U.S. HISTORY SEMESTER ONE EXAM

U.S. HistoryJanuary 7 & 8, 2015

US HISTORY STUDY GUIDE• Objective:• Students will be able to review information learned and

assess comprehension.

• Purpose:• To Prepare for the Semester One Exam.

• Standard(s):

• Historical Thinking Skill:• Analysis & Interpretation.• Cause & Consequence.

Farewell the Tea board with your gaudy attire,Ye cups and saucers that I did admire;

To my cream pot and tongs I now bid adieu;That pleasure’s all fled that I once found in you…

No more shall my teapot so generous beIn filling the cups with this pernicious [evil] tea,For I’ll fill it with water and drink out of same,

Before I’ll lose Liberty that dearest name…

• The verses above come from a colonial poem entitled “A Lady’s Adieu to Her Tea-Table.”Read and answer the following question:

• 53. Why do you think this poem might have been written and distributed?a. To gain support for women’s right to voteb. To get people to drink more teac. To explain to colonists what liberty meansd. To boycott British tea

• Read them and answer the following question:

• 61. Why did Franklin support a Constitution that he felt was not perfect?a. He felt that his opinion was more important than the common

good.b. He believed that in a diverse nation absolute perfection would

not be possible.c. He felt the Revolutionary War was a mistake.d. He thought the Constitutional Convention could do better.

. . . When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of

opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It

therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does. . . Thus I consent, sir, to this

Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its

errors I sacrifice to the common good.

—Henry D. Gilpin, Ed., the Papers of James Madison (New York, 1841)

The words above were used by Benjamin Franklin to urge his fellow delegates to the Constitutional Convention to adopt the Constitution.

• Use the graph above to answer the following question:

• 78. Which region had both a better transportation system and was more industrial?

a. Northb. Southc. Bothd. Neither

• 95. According to the above cartoon, how did the Ku Klux Klan view post-Civil War America?a. As the end of White

ruleb. As an admission of

defeatc. As a continuing

struggle to make the lives of African Americans “worse than slavery”

d. As continuing the Revolutionary War

• 100. Which era of American history does this graphic evoke?a. Revolutionary Warb. Monroe Doctrinec. Westward Expansiond. Industrial Revolution

ACTIVITY: SEMESTER ONE EXAM SHORT ANSWERS• Short Answer Questions

Pick 4 of the following questions.1-3 full paragraphs each.A paragraph is a minimum of 5 Sentences.

1. How would you contrast the impact that the French fur traders had on Native American groups with that of the English settlers?

2. Your textbook states that “the status of women in colonial society was determined by the men in their lives.” What facts can you cite to support this conclusion?

3. Compare American and British advantages and disadvantages during the Revolutionary War.

4. Explain the thinking behind the protest “no taxation without representation!”

5. At the Constitutional Convention, delegates debated whether or not slaves should be included when calculating a state’s population. Why was this issue important, and how was the debate resolved?

6. Northern abolitionists and southern slaveholders both believed they were defending the Constitution. Summarize their opposing beliefs on this point.

7. Compare the hardships faced by former slaves, plantation owners, and poor white southerners after the Civil War

8. Explain the theory of social Darwinism

9. Compare the ways in which Native Americans and homesteaders used land on the Great Plain

ASSESSMENT: JEOPARDY GAME

CLOSURE: CNN STUDENT NEWS

•Write down 5 facts for extra credit.

CLOSURE: EXIT SLIP

•What is one thing you are looking forward to next semester?

• Put the textbooks on the front or side of the classroom.