Exam
The format will be as follows:
A short-answer section and an essay section. For the short answers, you will be given 16 terms from the list below and identify 10, briefly describing: a) who, what, when (generally speaking), where; and b) what, in brief, is the subject's historical significance?
Three to four sentences should suffice. For the essays, you will see the two questions on the back of this page and answer one.
Like the papers, the best essays will demonstrate a command of the readings and class material while also making a coherent argument based on evidence. The more specific examples you can give, the better you will do.
Short IDs
Charles Sumner
John Calhoun
Dred Scott v Sandford
William Lloyd Garrison
David Walker
Louisiana Purchase
Funding and Assumption
Manifest Destiny
Sabbatarian Movement
Nat Turner
Erie Canal
Missouri Compromise
Panic of 1819
"American System"
Martin Van Buren
"Monster Bank"
Battle of New Orleans
Whiskey Rebellion
Northwest Ordinance
Treatise on Domestic Economy
Seneca Falls Convention
Illinois' Black Exclusion Law
"Corrupt Bargain"
Cult of Domesticity
"Slave Power"
"resident masters"
Trail of Tears
2nd Great Awakening
Wilmot Proviso Kansas-
Nebraska Act Lincoln-
Douglas Debates Know-
Nothing Party Liberty
Party
James Henry Hammond
Compromise of 1850
Maine Law
Charles G. Finney
Tenskwatawa
Hartford Convention
Prudence Crandall
Angelina Grimke
Fugitive Slave
Law Free-Labor Ideology
Essay Questions:
Did American politics undergo sweeping transformations between the time of the Constitution and roughly 1840? Or did American politics remain essentially unchanged? Answer this question using the categories of partisan politics, electoral machinery, suffrage qualifications, political leadership, and the idea of "democracy." Be sure to cite specific examples from both readings and lectures to substantiate your arguments.
Why do you think we fought a civil war? In answering this question focus on the issue of western expansion. How and why did the North and South differ in their positions an expansion? How did these differences manifest themselves in the events prior to the war? Why do you think the North and the South could not find a mutually agreeable compromise regarding the future of the western territories? Be sure to cite specific examples to substantiate your points.