CP American History
Midterm Review 2015
Mrs. Delle Cave
Unit 1: Early
Exploration and Colonization (Chapters 1,2,3)
1.
Christopher
Columbus: Changing views of the 400th and 500th
anniversary
2.
What was the Columbian
Exchange?
3.
What was the Jamestown
colony?
4.
Describe a representative
government
5.
Who were the Pilgrims?
Why did they leave Europe?
6.
What was the Mayflower
Compact?
7.
Who were the
Puritans? Why did they leave England?
8.
Define religious
tolerance
9.
Who were the
Quakers? Who was their leader?
10.
John Smith
11.
Anne Hutchinson
12.
Jonathan Edwards
13.
John Winthrop
14.
Define Mercantilism
15.
Great Awakening;
What was it ? What was its impact? Who was a leader?
Unit 2: The American Revolution and Formation of Early
Government (Ch. 4, 5)
1.
What was the
French and Indian War? Why did it happen?
2.
What was
significant about the Albany Plan of Union?
3.
Proclamation of
1763:
4.
Why did Britain
tax the colonies after the French and Indian War?
5.
What does “No
taxation without representation” mean?
6.
Who was Sam Adams?
7.
Who was John
Adams?
8.
Who were the Sons
of Liberty?
9.
Join or Die political
cartoon meaning
10.
What happened at
the Boston Massacre?
11.
Why did John
Adams defend the British soldiers?
12.
Why did Britain
impose the Intolerable Acts on the colonies? What were they?
13.
Why are the
Battles of Lexington and Concord important?
14.
First Continental
Congress decision
15.
Who wrote Common Sense? What was its impact?
16.
When was the
Declaration of Independence made official?
17.
Who wrote the
Declaration?
18.
What were the 3
main parts of the Declaration?
19.
What are two
reasons why American won the Revolutionary War?
20.
George Washington
21.
Thomas Jefferson
22.
John Dickinson
23.
Thomas Paine
24.
Paul Revere
25.
Define the Articles
of Confederation
26.
What was the Constitutional
Convention?
27.
3 branches of
government and powers
28.
Who was the
father of the constitution
29.
What is included
in the New Jersey Plan? The Virginia Plan?
30.
How did the Great
Compromise solve the problem in #4?
31.
Define the Three-Fifths
Compromise
32.
What’s the
difference between Federalists and Antifederalists?
33.
What are the Bill
of Rights?
Unit 3: Antebellum America: (Ch. 6-10)
1.
Election of 1800-
Name who won? Antifederalist or Federalist?
2.
What was the
Louisiana Purchase
3.
What was the
purpose of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
4.
Who was the War
of 1812 fought between? Why? Results?
5.
Define manifest
destiny
6.
John O’Sullivan
7.
California Gold
Rush
8.
Define Industrial
Revolution?
9.
Francis Cabot
Lowell
10.
Samuel Slater
11.
Define factory
system
12.
What are
interchangeable parts?
13.
Who were the
Lowell girls?
14.
What is urbanization?
15.
What is meant by
division of labor?
16.
Andrew Jackson
17.
Define the Indian
Removal Act
18.
Define the Trail
of Tears
19.
Where did most
immigrants come from between 1820-1860?
20.
Where did they
tend to settle?
21.
How did
immigrants affect American industry?
22.
Who were
nativists? Why did they oppose immigrants?
23.
Why is Harriet
Tubman called “Black Moses?”
24.
Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin important?
25.
What was decided
in the Dred Scott case?
26.
Why was John
Brown considered a martyr?
Unit 4- The Civil War and Reconstruction (Ch. 11)
1.
List some
strengths and weaknesses of both the north and south at the start of the Civil
War
2.
Lincoln’s main
goal at the start of the war
3.
What was
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?
4.
Why was the
election of 1860 significant?
5.
Why was
Gettysburg a turning point?
6.
What important
points did Lincoln make in the Gettysburg Address?
7.
Robert E Lee
8.
Ulysses S Grant
9.
How was the North
different from the south after the Civil War?
10.
13th
amendment
Unit 5- Post Civil War
America (Ch. 13-16)
1.
Why did
stereotypes of the West emerge?
2.
Turner/ Frontier
Thesis
3.
Differences in
land ownership between Native Americans and Americans
4.
Assimilation
5.
Carlisle Indian
School
6.
Andrew Carnegie
7.
Gospel of Wealth
8.
Vertical
Consolidation
9.
John Rockefeller
10.
Horizontal
Consolidation
11.
Arguments for and
against big business
12.
“New Immigrants”
13.
Chinese Exclusion
Act
14.
Acculturation
15.
Nativists
16.
Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives
17.
Political Bosses
18.
Boss William
Tweed
19.
Thomas Nast
Short Essay Topics:
1. How did the end of the French and Indian War lead to problems between the colonies and Great Britian?
2. Impact of the factory system in the early to mid 1800s.
3. Consequences of the Civil War (economic) (led to the Gided Age)
