FINAL EXAM FORMAT:
I. Multiple Choice: 15 of 17 (30%)
These will be taken from the information since the midterm.
II. Essay (70%) You will have two questions. The two questions will come from the following areas:
a. Sectionalism: from the foundation of the nation(from the signing of the Constitution) to the Civil War.
b. The North and South from origins to the Civil War. For this question, go all the way back to the beginning of the class...colonial New England and Colonial Chesapeake. Compare these two regions from that point until the Civil War.
c. War and History: the French and Indian War, the Revolution, the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, and the Civil War. (causes and outcomes)
d. Course Readings: Consider the key themes from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Five Civilized Tribes and Celia, A Slave. Link each of these to its time….Benjamin… to the mid-century challenges, Five… to the Indian Removal discussion, and Celia… to slavery and sectionalism
FOR ALL OF THESE ESSAYS, REMEMBER, PLAN TO WRITE FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR. THIS IS A COMPLETE AND THOROUGH ESSAY AND SHOULD HAVE NUMEROUS REFERENCES TO SPECIFIC DETAIL.
TO STUDY, MAKE OUTLINES FOR EACH THEME, ADDING TONS OF INFORMATION.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Turnitin.com Information
The class id is 3639794
We discussed the password in class, and so you should know it is history.
We discussed the password in class, and so you should know it is history.
The Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
ROAD TO THE CIVIL WAR
--Road to War--
I. Sectional Differences:
A. The Breadbasket West:
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Chicago
Chicago: 1833: 150 houses
1847: 17,000 people
1860: 109,000 people
B. The Urbanizing North
1820: 6.1%
1860: 20%
1860: 110,274 industrial
establishments
(128,300 in entire country)
1860 Northern City Population
1. New York City - 813,669
2. Philadelphia - 565,529
3. Brooklyn - 266,661
4. Baltimore - 212,418
5. Boston - 177,840
6. Cincinnati - 161,044
7. St. Louis - 160,773
8. Chicago - 112,172
9. Buffalo - 81,129
10. Newark - 71,941
(The only Southern city to compare was New Orleans with 168,675 citizens) Source: 1860 U.S. Census
C. The Oligarchic South
--1860: 5.6 million whites
--1700 own around 100 slaves
--46,274 own around 20 slaves
--slave population was 3.84 million
--26,000 free blacks in the South
--36% of families in South own
slaves in 1830
--25% of families in South own
slaves in 1860
--Traveling the 1,460 miles from Baltimore to
New Orleans in 1850 meant riding five different railroads, two stage coaches, and two steamboats.
--By 1850, 20 percent of adult white southerners
could not read or write, compared to a national figure of 8 percent.
DO THESE DIFFERENCES MATTER?
Wilmot Proviso (1846)
II. COMPROMISE OF 1850
1845: 15-13 (Texas and Florida)
1846: 15-14 (Iowa)
1848: 15-15 (Wisconsin)
1. Fugitive Slave Act
2. Abolish slave trade in D.C.
3. Cali in as Free State
4. Popular Sovereignty in new territories
5. Resolved boundary dispute btw. Texas
and New Mexico
III. The Trouble Escalates:
A. Transcontinental Railroad
--Stephen Douglas
B. Kansas-Nebraska Act
C. “Bleeding Kansas”
--New England Emigrant Aid Company
--“Beecher’s Bibles”
--John Brown
--Pottawatomie Creek
D. The Caning of Sumner
IV. Party Politics
A. Decline of the Whigs
B. Rise and Fall of the "Know-Nothings"
C. Rise of the Republicans
--The Election of 1856--
Buchanan vs. Fremont in North
Buchanan vs. Fillmore in South
V. On the Verge of War:
A. Dred Scott
B. Panic of 1857
C. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
D. John Brown's Raid
E. The Election of Lincoln
Lincoln (Rep.)
Douglas (Dem.) {border and North}
Breckinridge (Dem.) {South}
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address: March 4, 1861
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Fort Sumter, the first official “battle” of the Civil War, would occur a month later (April 12, 1861)
I. Sectional Differences:
A. The Breadbasket West:
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Chicago
Chicago: 1833: 150 houses
1847: 17,000 people
1860: 109,000 people
B. The Urbanizing North
1820: 6.1%
1860: 20%
1860: 110,274 industrial
establishments
(128,300 in entire country)
1860 Northern City Population
1. New York City - 813,669
2. Philadelphia - 565,529
3. Brooklyn - 266,661
4. Baltimore - 212,418
5. Boston - 177,840
6. Cincinnati - 161,044
7. St. Louis - 160,773
8. Chicago - 112,172
9. Buffalo - 81,129
10. Newark - 71,941
(The only Southern city to compare was New Orleans with 168,675 citizens) Source: 1860 U.S. Census
C. The Oligarchic South
--1860: 5.6 million whites
--1700 own around 100 slaves
--46,274 own around 20 slaves
--slave population was 3.84 million
--26,000 free blacks in the South
--36% of families in South own
slaves in 1830
--25% of families in South own
slaves in 1860
--Traveling the 1,460 miles from Baltimore to
New Orleans in 1850 meant riding five different railroads, two stage coaches, and two steamboats.
--By 1850, 20 percent of adult white southerners
could not read or write, compared to a national figure of 8 percent.
DO THESE DIFFERENCES MATTER?
Wilmot Proviso (1846)
II. COMPROMISE OF 1850
1845: 15-13 (Texas and Florida)
1846: 15-14 (Iowa)
1848: 15-15 (Wisconsin)
1. Fugitive Slave Act
2. Abolish slave trade in D.C.
3. Cali in as Free State
4. Popular Sovereignty in new territories
5. Resolved boundary dispute btw. Texas
and New Mexico
III. The Trouble Escalates:
A. Transcontinental Railroad
--Stephen Douglas
B. Kansas-Nebraska Act
C. “Bleeding Kansas”
--New England Emigrant Aid Company
--“Beecher’s Bibles”
--John Brown
--Pottawatomie Creek
D. The Caning of Sumner
IV. Party Politics
A. Decline of the Whigs
B. Rise and Fall of the "Know-Nothings"
C. Rise of the Republicans
--The Election of 1856--
Buchanan vs. Fremont in North
Buchanan vs. Fillmore in South
V. On the Verge of War:
A. Dred Scott
B. Panic of 1857
C. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
D. John Brown's Raid
E. The Election of Lincoln
Lincoln (Rep.)
Douglas (Dem.) {border and North}
Breckinridge (Dem.) {South}
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address: March 4, 1861
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Fort Sumter, the first official “battle” of the Civil War, would occur a month later (April 12, 1861)
Friday, November 5, 2010
War with Mexico
Causes of War
Economic Expansion:
Playing Politics:
British Interests in Texas
Slave State Power Grab
Ideas:
Manifest Destiny
John L. O’Sullivan
Two Wars:
California
Mexico
Outcome:
A. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
1. Mexican cession of 525,000 square miles
2. U.S. pays $15 million
3. U.S. assumes $3.25 million in debt to Mexico
B. Gadsen Purchase: $10 million
C. Trouble: (imbalance)
Economic Expansion:
Playing Politics:
British Interests in Texas
Slave State Power Grab
Ideas:
Manifest Destiny
John L. O’Sullivan
Two Wars:
California
Mexico
Outcome:
A. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
1. Mexican cession of 525,000 square miles
2. U.S. pays $15 million
3. U.S. assumes $3.25 million in debt to Mexico
B. Gadsen Purchase: $10 million
C. Trouble: (imbalance)
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
SLAVERY ESSAY TOPICS
FORMAT: 3-4 PAGES, DOUBLE-SPACED, TYPED
Section 1: Essay Due FRIDAY, 11/15
Section 2: Essay Due TUESDAY, 11/16
Remember, the best way to be certain that your essay is ready to be turned in as a final draft is to bring me a rough draft in the days before the final draft is due so that we can revise it together. I CAN ONLY REVISE ONE DRAFT WITH YOU, SO REVISE AND EDIT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE BEFORE BRINGING ME A ROUGH DRAFT.
Remember, your own original analysis of whichever question you choose is crucial. If you are thinking of this history paper as a description of a book or two, think again! Simple description is pointless; make an argument! Again, these issues will be discussed further on the blog and in class.
In a well argued and thoroughly revised essay, answer one of the following questions:
1. Considering Celia, A Slave, and at least two of the Slave Narratives from the American Memory Project what role did violence play in maintaining order on the plantation?
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
2. Compare and contrast Sally Hemmings and Celia.
Here are some good sources on Hemmings:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/
3. What was the meaning of music on in the antebellum slave community?
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_slavery.htm
http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/plantation_life.htm
4. If you have read The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, this one may be for you: Compare and contrast Celia’s attack of Robert Newsom and Frederick Douglass’ fight with the overseer Covey.
5. What was more important in maintaining the discipline of the plantation, physical or psychological control?
6. MAKE UP YOUR OWN TOPIC...you must clear the topic with me or your assignment will not be accepted.
Section 1: Essay Due FRIDAY, 11/15
Section 2: Essay Due TUESDAY, 11/16
Remember, the best way to be certain that your essay is ready to be turned in as a final draft is to bring me a rough draft in the days before the final draft is due so that we can revise it together. I CAN ONLY REVISE ONE DRAFT WITH YOU, SO REVISE AND EDIT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE BEFORE BRINGING ME A ROUGH DRAFT.
Remember, your own original analysis of whichever question you choose is crucial. If you are thinking of this history paper as a description of a book or two, think again! Simple description is pointless; make an argument! Again, these issues will be discussed further on the blog and in class.
In a well argued and thoroughly revised essay, answer one of the following questions:
1. Considering Celia, A Slave, and at least two of the Slave Narratives from the American Memory Project what role did violence play in maintaining order on the plantation?
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
2. Compare and contrast Sally Hemmings and Celia.
Here are some good sources on Hemmings:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/
3. What was the meaning of music on in the antebellum slave community?
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_slavery.htm
http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/plantation_life.htm
4. If you have read The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, this one may be for you: Compare and contrast Celia’s attack of Robert Newsom and Frederick Douglass’ fight with the overseer Covey.
5. What was more important in maintaining the discipline of the plantation, physical or psychological control?
6. MAKE UP YOUR OWN TOPIC...you must clear the topic with me or your assignment will not be accepted.
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