Semester Review Guide

U.S. History
Semester Final Review Guide

The Semester Exam will consist of four parts: Matching (15 pts.), Multiple Choice (15 pts.), Paragraph Short-answers (30 pts.), and an essay (40 pts.). You will take the first two sections and hand them in to me. For the written sections, you may have notebooks and composition books out but NO TEXTBOOKS.

Part I: Matching – This section will have only people, and will include 15 of the following:

Alexander Hamilton John Quincy Adams Robert Preston
Roger Sherman George Washington Dewitt Clinton
Meriwether Lewis Daniel Webster Andrew Jackson
Nathaniel Bacon John Marshall James Monroe
Thomas Jefferson John Burgoyne Henry Clay
Walt Whitman Nathaniel Hawthorne Dorothea Dix
Steven Douglas Edgar Allen Poe Washington Irving

Part II: MC – This section will have 15 questions taken from the list below:

Kansas-Nebraska Act Hamilton’s Financial Plan Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Battle of Saratoga Embargo Act Rush-Bagot Agreement
Monroe Doctrine Subsistence/Surplus farming Compromise of 1850
Mercantilism Stamp Act Congress F & I War
Erie Canal Clay’s American System Marbury v. Madison
Transcendentalism the Knickerbocker Group the Embargo Act

Part III: Short Answer – This section will have 5 questions over the following topics:

19th c. transportation revolution and its effects
weaknesses of Articles and improvements made in Constitution
surplus farming (you will need to diagram this response)
purpose and impacts of protective tariffs of early-mid 19th c.
the Kansas-Nebraska Act: causes and effects

Part IV: Essay – I know you have spent time in Mr. Sprague’s class this semester discussing the “American experience.” We spent quite a bit of time in this class talking about the founders of our nation and their visions of what America should be. Write an essay in which you contrast the visions of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, and then analyze the ways in which the vision of one of the two shaped developments in out nation in the years between 1787 and 1860. You should discuss at least two specific developments or events in your essay.

Weeks 16 & 17

Monday 12/1 - Finish "American Renaissance" notes
HW: An Era of Reform, pp 148-155

Tuesday 12/2 - Discuss 19th c. Reforms
HW: Ch. 9 pp 161-168

Wednesday 12/3 - Notes: Election of 1824
Expansion and Sectionalism
HW: Ch.9 pp 169-174

Thursday 12/4 - The Settlement of and Conflcit over Texas
(Empressarios, Goals of Mexican Government, Tensions, Rebellion)
HW: Make ID notes (5 Ws) for the following term s from Unit 4 Syllabus:
Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Harper's Ferry (I will check these tomorrow for 20 pts!)

Friday 12/5 - Go over HW and Mexican War
HW - Study for ID Quiz Monday!

Monday 12/8 - ID Quiz
HW - Short-answer quiz (30 pts.)

Tuesday 12/9 - Short-answer quiz due
DAP "Making Value Judgements"
HW: Semester Review Guide

Wednesday 12/10 - DAP "Making Value Judgements"
HW: Semester Review Guide

Thursday 12/11 - Semester Review: People
HW: Semester Review Guide

Friday 12/12 - Semester Review Jeopardy
HW: STUDY!

American System assignment due Friday 11/21

These sites will help with this assignment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_System_(economic_plan)

http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~jleahy/6_6.html

Homework 11/18

Read "Progress in Transportation" (pp 130-132) and answer the following question:

What new transportation methids were developed in the first half of the 19th c. and what impact did the have?

Homework 11/14

Read "The Beginnings of Indsustrialization" (pp 127-130) and answer the following question:

What were the factors that contributed to the early 19th c. industrial "revolution" and how and why were the North and South affected differently by them?

Unit 3 Review Guide...Test Friday 11/7

We will have a test on Unit 3 (Ch. 5 & 6) on Friday. There will be a Matching, Multiple Choice, and Short Answer sections, and all questions will come from the list of people and terms below.

- Articles of Confederation
- Northwest Territory
- Land Ordinance of 1785
- Great Compromise
- Bill of Rights
- Alexander Hamilton
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Adams
- XYZ Affair
- Alien & Sedition Acts
- Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Excise Tax
- Tariff
- Loose Construction
- Strict Construction
- Hamilton’s Plan
- Jay’s Treaty
- Federalist Party
- Democratic Republican Party
- Marbury v. Madison
- John Marshall
- Louisiana Purchase
- War of 1812: Causes and Effects
- Treaty of Ghent
- Rush-Bagot Agreement
- Adams-Onis Treaty
- Monroe Doctrine

Election 2008 Project

Complete a brief candidate/party profile for two of the candidates for President in tomorrow's general election. One of the two must be either the Repbublican (McCain) nominee or the Democratic (Obama) nominee, and the other must be from one of the third parties, preferably either the Libertarian or the Green parties.

Answer these questions in your profile:

What is this candidate's view on the following issues?

1. the Iraq War
2. healthcare
3. education
4. taxes
5. global warming/the environment
6. nuclear wepaons
7. the economy

Do the candidate's views on these issues closely match the views of the party he or she represents? If not, how do they differ?

Go to the follwing site to get started, and bring your profiles to class tomorrow.

http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm

Current Events 10/30

Go to the site linked below and select an article to read for homework tonight. Come to class tomorrow with a summary of the article and at least one question about it for class discussion.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

Week 11

Week 11 -

Monday 10/27: Federalist Era Wrap-Up…finish chart, 5 IDs in groups
Collect Federalist #10 Answers
HW: Ch. 6 pp. 107-111 & notes on election of 1800, Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Meriwether Lewis

Tuesday 10/28: Watch National Geographic’s Lewis and Clark
HW: Ch. 6 pp. 107-111 & notes on election of 1800, Marbury v. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Meriwether Lewis

Wednesday 10/29: Go over HW notes
ID notes: The Embargo Act
HW: Ch. 6 pp 112-117

Thursday 10/30: The War of 1812
HW: current events assignemt

Friday 10/31: Current events day
HW: Collate notes with IDs from Unit Syllabus and take notes on missing terms

Week 10 Schedule

Week 10 –

Monday 10/20: Take-up paragraphs and discuss (15 min.)
Notes on Articles and State Constitutions
HW: finish Ch. 5 pp 87-93

Tuesday 10/21: Notes: NWT and Constitution
HW: Thomas Jefferson Doc. (due Wednesday)



Wednesday 10/22: Jefferson Doc. Due (15 pts.)
Unit 3 Syllabus
5 W notes
HW: Ch. 6 pp 99-105

Thursday 10/23: Presentation: Hamilton’s Economic Plan & the first parties
HW: Study for ID quiz

Friday 10/24: Paragraph ID Quiz
HW: The Federalist #10 and questions 1-5 (I will collect these
Monday for 25 pts.)

USH October 6-10

Week 8 –

Monday 10/6: Powerpoints/Notes
HW: Ch. 4 DBQ exercise

Tuesday 10/7: Discuss HW
Unit 2 Review – IDs
Discuss ID notes
HW: Prep IDs

Wednesday 10/8: ID Quiz (40 pts.)
HW: Unit 2 Review

Thursday 10/9: Unit 2 Jeopardy
HW: Study!

Friday 10/10: Unit 2 MC Test (60 pts.)
No HW