| Response sheet #20, for class, Thursday | |
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1. What arguments did these Philadelphia Jews make to justify their worth in American society? 2. How did Virginia’s legislature argue that the link between church and state led to harmful discrimination against people and their consciences, as well as to a dangerous concentration of government power? And why did it argue that any link between church and state harmed religion itself? 3. Why did Jefferson dislike slavery? Why did he dislike manufacturing? What effect did he imagine that slavery and manufacturing had upon the strengh and durability of “freedom” in the United States? What was the connection he made between the habits of ordinary people, and the fate of the nation? 4. What principles and ideals did Banneker invoke to argue that slavery was not a normal feature of life, but was, instead, unnatural? 5. What kinds of people were excluded from American citizenship in 1790? Where did these assumptions come from? 6. What additional kinds of people were excluded in 1795? Where did these sudden new concerns come from? Did the new law explain itself? |