Lesson 5 And 6 Discussion Read Chapters 9 10 And The Monroe Doctrine

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Read Chapters 9 – 10 and the Monroe Doctrine. Once all reading is complete, respond to the following items:

  • The Monroe Doctrine became one of the crucial foundations of American foreign policy over the next century; what was the occasion for Monroe’s articulation of this doctrine, and what were the circumstances motivating its adoption?
  • What reasons were used by Monroe to justify this foreign policy pronouncement, and how do they relate to arguments made during the revolutionary and early republic periods?

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/print_friendly.php?fl…

Read Chapters 11 – 12 and the information included in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; scroll down the document at this website and read through Chapters V, VI and VII of the account by ex-slave Harriet Jacobs. Once all reading is complete, respond to the following item(s):

  • What does this account reveal about the nature of slavery and how slavery affected southern society?

http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html#jac…

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