I: Short Answers: Please write a short answer for THREE terms: (20 points each x 3= 60 points around 200 words each. Please write in complete sentences and paragraphs, and remember the who, what, when, where, and why for each term)
[ Pick 1 each from 3 Box]
Tenure of Office Act |
Lincoln’s Plan |
New South |
Vicksburg Campaign |
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA |
Scalawags |
Fort Sumter Crisis |
Brooks/ Sumner Affair |
Battle of Gettysburg |
Secession |
Emancipation Proclamation |
Fourteenth Amendment |
Dred Scott case |
Freedmen’s Bureau |
Congressional Reconstruction |
Lost Cause |
Trail of Tears |
Cult of Domesticity |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Missouri Crisis |
Texas Independence |
Temperance |
Radical Abolition |
Compromise of 1850 |
IV: Essay 40 points: This essay needs to be a one page, single-spaced essay.
1. How did the question of slavery emerge as a national issue? What drove it to continue to be debated by the federal government? Why did slavery re-emerge as a national political issue in the late 1840s? What compromises were brokered to deal with this issue? What reasons did opponents of slavery give for wanting to eliminate the institution, and what arguments did those who practiced slavery use to defend it? Could there have been a better “answer” to the problem of slavery than a bloody Civil War?
I: Short Answers: Please write a short answer for THREE terms: (20 points each x 3= 60 points around 200 words each. Please write in complete sentences and paragraphs, and remember the who, what, when, where, and why for each term)
[ Pick 1 each from 3 Box]
Tenure of Office Act |
Lincoln’s Plan |
New South |
Vicksburg Campaign |
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA |
Scalawags |
Fort Sumter Crisis |
Brooks/ Sumner Affair |
Battle of Gettysburg |
Secession |
Emancipation Proclamation |
Fourteenth Amendment |
Dred Scott case |
Freedmen’s Bureau |
Congressional Reconstruction |
Lost Cause |
Trail of Tears |
Cult of Domesticity |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
Missouri Crisis |
Texas Independence |
Temperance |
Radical Abolition |
Compromise of 1850 |
IV: Essay 40 points: This essay needs to be a one page, single-spaced essay.
1. How did the question of slavery emerge as a national issue? What drove it to continue to be debated by the federal government? Why did slavery re-emerge as a national political issue in the late 1840s? What compromises were brokered to deal with this issue? What reasons did opponents of slavery give for wanting to eliminate the institution, and what arguments did those who practiced slavery use to defend it? Could there have been a better “answer” to the problem of slavery than a bloody Civil War?