2009 Fall Final Review

Apush Final Exam Review (part I)

Here is a list of some of the majority of the topics to be covered on the objective section of the final exam!

• Ways Captain John Smith helped Jamestown

• John Rolfe

• The "headright" system

• Freedom of religion in which colony?

• Factors leading to Bacon's Rebellion?

• Significance of Bacon's Rebellion

• Economies of the Caribbean islands

• African slaves vs. indentured servants

• The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony

• Anne Hutchinson's reason for exile

• Characteristics of the Restoration colonies

• The overthrow of James II in the Glorious Revolution affected the colonies in which way?

• During the seventeenth century, at least three-fourths of the immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region…

• The mid-1690s marked a turning point in the history of the black population in America because…?

• Historian Edmund S. Morgan argued that the institutionalization of African slavery in America reflected…what?

• The most numerous of the non-English immigrants were…?

• Conditions were good in PA for agricultural because...?

• A common problem in American commerce in the seventeenth century

• The functions of an American city

• Reasons for the decline of piety in colonial America

• The Great Awakening

• Purpose of the Albany Conference (1754)

• Reason for the English decision to reorganize the British Empire after 1763

• Feeling by the colonists after the French and Indian War

• Problem facing the Brit. gov’t after the Fren. & Indian War

• The purpose of the Proclamation Line of 1763

• British policies after 1763 generally were…

• The Sugar and Stamp acts were designed chiefly to

• Colonies main objection tot he Stamp Act

• Townshend believed that colonists would not protest his taxes because…

• Attempts by the colonies to unify

• The objectives of the Committees of Correspondence

• The Quebec Act angered colonists because…

• American complaints concerning lack of representation made little sense to the English who pointed out that…

• The event leading to the passage of the Intolerable Acts

• Conditions of the Intolerable Acts

• Common Sense about American complaints against…

• Advantages British had during the Revolutionary War

• Summarize the move for independence by Americans

• The Declaration of Independence accomplished…

• Which of the following was NOT a step taken by the First Continental Congress?

• The First Continental Congress did all of the following EXCEPT

• Characteristics of early state constitutions

• Successes under the Articles of Confederation

• Weaknesses under the Articles

• The most significant division in the Constitutional Convention was between:

• James Madison's Virginia Plan proposed:

• The most important issue left unaddressed when the Constitutional Convention adjourned was:

• The Constitution's most distinctive feature was its:

• Which major concern did the original constitution not address

• The most distinctive feature of the constitution was…

• Why did the framers include an Electoral College

• The ideologies of A. Hamilton

• President Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion

• Under the Constitution, the status of the western Indian tribes was

• The only real success of Jay’s Treaty

• In the election of 1796

• Controversies surrounding the election of 1800

• The Federalists’ last gasp attempt to maintain power

• List the differences and examples between delegated, concurrent and reserved powers
• List the goals of the "Jefferson Era"
• List two goals the Jefferson Era that were responsible for the establishment of "patterns of education"
• Views of women and Native Americans during the Jefferson Era
• Characterize the status of higher education in the US during the Jefferson Era
• Identify ways the US was developing a "National Culture"
• Characterize the religious atmosphere during the Jefferson Era
• And anything else we happen to cover...
• Essay questions coming on Friday.