1) Your Ch. 18-22 Multiple Choice Test will be on MONDAY 12/19/11. There will be 61 questions and some bonus questions. Study the documents that follow for some hints/tips related to actual test questions.
2) Your Ch. 18-22 DBQ Essay Test will be on TUESDAY 12/20/11. This will be an actual essay, worth 18 points, written in class. Study the documents that follow . . . these are some of the actual documents of the DBQ.
Your DBQ topic will be about whether social and constitutional changes in the time period 1860-1877 amounted to a revolution.
. . . Good Luck!
1) What does suffrage mean? What is the point the author is making about suffrage, and for/about whom is he making that point?
The Federal government has no right and has not attempted to dictate on the matter of suffrage to any state, and I apprehend it will not conduce to any harmony to arrogate and exercise arbitrary power over the states which have been in rebellion. It was never intended by the founders of the Union that the Federal government should prescribe suffrage to the states. We shall get rid of slavery by constitutional means. But conferring on the black civil rights is another matter. I know not the authority.
Source: Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Diary Entry, May 9, 1865.
2) What is the point this author is making about states' rights? How does he feel the problems created by states' rights might be solved in the future?
The policy of this country ought to be to make everything national as far as possible; to nationalize our country, so that we shall love our country. If we are dependent on the United States for a currency and a medium of exchange, we shall have a broader and more generous nationality. The [lack] of such nationality, I believe, is one of the great evils of the times. . . . It has been that principle of states' rights, that bad sentiment that has elevated state authority above national authority, that has been the main instrument by which our government is sought to be overthrown.
Source: Senator John Sherman, speech in Congress on the new banking and currency systems, February 10, 1863.
3) Know this map . . . in its blank form! (Click the map to open it in a larger size.)
4) When was this cartoon made? What is happening over the shoulders of the family in the middle of the cartoon? What is the point this political cartoon is making? (Click the cartoon to open it in a larger size.)
