Unit 3: Transforming the Nation–1830s to
1877 (Chapters 11-15)
The Objective Exam will consist primarily of multiple choice questions drawn from the
terms below. The total value is 100 points. There are 25 questions each at 4
points. Reminder: Unit 3 consists of Chapters 11-15. The word Chapter refers to numbered parts a) of
your textbook and b) to the specific Blackboard learning module for that
chapter. Blackboard learning modules have a Table of Contents on the left that
let you see all of the resources available so you can click on the one you
want. All chapters have links from your instructor and a folder containing
specific primaries. Some also include resources such as maps. The Objective Exam is available for 30
minutes. The password for all exams is onetimeonly
(no capital letters and no spaces).
The 5 Ws rule is a good guide to
understanding the items below: you should know Who, What, When, Where, and Why—and
sometimes How. You can look up these
individual items in the textbook index at the back of the book or find them
covered next to an item listed below. Use the textbook with Instructor’s links
that provide visuals, usually in tables, to help you compare information to see
similarities and differences.
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1.
North and South compared – commerce, agriculture, labor, banking,
urban areas (cities), immigration to, transportation, technology, literacy or
lack of it 2.
South’s characteristics from the 1830s ·
“peculiar institution” ·
Slavery as a “positive good” (earlier view as a “necessary evil”) ·
Views, anti-city, pro-agrarian, pro-white ·
Dominance of planters in (although they are a minority) ·
Slavery and cotton, main international markets, dependence on cotton
gin ·
Slaves, quantity used in cotton production and increase in quantity
over time 3.
Sojourner Truth, African American, former slave, abolitionist, speaker
for women’s rights (See primary in Chapter 11.) 4.
Rebellions by slaves or free blacks, Gabriel Prosser, Charles Deslondes, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner. 5.
American Colonization Society, an early movement to deal with slavery
by returning freed slaves to Liberia in Africa 6.
North’s characteristics from the 1830s ·
Varied general reform movements (examples in 7.) ·
Against slavery: American Anti-Slavery Society, a
small movement for immediate abolition of slavery, and ·
Against slavery: Underground railroad 7.
Examples of the North’s varied general reform movements ·
Horace Mann, public education, and literacy ·
Insane asylums and prisons and Dorothea Dix ·
Second Great Awakening ·
Suffrage and Susan B. Anthony ·
Temperance ·
Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau (also
the author of Civil Disobedience” ·
Utopian communes (such as Shakers) Tip: For the next events, use
the instructor’s link in Chapter 13. 8.
Free Soil movement (West and North) and political party to stop
expansion of slavery to the territories 9.
“manifest destiny” and John L. O’Sullivan 10.
Westward expansion - consequences on Native Americans 11.
1844 Election of James Knox Polk with a platform of annexation of
Texas (happens) and taking British territory to expand Oregon (does not
happen) 12.
Mexican War, starts with a Texas/Mexico boundary dispute 13.
Wilmont Proviso (proviso = a
condition) 14.
Mexican War, territory gained 15.
1849 California Gold Rush 16.
California’s request for admission as a free state |
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Compromise of 1850 18.
Fugitive Slave Act – part that offended most Northerners 19.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle
Tom’s Cabin 20.
Popular sovereignty (dangers of) and the Kansas Nebraska Act 21.
“Bleeding Kansas” (with majority of Kansans being pro-free-state) 22.
John Brown in Kansas 23.
Preston Brooks’ attack on Senator Charles Sumner 24.
Split in the Democratic party and rise of the Republican Party and of
Abraham Lincoln, a moderate 25.
John Brown at Harper’s Ferry 26.
Lincoln’s positon on slavery or secession (Don’t assume!) ·
In the Lincoln-Douglas Debates ·
In the 1st Inaugural Address ·
When the South 1st seceded ·
When the South was defeated 27.
1860-1861, month of Lincoln’s election and month of his taking office 28.
Secession crisis, South Carolina firing on a federal fort, Fort
Sumter, (before Lincoln takes office) 29.
Confederacy formed, Jefferson Davis elected Tip: For the next events, use
the instructor’s link in Chapter 14 (Quick Reference to the Civil War). 30.
Confederacy’s initial goals of the war (Don’t assume!) 31.
Northern purposes for the blockade of the South 32.
Northern and Southern strengths and weaknesses for war - commerce,
agriculture, labor, banking, urban areas (cities), immigration to,
transportation, technology, literacy or lack of it, communication, government
infrastructure 33.
Northern and Southern strengths and weakness for financing the war
(for collecting taxes, buying needed things, paying soldiers and other
employees, paying for purchases) 34.
Legal Tender Act– greenback in the North; inflation in South 35.
Legislation passed while the South was out of the Union: protective
tariffs, National Banking Act, Homestead Act, Morrill Land Grant Act, transcontinental
railroad (p. 585-586) 36.
Draft, North and South 37.
1862, Antietam (significance) and stating the proclamation to come 38.
1863, Emancipation Proclamation (limitations on where it applied) 39.
Contraband of war – the meaning 40.
Medicine and nursing (female) and the Civil War (See primaries for
Chapter 14.) 41.
1863, Gettysburg (significance) 42.
1863, Vicksburg (significance) 43.
1864, Sherman’s March to the Sea (significance) 44.
1864, Election of 1864 (significance on continuance of the war) 45.
1865, 13th Amendment passed 46.
1865, Appomattox (significance) 47.
1865, Lincoln assassinated; President Andrew Johnson (who is he?) 48.
Northern and Southern strengths and weakness at the end of the war Continues on the next page |
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Begins on the prior page 49.
Actions when a slave became a freedman ·
First action, seek separated family members ·
Later action, form schools for their children 50.
1865, South’s action – Black codes (state codes) 51.
1865, 13th amendment ratified by the states 52.
1866, to stop Black codes, 1st Civil Rights Act, 2nd
as 14th Amendment – major parts – States, not just Congress, could
not violate “due process”; citizenship defined 53.
1866, South’s action – race riots in Memphis and New Orleans 54.
1866, Klu Klux Klan starts 55.
1866 (a mid-term election), Northern response by voters 56.
Military Reconstruction Act 57.
1868, 15th Amendment proposed 58.
1668, impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
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1868, Election – US Grant – “waving the bloody shirt” campaign 60.
1870, Attacks on African American voters
(notice black males are voting), Grant’s response 61.
1870, KKK again but this time stopped by KKK Act 62.
1872- scandals in the Grant administration 63.
1873, Panic of and unemployment 64.
Throughout this period, rise of sharecropping and tenant farming and
the crop-lien system (See primaries for Chapter 15.) 65.
1876, Election 66.
Compromise of 1877 (what does it do? What does the South get for the
Democrats not fighting over the electoral college
results? 67.
What’s the legacy of the 13th, 14th, and 15th
amendments? |
The Concept Exam will consist of a variety of types of questions
ranging from multiple choice questions to short essay. The total value is 50
points.
The Required Concepts folder
contains a list of all concepts, including which apply to Unit 3. One week
before the opening of the Unit Concepts Exam, I will place a specific list here
if one or more students post in Course Questions that he or she would like to
see that list. You will then know all possible questions, but you will not know
which one you will be asked on your exam. (FYI: I create my tests in sets so
they vary for students.) All Concepts
exams are 25 minutes. The Concepts Exam for Unit 3 consists of 10 multiple
choice definitions of concepts at 4 points each. You have a short answer for 10
points. Using 2 of the concepts you are asked, you give examples of uses of
that concept in Unit 3.
Link to the Concepts with asterisks
You do not have a Written Exam for Unit 3. You will be
working on your Analysis of Primaries.