Final 2017 study guide; Civil War; Birzer
N.B. The final is worth 35% of your course grade. To earn anything above a “C”, you must employ—to a significant extent—the readings you were assigned.
Section I: Essay. One of these will appear on the final. Worth 35% of your final.
- Consider Lincoln’s relationships with other politicians, cabinet members, generals, and the America people. What kind of president and person was he?
- Explain both Union and Confederate motivations/justifications for beginning as well as continuing the war, 1861-1865.
- Explain the evolution of Lincoln’s thought/understanding regarding secession and the purpose of the war, 1861-1865.
Section II: I.D.s/Definitions;. Definitions will be worth ten points each. Four total; worth 40% of your final.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
54th Massachusetts
Anaconda Plan
Bleeding Kansas
Compromise of 1850
“Cotton is King”
Eastern Theater
Emancipation Proclamation
Exodusters
Field Order #120
First Bull Run
Fort Sumter
G.B. McClellan
Gettysburg
Homesteading Act
James Longstreet
Jefferson Davis
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
Joshua Chamberlain
KKK
Manifest Destiny
Missouri Compromise
Popular sovereignty
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Radical Republicans
River Queen Doctrine
Robert Anderson
Robert E. Lee
Shiloh
Stonewall Jackson
Total War
U.S. Grant
Vicksburg
Wilmot Proviso
William H. L. Wallace
William T. Sherman
Western Theater
Yankee Leviathan
Section III: Short answers. Worth 25% of your final grade.
