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1. What are the five themes of Geography?
2. How do people and their natural environment interact?
3. What are some causes and effects of the movement of people?
4. What different types of maps do people use?
5. How do latitude and longitude help us to locate places?
6. Why are today’s maps more accurate than maps of the past?
7. What are eight physical regions of the United States?
8. How are rivers and lakes important to the United States?
9. What are the major climates of North America?
10. Where did the first Americans come from?
11. How do Archeologists learn about the past?
12. How did early people adapt to the desert Southwest?
13. Why did many different cultures develop in North America?
14. What ways of life did Native Americans develop?
15. What role did religion play in the lives of Native Americans?
16. Where did the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations flourish?
17. What were the main achievements of these civilizations?
18. How were religion and learning linked in Aztec society?
19. How did the 1492 encounter with Europeans affect Native Americans?
20. What is the Columbian Exchange?
21. What elements of Native American culture did Europeans adopt?
22. How did the Crusades and the Renaissance change Europe?
23. Why did Europeans look for new sea routes to Asia?
24. What were the effects of Columbus’s voyages?
25. How did Spain interact with Native American Empires?
26. How did Spain govern its lands in the Americas?
27. Why was life difficult for the Native Americans who lived under Spanish rule?
28. Why were African states prosperous?
29. How did the African slave trade change in the 1500’s
30. What was the middle passage
31. How did competition grow among European nations?
32. How did trappers and missionaries help New France grow?
33. How did the arrival of Europeans affect Native Americans in North America?
34. How did representative government take root in Virginia?
35. Why did the Pilgrims start a colony in North America?
36. How did Native Americans help the Plymouth colony survive?
37. Why did the Puritans set up the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
38. Who founded the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island?
39. What was life like in the New England colonies?
40. Why did William Penn start a colony in North America?
41. Why were the middle colonies known as the Breadbasket Colonies?
42. What was life like in the backcountry?
43. Why were the Southern Colonies founded?
44. What two ways of life developed in the Southern Colonies?
45. Why did slavery become important in the South?
46. Why did England pass the Navigation Acts?
47. What were colonial government like?
48. What rights did English colonists enjoy?
49. What was the Great Awakening?
50. How did colonists educate their children?
51. How did new ideas spread through the colonies?
52. Which European nations competed for land in North America?
53. Why did the French build a system of forts?
54. Why did Indian nations become involved in the struggle between France and
England?
55. Why did the British and French go to war in North America?
56. What advantages did each side have in the war?
57. How did the Treaty of Paris affect North America?
58. What was the goal of the Proclamation of 1763?
59. How did colonists protest British taxes?
60. What was the Boston Massacre?
61. Why did Americans protest the Tea Act?
62. How did Britain respond to the British Tea Party?
63. Why did fighting break out at Lexington and Concord?
64. How did Americans pursue both war and peace in 1775?
65. What were the advantages of each side as they entered the war?
66. How did the Continental Army gain control of Boston?
67. How did Common Sense influence the colonists?
68. How did American Patriots respond to the Declaration of Independence?
69. What are the main ideas of the Declaration of Independence?
70. What defeats and hardships did the Americans suffer in the Middle States?
71. Why was the Battle of Saratoga a turning point in the war?
72. What help did the United States receive from other nations?
73. What were the major military events in the West?
74. How did the South become the major battlefield of the war?
75. How did women and African Americans take part in the war?
76. How did the Americans begin to win battles in the South?
77. How did the Americans and French defeat the British at Yorktown?
78. What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris?
79. What ideas guided the new state governments?
80. What problems did the nations face under the Articles of Confederation?
81. How did the Northwest Ordinance benefit the nation?
82. How did the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan differ?
83. How did the Great Compromise satisfy both large and small states?
84. What compromises were made on the issue of slavery?
85. What ideas helped shape the Constitution?
86. How did the framers of the Constitution divide power between national
government and the states?
87. How did they limit the power of government?
88. What arguments did Americans raise for and against the Constitution?
89. How can the Constitution be amended?
90. What rights does the bill of rights protect?
91. How does the national government help to unify the nation?
92. What are the benefits of a national system of courts?
93. How does the Constitution protect the basic rights of the people?
94. What are the five basic principles of the Constitution?
95. Why do people adopt a system of representative government?
96. How did the framers of the Constitution try to strike a balance between too much
and too little government?
97. What is the formal process for changing the Constitution?
98. What is the purpose of the bill of rights
99. What informal changes have been made to the Constitution?
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What are the roles of Congress?
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What jobs does the President do?
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How is the federal court system organized?
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How was the Bill of Rights limited?
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How did the Supreme Court use the fourteenth amendment to expand
citizens rights
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What are the rights and responsibilities of citizens?
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How did George Washington actions set an example for future President?
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How did Alexander Hamilton plan to strengthen the nation’s economy?
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Why did some people oppose Hamilton’s economic plan?
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How did Americans react to the French Revolution?
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What policy did the United States adopt when war broke out in Europe?
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How did Washington’s Farewell Address influence American foreign
policy?
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How did political differences lead to the rise of two political parties?
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What role did newspapers play in politics?
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How did the election of 1796 increase political tensions?
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Why did many Americans favor war with France?
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Why did the Federalist party split in two?
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Why did the Alien Sedition Acts outrage many Americans?
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What were Jefferson’s ideas about government?
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How did he reduce the power of government?
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Why was Marbury v. Madison important?
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Why was control of the Mississippi River important to western farmers?
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How did the United States gain Louisiana Purchase?
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What did the Lewis and Clark expedition achieve?
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How did overseas trade grow in the late 1700’s?
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How did war in Europe hurt American trade?
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Why was the Embargo act a failure?
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Why did the Prophet and Tecumseh unite Native Americans?
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How did fighting on the frontier lead to war with Britain?
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Why did war hawks want war with Britain?
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How was the United States unready for war with Britain?
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What were the major turning points of the war in the west?
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What were the results of the war?
133.
What were the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
134.
How did the Industrial Revolution come to the United States?
135.
What was life like in early factories?
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How did settlers travel westward in the early 1800’s?
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What steps did Americans take to improve roads?
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How did steamboats and canals effect transportation?
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How did Congress try to strengthen the national economy?
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What were the goals of Henry Clay’s American system?
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How did the supreme court strengthen national unity?
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How did Latin American nations win independence?
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How did the United States gain Florida?
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What was the purpose of the Monroe-Doctrine?
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Why was John Quincy Adams an unpopular President?
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How did voting rights change in the 1820’s and 1830’s?
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How did political parties become more democratic?
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What qualities helped Jackson succeed?
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Why did Jackson replace many office holders?
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Why did Jackson fight against the Bank of the United States?
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How did John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster disagree on states rights?
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How did Jackson deal with the Nullification Crisis?
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Why did Native Americans of the Southeast have to leave their lands?
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What economic problems did Martin Van Buren face?
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How did Whigs and Democratic compete for the Presidency in 1840?
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Why did John Tyler have little success as President?
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How did rival claims to Oregon Country develop?
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How did fur trappers and missionaries help open the Far West?
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What hardships did settlers face?
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Why did many Americans settle in Texas?
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How did Texas become an independendt nation?
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What challenges did the New Republic of Texas face?
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What brought the first white settlers to New Mexico?
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What was life like for Native Americans in California?
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Why did Americans want to expand to the Pacific Ocean?
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How did the United States gain Oregon?
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What were the causes and results of the Mexican War?
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How did cultures blend in the new American territories?
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How did the Mormons settle Utah?
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How did the discovery of gold effect life in California?
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Why did California have a diverse population?
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How did new inventions change manufacturing and farming in the North?
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How did new means of communication and transportation benefit
business?
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How did steam power help industry grow?
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What conditions caused northern workers to organize?
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Why did many Europeans move to the United States in the mid-1800’s
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What was life like for African Americans in the North?
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Why did cotton planters begin to move westward?
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How did the cotton gin affect slavery in the South?
Why did the South have less industry than the North?
What five groups made up society in the South?
How did African Americans suffer under slavery?
How did African Americans struggle against slavery?
What were the political and religious roots of reform?
What goals did social reformers pursue?
How did Americans improve public education in the mid-1800’s