter and the information on New York's aristocracy on pg. 48 (Chapter 3).
3. What context does Zinn assess with the analysis that "racist hostility became an easy substitute for class frustration" (pg. 227)? To what other historical contexts in US history might we be able to apply this analysis?
4. Marx' Communist Manifesto was first published in 1848. What effects did it have in the US shortly after its publication?
Chapter 12: The Empire and the People
1. Zinn references the Monroe Doctrine on the first page of this chapter. What was the context in which it was written and delivered? How has it informed US foreign policy?
2. What events brought about the US-Spanish War (pgs. 301-309)?
3. (pg. 317) Why did some unions supported the war in the Philippines?
Investigate your own family's or your home region's immigration history to the US. These links might help:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2110801
http://libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger
You might be interested in these documentary films produced by PBS (U.S. Public Broadcasting Service), many of which cover topics and periods we have addressed in class: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/
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