1. Why Did Great Britain Want to Colonize America?

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FINAL REVIEW SHEET

1. Why did Great Britain want to colonize America?

2. What did the British expect to find in America? What did they find instead?

3. Who were the Pilgrims? Why did they sail to the American colonies?

4. Who were the Puritans? How were they different from the Pilgrims?

5. What were some of the acts the British passed in the colonies and why did it make the colonists angry?

6. What happened during the Boston Massacre?

7. What was the Boston Tea Party? Why did it happen?

8. How did the American Revolution start? Be specific!

9. Why was the Declaration of Independence written? When? Who wrote it? What did it say? Why was it important?

10. What were the Articles of Confederation? What did they say? What were some problems with them?

11. What does the Preamble to the Constitution say?

12. What powers does the Constitution give to each of the different branches of government?

13. How can the Constitution be changed?

14. How old do you have to be to be president? What other requirements are there?

15. How old do you have to be to be a senator? A congressman?

16. Who is the president of the Senate?

17. Who takes over if the president dies?

18. What amendments give people the right to vote? Who are the people they mention?

19. What is the Bill of Rights?

20. What are some important parts of the Bill of Rights?

21. What is the Second Amendment? What are some arguments about it?

24. What is the Fourth Amendment? What are some arguments about it?

25. What is the Eighth Amendment? What are some arguments about it?

26. What were the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions? What did they have to do with states’ rights?

27. What was the Missouri Compromise? What did it have to do with states’ rights?

28. What was the Nullification Crisis? What did it have to do with states’ rights?

29. What was the Compromise of 1850?

30. What were Personal Liberty Laws?

31. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

32. What was Bleeding Kansas?

33. What was the Dred Scott decision?

34. Who was John Brown? What happened during John Brown’s raid?

35. Why did Southern states secede when Abraham Lincoln was elected president?

36. What was slave life like?

37. How did slaves resist slavery?

38. Who was Jefferson Davis? What did he do?

39. Who was Robert E. Lee? What did he do?

40. Who was Nathan Bedford Forrest? What did he do?

41. Who was George McClellan? What did he do?

42. Who was Ulysses S. Grant? What did he do?

43. What happened at Fort Sumter? Who won? Why was it important?

44. What happened at Bull Run? Who won? Why was it important?

45. What was the Battle of Antietam? Who won? Why was it important?

46. What was the Battle of Gettysburg? Who won? Why was it important?

47. What was the Battle (Siege) of Vicksburg? Who won? Why was it important?

48. What was the Battle of Fort Wagner? Who won? Why was it important?

49. What was Sherman’s March to the Sea? Who won? Why was it important?

50. What happened at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia? Why was it important?

51. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? What did it do? What didn’t it do? What were some problems with it?

52. What advantages did the South have in fighting the Civil War? What disadvantages?

53. What advantages did the North have fighting the Civil War? What disadvantages? Why did the North win?

54. What was President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction?

55. What was Congress’ plan for Reconstruction? Why didn’t they like Andrew Johnson? What did they do to him? Why?

56. What was the 13th amendment?

57. What was the 14th amendment?

58. What was the 15th amendment?

59. What were Jim Crow laws? Give some examples.

60. What is lynching? Why were African Americans lynched?

61. What was Brown v. Board of Education? Why was it important?

62. Who was Emmett Till? What happened to him? Why? Why was it important?

63. What were the Montgomery Bus Boycotts? Why did they start? Who led them? What were the results? Why was it important?

64. What happened in Little Rock, Arkansas? Why? Why was it important?

65. What were the Freedom Rides? Why were they important?

66. Who was Malcolm X? What were his views? How did his views change?

67. What was Freedom Summer? Why was it important?

68. What happened to the three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner? Why?

69. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964? What was the Voting Rights Act?

70. How did World War I begin?

71. What new technologies/war techniques were used during World War I?

72. How and why did the United States get involved in World War I?

73. What was the Treaty of Versailles? How did it affect Germany? How did it lead to the start of World War II?

74. What other victims were there of the Holocaust, why were they persecuted, and what happened to them?

75. Why have Jews been persecuted over the years? What stereotypes are there of Jews?

76. What were ghettos? What was their purpose? How and why where they liquidated?

77. What were concentration camps like? What was their purpose?

78. How did people rescue Jews during the Holocaust? Give specific examples.

79. Why did the United States and Japan come into conflict? What happened in Nanking?Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?

80. What happened to the Japanese in internment camps? Why?

81. What were some arguments in favor of dropping the atomic bombs on Japan? What were some arguments against it?

82. Why did France colonize Indochina?

83. Who was Ho Chi Minh? What did he want? Why didn’t the United States like him?

84. What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin? What did President Johnson do about it? What did Congress do?

85. What was Operation Rolling Thunder?

86. What was the Tet Offensive? How did it affect Americans’ views of the Vietnam War?

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