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Monday, November 15, 2010

HELPFUL HINTS FOR U.S. HISTORY A UNIT #2 EXAM

Starting a New Nation
Identify and explain the Declaration of Independence.
Identify and explain the Articles of Confederation.
Explain the Drama @ the Convention… What Compromises were made…
(The Great Compromise vs. the 3/5 Compromise)
Identify and explain the Constitution & the Bill of Rights.
What are they and why are they significant?
Explain the checks and balances of our government system.
Explain early challenges our nation faced to establish itself.
(Napoleonic Threat & the eventual War of 1812)


Westward Expansion

Identify and explain the sequence and acquisition of territory.
French & Indian War. Explain difference in relationship between Natives and British and Natives and French. How fighting styles were different. Why significant/important? What acquired? From Who?
Louisiana Purchase. What acquired? From Who? Why significant/important?
War of 1812. Who against? What over/about? Burning of Important Landmarks. National Anthem. Major Battles. End result?
Mexican-American War. What is it? Major conflicts/battles. Annexation of TX, Alamo, End result?
Describe Manifest Destiny. What is it? Justifications/reasons.
American, Mexican, & Native-American Perspective. What are the three perspectives on Manifest Destiny: Mexican, American, & Indian?
Westward Expansion: What is it? Where do we expand to? How travel? Who goes & why? Resources found? Oregon Trail. Life in the West.
What is the end result of Westward Expansion (Both Positive & Negative)?


Civil War
Identify and explain the causes and conflicts behind the Civil War.
Describe the Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision, and the Key Differences Dividing the North & South, Fugitive Slave Law, Pottowatomi Creek Killings.(Must Go Beyond Just Slavery).
List Key Battles from the American Civil War & Their Result.
What is the outcome of the Civil War?
Lessons Learned – Impact Today?


Reconstruction
List/Explain the 3 Plans Presented
Describe Congresses Plan for Reconstruction
Why did Reconstruction fail/why did it experience limited success?
Impact of Reconstruction on South.

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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy