8th Grade US History Semester 1 Final Study Guide
Jamestown
●Dates
●Pocahontas (role in Jamestown)
Plymouth Colony
●William Bradford
●The Mayflower Compact
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
William Penn and Pennsylvania
Province of Maryland
Mercantilism
French and Indian War/Seven Years War
●Combatants (who was fighting who?)
●Effects on relations between Britain and the colonies
British Taxes
●Sugar Act
●Quartering Act
●Stamp Act
●Tea Act
●Intolerable/Coercive Acts
George Washington
John Adams
Samuel Adams
Thomas Jefferson
John Dickenson
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
Important Battles
●Lexington and Concord
●Saratoga
●Bunker Hill
●Yorktown
●British and American Generals
Declaration of Independence
●Author
●Nature of the document
Launching the Republic
American form of government
Articles of Confederation
- What they established
- Powers
- Limitations/problems
The Constitution
- Compromises on representation
- Requirements to be a part of each Branch (Congress, President, Supreme Court)
- Bill of Rights (Amendments 1-10)
Checks and Balances
- Understand the powers each branch has over the others
War of 1812
- Causes and outcomes
Era of Good Feeling
- Texas Revolution and the Mexican War
- Terms (tariff, inflation, etc.)
- The Monroe Doctrine
- Industrialization
- Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears
The Civil War and Reconstruction
Dates of Conflict
Abraham Lincoln
- Political career
- Senate race- year and detail
- Presidential race- year and opponent
- Position on and politics surrounding slavery
- Assassination
Important People
- Harriet Tubman
- Henry Clay
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Dred Scott
- Frederick Douglass
- John Brown
- Jefferson Davis
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Robert E. Lee
- Thaddeus Stevens
- Charles Sumner
Mounting Tensions
- Nullification Crisis and the Force Bill
- Missouri Compromise
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Bleeding Kansas
- Compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Act
Important Battles
- Fort Sumter
- Antietam
- Bull Run
- Gettysburg
- Appomattox Courthouse
- Sherman’s March
Reconstruction
- Presidency (actions and impeachment)
Westward Expansion
- Transcontinental Railroad and the Oregon Trail
- Experience of the American Indians(The Long Walk, Indian Boarding Schools, etc.)
- Significant Conflicts (Sandy Creek, Wounded Knee, Little Big Horn, etc)
Essay Questions (you will receive 1 of these 2)- at least 2 paragraphs- 1 explaining foundational information about the event, 1 explaining the significance
- Explain the significance of the American Revolution. Use at least 2 specific facts to support your answer
- Explain the significance of the Civil War. Use at least 2 specific facts to support your answer