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U.S. History I-CP
Ms. Horn
Midterm Exam Review
January, 2015
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The Exam:
P-2: Friday, January 23
P-4: Thursday, January 22
P-5: Friday, January 23
8:00 - 10:00
10:15 – 12:15
10:15 – 12:15
Format:
100 multiple choice:
1 essay from 3 choices:
Primary Source Reading
50 points
40 points
10 points
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Exam Review:
Do your best to complete the items on this review sheet. I encourage you to create a
study group and use a Google Doc.
You will also be REQUIRED to write 3 sample essay questions and bring them to class
on Tuesday, January 20 or Wednesday, January 21. You must have these on a piece
of paper so I can collect them.
We will review in class on January 20 or January 21.
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Why did we rebel from England?
Colonial America
1. 3 sections: New England, Middle, Southern (Map)
2. What made each section unique?
3. Why did people come to the colonies?
4. Tobacco
5. Indentured servants/Bacon’s Rebellion
6. Slavery/ The Middle Passage
7. How did slavery develop in the colonies?
Early Signs of Unity and Identity
8. To what degree were the colonies united in 1754 (before the F&I War)?
9. Enlightenment
10. Great Awakening
11. Navigation Acts
12. Salutary Neglect/ Benign Neglect
13. Albany Plan of Union, “Join or Die”
The Road to Revolution
14. French and Indian War
15. Proclamation of 1763 (Map)
16. Sugar Act/ Writs of Assistance
17. Stamp Act
18. Protests to Stamp Act: Riots/ Stamp Act Congress/ boycott
19. “no taxation without representation”
20. Declaratory Act
21. Boston Massacre
22. Tea Act
23. Boston Tea Party
24. Intolerable Acts
25. First Continental Congress
26. Philadelphia
27. Battle of Lexington and Concord
28. Second Continental Congress
29. Olive Branch Petition
30. Battle of Bunker Hill
31. Thomas Paine/ Common Sense
32. Thomas Jefferson
33. Declaration of Independence
34. What were the early signs of colonial unity and identity?
35. How did the French and Indian War change the relationship between
England and the colonies?
36. When and why did tension increase between the colonies and England?
37. Why did the colonists rebel from England?
The Revolutionary War
38. Advantages / Disadvantages
39. Patriots/ Loyalists
40. George Washington/ Washington’s strategy
41. Battle of Long Island (NY)
42. Battle of Trenton (NJ)
43. Battle of Saratoga (NY)
44. French Alliance
45. Battle of Yorktown (VA)
46. Treaty of Paris, 1783 (MAP)
47. How did the U.S. win the war?
48. What made Washington an effective leader?
How did the U.S. develop a government?
The Articles of Confederation
49. The Articles of Confederation: Structure, powers
50. separation of powers (legislative, executive, judicial)
51. Land Ordinance/ Northwest Ordinance
52. Shays’ Rebellion
53. Constitutional Convention
54. Virginia Plan/ New Jersey Plan/ Great Compromise
55. proportional v. equal representation
56. Slavery; 3/5 Compromise
57. Federalists/ Anti-Federalists
58. Why did the founders make the AOC the way they did?
59. What were the successes and shortcomings of the AOC government?
60. What were the major controversies at the Constitutional Convention, and
how were they resolved?
The Constitution of the United States of America
61. The U.S. Constitution: Article/ Section/ Clause
62. Separation of powers: Legislative, Executive, Judicial
63. Congress: House of Representatives + Senate
64. Powers of Congress
65. How a bill becomes a law
66. Veto/ override
67. Elastic Clause: Strict interpretation/ Loose interpretation
68. The Bank of the United States
69. The Missouri Compromise (MAP)
70. Bad Law: The Alien and Sedition Acts
71. Nullification/ the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
72. Judicial Review/ Marbury v. Madison
73. Executive Branch: Powers of the President, Qualifications
74. How can a president be removed from office?
75. Electoral College System
76. executive order
77. Judicial Branch
78. Supreme Court
78. Checks and Balances
80. Bill of Rights
First Amendment: Freedom of Religion and Expression
Establishment Clause/ Free Exercise Clause
Probable Cause/ Warrant/ reasonable suspicion
Exclusionary Rule
81. Criminal Justice System: what are the steps from arrest to conviction?
How did the American Economy Develop?
82. Hamilton’s Financial Plan:
Assumption of Debt
Bonds
Bank of the United States
Whiskey Tax
83. Explain the controversies involved with Hamilton’s Plan
84. strict v. loose interpretation of the Constitution
85. Whiskey Rebellion
86. How did Northern and Southern economies develop differently?
87. Cotton gin
88. slavery
89. How do tariffs affect manufacturing?
90. Chesapeake Affair
91. Embargo Act
92. Industrialization in the north
93. American system
Protective Tariff (Tariff of 1816)
Second Bank of the United States
Internal improvements (vetoed)
94. Erie Canal
95. Why did the north industrialize and not the south?
96. How were workers treated in most northern factories?
How did the U.S. develop a democracy?
97. Political parties
98. Federalists v. Democratic Republicans
99. Why did political parties develop?
100. How did the party system change?
101. Election of 1824
102. The Corrupt Bargain
103. Andrew Jackson
104. New Democracy/ Jacksonian Democracy
105. Jackson and Indian Removal
106. Did Jackson increase democracy in America?
107. How did Jackson change the role of the president?