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World History I - Second Semester Final Exam Study Guide
Mrs. Wiens
Unit ONE: The American Revolution - Brown Text Ch. 3
Who/What?
Where?
When?
Why Significant?
Albany Plan of
Union
King George III
Royal
Proclamation
Act of 1763
Stamp Act
Boston
Massacre
Lexington &
Concord
Guerilla
Warfare
Sons of Liberty
Loyalists /
Tories
The Olive
Branch Petition
Trenton, NJ
Common Sense
Declaration of
Independence
Battle of
Saratoga
Battle of
Yorktown
Its most famous
words:
1. What was mercantilism? How did England benefit from this system? How did the
colonies help the Mother Country achieve these objectives? How did the colonies benefit
from this system? List some examples of trade restrictions and why Parliament created
them.
2. What was the cause of the French and Indian War? Who were the two sides in the
conflict? When was it fought? What were the results? How did Britain's policy toward
the colonies change after the war?
3. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? What was its purpose? Who signed it?
Who is attacked in the document? What are the causes of the American Revolution as
listed in the Declaration? How did the author justify the colonists' break with Great
Britain? What Enlightenment writer influenced it?
4. What were three causes of the Revolutionary War? (Economic, social, political, and
intellectual reasons many colonists wanted to fight.) When was the war fought? Why is
it considered a turning point in history?
5. What were the colonial military advantages? What were British military advantages?
6. What were three results of the Revolutionary war? Using a map in your textbook,
identify which territories in America belonged to Britain, Spain, and the U.S. after the
war.
World History I - Second Semester Final Exam Study Guide
Mrs. Wiens
Unit TWO: The U.S. Constitution - Brown Text Ch. 3
Who / What?
Where?
When?
Why Significant?
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Northwest
Ordinance
1. What were the Articles of Confederation? What were two of its successes? Two of
its weaknesses?
Compare and contrast the features of the two U.S. constitutions.
Only the Articles of
Similarities of both
Only the U.S. Constitution
Confederation
documents
• One branch of
X
• Three branches of
government
government
X
• Had a Congress
X
• Written during
X
• Written during
wartime
peacetime - 1787
2. What was Shay's Rebellion? What effect did his rebellion have on the creation of the
Constitution?
3. Why did delegates meet in Philadelphia in May 1787? Which state did not attend?
What are the words to the Preamble that explain why the Constitution is being written
4. How did the Constitution strengthen the power of the national government? Give
three examples. Include enumerated (ie listed in the Constitution) powers.
5. Explain three parts of the Constitution dealing with slavery.
6. What were the Federalist Papers and why were they so important?
7. Fill in the diagram of the three branches of government. Include at least 8 items from
the system of Checks and Balances. (What power does each branch have over the
others?)
L____________
Override Veto
E_____________
J_____________
World History I - Second Semester Final Exam Study Guide
Mrs. Wiens
Unit THREE: The French Revolution - Red Text pp. 630+
Who / What?
Where?
When?
Why Significant?
Estates General
(Three Estates)
Versailles
Louis XVI
Continental
System
Maximilian
Robespierre
Code Napoleon
Reign of Terror
Waterloo
St. Helena
Describe three factors that made France ripe for revolution in the 1780s.
Social
Political
Economic
Intellectual
Military
What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Complete the chart comparing and contrasting this document with the U.S. Bill of Rights.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
AND
Three similarities:
U.S. Bill of Rights
1.
2.
3.
Three differences:
Decl. Of Rights of M & C
U.S. Bill of Rights
1.
2.
3.
What are the first words of the U.S. Bill of Rights?
Who was Napoleon? How did he rise to power? What were three factors that led to his
demise?
What Enlightenment ideas of Rousseau helped spark the French Revolution?
What Enlightenment ideas of Montesquieu helped spark the French Revolution?
Define these types of Governments:
o
o
o
o
o
A Republic
A Democracy
Confederation (ex. Articles of Confederation)
A Federal System (ex. U.S. Constitution)
Absolutism (ex. Monarchy)
World History I - Second Semester Final Exam Study Guide
Mrs. Wiens
Unit FOUR: Challenges Facing the New Nation: The First Five Presidents Brown Text Ch. 4
Who/What?
Where?
When?
Why Significant?
Enumerated
Powers
Implied Powers
Whiskey
Rebellion
Nullification
Judicial Review
Washington's
Farewell
Address
Impressments
Warnings given:
Embargo
War Hawks
Revenue Tariff
XYZ Affair
Quasi-War
Alien and
Sedition Acts
Election of
1800
Louisiana
Purchase
Lewis and
Clark
Marbury vs.
Judicial Review
Madison
Impressment
Battle of New
Orleans
Treaty of Ghent
Alexander
Hamilton
McCulloch vs.
Maryland
Monroe
Doctrine
1. Why did tensions between western settlers and Native Americans increase during
Washington's administration?
2. What were the two sides in the war?
•
What events led to the War of 1812?
•
What were two results of the war?
•
What were three actions that strengthened the federal government after the War of
1812?
3. What it the Bill of Rights and when was it added? What ideas did it take from the
Virginia Declaration of Rights?
4. What were three significant differences between the Federalist and DemocraticRepublican Parties?
5. What were the major accomplishments / activities of each of these presidents?
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe
World History I - Second Semester Final Exam Study Guide
Mrs. Wiens
Unit FIVE: The Young Republic: 1816-1848, - Brown Text Ch. 5
Some are done for you.
Who/What?
Where?
When?
Why Significant?
President who
provoked
Mexican-Am. War
Land between
Neuces and
Rio Grande
Rivers
Defeated
Mexicans and
captured Santa
Ana
Battle of San
Jacinto
April
1836
Led to Republic of Texas
Joseph Smith
Led Mormons
To Great Salt
Lake in Utah
1820s
Sought religious freedom
Lone Star
Republic
Texas as a
separate
country
Capital:
Austin
Sept.
1836
Led by Pres. Sam Houston, the
Texans wanted to join the U.S.
as a slave state
Fancis Lowell
Iron Horse
Samuel F.B.
Morse
Robert Fulton
Eli Whitney
Andrew
Jackson
Trail of Tears
James K. Polk
Frederick
Douglass
Sam Houston
Nat Turner
Erie Canal
Manifest
Destiny
1. When and where did the first Industrial Revolution begin? Why did it begin in this
country? Give at least five reasons. How did it change life for workers?
2. What were the three parts of the Missouri Compromise of 1820? What was it issued?
3. What were three areas that reformers called for change in the early 1800s? Name one
reformer who spoke for change in each of these areas.
4. In the 1820s, why did U.S. citizens move to Texas, a Mexican state? How did Texas
gain its independence from Mexico? (Alamo, Goliad, San Jacinto…) Why wasn't Texas
admitted to the U.S. for nine years?
5. Describe some of the restrictions imposed upon enslaved people by slave codes.
6. When was the Mexican War fought? What were two causes as well as two results?
7. Use the diagram to help you describe the sequence of events that led to the emergence
of the first women's movement.
Industrial
Revolution
Effect on the nature
of work
Effect on the role of
women
Emergence of the
first women's
movement
World History I - Second Semester Final Exam Study Guide
Mrs. Wiens
Unit SIX: Sectional Conflict Intensifies, Brown Text Ch. 6
Who/What?
Where?
When?
Why Significant?
Popular
sovereignty
Secession
Wilmot Proviso
Fugitive Slave
Act
Harriet Beecher
Stowe
Gadsden
Purchase
Stephen A.
Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska
Act
Dred Scott
Decision
Republican Party
John Brown
Jefferson Davis
Fort Sumter
Henry David
Thoreau
Why is it a turning point?
1. What were the main elements of the Compromise of 1850? Who was the "Great
Compromiser that failed to get this passed in Congress?"
2. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act heighten tensions between the North and the
South? Provide three results.
3. Why did Southern politicians talk about secession? Why was admission of California
to the Union particularly threatening to Southerners?
o Who were “Free-Soilers” and what did they want?
4. How did the Republican Party form, and how did it appeal to voters in the1860
election?
5. What efforts were made to prevent the outbreak of war?
6. What border-states did Lincoln want to keep in the Union? How did he manage to do
so?