Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for January 11th

 For homework, please: 

- read pp. 238-247 of These Truths and answer the following questions: 

1. Who is Tocqueville? (This might require some outside research.)

2. What was the American Colonization Society? (This might require some outside research.) 

3. How did Abraham Lincoln earn the nickname "Spotty Lincoln"?

4. What is the Wilmot Proviso? 

5. What is Unitarianism? (This might require some outside research.) 

6. Lepore argues on pg. 242 that "it was the American reach for empire that, by sundering the Union, brought abut the collapse of slavery." What details from US history does Lepore base this thesis in?