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Topic Framing Questions
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What was the nature of the society that formed in the immediate aftermath of
the American Revolution and the ratification of the Constitution?
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What did the citizens of the early republic hope for? |
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What did they fear? |
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How did they seek to balance freedom and order?
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How was religious freedom defined in the new republic? |
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How did rationalists and evangelicals differ on the place of religion in a republic? How did they agree? |
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How did diverse religious communities contribute to a shared national identity? |
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How could church-state separation co-exist with the conviction that religion is critical to a nation's strength?
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Topic Framing Questions
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What core political issues defined themselves in the new republic? |
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What caused the greatest optimism and anxiety among American leaders? |
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What do the religious overtones in these political texts express? |
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What national identity evolved in the three decades from 1789 to 1820?
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Topic Framing Questions
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What implications did westward migration hold for national unity? |
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How did the citizens of the early republic think about Native Americans and their place in the developing nation? |
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How did Native Americans respond to the westward press of the United States? |
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How did the United States respond to the presence of Native Americans on the western frontier?
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Topic Framing Questions
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What notions of equality were held by early republican leaders? free black men? white women?
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How did their notions of equality and rights correspond? |
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How did each group mold its public voice? How did each use its power? |
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To what extent did America succeed in "living the revolution" by 1820? |
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Images: “Washington’s reception by the ladies, on passing the bridge at Trenton, N.Y., April 1789, on his way to New York to be
inaugurated first president of the United States.” New York: Currier & Ives, 1876. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs
Division.
John William Hill, View of the Erie Canal, 1830-1832, watercolor (detail). I. N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American
Historical Prints, The New York Public Library.
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