Review for Final Exam – History 1301 - Fall 2012
Exam Essay Question due on day and time of final exam
Compare and contrast the North and South (before and during the Civil War) in terms of:
1. economic production and economic policies favored
2. land and labor; population demographics
3. interpretation of U.S. Constitution and relationship between federal govt and state’s rights
4. actions during the Civil War, inc. advantages/disadvantages; gains and losses
REQUIRED READING: 1. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, NARRATIVE
2. SOUTH CAROLINA EXPOSITION (CH 6, AMER PERSP, E-BOOK)
All material covered on final exam, including all reading, handouts, lectures
South vs. North
Northern vs. Southern conflicts:
interpretation of Constitution, i.e. federal government vs. state rights
different types of labor and economies (Northern vs. Southern; Northern farming vs. Northern industry)
different cultures and populations
economic conflicts over the tariff, land ownership, industrialization, urbanization, wage vs. slave labor
American Civil War
Northern vs. Southern advantages/disadvantages during in Civil War
first “modern” war and results of this (trench warfare, new weapons (self-loading rifles)
Emancipation Proclamation
Northern vs. Southern - costs and consequences of Civil War
Constitution – Bill of Rights; Fifth and Tenth Amendments
Western expansionism
conflicts and divergent demands for land ownership
Native American vs. American; Western expansion of cotton;
Southern vs. Northern demands; “free soil” movement
how differences over land ownership led to labor conflict
Southern vs. Western vs. Northern cultures
Southern cotton expansion into West
slavery, cotton ‘gin, cotton sales to British and American industrialists
cotton production and industrial economy; protective tariff
Western movement of slaves; Northern “free soiliers”
Jefferson’s nephews, case study
Supreme Court decisions regarding:
Cherokee land (Worcester v. Georgia); Pres. Jackson’s Indian Removal
Dred Scott Decision; Justice Roger B. Taney (vs. his position regarding Cherokee and Georgia)
Attempted Compromises over Slavery, and resulting conflicts
End of Southern participation in intl. slave trade, 1808
Southern Fugitive Slave Laws vs. Northern Personal Liberty Laws; Underground Railroad
Missouri Compromise;
Nullification, Pres. Jackson and John C. Calhoun
Kansas Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas
John Brown; Potawatomie Creek Massacre
Raid on Harper’s Ferry – conflict which ends Southern compromises
Robert E. Lee and John Wilkes Booth at Harper’s Ferry
Dred Scott Decision
Charles Sumner vs. Preston Brooks – conflict which ends Northern compromises
Sectionalism
Northern, Southern, Western cultural, economic and political identities
Western states’ economic relationships with Northern and Southern sections
also includes, role of Four “Border” states during Civil War, and how they fundamentally change how we
understand Civil War
protective tariff
federal government’s role in shaping national economy;
tariff’s effect on conflicts over federal vs. state rights; North vs. South
tariff and escalating sectionalism
Southern comparison of U.S. federal govt’s tariff and British Crown’s policies
Emancipation Proclamation
From Rev to Civil War, changes in labor, land-holding, slavery
Reform and Communal Movement: Christian Perfectionism; Communalism: Oneida and Mormon;
Abolitionist Movements, differences and similarities, 1820s through Civil War
American Colonization Society; William Lloyd Garrison; Frederick Douglass; John Brown
Native Americans
federal policies – Pres. Jefferson’s Assimilation Policy to Pres. Jackson’s Removal Policy
differing resistance strategies of Cherokee (Five Civilized Tribes) and Shawneee
economic production
Southern transition from tobacco to cotton production; effect on race and class relations in South
Northern – small farms; early Northern industrial cities;
foreign and internal migration to American cities;
industrial and urban conditions for working class; penny, or yellow press
Helen Jewett and Richard Robinson, case study
Individuals
Andrew Jackson and Jacksonian Democracy and Society
Eli Whitney; Sen. and Pres. Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis; John Wilkes Booth; Daniel Shays;
Tecumseh; Red Jacket; Tenskwatawa; Capt. John Ross
Robert E. Lee; Ulysses S. Grant; Gnrl McClellan; Gnrl Stonewall Jackson; Charles Sumner; Preston Brooks;
Battles and Military Leadership
Revolution: George Washington’s leadership; Battles at Lexington and Concord; Winter at Valley Forge;
Battle of Saratoga
Post-Revolution: Whiskey Rebellion; Shay’s Rebellion
West: William Henry Harrison vs. Shawnee;
Andrew Jackson and Battle of New Orleans; Cherokee Removal
U.S.-Mexican War, specifically Mex. General Santa Anna; the Alamo;
political divisions among Northerners and Southerners over U.S.-Mex War
Civil War - Fort Sumter; Gettysburg; Antietam – battles and political consequences
contrast Northern and Southern military leadership in Civil War