Regional Studies USA Übung, Homework for Week 6

**Chapter 7 will be covered in the lecture as well as in brief overview in our class on Thursday. In order for us to complete an overview of US history this semester, please continue on to Chapters 8 and 9.**

Questions for next week's class:
Chapter 8: We Take Nothing By Conquest, Thank God
1. (pg. 151-155) Out of what context does the expression "manifest destiny" emerge?
2. Many people believe that Texas has the right to secede from the Union. Is this true?
3. Who instigated the US-Mexican War and who opposed it?

Chapter 9: Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
4. (pgs. 173-175) What effect(s) did slave rebellions have?
5. Investigate Canada's role in the Underground Railroad. What Canadian laws protected former slaves and what was abolitionist culture like in Canada?
6. (pgs. 187-192) Was Lincoln an abolitionist?
7. What would be the implications in 20th century of the 1896 decision in Plessy vs. Ferguson (mentioned on pg. 205)?

In class today, we reviewed the following terms and dates. Make sure that you illustrate the terms with specific examples in your notes. For dates, make sure that you can identify both the event associated with the date and its significance in terms of US history (I highly recommend that you start to make a running timeline for key dates covered in the lecture and the Übung, inserting other dates that will assist you in contextualizing the respective periods):

cognitive blend, Gestalt, prototypes, populism, propaganda, intertextuality, memes (Dawkins), intersectionality, bigotry, myths and contextualizations for the US/"America"

significance of the Bill of Rights, 13th-15th Amendments, 19th Amendment

1492, 1607, (1620, Plymouth; 1621 "First Thanksgiving"), 1629, 1676, 1775-1783, 1776, 1787, 1920, 1940, 1968

Feminist/womanist writers cited today included Abigail Adams ("Remember the ladies"), Sojourner Truth ("Ain't I a Woman?"), Elizabeth Cady Stanton ("Solitude of Self"), Virginia Woolf ("A Room of One's Own"), Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch), bell hooks (Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center), Alice Walker (In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose), and Teju Cole ("Black Body").

Notes from class:
1. Since Slavoj Zizek was mentioned in the discussion today, you might be interested in his analysis of the US election (short video at the bottom of the page): https://www.rt.com/usa/367065-zizek-interview-trump-awakening/
2. In line with the question from last week concerning the role of Facebook in this election, here is a recent article from Wired Magazine: https://www.wired.com/2016/11/facebook-won-trump-election-not-just-fake-news/
3. Here's a good summary of the Federalist Party (Britannica is a good online alternative to Wikipedia for encyclopedic information and definitions): https://www.britannica.com/topic/Federalist-Party
And speaking of the Federalists, this video on the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" might interest you as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAiEVjW-GNA
4. Britannica entry on the colonies with some very useful maps: https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-New-England-colonies#ref612316