Please identify (write out, in two to three complete sentences, who, what where, when, and historical significance) five of the following (10 pts each; 50 pts total):

1) Andrew Jackson
2) War of 1812
3) Free Soil Party
4) John Quincy Adams
5) Missouri Compromise
6) Emancipation Proclamation
7) Bleeding Kansas
8) William T. Sherman

Write a clear, organized, and well-developed essay for the following question:

The novel Killer Angels provides a fictionalized account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Please write an essay in which you do the following:

--summarize the events of the battle as you learned them from the novel

--comment on the benefits of reading a fictionalized account as opposed to a general mhistory

--comment on the shortcomings of reading a fictionalized account