Name______Date ______Period______
AMERICAN HISTORY
FIRST SEMESTER REVIEW
Early America
1. How did the first people arrive in the Americas? ______2. What was the motivation for European explorers to come to the New World? ______3. Describe Columbus’s voyage and what he expected to find. ______4. Describe the success and failures of the first colonies in English America. ______5. What motivated the Pilgrims to come to America? ______6. How did slavery impact the colonies? ______
7. What was the Enlightenment and what impact did it have on colonists in America? ______
8. Describe how taxes and laws (the Proclamation of 1763, the Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, and Townshend Act) impacted the colonists and why they were unhappy with them. ______9. Describe the events in Boston that led to the start of the Revolutionary War. ______10. What is the Declaration of Independence and what does it say? ______11. Why did the Articles of Confederation fail? ______
12. What compromises were made at the Constitutional Convention? ______13. What are checks and balances? Why are they important? ______14. What did the Federalists believe? What did the Antifederalists believe? ______15. Why was the Bill of Rights created? What is in it? ______16. What were the arguments for and against a national bank? ______17. What was the significance of the Whiskey Rebellion? ______
18. Describe how we acquired the Louisiana Territory. ______19. What were the causes and effects of the War of 1812? ______20. What was the Missouri Compromise? ______21. How did the North and the South grow to be different in the early 1800s? ______
Civil War and Reconstruction
Describe the reasons that the following things led to the Civil War:
22. Sectionalism ______
23. Compromises ______
24. Economic change ______
25. Cultural differences ______
26. Technology ______
27. Who were some significant people or groups during Reconstruction?
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28. Describe the issues that divided Republicans during the early Reconstruction Era.
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29, 30, 31. Identify the freedoms guaranteed by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
13th ______
14th ______
15th ______
32. How did Jim Crow laws influence life for African Americans? ______
33. What were the effects of the Black Codes? ______
34. Describe the sharecropping system as practiced in the United States. ______
35. Describe some important events in the Native American experience during and immediately after the Civil War. ______
Review Westward expansion, including
36. Reservation system ______
37. Dawes Act ______
38. Wounded Knee ______
39. Sand Creek massacre ______
40. Little Big Horn ______
41. Manifest destiny ______
Industrialization
42. Analyze the challenges faced by American farmers, and the farmers’ responses to these challenges in the mid-to-late 1800s. ______
Examine the second Industrial Revolution that began in the late 19th century; causes and consequences;
43. Social ______
44. Political ______
45. Economic ______
46. Compare the first and second Industrial Revolution in the United States. ______
47. How did the development steel, oil, transportation, communication and business practices affect the U.S. economy? ______
48. Analyze changes that occurred as the U.S. shifted from an agrarian to an industrial society. ______
What was the:
49. Chinese Exclusion Act? ______
50. Gentlemen’s Agreement with Japan? ______
Why were the following things important?
51. Class system ______
52. Migration from farms to cities ______
53. Social gospel movement ______
54. Settlement houses ______
Examine the causes, course and consequences of the labor movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
55. Causes ______
56. Early unions ______
57. Strikes and riots ______
58. Response of business owners and government ______
Describe these economic and philosophic ideologies:
59. Social Darwinism ______
60. Gospel of Wealth ______
Who were the:
61. Muckrakers ______
62. Populists ______
63. Progressives ______
Imperialism
64. What were the major factors that drove U.S. imperialism?
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65. What was the motivation for acquiring territories? ______
66. What were the causes, events, and consequences of the Spanish American War? ______
67. What were the economic, military, and security motivations for the U.S. completion of the Panama Canal? ______
68. What were the major obstacles in construction of the Panama Canal? ______
World War I
Examine causes, key event, and consequences of U.S. involvement in WWI. Describe:
69. British propaganda ______
70. Lusitania/u-boat activity ______
71. Zimmermann telegram ______
Describe U.S. government war measures:
72. Selective Service Act ______
73. War Industries Board ______
74. War bonds ______
75. Espionage Act ______
76. Sedition Act ______
77. Committee of Public Information ______
78. What was the impact of new weaponry in creating a new type of warfare? ______
79. Compare the experiences minority Americans (African Americans, women, conscientious objectors) had while serving in Europe.
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How did the war impact:
80. Women? ______
81. German Americans? ______
82. African Americans? ______
83. Great migration? ______
84. Dissenters against the war (Eugene V. Debs)? ____________
Describe the following:
85. The Treaty of Versailles ______
86. The failure of the U.S. to support the League of Nations. ______
Describe the following things:
87. Isolationism ______
88. Kellogg-Briand Treaty ______
Social change and the 1920s
Describe the following things:
89. Labor unrest ______
91. Palmer Raids ______
92. Sacco and Vanzetti ______
How did the economic boom of the 1920s change:
93. Consumers? ______
94. Businesses? ______
95. Manufacturing? ______
96. Marketing practices? ______
Describe the influence on society in the 1920s of
97. Hollywood ______
98. Harlem renaissance ______
99. Fundamentalist movement ______
100. Prohibition ______
Compare the views of the African American experience of
101. Booker T. Washington ______
102. Marcus Garvey ______
103. W.E.B. DuBois ______
104. Explain the growing support for the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and its idea and beliefs. ______
105. Analyze support for and resistance to civil rights for minorities; women, African Americans, Native Americans, etc. ______