Unit One Study Guide: American History Name: _________________________________

Date: _________ Period: _______

Terms

Define terms all starred terms on a separate sheet of paper (these are the terms you have not already defined in your
vocabulary notebook).

Chapter One

1. Pilgrim 26. Missouri Compromise*

2. Subsistence Farming 27. Trail of Tears*
3. Proprietary colony 28. Frederick Douglas*
4. Indentured Servant 29. Manifest Destiny
5. James town 30. Compromise of 1850
6. Triangular Trade 31. Underground Railroad
7. Slave Code 32. Harriet Tubman
8. Great Awakening 33. Kansas-Nebraska Act
9. Minutemen 34. Dred Scott
10. Stamp Act
11. Lexington Chapter Three
12. George Washington
13. Yorktown 35. Crittenden’s Compromise*
14. Popular Sovereignty* 36. Jefferson Davis*
15. Checks and Balances* 37. Confederacy*
38. Fort Sumter*
Chapter Two 39. Robert E. Lee*
40. Anaconda Plan*
16. Bill of Rights* 41. “Stonewall” Jackson*
17. Louisiana Purchase 42. Ulysses S. Grant*
18. Protective Tariff 43. Battle of Antietam*
19. Labor Union 44. Emancipation Proclamation*
20. Monroe Doctrine 45. Gettysburg*
21. Industrial Revolution 46. William Tecumseh Sherman*
22. Spoils System* 47. Thirteenth Amendment*
23. Secede* 48. Reconstruction*
24. Temperance* 49. Freedmen’s Bureau*
25. Emancipation* 50. Fourteenth Amendment*
51. Fifteenth Amendment*

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 Questions:

1. How did Zinn present the story of Columbus as opposed to how we normally hear the story of Columbus?
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2. What does Zinn’s chapter teach us about how to study history? ________________________________________
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3. For each region, name one Native American tribe and list two facts about the tribes who lived in that region.
a. Central/South America: _________________________________________________________________
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b. North East/Far North: ___________________________________________________________________
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c. South East: ___________________________________________________________________________
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d. South West: __________________________________________________________________________
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e. Great Plains: __________________________________________________________________________
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f. West Coast: ___________________________________________________________________________
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4. What were the main reasons why people started colonies in North America? _____________________________
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5. Triangular trade included which products being traded between which places? ___________________________
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6. What three events led to the development of revolutionary ideas for the colonists? (PL) ____________________
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7. According to the Declaration of Independence, what are the colonists seeking? (worksheet) _________________
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8. According to the Declaration of Independence, what is the purpose of government? (WS) __________________
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 9. According to the Declaration of Independence, where does a government get its power? (WS) _______________
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10. Give three weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. (PL) __________________________________________

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11. Give three ways the Constitution was different that the Articles of Confederation. (chart) ___________________
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12. What are three of the seven major principles of the Constitution? Explain them. __________________________
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13. What was the War of 1812 and how did it lead to the “Era of Good Feelings”? ____________________________
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14. Give one way the following changed in the early to mid 1800s (plays/drawings):
a. Transportation: ________________________________________________________________________
b. Industrialization: _______________________________________________________________________
c. Immigration: __________________________________________________________________________
d. Labor Unions: _________________________________________________________________________
e. Agriculture: ___________________________________________________________________________
f. African Americans:______________________________________________________________________
15. How were the territories of Texas, California, Nevada & Utah added to the U.S.? (PL) ______________________
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16. How were the territories of Washington, Oregon, & Idaho added to the U.S.? (PL) _________________________
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17. In 1849 what was going on in California? __________________________________________________________
18. Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin an important work? ___________________________________________________
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19. What was “Bleeding Kansas”? ___________________________________________________________________
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 20. Why was John Brown’s raid important? ___________________________________________________________
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21. What economic benefits did the North have to help them in the war? ___________________________________
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22. How did Europe react to the Civil War? ___________________________________________________________
23. Which battle was the bloodiest one-day battle? ____________________________________________________
24. Which two battles marked the turning point for the Union? __________________________________________
25. What were the main points in the plans for reconstruction?
a. Lincoln’s Plan:_________________________________________________________________________
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b. Congresses’ Plan: ______________________________________________________________________
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c. Johnson’s Plan: ________________________________________________________________________
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26. What were some ways the South resisted reconstruction? ____________________________________________
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