MIDTERM EXAM Study Guide:
Unit 1 through Unit 5
Unit 1:
1. Where did the Columbian exchange transfer goods between?
2. What were the major differences between the Virginia and Massachusetts colonies?
3. What was the idea of mercantilism? How did it help a country?
4. What were the consequences or results of the French and Indian War?
5. What was each colonial region known for producing?
6. What happened at the Boston Massacre?
7. Why is the Declaration of Independence important?
8. What advantages and disadvantages did the colonists and England have when fighting the American Revolution?
9. How were the Articles of Confederation weak?
Unit 2:
10. What was the purpose of the Great Compromise of 1787?
11. What was the 3/5th Compromise? Why was it important?
12. How revolutionary was the American Revolution?
13. How did Thomas Jefferson double the size of the United States?
14. What policy did the court case Marbury vs. Madison establish?
15. What were the results of the War of 1812?
16. What are the beliefs of Andrew Jackson in “Jacksonian Democracy”?
17. What was the Indian Removal Act?
18. What were the ideas of Andrew Jackson as the champion of the common man vs. King Andrew the 1st?
19. What was Manifest Destiny?
20. How did westward expansion affect the United States? What was the big issue it brought up?
Unit 3:
21. What was the Missouri Compromise? What did it say/do?
22. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
23. What were the long term causes of the Civil War?
24. Why did the south feel that an attack on slavery was an attack on the southern people?
25. What was Abraham Lincoln’s main goal when the Civil War began?
26. How did Lincoln’s attitude change halfway through the war?
27. What are some examples of “total war” from the Civil War?
28. What were the 2 major issues of Reconstruction?
29. What was sharecropping?
30. Why did Reconstruction fail?
31. 13- 15thth Amendments
32. How did the Civil War impact the southern economy?
Unit 4:
33. What was the transcontinental railroad?
34. Who was John D. Rockefeller?
35. What is a monopoly? Who created them?
36. What/who is a robber baron?
37. What were labor unions? And who did they help?
38. Social Darwinism
39. What was the scientific theory used to justify why the government should not interfere with business?
40. How did immigration affect the United States?
41. What is the “melting pot” concept?
42. What is the concept of nativism?
43. What was a political machine?
44. Why is Tammany Hall so notorious?
45. What are the 4 goals of progressivism? What are some examples of those goals in Progressive-American society?
Unit 5:
46. What ideas fueled American Imperialism? What are some examples of each in Imperialist-American society?
47. What was yellow journalism?
Unit 6:
48. Why is WWI sometimes considered to be a war of the industrial revolution?
49. What effect did the First World War have?
50. What reasons did the United States have for joining WWI?
51. What was propaganda and how was it used during WWI?
52. Why did the United States reject their involvement in the League of Nations?
53. Why is the United States seen as being hypocritical in their claim to going to war “to make the world safe for democracy”?
Unit 1:
1. Where did the Columbian exchange transfer goods between?
2. What were the major differences between the Virginia and Massachusetts colonies?
3. What was the idea of mercantilism? How did it help a country?
4. What were the consequences or results of the French and Indian War?
5. What was each colonial region known for producing?
6. What happened at the Boston Massacre?
7. Why is the Declaration of Independence important?
8. What advantages and disadvantages did the colonists and England have when fighting the American Revolution?
9. How were the Articles of Confederation weak?
Unit 2:
10. What was the purpose of the Great Compromise of 1787?
11. What was the 3/5th Compromise? Why was it important?
12. How revolutionary was the American Revolution?
13. How did Thomas Jefferson double the size of the United States?
14. What policy did the court case Marbury vs. Madison establish?
15. What were the results of the War of 1812?
16. What are the beliefs of Andrew Jackson in “Jacksonian Democracy”?
17. What was the Indian Removal Act?
18. What were the ideas of Andrew Jackson as the champion of the common man vs. King Andrew the 1st?
19. What was Manifest Destiny?
20. How did westward expansion affect the United States? What was the big issue it brought up?
Unit 3:
21. What was the Missouri Compromise? What did it say/do?
22. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
23. What were the long term causes of the Civil War?
24. Why did the south feel that an attack on slavery was an attack on the southern people?
25. What was Abraham Lincoln’s main goal when the Civil War began?
26. How did Lincoln’s attitude change halfway through the war?
27. What are some examples of “total war” from the Civil War?
28. What were the 2 major issues of Reconstruction?
29. What was sharecropping?
30. Why did Reconstruction fail?
31. 13- 15thth Amendments
32. How did the Civil War impact the southern economy?
Unit 4:
33. What was the transcontinental railroad?
34. Who was John D. Rockefeller?
35. What is a monopoly? Who created them?
36. What/who is a robber baron?
37. What were labor unions? And who did they help?
38. Social Darwinism
39. What was the scientific theory used to justify why the government should not interfere with business?
40. How did immigration affect the United States?
41. What is the “melting pot” concept?
42. What is the concept of nativism?
43. What was a political machine?
44. Why is Tammany Hall so notorious?
45. What are the 4 goals of progressivism? What are some examples of those goals in Progressive-American society?
Unit 5:
46. What ideas fueled American Imperialism? What are some examples of each in Imperialist-American society?
47. What was yellow journalism?
Unit 6:
48. Why is WWI sometimes considered to be a war of the industrial revolution?
49. What effect did the First World War have?
50. What reasons did the United States have for joining WWI?
51. What was propaganda and how was it used during WWI?
52. Why did the United States reject their involvement in the League of Nations?
53. Why is the United States seen as being hypocritical in their claim to going to war “to make the world safe for democracy”?