SOCIAL STUDIES SURVEY FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

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65 Multiple Choice Questions (4 points each; total of 260 points)

Early Colonial Period

  1. Know the author of and purpose for the Declaration of Independence
  2. Explain the Mayflower Compact and Virginia House of Burgesses
  3. Describe early English settlements – Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth
  4. Describe the difference between Puritans and Pilgrims
  5. Know the difference between the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment
  6. Describe the economies of New England, Middle and Southern Colonies
  7. Describe the life of an indentured servant
  8. Know when the slave trade began and ended in North America

Revolution

  1. Know causes of the Revolutionary War
  2. Understand the phrase “Taxation without Representation”
  3. Describe the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party
  4. Explain why the Boston Massacre was called a “massacre”
  5. Battle of Lexington and Concord

Government

  1. Describe the Articles of Confederation and explain why they did not work
  2. Know the date the Constitution was finished
  3. Know the three branches of government
  4. Know the Great Compromise and 3/5 Compromise, “Bundle of Compromises”
  5. Explain the difference between Federalists and Anti-Federalists
  6. Explain the Bill of Rights and why it was necessary

Westward Expansion

  1. Explain Manifest Destiny
  2. Know the Transcontinental Railroad’s role in Manifest Destiny
  3. Describe the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase
  4. Describe the results of the Mexican War
  5. Describe Andrew Jackson’s personality and presidency
  6. Causes and results of War of 1812
  7. Know Indian Removal Act and Jackson’s reaction to the Supreme Court
  8. Know Eli Whitney’s inventions – cotton gin and interchangeable parts
  9. Know the Monroe Doctrine
  10. Describe Utopian societies
  11. Describe reform movements of the late 1800’s

Civil War

  1. Know about John Brown
  2. Explain the Fugitive Slave Law and its effects
  3. Know about the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  4. Explain advantages the North had over the South before the Civil War
  5. Describe new technology during the Civil War period
  6. Know the two Harriets during the Civil War period
  7. Know major battles – Gettysburg, Antietam, Sherman’s March to the Sea
  8. Explain the Anaconda Plan
  9. Describe the surrender at Appomattox
  10. Know when Lincoln was elected and his philosophies about the Union
  11. Know what the Emancipation Proclamation did and did not do
  12. Describe Lincoln’s assassination and know who was responsible

Reconstruction

  1. Describe Reconstruction – its successes and failures
  2. Know about the Freedman’s Bureau
  3. Know the Civil War amendments – 13,14 and 15
  4. Describe Military Reconstruction