FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

Wed 3/17 from 8am-10:30am

I. Identifications(4 OF 6) 5% each=40%

You will answer 4 identifications out of the 6 that I give you:

Remember, each term requires a complete paragraph
defining the term with sufficient detail and explaining why the term is significant.

Worcester v. Georgia
Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)
John Brown
Battle of New Orleans
Lewis and Clark
Lowell Factory System
Caning of Sumner
St. Patrick's Battalion
Manifest Destiny
John C. Calhoun
Embargo Act
John Marshall
Marbury v. Madison
Louisiana Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Compromise of 1850
“Beecher’s Bibles”
Dred Scott Case
Election of 1860
Jefferson Davis
Gettysburg Address
Erie Canal


II. Essay Questions: (60%)
One of the following questions will be on the test.

1.The sectionalism that developed between the North and South, ultimately causing the Civil War, was the product of numerous factors. What were the most important political, economic, and social issues that drove the two sections of the nation apart? What role did slavery play in causing the war?

2.Compare and contrast the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, and the Civil War.

3.Thomas Jefferson urged Congress to withdraw the United States “from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have long continued upon the unoffending inhabitants of Africa.” His ideas were contradicted by his actions. How did this contradiction, the presence of the ideal of freedom alongside the reality of slavery, change the United States in the period from the Revolution to the Civil War?

4.I overheard the following conversation in the Music Building yesterday:
Student A: No one lives with as much freedom as we
have here in the good ol' U.S.A. Our principles and our civil liberties are desired by people all over the world.

Student B: You moron, we are a nation founded on racism and exclusion. Ignorance and hatred are as American as freedom.

Student A: Shut up.

Considering the relevant events from the founding of the nation to the Civil War, whose argument is more valid, Student A or B?