HIST 1301: U.S. History to 1865 Section 008 Review for Exam

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HIST 1301 U.S. History to 1865 (Section
008)Review for Exam 1
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Review for Exam 1

• DATE OF EXAM
• Exam 1 will be given on Thursday, February 19.
  It will occur during your regular class time.
• MAKE-UP POLICY (from Syllabus)
• There will be no make-ups for the exams except in
  extreme conditions. In order to qualify for a
  make-up, you must contact me by phone, e-mail, or
  in person before the exam begins to let me know
  that you will miss it and why. If you miss an
  exam without contacting me in advance, you will
  receive a ZERO, regardless of your reason for
  missing it.

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Review for Exam 1

• FORMAT OF EXAM
• 40 Multiple Choice Questions (2 points each 80
  points)
• 4 Short Answer/Identification Questions (5 points
  each 20 points)
• I will give you 8 to choose from. Write only
  four answers.

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Review for Exam 1

• FORMAT OF EXAM
• To answer a Short Answer correctly you must
• 1) Define the item, as clearly and succinctly as
  possible.
• 2) Describe the terms significance what does
  this thing tell us about the bigger picture (ie.,
  the subject matter of that lecture, or U.S.
  history in general)? How does it connect to
  other important ideas or events?

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Review for Exam 1

• WHAT TO STUDY
• There are three major sources of information you
  need to work with
• 1) Class notes you need to know all the
  keywords displayed on the overhead (and listed
  below).
• 2) Textbook the test will cover Chapters 1-6.
• 3) CD-Rom Readings as listed in the syllabus

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Review for Exam 1

• WHAT TO STUDY
• Most of the Multiple Choice questions will come
  from material which is in both the lectures and
  the textbook. I may ask questions over material
  which is just in the lectures, but it is very
  unlikely that I will test you over stuff which is
  only in the textbook.
• Therefore, the best way to study is to work from
  the Keywords, looking for material which overlaps
  with the textbook chapters. The places where
  there is overlap will be the source for most of
  the exam questions.

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Review for Exam 1

• WHAT TO STUDY
• To prepare for the Identification questions,
  carefully study the Keyword lists from class (and
  below). For each term, you should be able to
• Define the term.
• Explain how that term connects to the general
  topic of the lecture it comes from (ie., The
  Aftermath of the Civil War, The Gilded Age,
  etc.).
• Explain what that term has to do with the one
  listed before it and the one after.
• You should, that is, be able to define each
  keyword and put it into an appropriate larger
  context. Look at the lecture title for a clue
  about this context.

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Review for Exam 1

• WHAT TO BRING
• For the Multiple Choice portion of the test, you
  must bring a Scantron sheet (available in the
  bookstores) and a 2 pencil.
• For the Identification portion, you need a blue
  book and, if you want, a pen. Do not, of course,
  fill out the Scantron with a pen.
• Once again a Scantron, blue book, and 2 pencil.

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KEYWORDS
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Mundus Novus
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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• John Donne, To His Mistress Going to Bed (1669)
• Plato Atlantis
• Marco Polo
• sea route to Asia
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand and Isabella
• East Indies (Indonesia) / West Indies (Caribbean)
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Mundus Novus (New World)
• Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
• Michel de Montaigne, Of Cannibals (1575)

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• noble savage
• wilderness
• estimates of Native American population
• tribes
• culture areas
• origin tales
• land bridge theory
• nature vs. civilization

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New Spain Conquistadors and Missionaries
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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• First Contact
• Columbuss Diary
• European Empires in America
• -- New Spain
• -- New France
• -- New England
• Caribbean Sea
• Hispaniola
• Aztecs
• Hernán Cortés
• conquistadors
• Montezuma
• Quetzalcoatl
• Tenochtitlán (Mexico City)

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Incan Empire (Peru)
• St. Augustine, Fla. (1565)
• Santa Fé, N.M. (1609)
• intercontinental (or Columbian) exchange
• encomienda system / encomendero
• missionaries
• Bartolomé Las Casas, The Destruction of the
  Indies (1552)
• open frontier
• mestizos

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Intercontinental (Columbian) Exchange
North and South America
Europe / Asia
Corn, Potato, Tomato, Peppers, Chocolate, Vanilla
Tobacco, Sunflower, Marigolds
Peanuts, Cashews, Pecans, Wild Rice
Gold, Silver
People
Horses, Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Dogs, Cats
Wheat, Grapes, Cotton, Sugar, Onion, Citrus,
Banana
Small Pox and Other Diseases
Afr.
People
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Virginia Gentlemen and Slaves
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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Chesapeake (Virginia) colonies
• extractive colony
• Jamestown (1607)
• Virginia Company
• Powhatan
• starving time (1609-10)
• John Smith
• Pochahontas (Matoaka)
• gentlemen and adventurers
• primogeniture
• Virginia government State Council General
  Assembly (House of Burgesses)

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• tobacco
• John Rolfe
• consequences of tobacco agriculture
• labor-intensive
• land-intensive
• class mobility
• wild bachelors
• planter elite
• origins of slavery
• African slave trade
• indentured servants
• sugar cultivation in Caribbean

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• rice cultivation in Carolinas
• justifications of slavery
• economic (slave auctions, family system)
• racial
• social
• religious
• slave laws

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A City Upon a Hill
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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Puritans
• Plymouth, 1620
• Salem, 1628
• Boston, 1630
• theocracy
• Errand Into the Wilderness
• Protestants
• Protestant Reformation, 1517
• Martin Luther

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• vernacular
• priesthood of the believer
• Protestant Reformation in England
• King Henry VIII
• Church of England
• Calvinism / John Calvin
• predestination
• New England Primer (1687)
• In Adams Fall, We Sinned All
• doctrine of grace vs. doctrine of works
• the elect

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• City Upon a Hill
• John Winthrop
• Mayflower Compact
• Dedham Town Covenant
• covenant
• town covenant
• church covenant
• marital covenant
• visible vs. invisible church
• shocking grace

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Roger Williams
• separation of church and state
• Providence, Rhode Island
• Anne Hutchinson
• declension
• secularization
• Great Awakening (1740s)
• revivalism

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The Coming Revolution
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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Enlightenment
• Age of Reason
• scientific method
• Sir Isaac Newton, Principia, 1687
• natural law
• John Locke
• Royal Society of London
• deism
• clockmaker God
• orrery
• liberty
• freedom of the press (Zenger trial)

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
• Poor Richards Almanack (1733-1758)
• aphorisms
• self-improvement
• Philadelphia Junto
• Franklins experiments with electricity
• French and Indian War (Seven Years War), 1754-63
• Royal Proclamation Line of 1763

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• revolution
• ideology
• conservative vs. liberal
• radical
• English Constitution
• checks and balances
• Crown (King)
• Parliament
• tyranny
• oligarchy
• mob rule
• colonial legislatures
• colonial governors
• virtual representation vs. direct representation

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KEYWORDSReview for Exam 1

• Parliamentary Acts of 1764-74
• Declaratory Act of 1766