Date of the exam: 2/1/16 (Monday)
Format of the exam:
About 75 multiple choice questions
About 25 multiple choice questions based on documents o Some of the documents you have seen, many you have not
1 detailed response/essay*
*you will have choices
Broad Units and Themes:
Worlds Meet o Clash of cultures (European, Native American, African)
American Colonies Emerge o Differences between colonies (different imperial powers, different geographic colonies, etc.)
Colonies Come of Age o Factors that led to development and growth (growth of agriculture/industry, social movements, etc)
War for Independence o Causes/effects
Shaping a New Nation o Establishment of government (post-Revolution)
Constitution o Federalism (creation of Constitution and its implementation) o Individual rights
Launching the New Nation o Emergence of American government and society (creation of Constitution and its implementation)
The following terms, people, places, events, etc. will be useful for the exam in some manner:
Albany Congress/Plan
Alexander Hamilton
Alien and Sedition Acts
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Hutchinson
Anti-Federalists
Antinomianism
Articles of Confederation
Bacon’s Rebellion
Bank of the United States
Benjamin Franklin
Bill of Rights
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Cash crops
“City Upon a Hill”
Common Sense
Conquistadores
Declaration of Independence
Declaratory Act
Democratic-Republicans
Dominion of New England
Edmond Genet
Edmund Andros
Edward Braddock
Encomienda system
Enlightenment
Federalists
First Continental Congress
French and Indian War
George Grenville
George Washington
George Whitefield
Glorious Revolution
Great Awakening
Headright system
Indentured servitude
Intolerable Acts
Jamestown
John Adams
John Cotton
John Locke
John Smith
John Winthrop
Joint-stock company
Jonathan Edwards
Judiciary Act of 1789
King Philip
King Philip’s War
Land Ordinance (1785)
Lewis and Clark
Loyalists
Marbury v. Madison
Marquis de Lafayette
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Mercantilism
Mestizos
Middle Passage
Nathaniel Bacon
Navigation Laws
“New Lights” vs. “Old Lights”
Nullification
Olaudah Equiano
Olive Branch Petition
Patriots
Paul Revere
Phillis Wheatley
Piedmont
Pilgrims
Pocahontas
Ponce de Leon
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Popé Rebellion
Powhatan
Proclamation of 1763
Proprietary colony
Puritans
Quakers
Quartering Act
Revolutionary War (Lexington, Concord, Saratoga, Valley Forge, Yorktown, etc)
Robert Bradford
Roger Williams
Royal colony
Salem Witchcraft trials
Salutary Neglect
Second Continental Congress
Separatists
Sons of Liberty
Southern/Middle/Northern colonies
Stamp Act
Stono Rebellion
Sugar Act
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Tidewater
Townshend Acts
Treaty of Paris 1783
Triangular trade
United States Constitution
War of 1812
William Penn
William Pitt
XYZ Affair