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2nd Quarterly Review Packet
Mid-year Review
Unit I: Colonies to Independent States
1. Explain the economic relationship between the colonies and England. (Hint
think mercantilism, Navigation Acts, Salutary Neglect, etc.)
2. Explain the causes and consequences of the French and Indian War.
3. Describe the acts and events below, including the responses of the colonists:
a. Stamp Act
b. Townshend Acts
c. Boston Massacre
d. Intolerable Acts
4. The early colonists had various forms of government. Identify the significance of
the following “seeds of democracy” planted by these colonists.
a. Mayflower Compact:
b. House of Burgesses:
c. Town Meetings:
5. Define enlightenment and connect it to the American Revolution.
6. Identify the following people and connect them to the American Revolution:
a. Thomas Paine Common Sense
b. John Locke natural rights
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c. Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence
Unit II: Constitutional Foundations
7. What were the Articles of Confederation? Explain the success and failures of
the government. Connect the Articles to Shays’ Rebellion.
8. The US Constitution is known as a “Bundle of Compromises.” Identify the issue
and final compromise of each debate at the constitutional convention of 1787.
a. Great Compromise
b. 3/5th Compromise
9. Define:
a. Federalists
b. Anti Federalists
10. What were the Federalist Papers? Who wrote the and why?
11. Federalism is the division of power between the ________________________ and
the _____________________________.
a. Powers granted to the federal government are known as
___________________ powers. Three examples are:
__________________________________________
b. Powers granted to the states are known as _____________________________
powers. Three examples are:
__________________________________________________
c. _______________________ powers are shared by both the federal
government and the states. Three examples are:
________________________________.
12. Separation of powers divides the powers of the government into
_______________________________.
a. The _______________________ branch headed by the
______________________.
b. The _______________________ branch headed by the
______________________.
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c. The _______________________ branch headed by the
______________________.
13. What is the purpose of the system of checks and balances? Give at least three
examples.
14. Explain the elastic clause and provide one historical example in which it was
used.
15. Define judicial review. In which court case was it first used?
16. What are the first ten amendments to the constitution called? What is their
purpose? Why were they added?
17. What is the electoral college? What is the major criticism of the electoral
college?
18. What is the unwritten Constitution? List and explain three examples.
19. Explain how the Constitution can be a flexible document.
Unit III: The Early Years
20. George Washington set many precedents (traditions) as the first president of the
United States. Explain each of them:
a. Two-term limit:
b. President’s cabinet:
c. Neutrality:
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21. How did Washington feel about political parties?
22. How was the power of the federal government affected by Washington?
23. What were the first two political parties in the United States? How or why were
they created?
24. What were the Alien and Sedition Acts? Who established them and why?
25. What was the purpose of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions? Explain the
resulting conflict.
26. What happened in the election of 1800? How were presidential elections
changed as a result of this election?
27. What was the lasting effects of Chief Justice John Marshall’s Supreme Court
decisions? (ex. Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden)
28. Who purchased Louisiana? Why was this a controversial, yet important
decision?
29. What were the causes and results of the War of 1812?
30. Explain Henry Clay’s American System.
31. What is the importance of the Monroe Doctrine?
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Unit IV: Westward Expansion/Age of Jackson
32. Why was Andrew Jackson considered a man of the people?
33. What is the spoils system?
34. Explain Jackson’s Native American policy. Connect it to Indian Removal Act,
Worchester v. Georgia, Trail of Tears.
35. Why do some people criticize Jackson for acting like a king?
36. What was the Tariff of Abominations? How did Calhoun and South Carolina
feel about it?
37. What is manifest destiny?
38. Summarize the causes and results of the Mexican American war.
Unit V: The Civil War and Reconstruction
39. What is sectionalism? Connect it to the civil war.
40. Explain the provisions of the:
a. Missouri Compromise (1820):
b. Compromise of 1850:
c. Kansas Nebraska Act 1854:
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41. Summarize the regarding westward expansion/application for statehood and
the causes of the civil war.
42. Identify the following causes of the Civil War:
a. Abolitionists (give examples)
b. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c. Underground Railroad
d. Popular Sovereignty
e. Bleeding Kansas
f. John Brown
g. Dred Scott
h. 1858 Illinois State Senate Race
i.
States’ rights v. federal supremacy
j.
Tariff issue
k. Slavery views (north v. south)
43. What happened as a result of the election of 1860? Why?
44. What were the Confederate States of America and who was their president?
45. Explain the strengths and weaknesses of the north/south during the civil war.
North
South
Strengths
Weaknesses
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46. What was Lincoln’s goal at the beginning of the war?
47. What were the goals of the following speeches given by President Lincoln?
a. Gettysburg Address:
b. Emancipation Proclamation:
48. What was the difference between Lincoln’s plan, Johnson’s plan (Presidents)
and Congressional plans (Radical Republicans) for Reconstruction?
49. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
50. Define each of the Civil War amendments?
a. 13th Amendment:
b. 14th Amendment:
c. 15th Amendment:
51. What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
52. Summarize the terror tactics used by the south to maintain power after the
Civil War.
53. What were black codes? Give examples.
54. What were Jim Crow laws? Give examples.
55. Summarize the ending of reconstruction and connect it to the election of 1876.
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56. What was the Supreme Court’s ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
57. Southern legislatures used many tactics to prevent the freedmen from voting.
Define each of their attempts.
a. Literacy tests:
b. Poll taxes:
c. Grandfather clauses:
Unit VI: The Industrial Age
58. Define each of the following terms:
a. Homestead Act of 1862:
b. Dawes Act:
c. Assimilation:
d. Nativism (Know Nothing, Chinese Exclusion, Gentleman’s Agreement,
Quotas):
e. Old v. New Immigrants
f. Cultural Pluralism:
g. Laissez faire capitalism:
h. Social Darwinism:
i.
Gilded Age
59. Explain the formation of monopolies.
60. Why did Congress pass the Interstate Commerce Act?
61. What was the purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
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62. What was the purpose of labor unions in the Industrial Age? Were they
successful?
63. Identify/Define the goals and founders of the following:
a. American Federation of Labor:
b. Knights of Labor:
c. Wobblies:
Unit VII: Populism/Progressivism
64. Discuss the problems faced by farmers as a result of the Industrial revolution.
65. Define the following:
a. Grange Movement
b. Populism
c. Bimetallism/silver standard
d. Election of 1896
66. What were the main goals of the Progressive movement?
67. What were some problems Progressives sought to change within society?
68. Discuss the specific contributions made by each muckraker to the Progressive
movement:
a. Jacob Riis
b. Ida Tarbell
c. Upton Sinclair
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d. Thomas Nast
e. Lincoln Steffens
f. Ida Wells
69. Describe each amendment passed during the Populism/Progressivism Era.
a. 16th
b. 17th
c. 18th
d. 19th
70. Describe five legislative acts passed by Congress during the
Populism/Progressivism Era.
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