FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

You people must be very special. Noone has ever asked for the study guide so early. I am certain it is because of your innate love of history and desire to know more, right? Good!
We'll cover these terms and ideas in class.

I. Identifications(4 OF 6) 5% each=40%

You will answer 4 identifications out of the 6 that I give you:
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia
Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)
John Brown
Battle of New Orleans
Lewis and Clark
Lowell Factory System
Caning of Sumner
St. Patrick's Battalion
Manifest Destiny
John C. Calhoun
Embargo Act
John Marshall
“Quaker Gun”
Marbury v. Madison
Erie Canal
Louisiana Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Compromise of 1850
“Beecher’s Bibles”
Know-Nothings
Dred Scott Case
Election of 1860
Jefferson Davis
Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address

II. Essay Questions: (60%)
One of the following questions will be on the test.

1. The sectionalism that developed between the North and South, ultimately causing the Civil War, was the product of numerous factors. What were the most important political issues that drove the two sections of the nation apart? What role did slavery play in causing the war?

2. What were the most important arguments against slavery in the books Celia, A Slave and The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass.

3. Compare and contrast the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, and the Civil War.

4. Thomas Jefferson urged Congress to withdraw the United States “from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have long continued upon the unoffending inhabitants of Africa.” His ideas contradicted his life. How did this contradiction, the presence of the ideal of freedom and the reality of slavery, change the United States in the period from the Revolution to the Civil War?