Study Guide – Fall Semester U.S./AZ History Final
Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, identify the following people and define vocabulary terms.
For events/topics/main ideas, explain using the 5 W’s and H (Who, What, When, Where, Why, How)
and significance. NOTE – this is not a comprehensive list; other material learned in class can and will
be tested. This is an outline of the first semester US/AZ History course and completion of it will help
students on their test. This is to be completed and turned in on the day of the final, before test is
administered.
PEOPLE
Anasazi
Moundbuilders
Cliffdwellers
Christopher Columbus
Anne Hutchinson
Paul Revere
George Washington
Patrick Henry
Samuel Adams
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Phyllis Wheatley
Abigail Adams
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth
Lucretia Mott
John Brown
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Bessemer
Jacob Riis
Ida B. Wells
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Theodore Roosevelt (goals of administration)
Alexander Hamilton (views and accomplishments)
John Adams
VOCABULARY WORDS
Middle Passage
Federalists
Anti-federalists
Articles of Confederation
Checks and balances
Redcoats
Impressment
Manifest Destiny
Abolitionism
Suffrage
Industrialism
Social Darwinism
Laissez Faire
Robber barons
Homestead Act of 1862
Carpetbaggers
Jim Crow laws
Muckraker
EVENTS/TOPICS/MAIN IDEAS
Early Americans: Why they came to North America and how they adapted to their environments
Reasons for Spanish/French/English exploration of North America
Columbian Exchange
Founding of Jamestown and Plymouth colonies
Slavery
French and Indian War (7 Years War)
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Causes/Effects/main events of American Revolution
- Roles of women in the Revolutionary War
Declaration of Independence
Constitutional Convention/Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
Bacon’s Rebellion
Pope’s Rebellion
Shays’ Rebellion
Louisiana Purchase
Marbury v. Madison
Seneca Falls Conference
Causes/effects of Westward Expansion
Causes/effects of War of 1812
Causes/effects of Mexican-American War
Kansas Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Causes/key events/effects of the Civil War
Different Visions of Reconstruction (Lincoln, Radical Republicans, Johnson)
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Progressive Era
- Reform Movements
Conflicts with Native Americans
- Wounded Knee
- Little Bighorn
- Indian Removal Act
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1862
New immigrants/old immigrants (origins)