HIST 103 News

This website for HIST 103 is now inactive. Feel free to look around, but the materials here are those for the fall 2007 offering. I expect to offer the course on campus again in fall 2008.

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Those of you who missed the final on Monday should email me immediately to arrange a makeup exam this week. Email me at jeff.armstrong@ndsu.edu or armstrong@i29.net

Again, here is a (partial) list of items you should be able to identify for the test. There will also be a review session in class Thursday for those who have questions about anything in the last five lectures. Good luck on your finals.

Sweet Betsy From Pike
Freeport Doctrine
Brigham Young
Pottawatomie Creek
Santa Fe Trail
Liberia
Stephen Douglas
Charles Sumner
Long and Short Staple
Oregon Trail
Lawrence Kansas
The Liberator
Josiah Gregg
Fort Sumter
Joseph Smith
Gag Rule
William Becknell
Abolitionism
Free Soil
Harper’s Ferry
Stephen Watts Kearny
John C. Calhoun
Missouri Compromise
Argonauts
King Cotton
Crittenden Crompromise
Sutter’s Mill
Old Brown
Dred Scott
Election of 1860
Wilmot Proviso
Justin Morrill
7th of March Speech
Eli Whitney
Jefferson Davis
Daniel Webster
PGT Beauregard
Blundering Generation
Henry Clay
Robert E. Lee
Slave Codes
Antietam
Roots
Ulysses S. Grant
Underground Railroad
Emancipation Proclamation
Gradual Emancipation
Gettysburg
Compromise of 1850
Sherman’s March
Benjamin Lundy
Appamatox

For those of you who may have missed class today due to the weather, there will be one essay question for the final. It will be given during class onThursday, Dec. 6. The question is as follows:

Based on the content and explanations you have heard this term, and on the distinction made by Tocqueville, answer this question: Is the course taught from the point of view of an aristocratic historian, or that of a democratic historian?

The multiple choice portion of the test will take place as scheduled, at 1pm Monday, Dec. 10.

At least five of the following questions will appear on Monday's Final Exam:

Who said historians must “pity, if not love," the people of the past?
a. John F. Kennedy
b. William Becknell
c. Alexis de Tocqueville
d. Manning Clark

In what year did the United States ban the import of slaves?
a. 1787
b. 1863
c. 1850
d. 1808

Advocates of colonization proposed that slaves should
a. be returned to Africa.
b. serve as a special unit of the U.S. Army.
c. found a new nation in the Caribbean.
d. form a separate American state.

What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
a. an unratified immigration agreement with Mexico
b. Spain’s formal recognition of Mexican independence
c. an agreement by Mexico accepting defeat in its war with the U.S.
d. a pact allowing international trade on the Santa Fe Trail

Who was responsible for the caning of Sumner?
a. Preston Brooks
b. Stephen Douglas
c. John C. Calhoun
d. John Brown

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 established the doctrine of
a. free soil.
b. separate but equal.
c. popular sovereignty.
d. gradual emancipation.

What were the so-called Bogus Laws of Kansas?
a. a series of bills unsigned by the governor
b. legislative acts to free slaves without compensation to owners
c. repressive acts of a pro-slavery faction in Lecompton
d. laws against claiming free blacks as fugitive slaves