Final Examination History 1301.73
Final Examination History 1301.73
Instructions: Please print out this sheet so that you may have it as you work on your exam.
•You must choose two (2) questions from both Sections I & II.
•You will complete four (4) questions in total for your exam.
•Be thorough and read the questions completely.
•Put your name only at the top of your paper. No MLA headings. Just your name.
•Create a new document (see example following the questions) and number your questions
Section I, 2. and write out the question;Section I,1., etc.
•Each essay questions is worth 25 points. All exams must be written using proper grammar,
spelling and form. Please use paragraphs!
•At a minimum, each answer should require one (1) to one and a half ( 1½) pages to answer
thoroughly.
•Doublespace
your test answers, use standard Times New Roman, 12 pt. font and standard margins.
•Additionally, make sure to save a copy of your completed exam on your computer.
•Submit your examination as a PDF file and as one document –not four.
•If I cannot open your file, I will not grade it and you will not be allowed to re submit.
•Save your exam as LastName_FirstName_Final_1301.7 (Example: Smith_John_Final_1301.73)
•Upload your exam to ‘Final Exam Upload’
•All exams must be uploaded to Blackboard by 11:59 Sunday, December 7th
•You have almost four days to complete your exam so plan accordingly.
•No late exams will be accepted for any reason.
•Do not email me your exam. Upload it to Blackboard.
•When you quote from your text, put the page number at the end of the sentence. (p. 49).
•When you you quote from the video lectures, please note which one.
•Please allow at least a week for grades to be posted.
•Collaboration, cut and paste answers inserted into your paper from the internet, and other
means of academic dishonesty will not be accepted. If you do this you will receive a 0 on your
exam. All students are expected to complete their own work.
•Do not go on the internet to look up answer at sites such as answers.com, Wikipedia, etc.
You have the information in your text and video lectures/documentaries, and readers. If you
incorporate
internet material in your exam you will receive a 0 on your exam. Exams will not be graded if
not submitted correctly.
•What am I looking for in your answers? I am looking for essays that synthesize the material –
the text and video lectures. There is no one place in the text that will give you ‘the answer’but you
will need to make connections and relationships between ideas, persons, events, etc. Answers that
receive the most credit will bring in information from the video lectures, the textbook, and articles.
Answers that copy
paragraphs from the textbook word for word will receive no credit.
Choose two (2):
1. Trace the Kansas Nebraska
crisis–what were the causes, issues, and results, and how
did the country react to the 'Bleeding Kansas' crisis. Additionally, consider how did the
various parties reacted to the Kansas –Nebraska Act? Be sure to include why the Whig
party failed, the Democratic party split, and why the Republican party unified. How
did each party view slavery and freedom? This is a good opportunity to bring in your knowledge of
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that sparked the Civil War.
2. Should the Civil War be seen primarily as a war to save the Union or as a war to free the
slaves? Why? What name would you give to the conflict? Please support your answer
with specific examples.
3.Slave rebellions were rare but important. Compare the slave rebellions (merely planned
or actually carried out) of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner. What did Vesey attempt to
do? What did Turner attempt to do? How were these men similar? How did they view
slavery and freedom? Who did white society react to them, and why?
Choose two (2):
1. The various reform communities that sprang up throughout America during the first part
of the nineteenth century typically understood the meaning of freedom differently from
mainstream Americans. Analyze the various meanings these groups gave to the word
'freedom,' and compare those meanings with the ones given by mainstream America.
Your essay ought to give me a sense of what these communities were rejecting in
mainstream society.
2. What did Emerson mean by “Mexico will poison us”? Was he right? Why or why not?
3. Lincoln observed in 1864 that “we all declare for liberty but in using the same word we
do not mean the same thing.”He continued to explain what the North meant and what
the South meant, and how victory meant a national norm as defined by the North.
Illustrate how liberty would come to be understood for the nation after the Civil War and
analyze whether the abolishment of slavery was enough to propel the United States to
finally exist as its founding documents suggested it should.Final Examination History 1301.73
Instructions: Please print out this sheet so that you may have it as you work on your exam.
•You must choose two (2) questions from both Sections I & II.
•You will complete four (4) questions in total for your exam.
•Be thorough and read the questions completely.
•Put your name only at the top of your paper. No MLA headings. Just your name.
•Create a new document (see example following the questions) and number your questions
Section I, 2. and write out the question;Section I,1., etc.
•Each essay questions is worth 25 points. All exams must be written using proper grammar,
spelling and form. Please use paragraphs!
•At a minimum, each answer should require one (1) to one and a half ( 1½) pages to answer
thoroughly.
•Doublespace
your test answers, use standard Times New Roman, 12 pt. font and standard margins.
•Additionally, make sure to save a copy of your completed exam on your computer.
•Submit your examination as a PDF file and as one document –not four.
•If I cannot open your file, I will not grade it and you will not be allowed to re submit.
•Save your exam as LastName_FirstName_Final_1301.7 (Example: Smith_John_Final_1301.73)
•Upload your exam to ‘Final Exam Upload’
•All exams must be uploaded to Blackboard by 11:59 Sunday, December 7th
•You have almost four days to complete your exam so plan accordingly.
•No late exams will be accepted for any reason.
•Do not email me your exam. Upload it to Blackboard.
•When you quote from your text, put the page number at the end of the sentence. (p. 49).
•When you you quote from the video lectures, please note which one.
•Please allow at least a week for grades to be posted.
•Collaboration, cut and paste answers inserted into your paper from the internet, and other
means of academic dishonesty will not be accepted. If you do this you will receive a 0 on your
exam. All students are expected to complete their own work.
•Do not go on the internet to look up answer at sites such as answers.com, Wikipedia, etc.
You have the information in your text and video lectures/documentaries, and readers. If you
incorporate
internet material in your exam you will receive a 0 on your exam. Exams will not be graded if
not submitted correctly.
•What am I looking for in your answers? I am looking for essays that synthesize the material –
the text and video lectures. There is no one place in the text that will give you ‘the answer’but you
will need to make connections and relationships between ideas, persons, events, etc. Answers that
receive the most credit will bring in information from the video lectures, the textbook, and articles.
Answers that copy
paragraphs from the textbook word for word will receive no credit.
Choose two (2):
1. Trace the Kansas Nebraska
crisis–what were the causes, issues, and results, and how
did the country react to the 'Bleeding Kansas' crisis. Additionally, consider how did the
various parties reacted to the Kansas –Nebraska Act? Be sure to include why the Whig
party failed, the Democratic party split, and why the Republican party unified. How
did each party view slavery and freedom? This is a good opportunity to bring in your knowledge of
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that sparked the Civil War.
2. Should the Civil War be seen primarily as a war to save the Union or as a war to free the
slaves? Why? What name would you give to the conflict? Please support your answer
with specific examples.
3.Slave rebellions were rare but important. Compare the slave rebellions (merely planned
or actually carried out) of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner. What did Vesey attempt to
do? What did Turner attempt to do? How were these men similar? How did they view
slavery and freedom? Who did white society react to them, and why?
Choose two (2):
1. The various reform communities that sprang up throughout America during the first part
of the nineteenth century typically understood the meaning of freedom differently from
mainstream Americans. Analyze the various meanings these groups gave to the word
'freedom,' and compare those meanings with the ones given by mainstream America.
Your essay ought to give me a sense of what these communities were rejecting in
mainstream society.
2. What did Emerson mean by “Mexico will poison us”? Was he right? Why or why not?
3. Lincoln observed in 1864 that “we all declare for liberty but in using the same word we
do not mean the same thing.”He continued to explain what the North meant and what
the South meant, and how victory meant a national norm as defined by the North.
Illustrate how liberty would come to be understood for the nation after the Civil War and
analyze whether the abolishment of slavery was enough to propel the United States to
finally exist as its founding documents suggested it should.