EOCT Review Units 1-9
Unit 1
1. Which group established Jamestown in 1607? (p. 45-46)
2. What became Jamestown’s cash crop? (p. 45)
3. What was the representative assembly in Virginia called? (p. 46, 101)
4. What was the importance of Bacon’s Rebellion? (p. 48)
5. Why was the Plymouth colony founded? (p. 51)
6. What was the result of King Phillip’s War? (p. 54)
7. Who founded Rhode Island and why? (p. 52)
8. Which colony lost its charter (self government) in dispute with Great Britain? (p. 73)
9. What colony was first called New Amsterdam? (p. 55-56)
10. Why was Pennsylvania settled? (p. 57)
11. Why did the French settle Quebec? (p. 40-41))
12. Define mercantilism (p. 75-76)
13. Define the middle passage (p. 68-70)
14. In which colonial area did most African Americans settle? (p. 70)
15. Who was the popular colonial figure who represented individualism and social mobility (hint: $100)
16. What was the significance of the Great Awakening? (p. 78-79)
17. What was Britain’s financial situation after the French and Indian War? (p. 89)
18. What did France lose as a result of the French and Indian War? (p. 88)
19. What was the colonial reaction to the Proclamation of 1763? (p. 88-89)
20. What was the colonial reaction to the Stamp Act? (p. 100)
21. What was the colonial reaction to the Intolerable Acts? (p. 104)
22. Who were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty? (p. 101-102)
23. What were the Committees of Correspondence and when were they formed? (p. 103)
24. Who wrote Common Sense? (p. 111)
25. Why was it important? (p. 111-112)
26. Who influenced the ideas of the Declaration of Independence? (p.112)
27. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? (p.112)
28. Which nation help the Patriots defeat the British? (p. 120)
29. Who influenced France to join America? (p. 120)
30. Who was the Marquis de Lafayette? (p. 120)
31. What was the importance of Valley Forge? (p. 120)
32. What was the result of the Battle of Yorktown? (p. 124)
Unit 2
33. List 4 weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? (p 140 –chart)
34. What was the significance of Shay’s rebellion? (p. 141)
35. Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose the Constitution? (p. 151)
36. Name 3 checks and balances in the Constitution. (p. 155)
37. What issue did the Great Compromise solve? (p. 146-147)
38. What were the terms of the Compromise? (146-147)
39. Define: separation of powers (155)
40. What are the first 10 Amendments called? (p. 153)
41. Who were the leaders of the first two political parties? (p. 197)
42. What did George Washington say in his farewell address regarding foreign affairs? (p. 201)
43. What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 say about slavery, public education and the addition of new states? (137-139)
44. Which president made the Louisiana purchase and what did it do to the size of the US? (208-209)
45. Who explored the Louisiana territory and further west? (209, 212)
46. Define: nationalism (242-247)
47. What caused the War of 1812? How did it end? (214-220)
Unit 3
48. What city developed as a center of trade as a result of the Erie Canal being completed? (229)
49. What did the Monroe Doctrine say? (246, 263)
50. Name two inventions by Eli Whitney. (232, 236)
51. Define: manifest destiny (301-312)
52. What was the temperance movement? (274, 277)
53. Who led the public school movement? (275-276)
54. What was the goal of the abolitionist movement? (278-285)
55. Name 3 leaders of the abolitionist movement. (278-285)
56. What was the Seneca Falls Convention? (290)
57. Who role did Elizabeth Cady Stanton play in the Seneca Falls Convention? (290)
58. Which changes in voting occurred during the Age of Jackson? (250-251)
59. What issue did the Missouri Compromise attempt to settle? (247)
60. Define: states’ rights (324-329)
61. Define: sectionalism (246-247)
62. What vice president and South Carolinian is associated with states’ rights and nullification? (255)
63. What were the causes of the Mexican War and what were the results? (308-310)
64. What was the Wilmot proviso? (312)
Unit 4
65. What compromise allowed California to join the Union? (328-329)
66. Define: popular sovereignty (326, 334)
67. What was the result of the Dred Scott case (Scott v. Sanford)? (341-343)
68. What was the result of John Brown’s raid? (344-345)
69. What tone toward the South did Lincoln use in his second inaugural address? (391)
70. Why did Lincoln suspend habeas corpus in Maryland? (375-376)
71. What did Lincoln say in the Gettysburg address? (385-386)
72. List whether the following were Union or Confederate and list their position: Ulysses Grant (380), Robert E. Lee (391), “Stonewall” Jackson, William T. Sherman (386), and Jefferson Davis (352).
73. What was the importance of Fort Sumter? (364)
74 Antietam? (368)
75. Vicksburg? (380-381)
76. Gettysburg? (383)
77. Battle of Atlanta/Sherman’s March to the Sea? (386-387)
78. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? What was the symbolic importance? (368)
79. Who held the advantage at the start of the civil war in the following areas? Population, railroad mileage and industrial output (360-361)
80. How was the South treated in Presidential Reconstruction? (405-406)
81. How was the South treated in Congressional Reconstruction? (406-407)
82. What did the Freedman’s Bureau do? (415)
83. What was the significance of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments? (409)
84. Define: black codes (405)
85. What group was founded in the South during Reconstruction to resist racial equality? (417)
86. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? (407)
Unit 5
87. How did railroads impact big business in the late 1800’s? (440-441)
88. Which groups worked on the Transcontinental Railroad? (507-508)
89. Define: Monopoly (444-446)
90. Define: Trust (444-446)
91. Who was the leader of Standard Oil? (444-446)
92 Was he a robber baron or captain of industry? (444-446)
93. Who invented the light bulb? (438-439)
94. What happened at Ellis Island? (466-470)
95. Who led the American Federation of Labor? (454)
96. What did they ask for? (454)
97. What happened at Wounded Knee? (500-503)
98. Who was Sitting Bull? (500-503)
99. What happened at the Pullman Strike? (455-457)
100. What side did the federal government take? (456)
101. Define: muckraker (551)
102. Who wrote The Jungle? (551)
103. What was it about? (551-556)
104. What did Jane Addams do? (552)
105. What were Jim Crow laws? (520-22)
106. What was the court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson? (528)
107. What robber baron and company did Ida Tarbell expose? (551)
108. What was the 17th Amendment? (555)
109. Define: recall (555)
110. Define: referendum (555)
111. What was the goal of the PROGRESSive movement? (548)
112. What did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 say? (523-524)
Unit 6
113. What territories did the US acquire as a result of the Spanish-American War? (598, 604)
114. List 2 arguments for and against annexation of the Philippines. (598)
115. Define: Roosevelt Corollary (607)
116. How did the US acquire the Panama Canal? (606)
117. What were two reasons why the US got involved in WWI? (624-627)
118. Define: Great Migration (634)
119. What happened to socialist Eugene Debs during WWI? (632)
120. What were the 18th and 19th Amendments and how were they related to WWI? (633)
121. What was Wilson’s 14th point? (641-645)
122. Why did the US not ratify the Treaty of Versailles? (645)
123. What was the Red Scare? (649)
Unit 7
124. How did Henry Ford change the automobile industry? (660-663)
125. Who was Louis Armstrong? (692)
126. Who was Langston Hughes? (694)
127. Who was Irving Berlin? (693)
128. What were three causes which led to the Stock Market crash and Great Depression? (702-706)
129. What was the Dust bowl? (714-715)
130. Define: Hoovervilles (710-712)
131. What was the TVA? (736)
132. How did it attempt to help with the issues of the Great Depression? (736)
133. What did the Wagner Act do? (744)
134. What was Social Security? (738, 741)
135. Why did Roosevelt attempt to “pack” the Supreme Court? (739)
136. List 2 criticisms of the New Deal. (745-746)
137. Did Huey Long support or oppose the New Deal? What was his plan? (746)
138. What did A. Philip Randolph ask from FDR? (810)
139. What was FDR’s response? (810)
140. Why event brought the US into WWII? (789)
141. What happened to Japanese Americans during WWII and why? (813)
142. What was the lend lease program? (785)
143. What was the importance to the Battle of Midway? (807)
144. D-Day? (819)
145. Define: rationing (814)
146. What role did women play in the workforce in WWII? Who is Rosie the Riveter?(809-810)
147. Where was the atomic bomb developed? (825-826)
148. What was the code name for the development of the bomb? (825)
149. What President made the decision to drop the bomb? (826)
150. Why did the US not have to invade Japan to end WWII? (825-827)
Unit 8
151. What was the Marshall Plan? (850)
152. What was the Truman Doctrine? (848)
153. Who occupied Korea after WWII? (855)
154. What caused the Korean War? (855)
155. What was the outcome of the Korean War? (859)
156. What did Senator Joseph McCarthy believe was happening in our army and government? (874)
157. What led to his downfall? (875)
158. Who came to power in Cuba in 1959? (956)
159. What was the Bay of Pigs? (956)
160. What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis? (956)
161. What was the outcome of the crisis? (956-958)
162. What was the domino theory? (982)
163. What was the Tet Offensive? (995)
164. Why did people protest the Vietnam war? (992-994)
165. What was Sputnik? (865)
166. Why did it scare the US? (865)
167. What was Eisenhower’s response to Sputnik? (865, 895)
168. Which President established relations with communist China? (1009)
169. Why did President Nixon resign? (1052)
170. What was one positive and one negative of President Ford’s administration? (1055-1056)
171. What were the Camp David Accords? (1065-1066)
172. Which president is given credit for them? (1065)
173. What was President Carter’s response to the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iranian hostage crisis? (1066-
1067)
174. What was Reaganomics? (1081-1082)
175. What was the Iran-contra Scancal? (1092)
176. When did the Soviet Union “collapse” and which president is given credit for it? (1090)
177. What is the Miranda rule? (972)
178. What impact did President Kennedy’s assassination have on Civil Rights legislation? (932)
179. What was President Johnson’s domestic programs called? (969)
180. What is medicare? (970)
181. Which 2 people were assassinated in 1968? (943)
182. What happened at the 1968 democratic national convention in Chicago? (998-999)
183. Were presidential candidate Barry Goldwater (1964) and president Richard Nixon (1968) conservative or
liberal? (968, 999)
184. What is NAFTA? (1115)
185. Why was President Clinton impeached? Was he found guilty or innocent? (1113)
186. Why was the election of 2000 controversial? (1120)
187. What role did the electoral college play in this controversy? (1120)
188. Which two areas did the US intervene militarily after the September 11, 2001 attacks? (1124)
189. What was the Baby Boom? (883)
190. What did the Interstate Highway Act do? (890)
191. Describe Levittown. (889)
192. What role did television play in the 1960 election between Kennedy and Nixon? (953)
193. What role did television play in the Civil Rights movement? (952-953)
194. Name two inventions which have changed information and communication. (1104-1105)
195. Which President ordered the integration of the military? (918)
196. Who integrated professional baseball and in what year? (917)
197. What was the decision in Brown v. Board of Education? (918)
198. Did southern states cooperate with this decision? (919)
199. What speech did Martin Luther King, Jr deliver in 1963 in Washington D.C.? (931)
200. What was its impact? (931)
201. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964? (932)
202. What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965? (938)
203. What were the tactics of the SCLC in the civil rights movement? (923)
204. What were the tactics of SNCC? (926)
205. What were the freedom rides? (926-927)
206. What usually happened to the riders? (927)
207. What was the nation’s response? (928)
208. What does NOW stand for? (1023)
209. What was the United Farm Workers’ movement? (1029-1030)
210. Who was the leader? (1029)
211. Who wrote Silent Spring? (1035)
212. What was it about? (1035)
213. What agency was created to help keep the environment clean? (1036)
214. What was the court decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973? (1026)
215. What was the result of the Bakke decision? (1062)