US History Midterm Review
1-25 Unit 1
1) Which cash crop was vital to the survival of the Virginia colony?
2) Why was Virginia’s House of Burgesses important?
3) What was Bacon’s rebellion?
4) What were 3 direct results of the religious tension in the colony of Massachusetts?
5) What happened to Massachusetts’ charter as a result of its citizens violating the Navigation Acts?
6) What was the original name of New York? Which country founded it?
7) How did the French make $ off of their colony of Quebec?
8) What was the term for the way GB made $ off of their colonies in the new world?
9) Define the Middle Passage.
10) Diagram trans-Atlantic trade.
11) Who was the famous statesman, diplomat, and inventor that was an example of social mobility?
12) Describe the Great Awakening.
13) What was the main cause of the American Revolution?
14) How did the colonists respond to the Proclamation of 1763?
15) Why did King George III issue the Proclamation of 1763?
16) What was the Stamp Act?
17) In what ways did the Sons of Liberty protest British taxation/policies?
18) In what ways did the Daughters of Liberty protest British taxation/policies?
19) What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
20) What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in the New World?
21) What was the main message of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?
22) What are unalienable rights? List the 3 examples in the Dec of Ind?
23) Define the social contract theory.
24) From whom did Jefferson get many of his ideas that he included in the Dec of Ind?
25) Who was the French Enlightenment thinker who believed each country’s gov’t should have a separation of powers and checks
and balances?
26-41 Unit 2
26) Who was the French soldier who helped convince the French to aid the colonists in the Amer Rev?
27) What was George Washington’s role in the Amer Rev?
28) Describe Valley Forge.
29) Which major victory (after a series of defeats) happened as a result of the crossing of the Delaware River?
30) What was the result of Cornwallis surrendering at Yorktown?
31) In which document did GB recognize U.S. independence?
32) What was the importance of the Whiskey Rebellion?
33) What were the weaknesses of the Art of Confed?
34) What did the Anti-Feds insist be added to the Constitution before they would support its ratification?
35) What were the Federalist?
36) Describe the Great Compromise.
37) What was the 3/5 Compromise?
38) What was the importance of Shays’s Rebellion?
39) Describe federalism.
40) What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights?
41) Why is Alexander Hamilton important?
42-60 Unit 3
42) Which group was hurt by the increased westward migration that happened due to the Northwest Ordinance?
43) Define the Louisiana Purchase (have to ID on a map, too).
44) Define the Northwest Ordinance.
45) Why was the Louisiana territory so important to the U.S.?
46) What effect the Louisiana Purchase have on the size of the U.S.?
47) Why were Lewis and Clark hired by President Jefferson?
48) Define impressment.
49) Why was the Erie Canal important?
50) What were the causes of the War of 1812?
51) Which city was affected the most by the Erie Canal?
52) Define the Monroe Doctrine?
53) Which development of Eli Whitney’s caused the Industrial Revolution in the U.S.?
54) What does “54 40 or fight” refer to?
55) Define Manifest Destiny.
56) Define the Temperance movement.
57) Define the Abolitionist movement.
58) Why is Elizabeth Cady Stanton important?
59) Define interchangeable parts.
60) What term describes the time period when the common man had increasing political power?
61-100 Unit 4
61) Who was Nat Turner?
62) Why was Frederick Douglass important?
63) Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
64) Who were the women from the slave-owning family who worked in the abolitionist movement?
65) Define the Missouri Compromise.
66) What was the Nullification crisis?
67) How did westward expansion and the issue of slavery affect sectionalism?
68) What caused the Mexican War?
69) What was the Wilmot Proviso?
70) What effect did the Gold Rush have on California’s population?
71) Define the Compromise of 1850.
72) Define the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
73) What did Bleeding Kansas prove concerning popular sovereignty?
74) What were the specific parts of the Dred Scott ruling by the Supreme Court (3)?
75) Who was John Brown?
76) What efforts did Lincoln take during his presidency to preserve the union?
77) What is habeas corpus?
78) In which speech did Lincoln speak about the necessity of reuniting the nation and not punishing the Confederacy?
79) What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Address?
80) Define the Emancipation Proclamation.
81) Why was Jefferson Davis important?
82) What was the final event of the Civil War?
83) Why was Gen Sherman important?
84) Why was the firing on Fort Sumter important?
85) Why was Antietam important?
86) Why was Gen Grant important?
87) Why was the battle of Vicksburg important?
88) Why was the battle of Gettysburg important?
89) Why was the union victory at Atlanta important?
90) What advantages did the Confederacy have in the Civil War?
91) What was the first black college in the U.S.?
92) What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
93) What are the Reconstruction amendments?
94) Define the 14th Amendment.
95) Define the 15th Amendment.
96) What terrorist group used violent methods to prevent black voters from supporting the Republican Party?
97) What was the purpose of the Black codes?
98) What did the Radical Republicans do in response to Johnson’s lenient plan for Reconstruction?
99) Define the Compromise of 1877.
100)
What was the objection that the Radical Republicans had to Presidential Reconstruction?