A More Perfect Union

Kangas Final Exam – Review List

 

Be prepared – any of the following can show up on the Final Exam. 

Review people, places and dates that relate to these topics. 

Remember that although the final is “open note”, the test is 100 questions in one class period, so you WILL need to know the information, do not DEPEND on your notes.


 

1.      Conflict between England & Spain

2.      Reasons to come to New World

3.      Jamestown

v     John Smith

4.      Mayflower

v     Pilgrims

5.      13 Colonies

v     Anne Hutchinson

v     Salem Witch Trials

6.      Causes of the Revolutionary War

v     French and Indian War  

v     Quartering Act

v     Stamp Act

v     Townshend Acts

v     Boston Massacre

v     Tea Act

v     Intolerable Acts

7.      Whigs & Tories

8.      Paul Revere

9.      Battles of Revolutionary War

v     Battle at Lexington and Concord

v     Battle at Bunker Hill       

v     Battle at Valley Forge

v     Battle at Yorktown

v     Treaty of Paris

10.  Declaration of Independence

v     Thomas Jefferson

v     George Washington

11. Constitution

v     Preamble

v     Branches of Government  - Balance of Power

v     Bill of Rights

v     Other Important Amendments

12.  Louisiana Purchase

v     President Jefferson

v     Manifest Destiny

13.  Lewis & Clark Expedition

14. Trails to the West

15. Reasons people moved West

v     Gold Rush

v     Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

16. Trail of Tears

v     Cultural Accommodation

17. Life in the North VS. Life in the South

v     Industrial Revolution

v     Cotton Gin

18. Social Reforms

v     Horace Mann

19.  Underground Railroad & Abolitionists

v     William Lloyd Garrison

v     Frederick Douglas

v     Harriet Beecher Stowe

v     Harriet Tubman

20. Causes of the Civil War

v     John Brown

v     Compromises

v     Dred Scott

v     secession

21. Battles of the Civil War

v     Fort Sumter

v     Chancellorsville

v     Vicksburg

v     Gettysburg - Pickett’s Charge

22. Key Figures of the war

v     Jefferson Davis

v     Robert E. Lee

v     Ulysses S. Grant

23. Abraham Lincoln

v     Emancipation Proclamation

v     Gettysburg Address

v     Assassination – John Wilkes Booth

24. Miscellaneous

v     Pledge of Allegiance

v     State capitols

v     Land Acquisition

v      From 13 Colonies to the Mexican Cession