HIST 120 Final Exam Study Guide
Your final is on Tuesday 5/27 from 5‒7:50 PM. Please bring a LARGE blank Bluebook to the final.
Please arrive on time. Your final is worth 150 points and is closed note and closed book.
For tips on how to prepare for and do well on the final exam see your Midterm Study Guide.
Essay Questions (90 points)
Four of the following will appear on the final exam. You will have to choose two to answer. Each essay
question is worth 45 points. Use specific historical examples to back up your statements. These examples
should include information such as specific names, dates, events, primary sources, and ideas. Your answers
should be around 1.5 sides of a bluebook page.
1. Using specific examples from the firsthand accounts of two of the following, discuss what slave life was
like in America in the 1700s and 1800s.
a.
Olaudah Equiano
b.
Madison Hemings
c.
Solomon Northup
2. What three types of faction did Washington implore Americans to steer clear of in his Farewell Address
of 1796? Give examples of how each of these types of faction threatened the stability of the young
United States from the 1790s to the 1810s.
3. Choose two of the following and discuss how they are examples of the power struggle between states
and the federal government in the first half of the 1800s.
a.
Supreme Court decisions in the 1830s involving the Cherokee
b.
Nullification Crisis
c.
Bank Crisis
4. What were some of the major reform movements of the antebellum period and how were they linked?
5. What were some of the factors contributing to and spurring the westward expansion of the United States
in the first half of the nineteenth century?
6. Using at least two of the following court cases explain the concept of judicial review and discuss its
impact on early American history and government:
a.
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
b.
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
c.
Supreme Court decisions regarding the Cherokee (Cherokee Nation v. Georgia [1831] &
Worcester v. Georgia [1832])
d.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
7. How did the westward expansion of the United States in the 1840s and 1850s lead to the Civil War?
8. What was Abraham Lincoln’s primary goal as president? How and when during the Civil War did the
abolition of slavery become a means of achieving that goal?
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Identifications (60 points)
Twelve of the following will appear on the final exam. You will have to choose six to answer. Each ID is worth
10 points. In your answer you should briefly (but in complete sentences) address the following: who, what,
where, when & why it’s important. Your answers should be around 1 paragraph long.
frontier of inclusion
Joseph Plumb Martin
Northwest Ordinance
“three-fifths rule”
impressment
Election of 1796
Alexander Hamilton
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Louisiana Purchase
Embargo Act (1807)
Battle of Tippecanoe
Battle of New Orleans (1815)
Sally Hemings
Missouri Compromise
Eli Whitney
American Colonization Society
Monroe Doctrine
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
John C. Calhoun
“Jacksonian democracy”
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
John Ross
the Second National Bank
Lowell textile mills
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Erie Canal
William Lloyd Garrison
Second Great Awakening
transcendentalism
temperance
the Shakers
John Noyes and Oneida
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
empresarios
the Texas Revolution
Nueces River
“54-40 or Fight!”
californios
Compromise of 1850
popular sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas
Anaconda strategy
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
ironclads
the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and
Resolutions
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