Mr. DZIEDZIC’s COLLEGE PREP US HISTORY
SEMESTER EXAM REVIEW GUIDE
SOME ADVICE… Make a semester timeline. Be ready for sequence and cause and effect questions!!!
ESSENTIAL “WHY” QUESTIONS:
What was life like in the Americas before discovery by the Europeans?
What was the significance of the “Columbian Exchange”?
What were the differences between English, French, and Spanish colonies?
How were agriculture and the economy in New England Different from that in the South?
What made the Middle Colonies unique?
How was New England’s society different from that created in the Chesapeake colonies?
What are the causes of slavery in the colonies and its long-term effects?
How did religion create differences in the development of the various colonies?
What were the characteristics of Mercantilism?
What were the lasting impacts of the French and Indian War?
How did Mercantilism lead to the American Revolution?
What ideas/actions/laws sparked the American Revolution?
What were the key battles/turning points of the American Revolution? (and what made them significant?)
What were the problems of the Articles of Confederation?
How is the Constitution a document of compromises? Checks and Balances?
Who were the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists?
What was the significance of Marbury v. Madison?
What was the “Era of Good Feeling”?
How did political parities get started in the US?
What was the war of 1812 fought over?
What was the lasting impact of the Louisiana Purchase?
What was the “American System”?
What are the characteristics of the Jacksonian Era?
What caused the era of reform in the 1800’s? Who were the reformers?
How was industrialization changing America?
What were some of the important inventors and inventions of the 1800’s?
How was the new nation growing/expanding?
What were the different motives and means for moving West?
What was Manifest Destiny?
How did Texas become part of the United States?
What were the causes of the Mexican War?
What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise? The Compromise of 1850? The Wilmot Proviso?
Were they successes or failures? Why?
What was “Bleeding Kansas”? Why did it happen? Why couldn’t it be resolved?
Describe the rise and fall of political parities before the Civil War.
What was the long and short term impact of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Dred Scott decision?
Why is Lincoln’s election the start of the Civil War?
How did industrialization change women’s roles (cult of domesticity) in America?
ESSENTIAL “WHERE” IDENTIFICATIONS:
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Roanoke
Jamestown
St. Augustine
Plymouth Bay Colony
13 Colonies
Proclamation of 1763
Mason Dixon Line
Louisiana Purchase
Passage of Louis and Clark
Missouri Compromise / 36 30’
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Area of the Black Hawk War
Region of Fort Laramie Treaty
49th Parallel
54 40’N Parallel
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Adams-Onis Treaty Line
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Texas Republic
Acquired by Texas Annexation
Gadsden Purchase
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Ohio River
Mississippi River
Missouri River
Columbia River
Rio Grande River
Mormon Trail
Oregon Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Trail of Tears
Kansas & Nebraska Territories
ESSENTIAL “WHO” and “WHAT” IDENTIFICATIONS:
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Colombian Exchange
Pizarro
Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernan Cortes
mestizos
Roanoke
Jamestown
Separatists
Puritans
Quakers
William Penn
John Smith
John Rolfe
John Winthrop
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
Royal Colony
Headright System
Indentured Servitude
Slavery
Popé
Powhatan
Pequot War
Metacom
Tecumseh
Pontiac
Black Hawk
Little Turtle
Sacajawea/Lewis and Clark
George Guess
Mercantilism
Benign Neglect
French and Indian War
Bacon’s Rebellion
Shay’s Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion
Stono Rebellion
Nat Turner
Samuel Adams
Edward Braddock
Friedrich von Steuben
Benedict Arnold
Charles Cornwallis
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Navigation Acts
George Greenville
William Pitt
Committees of Correspondence
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Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townshend Act
Crispus Attucks/Boston Massacre
1st Continental Congress
2nd Continental Congress
Articles of Confederation
Checks and Balances
Judiciary Act
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Federalists/Anti-federalists
Era of Good Feelings
Edmond Genet
Embargo of 1807
War of 1812
Battle for Ft. Necessity
Lexington and Concord
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Breeds/Bunker Hill
Battle of New York
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of New Orleans
Battle of the Alamo
Battle of Buena Vista
Battle of Mexico City
Henry Clay
Missouri Compromise
James Madison
Monroe Doctrine
Andrew Jackson
John C. Calhoun
Indian Removal Act
Bank of the US
Spoils System
Panic of 1837
Enlightenment
Egalitarianism
Transcendentalism
Specialization
Utopias
Abolition/Emancipation
Nullification/Secession
Nationalism/Sectionalism
1st Great Awakening
2nd Great Awakening
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Manifest Destiny
James Polk
Winfield Scott
Sam Houston
Zachary Taylor
Stephen F. Austin
Annexation/Admission
Mexican War
Daniel Webster
Wilmot Proviso
Gag Rule
Frederick Douglass
William Garrison
David Walker
Sojourner Truth
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Horace Mann
Dorothea Dix
Frederick Douglass
American System
Market Revolution
Putting Out System
Samuel Slater/Factory system/Lowell
Industrial revolution
Specialization
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
Cyrus B. McCormick
John Deere
Daniel Webster
Popular Sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
John Brown
Dred Scot v. Sanford
Fugitive Slave Act
Bleeding Kansas
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Jefferson Davis
140-149. Bill of Rights
150-159. Top Ten Inventions
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Presidents 1-10
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Presidents 8-16