U.S. History Mid-term Study Guide

  1. How did the Northwest Ordinance lead to creation of new states?
  2. Why are Lewis and Clark important?
  3. What role did the British navy play in the War of 1812?
  4. The Erie Canal was significant, why?
  5. What did the Monroe Doctrine state?
  6. Which idea of Eli Whitney’s had major consequences for the production of goods even today?
  7. How are the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny similar?
  8. What actions did Americans use Manifest Destiny to justify?
  9. How Temperance, abolitionism, and public schools are similar in that all three…?
  10. What was the main purpose of the Seneca Falls Conference?
  11. Describe “Jacksonian democracy”
  12. What was the major conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton?
  13. What are the Bill of Rights?
  14. Give an example of Manifest Destiny in action?
  15. What was the Enlightenment and how was it important in the colonies?
  16. What U.S. document was most influenced by the ideas of John Locke?
  17. The Virginia House of Burgesses was significant, why?
  18. Why was the Virginia Company established?
  19. What instigated the Salem Witch Trail?
  20. Describe why town meetings in colonial New England were important?
  21. Why was the loss of the Massachusetts Charter in 1684 significant to the inhabitants of the colony?
  22. King Philip’s War and Bacon’s Rebellion are similar in what ways?
  23. Why is it correct to say the settlement of Pennsylvania has more in common with Jamestown than with New York?
  24. Why were black slaves used instead of white indentured servants in the 1600’s in Virginia?
  25. Why was Jamestown a success?
  26. Define mercantilism
  27. Define nationalism
  28. Why was Benjamin Franklin important?
  29. What was The Great Wakening?
  30. How did the Treaty of Paris help start the American Revolution?
  31. How did the Americans respond to the Stamp Act?
  32. Why Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense important?
  33. What role did the French play in the American Revolution?
  34. What did Benjamin Franklin do during the American Revolution?
  35. What events surround Washington’s encampment at Valley Forge?
  36. How was the location of Yorktown pivotal to General Washington’s victory there?
  37. Weakness in the Articles of Confederation along with Shay’s Rebellion lead to, what?
  38. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison argue for what in The Federalists Papers?
  39. What was the Great Comprise at the Constitutional Convention?
  40. The southern colonies are primarily based on agriculture and the northern colonies are not, what issue will this cause a conflict over?
  41. What is the importance of the Bill of Rights?
  42. The Grimke sisters argued what?
  43. Know William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas, and the Grimke sisters
  44. What was the Missouri Comprise?
  45. How did the Nullification Crisis threaten the United States?
  46. What was the Wilmot Proviso?
  47. Know the comprise of 1850
  48. Know the Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott
  49. President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address expressed what?
  50. Know why William T. Sherman is important in the Civil War
  51. Know Jefferson Davis
  52. Know the Battle of Antietam
  53. Know the importance of the Emancipation Proclamation?
  54. What was the difference between President Andrew Johnson’s view of Reconstruction and the Radical Republicans?
  55. What was the goal of Morehouse College in the 1800’s?
  56. Know the Fourteenth Amendment
  57. What were the Black Codes?
  58. How did President Andrew Johnson affect Reconstruction?
  59. What helped bring an end to Reconstruction?
  60. What industries did the railroads help?
  61. Know about Chinese labor in the west
  62. How did Standard Oil get its wealth?
  63. Know Thomas Edison’s inventions
  64. Know the Louisiana Purchase
  65. Know about colonists feeling about taxes levied by the British
  66. Why was George Washington an effective military leader?
  67. Know Federalist and Anti-Federalists
  68. Why is 1832 did South Carolina threaten to secede from the Union?