FINAL EXAM (2018) STUDY GUIDE *Semester Final will be divided into two parts: Part 1 DBQ Essay December 14 (B Day), December 17 (A Day) You will use one of the outlines you created to write ONE document-based essay. Topic choices: 1. What caused secession? 2. Failure of Reconstruction Part 2 Multiple Choice (40 questions) December 18 1A and 2A December 19 4A December 20 2B December 21 3B and 4B Tips on how to use this study guide: Answer the questions on your own sheet of paper, focusing on those you do not know (it s okay to skip over the questions you are confident with). As you read through your notes, or revisit reading assignments and PowerPoints for this unit, have the study guide handy so you know what information to focus on. USE the TEXTBOOK- Read/Reread Chapter 14-17. It may be helpful to create flashcards for the terms on the vocabulary list that you do not know.
Unit 3 Early Republic: Vocabulary (Be able to define and understand in context): Federalists Democratic-Republicans Marbury v. Madison (1803) Louisiana Purchase Impressment Pan-Indian Military Resistance Tecumseh War Hawks War of 1812 Treaty of Ghent Monroe Doctrine Jacksonian Democracy Nullification Crisis Second Bank of the U.S. / Bank War Common Man Era Antebellum Era Second Great Awakening Seneca Falls Abolitionism Temperance movement Nat Turner s Rebellion Black codes American Anti-Slavery Society Emancipation
KNOW THIS: 1. What led to tensions between the U.S. and Great Britain beginning in Jefferson s presidency and leading to the War of 1812? 2. What were the primary causes of the War of 1812? 3. What was the significance of the War of 1812 in developing a national identity? 4. How did the Monroe Doctrine assert American power in the Western Hemisphere? 5. What political trends were occurring during the Age of Jackson? 6. What influenced the antebellum reform movements? What was the role of religion? What was the role of women? 7. How was Southern society structured during the antebellum period? 8. How did enslaved people resist their enslavement? 9. What are some examples of efforts by abolitionists to abolish slavery? Civil War and Reconstruction: Vocabulary (Be able to define and understand in context): War & Expansion Sectionalism Annexation James K. Polk Expansionism Manifest Destiny Fifty-four Forty or Fight Oregon Treaty 1846 Republic of Texas Mexican War Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Mexican Cession Events Leading to the Civil War Missouri Compromise Wilmot Proviso Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act Kansas-Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas Popular sovereignty Republican Party Douglas/Lincoln Debates Dred Scott Decision John Brown s Raid Election of 1860
Civil War Reconstruction Confederacy Union Anaconda Plan Cotton diplomacy Border states Abraham Lincolm Jefferson Davis Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee Fort Sumter Battle of Bull Run Battle of Antietam Battle of Vicksburg Battle of Gettysburg Battle of Atlanta William T. Sherman March to the Sea Total War Habeas corpus Emancipation Proclamation Appomattox surrender Thirteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment Ten Percent Plan Wade-Davis Bill Presidential Reconstruction Congressional Reconstruction Tenure of Office Act Radical Republicans Andrew Johnson Impeachment Freedmen s Bureau Black codes Ku Klux Klan Plessy v. Ferguson Jim Crow Laws Compromise of 1877 KNOW THIS: War & Expansion 1. What were the causes of the Mexican War? Its effects on expansion? 2. How did Pres. James K. Polk contribute to the fulfillment of Manifest Destiny? 3. What was the impact of the Mexican War on growing sectionalism? Events Leading to the Civil War 1. How did the relationship between slavery, growing north-south divisions, and westward expansion lead to the outbreak of the Civil War? 2. How did representatives from slave states and free states aim to maintain a perfect equilibrium in the Senate? 3. What was the impact of the Missouri Compromise on the admission of states from the Louisiana Territory? 4. What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?
5. What repealed the Missouri Compromise? 6. What was the effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? 7. What was Bleeding Kansas? How does this event represent a failure of popular sovereignty? 8. How did the Supreme Court rule in Dred Scott v. Sanford? 9. How did Northern and Southern opinions differ regarding John Brown s raid on Harper s Ferry? 10. How did the Republican Party form? 11. What was the immediate effect of the Election of 1860? Civil War 1. How did the North and South develop economic disparities? What advantages did each of the two regions have entering the war? 2. What was cotton diplomacy and how did it fail? 3. What was the Union strategy for defeating the Confederacy? Why would this be effective? 4. What was significance of these key battles in determining the outcome of the Civil War? - Fort Sumter - Bull Run - Antietam - Vicksburg - Gettysburg - Atlanta 5. How was Sherman s March to the Sea an example of total war? What was the purpose of this strategy? 6. How did Lincoln define the purpose of the war in the Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural Address? 7. How did Abraham Lincoln expand federal power during the Civil War? 8. What the immediate effect of the Emancipation Proclamation? How did this contribute to the Union s eventual victory? Reconstruction 1. What were Lincoln s goals for Reconstruction? Why were his plans opposed by Radical Republicans? 2. Know what the 13 th, 14 th and 15 th Amendments to the Constitution established. 3. What were the competing political plans for reconstructing the defeated Confederacy? (Contrast Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction) 4. How did Johnson attempt to block the Radical Republicans in Congress? How did the Radical Republicans respond? 5. How did the Freedmen s Bureau support former slaves, poor whites, and American Indians?
6. What forms of resistance to racial equality arose in the South during Reconstruction? 7. How did Plessy v. Ferguson and the establishment of Jim Crow laws create long-term obstacles to racial equality? 8. How did the Presidential Election of 1877 mark the end of Reconstruction?