American History Midterm Review Guide - Fiore
Directions: You should be able to find the answers to most of these questions by using your
binder -- especially
 all target sheets (history, exploration/colonial, revolutionary & new nation)
 all vocabulary lists
 all old quizzes and tests
You might also want to use the online Powerpoint for practice questions.
European/ Colonization target related practice questions:
1.
For each, the answer is either Spain or France or Both
Who wanted land in the New World?
2.
Who prospered through fur trading?
3.
Who killed natives with European diseases?
4.
Who tried to convert natives in South America to Christianity?
5.
Which claimed Louisiana and the Mississippi River?
6.
Who prospered economically from their New World settlements?
7.
Who FIRST brought Africans to work farms when natives died?
8.
Which country was business partners with the Huron tribe?
Colonial Target sheet practice questions:
9.
What were the three colonial regions?
10.
What type of people settled in each of the three regions?
11.
What did the Southern colonies have in common?
12.
What did the Middle Colonies have in common?
13.
The Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the House of
Burgesses and town meetings are all examples of the early American colonists doing what?
Seeds of to the Revolution Target Sheet Related Practice Vocabulary – Identify the
significance of each term:
Great Awakening
Enlightenment
Natural Rights
French and Indian War
Common Sense
Proclamation of 1763
Quartering Act
Sons of Liberty
Tea Act
1st Continental Congress
Stamp Act
Townshend Act
Coercive Acts
Boycott
Declaration of Independence
Lexington and Concord
Saratoga
Guerilla Warfare
Battle of Yorktown, Virginia
New Nation Target Sheet Practice Questions:
14.
True or False? The Articles of Confederation were written before the Constitution.
Defend your answer:
15.
What document described the first government of our newly independent nation and was
written while the American Revolution was being fought?
16.
What were four weaknesses of the AOC?
17.
What were three successes of the government under the AOC?
18.
What was the Land Ordinance of 1785
19.
Explain the Northwest Ordinance
20.
Under the Articles of Confederation there were?????? ____ branch(es) of government.
21.
Under the Articles of Confederation, what was the name of the one legislative branch of
government?
22.
The national government had a LOT/ LITTLE (circle one) of power under the AOC.
23.
What was Shays’ rebellion?
24.
How did Shays’ rebellion impact the Articles of Confederation?
25.
The delegates to the Constitutional Convention first believed that they had met to (circle
one) abolish/amend the Articles of Confederation?
26.
What was the one thing the Virginia and New Jersey Plans had in common?
27.
How did the Great Compromise answer the question of representation in the legislative
branch?
28.
Explain the set up of our government as decided by the Great Compromise including
branches of government and type of legislature.
29.
What was the Slave Trade Ban compromise?
30.
What was the 3/5th Compromise?
31.
What was the biggest complaint of anti-federalists?
32.
How did the Federalists argue against the Anti-Federalists?
33.
How many times did the delegates vote in July to decide how to elect the president?
34.
Which man from Virginia had so much influence at the Constitutional Convention that he
was called the Father of the Constitution?
35.
What is the Electoral College?
36.
What is a Federalist?
37.
What is an anti-Federalist?
38.
What is a quorum?
39.
Annapolis, Maryland Convention – why did delegates from 5/6 states meet there before
the Constitutional Convention? What did happen?
The actual US Constitution – Chapter 9 in the blue book.
40.
The main job of the legislative branch is to:
41.
The main job of the executive branch is to
42.
The main job of the judicial branch is to
43.
Why has the Constitution called a living document?
Exam Timeline Challenge: Be prepared to make a timeline using all
your timeline skills. Check your timeline notes for what makes an
effective timeline. You will be asked to choose from this list and
place the 10 most important events that show the growth of our
country. You must show events from the colonial period, the
revolutionary period and the constitution period. For each event,
you must include the year, and the main idea (not just a title, but
show that you understand the event).
Roanoke Colony fails
Battles of Saratoga
Jamestown Colony settled
Battle of Yorktown
Plymouth Colony settled
American Revolution officially ends
New York settled
Articles of Confederation ratified by
Congress
Pennsylvania colony settled
Land Ordinance
Last of 13 colonies settled (which was it?)
Northwest Ordinance
French and Indian War ends
Constitutional Convention
First Continental Congress meets
US Constitution goes into action
Second Continental Congress meets
Bill of Rights added to Constitution
Declaration of Independence ratified
George Washington inaugurated
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Timeline Rubric – 30 points
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Title – 2 points
Equally spaced anchor dates – 5 points
Accurate dates and placement for each event – 10 points
Meaningful captions for each event – 10 points
Neatness, grammar and historical accuracy – 3 points