Final Exam Notes
HIST 2111 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
PART I: ESSAY: write a thorough essay in response to one of the following questions (worth 60% of exam):
1. Why do historians often call the American Civil War the “Second American Revolution?” • At the end of the war Congress reshaped political and Economic character • national currency and banking • Transcontinental railroad and telegraph-became more unified with national government, economy, and spirit American development • decline of agriculture and rise of Industrial capitalism • power shifted to the north which gave a new direction in • men go to fight leaving new opportunities for women and Wartime work this offered blacks new way to resist slavery • end slavery-institution of slavery demolished-devastated south. • men killed, land and livestock destroyed by Sherman • beginning of the US as a nation and not as individual states • families pulled apart • Lincoln shifted thoughts publicly
2. How did the politics of slavery contribute to the collapse of the Union and the onset of the Civil War? • country split between rep. and dem. • -N republicans want to keep country as it stands. not goal at • start to destroy slavery, but to stop the spread of it. • -"house divided speech"- cannot stand. soon america will be all free or slave. not both • -dred scott vs. sanford-scott remain slave. republicans angry, democrats mixed • -lincoln-douglas debates-race and slavery • -lincoln-slavery morally wrong. blacks have right to earn a living. • -douglas-doesnt care about slaves. constitution for white men only
3. How can Reconstruction be regarded as “a revolution but half accomplished?” • north pushed revolution but failed to follow through • -fail to protect black and guarantee their rights, limited freedom (economically,
PART I: ESSAY: write a thorough essay in response to one of the following questions (worth 60% of exam):
1. Why do historians often call the American Civil War the “Second American Revolution?” • At the end of the war Congress reshaped political and Economic character • national currency and banking • Transcontinental railroad and telegraph-became more unified with national government, economy, and spirit American development • decline of agriculture and rise of Industrial capitalism • power shifted to the north which gave a new direction in • men go to fight leaving new opportunities for women and Wartime work this offered blacks new way to resist slavery • end slavery-institution of slavery demolished-devastated south. • men killed, land and livestock destroyed by Sherman • beginning of the US as a nation and not as individual states • families pulled apart • Lincoln shifted thoughts publicly
2. How did the politics of slavery contribute to the collapse of the Union and the onset of the Civil War? • country split between rep. and dem. • -N republicans want to keep country as it stands. not goal at • start to destroy slavery, but to stop the spread of it. • -"house divided speech"- cannot stand. soon america will be all free or slave. not both • -dred scott vs. sanford-scott remain slave. republicans angry, democrats mixed • -lincoln-douglas debates-race and slavery • -lincoln-slavery morally wrong. blacks have right to earn a living. • -douglas-doesnt care about slaves. constitution for white men only
3. How can Reconstruction be regarded as “a revolution but half accomplished?” • north pushed revolution but failed to follow through • -fail to protect black and guarantee their rights, limited freedom (economically,