FINAL EXAM
To pass to must use evidence from at least one of the two assigned textbooks’ chapters, American Perspectives, and my lectures in every response; cite as footnotes using the Chicago manual of Style (thus you need to attach a Bibliography); and, respond fully and completely to three questions (no more than one per period) in at least 250 words per response.
I need a Bibliography for each response. Submit your exam as a single Word file.
Do NOT use any source besides the three noted above. This is not a research paper. Rather this is a test to see how closely and carefully you listened to and taken notes on my lectures and read the assigned textbooks and American Perspectives.
- Colonial Period (1492-1764)
- What were some of the causes of European exploration that led to the establishment of colonies in North America?
- Were the Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay colonies more different or more similar?
- Discuss the effects of English colonization on the indigenous populations.
- What was the Columbian Exchange and how did it effect the Americas?
- What were the dominant roles of women in the colonies?
- Examine the development of slavery in the colonies.
- Examine the development of religion in the colonies.
- During the colonial era, was “liberty” most associated with political, religious, or economic freedom?
- What were the restrictions to colonial women’s liberties?
- How did women participate in the First Great Awakening?
- Who was Anne Hutchinson and why was she important?
- What role did gender play in the witchcraft crazy?
- Revolution (1765-1790)
- Examine three (3) major stepping stones towards Revolution. Why are those major aspects in the development from separate British colonies towards an American perspective?
- Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
- Examine and explain the significance of three (3) battles of the Revolution.
- What roles did women play in the Revolution?
- What role(s) did religion play in the Revolution?
- How did the Revolution affect slavery in the US?
- Early Republic (1780 – 1826)
- Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?
- By 1800, was the US Constitution and Bill of Rights more a liberal or a conservative document?
- What was Republican Motherhood?
- Did Martha Ballard’s story support or challenge the ideals of what it meant to be an American woman?
- “Lady” is a social construct. How did the ideal of “lady” versus the reality of “woman” change during this time?
- By 1826 was the country more Hamiltonian or more Jeffersonian?
- Age of Jackson, Reform and Snapping the Chords of National Unity, 1825-1861.
- What were the liberties of northern versus southern women?
- How did women participate in the Second Great Awakening?
- What role did class play in women’s liberties?
- What were women’s boundaries or restrictions of liberty?
- Describe any reform movement during this period.
- What in American society promulgated so much reform?
- Explain how slavery affected: religion, law, economics, politics, or culture.
- Examine the two-day convention at Seneca Falls. Who were the major participants? What issues were raised? What method did the leaders come up with to address those issues?
- What was the significance of Harriet Becher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly?
- The Civil War, 1860-1865.
- During the Civil War, was “liberty” for the Union more closely associated with economic freedom, political freedom, religious freedom, or social freedom?
- During the Civil War, was “liberty’ for the Confederacy more closely associated with economic freedom, political freedom, religious freedom, or social freedom?
- Describe the “new birth of freedom” Lincoln called for in 1863.
- Was Lincoln’s vision ultimately successful or not? Why or why not?
- President Abraham Lincoln and CSA President Jefferson Davis both said in 1861 that the Civil War had nothing do to with slavery. Argue for or against that assertion.
- What roles did northern women play during the Civil War?
- Who was Dorothea Dix and why was she important?
- Who was Mary Ann “Mother” Bikerdyke and why was she important?
- What role did Dorothea Dix play during the Civil War?
- What’s the connection between John Brown and Julia Ward Howe?
- Reconstruction, 1865-1877.
- What did female suffrage leaders think about the Fifteenth Amendment?
- During Reconstruction (1865-1877), was American liberty more closely associated with economic freedom, political freedom, religious freedom, or social freedom?
- Dr. Eric Foner calls Reconstruction “America’s unfinished revolution.” Was it?
- By 1877, was Reconstruction a success or a failure?
- Just how free were the Freemen by 1877?
- What were the philosophic differences between the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association?
- What did the rise in popularity in watching professional baseball games and buying baseball equipment say about American society?
