The following terms and questions should be reviewed for the exam. All of the following can be found in your Social Studies NB. You can use your text if you are unsure of something. Essay questions will be taken from your notes or something you have already done for HW.
Chapter 1-14 (review of 7th grade curriculum)
1. Prehistory
2. Ice Age
3. Berengia
4. Geologists
5. Nomads
6. Columbus
7. Northwest Passage
8. Jamestown- cash crop
9. Slavery- causes- arrival in America
10. House of Burgesses
11. Puritans, Pilgrims, Mayflower
12. First American College
13. William Penn
14. Maryland
15. Georgia
16. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
17. Triangular Trade
18. Mercantilism
19. French and Indian War- Treaty- Results
20- Proclamation Act
21. Navigation Acts
22. Wits of Assistance
23. Stamp Act
24. Boston Massacre
25. Committees of Correspondence
26. Boston Tea Party
27. Declaration of Independence
28. Saratoga
29. Yorktown
30. Articles of Confederation
31. Bill of Rights
32. George Washington
33. Louisiana Purchase- Who was President? What country did we purchase it from?
34. Lewis and Clark
35. Francis Scott Key
36. Era of Good Feeling
37. Monroe Doctrine
38. Missouri Compromise
39. Spoils System
40. Tariff
41. Indian Removal Act
42. Abolitionists
43. William Lloyd Garrison
44. Manifest Act
45. Forty-niners
Chapter 15
46. Sectionalism
47. Wilmot Proviso
48. Fugitive Slaves
49. Fugitive Slave Act
50. Underground Railroad
51. Harriet Beecher Stowe
52. Popular Sovereignty
53. Dred Scott Decision- Who was Dred Scott? Who made the ruling in the court case? What was the ruling? What was the result? (possible essay question)
54. Stephen A. Douglas vs. Abraham Lincoln - What was the topic of the debate? What was the Freeport Doctrine? (possible essay question)
55. John Brown
56. Election of 1860- Who won?
57. Confederate States of America- Who was the President? What was the Capital?
58. Fort Sumter
Chapter 16
59. Civil War- importance
60. Border States- What were the names? Explain their importance (possible essay question)
61. Advantages and Disadvantages of the North in the Civil War (possible essay question)
62. Advantages and Disadvantages of the South in the Civil War (possible essay question)
63. Main goal of the North at the beginning of the Civil War
64. Explain the Union Plan for winning the war against the Confederacy (possible essay question)
65. Main goal of the South in the Civil War. How did they plan to achieve their goal?
66. Offensive fighting
67. Who were the Rebels? Who were the Yankees?
68. First Battle of the Civil War
69. Blockade runners
70. Monitor and Merrimack
71. Battle of Shiloh
72. David Farragut
73. Antietam
74. Emancipation Proclamation
75. Thirteenth Amendment
76. Harriet Tubman
77. Clara Barton
78. Habeas Corpus
79. Peace Democrats
80. Commander of the Confederate Army
81. Gettysburg Address
82. Appomattox Courthouse
