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1. Evaluate the role and contribution of the Native American tribes, indentured
labour and the black slaves to the early colonial American society.

2. Define British mercantilism and evahuate whether it can be held responsible for
the American Revolution ?
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Confederation. Assess :
Articles of
Discuss the process of making
the
for its
failure. main
reasons

characteristics and analyze the

Jefferson's administration
characteristic features of Thomas
4. Examine the
his political
philosophy and pragmatic polis:
represent a dichotomy between

Analyze critically the resistance of the Shawnee tribe to the oppresion.and

5. America.
nineteenth century
domination of the 'white' in the

Discuss the multifaceted aspects of the War of 1812. Did it herald US imperialism?
6.

7. Comment on different aspects of plantation life in the south with special reference
to slave resistance.

3. Examine critically the historiographical debate on the Civil War. Was the war
irrepressible' ?

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Examine the role and contributions of indigenous tribes,

indentured labour .and slaves in the early colonial American

society.

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2 Elucidate British mercantilisny and examine whether
it can be

held responsible for American Revolution.

Discuss the social roots of the Constitution of 1787. Wa

it based on philanthropy or economic interests

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Explain the political patterns and administrative reform

introduced by Thomas Jefferson. Was it a shift fro

Hamiltonian federalism?

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Evaluate the main facets of federal bureaucracy under Andrew

Jackson.

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Analyze nc resistances of the shawnee tribe t0 the process

of marginalization and the domination of the "whites in the

19th century America?

6. Examine the mutifaceted roots of the War of 1812. Did t herald

US imperialis ?

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In the context of the plantation economy discuss the natu

of Antebellum Agrarian South',

8. Examine the different interprêtations on the American

Civil War.
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British colonization of America was facilitated by

entured and slave labour. Evaluate.
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Examine the major shifts in British colonial

2. and how the
century
from mid eighteenth Reve
American
in the making of the
responsible

of the Artic
3. Examine the weaknesses
Confederation and comment on the importance
Constitution of 1787.
to the
two plans that led

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Jeffersonian
statement that the
4. Evaluate the between
compromise
was.
markedby a

policies.
philosophy and pragmatic

mobiliz
of Shawnee tribe in
5. Examine the efforts

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protcsts ol Native Amcrican tribes against the

American policy of marginalization.

ldentify the main features of the plantation economy

of the South and discuss how it gencrated slave

resistances.

7. Do you agree with the view that the War of 1812 was a
war tor "iree trade and sailors' rights"?

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8. Analyse the main causes of the Civil War.

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1. Critically examine the role and contributions of

different forms of labour to the consolidation of the
colonial economy in America.

2. Do you agree with the view that the British imperialist

policies after 1763 made the Revolution imminent?

3. Evaluate Charles Beard's interpretation of the

Constitution of 1787. What were the responses of his
critics?

4. Comment on the American racist and ethnic bias

towards the indigenous tribes. Examine with special
reference to the resistances of the Shawnee and
Cherokee tribes.

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Comment on the significance of Turner's hypothesis

of the Frontier as "safety valve.

Examine critically the social evolution and political

participation of the immigrants in ante-bellum America
with special reference to Irish immigrants.

Analyze critically the origins of the War of 1812.

Was it a prelude to Manifest Destiny?

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Evaluate the validity of the
definition
slavery
7. Was it distinct
from northern
political economy.

capitalism?

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Examine the patterns of slave resistance with

particular reference to the challenges posed by female
slaves in nineteenth century America.

8. Is it fair to suggest that the Civil War was a' "brutal

and a horrible experience for the soul of America'.
Explain in the context of the issues that led to the
War.

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role of
1. Analyze the of America.
on the colonial cconomy
impact

2. Discuss the different ideological trends that have

Revolution.
the study of American
shaped

3. Do you agree with the view that the Federal

Constitution of 1787 was an Economic Document'?

4. Discuss the main tenets of Jefferson's administration.

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Discuss the main characteristics of Jacksonian

democracy.

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5. Critically examine the 'white advance on native lands'

in ante-bellum America. Illustrate its impact by the
case study of the Shawnee tribe.

6. Analyze the causes and consequences of the War of

1812.

7. Discuss the nature of plantation economy of ante

bellum South and different forms of slave resistance it
generated.

8. "The Civil War pitted Americans against Americans.

Analyze the statement in the context of the issues that
led to the War.
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2. Do you
agree with the view that the
restrictive Briti
policies were responsible for the
Revolution? Americ=

3. The Federal Constitution of the

USA
nobler, philanthropic, humanitarian
was
inspired
motives. Examir
Critically.

4. Examine critically
the 'white advance on
native land
in ante-belum America. Illustrate its impact by th
case studies of the Shawnee and
the Cherokee tribes.

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Or (3727E0)
Evaluate the coniributions of FJ. Turner to the stu.
of the Frontier.

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5. Discus the nature and objectives of the Irish Land ,

League in America in the ninetcenth century. Did it
infiuence and transform the attitudes of the Irish
immigrants towards the American society??

6. Was the Monroe Doctrince a challenge to the world or

was it a sirategy to fulti U.S. imperialism? Discuss
with reterence to its various facets.

r (Haan)
Examine criticaliy ihe genesis of uhe War of 1812. Was
it indicative of the USA's desire for territorial
expansionism

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of slavery
in ante-bellun
economy
1 Discuss political
America.theDid it facilitate capitalism in Agrarian

South?

Or (F¥aT)
Comment on the patterns ot slave resistance with
particular reference to the role of the female slaves in
challenging the nineteenth century racist stercotypes.

Discuss the main issues that led to the Civil War. Was

the w a r ' i n e v i t a b l e ' ?

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