First Period: 8:30am to 9:21am
Third Period: 10:27am to 11:17am
Sixth Period: 1:42pm to 2:32pm
Antebellum Culture Assessment
Each unit will have one summative assessment at the end that test how well you have learned key standards and ideas. Unit assessments are worth 50 points. The Antebellum Culture Assessment will have the following, nonstandard, breakdown:
PART ONE
2 short essay questions (10 points each)
POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS:
1) Why do you think the Industrial Revolution led to so many advances in technology?
2) Compare and contrast the lives of enslaved African Americans in the South and free African Americans in the North during the early 1800s.
3) What was the Know-Nothing Party? What political advantage did the Know-Nothing Party gain by opposing Irish immigrants?
4) Who were the people in the South said to make up the ”cottonocracy”? What was its impact on southern culture?
5) Explain how politics and religion led to an American era of reform during the early and mid-1800s. Talk specifically about either a particular denomination of Christianity or individual.
PART TWO:
10 vocabulary matching questions (1 point each)
5 true/false questions (1 point each)
11 multiple choice questions (1 point each)
1 short answer question (4 points)
1 extra credit short answer question (4 point maximum)