Study Guide
Midterm/Unit 4
Key Terms
Beringia
Pueblo Indians
Columbian Exchange
Jamestown, VA
Roanoke
St. Augustine, FL
Mercantilism
Vikings In “Vineland”
Capt. John Smith
House of Burgesses
Encomienda
Boston Tea party
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Bacon’s Rebellion
“Headright” System
Constitutional Convention 1787
3/5’s Compromise
Bill of Rights
Edmond Charles Genet
Battle at Ft. McHenry
Alien and Sedition Acts
Quasi War
XYZ Affair
Second Great Awakening
Eli Whitney
John Marshall
Marbury v. Madison
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Erie Canal
James Monroe
Manifest Destiny
Andrew Jackson
Nullification Crisis
Compromise Tariff 1833
Force Bill
Trail of Tears
“Five Civilized Tribes”
Cherokee
“Positive Good” theory
Sam Houston
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexican Cession of 1848
The Gadsden Purchase
Nat Turner
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Dred Scott Decision
1860 Secession of South Carolina
KEY Concepts
-British military advantage and strategy in the American Revolution
-John Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga
-John Locke and the Enlightenment
-The Witch Trials as a result of tensions between expectations of a cohesive, united community and the reality
of an increasingly divers and fluid one
-The institutionalization of African slavery reflecting economic and social needs for an easily recruited and
controlled labor force
-Rise of Mass Politics under Andrew Jackson
-Alexis de Tocqueville and the “American Dream”
-Democrats and Whigs
-Southern support for slavery by poor, non-slave holding whites due to elevated social status
-Typical white southern Yeoman farmer
Possible Essay Topics
(1) Analyze the reasons for escalating anti-British sentiment in the American colonies during the prewar decade
from 1765 to 1775. Cite specific events that occurred, leading to Revolution.
(2) Although New England and the Chesapeake regions were both settled largely by people of English origin, by
1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. Why did this difference in development occur?
(3) Evaluate the extent to which trans-Atlantic interactions from 1600 to 1763 contributed to maintaining
continuity as well as fostering change in labor systems in the British North American colonies.
(4) The period after the War of 1812 is commonly referred to as the “Era of Good Feelings.” Support, modify, or
refute this interpretation, providing specific evidence to justify your answer.
(5) Analyze the ways in which controversy over the extension of slavery into western territories contributed to
the coming of the Civil War. Confine your answer to the period 1845–1861.