U.S.
HISTORY PRE-COMP EXAM REVIEW PACKET
Period 1-Period 5
TIPS FOR STUDYING
1. Keep the 5 Ws in mind: Who?, What?, When?, Where?, Why?
2. Systematically review your notes, focusing on a certain time period each day. In addition to studying your flash cards and notes on
your own, ask a family member or friend to quiz you.
TIPS FOR THE EXAM
1. Read the entire question & choose the BEST answer!
2. There are 25 questions. Pay attention to the time so that you get to every question. Do not leave an answer blank.
3. For questions with stimulus (graphs and excerpts from primary or secondary sources) be sure to read the entire source and use our
strategies from class:
Graph Written Source Image
L - what is the graph labeled? 1. Source it for authorship and context 1. Source it for authorship and context
U - what is being measured? (who wrote it, when, where?) (who wrote it, when, where?)
C - what is happening to the units being 2. Read the source with the context & test 2. What do you see? (nouns)
measured? question in mind. 3. What do you see happening? (verbs)
S - what is 1 or 2 major takeaways from 4. What message is the author trying to
the content? express?
Unit 1: The Movement Towards Independence, 1754-1780
1.1 The French and Indian War
Key Terms:
Seven Years’ War
Territorial Struggles
Financial Consequences
Territorial Changes
Proclamation of 1763
Causes Impact
1.2 Movement Toward Revolution
Key Terms:
taxation policies
reduced colonial autonomy
lack of representation
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Intolerable Acts
Taxation Policy Reduced Colonial Authority and/or Lack of Representation
Key Terms:
Enlightenment influence
John Locke
Inalienable Rights
Common Sense
Colonial Attitude about Government Enlightenment Influence
1.3 American Revolution
Key Terms:
George Washington
Battle of Saratoga
role of foreign assistance
Battle of Yorktown
role of women
enslaved people
political and financial elites, and Native Americans
Elizabeth Freeman
Mercy Otis Warren
Phyllis Wheatley
Abigail Adams
Battle Leaders Role of Foreign Assistance
Group Role after Revolution
Unit 2: Establishing the Nation (1781-1800)
2.1 Articles of Confederation
Key Terms
Articles of Confederation
Shay’s Rebellion
Define Problems with the Articles of Result/Impact
Confederation
Shay’s Rebellion (and effects):
Why were they so weak?
2.3 Creating the Constitution
reliance on slave labor
3/5ths compromise
early abolitionists
Cotton Gin
What compromises were necessary to create the Constitution?
Issue it Solved How they Compromised
Great
Compromise
3/5 Compromise
2.2 and 2.3: 3 Branches of Gov’t
Key Terms
Great Compromise
US Constitution
separation of powers
checks and balances
Bill of Rights
Executive
Legislative
judicial
Legislative Branch Executive Branch Judicial Branch
What is it?
What are its
responsibilities?
2.1 Constitutional Ratification—Federalists v. Anti-Federalists
Key Terms
Federalist
AntiFederalist
Federalist Papers
Federalists Anti-Federalists
Main Ideas
What had to happen for the Constitution to be ratified?
Each state had to:
Documents produced:
Compromise made (Not a named compromise, what did the Federalists agree to?):
Key Terms:
Washington’s Farewell Address
Washington Irving
new forms of media
Republican Motherhood
What were the Key Developments (“Precedents”) of the Washington Administration?
Precedents:
Washington’s Farewell Address—what advice did he give?
Culture-
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
Unit 3: Westward Expansion and Cultural Change (1800-1848)
Key Terms
Marbury vs. Madison
Judicial Review
Nullification Crisis
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Louisiana Purchase
Tecumseh’s War
War of 1812
3.1 Political Changes
Political Events Changes
The War of 1812 (“The 2ND War for Independence”)
Causes Effects
Hawks vs. Doves:
Key Terms
Manifest Destiny
Market Revolution
1st Industrial Revolution [textile],
What were the big economic and technological changes in the US in the early-mid 1800’s?
Describe Early Industrialization Efforts
Lowell Mills:
American System:
Products Produced/Major Economic Focus
The South
The North (esp. New England)
The early 1800’s is often regarded as a time of broadening democracy b/c______________________________________.
Yet, it was limited, in that_____________________________________________________________________.
It is also referred to as the “Rise ____________________________________” when Jackson was elected as
president.
Key Terms
“On Civil Disobedience”
Louisa May Alcott
Thoreau
Emerson
Romanticism
Temperance
Abolitionism
women’s rights
Seneca Falls
William Lloyd Garrison
Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Second Great Awakening and Reform Movements
What was it? What impact (effects) did it have?
nd
The 2 Great Awakening
3.2 Reforms
List specific people, newspapers, ideas, etc. What issues were they seeking to address?
Seneca Falls Convention
Abolitionism
Temperance Movement
Key Terms
Monroe Doctrine
changes to the party system [Whigs to Democrats, etc.]
election of Andrew Jackson
Trail of Tears
universal male suffrage
3.1 Expansion
What was it? Include details. What was the effect of the Indian Removal Act?
Indian
Removal Act
How did Americans justify westward Expansion? (ideas/evidence)
American Progress by John Gast
Causes of the Mexican American War Results of Mexican American War
Unit 4: Growth of Sectionalism (1848-1860)
Key Terms
Annexation of Oregon
54” 40’ or Fight
Gold Rush, 49ers
Homestead Act
Mexican-American War (causes/effects)
immigration (Irish, German, Mexican, Asian [to California])
anti-Catholic beliefs [Know-Nothings]
nativism
Mason-Dixon Line
Missouri Compromise
global demand for cotton
slave state vs. free state
immigration
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Underground Railroad
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Unit 5 Key Terms
popular sovereignty
slavery
Dred Scott Decision
Raid on Harper’s Ferry
John Brown
How were sectional feelings exacerbated throughout the 1800s?
What was it? How did it increase sectional tensions?
Missouri Compromise
(Compromise of 1820)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Immigration
Gold Rush
Mason-Dixon
Annexation of Oregon
The Dred Scott Decision
Compromise of 1850
(Found in Crash Course:
War and Expansion)
Nat Turner Rebellion
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown Raid
Unit 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877)
Key Terms
party realignment [Whigs to Republicans]
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
growth of federal power in war
5.1 Executive Overreach
President Party Document 1 and Document 2 and Result Judicial Overreach
Realignment Result
How did Slavery end in the United States?
Give TWO documents/laws and what they were:
Effects of the Civil War
Reconstruction Figures
Radical Republicans
Robert Smalls:
Reconstruction Amendments
Define
13th
Amendment
14th
Amendment
15th
Amendment
Reconstruction Description/Result
Timeline of Reconstruction (Enter relevant terms/events)
1860 1870 1877
Identify Multiple Factors Leading to the End of Reconstruction
Economic factor:
Social Factor:
Westward Migration
Important Events/Ideas Effects
Homestead Act
(BLANK US MAP TO TRACE TERRITORIAL EXPANSION & LOCATE MAJOR EVENTS AS YOU STUDY