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Review Worksheet
Use your notes and the book to answer the following questions. You may see some of these questions on the Midterm. Then you will be required to also expand on each item and clarify why it is important.
1.
List three effects of the First Great Awakening on American society in the 18th
century.
a.
b.
c.
2.
List three effects of the French and Indian War on relations between the
British and the American colonists.
a.
b.
c.
3.
List three points that Thomas Paine made in Common Sense.
a.
b.
c.
4. List
and identify four laws that the British enacted that upset the Americans and
then identify the reactions that the Americans took to those laws and the
reaction of the British to what the Americans had done.
a.
b.
c.
d.
5. List
three advantages that the Americans had at the start of the Revolution.
a.
b.
c.
6.
List three advantages that the British had at the start of the Revolution.
a.
b.
c.
7. List three reasons why Americans won the
Revolution.
a.
b.
c.
8.
List three different weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and how those
weaknesses affected the government of the new nation.
a.
b.
c.
9.
List seven issues that
Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans disagreed over.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
10.
List three foreign policy questions of Washington’s presidency and explain how
he dealt with them.
a.
b.
c.
11.
List three issues of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency and how he dealt with them.
a.
b.
c.
12.
List four ways that politics changed in the era of Jackson.
a.
b.
c.
d.
13.
List three technological innovations from the first half of the 19th
century.
a.
b.
c.
14.
List four arguments that pro-slavery people made in favor of slavery.
a.
b.
c.
d.
15.
List three issues during Jackson’s presidency and how he dealt with them.
a.
b.
c.
16.
List three religious developments from the first half of the 19th
century.
a.
b.
c.
17.
List three arguments for going to war with Mexico.
a.
b.
c.
18.
List three arguments against going to war with Mexico.
a.
b.
c.
19.
List three examples of how expansion of the country increased sectionalism.
a.
b.
c.
20. List three parts of the Dred Scott decision.
a.
b.
c.
21. List three developments among political
parties in the 1850s
a.
b.
c.
22. List three advantages that the North had at
the start of the Civil War.
a.
b.
c.
23.
List three advantages that the South had at the start of the Civil War.
a.
b.
c.
24.
List four events that showed the sectional division between North and South
over slavery.
a.
b.
c.
d.
25.
List and explain the differences among the four different Reconstruction plans.
a.
b.
c.
d.
26.
List four important Supreme Court decisions in this period and explain what
those decisions were.
a.
b.
c.
d.