HISTORY
OF THE SOUTH
Final
Examination
Fall
2002
I
Choose one of the following for an essay: 50%
a. Evaluate the impact of African slavery on the
South. Your essay should begin with the
seventeenth century and include the twentieth century.
b. Which caused the Civil War, southern honor or
chattel slavery?
c. Evaluate the influence of religion on
southern life. Your essay should begin
with the seventeenth century and include the twentieth century.
II
Choose one of the following for an essay: 25%
a.
Evaluate
the impact of urbanization on the post-Civil War South.
b.
Which
had the greatest impact on the South, Reconstruction or World War II?
c. Evaluate
the impact of the Progressive Movement on the South.
III Identify and give historical significance of five
of the following: 25%
a. Scarlet O’Hara
b. Carl Fisher
c. William Faulkner
d. Montgomery Boycott
e. Plessy v. Ferguson
f. Muddy Waters
h. Buck Duke
I. Thirteenth Amendment
j. Sub-treasury Plan
k. Harlem Renaissance
HISTORY
OF THE SOUTH
Final
Examination
Fall
2001
I
Choose one of the following: 75%
a. Evaluate the impact of the Civil War and
World War II on southern life. Which was
the most important? Which brought about
the most fundamental changes?
b. In what ways has the American South been
shaped by European culture. In what ways
has the American South been shaped by African culture. How is the South neither European nor
African?
c. What single factor do you think best
explains “the distinctiveness of the South from the remainder of the
nation?” Your answer should be complex
and comprehensive.
III Identify and give historical
significance of five of the following: 25%
a. Agricultural
Adjustment Act
b. Apostle
EF
c. Huey
Long
d. Sit-ins
e. The
Mississippi Plan
f. Robert Johnson
h. R. J. Reynolds
I. Fifteenth
Amendment
j. Populist
Party
k. David Covington
HISTORY
OF THE SOUTH
Final
Examination
Fall
l993
I Choose one
of the following: 50%
a. Between l830 and l860 the South became
virtually a nation and a people unto itself.
The alienation of southern whites towards the remainder of the nation
precipitated the most violent war of the nineteenth century and the most
violent conflict in American history.
Yet, in l993, the United States, unlike the Soviet Union, Russia, and
Canada, in Lincoln's words, is an "indivisible nation." In an essay delineate the profound
differences that separated the South from the remainder of the nation in l860,
and how, since 1877, the South has become an integral part of the United
States.
b. Prior to l865 the South seemed to lack the
means to transform itself. Since l865
the South has undergone a radical transformation. What forces inhibited change prior to l865? What forces ignited change since l865?
II Chose one of the following: 25%
a. Write an essay that traces the "rise of Southern middle
class culture" since the end of the Civil War. How did the history of Mamie Field's family,
as presented in Lemon Swamp, exemplify the emergence of southern urban,
middle class life?
b. Write a history of "southern
transportation" since the Civil War, showing how the railroad and the
automobile shaped and transformed modern southern life.
c. Compare and contrast Reconstruction with the
Civil Rights Movement. What were the
accomplishments of each? What were the
failures? Which had the most profound
impact on Southern life?
III Identify and give historical
significance of ten of the following:
a. Bubba
b. Ann Richards
c. Birmingham
Riots
d. Little
Rock
e. Plessy
v. Ferguson
f. Grand
Ole Oprey
g. Blues
h. Fifteenth
Amendment
i. Freedmen's
Bureau
j. Railroad
Time
k. Populism
l. White
Primary
m. Andrew Johnson
n. Camels/LSMFT
o. NAACP
p. Carl Fisher
r. Barrel
Houses
s. John Crowe Ransom
t. Pellagra
v. Agricultural
Adjustment Act
HISTORY
OF THE SOUTH
Final
Examination
Fall
l995
I Choose one
of the following: 50%
a. To what extent was the Civil War the
"central event" of southern history.
How did the Civil War alter southern society? Why did it have such a profound effect on
southern life after Appomattox?
b. What do you consider the "central
theme" of southern history? What
has defined the South from its origins and continues to distinguish it from
other regions in the United States?
II Choose one of the following: 25%
a. Compare and contrast the life of Mamie Fields
as presented in Lemon Swamp with Celie as presented in the Color
Purple. How do you explain the
differences in these two contemporary, southern African-American women?
b. Write a history of the "modern"
South using southern music as your organizing theme.
III Identify and give historical
significance of five of the following:
a. "The
Fugitives"
b. Montgomery
Bus Boycott
c. Populist
Party
d. Andrew Johnson
e. Plessy
v. Ferguson
f. Agricultural
Adjustment Act
g. Camels/LSMFT
h. Fifteenth
Amendment
j. Railroad
Time
k. Florida Land Boom
HISTORY
OF THE SOUTH
Final
Examination
Fall
l993
I Choose one
of the following: 50%
a. Between l830 and l860 the South became
virtually a nation and a people unto itself.
The alienation of southern whites towards the remainder of the nation
precipitated the most violent war of the nineteenth century and the most
violent conflict in American history.
Yet, in l993, the United States, unlike the Soviet Union, Russia, and
Canada, in Lincoln's words, is an "indivisible nation." In an essay delineate the profound
differences that separated the South from the remainder of the nation in l860,
and how, since 1877, the South has become an integral part of the United
States.
b. Prior to l865 the South seemed to lack the
means to transform itself. Since l865
the South has undergone a radical transformation. What forces inhibited change prior to l865? What forces ignited change since l865?
II Chose one of the following: 25%
a. Write an essay that traces the "rise of Southern middle
class culture" since the end of the Civil War. How did the history of Mamie Field's family,
as presented in Lemon Swamp, exemplify the emergence of southern urban,
middle class life?
b. Write a history of "southern
transportation" since the Civil War, showing how the railroad and the
automobile shaped and transformed modern southern life.
c. Compare and contrast Reconstruction with the
Civil Rights Movement. What were the
accomplishments of each? What were the
failures? Which had the most profound
impact on Southern life?
III Identify and give historical
significance of ten of the following:
a. Bubba
b. Ann Richards
c. Birmingham
Riots
d. Little
Rock
e. Plessy
v. Ferguson
f. Grand
Ole Oprey
g. Blues
h. Fifteenth
Amendment
i. Freedmen's
Bureau
j. Railroad
Time
k. Populism
l. White
Primary
m. Andrew Johnson
n. Camels/LSMFT
o. NAACP
p. Carl Fisher
r. Barrel
Houses
s. John Crowe Ransom
t. Pellagra
v. Agricultural
Adjustment Act
HISTORY
OF THE SOUTH
FINAL
EXAMINATION
Spring
l992
I Historians of the South have resorted to
numerous themes to explain the history of the region. Your assignment is to write a "history
of the South" from the seventeenth century to present based on one
of the following themes: (one hour: 50%)
a) Economic
b) Ethnicity
c) Regionalism
d) Religion
e) Gender
f) Politics
II Choose one of the following, and in an essay,
respond critically to the statement. (one hour: 50%)
a)
"The Defeat of the Confederacy assured the destruction of the South
as a distinct region and culture. Since
l865, the South has committed itself irrevocably to become just like the
remainder of the nation, a regional variation on the dominant American theme of
the pursuit of material prosperity."
b)
"The central principle of the Civil Rights Revolution--equal
protection of the law--simply fulfilled the promises of the Civil War as
expressed in the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments and the Civil Rights Act of
l866. Rather than a 'revolution,'
properly, the Civil Rights Movement should be seen as a 'restoration' of the
South to the mainstream of American democracy."
c)
"The idea of southern 'uniqueness' exaggerates the South's
quintessential 'American-ness.' Much of
what has always passed as distinctively southern, in truth, was little more
than an intensification of what was distinctively American. In racial attitudes, political behavior,
male-female relations, in religious belief, in popular art, Southerners have
acted very much as other Americans. If
they had not, the wounds of the Civil War would have never healed."