Comparative Questions

COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

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Document 8-1: Richard Allen Founds the First African Methodist Church

Document 8-2: Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race

Document 8-3: Benjamin Rush Proposes a Proper Education for a Republic

Document 8-4: Making the Case for the Constitution

Document 8-5: Mercy Otis Warren Opposes the Constitution

  1. How did Richard Allen's experiences compare with Thomas Jefferson's conclusions about the difficulties of emancipation? How might Allen have responded to Jefferson's arguments about slavery and race?
  2. How did Jefferson's views about slavery and race compare to James Madison's argument about the dangers of majorities? What minority rights were protected, for example, in Jefferson's and Madison's Virginia?
  3. What were the principal differences between Madison's Federalist arguments and Mercy Otis Warren's Antifederalist criticisms? To what extent did Madison and Warren agree? How did their views of human liberty and the limits of government compare to those in Benjamin Rush's proposal for republican education?
  4. According to the documents in this chapter, what were the most important qualities for citizens in the new republic? How were those qualities to be created and preserved?
  5. What did Allen, Jefferson, Rush, Madison, and Warren see as the most important lessons and legacies of the American Revolution?