DP History Questionbank

Description

This section focuses on the new challenges and problems that came with independence. It explores the ways in which, and the reasons why, the countries of the region attempted to build their nations. Independent and new nations emerged; the colonial empires, with few exceptions, were gone; new world links were forged yet the colonial legacy remained. Two of the problems that confronted the new nations were how to challenge it or how to build on it. The task of building new nations opened the doors to novel ways of political, social and economic thinking and to the redefining of concepts such as nation and state.

• United States: Articles of Confederation; the Constitution of 1787: philosophical underpinnings; major compromises and changes in the US political system

• Latin America: challenges to the establishment of political systems; conditions for the rise of and impact of the caudillo rule in two countries (suitable examples could be Rosas, Gomez, Artigas)

• War of 1812: causes and impact on British North America and the United States

• Mexican–American War 1846‑8: causes and effects on the region

• Canada: causes and effects of 1837 rebellions; the Durham Report and its implications; challenges to the Confederation; the British North America Act of 1867: compromises, unresolved issues, regionalism, effects

• Changes in the conditions of social groups such as Native Americans, mestizos, immigrants in the new nations

Directly related questions

• 16N.3op2.HL.TZ0.3:

  Evaluate the main challenges to the establishment of political systems in the emerging nations of Latin America.

• 16N.3op2.HL.TZ0.4:

  Evaluate the arguments used to oppose Canadian Confederation.