LINCOLN
GRANT
LEE
To get review started tonight, let's start with some sample questions. What I would like you to do is A.) Select the correct answer and B.) Provide a written rationale as to why you selected this answer.
Example A:
“ We find it easy to tread on and crush a worm that we see crawling on the earth; so it is easy for us to cut or singe a slender thread that any thing hangs by: thus easy is it for God, when he pleases, to cast his enemies down to hell.”
The above quotation most sounds like the viewpoint of which of the following colonial leaders?
A. John Peter Zenger
B. Samuel Adams
C. Jonathan Edwards
D. Patrick Henry
E. Thomas Jefferson
Answer: C. Rationale: As a major figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards's preaching was notable for its provocative Biblical imagery, a tactic that worked to great effect in sermon's such as "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
A superior response may recognize that the above quote is actually from Edwards's famouns "Sinners. . ." sermon. The other colonial leaders mentioned above were more notable for their public statements concerning colonial politics.
So, let's try some for our current American Civil War Unit:
Example B:
The most important influence on the expansion of American slavery during the 1800s was the
A.) invention of the cotton gin
B.) Congressional gag rule against discussing slavery in Congress
C.) American Colonization society
D.) Underground Railroad
E.) 3/5 Compromise
Example C
The 1850s were marked by intense North-South debate over the issue of slavery in the territories, yet the census of 1860 listed only nine total slaves in the Kansas-Nebraska territories. What explains the contradiction between the actual number of slaves in the territories and the intensity of the dispute?
A.) Slaveholders expected to move into Kansas and Nebraska when opposition to slavery in that area decreased.
B.) The issue of slavery in the territories had become an important symbol to both sections and an indication of the future direction of the country.
C.) The Lecompton Constitution safeguarding slaveholders had not yet been adopted.
D.) John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry led to Pottawatomie massacre, causing slaveholders to retreat to Missouri
E.) Slavery was tied to cotton production, which was impractical in the territories
45 comments:
Approximately how many review question will there be? Just asking. And is there any specific review questions or years that we should be focusing on?
Example B: the most important influence was
A: the invention of the cotton gin
Why: The cotton gin led to increased productivity because more cotton could be cleaned in one day. Thus, the need for slaves increased as the cotton industry became 'King.' The slave trade flourished because of the high demand and the international slave trade grew, until it was outlawed in 1808 and the internal slave trade prospered, creating controversy between N & S during the antebellum period.
For example B would the correct choice be (a) because the cotton gin required many workers aka slaves to run it?
never mind. THANKS EMILY!!!!
example B is A. The cotton gin led to a great increase in both the supply and demand for cotton and in turn the the number of slaves required to produce it.
i'm thinking that the second question is (b)
The most important influence on the expansion of American slavery during the 1800s was the
A.) invention of the cotton gin
B.) Congressional gag rule against discussing slavery in Congress
C.) American Colonization society
D.) Underground Railroad
E.) 3/5 Compromise
I would say A, because the cotton gin allowed cotton to be produced much more quickly so they needed more slaves to keep up with the production of the cotton gin, planting and harvesting the cotton. The other choices are incorrect because they do not directly correspond with the expansion of slavery.
A couple of questions...
1. can we go over what "Bleeding Kansas" was and why it was so important? I know it involves illegal ballots to decide on the issue of slavery, but what else do we have to know?
2. apptomattox courthouse surrender: what specific details are there to know? besides the end of the war that signified a united country and the end of the CSU.
Looking good so far folks. Thanks to the "Species Circular" for getting the ball rolling on actually answering the sample questions I left for you folks.
No one wants to take on Example C?
im goin to go with b for example c but im not entirely sure
I think bleeding kansas involved many different disputes, acts of violence, that were trying to determine whether kansas would be a free or slave state
Example C is B, the slaveowners were worried that increasing abolitionist sentiment would eventually threaten their way of life right?
labeling the new states position on slavery would have a major effect on the country and majority of free/slave states would be closer if both were to be stated slave
can i get more info on example 3 i have no idea about it
would it be b, because people wanted even numbers of slave and free state represtitves/senetors??
Bleeding Kansas~ the Kansas and Nebraska Act really upset many so they were crossing borders and trying to make Kansas a slave state territory. John Brown and the Pottawatomie Massacre were events that were civil war forshadowing the newly arriving civil war ahead.
Example C: I would also say choice B.
With the 3/5 compromise, not all slaves were accounted for; also, the slave states tried to stay equal to or superior to the amount of free states so that they would not be overruled.
In the Kansas-Nebraska territories, the Kansas-Nebraska Act by S.Douglas violated the Missouri Compromise's 36-30 line, so maybe some people in the territories did not count the blacks to be slaves because, technically, they were in the free area?
appotomax courthouse was quite a peacful surrender and generous deals were made between lee and grant.
question: we won't need to know casultie numbers for given battles right..just that they went up over the course of the war?
BTW, I will not be responding to questions from students who are writing under pseudonyms, or referring to me as "DJ Dayyvvis." Sorry, it's just the way it goes.
As to Emily's inquiry, it forced me to pull this new book about Lincoln and Senator Douglas's much studied relationship off the shelf.
Emily's question regarded the Kansas-Nebraska terroritorial dispute. The dispute was over whether or not those "soon to be states" would be slave or free. Douglas's encouragement of the Kansas-Nebraska Act essentially overturns the Missouri Compromise of 1820. something that Douglas already believed was made null and void by the Compromise of 1850. The issue of popular sovereignty looms largely in considering the K-N Act, since Douglas essentially wins the argument that the voters in the territories should determine if they would be slave or free; this encourages pro and anti slavery factions to pour into both Kansas and Nebraska. We've talked about John Brown's exploits in Kansas, and, to get back to that new book about Lincoln and Douglas (entitled The Long Pursuit), Douglas was pretty outraged by what was going on in Kansas, rejecting the decision by the Kansas legislature in 1857 to become a slave state, with Douglas claiming that free-staters had sat out this vote (The so called Lecompton Constitution, named after the provisional captital city of Kansas). Douglas called Lecompton a "fradulent submission" and sayng that "If this constitution is to be forced down our throats, in violation of the fundemental principle of free government I will resist it to thte last."
But President Buchanan supported Lecompton, and this pretty much helped spell doom for the Democratic Party in the election of 1860, with Douglas popular in some circles, and the Buchanan faction supporting other party candidates.
okay, so I also have some questions about grant and sherman.
grant=general-in-chief of the Union army, used a plan of "strangulation & annihilation"
sherman=a union general, used TOTAL WAR, destroying everything except people, took the fight to civilians, war of "subjugation & conquest," "war is hell"
What else is there, specifically about GRANT?
garrett: i don't think we need to know exact numbers, except it might be useful to know that antietam was the bloodiest one-day battle and the most casualties were at gettysburg.
the lecompten and the k-n act really effected the states ideals of popular sovreignty and the slavery issue would be fully up to the people the next time b/c it was not used at all in the past many major decisions
I have a question about the test: when we justify our answers, do we also have to prove that the wrong answers are incorrect?
So, for example C, we are looking at the importance of Kansas and Nebraska being at the center of a national discussion of the "free or slave state" question.
As far was what sort of review questions I will ask on the test tomorrow, I'm not really a liberty to say. At this point, anything up to 1865 is free game--really. Remember, the AP exam is a comprehensive test of the entire year's content. It wouldn't hurt to look over those notebooks and review books every now and then to keep things fresh in your mind.
And Jelani--what did you want me to address that we haven't covered yet? I missed your last post!
I would remember that Grant's resolve at Vicksburg and Petersburg are essential components of Union victory.
Sorry if you've already answered this Mr. Davis, but what are some really good review books?
so the historic range for the test is basically from manifest destiny to the assassination of lincoln??
What is the importance of president Polk and the Mexican American War
so the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in areas that were unloyal to the US. why did Lincoln choose these slaves to be freed? and it didn't really do anything anyway right?
Katie: I like the Princeton Review book, but everyone keeps telling me that Barnes and Noble is out--a new one for 2009 is coming out this month, so I would recommend that one.
In terms of answering the questions, I would only "dispute" the other "wrong/less right" answers in a general sense, as I did in example A. My goal here is to get you thinking about each of your multiple choice selections, and then provide a basis for your decision. In the end, your response will be very similar to what review books provide you when they go over sample AP exam questions and provide an explanation for them. So, one way of looking at this test is that you are creating your own review material.
For example C, I think that the answer is B. Abolitionists wanted it to be a free stae and slaveholders wnated it to be a slave state because they wanted the power in government. If they had another state to vote with them, they would have been able to dominate the other side.
vicksburg led for the union to have full control over the mississippi river and was crutial to the union takeover
okay, how much time left do we have, do you think?
and could somebody fill me in a little bit on franklin PIERCE and WHH/Tyler (are they even really important to know in depth?)
I think you might have coverd it in the cansa nabraska thing but i was askin
a do we take sides with the north or south aka a war of northern agression or a war to be 1 union and end slavery
b also do we attk the deciding states if they choose to have slaves
erika- one importance of Polk was that his presidency was greatly focused on expansion of the country and Manifest Destiny
emancipation proclomation-military necesity, wanted to make plans to compensate the freed slaves owner and have ebough northerners to back him. lincoln that is.
Some review concepts that I think you should pull out of your text as you study this evening:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Dred Scot v. Sanford
William Lloyd Garrison
Factors in Southern defeat
And remember, there will be a question from the book Lincoln at Gettysburg.
maggie:
AL threatened in september of 1862 that if the states didn't free their own slaves/come back to the union, that he would do it for them. so he kept his word, not involving the states loyal to the union until the 13th amendment, ratified in 1865.
uncle tom's cabin:
by harriet beecher stowe, it told the harsh realities of slavery. it was the best-selling book to date and it was about a black man who endured the cruel beatings of his master.
mr. davis, would this question from lincoln at gettysburg be similar to one of the four that you gave us??
No, Jelani, we are not required to take sides in our study of the Civil War.
The reason why I covered some of the material as such, which may have led you to believe that you needed to choose a side, per se, was to give you multiple perspectives on how the war has been interpreted over the years. Historian's opinons are often shaped by the era they live in, and their proximity to historical events. No one has every disputed the role of slavery as a catalyst for the Civil War, but slavery is often part of greater explanation as to why the states fought one another. We covered such issues as regional and sectional differences, states' rights disputes, a struggle between different economic systems, and so on.
No, Luke, the question about Lincoln at Gettysburg on the exam is much more difficult, bringing together several chapters at once.
Good work folks, I'm confident you will do well tomorrow!
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