Answer one of the following essay questions. Be sure to identify five terms in your essay. Be sure to write the number of the essay question that you are answering.
1. Explain why and how 1850s Americans might have prevented the Civil War.
2. Explain why and how the sectional conflict over the issue of slavery in the 1850s caused the Civil War.
3. Explain why and how the Union won the Civil War.
4. Evaluate the constitutionality of the sectional positions of the 1850s.
5. Explain why and how the Confederacy lost the Civil War.
Answer one of the following essay questions. Be sure to identify five terms in your essay. Be sure to write the number of the essay question that you are answering.
1. Discuss the essential features of the antebellum intellectual movements.
2. Explain why and how the issues of expansion and slavery informed national politics from 1821 to 1849.
3. Discuss the essential features of the economic revolution in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.
4. Discuss the essential features of the antebellum reform movements
5. Explain why and how the United States experienced an economic revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century
To answer an essay question, you must identify five terms from a weekly study guide. To identify a term is to cover the who, what, when, where, how, why, context, and significance of the term.
Weekly Study Guide terms(Words Bank)
Jefferson Davis
King Cotton
First Battle of Manassas
Border Wars
Battle of Shiloh
Antietam
Contrabands
Radical Republicans
Emancipation Proclamation
Greenbacks
One-tenth tax
Twenty-Negro Rule
Draft Riots
Lieber Code
Vicksburg
Robert E. Lee
Gettysburg
U.S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
Appomattox Court House
Constitutional Conflict
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Uncle Toms Cabin
Personal Liberty Laws
Franklin Pierce
Ostend Manifesto
Irish Famine
American Party
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party
Bleeding Kansas
James Buchanan
Dred Scott Decision
Mormon War
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
John Browns Raid
Election of 1860
Confederate States of America
Fort Sumter
Planter Elites
Small Freeholders
Poor Freemen
Stephen F. Austin
Alamo
Back Protestantism
Gullah Dialect
Task System
Manifest Destiny
Oregon
California
Plains Indians
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Bear Flag Republic
Mexican Cession
Wilmot Proviso
Slave Power Conspiracy
Free Soil Movement
Forty-Niners
Charles Grandison Finney
Benevolent Empire
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Margaret Fuller
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Mother Ann Lee
Charles Fourier
John Humphrey Noyes
Mormonism
Bowery Boys
New York Herald
Edgar Allan Poe
Minstrel Shows
Free African Societies
Nat Turners Revolt
Abolitionism
Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)
Seneca Falls Convention
Panic of 1819
Commonwealth System
Canals
Steamboats
Telegraph
Cotton Complex
Waltham-Lowell System
John Woolman
Manumission Act
Cotton Boom
Coastal Trade
Inland System
Chattel Principle
John C. Calhoun
Machine Tools
Unions
Gang-labor System
Middle Class
Self-made Man
Urban Workers
