REVIEW GUIDELINES for the 7th Grade FINAL EXAM –
VOCABULARY:
UnionConfederationMonarchyDemocracy Veto“Check and Balance”
FederalismAbolitionistLoyalist“Due Process” Boycott “Separation of Power”
NullificationImpeachmentFederalism Secession Tariff“States Rights”
Sectionalism
“Tyranny of the Masses”“Popular Sovereignty”“Elastic Clause” “Manifest Destiny”
GEOGRAPHY: Be able to locate the following on a map of North America.
The “Old Northwest Territory” (Ohio Valley)The Appalachian Mountains
The “Old South”The Mississippi River
MexicoTexas CaliforniaThe Louisiana Purchase
The Origins of America’s Democracy: (Pages 111 to 113 and 127 to 131 and notes)
1) What did the Magna Carta (1215) guarantee?
2) What was the Mayflower Compact? Who signed it? What did it state?
3) What was Bacon’s Rebellion? Why did it occur?
4) What were FOUR (4) guarantees given to the people in the English Bill of Rights?
Colonial Economy: (Pages 138, 159 to 161, and 175 to 177)
1) What were the Navigation Acts? What did they regulate? What sys tem of trade did they protect?
2) Why did England impose the Navigation Acts? Give TWO (2) reasons.
3) What was the Proclamation of 1763? How did it limit the economic growth of the colonies?
4) Why was land important for the colonists? Give TWO (2) reasons.
5) Why did England impose the Proclamation of 1763?
6) What was the Stamp Act? How did the colonist protest this act? What right was violated by this act?
The American Experiment: (Pages 229 to 238 and 243 to 247
1) After the American Revolution, why did the newly created states insist on a weak federal government
(a confederation of states)?
2) Under this type of government (a confederation), what gives the federal (or central) government its
power?
3) Why did the Articles of Confederation fail as a government?
4) Why did the Federalists support the Constitution over the Articles of Confederation?
5) Over what issue did both the Albany Plan of Union and the Articles of Confederation fail?
6) What was the Great Compromise?
7) What was the Three-fifth Compromise?
8) Identify the THREE (3) branches of government and their structure, functions and term limits.
9) EXPLAIN fully the THREE (3) ways that the Constitution can be changed.
10) Explain how each branch of government check the powers of the other two branches.
11) What is the purpose of the Constitution?
12) What powers are reserved for the state governments, the federal government and shared? (2 each)
EXPANSIONISM:
Review the pdf file [America’s Growing power and Expansion.doc] on the wiki page “Spring Term HW.”
1) What affect did the cotton gin have on America’s desire to expand into more land and on slavery?
2) How did the Louisiana Purchase benefit the nation? Give THREE (3) ways.
3) Why did the North need canals? [Geography]
4) How did the South feel about canals? WHY? [Geography and Economics]
5) What did the Monroe Doctrine state? How did it affect our nation’s role in the world?
6) What was the Mexican Cession? What affect did the cession have on slavery?
SECTIONALISM:
Review the pdf file [REV. Sectionalism #3.notebook] on the wiki page “Sectionalism – A Nation Divided”
1) Which section of the country supported each of the following?
the National Bank, high tariffs, expansion of slavery, canals and railroads, the “American System,” “popular sovereignty,” “states’ rights,” the Dred Scott Decision, abolition, “Manifest Destiny,” secession.
2) Explain the Missouri Compromises (1820).fully. (ALL parts) What was its purpose?
3) Explain the Compromise of 1850 FULLY. [There are FOUR (4) parts.]
How did this compromise alter the Missouri Compromise?
4) Explain the Kansas Nebraska Act (1854).
•How was slavery expanded?
•Why did both the North and the South accept this act?
5) What was the Dred Scott Decision?
How did this decision affect the spread of slavery and the balance for power in the Congress?
6) How did the Election of Lincoln (1860) trigger the Civil War?
What did this election signal