Final Exam Review
Honors US History I- 2014
Criteria
• 32 Multiple Choice Questions
• 16 Matching
• 7 Short answers- you must write a
description of key figures
• 3 Interpreting a map questions
• 3 Analyzing a document questions
• 4 Critical thinking questions
What to study….
• Study all of your key terms from chapter
11.
• Study all of the key people from chapter
11.
• The map questions have to do with the
war in the west, specifically the Mississippi
River.
• For the document questions you will read
The Gettysburg Address and answer
questions.
Study more…
• First major battle of the Civil War
• Advantages/Disadvantages of the North and
South
• Lincoln’s dissatisfaction with George McClellan
on the battlefield
• Strategies of the Confederacy
• Republican-controlled Congress
• Battle of Vicksburg significance
• Significance of the election of 1864
• Anaconda Plan
And again….
• Gettysburg Address
• First Battle of Bull Run and Shiloh significance
• Confederate capital
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Greatest cause of death in the war
• Union’s strategy
• The draft
• Lincoln’s main goal at the beginning of the war
And yet more….
• The Battle of Antietam
• Hardships during the war-North and South
• Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania,
and Cold Harbor
• Lincoln’s opponent during the election of
1864
• 13th Amendment
• South Carolina treated harshly
• April 14, 1865
Critical Thinking Questions
• You must answer these the day of the exam. You must write
at least FIVE sentences for each.
1. Why did the South assume that France and Britain would
back the Confederacy? Was this assumption correct?
2. At the start of the Civil War, why do you think many
Americans favored the North to win?
3. Identify two advantages that the North had over the South
during the Civil War, and two advantages that the South had
over the North.
4. Your text states that, for the North, “the Fourth of July 1863
was the most joyous independence day since the first one
87 years earlier”. Explain this statement.