semester exam history

Semester Exam Study Guide


Unit 1

  1. Christopher Columbus

  2. Hernan Cortes

  3. Transatlantic Slave Trade

  4. Columbian Exchange********


Unit 2

  1. Joint-stock companies

  2. Charter

  3. Tobacco

  4. Puritans

  5. Mayflower Compact*****


Unit 3

  1. Treaty of Paris 1763

  2. The Stamp Act

  3. Sons of Liberty

  4. Crispus Attucks

  5. The Boston Massacre

  6. The Boston Tea Party

  7. The Intolerable Acts

  8. First Continental Congress

  9. Paul Revere

  10. Lexington and Concord

  11. Second Continental Congress

  12. Common Sense

  13. The Declaration of Independence

  14. Patriot

  15. Loyalist

  16. Battle of Trenton

  17. Valley Forge

  18. Battle of Yorktown

  19. Treaty of Paris 1783


Unit 4

  1. Articles of Confederation

  2. New Jersey Plan

  3. Virginia Plan

  4. The Great Compromise

  5. The three branches of government and their basic job descriptions (this will be 3 questions)

  6. Federalism

  7. James Madison*******

  8. The Federalist Papers

  9. The Bill of Rights

  10. Amendment



Unit 5

  1. Judiciary Act of 1789

  2. President’s Cabinet

  3. The District of Columbia

  4. Whiskey Rebellion

  5. Neutrality

  6. Pinckney’s Treaty

  7. Treaty of Greenville

  8. Jay’s Treaty

  9. Partisanship

  10. XYZ Affair

  11. Alien and Sedition Acts

  12. Louisiana Purchase

  13. Impressment

  14. Tecumseh

  15. Andrew Jackson

  16. Treaty of Ghent

Unit 6

  1. Tariff of 1816

  2. The national Bank

  3. The Era of Good Feelings

  4. Nationalism

  5. McCulloch v Maryland

  6. Adams-Onis Treaty 

  7. Gibbons v Ohio

  8. The Missouri Compromise

  9. The Monroe Doctrine

  10. The Spoils System

  11. Jacksonian Democracy

  12. Assimilation

  13. Worcester v Georgia

  14. Indian Removal Act of 1830

  15. The Trail of Tears

  16. John C. Calhoun

  17. Nullification

  18. South Carolina’s Rebellion

  19. The Force Bill

  20. The Whig Party

  21. Manifest Destiny

  22. The Panic of 1837

  23. The Battle of the Alamo

  24. Annexation

  25. James K Polk

  26. The WIlmot Proviso

  27. Zachary Taylor

  28. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  29. The Mexican Cession

  30. James Marshall

  31. Boomtowns

  32. 49ers

  33. Foreign Miners’ Tax

  34. The Compromise of 1850

  35. Fugitive Slave Act


Unit 7

  1. The Second Great Awakening

  2. Transcendentalism

  3. Utopian Communities

  4. Dorothea Dix

  5. The temperance movement

  6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

  7. Sojourner Truth