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Semester 2 Final Study Guide
1.In DBQ 1 what did we learn about Christopher Columbus? What was the name of the Native Americans that he enslaved and killed?
2. What was the Great Awakening? What religion did it focus on? What did it do to the Native Americans? Who were the 2 main preachers we studied? How did the Great Awakening impact the formation of America?
3. What was a Christian Revival? What were the new lights?
4. What Christian group did most Native Americans affiliate with? How were natives converted to Christianity?
5. What did the Magna Carta do?
6. What did the Mayflower Compact outline?
7. Why did the Articles of Confederation fail? How long were the Articles of Confederation in power? Who did the Articles of Confederation give the power to?
8. Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?
9. The Declaration of Independence was a Break Up Letter from who?
10. What religion influenced the Declaration of Independence? Did the Declaration of Independence really give freedom to all? If not explain who it did not include in the Declaration of Independence?
11. The Declaration of Independence states we have the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of ______.
12. What was the Boston Tea Party? When did it happen and where?
13. What was the Boston Massacre? When did it happen and where?
14. According to the Quartering Laws of King George III British soldiers were allowed to stay in any colonial home they wanted and the colonists had to accept them in the house?
True or False
15. What was the Shot Heard Around the World (Lexington and Concorde) about? Why did it happen?
16. What were the Intolerable Acts?
17. Who was the King the 13 colonies fought against in the American Revolution?
18. Did African Americans fight in the American Revolution?
19. What was the Battle of Yorktown? Who won? What General was forced to surrender?
20. What happened to slavery in the North after the American Revolution?
21. What country helped the United States during the American Revolution?
22. Who did the Native Americans ally themselves with during the American Revolution?
23. What are the 3 branches of Government and what powers do they have? Who makes up the 3 branches?
24.What is tyranny?
25. Who makes up Congress/Legislative Branch? How are they selected?
26.Who was Thomas Jefferson?
27. Who was Alexander Hamilton? Who killed him?
28. Who are the first 4 presidents and what did they do?
29. What is the electoral college?
30. What does the Presidential Cabinet do?
31. How was our Vice President elected then and now?
32. What is the 13th Amendment?
33. Who was the president during the American Civil War?
34. What was the Civil War and when did it occur?
35. Who was Nat Turner?
36. What happened in the Supreme Court case of Dred Scott?
37. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
38. Who was Harriet Tubman?
39. What is an abolitionist?
40. What was the Union?
41. What was the Confederacy?
42. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
43. Who was Jefferson Davis?
44. What are black codes?
45. Who were the KKK?
46. What is a carpetbagger?
47. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
48. Who were the Buffalo Soldiers and what did they do?
49. What are Jim Crow Laws?
50. What was the name of the song where black men were hanging from a tree?
51. When we talked about propaganda we focused on a poster called Birth of a ______?
52. What are lynchings?
53. What is propaganda?
54. What is a counter-revolution?
55. What is child labor?
56. Where did most of the first immigrants come from?
57. Where did most immigrants live when they first arrived in America?
58. What was the first major slum in America called?
59. Who was Miguel Hidalgo? What did he do?
60. Who was Santa Anna? What did he do?
61. What is Manifest Destiny?
62. Who won the Battle of the Alamo?
63. What was the Treaty of Guadalupe?