Your Final Essay Examination consists of five (5) essay questions. You must answer all five (5) questions. When responding to your essay questions, keep in mind that they are essays and not short answer questions. Essays should be detailed and have resources to support factual based comments. Use APA guidelines to cite and reference resources, including your textbooks. 1. Using information from the readings, write a comprehensive and detailed essay discussing the three most important factors in the Confederacy’s defeat in the Civil War. Be sure to defend your position. 2. Write a comprehensive and detailed essay that answers the question of whether Reconstruction was a success or a failure. In the process, be sure to identify; the goals and policies of Johnson and the Radical Republicans; any successes (if you think there were any); and any failures. 3. In a detailed and comprehensive essay evaluate the impact of the struggle between the executive, legislative, and the judiciary over control of Reconstruction on American federalism. 4. Evaluate the impact of the Civil War on the economy of the United States, and especially on the pace of industrialization. Did the Civil War retard or hasten the industrialization of the United States? Explain. 5. Analyze the generalship of Ulysses S. Grant during the last year of the war, and evaluate the impact of Grant’s generalship on the outcome of the war.