REVIEW FOR FINAL (2014)…
1. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE LAND/ICE BRIDGE THAT SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THE FIRST AMERICANS CROSSED TO ENTER THE AMERICAS?
2. WHICH SPANISH EXPLORER CLAIMED FLORIDA FOR SPAIN?
3. WHICH SPANISH EXPLORER SAW THE GRAND CANYON AND CLAIMED THE SOUTHWEST?
4. WHICH SPANISH EXPLORER CLAIMED TEXAS FOR SPAIN?
5. WHOM DID POCAHONTAS MARRY?
6. WHAT WAS THE WRITTEN FORM OF SELF-GOVERNMENT IN THE NEW WORLD?
7. WHICH COLONY WAS FOUNDED AS A HAVEN FOR CATHOLICS?
8. WHICH COLONY WAS THE FIRST TO SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE?
9. WHICH COLONY WAS FOUNDED AS A “SPEED BUMP” TO THE SPANISH?
10. WHICH COLONY WAS FOUNDED FOR THE QUAKERS?
11. WHICH EUROPEAN COUNTRY SEEMED TO HAVE THE BEST RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE NATIVES? WHY?
12. WHAT WAS THE EXCHANGE OF CULTURE BETWEEN THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW WORLD KNOWN AS?
13. GIVE ONE EXAMPLE OF A FOOD OR ANIMAL THAT CAME FROM THE OLD WORLD TO THE NEW…
14. GIVE ONE EXAMPLE OF A FOOD OR ANIMAL OR DISEASE THAT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD TO THE OLD…
15. IN THE TRIANGLE TRADE, WHAT PRODUCT WAS TRADED FROM NEW ENGLAND?
16. IN THE TRIANGLE TRADE, WHAT PRODUCT WAS TRADED FROM AFRICA?
17. IN THE TRIANGLE TRADE, WHAT PRODUCT WAS TRADED FROM THE WEST INDIES?
18. WHAT TYPE OF EVIDENCE IN A WITCH TRIAL WAS THE MOST DIFFICULT TO DEFEND AGAINST?
19. WHAT TYPE OF EVIDENCE IN A WITCH TRIAL INVOLVED A MARK ON THE BODY?
20. WHICH TYPE OF EVIDENCE IN A WITCH TRIAL INVOLVED SOMEONE SEEING YOUR FORM COMMITTING AN ACT?
21. WHICH TYPE OF EVIDENCE IN A WITCH TRIAL WOULD INCLUDE A BROOM OR A POT?
22. WHAT EVENT PROMPTED THE BRITISH TO PASS THE INTOLERABLE (COERSIVE) ACTS?
23. WHAT ACT DID PARLIAMENT ADD TO THE REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT (IT DECLARED THEMSELVES ALL POWERFUL)?
24. WHAT SYSTEM WAS DEVELOPED FOR THE ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF THE MOTHER COUNTRY AND WAS BRITAIN’S DOMINANT ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES?
25. THE JOURNEY OF THE SLAVES FROM THE WEST AFRICA TO THE WEST INDIES WAS KNOWN AS…
26. WHAT WERE THE LONG LASTING DISPUTES MADE EVIDENT BY BACON’S REBELLION?
27. WHO WAS THE AMERICAN TRAITOR THAT LEFT BEING A GENERAL IN THE AMERICAN ARMY TO SERVE IN THE BRITISH ARMY (AND TURNED OVER THE PLANS TO FORT WEST POINT)?
28. WHICH AMENDMENT GUARANTEES THE RIGHTS OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH, PRESS, AND RELGION?
29. WHICH AMENDMENT GUARANTEES THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS?
30. WHICH AMENDMENT GUARANTEES FREEDOM FROM CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT?
31. WHAT COURT CASE GAVE THE SUPREME COURT THE RIGHT OF JUDICIAL REVIEW?
32. WHAT WERE THE MAJOR POINTS OF WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL ADDRESS?
33. UNDER WHICH PRESIDENT WOULD YOU FIND THE JAY TREATY LISTED?
34. WHAT WERE THE PRECEDENTS SET BY GEORGE WASHINGTON AS FIRST PRESIDENT?
35. WHICH PRESIDENT APPOINTED THE MIDNIGHT JUDGES?
36. WHO WAS PRESIDENT DURING THE LOUISIANNA PURCHASE?
37. WHO WAS PRESIDENT DURING THE WAR OF 1812?
38. WHAT IMPORTANT DOCUMENT WAS SIGNED 2 WEEKS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS?
39. WHO SAVED THE PICTURE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON FROM THE BURNING WHITE HOUSE?
40. WHO WROTE THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER?
41. WHICH MARSHALL COURT DECISION RULED THAT CONGRESS HAD CONTROL OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE?
42. WHICH MARSHALL COURT RULING SAID THAT FEDERAL LAW IS SUPREME OVER STATE LAW AND THAT A STATE CANNOT TAX A FEDERAL INSTITUTION?
43. WHICH MARSHALL COURT RULING WAS THE FIRST TIME THE SUPREME COURT DECLARED A STATE LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
44. WHICH MARSHALL COURT RULING SAID THAT THE SUPREME COURT HAS JURISDICTION OVER STATE COURTS IN CASES INVOLVING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS?
45. WHICH MARSHALL COURT RULING SAID THAT THE SUPREME COURT CAN REVIEW A STATE COURT DECISION INVOLVING THE POWERS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?
46. HOW DID THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES SHOW THEIR OBJECTION TO THE WAR OF 1812? (WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE MEETING…THEY THREATENED TO SECEDE…)
47. WHO WAS PRESIDENT DURING THE “ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS?”
48. WHAT DOCUMENT CLOSED THE AMERICAS TO FURTHER EUROPEAN COLONIZATION (IT BECAME THE CORNERSTONE OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY).
49. WHO ACCUSED JOHN ADAMS OF THE “CORRUPT BARGAIN” WHEN HE BECAME PRESIDENT?
50. WHICH PRESIDENT WAS CRITICIZED FOR PRACTICING THE SPOILS SYSTEM AND IS KNOWN FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NATIONAL BANK?
51. WHICH PRESIDENT SET IN MOTION THE POLICY OF INDIAN REMOVAL THAT RESULTED IN THE TRAIL OF TEARS?
52. WHICH PRESIDENT WAS CALLED “KING ANDREW THE FIRST” BY HIS CRITICS?
53. WHICH PRESIDENT WAS KNOWN AS THE “PRESIDENT WITHOUT A PARTY?”
54. WHAT WAS THE BELIEF THAT AMERICA’S MISSION WAS TO SPREAD FROM COAST TO COAST KNOWN AS?
55. WHAT WAS THE PROPOSAL THAT SUGGESTED THAT SLAVERY BE PROHIBITED IN ANY TERRITORY GAINED FROM MEXICO?
56. WHAT WAS THE SYSTEM OF SAFE HOUSES THAT HELPED SLAVES TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM THE SOUTH?
57. WHO WAS THE MOST FAMOUS GUIDE (CONDUCTOR) ON THIS PATHWAY TO FREEDOM?
58. WHOM DID LINCOLN CALL THE “LITTLE LADY WHO STARTED THE BIG WAR
58. WHOM DID LINCOLN CALL THE “LITTLE LADY” WHO STARTED THE “GREAT WAR?”
59. WHO WROTE UNCLE TOM’S CABIN ?
60. THE PRACTICE OF LETTING AN AREA VOTE ON HAVING SLAVERY OR NOT WAS KNOWN AS…
61. WHO WAS THE PERSON EXECUTED FOR PLANNING AND CARRYING OUT THE ATTACK ON THE FEDERAL ARSENAL AT HARPER’S FERRY?
62. WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY?
63.WHO WAS THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY?
64. WHERE WERE THE FIRST SHOTS OF THE CIVIL WAR FIRED?
65. WHAT DID THE SOUTH FEEL THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVILWAR?
66. WHAT DID THE NORTH FEEL THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR?
67. WHAT BATTLE WAS A SHOCK TO THE NORTH BECAUSE THEY REALIZED THEY WOULD NOT WIN QUICKLY?
68. WHERE DID THE FINAL SURRENDER IN THE CIVIL WAR TAKE PLACE?
69. WHO WERE THE TWO CIVIL WAR GENERALS AT THE SURRENDER OF THE SOUTH?
70. WHICH STATE WAS THE FIRST TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION?
71. WHO WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO BE ASSASSINATED?
72. WHO WAS KILLED ON GOOD FRIDAY IN 1865?
73. WHOSE LAND BECAME ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETARY?
74. IN WHICH STATE DID THE MORMON CHURCH SETTLE?
75. WHO LED THE MORMON PEOPLE INTO THAT STATE?
76. WHICH COMPROMISE OVER SLAVERY MADE CALIFORNIA A FREE STATE?
77. WHAT COMPROMISE OVER SLAVERY LED TO THE BROOKS-SUMNER INCIDENT AND THE CONFLICT KNOWN AS BLEEDING KANSAS?
78. WHAT COURT CASE SAID THAT SLAVES WERE NOT C ITIZENS AND COULD NOT SUE, PROHIBITION FURTHER COMPROMISE ON THE ISSUE?
79. WHO RAN THE NEWSPAPER THE LIBERATOR AND CALLED FOR IMMEDIATE FREEDOM FOR THE SLAVES?
80. WHY DID AMERICANS AGREE TO THE 49 DEGREE BOUNDARY WITH ENGLAND
RATHER THAN FIGHT FOR 54 40?