Midyear Review 2013

The Foundations Midyear Exam is designed to be a comprehensive examination of the material that we covered during the first half of the year. The exam will take up the majority of the block allotted to us and will be comprised of several types of questions. You will be asked to diagram your reasoning in several instances. There will be no open note portion or open book portion of the exam. Students are required to take the exam during the assigned period barring emergency or ruling of the administration. This exam counts for 10% of your final grade, but does not count toward any marking period. Unexcused students who are late to class on the day of the exam are penalized since they will be a distraction to the test environment. Anyone with a need for accommodations for the exam MUST inform me and make arrangements with their liaison prior to the exam period. Everything that is on this review appears on the midyear in one form or another. (for some reason, many of the links have failed on the webpages. B Period’s links all still work if you need to refer back for past work.)

UNIT 1a: Historical thinking and skills

  1. Identifying, defining, and developing an understanding of the contrasting values. (see 9/6 on website for definitions)
  2. Identifying, defining, and of the elements of the Bedford High School philosophy of historical argument. (see 9/19 for ppt)
  3. Identifying, defining, and diagramming Reasoning (Comparisons and Cause and Effect)
  4. “Prop”ing evidence (see 10/5 for doc)
  5. Informed Decision Making (10/26 also, use health class notes)

UNIT 1b: Early English Colonies

  1. Colonial Geographic Locations – 13 original colonies
  2. Identify key events and individuals related to the origin and survival of Jamestown colony.
  3. Identify key events and individuals related to the origin and changes in Mass Bay and Plymouth colonies.
  4. Identify key events and individuals related to the settlement of the Middle colonies.

Terms and Names – Jamestown

John SmithJoint stock companyKing James I

RoanokePowhatanStarving time

Brown goldJohn Rolfe Pocahontas

Headright system PlantationNathaniel Bacon

Indentured servants English laws of conquestRoyal colony

Charter ColonyVirginia Colony

Terms and Names -- Puritan New England

PuritansJohn WinthropSeparatists

Plymouth colonyMayflower Compact Roger Williams

Massachusetts Bay ColonyAnne Hutchinson

Terms and Names -- Middle colonies

William PennQuakersNew Netherland

The DutchHoly experimentMaryland

City of brotherly loveNorth and South CarolinaGeorgia

Unit 2: Revolutionary War

Terms, Names, and Questions – Road to Revolutionary War

  1. Identify the major tax acts that the British passed that angered the colonists
  2. Explain the effects that the tax acts had on the relationship between the colonies and the mainland

Stamp ActSamuel Adams Patrick HenryDeclaratory Act

Townshend ActsboycottpetitionBoston Massacre

John HancockKing George Parliamentmartial law

Committees of CorrespondenceSons of LibertyBoston Tea Party

Intolerable ActsGeneral Thomas Gage First Continental Congress

MinutemenmilitiaLexington and Concord Bunker Hill

Guerrilla warfareOlive Branch PetitionSecond Continental Congress

John DickinsonJohn Adams

Terms, Names, and Questions – Ideas of Revolutionary War

  1. What did Paine want to accomplish with Common Sense? Why did he succeed?
  2. What was the Declaration of Independence supposed to "tell" the world about the reasons for American rebellion and American Values?

Thomas PaineThomas JeffersonJohn Lockenatural rights

July 4, 1776patriots loyalists

Declaration of Independence

Terms, Names, and Questions – Fighting the Revolutionary War

  1. Explain the fighting in New York (not including Saratoga)
  2. Explain the fighting in New Jersey
  3. Explain the fighting in Philadelphia
  4. Explain the fighting in Saratoga
  5. Explain the fighting in Savannah and Charles Town, and the Carolinas
  6. Explain the fighting in Yorktown

Howe brothersHessiansDelaware RiverPrinceton

TrentonBurgoyneGatesClinton

CornwallisCowpensLafayettevon Steuben

Unconventional WarValley ForgeBlockadeEnlistment

Greene Articles of Confederation

Unit 3 Forming a new nation

  1. What were the guiding principles behind the Articles & Confederation? How did those principles affect its success?
  2. Why did the framers prefer a republic to a democracy?
  3. Why did the states fear a strong central government? How did the differences between the states cause problems?
  4. What were some of the specific problems did they face as a new nation?
  5. Why did Shays’ Rebellion lead to further discussions about strengthening the national government?
  6. What were the key conflicts of the Constitutional Convention and how did the Framers try to form a “more perfect union” while also “secure[ing] the blessings of liberty?”
  7. Describe the process that occurred as they drafted a new government.
  8. What were the key conflicts that came up at the constitutional convention?
  9. What were the key compromises reached at the constitutional convention?
  10. How did the framers attempt to divide and ensure checks on power?
  11. What were the central controversies of ratification? How was ratification achieved?
  12. Who were the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists?
  13. What role did the Bill of Rights play in the Ratification process?

Terms, Names, and Questions – Forming a new nation

RepublicRepublicanismPrecedent

Articles of ConfederationNorthwest Ordinance of 1787“E Pluribus Unum”

“The Framers” “Founding Fathers” (a) constitution

Shays’ RebellionPhiladelphia/Constitutional Convention

The ConstitutionJames Madison Great Compromise

Bicameral Legislature House of Representatives Roger Sherman

Senate Three Fifths Compromise Compromise

Federalism Separation of Powers Legislative Branch

Executive Branch John JayVeto

Judicial Branch Checks & Balances Electoral College

Ratification Federalists Anti-Federalists

Alexander Hamilton Bill of RightsAmendment