US History Semester 1 Study Guide
1. Enlightenment
2. Revolution
3. Puritan
4. Quaker
5. Stamp act
6. Tea act
7. French and Indian War
8. Slavery
9. Declaration of Independence
10. Boston Massacre
11. Boston Tea Party
12. Articles of Confederation
13. Constitution
14. Amendment
15. Shays’s Rebellion
16. Constitutional Convention
17. Division of Power
18. Checks and Balances
19. Majority Rule
20. Representation in Congress
21. Virginia Plan
22. New Jersey Plan
23. Great Compromise
24. 3/5 Compromise
25. Federalist
26. Anti-Federalist
27. Bill of Rights
28. Alexander Hamilton
29. Thomas Jefferson
30. Compromise
31. Ratification
32. Legislative Branch
33. Executive Branch
34. Judicial Branch
35. Tariff/Nullification Crisis
36. Secede
37. Abolitionism
38. Sectionalism
39. 1st Industrial Revolution
40. Missouri Compromise
41. Compromise of 1850
42. Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas
43. Popular Sovereignty
44. Manifest Destiny
45. Gettysburg Address
46. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
47. Dred Scott
48. Emancipation Proclamation
49. Mexican-American War
50. Battle of Gettysburg
51. Northern sectional interests
52. Southern sectional interests
53. John Brown
54. John O’Sullivan
55. Eli Whitney
56. Reconstruction
57. Amnesty
58. Amendment
59. Radical
60. Sharecropper
61. Ku Klux Klan
62. Freedman’s Bureau
63. Black Codes
64. Carpetbagger
65. Transcontinental Railroad
66. Homestead Act
67. Battle of Little Big Horn
68. Dawes Act
69. 13th Amendment
70. 14th Amendment
71. 15th Amendment
72. Jim Crow Laws
73. Segregation
74. Enforcement Act of 1870
75. Andrew Johnson
76. Abraham Lincoln
77. Thaddeus Stevens
78. Native American Assimilation
79. Industrialism/2nd Industrial Revolution
80. Managerial Revolution
81. Vertical Integration
82. Horizontal Merger
83. The Gilded Age
84. Robber Baron
85. Social Darwinism
86. Philanthropist
87. Monopoly
88. Union
89. Strike
90. Skilled Worker
91. Unskilled Worker
92. Haymarket Riot
93. Homestead Strike
94. Pullman Strike
95. Muckraker
96. Progressive
97. 17th Amendment
98. Anti-Trust Act
99. Knights of Labor
100. American Federation of Labor
101. Upton Sinclair
102. Theodore Roosevelt
103. Woodrow Wilson
104. Andrew Carnegie
105. John Rockefeller
106. Standard Oil
US History Semester 1 Study Guide
Key Concepts/Questions
1. What were the three types of American colonies? How did they differ from each other? Why did they differ from each other?
2. How and why did the British try to gain greater political and economic control over the people? How did the American people react?
3. Why did the American colonists break away from Britain? Explain how economics, religion, government, or any other feature caused the Americans to fight a war for independence.
4. Why were the Articles of Confederation considered a total failure? Explain using at least two concrete examples and why your examples were such a problem.
5. What were the major issues the delegates to the Constitutional Convention couldn’t agree on? Who didn’t agree with each other and why couldn’t they agree on those issues? (Remember, there are two, you must state both)
6. Classify the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists and explain why they disagreed with each other about the U.S. Constitution
7. What is the purpose of the United States Bill of Rights? Why was it amended to the Constitution? Describe at least two different rights it guarantees the American people.
8. What were major differences that emerged between the North and the South in the 1800s? How did these issues lead to sectionalism?
9. What were some of the primary points of conflict leading up to the Civil War?
10. How was the Civil War a result of continued expansion and sectional issues?
- What were the various Reconstruction policies set up by Johnson, Lincoln, and the Radical Republicans?
12. What were some of the positives of Reconstruction? How did these compare to the negative elements of Reconstruction?
13. How were Native Americans displaced throughout the 1800s? What were the main points of contention between whites and Native Americans?
- How did technology bring about change in the United States? Use specific inventions and the effect they had upon society.
- What is Social Darwinism? Why did this ideology emerge during this time period?
- Why were the captains of industry often nicknamed robber barons?
- What were the main living conditions for workers during the 2nd Industrial Revolution? How did this affect what they did and life in the major cities?
- Were labor unions effective in enacting social and economic change in America? What was some of the reasons for them not being successful?
- What was the main objective of the Progressive movement?
- To what extent was the Progressive movement successful?