Thursday, December 8, 2011

History Final Study Guide


11th Grade Final Exam Study Guide


Chapter 1: Three Worlds Meet

People
Leif Erikson
Queen Isabella/King Ferdinand
Prince Henry “The Navigator”
Columbus
Taino
Aztecs
Cortes
Amerigo Vespucci
Balboa
Coronado
Ponce de Leon
De Soto
Cartier
Cabot
Hudson
Bering
Ribault

Map
Iberian Peninsula
Bering Straight
Bahamas (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti)

Dates
1492 (3 events in Spain)
22,000 years ago (in the Americas)
10,000-5,000 years ago (in the Americas)
3,000 years ago (in the Americas)

Concepts
Triangular trade route
Columbian Exchange
Cosmogony
Treaty of Tordesillas
Castas
Mestizo
Motives/Roots of Exploration
Renaissance
Crusades
Protestant Reformation
Technological advances
Rise of the merchant class/urban life

Chapter 2: The American Colonies Emerge

People
Anglicans
Puritan separatists
Quakers
Anne Hutchinson
John Smith
John Winthrop
Pocahontas
Powhatan
Roger Williams
William Penn
William Bradford

Map
Chesapeake Bay
Jamestown
Massachusetts Bay Colony
New Netherland
Plymouth
13 Colonies (Names and locations)
3 colonial regions (Which colonies are in each?)

Dates
Jamestown settled 1607
Plymouth Plantation 1620

Events
Bacon’s Rebellion
Pequot War
King Philip’s War (Metacom)

Concepts
“Model of Christian Charity” (Explain the “City Upon a Hill” concept.)
 “Starving Time” at Jamestown
First African laborers
Indentured servants
Headright System
Virginia Company

Chapter 3:The Colonies Come of Age


People
King Charles II
King James II
Sir Edmund Andros
William and Mary
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington

Map
New France
Ohio Valley
Appalachian Mountains
Ohio River
Mississippi River

Date
French and Indian War (1756-1763)
 
Events
Glorious Revolution
The Great Awakening
Enlightenment
French and Indian War
George Washington at Fort Necessity, Fort Duquesne

Concepts
Mercantilism (How does it define wealth? How should a government promote a nation’s wealth? What role do colonies play in accumulating wealth?)
Navigation Acts
Dominion of New England
Salutary neglect
Cash crop
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage
Slave resistance and coping strategies
Compare and contrast Southern and Northern colonial culture
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act

Chapters 4: The War for Independence

People
George Washington
John Adams
Abigail Adams
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
King George III
Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott
Minutemen
Thomas Paine
Friedrich von Steuben
Marquis de Lafayette
Charles Cornwallis
John Locke

Dates
American Revolution (1775-1781)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
 
Events
Boston “Massacre”
Boston Tea Party
Concord & Lexington
Battle of Bunker Hill
Trenton
Saratoga
Loyalists/patriots (motivations for selecting sides)
Valley Forge
Yorktown

Concepts
Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
Townshend Acts
Committees of Correspondence
Intolerable Acts
Second Continental Congress (accomplishments)
Common Sense
Olive Branch Petition
Declaration of Independence
Social contract
Treaty of Paris

Chapter 5: Shaping a New Nation

People
George Washington
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Benjamin Franklin
Roger Sherman
Federalists
Antifederalists

Concepts
Separation of powers (3 branches and bicameral congress)
Checks and balances
Liberty (freedom + security)
Human predicament cycle
Articles of Confederation (Why were they insufficient?)
Sovereignty
Slave Trade Compromise
Great Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
Federalism
Ratification
Bill of Rights


Essay Questions


  1. In what ways was mercantilism responsible for the American Revolution?
  2. What were the unique accomplishments and failures of the American Revolution and Founding? Consider ways in which the American Revolution was evolutionary. Compare and contrast with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
  3. How is “The Declaration of Independence” a liberal document and “The Constitution” a conservative document?  How does their partnership establish liberty?

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