Seeing US History Through Many Eyes Answer each question for each of our figures and provide evidence from the textbook and the Chambers excerpt to support your claims and informed guesses: What is...

• Seeing US History Through Many Eyes

Answer each question for each of our figures and provide evidence from the textbook and the Chambers excerpt to support your claims and informed guesses:

1. What is the state of the nation in 1860? Is it sick, healthy, or somewhere in between Provide dates, names, and events to justify each figures outlook in 1860 (note the year please)


2. What divisions threaten to fracture the nation? List several for each character What ones mattered more? Why?


3. What principles and policies, specifically, should guide the nation’s future? Why? According to whom?


4. What’s the best that the Black man can hope for in the future of the US? Again, have each character answer this specifically

This is key: make an honest and sustained effort to truly inhabit their worlds and to understand their cultures and interests All good history starts with this attempt to imaginatively see and feel the world as past actors saw and felt it If you can sum up their reality in a single sentence, you have not done the past justice — or furthered your understanding of the Civil War and its causes Do justice to these persons as you yourself hope for understanding and justice from those who might stand in judgement of you before the court of history Life is more than a simple-minded morality tale Be aware of what you are doing