Final
2013 study guide; Civil War; Birzer
N.B.
The final is worth 40% of your course grade.
To earn anything above a “C”, you must employ—to a significant
extent—the readings you were assigned.
Section I:
Essay. One of these will appear on the final. Worth 30% of your final.
1. Consider Lincoln’s relationships with other
politicians, cabinet members, generals, and the America people. What kind of president and person was he?
2. Explain the evolution of northern war aims,
strategies, and tactics, 1861-1865.
3.
Explain both Union and Confederate motivations/justifications for
beginning as well as continuing the war, 1861-1865. Be sure to include the views of the leaders,
the average soldiers, and the general public of each section.
4. Explain the evolution of Lincoln’s thought/understanding
regarding secession and the purpose of the war, 1861-1865.
5. Explain the role of the Yankee Leviathan and Confederate War Socialism in the waging of the CIvil War (should include "Total War.")
Section
II: I.D.s/Definitions;. Definitions will be worth ten points each. Four total; worth 40% of your final.
13th
Amendment
14th
Amendment
15th
Amendment
54th
Massachusetts
American
System
Ambrose
Burnside
Anaconda
Plan
Antietam
Bleeding
Kansas
Compromise
of 1850
copperheads
“Cotton is
King”
Eastern
Theater
Emancipation
Proclamation
Exodusters
Field Order
#120
First Bull
Run
Fort Sumter
Fredericksburg
G.B.
McClellan
George Meade
Gettysburg
Henry Clay
Homesteading
Act
James
Buchanan
James
Longstreet
Jefferson
Davis
John C.
Calhoun
Joint
Committee on the Conduct of the War
Joshua
Chamberlain
KKK
Knights of the Golden Circle
Knights of the Golden Circle
Manifest
Destiny
Meditation
on the Divine Will
Missouri
Compromise
New York
Draft Riots
Peninsular
Campaign
Petersburg
Siege
Popular
sovereignty
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Radical
Republicans
River Queen
Doctrine
Robert
Anderson
Robert E.
Lee
Secret Six
Shiloh
Special
Field Order #15
Springfield
Rifle
Stonewall
Jackson
Total War
Trans-Mississippi
Theater
U.S. Grant
Vicksburg
Wade-Davis
Bill
Western
Theater
Wilderness
Campaign
Wilmot
Proviso
William H.
L. Wallace
William
Seward
William T.
Sherman
Western
Theater
Yankee Leviathan
Section III:
Short answers. Worth 30% of
your final grade.
