Social Studies Midterm Review Sheet
11R
Exam Dates: multiple choice part _____; essay on _______
To prepare for this very important exam, please write details when you identify, describe or
define these words. Use your textbook, notes, handouts, homework etc.
1. Enlightenment
2. Greece and Rome
3. Mayflower, House
of Burgesses
4. Common Sense
5. Declaration of
Independence
6. Articles of
Confederation
7. Great Compromise
8. Federalists Papers
9. Compare Articles of
Confederation to the
Constitution
10. Bill of Rights
11. Bicameral
12. Legislative branch
responsibilities
13. Senate/House
14. President
Responsibilities
15. Power of the
Supreme Court
16. Marbury v.
Madison
17. Checks and
Balances
18. Federalism
19. Amending Process
20. Implied Powers
21. Elastic Clause
22. Electoral College
23. Unwritten
Constitution
24. Hamilton Sec. of
Treasury
25. Precedents of
Washington
26. Farewell Address
27. Whiskey Rebellion
28. Jefferson/Hamilton
Political Parties
29. Monroe Doctrine
30. Spoils System
31. Jackson
32. John Marshall
33. Missouri
Compromise 1820 &
1850
34. Seneca Falls
35. Manifest Destiny
36. Louisiana
Purchase
37. Indian Removal
38. Popular
Sovereignty
39. Election of 1860
40. Emancipation
Proclamation
41. Jim Crow Laws
42. Plessy v. Ferguson
43. Lincoln’s Plan for
Reconstruction
44. Johnson’s
impeachment
45. Result of Civil
War
Essay Topics: