Assignment: 1301 United States History

Collin College

Blue Book -C13 - C15

BLUEBOOK EXAM (DUE: 12-11-17)

Directions:

Students are to ANSWER THREE QUESTIONS for each chapter. Answers should use proper diction, syntax, and grammar at all times. In other words, they should be in complete sentences using cogent, articulate, and intelligent points throughout. It goes without saying, but doing well on the written portion of an exam is largely the by-product of concentrating on two domains: knowing what to say as well as knowing how to say it. Good luck.

Chapter Thirteen:

1. Identify the major factors contributing to U.S. territorialexpansion in the 1840s.
2. Explain why the expansion of slavery became the mostdivisive political issue in the 1840s and 1850s.
3. Identify the combination of issues and events thatfueled thecreation of the Republican Party in the1850s.
4. Explain what enabled Lincoln to emerge as president from thedivisive party politics of the 1850s.
5. Describe the final steps on the road to secession.

Chapter Fourteen:

1. Explain why the Civil War is considered the first modernwar.

2. Describe how a war to preserve the Union became awar to end slavery.

3. Explain how the Civil War transformed the nationaleconomy and created a stronger nation- state.

4. Explain how the war effort and leadership problemsaffected the society and economy of the Confederacy.

5. Identify the military and political turning points of the war.

6. Identify the most important war time "rehearsals for reconstruction."

Chapter Fifteen:

1. Identify the visions of freedom the former slaves andslaveholders pursued in the postwar South.
2. Describe the sources, goals, and competing visions forReconstruction.
3. Describe the social and political effects of Radical Reconstruction in the South.
4. Explain the main factors in both the North and South for the overthrow of Reconstruction.