Download united states history semester one exam

UNITED STATES HISTORY SEMESTER ONE EXAM REVIEW
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1. The first people in the Americas were the?
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2. Inflation refers to?
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3. The “Lost Colony” was located where?
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4. What type of struggle was the Protestant Reformation?
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5. The oldest city established by Europeans within the present-day United States is?
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6. The document that established a self-governing colony based on majority rule of male church members was
the?
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7. The planter who organized an army of western Virginia settlers and attacked American Indians on the frontier
was?
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8. The first written constitution in the colonies was the?
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9. The most important crop in the Chesapeake and Virginia was?
____ 10. The colony that was supposed to help England’s poor was?
____ 11. Who believed rebelling against the king was like rebelling against God?
____ 12. Who is the author of Common Sense?
____ 13. Who was nicknamed the Swamp Fox for his elusive tactics?
____ 14. After the Revolutionary War, the United States was granted what?
____ 15. During which battle did Washington cross the Delaware?
____ 16. The Loyalists were also known as?
____ 17. Abigail Adams supported what?
____ 18. Who was chosen to command the Continental Army?
____ 19. The battle that effectively ended the Revolutionary War was?
____ 20. Who did most of the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence?
____ 21. Know the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
____ 22. The first state to ratify the Constitution was who?
____ 23. The Virginia Plan does what?
____ 24. Know about the Great Compromise?
____ 25. Since 1789 the Constitution has been amended how many times?
____ 26. The judicial branch has the power to do what?
____ 27. Know the causes of the War of 1812.
____ 28. The United States was ill-prepared for war in 1812 because of?
____ 29. The Bill of Rights, main goal?
____ 30. Capitalism is an economic system based on?
____ 31. What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
____ 32. The Monroe Doctrine declared that the United States would do what?
____ 33. What did the Adams-Onís Treaty do?
____ 34. The United States did what during the First Seminole War ?
____ 35. The Indian Removal Act provided for the relocation of American Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River to
Indian Territory in present-day?
____ 36. Which political party referred to Andrew Jackson as “King Andrew”?
____ 37. The South was slow to industrialize because it lacked what?
____ 38. Irish immigrants in the mid-1800s mostly settled where in cities?
____ 39. Describe where free African Americans lived in the South?
____ 40. Which transcendentalists is not associated with the Mormons?
____ 41. The Second Great Awakening dealt with?
____ 42. Which movement was sparked by the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments?
____ 43. The temperance movement, by the mid-1800s, had led to laws about what?
____ 44. Abolitionists believed slavery should be outlawed because it?
____ 45. During the Second Great Awakening, what were the large religious gatherings called?
____ 46. Around 1830 the Mexican government was worried about the great influx into Texas by?
____ 47. In 1836, after Texas declared its independence from Mexico, many Americans opposed admitting Texas to
the Union because?
____ 48. The leader of the Bear Flag Revolt was _____?
____ 49. The term mountain men referred to_______?
____ 50. The Oregon Trail connected what?
____ 51. The experience that the Donner party shows what about going west?
____ 52. Do the Southerners agree and like the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
____ 53. The policy of popular sovereignty was not upheld by the Lecompton Constitution because it did what?
____ 54. The Supreme Court ruled that no African American, whether slave or free, could ever enjoy the rights of a
U.S. citizen in the?
____ 55. The political party formed by antislavery settlers in Kansas was the?
____ 56. The elder statesman who advocated compromise between northern and southern interests was?
____ 57. Withdrawal from the Union was called?
____ 58. President Lincoln was disappointed with General McClellan because McClellan?
____ 59. The Union’s plan for blocking all ports in the South was called?
____ 60. Reconstruction referred to?
____ 61. The Thirteenth Amendment does what?
____ 62. The Black Codes were written to?
____ 63. Former Confederates called southern whites who had supported the Union cause and now were in favor of
Reconstruction?
____ 64. A former slave who became an abolitionist and adviser to President Andrew Johnson on race relations was?
____ 65. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by?
____ 66. The first Civil Rights Act in the history of the United States was the?
____ 67. American Indians who agreed to go to reservations
____ 68. Following the development of the Bessemer process, the cities of Gary, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio; and
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became centers for?
____ 69. The adoption of a standard gauge for railway tracks improved rail transportation by
making it unnecessary for passengers and freight to be transferred from train to train each
time they reached a different line.
____ 70. A group of companies that is controlled by a single group of business leaders is an example of
a trust.
____ 71. Andrew Carnegie earned $1.20 a week on his first job, and when he retired he
was the richest man in the world.
____ 72. Working conditions during the late 1800s were characterized by
long hours and low wages.
____ 73. Unlike a small business, a corporation
is owned by stockholders.
VOCABULARY FOR MID TERM
a. Intolerable Acts
b. Treaty of Paris
c. Proclamation of 1763
d. Townshend Acts
e. Declaration of Independence
a. checks and balances
b. Federalists
c. Antifederalists
d. John Locke
e. James Madison
a. Robert Fulton
b. Samuel Slater
c. Eli Whitney
d. John C. Calhoun
e. Henry Clay
a. Brigham Young
b. Dorothea Dix
c. Frederick Douglass
d. Horace Mann
e. William Lloyd Garrison
Using a Chart: Look at the chart and answer the questions that follow.
Characteristics of North American Culture Areas
Before Arrival of Europeans
Northwest Coast
Coastal dwellers
Fishers
Developed complex cultures
Plateau
River dwellers
Primarily fishers
Relatively low population
Great Plains
Grassland dwellers
Nomadic buffalo hunters after introduction of the horse
Northeast
Forest dwellers
Mostly hunter-gatherers; also farmers and fishers
Great Basin
Desert basin dwellers
Mostly gatherers, due to barren surroundings
Low population
California
Desert, mountain, river, or coastal dwellers
Farmers, nomadic hunters
Southwest
Canyon, mountain and desert dwellers
Farmers, nomadic hunters
Southeast
River valley dwellers
Mostly farmers; also hunter-gatherers, fishers
94. Which culture areas changed after a domestic animal was introduced?
95. Which culture areas depended on agriculture for at least some food?
96. Fishing was an activity that provided food in which culture areas?
97. After the Missouri Compromise, how many slave states existed?
98. After the Missouri Compromise how many free states were there?
99. How many slave states were located north of the Missouri Compromise line?
KNOW WHETER THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ARE TRUE OR FALSE!
100. ______ As southern states started to secede, other states had to decide whether or not to remain in the Union.
101. ______ Good military leadership was lacking in the South.
102. ______ Because he believed in slavery, General Robert E. Lee gladly fought for the South.
103. ______ From the onset of the Civil War, the North’s main goal was to destroy slavery.
104. ______ Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a new hospital for
veterans.
105. ______ The North had fewer soldiers than the South even though it had a larger population.
106. ______ The term used for the draft during the Civil War was conscription.
107. ______ At the end of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse.
108. ______ The Cherokee’s constitution resembles that of the United States.
109. ______ The Panama Canal was called “Clinton’s big ditch.”
110. ______ Mass production increased the speed of manufacturing.
ESSAY QUESTIONS – THESE ARE DUE ON THE DAY YOU TAKE YOUR EXAM. IF YOU TYPE THEM
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TAKE THE MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAM.
1. Compare and contrast the War for Independence and the Civil War.
2. Compare and contrast the presidencies of George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln.
3. Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation and the United States
Constitution.