1. What methods do archaeologists use to study history?
2. What are the major geographical features of the U.S. from east to west?
3. What is an artifact? Who uses artifacts?
4. What is the purpose of Carbon dating?
5. What is a Dig site?
6. What are primary sources?
7. What is the difference between a Fact and an Opinion?
8. What is the definition of economics?
9. What are the basic landforms?
10.What is the difference between an island, peninsula, isthmus, and a strait?
1. What were the regions of the Native Americans?
2. What adaptations did they make to each environment?
3. What is the landbridge theory?
4. What were the major civilizations of the Americas?
5. What adaptations to environment did the Iroquois make?
6. What was the structure of the Iroquois Confederacy? How did it relate to a democracy?
1. What events led to thousands of Native Americans dying?
2. What was the first permanent English settlement?
3. What was the Northwest passage? Who looked for it?
4. Where was the location of New France? Along what river?
5. What was the basis for the economy of New France?
6. How did smallpox affect Native Americans?
7. Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
8. Where in the New World did the Dutch settle?
9. Who conquered the Native American civilizations for Spain?
10. What was the Colombian Exchange? Why was it important?
1. Why was there a need for agricultural workers in southern colonies? What did it lead to?
2. What was the Albany Plan of Union?
3. What was the Triangle Trade?
4. What were the early examples of democracy in the colonies?
5. What kind of government was the House of Burgesses?
6. What was the Mayflower Compact ? What did it prove?
7. What were the reasons colonists went to Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island?
8. What was the economy of Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies?
9. What differences were there in the groups of colonies due to environment?
1. What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?
2. What were the causes of the war in chronological order?
3. Describe the concept of mercantilism?
4. How did the French and Indian War lead to American Revolution?
5. Why did the colonists believe the tax laws were unfair?
6. What were some of the colonists reactions to the British laws?
7. What is a boycott?
8. What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
9. What was the British strategy to win the war?
10. How did women help in the war?
11. What battle was the turning point of the war?
12. What battle ended the American Revolution?
13. Where was the "shot heard round the world"?
1. What were the weaknesses of Articles of Confederation?
2. What was the main strength of the Constitution?
3. Why is there a process to amend the Constitution?
4. What are the rights and freedoms of the 1st Amendment?
6. What is the significance of Marbury V Madison?
7. What was the Great Compromise? What problem did it solve?
8. Who was James Madison?
9. What is the Bill of Rights? How many states had to ratify it?
10. What are the 14th and 15th Amendments?
11. What is the significance of Plessy V Ferguson?
12. What is a Veto? Who uses it?
13. What is an Override?
14. Why is the New York Constitution important?
15. What is Judicial Review?
16. Define Impeachment. What is it an example of?
17. What are the powers of the Commander in Chief?
18. What is the electoral college? How is it involved with Presidential elections?
19. Why did states want a bill of rights?
20. Why is there a separation of church and state in the government?
21. What are the Checks and balances of each branch of the government?
22. What was the Three-fifths compromise? What problem did it solve?
23. What is popular sovereignty?
24. What are the powers of the National and State governments under Federalism?
2. What territory was the slogan "54'40 or fight" associated with?
3. Why was Texas annexed by the United States?
4. Who went to the Oregon territory?
5. What was the Gold Rush?
6. Why was there a war with Mexico? What was the result?
7. Why did the U.S. purchase of Florida?
8. What did the Louisiana Purchase do to the size of the United States?
9. Who were Lewis and Clark?
10. How did the Homestead Act help expand the United States?
1. Why were canals and railroads important to Westward Expansion?
2. How did barbed wire help tame the west?
3. Why did pioneers have to build sod houses?
4. What are turnpikes? How did they increase settlement?
5. What is the significance of the Erie canal?
6. What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
7. How did steamboats change river travel?
1. What was the Indian Removal Act?
2. What was the Trail of Tears?
3. What was the significance of the Battle of Little Bighorn?
1. Who was Andrew Jackson? How was his presidency different from others?
2. What was the Spoils System?
3. What is the significance of the National Bank?
5. What were the different views of the Federalists and Anti-federalists?
6. What were the causes and results of the War of 1812?
1. What was the Underground Railroad?
2. Who were the Abolitionists?
3. Who was Dredd Scott? Why was his court case significant?
4. What was the Missouri Compromise?
5. Who were Sojourner truth, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and William Lloyd Garrison?
6. What is Uncle Tom's Cabin? Why is it important?
7. What was the Fugitive slave law?
1. What did the secession of the south lead to?
2. What were the issues that divided the North and South?
3. How did the election of Abraham Lincoln lead to the war?
4. What was the Kansas Nebraska Act?
5. What advantages did the North have over the South?
6. What advantages did the South have over North?
7. What were the resources of the North and South?
8. What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
1. What court case allowed schools to be Separate but Equal?
2. What were the Jim Crow Laws?
4. What is the Ku Klux Klan? Why was is formed?
5.How did whites try to regain control of the south?
6.What amendments were passed during Reconstruction?
7. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
2. Who was Eli Whitney?
3. How did the cotton gin affect the growth of textile industry?
4. Who was Samuel Slater?
5. What were the different ways factories were powered?
7. What is a monopoly? Why are they dangerous?
8. Why were labor unions formed?
9. What inventions changed the lives of Americans during the late 1800's?
10. How did Henry Ford change the idea of production?
1. Where were the Old, New, And Modern Immigrants from?
2. What is the main theme of Emma Lazarus immigration poem?
3. What were the reasons why immigrants settled in cities?
4. What was the Quota system/Act?
5. What was the purpose of Ellis Island?
6. How did Nativists show discrimination against immigrants?
7. What were the reasons for discrimination against immigrants?
8. What were the Chinese Exclusion Act and Gentlemen's Agreement?
1. What were the goals of the Muckrakers?
2. Why was there a need for progressives, reformers, and muckrakers?
3. What was the Gilded Age?
6. What was the goal of the Sherman-Antitrust Act?
7. How did Primary elections help stop corruption in the government?
1. What was the Open Door Policy?
2. How did Spheres of influence contribute to the Open Door Policy?
3. How did the U.S. acquire Cuba, Philippines, and Guam?
4. What were the causes and results of the Spanish-American War?
5. How did Yellow Journalism contribute to the war?
6. What was the Big Stick Policy?
7. How did the United States acquire Hawaii and Alaska?
1. Who was Woodrow Wilson?
2. What were the Fourteen Points?
3. What were the causes of World War I?
5. How did the sinking of Lusitania help cause the war?
6. What were German u-boats? What type of warfare did the Germans use?
7. What was the League of Nations? Why did the U.S. Senate refuse to join?
8. What is trench warfare?
1. What was the "return to normalcy" after World War I?
2. What was Prohibition? How did it affect the country?
3. What was the Harlem Renaissance? In what areas of culture did African-Americans make major contributions?
4. Who were Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith?
1. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
2. What is "Black Tuesday"?
3. How did the overuse of credit and installment buying contribute to the depression?
4. How did the song "brother can you spare a dime" an example of life during the depression?
5. Why did Franklin Roosevelt say "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?
6. Who was Herbert Hoover? Why was he blamed for the depression?
7. Describe these New Deal programs AAA, FERA, NIRA, SSA?
8. Why was there opposition to New Deal?
9. What New Deal programs still exists today?
1. What is the definition of a holocaust?
2. What was the Lend-Lease program?
3. What role did women play during the war?
4. Why did Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb?
5. What were the Nuremburg trials?
6. What does the term "Blitzkrieg" refer to?
7. Who were the Axis powers?
8. Who were the Allied powers?
9. How did the U.S get citizens to Support of war effort? – paper drives, rationing of food and gasoline.
10.Who said "I shall return" and why?
11.What day was considered "a date which will live in infamy?
12.Describe the attack on Pearl Harbor.
13.What effect did the war have on American economy?
1. What was the purpose of containment?
2. What were the reasons cold war developed?
3. What was the Marshall Plan?
4. Why was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization started?
5. What was the Truman Doctrine?
6. Why was there a massive movement of families to the suburbs during the 1950's?
7. What were the causes and results of the Korean War?
8. What was the Berlin Airlift?
9. Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis the closet the world ever came to the nuclear war?
10. What was the conflict between President Kennedy and Premier Khruschev?
11.What were the causes and results of the Vietnam War?
12.Who were the Allies of U.S.?
13. Who were the Allies of Soviet Union?
1. What were the beliefs of Martin Luther King Jr?
3. What was the NAACP? What contributions did it make to the Civil Rights Movement?
4. Who is Susan B. Anthony? What did she contribute to women's rights?
5. What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
6. Who was Rosa Parks? What is she famous for?
7. What is affirmative action?
8. How did people protest the Vietnam War?
9. What were the reasons for protesting the war?
10. What is the significance of the Brown Vs Board of Education court case?
1. What is the current change in the ethnic makeup of the U.S.?
2. Why did President Bush decide to send troops to Persian Gulf?
3. What was the economic trend that ended the 20th century?
What did these authors contribute to American history?