Regional Studies USA, Übung, Homework for Week 3

For homework, please complete the following:

Chapter Three: Persons of a Vile and Mean Condition
1. (pg. 39-41) What role did populism play in Bacon's Rebellion?
2. (pg. 47) How were the philosophies of John Locke critical in the founding of the US?
3. (pg. 57) Is Richard Hofstadter's quote at the bottom of the page still valid about the US today? Support your answer with specific detail.

Chapter Four: Tyranny is Tyranny
4. (pgs. 59-61) What was the realpolitik of the US Revolutionary War?
5. (pgs. 69-70) What factors contributed to the immense popularity of Thomas Paine's Common Sense?

6. What is cultural appropriation?

7. When does an image become propaganda?

8. Have a look at this NY Times documentary and consider the campaign manager's statements concerning building narratives in campaigns: http://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004216589/how-to-win-an-election.html. What narratives do we see being promoted in Hillary Clinton's campaigns and in Donald Trump's campaign? With what groups do these different narratives resonate?

A correction and clarification: the Harlem Renaissance in fact spans from the 1920s to the mid-1930s/end of the 1930s, but is considered by many scholars to have been a necessary foundation for the Civil Rights Movements leading up and into the 1960s.

Here is a map of Native American tribes across Canada, the US, and Mexico (all the maps can be accessed in a larger format via PDF files at the bottom of the page; they might take a while to load): http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/06/24/323665644/the-map-of-native-american-tribes-youve-never-seen-before