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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?