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US I HISTORY MID-TERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Spring 2016
All of the following will be on the Mid-Term Exam. Use your notes, activities, homework, the book and your brain to prepare for this exam. Remember, this exam is worth 25% of your grade. It would be wise to prepare!
Open-Ended Questions
1. Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion-What was it? Why did it matter? What impact did it have on the development of America? What were some challenges people faced moving west?
2. Abolitionist Movement-What was it?Why did it matter?Who opposed it? What reasons did they give for opposing it? Who was Frederick Douglass?
Multiple Choice and Matching Questions
3. Explain the primary difference between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.
4. Why was the Bill of Rights created? Who created it?
5. Why did the Louisiana Purchase matter?
6. Who were the Sons of Liberty? What did they do to get their messages across?
7. What is Mercantilism and Triangular Trade?
8. How is debt an economic effect of war?
9. The War of 1812 helped to created national pride. Define nationalism.
10. Why did many Native Americans die after initial contact with Europeans?
11. What was the Bill of Rights designed to protect? Name two things.
12. Name all the rights protected by the first amendment.
13. Name THREE British advantages at the start of the American Revolution.
14. Name THREE Colonial advantages at the start of the American Revolution.
15. What invention helped to advance the economy of the South? What did it do to the demand for slave labor?
16. What is a primary source? What are advantages of using primary sources?
17. What is a secondary source? What are advantages of using secondary sources?
18. What does the term “cede” mean? The term “cession”?
19. Who were the “Forty-Niners”? What were they hoping to do and where?
20. What was the Indian Removal Act? Which president enacted this policy?
21. Who were abolitionists?Explain how each of the following people contributed to the Abolitionist Movement: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Sumner, Harriet Tubman.
22. Who authored the Declaration of Independence?
23. What was the transcontinental railroad? Which parts of the country desired it? Why?
24. What was the primary job(s) of most women prior to the Industrial Revolution? After?
25. What were the Articles of Confederation and were they a success?
26. What issue was being debated by the Three-Fifths Compromise?
27. Which groups of people were denied access to ownership of land and natural rights in the colonies?
28. Which branch of government decides if something is unconstitutional? What does unconstitutional mean?
29. Explain the Mexican Cession. What did the U.S. gain from it?
30. What does Separation of Powers mean? Explain how the U.S. government id divided. Whyis the U.S. government divided this way?
31. Explain George Washington’s foreign policy. HINT-It is stated in his Farewell Address
32. Explain the difference between the northern and southern colonial economies in the 1700s.
Vocabulary-Be able to define the word AND explain how it relates to the topic of study.
33. Nationalism
34. Tariff
35. Amendment
36. Reform
37. Treaty
38. Abolition
39. Suffrage
40. Import
41. Foreign policy
42. Domestic policy