AHC U.S. History – Fall Final Exam Study Guide
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The final exam will consist of 150 term questions, worth 2 points each (300 points total). The
questions will be drawn from the terms listed below. There will not be a word bank on the
final, so please be sure to review ALL OF YOUR READING NOTES from the assigned readings
and have a thorough understanding of the key terms, major events, important people, cause
and effect, etc.
1491-1763: North American Settlement to the French and Indian War
Act of Toleration
Iroquois
Pocahontas
Anglicans
Jamestown
Powhatan
Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Jeremiad
Pueblo Revolt
Anne Hutchinson
John Rolfe
Puritans
Aztec
John Smith
Quakers
Calvinism
Joint Stock Company
Roanoke
Caravel
Jonathan Edwards
Roger Williams
Charter
King Philip’s War
Royal Colony
Chesapeake Bay
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Salem Witch Trials
Columbian Exchange
Mayflower Compact
Separatists
Congregationalists
Mestizo
Conquistador
Middle Colonies
Sinners in the Hands of an
Angry God
Cortez
Middle Passage
De Las Casas
Nathaniel Bacon
Dominion of New England
New Amsterdam
Encomienda
New England Colonies
Governor Berkeley
New England Confederation
Great Migration
Pequot War
Halfway Covenant
Pilgrims
Headright System
Pizarro
Incas
Plantation
Indentured Servant
Plymouth Colony
Small Pox
Southern Colonies
Spanish Armada
Syphilis
Teotihuacan
Treaty of Tordesillas
Wampanoag
William Penn
1763-1836: Revolution, The Constitution, Second War with England, and Westward Expansion
3/5 Compromise
Federalist Papers
Nullification
Alexander Hamilton
Federalists
Orders in Council
Alien and Sedition Acts
George Washington
Proclamation of 1763
Andrew Jackson
Great Compromise
Quartering Act
Anti-Federalists
Impressment
Quasi-War
Articles of Confederation
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Shays’ Rebellion
Assumption of State Debt
Intolerable Acts
Spoils System
Bank of the United States
James Madison
Stamp Act
Battle of New Orleans
Jay’s Treaty
Tecumseh
Battle of Yorktown
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
John Jay
Trail of Tears
Boston Massacre
Lewis and Clark
Treaty of Ghent
Chesapeake Affair
Lexington and Concord
Treaty of Paris
Compact Theory
Louisiana Purchase
War of 1812
Constitutional Convention
Monroe Doctrine
Whiskey Rebellion
Democratic-Republicans
Missouri Compromise
Embargo Act
Neutrality Proclamation of
1793
1836-1861: Manifest Destiny, Mexican-American War, and the Causes of the Civil War
Abolition
German Immigrants (1840s)
Moderate Abolitionists
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Annexation of Texas
Irish Immigrants (1840s)
Robert Fulton
“Bleeding Kansas”
James Polk
Secession of Southern states
Brooks and Sumner Clash
Jefferson Davis
Steamboats
Compromise of 1850
John Brown
Stephen Douglas
Confederacy
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The Liberator
Cotton Gin
Know-Nothing Party
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Cumberland Road
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
(1858)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Dredd Scott Case
Election of 1860
Eli Whitney
Emancipation
Erie Canal
Fort Sumter
Frederick Douglas
Fugitive Slave Law
Gadsden Purchase
Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War
Mexican Cession of
Territories
Nativists
“NINA”
Pony Express
Potato Famine (Ireland)
Radical Abolitionists
William Loyd Garrison