Chapter 1: New World Encounters Preconquest - 1608 Due: Aug 18th
Explain how the Americas were first populated.
Describe the tools and weapons of Paleo-Indians.
How did environmental change shape the distribution of Native American peoples in the Americas?
Describe the Agricultural Revolution.
Compare and contrast Central American cultures with Eastern Woodland cultures.
Describe West African life before 1492.
Give detailed examples of how the arrival of Europeans changed Native American life across the Americas.
Explain the concept of, and the impact, of the Columbian Exchange.
Why was Spain a leader in American colonization?
How did Christopher Columbus's career develop into one that "discovered the New World"?
Explain the significance of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Describe the encomienda system.
Where did France colonize in the Americas? Why?
Explain why England became a protestant nation.
How did power shift from Spain to England?
Chapter 2: England's New World Experiments 1607-1732 Due Aug 18th
Who was John Winthrop and what was his influence?
What happened to the Roanoke colony?
Describe the formation and purpose of the Virginia Company.
What hardships were faced by the early Jamestown colonists?
How did John Smith help Jamestown?
Explain the significance of tobacco to Jamestown.
Why is Jamestown part of the "Chesapeake"? What does it mean to be a park of the Chesapeake region. describe the geography.
Explain the significance of the House of Burgesses.
Describe the practice of indentured servitude. Why was it replaced by slavery?
Describe the sociopolitical lifestyle of Maryland colony.
What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact?
Describe the role of religion in the New England colonies.
Compare and contrast the New England and Mid Atlantic colonies.
How did New York come to be?
Describe the founding of Pennsylvania.
What was the purpose of the Carolinas?
Give a detailed description of the founding of Georgia.
Chapter 3: Putting Down Roots Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society 1619-1692. Due: Aug 25th
Analyze the image of the Mason Children. Compare them to children today. What can you learn about childhood and parenting in colonial times from this painting?
Describe the New England family.
Describe gender disparities of colonial New Englanders.
Describe the differences in family units between New England and Chesapeake colonists.
Explain the structure of planter society. How did it shape government?
Outline the growth of slavery in the colonies.
Give examples of how African American culture evolved in colonial America.
Explain mercantilism. Include a diagram.
Give the causes and effects of Bacon's Rebellion.
Explain the significance of the Glorious Revolution.
Describe the reasoning behind witchcraft hysteria in the colonies.
Chapter 4: Experience of Empire: 18th C. America 1680-1763 Due: Aug 25th
Describe interactions and relationships between Native Americans and backcountry colonists.
Explain why the Scots-Irish fled to the colonies.
Explain the reason(s) for German immigrants coming to the colonies.
What was the concept of "middle ground" in terms of Native American and settler geography?
Compare and contrast English and Spanish colonial settlements.
What was the Enlightenment? How did it impact the colonies?
What made Ben Franklin an example of social mobility?
What was the consumer revolution? How did it impact society?
Describe the impact of the Great Awakening.
What was the significance of Johnathan Edwards?
Give examples of local governments and explain how they functioned in the colonies.
Chapter 5: The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763-1783
Explain why minutemen were so important to the colonial cause.
How did King George III loose the trust of his people?
Explain the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty.
What was the debate of "representation"?
What were the 3 sides of the Revolution debate?
What were the causes of the French and Indian War?
How did the French and Indian War lead to the Revolution?
Describe George Grenville's work to end Britain's debt.
What was the significance of the Stamp Act to the Revolution?
What was decided at the Stamp Act Congress?
Describe the work of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty.
Analyze the Boston Massacre etching by Paul Revere. How does this show favoritism to one side?
Describe the work of the committees of correspondence.
Explain the purpose and actions of the Boston Tea Party.
List the Coercive Acts and explain their purpose.
Describe the events that led to the "Shot Heard 'Round the World".
Explain the significance of Thomas Paine's, Common Sense.
Explain the alliance between the colonists and the French.
Describe the Southern Campaign.
Chapter 6: The republican Experiment 1783-1788
Explain what Republican Culture was.
Explain changes in the views on slavery following the Revolution.
How did the Revolution change the place of women in society?
Describe the creation of the Articles of Confederation and what failures they contained.
Explain the purpose and rules attached to the Northwest Ordinance.
Describe the presidency of James Madison.
What was the cause of Shays' Rebellion?
How did Shays' Rebellion show the weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
What led to the creation of the Constitution?
Outline the creation of the Great Compromise.
Describe the significance of the 3/5ths Compromise.
Compare and contrast the views of Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
What was the final compromise needed to have the Constitution ratified? Explain.
Chapter 7: Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics Due:
Explain the differences of opinion between the Federalists and Jeffersonians on how to transfer American from an agrarian to an industrial nation.
Who was the 1st Vice President? What was his background?
What was the purpose of the Judiciary Act of 1789?
How did the Tariff of 1789 impact the US?
Compare and contrast the views of Jefferson and Hamilton.
Who was the 1st Secretary of the Treasury?
Describe the creation of the Bank of the United States. Include names of major players.
What was the American position on the French Revolution? Why?
Was Jay's Treaty a success or failure? Explain.
Explain what events led to the Treaty of Greenville and what the treaty's outcome was.
How did the Whiskey Rebellion illustrate the strength of Washington and the Constitution?
What were the main points of Washington's Farewell Address?
The Quasi War was a result of tensions between the United States and France over what issues?
Explain the XYZ Affair.
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts? Were they "right"? Explain.
Define "nullification".
How did Adams avoid war?
What was the purpose of the 12th Amendment?
Chapter 8: Republican Ascendancy; The Jeffersonian Vision Due
List limits to Jefferson's vision of a Republican nation.
In what ways would the Louisiana Purchase increase the debate over slavery?
Why were early western settlers reliant upon river access?
What influence did Tenskwata and Tecumseh have on the Indian Territory?
What were the causes and effects of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?
Why was there a significant divide between rural and urban America during Jefferson's presidency?
Who was Robert Fulton and what was his impact on America?
How did Jefferson tackle the national debt?
Describe the process of the Louisiana Purchase.
What was the full purpose of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
What were the causes and effects of the Marbury v Madison case?
Define "judicial review".
How did the 3/5ths Compromise impact the 1800 election?
How did the Embargo Act of 1807 cause divide?
What is a "War Hawk"?
List the causes of the War of 1812 (At least 4).
List the effects of the War of 1812.
Who won the War of 1812? Explain.
Explain the significance of the Battle of New Orleans.
What happened at the Hartford Convention?
Chapter 9: Nation Building and Nationalism 1815-1825
Who died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence?
Why did politicians design laws to isolate America?
How did the United States acquire Florida?
Explain the idea of "squatting" for land.
Who were the "Five Civilized Tribes" and how did they receive that name?
Describe the formation of the Cherokee government.
What did Sequoyah create?
What set the Seminole apart from the other Indian nations?
Who created the most aggressive policy against Native Americans?
What was the first great federal transportation project in the United States?
What was the significance of steam power to water transportation?
Explain the impact of the Erie Canal.
Describe what a market economy is.
What made the South the greatest producer of cotton in the world?
What was the first American factory system?
Outline the Missouri Compromise.
Explain the significance of Dartmouth College v. Woodward.
Explain the significance of McCulloch v. Maryland.
Explain the significance of Gibbons v. Ogden.
What prompted the Monroe Doctrine?
What was the effect of the Monroe Doctrine?
What led to the end of "The Era of Good Feelings"?
Chapter 10: The Triumph of White Men's Democracy 1824-1840
How did "hotel culture" reveal problems with the democratic era of the 1800s?
Describe democratic culture of the early 1800s.
Define "popular sovereignty".
What major works of American fiction were written during the 1800s.? Include authors.
Explain the complications of the election of 1824.
Explain the Nullification Crisis.
Why did Jackson enforce the Indian Removal Act?
What did the Indian Removal Act violate?
What were the "Civilized Tribes"? List them.
Describe the events of the Bank War.
Why did Jackson "kill" the Bank?
Where did Whigs come from?
Explain the origins of the Panic of 1837.
What led to a two-party system? When?
Chapter 11: Slaves and Masters 1793 - 1861
Describe the events leading to Nat Turner's Rebellion and the subsequent effects.
Who was the editor of The Liberator ?
Describe the daily life of a slave in the Cotton Belt. Include the definition of the Cotton Belt.
Define Antebellum.
How did slaves keep family ties together?
What was the Vesey conspiracy? What were the effects of it?
Describe the Underground Railroad's network.
What was life like for the freedmen of the South? Former slaves/Free blacks
What percentage of Southern whites owned slaves? What percentage did not?
Define "Planter".
Explain why "cotton was king".
Define "paternalism".
How many slaves did the average Southern slave holder have?
Define "yeomen farmer".
What was the American Colonization Society? What point of view did they hold on slavery?
How did the slave population of the South change following the end of the (legal) African slave trade?
Explain how the cotton gin led to the increase of slavery.
Who had money in the Antebellum South?
Chapter 12: The Pursuit of Perfection 1800-1861
What effect did the Second Great Awakening have on American culture?
Define "Unitarians".
How did the Second Great Awakening effect American politics?
What was the purpose of the American Tract Society?
Define "temperance".
How did the Second Great Awakening impact the Temperance Movement?
What arguments were made by proponents of the Temperance Movement?
Explain the rationale behind the "Cult of Domesticity".
What was the place of a woman in 19th Century America?
Why was the 19th Century referred to as "the Century of the Child"?
What was the impact of Horace Mann on American public education?
What impact did the Second Great Awakening have on the abolitionist movement?
Describe the life of Fredrick Douglass. What role did he play in the abolitionist movement?
What was the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention? Who were major voices there?
Chapter 13: An Age of Expansionism 1830-1861
What did Ralph Waldo Emerson have to say about "Young America"?
What were the major writings of Herman Melville?
Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny.
What was the Young American ideal?
What led to the Texas Revolution?
Describe the Battle of the Alamo. Include why it happened and its consequences.
What led to the annexation of Texas? What is annexation?
How did the Annexation of Texas lead to the War with Mexico/Mexican-American War?
Who was the U.S. president during the War with Mexico/Mexican-American War?
What became the border between the United States and Mexico?
What ended the Mexican-American War on paper? What were its provisions?
What led to the growth in railroads in the 1800s?
What was the Industrial Revolution?
List the inventions of John Deere and Cyrus McCormick.
Immigration began to change in the early 1800s, explain how immigration changed in terms of laws and country of origin.
Chapter 14: The Sectional Crisis 1846 - 1861
Describe the events of the incident known as "The Caning of Charles Sumner".
When did conflict arise over the issue of slavery in the territories? Why then?
Explain the significance of the Wilmot Proviso, despite its not being passed.
Define "popular sovereignty".
List the major points of the Compromise of 1850.
How was the Fugitive Slave Act a "win" for Southern states?
Explain the points of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What was the Ostend Manifesto?
Describe John Brown's role in Bleeding Kansas.
Explain the significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
What did the Supreme Court ruling of the Dred Scott case say about slavery in the United States?
What was Stephen Douglas' point of view on slavery?
What was the result(s) of the Election of 1860?
Chapter 15 Secession and the Civil War 1860 - 1865
Describe Abe Lincoln's background.
How did Lincoln's election tie into Southern secession.
What was a Cooperationist? How did Southerners respond to them?
Which states were the first to leave the Union?
Which states followed later and why?
How was Jefferson Davis chosen to be President of the Confederacy?
Why did Lincoln refuse to back down from secessionist threats?
Name the first shots of the Civil War and describe the event.
Describe total war. Would you use total war? Explain your reasoning.
Describe the disparities between Northern and Southern states at the start of the Civil War.
Which battle led to the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Explain Lincoln's reasoning for issuing the Emancipation Proclmation.
Did the Emancipation Proclamation end slavery? Explain.
Describe African American participation in the military during the Civil War.
Explain copperheads' point of view.
Describe the last stages of the Civil War.
Explain the significance of the Battle of Antietam.
Explain the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Explain the significance of the Battle of Vicksburg.
What was the death knell of the South?
Chapter 16 The Agony of Reconstruction: 1865-1877
Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Congressional Reconstruction.
Why did the Radical Republicans despise Andrew Johnson?
What stance did Andrew Johnson take in comparisson to Abraham Lincoln?
What was the purpose of the Wade-Davis Bill?
Define Black Codes and give several examples.
Explain how the military districts were used to rebuild the South.
Describe the work of the Freedmen's Bureau.
How did sharecropping compare to slavery?
What were the 3 major amendments of Reconstruction? What did each do?
Describe the development of the Ku Klux Klan.
Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? What was the true motive of Congress?