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Final Exam Review. Honors US History I- 2014. Criteria. 32 Multiple Choice Questions 16 Matching 7 Short answers- you must write a description of key figures 3 Interpreting a map questions 3 Analyzing a document questions 4 Critical thinking questions. What to study….
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Final Exam Review Honors US History I- 2014
Criteria • 32 Multiple Choice Questions • 16 Matching • 7 Short answers- you must write a description of key figures • 3 Interpreting a map questions • 3 Analyzing a document questions • 4 Critical thinking questions
What to study…. • Study all of your key terms from chapter 11. • Study all of the key people from chapter 11. • The map questions have to do with the war in the west, specifically the Mississippi River. • For the document questions you will read The Gettysburg Address and answer questions.
Study more… • First major battle of the Civil War • Advantages/Disadvantages of the North and South • Lincoln’s dissatisfaction with George McClellan on the battlefield • Strategies of the Confederacy • Republican-controlled Congress • Battle of Vicksburg significance • Significance of the election of 1864 • Anaconda Plan
And again…. • Gettysburg Address • First Battle of Bull Run and Shiloh significance • Confederate capital • The Emancipation Proclamation • Battle of Gettysburg • Greatest cause of death in the war • Union’s strategy • The draft • Lincoln’s main goal at the beginning of the war
And yet more…. • The Battle of Antietam • Hardships during the war-North and South • Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor • Lincoln’s opponent during the election of 1864 • 13th Amendment • South Carolina treated harshly • April 14, 1865
Critical Thinking Questions • You must answer these the day of the exam. You must write at least FIVE sentences for each. • Why did the South assume that France and Britain would back the Confederacy? Was this assumption correct? • At the start of the Civil War, why do you think many Americans favored the North to win? • Identify two advantages that the North had over the South during the Civil War, and two advantages that the South had over the North. • Your text states that, for the North, “the Fourth of July 1863 was the most joyous independence day since the first one 87 years earlier”. Explain this statement.