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Directions: Complete this review on a separate sheet of paper. The review will be taken up for extra credit on the day of the exam.
Period 1 (1491-1607)
1.
What was the reason Native American civilizations were so sizable and sophisticated prior to European contact?
2.
Which crop was the staple of life in Mexico and South America?
3.
Which two countries forced Natives into slavery on Atlantic sugar islands?
4.
Describe the encomienda system and how it worked.
5.
What three reasons did men become conquistadores?
6.
Where did Ponce de Leon explore?
7.
How did England pay for its first permanent colony in America?
8.
Why did native tribes find it difficult to unite against European forces?
9.
What ended up killing a huge amount of Natives after European contact?
Period 2 (1607-1754)
10.
Which English settlement founded in 1607 was most important to the future of the U.S.?
11.
What was the significance of the House of Burgesses?
12.
Why did the South Carolina colony prosper?
13.
Why was the colony of Georgia founded?
14.
What was the difference between Separatists and Puritans?
15.
Describe how the “headright” system worked.
16.
What was the result of Bacon’s rebellion?
17.
Who led the opposition to Bacon’s rebellion?
18.
What was the middle passage?
19.
What was the Great Awakening?
Period 3 (1754-1800)
20.
Which British philosopher inspired the Declaration of Independence with his belief in natural rights to life, liberty, and property?
21.
Which revolutionary leader ultimately served as the second president of the United States?
22.
Who was the country’s first Secretary of the Treasury that believed in assuming federal debt to strengthen the U.S.?
23.
Who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice that gave the Court the power of judicial review?
24.
Which American founding father negotiated a treaty of alliance with France during the American
Revolution?
25.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
26.
What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
27.
Why was the battle of Saratoga a turning point in the American Revolution?

28.
What was the major weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
29.
How did Shay’s rebellion affect the American people’s beliefs on government?
30.
What was the Great Compromise and what did it do?
31.
Which Amendment is referred to as the states’ rights amendment?
32.
What were the Alien and Sedition acts and why were they created?
33.
What were the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions and why were they created?
34.
Which groups of people benefitted most from Hamilton’s National Bank?
35.
Why did Washington warn the nation about political parties in his Farewell Address?
36.
What else did Washington tell the nation to avoid?
Period 4 (1800-1848)
37.
Which president was elected with support from the “common man?”
38.
Which Kentucky political leader attempted to strengthen the Union through compromise?
39.
Which South Carolina leader defended slavery and advocated for nullification?
40.
What impact did the Marbury v. Madison case have on the powers of the Supreme Court?
41.
Which Supreme Court case decided that the Bank of the U.S. was constitutional?
42.
What was the most important effect of the War of 1812?
43.
What were the results of the Missouri Compromise?
44.
What was the spoils system?
45.
Describe the cause of the “nullification crisis” of 1832-1833.
46.
Why did Andrew Jackson support the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states?
47.
Why did Andrew Jackson veto the National bank’s recharter bill?
48.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
49.
Who actually wrote the Monroe Doctrine?
50.
Does Calhoun believe the state or federal government should make the final decision on the validity of a law?
Period 5 (1844-1877)
51.
Which president’s election caused numerous southern states to secede? (Duh)
52.
Who staged an attempted slave revolt in Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
53.
What is it called if the citizens of a territory vote on the question of slavery?
54.
What was the most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 for the North?
55.
What caused “Bleeding Kansas?”
56.
Which event caused northerners to realize they were not willing to let the South leave the Union?
57.
What had to happen before Lincoln could issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
58.
What was the purpose of the Black codes?
59.
What did the 13 th
, 14 th
, and 15 th
amendments guarantee?
60.
What were the greatest achievements of the Freedman’s Bureau?
61.
Which part of the Compromise of 1850 was most appealing to the South? What about the North?
62.
Why could slaves not file lawsuits according to Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney?
63.
Which act of Congress was declared unconstitutional by Dred Scott v. Sandford ?