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Robert Pierce

History 17A Final Essay -- Summer session

YOU WILL BE ASKED TO ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: (50%)

  1. Which issues do you feel were most central to provoking the civil war. Defend your position by discussing specific events from the 1850s.

  2. Select three major battles during the Civil War and explain why you believe they were critical tuming points in that conflict.

  3. Your text points out that racism was one of the major forces that drove Reconstruction and undermined it. Illustrate this with examples.

PART TWO


YOU WILL BE ASKED FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING: (50%)

Identify and give the significance of:

1. carpetbaggers
2. Credit Mobilier
3. copperheads
4. Wade-Davis Bill
5. "greenbacks"
6. Wilmot Proviso
7. Bull Run
8. Shiloh
9. Antietam
10. Ft. Sumter
11. Gettysburg
12. 14th Amendment
13. 15th Amendment
14. Joint Committee on Reconstruction
15. Draft Riots
16. Freedman's Bureau


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