First Trimester Exam Study Guide

DUAL CREDIT U.S. HISTORY – STUDY GUIDE FIRST SEMESTER

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Abraham Lincoln, Gilded Age, Charles Darwin, Battle of Little Big Horn, Dred Scott Decision, nullification crisis, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Battle of Gettysburg, Alaska, KKK, Freedman’s Bureau, Appomattox, elastic clause, implied powers, Jacksonian Democracy, Rhode Island, Black Codes, Emancipation Proclamation, Henry Clay, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, John Marshall, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John C. Calhoun, 1^st Great Awakening, 2^nd Great Awakening, Wilmot Proviso, Texas War of Independence, Mexican War, War of 1812, Revolutionary War, French and Indian War, Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine, American System, Era of Good Feelings, the Bank of the U.S., Marbury v. Madison, Whig Party, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Dem-Rep. Party, Alexander Hamilton, War Hawks, Alien and Sedition Acts, Embargo Act, Federalist Party, Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, Treaty of Paris 1763 and 1783, Proclamation of 1763, Tories, Battle of Saratoga, Stamp Act, Christopher Columbus, Jamestown, Puritans, Quakers, indentured servants, mercantilism, slavery, Spanish Armada, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions,

Which one of these inventions do you feel was the most important to the U.S. during the time period of 1789 and 1900? railroads, cotton gin, telegraph, interchangeable parts, telephone, steel, electrical lighting, mass production

THERE WILL BE 35 OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS AS PART OF THE TEST

YOU WILL WRITE ON 5 OF THE 10 TERMS THAT ARE BOLD AND UNDERLINED ABOVE. YOU MUST DESCRIBE THE PERSON/EVENT AND TELL HOW AND WHY IT WAS HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT.

ONE DBQ WILL BE DONE IN CLASS ON THE DAY OF THE TEST(1,2,4,10, 12)