UNIT FINAL Name:

CHECKLIST

How prepared are you for next week’s test? What is your plan for getting yourself ready for the test? Rate your knowledge (1=I’m and expert, 5=I don’t remember anything about it) and decide how you are going to study this week.

Topic / Where do I find info about this? / How well do I know this?
(1 – 5) / What am I going to do to study?
·  Re-read notes, worksheets or chapter
·  Re-write notes, summarize info
·  Look at Powerpoint again (on website)
·  Talk about it with some one
·  Listen to someone else talk about it
Columbian Exchange, early trade and exploration / Notes on Exploration & Expansion,
Ch. 1.2
Colonial America -
New England, Middle & Southern Colonies / Notes on New England, Southern & Middle colonies, Ch 1.4
Treaty of Paris & NW Ordinance / After the Revolutionary War notes
Louisiana Purchase and Lewis & Clark / Notes Ch 5 sec 2, notes quiz
Manifest Destiny / Manifest Dest handout (blue)
Oregon Trail, mountain men, trade in West / Chap. 9.2
Mexican War / Chap. 9.3
Texas Mexico notes
Mormons, Gold Rush / Chap. 9.4


Chapter 1.2 – An Age of Exploration

Key Terms and People

cartographer / colony
Christopher Columbus / plantation

Ideas to remember:

·  Portuguese and Spanish explorers searched for a way to trade directly with China and other countries of the East.

·  Once contact was made with the Americas, animals, plants, and ideas traveled east and west across the Atlantic Ocean.

In class

·  PowerPoint on Early Explorers

·  Movie – The Story of US

·  Written test on Early explorers

Chapter 1.4 – The 13 English Colonies

Key Terms and People

subsistence farming / debtor
cash crop

Ideas to remember:

·  England set up 13 colonies along the Atlantic coast, some founded for religious freedom and others for economic reasons.

·  Distinct economic differences developed among the three colonial regions, although all depended heavily on agriculture.

In class

·  Power Point on 13 colonies

·  Multiple choice quiz on colonial features

·  Notes on Northwest Territory and Northwest Ordinance

·  “After the Revolutionary War” PowerPoint

Chapter 5.2 – The Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark

Key Terms and People

expedition / William Clark
Meriwether Lewis / continental divide
Zebulon Pike

Ideas to remember:

·  England set up 13 colonies along the Atlantic coast, some founded for religious freedom and others for economic reasons.

·  Distinct economic differences developed among the three colonial regions, although all depended heavily on agriculture.

In class

·  Movie – Lewis and Clark

o  The Story of US

·  Note quiz

Chapter 9 – Westward Expansion (all four sections)

Refer to your outlines for key terms and people.

In class

·  Movie – The Story of Us

·  Text comparison – pioneer letters

·  Texas/Mexico PowerPoint