HONORS AMERICAN HISTORY COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW SHEET

 

                  1.   What were the tribulations for the settlers at Jamestown?  Roanoke? 

 

 

                  2.   Know the primary French, English, and Dutch settlements.

 

 

                  3.   How did the Spanish treat the Indians in the New World? 

 

 

                  4.   Understand the factors which helped Jamestown survive.

 

 

                  5.   Who signed up to be an indentured servant?  What did this entail?

 

 

                  6.   Who were the Inca, Aztec, and Maya?

 

 

                  7.   Who was Columbus?  What was the significance of his journey?  How did he view his accomplishments?

 

 

                  8.   What did the Europeans import to the New World?

 

 

                  9.   Describe the geography of New England.

 

 

                  10.  How did most colonists make a living?

 

 

                  11.  What were different groups who immigrated to America? 

 

 

                  12.  What were the main exports of the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies? 

 

 

                  13.  What caused the French and Indian War?  What treaty ended it?

 

 

                  14.  What territories were transferred after the French and Indian War?

 

 

                  15.  Why were slaves used in the New World? 

 

 

                  16.  What were the Navigation Acts?

                  17.  Which colonies were most upset with Great Britain?  Why?

 

 

                  18.  What was the Declaratory Act?

 

 

                  19.  Who did the British hire to fight?  What is this known as?

 

 

                  20.  How did America defeat the British? 

 

                  21.  Did African-Americans fight during the Revolutionary War?

 

 

                  22.  What were the Intolerable or Coercive Acts?

 

 

                  23.  Who were the principal agitators for independence from Britain? 

 

 

                  24.  Summarize the route to independence America took.

                  25.  Who fought in the French and Indian War?

 

 

                  26.  What is a veto?  Amendment? 

 

 

                  27.  What is the Legislative branch?  Executive?  Judicial?

 

                  28.  Describe the government under the Articles of Confederation.

 

 

                  29.  What is a bicameral legislature?   

 

 

                  30.  Describe the different compromises related to the Constitutional Convention.

 

 

                  31.  Who were the Federalists?  What did they believe?

 

 

                  32.  Who were the Anti-Federalists?  What did they believe?

 

                  33.  Generally, how was the American population geographically distributed during the late 18^th century?

                  34.  Compare the English and American class structure.  Which was more rigid?

 

 

                  35.  What does a strict interpretation of the Constitution mean?  Broad interpretation?

 

                  36.  How was America able to remain neutral in international affairs? 

                  37.  Describe Thomas Jefferson’s views on politics, industry, and imperialism.

 

 

                  38.  What was the Louisiana Purchase?  Why was it so important?

 

 

                  39.  What was the Great Divide? 

 

 

                  40.  How did the United States acquire Florida? 

 

 

                  41.  What was the “Era of Good Feelings”?  How did it get that name?

 

 

                  42.  Who benefited from the Missouri Compromise?

 

 

                  43.  What were the causes of the war with Mexico?

 

 

                  44.  What was the Monroe Doctrine?

 

 

                  45.  Who fought during the War of 1812?  Why?  Who won? 

 

 

                  46.  What was the frontier during the age of Jackson?  Civil War? 

 

 

                  47.  Who was Andrew Jackson most popular with and why?  Who disliked him?

 

 

                  48.  Has voting always been a private affair?  What is a convention?  Caucus? 

                  49.  What was the American’s policy for dealing with the Cherokee Indians? 

 

 

                  50.  What were Jackson’s feelings for the National Bank?  Why did he feel this way?

 

 

                  51.  What were some examples of the widening of suffrage?

 

 

                  52.  Which tariff did South Carolina consider an “abomination”?  Why?

 

 

                  53.  What were conditions like in early factories?  Early corporations are similar to what colonial institution?

 

 

                  54.  Who was subject to “wage slavery”?

 

 

                  55.  What does the “peculiar institution” refer to?

 

 

                  56.  What is the significance of the Erie Canal?  Who traveled on the “Middle Passage”? 

 

 

                  57.  What were some results of the increase of mass production?

 

 

                  58.  Who wrote “Walden Pond?”

 

 

                  59.  Who were the most well-known Transcendentalists?  What did they believe?

 

 

                  60.  Between 1820 and 1850 many Americans moved west.  What types of problems did this cause?

 

 

                  61.  What were the demands of the 18th-century women’s movement? 

 

 

                  62.  How did Americans react to the Fugitive Slave Act?  Who supported it?  Opposed it?

 

 

                  63.  What was the most influential abolitionist novel published before the Civil War?

 

 

                  64.  What was popular sovereignty?

 

 

                  65.  Which political party was against the expansion of slavery into the territories?

 

 

                  66.  What was the Compromise of 1850?

 

 

                  67.  Who was Dred Scott?  What is the significance of the case?

 

 

                  68.  What were the different strategies offered up by Northerners to defeat the South?

 

 

                  69.  What were conditions like for the average family during the Civil War?

 

 

                  70.  How did Lincoln save the Border States for the Union?

 

 

                  71.  Lincoln’s first goal in fighting the Civil War was_________________.

 

                  72.  What officially ended slavery in the United States?

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                  73.  What was the Ku Klux Klan?  Why was it formed?

 

 

                  74.  What was sharecropping?

 

 

                  75.  Was Lincoln successful in his plan for reconstructing the South? 

 

 

                  76.  Who was “Boss” Tweed? 

 

 

                  77.  Who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee?  What was the result?

 

 

                  78.  United States Indian policy in the 1800s included all of the following EXCEPT.

 

 

                  79.  What did the 1862 Homestead Act provide for?

 

 

 

 

                  80.  What did Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction propose?