Us history eoct study Guide

US History EOCT Study Guide 2013

SSUSH1: The student will describe European settlement in North America during the 17th century.

1. 
   Name the company that founded the colony of Virginia. What type of company was it?
   

2. 
   Why was tobacco cultivation important for Jamestown?
   

3. 
   Who was Powhatan? Why was he important?
   

4. 
   What was the House of Burgesses? What was its significance?
   

5. 
   What was Bacon’s Rebellion? Why was it significant? What changes did it cause?
   

6. 
   Which region of colonies (Southern, New England, Middle) was primarily settled for religious reasons? Name those colonies and religious group(s) there.
   

7. 
   What was King Phillips War? Why was it significant?
   

8. 
   What was the purpose of town meetings?
   

9. 
   What events led to the development of Rhode Island?
   

10. 
    What was the Half-Way Covenant?
    

11. 
    What were the Salem Witch Trials? How were they significant?
    

12. 
    What caused the loss of the Massachusetts Charter?
    

13. 
    Why did the mid-Atlantic Colonies develop? What were the major reasons?
    

14. 
    How was New Amsterdam created? Why was it important?
    

15. 
    Why did the English take New Amsterdam?
    

16. 
    How and why was Pennsylvania developed?
    

17. 
    What were the main reasons for the French settling Quebec?
    

SSUSH2: The student will trace the ways that the economy and society of British North America developed.

18. 
    What is Mercantilism? Who benefits from it?
    

19. 
    What was the trans-Atlantic trade system?
    

20. 
    What was the middle passage?
    

21. 
    How did the African American population grow during this time?
    

22. 
    Who was Ben Franklin? Why was he an American Icon?
    

23. 
    What is Social Mobility? Individualism?
    

24. 
    What was the Great Awakening?
    

SSUSH3: The student will explain the primary causes of the American Revolution.

25. 
    Who were the opposing sides during the French and Indian War? Who won? How did it affect colonists?
    

26. 
    What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris 1763? How did it affect the colonists?
    

27. 
    How did the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?
    

28. 
    What were the following acts? How did the colonists respond?
    
    1. 
       Proclamation of 1763
       

2. 
   Sugar Act
   

3. 
   Intolerable Acts
   

29. 
    Who were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
    

30. 
    Who were the Committees of Correspondence?
    

31. 
    Who was Thomas Paine?
    

32. 
    What was the argument/ point made in Common Sense? How did it effect the independence movement?
    

SSUSH 4: The student will identify the ideological, military, and diplomatic aspects of the American Revolution.

33. 
    What was the Declaration of Independence?
    

34. 
    What did John Locke write? How did it affect the DOI?
    

35. 
    Who was Montesquieu write? What idea(s) of his were used to influence American government?
    

36. 
    What was Thomas Jefferson’s role in writing the DOI?
    

37. 
    Explain the significance of the colonist alliance with France during the Revolution.
    

38. 
    How did Ben Franklin and Lafayette help this alliance?
    

39. 
    How effective a leader was George Washington as a military leader?
    

40. 
    How did the Continental Army become a professional fighting force?
    

41. 
    What was life like at Valley Forge?
    

42. 
    What was the significance of the crossing of the Delaware River and the victory at Trenton?
    

43. 
    Who won the Battle of Yorktown? Why were they successful (2-3 reasons)?
    

44. 
    Who was General Lord Cornwallis?
    

45. 
    What treaty ended the American Revolution (include the year)? What were the terms of this treaty?
    

SSUSH5: The student will explain specific events and key ideas that brought about the adoption and implementation of the United States Constitution.

46. 
    What were the Articles of Confederation?
    

47. 
    What were the weaknesses of the AOC?
    

48. 
    What was Shay’s Rebellion?
    

49. 
    How did the rebellion show the weaknesses of the AOC?
    

50. 
    Who were Federalists? What did they believe?
    

51. 
    Who were anti-federalists? What did they believe?
    

52. 
    How did James Madison and Alexander Hamilton influence the creation of the Constitution?
    

53. 
    What was the Great Compromise? How did satisfy both large and small states?
    

54. 
    How did the Constitution deal with slavery?
    

55. 
    What is the Bill of Rights?
    

56. 
    What rights do the first 10 amendments protect?
    

57. 
    How did George Washington handle the nation’s involvement in foreign affairs? Why?
    

58. 
    How many terms did Washington serve? What three things did he warn against in his farewell address?
    

59. 
    What was the Whisky Rebellion?
    

60. 
    What caused the development of political parties?
    

SSUSH6: The student will analyze the nature of territorial and population growth and the impact of this growth in the early decades of the new nation.

61. 
    How did the Northwest Ordinance affect westward expansion?
    

62. 
    How did the Northwest Ordinance deal with:
    
    1. 
       Slavery?
       

2. 
   Education?
   

3. 
   New States?
   

63. 
    How did Jefferson obtain the Louisiana Purchase?
    

64. 
    What was the goal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
    

65. 
    What caused the War of 1812?
    

66. 
    What was the significance of the following events of the war:
    
    1. 
       Battle of New Orleans-
       

2. 
   Burning of the White House-
   

3. 
   Star-Spangled Banner
   

67. 
    How did the war affect national identity?
    

68. 
    What is the importance of the Erie Canal? (i.e. what did it connect and how did it help New York?)
    

69. 
    What were the three parts of the nation’s infrastructure that Henry Clay tried to improve with his American Plan?
    

70. 
    What did the Monroe Doctrine state?
    

SSUSH 7: Students will explain the process of economic growth, its regional and national impact in the first half of the 19^th century, and the different responses to it.

71. 
    What was the Industrial Revolution? How did it effect the US?
    

72. 
    What was the Cotton Gin?
    

73. 
    What is the significance of interchangeable parts?
    

74. 
    What is manifest destiny? How did it affect westward expansion?
    

75. 
    What was the Temperance Movement?
    

76. 
    What was abolitionism?
    

77. 
    What efforts were made to change public schools? Who led this reform movement?
    

78. 
    What was the Women’s Suffrage Movement? And what role did Elizabeth Cady Stanton play in this movement?
    

79. 
    What was the Seneca Falls Conference?
    

80. 
    Which president relocated Native Americans along the Trail of Tears? Name the court case where the Cherokee challenged this policy?
    

81. 
    What is Jacksonian Democracy?
    

82. 
    What is the concept of nationalism?
    

SSUSH8: The student will explain the relationship between growing north-south divisions and westward expansion.

83. 
    What was the Nat Turner rebellion?
    

84. 
    What were the following abolitionists known for/ publish?
    
    1. 
       William Lloyd Garrison?
       

2. 
   Fredrick Douglas?
   

3. 
   The Grimke sisters?
   

85. 
    What was the Missouri Compromise? How did it affect slavery?
    

86. 
    Describe the Nullification Crisis (include John C. Calhoun).
    

87. 
    What is sectionalism?
    

88. 
    What were the causes, events, and effects of the War with Mexico?
    

89. 
    What was the Wilmot Proviso? How did it try to effect slavery in the new territory?
    

90. 
    What were the major components of the compromise of 1850?
    

SSUSH9: The student will identify key events, issues, and individuals relating to the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War.

91. 
    What were the major components of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
    

92. 
    What was popular sovereignty? Why did it fail?
    

93. 
    Why did Dred Scott believe he could sue for his freedom? What was the court’s ruling in the case?
    

94. 
    What was John Brown’s raid? How did it affect views on slavery?
    

95. 
    Describe the main points and effects of the Gettysburg Address
    

96. 
    What is Habeas Corpus? Why did Lincoln suspend it?
    

97. 
    What were the Civil War roles of:
    
    1. 
       General Grant
       

2. 
   General Lee
   

3. 
   General “Stonewall” Jackson
   

4. 
   General Sherman
   

5. 
   President Jefferson Davis (CSA)
   

98. 
    What was the significance of the following battles?
    
    1. 
       Fort Sumter?
       

2. 
   Antietam?
   

3. 
   Vicksburg?
   

4. 
   Gettysburg?
   

5. 
   Atlanta?
   

99. 
    What was the Purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
    

100. 
     How did it change the purpose of the war?
     

101. 
     What were the differences between the North and South in the following areas: (i.e. who had more?)
     
     1. 
        Population
        

2. 
   Railways
   

3. 
   Industrial output
   

SSUSH 10: The student will identify legal, political, and social dimensions of Reconstruction.

102. 
     What were the major differences between reconstruction plans coming from the President and the Radical Republicans?
     

103. 
     What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? What was its significance?
     

104. 
     What was the 13^th amendment?
     

105. 
     What was the 14^th amendment?
     

106. 
     What was the 15^th amendment?
     

107. 
     What are the Black Codes? Why were they created?
     

108. 
     What was the KKK? What were their major objectives?
     

109. 
     Why did congress attempt to impeach Johnson?
     

SSUSH11: The student will describe the growth of big business and technological innovations after Reconstruction.

110. 
     How did the railroad expansion help industries?
     

111. 
     How did the railroad industry affect the steel industry
     

112. 
     What was the Transcontinental Railroad? What type of immigrants built this railroad? Where did the two lines meet?
     

113. 
     How did the use of Chinese labor lead to changes in immigration policy?
     

114. 
     Who was John D. Rockefeller? Why is Standard Oil significant in American History?
     

115. 
     How these inventions from Thomas Edison affect Americans:
     
     1. 
        Light bulb
        

2. 
   Motion pictures
   

3. 
   Phonographs
   

SSUSH12: The student will analyze important consequences of American industrial growth.

116. 
     What was the purpose and Ellis Island?
     

117. 
     Where did “new” immigrants during this time period come from?
     

118. 
     How did this change urban America?
     

119. 
     What was the American Federation of Labor? What was their purpose?
     
     

120. 
     Who was Samuel Gompers?
     

121. 
     How did the Western US during this time treat Native Americans?
     

122. 
     Who were the leaders at the Battle of Little Big Horn? Who won and why?
     

123. 
     What happened at Wounded Knee?
     

124. 
     What was the 1894 Pullman strike? Why did it happen?
     

125. 
     How did it signify industrial unrest during this time?
     

SSUSH13: The student will identify major efforts to reform American society and politics in the Progressive Era.

126. 
     Who was Upton Sinclair?
     

127. 
     What affects did The Jungle have on federal oversight on food and drug processing?
     

128. 
     Who was Jane Addams? What was the Hull House?
     

129. 
     What are Jim Crow Laws?
     

130. 
     What was the ruling of Plessey v. Ferguson? How did it change America?
     

131. 
     What does the acronym NAACP stand for? What is its mission?
     

132. 
     What did Ida Tarbell write about? How did the government respond to her writings?
     

133. 
     Define: Muckraker. How did they change American society?
     

134. 
     What are the following political reforms:
     
     1. 
        Initiative
        

2. 
   Recall
   

3. 
   Referendum
   

4. 
   17^th Amendment
   

5. 
   Reform of labor laws
   

135. 
     What progressive reforms improved living conditions for poor people in cities?
     

SSUSH14: The student will explain America’s evolving relationship with the world at the turn of the twentieth century.

136. 
     What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
     

137. 
     What is Yellow Journalism? How did it cause the Spanish-American War?
     

138. 
     What did the US gain from the Spanish-American War?
     

139. 
     What happened during the war in the Philippines?
     

140. 
     What is imperialism? What made America an imperial power?
     

141. 
     What is the Roosevelt Corollary? How did it affect Latin American relations?
     

142. 
     What is the Panama Canal? Why did the US create it?
     

SSUSH15: The student will analyze the origins and impact of U.S. involvement in World War I.

143. 
     What is the policy of neutrality?
     

144. 
     Why did the US stay neutral at the beginning of WWI?
     

145. 
     What is unrestricted submarine warfare? How did it affect the US?
     

146. 
     How was life different on the homefront during WWI? (i.e. what sacrifices did people make, what rights did they give up?)
     

147. 
     What was the Great Migration?
     

148. 
     Who was Eugene Debs? What were his goals?
     

149. 
     What were the major purposes of Wilson’s 14 Points?
     

150. 
     What was the League of Nations?
     
151. 
     What was the 18^th amendment?
     

152. 
     What was the 19^th amendment? What did it establish?
     

SSUSH16: The student will identify key developments in the aftermath of WW I.

153. 
     What is communism? Socialism?
     

154. 
     What was the Red Scare?
     

155. 
     What was mass production? How was this method used in Henry Ford’s factory?
     

156. 
     What new forms of technological entertainment did Americans enjoy after WWI?
     

157. 
     What was the Harlem Renaissance?
     

158. 
     How did the following people / places / events influence the Harlem Renaissance?
     
     1. 
        Louis Armstrong
        

2. 
   Jazz
   

3. 
   Langston Hughes
   

4. 
   Irving Berlin
   

5. 
   Tin Pan Alley
   

SSUSH17: The student will analyze the causes and consequences of the Great Depression.

159. 
     Describe the following causes of the Great Depression
     
     1. 
        Overproduction
        

2. 
   Under consumption
   

3. 
   Speculation
   

4. 
   The Crash of 1929
   

160. 
     How did the Dust Bowl effect the depression?
     

161. 
     How did unemployment affect Americans during this time?
     

162. 
     What were Hoovervilles?
     

SSUSH18: The student will describe Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal as a response to the depression and compare the ways governmental programs aided those in need.

163. 
     What does the acronym TVA stand for? What was it created to do?
     

164. 
     What was the purpose of the Wagner Act?
     

165. 
     What is the Social Security Act?
     

166. 
     What was the second New Deal?
     

167. 
     Who was Eleanor Roosevelt? What did she do as a women’s activist?
     

168. 
     Who was Huey Long?
     

169. 
     What was the Court Packing Bill? Why did FDR try to pack the courts?
     

170. 
     What was the Neutrality Act?
     

SSUSH19: The student will identify the origins, major developments, and the domestic impact of World War II, especially the growth of the federal government.

171. 
     Who was A Philip Randolph? What did his March on Washington seek to do?
     

172. 
     When did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? How did Americans treat Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor?
     

173. 
     How were German-Americans and Italian-Americans treated?
     

174. 
     What was the Lend-Lease program?
     

175. 
     What was the significance of the following battles/ events:
     
     1. 
        D-Day
        

2. 
   Midway
   

3. 
   Fall of Berlin
   

4. 
   Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
   

176. 
     What is War Mobilization & war time conversion?
     

177. 
     What is Rationing?
     

178. 
     What was the role of women during the WWII?
     

179. 
     What was atomic bomb & who created it?
     

SSUSH20: The student will analyze the domestic and international impact of the Cold War on the United States.

180. 
     What was the Marshall Plan created to do?
     

181. 
     What are examples of the US commitment to Europe?
     

182. 
     What was the Truman Doctrine? How is it different from the Monroe Doctrine?
     

183. 
     What was the Containment Policy?
     

184. 
     How did China become Communist?
     
185. 
     What was the Korean War about? Which President ended the war? Who won the war?
     

186. 
     What was McCarthyism?
     

187. 
     How did the Cuban Revolution affect the US?
     

188. 
     What happened at the Bay of Pigs?
     

189. 
     What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
     

190. 
     What years was the U.S. involved in the Vietnam War? Which Presidents were in office during this war?
     

191. 
     What was the significance of the Tet offensive? Why were many Americans opposed to the war after Tet?
     

SSUSH21: The student will explain economic growth and its impact on the United States, 1945-1970.

192. 
     Who are the Baby Boomers?
     

193. 
     What are Levittowns?
     

194. 
     What was the Interstate Highway Act?
     

195. 
     How did all of these affect modern America?
     

196. 
     What was this significance of the Kennedy / Nixon debates?
     

197. 
     How did TV affect the Civil Rights Movement?
     

198. 
     Describe the importance of the personal computer and the cell phone as modern conveniences?
     

199. 
     What was the impact of Sputnik I to US-USSR relations?
     

SSUSH22: The student will identify dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1970.

200. 
     What role did President Truman play in the Civil Right’s Movement? Include E.O. 9980 & E.O. 9981
     

201. 
     What were the social effects of Jackie Robinson and the integration of Baseball?
     

202. 
     What court decision did Brown v. Board of education reverse? Why this decision was resisted so much?
     

203. 
     What issues did the Letters from a Birmingham Jail expose and address? What was the significance of the “I Have a Dream Speech”?
     

Birmingham Jail

Dream-

204. 
     What were the affects of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
     

205. 
     What was the affect of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
     

SSUSH23: The student will describe and assess the impact of political developments between 1945 and 1970.

206. 
     Who was Earl Warren? (include link to President Kennedy)
     

207. 
     How did each of the following cases heard by the Warren Court affect America?
     

Brown v. Board 1954 

Gideon v. Wainwright 1963

Miranda v. Arizona 1966

208. 
     Who was accused of JFK’s assassination and the assassination affect America & Civil Rights legislation?
     

209. 
     What was the Great Society? List at least 4 programs that were apart of LBJ’s Great Society.
     

210. 
     What are Medicare / Medicaid?
     

211. 
     Describe the significance of the following events in 1968
     
     1. 
        Assassination of Dr. King—
        

2. 
   Assassination of Robert F.Kennedy—
   

3. 
   Democratic Convention of 1968—
   

SSUSH24: The student will analyze the impact of social change movements and organizations of the 1960s.

212. 
     What was the purpose of the SNCC and the SCLC? What are the differences in their approaches to Civil Rights reforms?
     

SNCC—

SCLC—

213. 
     What were sit-ins? Freedom rides?
     

Sit-ins

Freedom Rides

214. 
     What happened at Kent State?
     

215. 
     Who was Chavez? What did he fight for?
     

216. 
     What was Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring about?
     

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217. 
     What is Earth Day?
     

218. 
     Who is the EPA? What are their responsibilities?
     

219. 
     Who was Barry Goldwater? What did he start?
     

220. 
     What is the significance of the election of Nixon?
     

SSUSH25: The student will describe changes in national politics since 1968.

221. 
     Why did Nixon go to China?
     

222. 
     What was the Watergate Scandal?
     

223. 
     What was significant about President Ford?
     

224. 
     What was significant about Roe v. Wade?
     

225. 
     What is significant about Regents of the University of California v. Bakke? What is Affirmative Action?
     

226. 
     What did Carter do during
     
     1. 
        The Camp David Accords?
        

2. 
   The Iranian Revolution?
   

3. 
   The Iranian Hostage Crisis?
   

227. 
     What happened domestically and internationally during Reagan’s presidency?
     

228. 
     What was Reaganomics?
     

229. 
     What was the Iran-contra scandal?
     

230. 
     Why did the Soviet Union collapse?
     

231. 
     What happened during the Clinton administration?
     

232. 
     What was NAFTA?
     

233. 
     Describe Clinton’s impeachment and acquittal.
     

234. 
     What is the Electoral College?
     

235. 
     Who won the presidential race of 2000?
     

236. 
     What were the reasons for the 9/11 attacks?
     

237. 
     How did President Bush respond?