Please identify (write out, in two to three complete sentences, who, what where, when, and historical significance) six of the following  (8 pts each; 48 pts total):

1)  

Andrew Jackson

2)  

Bladensburg Races

3)  

Free Soil Party

4)  

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

5)  

John C. Calhoun

6)  

Emancipation Proclamation

7)  

Bleeding Kansas

8)  

William T. Sherman

9)  

Aunt Rachel

Write a clear, organized, and well-developed essay for the following question (52 pts total):

The novel Killer Angels provides a fictionalized account of the Battle of Gettysburg.  Please write an essay in which you do the following:

–summarize the events of the battle as you learned them from the novel

–comment on the benefits of reading a fictionalized account as opposed to a general history

–comment on the shortcomings of reading a fictionalized account

 
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