Day One
U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt
Unit One: Colonial Era
These two (2)
geographic features
protect and isolate the
United States
geographically today?
This was the political
border established by
the British during
Colonial rule?
This was the geographic
border of the U.S.
during British rule?
What was the economic
policy of the British
towards the colonies
before the Revolution?
1.
2.
This was the war
between the French and
the British in colonial
times?
What were two (2)
characteristics of the
Southern colonies?
7.
8.
9.
What were two (2)
characteristics of the
Northern colonies?
10.
11.
Name three (3) early
attempts at colonial
government?
12.
Define:
Salutary Neglect
15.
3.
4.
5.
6. Define It:
13.
14.
How did salutary neglect
affect the
colonies?
16.
This was the first
attempt at unifying the
colonies under British
rule?
What was "Common
Sense"?
17.
What was the purpose
if the "Declaration of
Independence"?
What influenced
Thomas Jefferson to
write the Declaration?
Whose theory of
natural rights is in the
Declaration?
How is it different in
the Declaration?
Name three (3) colonial
responses to British
economic policies
19.
Name three (3) ideas or
influences during the
writing of the
Declaration of
Independence that the
colonists believed?
Name two (2) British
responses enacted
towards the colonies?
Describe them.
What country assisted
the Colonies during the
Revolutionary War?
What becomes the
western boundary of
the United States after
the Revolutionary
War?
Total __________/65
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Day Two
U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt
Unit Two: A New Nation
Part One
What was the first document and
1.
form of American government
after independence from Britain?
What were Americans distrustful
2.
of? Why were they distrustful of this?
Name three (3) problems or
3.
weaknesses of the Articles of
Confederation?
4.
5.
Name one (1) success of the
Articles of Confederation?
What were two (2) characteristics
of the Northern colonies during this
time?
6.
7.
8.
What were two (2) characteristics
of the Southern colonies during this
time?
9.
10.
How was government organized
under the Articles of
Confederation?
What was the Constitutional
Convention? What was it
supposed to do?
List the differences between the
Articles of Confederation and the
U.S. Constitution?
11.
What event triggers the
government to realize that they
needed a new form of
government?
Define: Three-Fifths Compromise
15.
Define: Great Compromise
17.
12.
13.
16.
14.
List the differences between the
New Jersey and Virginia Plan.
18.
Name the three (3) responsibilities
of the President of the U.S.?
20.
Define: Ratification
23.
What is a Federalist?
24.
Name the three (3) branches of
government and their
responsibilities?
25.
What are checks and balances?
Give an example
28.
What is federalism?
31.
What is judicial review?
32.
Name the court case and year that
created judicial review?
33.
Total _________/ 70
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21.
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Day Three
U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt
Unit Two: A New Nation
Part Two
How was government organized
under the Articles of
Confederation?
Give two (2) examples of the
flexibility of the Constitution?
1.
Name the three (3) branches of
government and their
responsibilities?
4.
What are the Federalist Papers?
7.
What are reserved powers in the
U.S. Constitution?
8.
What are delegated powers in the
U.S. Constitution?
9.
What are reserved powers in the
U.S. Constitution?
10.
What is division of power in the
U.S. Constitution?
11.
2.
3.
5.
6.
What was the first test of the U.S.
Constitution regarding taxes?
12.
What was the result of this test?
13.
What did George Washington
warn us about in his Farewell
Address? (2 things)
14.
What was Thomas Jefferson's
interpretation of the U.S.
Constitution?
16.
17.
Thomas Jefferson believed in?
Alexander Hamilton believed in?
Total _________/ 40
18.
15.
Day Four
U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt
Unit Three: Westward Expansion
1.
Define Nationalism
2.
List two effects of the
Louisiana Purchase.
3.
Define Sectionalism
Thomas Jefferson went
against his
beliefs regarding the U.S.
Constitution and did this
without
Congressional approval?
What two (2) powers did
Jefferson
use? (for the above)
4.
5.
What Presidential power
did Andrew Jackson use
during his presidency?
Define it.
What did the U.S.
Government do to
American Indians under
Andrew Jackson? What
was it called?
What Supreme Court case
told Jackson he couldn't
do? What was his
response?
Define: Monroe Doctrine
6.
What enabled Midwest
farmers the ability to sell
goods to the East Coast?
Define: Manifest Destiny
10.
7.
8.
9.
11.
3
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What happened in California
in 1849? What problems did
it cause?
12.
Define: Homestead Act of
1862
13.
Name two causes of
Westward Expansion.
14.
Name two results of
westward expansion.
15.
Total _________/ 30
Day Five
US History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt
Unit Four: Civil War
Define: Abolitionist
1.
What Supreme Court case
was a cause of the Civil
War?
2.
Name and explain the three
compromises to settle
disputes over slavery in
the western territories.
3.
What phrase was used to
describe clashes between
pro-slavery and antislavery groups?
6.
This book showed the
horrors of slavery and
contributed to the start of
the Civil War. For number 8,
name the author.
7.
This was the secret
network that helped slaves
escape to the North?
9.
4.
5.
8.
Name three (3) causes of
the Civil War?
10.
This person was the
President during the Civil
War?
What event started the Civil
War?
13.
What was Lincoln's main
Goal during the Civil War?
15.
Define: The Emancipation
Proclamation
16.
After Lincoln issued the
Emancipation
Proclamation this became
the reason for the war?
Name three beliefs of
Abraham Lincoln?
17.
Define: Habeas Corpus
21.
What did Lincoln do with
Habeas Corpus?
22.
Name three (3) policies
Lincoln used to expand
Presidential authority?
23.
Total ________/ 50
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12.
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20.
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25.
14.
18.
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Day Six
US History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt
Unit Four: Reconstruction
Why didn't Lincoln Free
the slaves in ALL of the
United States?
What was the 13th
Amendment?
1.
What was the 14th
Amendment?
3.
What was the 15th
Amendment?
4.
Name two results of the
Civil War?
5.
This was term used for the
time period after the Civil
War to rebuild the South?
What ended the period?
7.
How was the North able to
win the Civil War?
9.
Name four results of
the Civil War?
2.
6.
8.
10.
11.
12.
13.
What was the Solid
South?
14.
This group in Congress
wanted harsh punishment
for the South?
15.
What was Lincoln's
primary goal for
Reconstruction?
What did the Radical
Republicans want for the
South?
What were the beliefs
of the Radical Republicans?
16.
How did Lincoln's death
change the course of
Reconstruction?
Define: Sharecropping
19.
What were Black Codes?
21.
17.
18.
20.
What Supreme Court
22.
decision promotes and
legalizes segregation?
For number 23, give the year.
What was the result of the
24.
Supreme Court decision?
How did the Southern
economy change after the
Civil War?
25.
Define: Carpet baggers
Define: Scalawag
Total _________/ 50
26.
23.
Day Seven
US History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt
Unit Five: Industrialization and Migration
Define: Tariff
1.
Name four causes of
the Industrial Revolution
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8
9.
10.
11.
Name four effects of
the Industrial Revolution
Name two ways
corporations used to be
competitive?
Define: Capital (economic)
12.
How was Social
Darwinism used in the
Industrial Revolution?
13.
Define: Laissez Faire
Capitalism
14.
What do supply and
demand effect?
15.
What are trusts?
16.
What are monopolies?
17.
Define: Robber Baron
18.
Define: Rural
19.
Define: Urban
20.
What was the
government's position on
business before the
Progressive Era?
What is urbanization?
21.
What did Jacob Riis do?
23.
What social class
increased as a result of
urbanization?
Describe the working
conditions before
government intervention
during the Industrial
Revolution ?
24.
What role did
immigration play during
the Industrial Revolution?
26.
Who was the main
immigrant group during the
1840s
27.
22.
25.
Who were the main
28.
immigrant groups from 18901915?
Name two ways the
government restricted
immigration?
29.
Define: Nativism
30.
Name two ways
Nativism was used to
protect jobs?
31.
30.
32.
What law was passed to
limit the power of
monopolies?
33.
What did Upton Sinclair
do?
34.
Define: Interstate
Commerce Act
35.
Total _________/ 70
Day Eight
US History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt
Unit Five and Six: Progressive Movement, Imperialism, and WWI
What is the Progressive
Movement?
1.
What were two reasons people
became Progressives?
2.
What was the 16th
amendment?
3.
Name three (3)
results/effects of the
Progressive Era?
4.
What was the progressive
political change for the
Senate?
7.
Define: Labor Union
8.
This fire drew national
attention to working
conditions and worker
safety?
9.
What is a muckraker?
10.
Name two of the
policies/platform of the
Populist Party?
11.
5.
6.
12.
This law was a result of
muckrakers and the
progressive era for health
and safety of the food
supply?
13.
Name two of Teddy
Roosevelt's policies? and
define them.
14.
Name the reason the U.S.
needed to expand to
overseas?
16.
Define: Yellow Journalism
17.
What were two causes
of the Spanish American
War?
18.
19.
What were two results
of the Spanish American
War?
20.
21.
Name two Yellow
Journalists?
22.
23.
15.
What was the Open Door
Policy?
24.
What Supreme Court
decision limited free
speech during wartime?
25.
Who was president during
WWI?
26.
Name two economic
effects of WWI?
27.
What was the US’ initial
policy regarding war?
29.
What does "Clear and
Present Danger" mean?
30.
What was the Fourteen
Points?
31.
Why did the League of
Nations eventually fail?
32.
Total _________/ 70
28.
Day Nine
US History Review Pack Scavenger Hunt
Unit Seven: Boom and Bust
Define: Roaring 20’s
1.
Define: Prohibition
2.
Why was the Assembly
Line important?
What trial caused a
conflict between religion
and science?
What economic changes
occurred during the
1920s?
What is a Flapper?
3.
Define: Harlem
Renaissance
7.
What economic changes
occurred in 1929?
8.
What was the Dust Bowl?
9.
Name four causes of
the Great Depression?
10.
11.
12.
13.
What was Hoover's
response to the Great
Depression?
4.
5.
6.
14.
What President was
elected to fix the problems
of the Great Depression?
How many times was FDR
elected to the presidency?
Name four New Deal
programs and define them
Name two
impacts/results of the New
Deal?
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
What was the Red Scare of
the 1920s?
23.
Total ___________/ 50
Day Ten
US History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt
Unit Eight: WWII and Cold War
What was the U.S. policy
regarding the start of
WWII in Europe?
1.
What former President(s)
had the same policy?
2.
This group went to work
in factories in WWII?
4.
What was the even that
ended the war in the
Pacific?
5.
This Supreme Court case
allowed the confinement of
Japanese Americans
during WWII?
6.
Define: Truman Doctrine
7.
What other doctrine in
U.S. History is about U.S.
foreign policy?
8.
Name three results of
World War II?
9.
3.
10.
11.
What was the risk
associated with the Cold
War?
12.
What was the Berlin
Airlift?
13.
Define: Containment
14.
What was the Marshall
Plan?
15.
What is NATO? and What
does it do?
16.
Who was McCarthy and
what did he do?
18.
Name the two (2) cold war
conflicts and their results
19.
What is the Domino
Theory?
21.
How were the war powers
of the president limited by
law?
22.
Total _________/ 50
17.
20.
Day Eleven
US History Review Guide Scavenger Hunt
Units Nine and Ten
What Supreme Court
decision overturned Plessy v.
Ferguson?
What were the goals of the
NAACP?
Name three (3) uses of
non-violence during the
Civil Rights era?
1.
2.
3.
Who was Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. and what
did he accomplish?
6.
Name three
government
actions/programs/laws
that assisted minorities
and/or women?
7.
What law ended Jim Crow
laws?
10.
What was Johnson's Great
Society?
11.
Name two (2) Supreme
Court Cases that
expanded a persons' rights
accused of a crime?
What Supreme Court case
limited students' rights in
school?
Define: Detente
12.
What was Watergate?
16.
What happened to Nixon?
17.
What was Carter's most
import foreign policy
achievement?
18.
14.
15.
4.
5.
8.
9.
13.
What was the economic
policy of Ronald Reagan?
19.
What is NAFTA?
What does it do?
20.
What made Ford's
presidency unique?
22.
What was Nixon's greatest
foreign policy
achievement?
23.
How was Clinton similar
to other presidents? (two
similarities)
24.
25.
What Supreme Court case
limited the power of the
President for executive
privilege?
26.
27.
Total ________/ 60
21.