HIST127 Final Exam Possible Essay Questions
You will be required to write TWO essays for the final.
One will be cumulative; one will cover
material since the midterm.
I’m giving you here three possibilities for each question.
On the
exam itself, you will chose from two questions for each essay.
Second Midterm
1) Despite the Declaration of Independence’s claim “that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness,” many Americans were unable to pursue the rights of citizenship fully
in the 18
th
and 19
th
centuries. Trace the progress of women, African-Americans, and Native
Americans ca. 1800-1865. Who made the greatest gains in this period and why?
Native Americans - lost
Cherokee nation tried to become sovereign (Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 1831)
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
Western Expansion
Homestead Act (1862)
African Americans
Gains
Losses
Free blacks in North
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Emancipation Proclamation
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Walker’s Appeal (1829)
Contrabands
John Brown’s Raid
Religious/Cultural Autonomy on
Plantations
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – made slavery
a more personal issue
Abolitionism (American Anti-
Slavery Society)
Women
Gains
Losses
Involvement in abolitionist,
Separate spheres ideal, “cult of domesticity”
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- Fall '08
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- US History, Civil War, United States Declaration of Independence, American Civil War
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