Midterm Review, History Survey
Pre European Contact America: Questions and Identifications
1. What are several theories of where the indigenous peoples of America’s originated and what
questions does the evidence raise?
2. What Civilizations existed prior to European Contact and how have they contributed to American
economy, diet and culture?
3. What evidence is there for non-European exploration in the Americas pre-Columbus? Why is this
important to acknowledge
Bering Strait
Clovis First
Monte Verde
Pleistocene man
Olmec
Hohokam
Mogollon
Anasazi
Pre Columbian contact
Mississippian
Aztec
European Contact: Spain in America: Questions and Identifications
1. What Nation’s joined in the colonization of North America? How did they contribute to America’s
National Heritage? What were their motives? Did nations differ in motives? Institutions of conquest
and Ideology?
2. What were their relations with the indigenous peoples?
3. What role did disease play in re-settlement of North America?
4. What ideologies justified subjugation and murder or first nation peoples?
Crusades & Crusading Mentality
Bull Romanus Pontifex
Tainos/Arawaks
Vacuum Domicillum
Papal Bull
Encomienda
Treaty of Tordesillas
Apalachee & Pope Revolt’s
European Contact: England, France and Netherlands in America: Questions and Identifications
1.
When comparing & contrasting European and indigenous values and life ways what problem arises
in discussing the issues of “civilization” vs. Barbarism and “progress” vs. primitive or Backward?
2. What developments allowed Europeans to re-settle the Americas? 4. Why is it important to
acknowledge these developments?
Protestant Reformation
Jamestown & Pamunkey Tribe
French & Haudenosaunee
Dutch West India Co. & William Kieft
Starving Time Opechancanough & the “Just War”
Pilgrims at Patuxet & Wampanoags Puritan Covenant Pequot War Removal and Reservations
Colonial America: Questions and Identifications
1. What was England’s economic policy in the colonies and how did it influence colonial socioeconomic development?
2. What characterized the colonial labor force during the 1600’s?
3. What factors led to the development of racial slavery? What were the twin legacies of slavery?
4. What factors created conflict between various European groups and Indigenous Nations? Out of
Imperial Rivalry, which Empire triumphed? How did Indigenous peoples respond to imperial rivalry
and conflict?
5. What were the motives for Spanish Colonization in Alta California? What characterized the Mission
System established in California? What were the consequences of the Mission system for California
Nations? How did California Nations respond to their conditions?
Mercantilism
Bacon’s Rebellion
New Joint Stock Company
Indentured servants
King Phillips War
Fugitivism
Head Right’s System
Navigation Acts
Colonial Wars
Biological warfare
Paris Treaty
Yuma Revolt
Virginia Company of London
Racism
freedom dues
French Indian War
femme coverture
Cycle of wealth
anti-miscegenation
Neolin & Pontiac’s War
Proclamation Line Components of the Mission System
King Phillip/Metacom’s War
Towards Revolution: Questions and identifications
1. What events led to crisis in the British North America? How did British Colonists respond to
Imperial authority? What factors led to the question of independence?
2. In what ways can the Revolutionary war be characterized?
3. To whom did the question of increased liberty and freedoms apply, and to whom did they not
apply?
4. What was women’s role in the Revolution and how did their status change socially and
politically following the war?
Orders of Council
Sugar Act
Boston Massacre
Son’s of Liberty
Coercive Acts
Townsend Act Stamp Act
Edenton Ladies Tea Party
First and Second Continental Congress
Republican Mother
Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Liberty Rhetoric
The New Republic: Questions and identifications
1. What considerations did founding fathers debate when deciding how to structure the new
government?
2. What events led leadership to reconsider the Articles of Confederation and devise the Constitution?
What political factions arose out of this debate and whose interests did they serve?
Northwest Ordinance
Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Shays Rebellion
Annapolis Convention
Federal Convention
Federalists
Anti-federalists
Elitists
Democrats
Articles of Confederation
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Rush
Thomas Jefferson
1790 Immigration Act
Tenskwatawa
Tecumseh
Buffalo Party
Treaty of Greenville
The Market and Industrial Revolution: Questions and Identifications
1. What marked the increasing industrialization in the US economy between 1815 – 1860?
2. How and why did inequalities increase among the rich, the middle class and the working class
3. What role would did women play in the reform movements that followed in the wake of the
Industrial Revolution? What characterized the evolution of women’s reform?
Transportation, Market & Industrial Revolutions
Putting Out system
Immigration and Scapegoat
Rhode Island and Waltham System
Status of artisan
Cult of Domesticity/Separate Spheres ideology/frigid wife
Universal White Male suffrage 2nd Great Awakening
Benevolent Empire
Purity Crusade Notions of gentility
American Temperance Society
Social Mother New York Female Reform Society
Working Man’s Movement
Abolition
American Anti Slavery Society
Black Abolition
New England Non-Resistant Society
Sarah Joseph Hale
William Lloyd Garrison American Colonization Society
David Walker Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments
Slavery and the old South: Questions and Identifications
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How did the increasing demand for cotton in the lower south impact the institution of slavery?
What factors led to a decline of slavery after 1800 in the economy of the upper south?
What were the conditions that enslaved peoples Experience and how did they respond?
How did advocates of black enslavement justify such an institution?
Mono-cropping
Cotton Belt
Internal Slave system
Conditions of slavery
Resistance and Rebellion
Demography of Slavery Slave Codes
California: Gold and Manifest Destiny: Questions and Identifications
1. What was the nature of the 1848 and 1849 California Gold Rush?
2. What characterized American Indian Policy during the gold Rush?
3. What legislation did Americans establish in California that led to disparity based on race and
ethnicity?
4. How did America Acquire California?
Gold Rush of 1848 & 1849
Polk’s Annual Address to Congress
Indian prices
Digger Ounce
Foreign Miner’s Tax
People V. Hall Act for the Government and Protection of Indians
Indian Slavery Scalp Bounty
Demographic Flip
Mexican American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Towards Civil War: Questions and Identifications
1. What are the major events that led to civil war?
2. What debate was renewed with the acquisition of California Territory and its application for
statehood?
3. What major divisions existed in American Society?
Sectionalism
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act 1850
Bleeding Kansas
Know Nothings
Ostend Manifesto
Dred Scott
John Brown
Election of 1860
Reconstruction: Questions & Identifications
1. What privileges did the African American population need to gain in order to fundamentally change
their condition of servitude? What measures did Radical Republicans take to reverse over two
hundred years of institutionalized and constitutionalized discrimination?
2. Discuss the response by many white Americans to these institutional changes.
3. What is the significance of the 1876 election and 1877 Compromise?
4. Compare and contrast conditions of labor, political and social status of African-Americans prior to
civil war, during reconstruction and post Reconstruction.
Johnson’s Reconstruction program
Freedmen’s Bureau
Negro Rule
Congressional Reconstruction 13, 14, 15th Amendments
Compromise of 1877
Radical Republicans
Black Codes
Land Order # 15
Klu Klux Klan
Wade-Davis Bill
Share Cropping
Midterm Exam Outline (subject to change)
Part I: (50 points) Multiple Choice, T/F, Multiple Answer will be posted online, you will have one hour
to complete it after you begin.
Part II: (50 points ) in class You will be given and essay question and identifications or terms in which
you will identify them and explain their significance, for this portion of the exam be sure to focus on all
the questions and identifications that are bolded above.