- 35 Multiple Choice questions (2 points each / 70 points total) - 5 True/False Questions (1 point each / 5 points total) - Definitions (5 points each; 25 points total) Just like the other two exams, for the Definitions section, you are choosing 5 of the 8 terms displayed and write a concise 3-4 sentence definition telling me what the term is and how it is significant to American history. key questions to help you in your studying: - What happened in the Prigg v. Pennsylvania case? Who was Edward Prigg? Why was Prigg suing the State of Pennsylvania? - What is sectionalism? - What was James K. Polk's campaign slogan when he ran for president in 1844? What was it a reference to? - What happened in the Mexican War? How did it start? And what was the outcome for the United States? - What was the Wilmot Proviso? - How did the Wilmot Proviso alter the political system of the United States? - What was popular sovereignty? - What were the five components of the Compromise of 1850? Who was the architect of that act? - Who was the architect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854? What did it do? - What was "Bleeding Kansas"? Who were the two factions fighting in that event? - What was the Preston Brooks-Charles Sumner incident in the Senate in 1856? - What was the Dred Scott decision? What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates about ? - Who was John Brown? - Who were the four candidates involved in the 1860 presidential election? - What was the original slogan of the Republican Party in the 1850s? - What were the original seven states to secede from the Union after Lincoln wins the presidential election? - Why does Virginia secede? - How many states officially seceded to join the Confederacy? - What was the Anaconda Plan? - What was the message of the 1861 song "Maryland, My Maryland"? Why was it written by James Ryder Randall? - What was "Bonnie Blue Flag"? - Who was Robert E, Lee? - Where were the first shots fired in the Civil War? Where were the first fatalities in the Civil War? Where was the first MAJOR battle of the Civil War? - What was the original capital of the CSA? Where did the capital of the CSA move to later on in 1861? Who was the President of the CSA? - What was the single bloodiest day in the American Civil War? Who was the only commanding general of the Army of the Potomac that Abraham Lincoln did not fire? - What kind of a ship was the CSS Merrimack? - What was the battle where" Stonewall" Jackson was killed? Who killed him? - What was a Border State? What was the Emancipation Proclamation? - What was "King Cotton" Diplomacy? - What major city erupted into bloody riots after the 1863 draft in the Union? Why? - What was the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War? - What was the CSS Hunley? - Who did Lincoln defeat for reelection in 1864? Who were the Copperheads? - In John Wilkes Booth's assassination plot, who was targeted for assassination? - What was the fate of most of the conspirators? What play was Lincoln attending at Ford's Theater? - What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments do? - What was Reconstruction? Please use short and straight forwards answers. And great easy definitions for the definition part Regards,