Prof. Greg Hall
Department of History
Spring 2008
History 105FYE Honors
Study Guide for Final Exam
(Twelve of these fifteen questions will appear on your exam. You will be expected to write on ten of those twelve.)
1. Explain the distinguishing features of the “Golden Age of the American Fur Trade.”
2. Explain the causes and consequences of the war with Mexico.
3. Who was Levi Strauss and explain his historical significance.
4. What was the Compromise of 1850 and why was it historically significant.
5. What was the “slave power” and how did it influence northern anti-slavery sentiment?
6. Explain the differences in political leadership between the opposing sides in the Civil War.
7. Why didn’t Great Britain and France recognize the Confederate States of America as an independent nation?
8. Assess the Emancipation Proclamation.
9. Characterize the Confederate Home Front.
10. Characterize the Union Home Front.
11. Explain the differences between presidential and congressional Reconstruction.
12. Did Reconstruction fail or succeed? Explain why.
13. Explain how freed people expressed their freedom during Reconstruction.
14. According to James McPherson, why did southerners fight the Civil War?
15. According to James McPherson, why did northerners fight the Civil War?
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Prof. Greg Hall
Department of History
Spring 2008
History 105FYE Honors
Study Guide for Midterm Exam #2
(Twelve of these fifteen questions will appear on your exam. You will be expected to write on ten of those twelve.)
1) Who were the anti-Federalists, what were their concerns with the Constitution, and what is their legacy?
2) Explain why Alexander Hamilton was an important figure in President Washington’s administration.
3) Contrast the Federalist and Democratic Republican ideologues.
4) What were the causes and consequences of the War of 1812?
5) What is the Monroe Doctrine?
6) Characterize the economic lives of the yeoman farmer class of the antebellum South.
7) Who was Nat Turner and why is he historically significant?
8) Why did President Jackson have problems with the Second National Bank and how did he resolve them?
9) Characterize the differences between Whigs and Democrats.
10) What were the “necessary conditions” that made antebellum reforms possible?
11) What was the temperance movement and evaluate its success?
12) Why was abolitionism unsuccessful in ending slavery?
13) Explain Richard Dana’s characterization of California.
14) Explain Richard Dana’s characterization of living and working conditions on board the Pilgrim.
15) Explain Richard Dana’s characterization of the crew and officers of the Pilgrim.
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Prof. Greg Hall
Department of History
Spring 2008
History 105FYE Honors
Study Guide for Midterm Exam #1
(Twelve of these fifteen questions will appear on your exam. You will be expected to write on ten of those twelve.)
1) Explain the significance of the “Clovis Culture.”
2) What were some of the most distinctive characteristics of pre-contact Iroquois society?
3) Identify and explain the most important plants and animals of the American Exchange.
4) What were some of the key differences between New England and Chesapeake societies?
5) Why did southern colonies shift from indentured servitude to slavery?
6) What were the Navigation Acts?
7) What was the Great Awakening?
8) Briefly explain the conflict within British colonial society in the backcountry.
9) Explain the historical significance of the Seven Years War (French and Indian War).
10) What were the Townsend Acts and what was the colonial reaction?
11) What were the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) and what was the colonial reaction?
12) Explain the historical significance of the Second Continental Congress.
13) Explain the historical significance of Olaudah Equinao.
14) Briefly explain the ways Africans became a part of the slave trade.
15) Explain why Marcus Rediker refers to the slave ship as a factory.