Final Exam ReviewHonors 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.1. Why did the South assume that France and Britain would

back the Confederacy? Was this assumption correct?2. At the start of the Civil War, why do you think many

Americans favored the North to win?3. Identify two advantages that the North had over the South

during the Civil War, and two advantages that the South had over the North.

4. 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.