US HISTORY 1ST SEMESTER CUMULATIVE FORM A AP US History DO NOT 1st Sem Cumulative Test Ch. 2-15 WRITE ON Colonies to Reconstruction Form A THIS TEST Directions: Answer all questions on a separate sheet of paper, with each objective on a separate sheet. All answers must be in complete sentences to receive credit. Remember that questions with a colon ( : ) are asking about the relationship between the items in the question. Objective One: List the founders, reasons for founding, and significant facts about the colonies and the culture of the colonies. 1) What was the significance of Jamestown? What was the significance of tobacco in Jamestown? 2) Describe the significance of the founding of Maryland. 3) Compare and contrast the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment. 4) Explain the significance of John Peter Zenger. 5) Explain the significance of the phrase, City upon a hill. 6) Describe and give an example of a theocracy. 7) Who was the founder of Connecticut? 8) Describe the founding of Rhode Island. 9) New Netherlands : New York 10) Describe the founding of Pennsylvania. 11) Describe the significance of the events in Salem during the 1690 s. 12) Describe the creation and downfall of the Dominion of New England. 13) Explain the significance of the founding of Georgia. Objective Two: Identify the significant events that lead up to the American Revolution. 1)Stamp Act : Declaratory Act 2) Describe the policy of Salutary Neglect 3) Fully describe the impact of the Northwest Ordinances. 4) Explain the significance of the Articles of Confederation. Chane Beam - St. Petersburg High School - St. Petersburg, FL 28 Teaching for Excellence: Social Studies
5) Describe the causes and results of the Boston Massacre, including how the rebels used it to their advantage. 6) Describe the impact of Shay s Rebellion 7) Describe the causes and results of the Proclamation of 1763. 8) What was the purpose and who were the main players of the C0mmittees of Correspondence? 9)Compare and contrast Virtual Representation and Actual Representation. 10) Describe the causes, events, and results of the Boston Tea Party. 11) Explain the goal and impact of Common Sense. 12) Describe the influences on the author of the Declaration of Independence. 13) Explain the results of the French and Indian War. Objective Three: Identify the following: 1)significant events that led to the creation of the Constitution, 2) significant events and issues of the Washington and Adams Administrations. 1) Explain the purpose and impact of the Alien and Sedition Acts. 2) Describe the events of the Midnight Judges. 3) Fully describe the causes and effects of the Connecticut Compromise. 4) Explain the events of the XYZ Affair. 5) Describe the significance of Washington s Farewell Address. 6) Alien and Sedition Acts : Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions 7) Supporters of the new Constitution were called and opposed the new Constitution. 8) List the authors of and describe the impact of the Federalist Papers. 9) Describe the biggest complaint against the new Constitution and describe how it was solved. 10) Shay s Rebellion : Whiskey Tax Chapter 3 - Final Expectations 29
11) List the differences between the ideas of Jefferson and Hamilton while both were cabinet members during the Washington Administration. Issue Hamilton Jefferson Leader of what Party? View of Constitution What part of gov t should hold power? Economy should be based on what type of work? Where did geographic support come from? Objective Four: Identify the significant events and issues of the Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and JQ Adams Administrations. 1) Describe the main aspects of Deism. 2) Describe the significance of Eli Whitney. 3) Explain the causes and effects of Marbury v. Madison 4) Describe the events and impact of the Corrupt Bargain. 5) Describe the Monroe Doctrine. 6) Explain the term Warhawks and list the leading Warhawks in 1812. 7) Fully describe the events of the Louisiana Purchase. 8) Describe the significance of Lewis and Clark. 9) Draw on a map the five aspects of the Compromise of 1820. 10) Describe the events and impact of the Battle of New Orleans. 11) Describe the term internal improvements. 12) Describe the time frame known as the Era of Good Feelings. Objective Five: Identify the significant issues and events of the Jacksonian Era. 1) Describe the significance of Democracy in America. 2) Describe the events and impact of King Mob. 30 Teaching for Excellence: Social Studies
3) People of South Carolina : Tariff of 1828 4) Describe Andrew Jackson s Kitchen Cabinet. 5) Describe the ideas and impact of the Theory of Nullification and the Nullification Crisis 6) Describe the causes and results of immigration to the US between 1800 and 1860, including the impact on industry and labor. 7) Explain the term Nativism. 8) List the Five Civilized Tribes. 9) Fully describe the causes, events and results of the Trail of Tears. 10) Describe the slogan, Tippecanoe, and Tyler, too!. 11) Explain why the campaign for president in 1840 was called the Log Cabin Campaign. 12) Describe the battle between Jackson and the National Bank led by Nicholas Biddle. 13) Whig Party : King Andrew 14) Describe the Lowell System 15) List the leaders of the Whig Party 16) Describe the Cult of Domesticity. Objective Six: Identify the issues of the antebellum south and the reforms of the early 1800 s. 1) List three major reform causes during the early 1800 s other than abolition. 2) Describe the trek of the Mormons from New York to Salt Lake City, including the leaders of the church. 3) List and describe the impact of the most lucrative crop in the south in the early 1800 s. 4) Describe the events and significance of the Brooks/Sumner Affair. 5) Describe the events and impact of Nat Turner. 6) Describe the use of the term Peculiar Institution. 7) Describe the idea behind civil disobedience. 8) List three Utopian societies. Chapter 3 - Final Expectations 31
9) List the author and describe the impact of Uncle Tom s Cabin 10) Name the reform issue that overshadowed all others and give an example of its importance. 11) Describe the Seneca Falls Convention, including its leaders. 12) Describe the cause behind and impact of the Temperance Movement. 13) Describe the significance of William Lloyd Garrison. 14) Describe the significance of Horace Mann. 15) Explain the significance of Frederick Douglass. Objective Seven: Identify the significant events that led up to the Civil War. 1) Describe the coining of and the significance of the phrase, Manifest Destiny. 2) Describe the creation of the Republican Party. 3) Describe the reasons that many Americans moved to Mexican owned Texas. 4) Explain the significance of Santa Anna. 5) Describe the events and results of the Battle of the Alamo. 6) Explain the events and results of the Texas Revolution. 7) Describe the battle and compromise over the Oregon Territory including the significance of the phrase, 54-40 or fight! 8) Who won the Election of 1844 and what was the main plank in his platform? 9) Describe the ideas behind and controversy of the Ostend Manifesto. 10) Describe the trigger of the Mexican War and explain why it was controversial. 11) Describe the aspects of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Higaldo. 12) Explain popular sovereignty and its impact in this time frame. 13) Name the author of Pro Slavery Argument and describe his premise. 14) Describe the events and impact of the Dred Scott case. 15) Describe the significance of John Brown. 32 Teaching for Excellence: Social Studies
16) On a map of the US, draw the provisions of the Compromise of 1850. 17) Detail the original failure and final success of the passage of the Compromise of 1850 through Congress. 18) Describe the passage and provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act 19) Explain the causes and results of Bloody Kansas. Objective Eight: Identify the significant people, issues and events of the Civil War and Reconstruction. 1) List three ways Southern Democrats kept Freedmen from voting during Reconstruction. 2) United States of America : Confederate State of America 3) What is the significance of border states? 4) Describe the advantages of both sides during the Civil War. 5) Explain the reality of the Emancipation Proclamation. 6) List and explain the Civil War Amendments. 7) Jim Crow laws : Plessey v. Ferguson 8) Jefferson Davis : Abraham Lincoln 9) Describe the phrase Reconstruction. 10) Explain the events and results of the Compromise of 1877. 11) Describe the significance of the Freedman s Bureau. 12) List and describe the three plans for Reconstruction. 13) Describe the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. 14) Explain the phrase Seward s Folly. 15) Describe the purpose behind the KKK. 16) Describe the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. 17) Describe the US Grant Administration. Chapter 3 - Final Expectations 33