HIST 1301: U.S. History to 1865 Review for Exam 1 Fall 2011

1. HIST 1301: U.S. History to 1865Review for Exam #1Fall 2011

3. 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.

4. 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 term�s 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?

5. 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 board (and listed below). 2) Textbook: the test will cover Chapters 1-6. 3) CD-Rom Readings: as listed in the syllabus

6. 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.

7. 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., Mundus Novus, City Upon a Hill, 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.

8. 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.

9. KEYWORDS

10. �Mundus Novus�

12. �New Spain: Conquistadors and Missionaries�

13. KEYWORDSReview for Exam #1 �First Contact� Columbus�s Diary New Spain Caribbean Sea Hispaniola Aztecs Hern�n Cort�s conquistadors Montezuma Quetzalcoatl Tenochtitl�n (Mexico City)

14. KEYWORDSReview for Exam #1 intercontinental (or Columbian) exchange encomienda system / encomendero missionaries Bartolom� Las Casas, The Destruction of the Indies (1552) �open� frontier mestizos

16. �Virginia: Gentlemen and Slaves�

17. KEYWORDSReview for Exam #1 Chesapeake (Virginia) colonies extractive colony Jamestown (1607) Virginia Company Powhatan �starving time� (1609-10) John Smith Pochahontas (Matoaka)

18. KEYWORDSReview for Exam #1 �gentlemen� and �adventurers� primogeniture Virginia government: State Council & General Assembly (House of Burgesses) tobacco John Rolfe consequences of tobacco agriculture labor-intensive land-intensive class mobility �wild bachelors� planter elite

19. KEYWORDSReview for Exam #1 origins of African slavery Atlantic slave trade indentured servants sugar cultivation in Caribbean rice cultivation in Carolinas justifications of slavery economic (slave auctions, family system) racial social religious slave laws

20. �A City Upon a Hill�

21. KEYWORDSReview for Exam #1 Puritans Plymouth, 1620 Salem, 1628 Boston, 1630 theocracy �Errand Into the Wilderness� Protestants Protestant Reformation, 1517 Martin Luther vernacular �priesthood of the believer�

22. KEYWORDSReview for Exam #1 Protestant Reformation in England King Henry VIII Church of England Calvinism / John Calvin predestination New England Primer (1687) �In Adam�s fall, we sinned all.� doctrine of grace vs. doctrine of works the �elect�

23. KEYWORDSReview for Exam #1 Mayflower Compact (1620) John Winthrop �A Model of Christian Charity� (1630) �a city upon a hill� covenant Mary Dyer town covenant church covenant visible vs. invisible church �shocking grace� marriage covenant declension secularization

24. �The Coming Revolution�

25. KEYWORDSReview for Exam #1 Enlightenment / Age of Reason scientific method Sir Isaac Newton, Principia, 1687 natural law John Locke deism �clockmaker God� orrery liberty freedom of the press (Zenger trial) French and Indian War (Seven Years War), 1754-63 Royal Proclamation Line of 1763

26. KEYWORDSReview for Exam #1 revolution ideology conservative vs. liberal radicals English Constitution checks and balances Crown (monarch) Parliament tyranny / oligarchy / mob rule colonial legislatures colonial governors virtual representation vs. direct representation

27. KEYWORDSReview for Exam #1 Parliamentary Acts of 1764-74 �taxation without representation� Declaratory Act of 1766 Boston Tea Party (1773) Boston Massacre (1770) First Continental Congress (1774) committees of correspondence

29. Repressive Acts of the British Parliament Toward the American Colonies Act Year Description Townsend Revenue 1767 Import duties on many goods Act Tea Act 1773 Gave East India Co. a monopoly on tea entering colonies; hurts American merchants �Intolerable Acts� 1774 a) Boston Port Bill Closed Boston Harbor b) Mass. Gov�t Act Abolished Mass. Assembly

30. Repressive Acts of the British Parliament Toward the American Colonies Act Year Description �Intolerable Acts� 1774 c) Administration of Required British officials to be Justice Act tried in British rather than American courts d) Quartering Act Legalized housing of troops in private homes in colonies e) Quebec Act Centralized Canadian gov�t and expanded its boundaries