U.S. History 9A + 3 Pts Midterm Study Guide-85 Pts Matching & MC-Scantron

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U.S. History 9A + 3 Pts Midterm Study Guide-85 Pts Matching & MC-Scantron

U.S. History 9A + 3 pts Midterm Study Guide-85 pts Matching & MC-Scantron

Ch. 7 Creating the Constitution What is the Bill of Rights?

What is the Great Compromise?

What was the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan?

Who was James Madison?

Who were the Anti-Federalists?

What were the Articles of Confederation?

What is the Electoral College and what does it do?

What was the purpose of the Federalist Papers?

What is a bicameral and unicameral legislature and which one did the Articles of Confederation have?

What was the 3/5 Compromise?

What powers did the Congress gain under the Constitution?

What did the Northwest Ordinance establish?

Ch. 8 Launching a New Nation What was Jay’s Treaty and what did it accomplish?

Before he was president, why was Thomas Jefferson important?

Why was Alexander Hamilton important?

What were the first two political parties and what was the main difference between them? How did Washington react to the Whiskey Rebellion?

What problems were going on in the Northwest Territory?

What was a war hawk?

What did Washington warn about in his \Farewell Address?

Ch.9 The Era of Thomas Jefferson What was the Hartford Convention?

What was Laissez Faire?

What are the names of the explorers of the Louisiana Territory?

Who purchased the Louisiana Territory?

What court case established judicial review?

When was the Star Spangled Banner written?

What was the Revolution of 1800?

What were Jefferson’s beliefs about government?

What was the French Revolution?

Ch. 10 A Changing Nation

What were the characteristics of the era of good feelings?

Who were the supporters of nullification?

What was the Trail of Tears?

What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine? What treaty gave the U.S. Florida?

What was the spoils system?

Who helped the Mexican revolution?

Which tribes were part of the “Five Civilized Tribes?”

Where was Indian Territory?

Why were the Cherokees forced off their land?

What was Andrew Jackson known for?

What was Martin Van Buren known for?

Ch. 11 North and South Take Different Paths Who invented the telegraph?

What was the Missouri Compromise?

Who was Samuel Slater?

Where were most immigrants from?

How young did some child laborers start working?

Who led the most famous slave rebellion?

What was the Industrial Revolution?

What political party was anti-immigration?

Who was Francis Cabot Lowell? Why was the cotton gin a great invention and a curse?

Ch. 12 The Age of Reform Which writer during the reform movement focused on the lives of common people? Example of writing?

Most writers of the Age of Reform wrote about which two areas of focus?

Which president supported the Abolitionist Movement?

Dorothea Dix was most noted for which two reform movements?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott organized which meeting for women’s rights?

Ch. 13 Westward Expansion What treaty ended the Mexican American War?

Who was Santa Anna?

Who started the war and how?

Who first brought Americans into Mexico?

What trails were used to get to the west?

What was the Bear Flag Rebellion?

How did the Gold Rush affect California?

Why were Sam Houston, Joseph Smith, William Becknell, and John C. Fremont important?

Who were the Forty-niners?

What were vigilantes?

How long did it take to travel West?

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