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.