TERMS and NAMES
Temperance Movement
Dorothea Dix
Public Schools
Tariff of Abominations
Nullification Controversey
Whig Party
Trail of Tears
Manifest Destiny
William Lloyd Garrison
Wilmot Proviso
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
"Bleeding Kansas"
Lecompton Constitution
Dred Scott case
John Brown
Crittendon Compromise
Jefferson Davis
Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
George B. McClellan
Dysentery
"Stonewall" Jackson
King Cotton
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Conscription
Clara Barton
Chickamauga
William T. Sherman
Petersburg
Atlanta Campaign
ESSAY TOPICS: Note that these topics are cumulative, covering much or all of the course. The way these questions are phrased are not necessarily how they will appear on the exam.
1. From its earliest years until the beginning of the Civil War, Americans attempted to wrestle with the issue of slavery by drawing or erasing geographical lines that limited or expanded the growth of slavery. Describe these lines (or their erasure) and when they were drawn and their purpose. Begin with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and go through the Crittendon Compromise in 1861.
2. Daily life in the northeastern portions of the United States changed dramatically from the time the Pilgrims first landed at Plymouth until the coming of the Civil War. Compare what it would have been like to live in the Boston area in 1691 with life there in 1851. Describe how patterns of living changed, including: life on the frontier vs. living in settled areas, changes in the economy, the growth of cities, industrialization, trains and telegraphs, and the changing mix of European settlers in the region.
3. From the end of the American Revolution through the first quarter of the nineteenth century, a "Cult of Domesticity" developed about the role women were to play in American society. Explain how this cult developed, the role it described for women--and how it differed from the previous roles prescribed to women, and who supported it. Also discuss the reasons some women challenged the cult of domesticity and the role they saw for women in American society. What impact did the Civil War have on ideas about the proper place of women in America? How did working women fit the prescribed role?
4. From the Articles of Confederation until the end of the Civil War, the question of which governments (federal or state) had supreme power in the United States remained unresolved. Describe how this issue evolved, from the creation of the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, the Hartford Convention, the Nullification Crisis, the Secession Crisis in 1860-61, and the victory of the United States government in the Civil War.
5. It is several years from now and you are interviewing for a job as a history teacher (yes, your worst nightmare). One of the interviewers asks what you think is the most important event, trend, or development in American history before 1865. Which event, trend, or development do choose? Explain why.
NOTES: The format of this exam will be multiple choice and two essays.
Material from the first two study guides will be on the exam.