One question about the Alamo is why did Santa Anna attack this outpost?  It was way out on the frontier with fewer than 300 men inside.  Why bother attacking and killing the defenders?  Why not just go around it?

BEGIN THE CUMULATIVE SECTION.  Cumulative questions are worth five points.  Remember, if you see A and B or All of the above as options, always pick one of those options.   If you were a southerner, a historian, and looking to the coming Civil War in 1861 (and of course had access to class lectures), which of the following factors in Northern history might raise concern that the South would be taking on a pretty ferocious enemy?  Why?

Discuss the Dred Scott ruling. 

John C. Calhoun had little political experience and no legal education in 1828.

Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, Zachary Taylor, George Washington.  One thing these four presidents share is war.  Each one either faced a war in office or got into office because of victorious leadership in combat.

The Mexican-American War made some politicians nervous because it added so much land to the United States.  Why were politicians so concerned about new land?  Wasn’t that a good thing?

When it comes to British colonization and colonies in North America, lectures noted

The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States.  Before that, the Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in states at war in 1863.

What terrible event in the 1600s revealed the ferocity that existed just below the surface in Northern culture?

What are we looking at here?