HIS 103 FINAL EXAM INFO

Remember, the Oral Presentations (50 points) will occur during the first half of the class!


150 POINTS

50 Points: TAKE-HOME ESSAY

By now you should know how to write these. Since this is take-home, they are expected to be A) extremely detailed, B) typed, and C) handed in before the start of the exam. These are the two questions:

A. Analyze the emerging social concerns of the 19th century as exemplified by educational, institutional and literary developments.

B. Analyze the evolving role of the presidency from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln.

50 Points: IN-CLASS ESSAY

Two of the below essay questions will be on the test. You will write one of those two essays.

A. Identify at least three of the reasons for the growth of sectionalism prior to the Civil War and the distinguishing features of the three sections.

B. Discuss the structure of the antebellum South and the role of the slave culture in that society.

C. Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of the Confederacy and the Union during the Civil War.

20 Points: TERMS (2 points each)

Instead of multiple choice, you will fill in blanks using the word list below. Remember to study the importance of the idea or event.

Missouri Compromise
Wilmont Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
Free-Soil Party
Compromise of 1850
Mexican Cession
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Lecompton Controversy
Harper's Ferry
Fort Sumter
Anaconda Plan
Manifest Destiny
Frontier Thesis
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Palmyra, New York
Charles Finney
Evangelicalism
Second Great Awakening
Burned-Over District
Beecher Family
Cult of Domesticity
Horace Mann
Dorothea Dix
Utopianism
Br'er Rabbit
"Corrupt Bargain" of 1824
Spoils System
Whigs
Anti-Masonry
American System
Monroe Doctrine
Battle of New Orleans
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment

30 Points: DEFINITIONS (5 points each)

Just like the Midterm, you will define six terms and then write about why it is important in American History. Use two or more sentences. You will get to pick from the list above except you can only use the terms you did not use for the Matching.