HISTORY OF THE SOUTH

Mid-Term Exam

Mr. Scott Fall 2002

I Choose one of the following to write an essay. Your answer should include lectures, discussions, and required readings. (75%)

a. What was the historical significance of South Carolina’s “Black Majority?”

b. Prior to the Civil War how did slavery shape the lives of southern women, black and white, free and slave?

c. Compare and contrast the American Revolution with the Civil War in the South. How do you explain the differences? How do you explain the different outcome?

II Identify and give the significance of five of the following:

a. Bacon’s Rebellion f. Missouri Compromise

b. Nullification g. Vicksburg

c. Oklahoma h. Stonewall Jackson

d. Tobacco i. Strict Construction

a. Fall Line j. Virginia Legislative

Slave Debate

HISTORY OF THE SOUTH

Mid-Term Exam

Mr. Scott Fall 2001

I Choose one of the following to write an essay. Your answer should include lectures, discussions, and required readings. (75%)

a. Evaluate the impact of aristocratic values on the slave South. Your essay should include a discussion of Virginia’s FFV, Charleston, the cult of honor, and slavery.

b. Compare and contrast life in the slave South for members of the Five Civilized Tribes with African American Slaves.

c. Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War?

II Identify and give the significance of five of the following:

a. 1619 f. Waccamaw River

b. Indigo g. Kings Mountain

c. Mississippian People h. Shenandoah Valley

d. John C. Calhoun i. “Creole” language

e. Nat Turner j. Chancellorsville

HISTORY OF THE SOUTH

Mid-term Exam

Fall 1990

I Choose one of the following for an essay. (75%)

a. Compare life in colonial Virginia with life in colonial South Carolina.

b. Why did the South win the American Revolution but lose the Civil War?

c. Evaluate the impact of African-Americans on the South from 1619 to 1865.

d. Was the Civil War inevitable? Why or why not?

II Identify and give Significance of 5 of the following: (25%)

a. Kansas-Nebraska Decision f. Sentinel Theory

b. Fort Sumter g. Seminole

c. Tidewater h. Tennessee River

d. Bacon’s Rebellion I. Nat Turner Revolt

e. John Brown j. Chattanooga

HISTORY OF THE SOUTH

Make-Up Mid-term Exam

Fall 1997

I Choose one of the following for an essay. (75%)

a. Compare and Contrast the conditions of life for African-Americans in the 17th Century Chesapeake as presented in Breen & Innes, Myne Own Ground with 19th century Carolina Lowcountry slaves as presented in Joyner, Down By the Riverside. Explain why they were similar and why they were different.

b. Trace in detail the poltical events that led to the Civil War.

c. Why did the South lose the Civil War?

II Identify and give Significance of 5 of the following:

a. House of Burgesses f. Palmetto Fort

b. Mexican War g. Gullah

c. Female Code of Honor h. Treaty of New Echota

d. Five Civilized Tribes I. Battle of Atlanta

e. FFV j. Regulators

HISTORY OF THE SOUTH

Mid-term Exam

Fall 1997

I Choose one of the following for an essay. (75%)

a. Compare and Contrast the conditions of life for African-Americans in the 17th Century Chesapeake as presented in Breen & Innes, Myne Own Ground with 19th century Carolina Lowcountry slaves as presented in Joyner, Down By the Riverside. Explain why they were similar and why they were different.

b. How did Slavery shape the pre-Civil War South? Draw on both lectures and readings.

c. Compare the situation faced by the Cherokee in the South with the situation faced by the South in the United States.

d. Compare and Contrast the status of black slave women with white free women in the ante-bellum period (1815-1860).

II Identify and give Significance of 5 of the following:

a. Coverture f. Missouri Compromise

b. Nullification Crisis g. Sea Island Cotton

c. Elizah Lucas h. Backcountry

d. Five Civilized Tribes I. Missouri Compromise

e. Strict Construction j. Vicksburg