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First Midterm Examination Study Guide The first midterm will cover everything up to and including the lecture entitled, "Conciliation and Its Failure." The examination will consist of two parts. In Part I, you'll be asked to identify and give the significance of THREE out of FIVE possible terms. This portion of the exam should take no more than twenty (20) minutes. It's worth 100 points. These are the terms we've covered so far: Republican ideology 1. Compare and contrast the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and ABleeding Kansas@ on public opinion in the North and South. What did Northerners see as the principal issues at stake? How did the issues appear to Southerners? Could this crisis have been defused without secession and civil war? If so, how? If not, why not? (For this essay, you=ll find the material in Perman, 31-63, especially helpful.) 2. Analyze the pros and cons of William H. Seward=s proposed policy of restraint toward the seceded states (Perman, 67-68). Using that document, the Gilmer letter (Perman, 66-67), the Alexander H. Stephens speech (69-71), and the North Carolina Standard editorial, make a good, supported case for why President Abraham Lincoln should have adopted this policy. Then, using the rest of AThe Secession Crisis@ section (Perman, 64-88), explain why Lincoln rejected it. Had Lincoln embraced it, what, in your opinion, would have been the likely outcome? 3. Evaluate Union and Confederate grand strategy in 1861-1862. In what ways did they reflect the political, social, economic, and geographic realities with which both sides had to contend? What were the main strengths and shortcomings of these strategies? 4. At the war’s outset, the Union pursued a conciliatory policy toward the Confederacy. By late summer 1862 it had largely abandoned the policy. Define the conciliatory policy, then explain the considerations that led the Union to adopt the policy and the developments that led to its abandonment. 5. According to James M. McPherson's For Cause and Comrades, what were the key factors that motivated Union and Confederate soldiers to enlist in 1861? (You'll find the introduction and chapters 1 and 2 of the book helpful here .)
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