Download SPRING 2017: HIS121 Final Exam Study Guide

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SPRING 2017: HIS121 Final Exam Study Guide
-Use your Ch. Analysis forms, lecture notes, power points, and book as study guides (I
also suggest making flash cards to study with!)
-We will spend Monday May 1st and Wednesday May 3rd in class reviewing.
-The midterm is Friday, May 5th. If you are absent the day of the Midterm without
previous notification to the instructor, you must schedule a retake and the retake will be
considered late with a 50% off penalty! The final exam is worth 440 points.
Be familiar with the following topics:
-What was the 1st political party in America:
-Was Washington elected unanimously in 1789:
-Who proposed first national bank:
-Major Rathbone and Clara after Lincoln assassination:
-Was the presidency of John Adams a ‘success’:
-Did Lewis and Clark make it to the Pacific:
-What did the Monroe Doctrine state:
-Why was Dolley Madison called “Presidentress”:
-Know the Battle of New Orleans happened after peace treaty for War of 1812 already
signed:
-What the Missouri Compromise stated about Maine and Missouri:
-Who won the Battle of Fredericksburg:
-Did Mexican government ever allow settlers in Texas:
-What was miscegenation:
-Violence towards house servants:
-What Harriet Tubman’s known for:
-What General McClellan called Lincoln:
-Did John Surrat try to save his mother from hanging:
-Who published the memoirs of Ulysses Grant:
-Did anyone die fighting during the Battle of Fort Sumter:
-Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation after what Civil War battle:
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-Which Civil War general had been a professor and thought he had ‘lop-sided’ arms:
-What were midnight judges:
-What was impressment:
-Who won a decisive victory at the Battle of New Orleans and became famous:
-Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
-Which Union general known for “scorched earth policy”:
-Who passed the “Indian Removal Act”:
-Who the Lowell Mills hired:
-Who (unknowingly) led emigrants to their death over the Sierra Nevada mountain range:
-What state provided a major trail for over 300,000 emigrants:
-What was the Anaconda Plan:
-Gold Rush started in 1849 in what state:
-What was paternalism:
-What yeoman thought about Civil War:
-What crop was vital to the South during war:
-Who appointed President of the Confederate States of America:
-Who Conf. General Lee surrendered to:
-Which amendment abolished slavery:
-Which one of Lincoln’s sons lived to be an adult:
-Which general was supposed to go to theater with Lincoln: