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Vacation Homework October-December 2009

Vacation Homework - US History Study Guide

Please use your History textbook to answer all questions in full sentences on lined paper.

American Revolution and Declaration of Independence:

1. How did the Great Awakening influence the American Revolution?

2. What were the political and economic causes of the American Revolution?

3. When do people have a right to change or abolish their government?

4. What does the Declaration of Independence mean when it says, “All men are

created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable

rights?”

5. How does the British Parliament resemble the U.S. Congress?

6. How did the ideas of the American Revolution influence other revolutions?

7. Why is Magna Carta important?

8. Why is the English Bill of Rights important?

9. Why is the Mayflower compact important?

10. What is the lasting influence of the Declaration of Independence throughout

American political ideas?

The Constitution:

1. Why did the Article of Confederation fail?

2. What were the effects of Shay’s Rebellion?

3. Who wrote most of the Constitution?

Growth and Conflict

4. From whom did the framers get the idea of three branches of government and

separation of powers?

5. State two reasons why the Northeast Ordinance was important.

6. Why are John Locke’s ideas important?

7. How was the structure of state governments similar to the structure of our

Constitution?

8. What type of government did the Framers create?

9. What is a federal government?

10. At the Constitutional Convention, what was the name of the compromise that

settled the dispute between big and small states over representation in

Congress?

11. What did the Great Compromise do?

12. At the Constitutional Convention, what compromise settled the dispute between

Northern and Southern states for representation in Congress and taxes?

13. What was the result of the debate between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?

14. Why were the Federalists in favor of the ratification of the Constitution?

15. Why were the Anti-Federalists against the ratification of the Constitution?

Checks and Balances and the Bill of Rights:

1. What branch of government makes laws, declares war, approves presidential

appointments and treaties and writes tax laws?

2. What branch appoints judges and cabinet members, makes treaties, and serves

as commander-in-chief of the military?

3. What branch settles disputes between states and other countries and determines

the constitutionality of laws?

4. What is another name for the first ten amendments?

5. What do you think are the three most important amendments and why?

6. How do citizens participate in a republic?

7. Why did the founders think freedom of religion was important?

8. Why is freedom of the press important?

9. What are political parties?

10. Is the Constitution successful in implementing the ideals of the Declaration of

Independence?

Political History – Washington to Jackson:

1. What did Washington say to our country in his farewell address?

2. Why did John Adams support the Alien and Sedition Acts?

3. What were Hamilton’s and Jefferson’s views on human nature, foreign policy, the

economy, political parties, and the Constitution?

4. What are the two main causes of the War of 1812?

5. What happened during the War of 1812 at these events?

a. invasion of Canada

b. Washington, D.C.

c. New Orleans

6. What were three effects of the War of 1812?

7. What was the Monroe Doctrine?

8. Why were more people allowed to vote during the “Age of Jackson”?

9. Why was Jackson called the “people’s president”?

10. How did Andrew Jackson expand the power of the President?

The West:

1. How did the United States acquire each piece of land?

a. Oregon Territory

b. Mexican Cession

c. Texas Annexation

d. Gadsden Purchase

e. Louisiana Purchase

f. Florida

2. Why did the United States acquire the Louisiana Purchase?

3. Why were Louis and Clark important?

4. What happened in the 1832 case of Worchester v. Georgia?

5. What was the Trail of Tears?

6. Under what conditions did the Mexican government allow American immigrants

to settle in Mexico?

7. How did Texas gain its independence?

8. What was Manifest Destiny?

9. What was the main cause of the Mexican American War?

10. What were the effects of the Mexican American War?

11. What impact did European settlement have on Native Americans?

12. What role did the Buffalo Soldiers play in fighting for the west?

13. Why were western states first in allowing women to vote?

Industrial Revolution and Reform:

1. In what geographical region did the Industrial Revolution occur during the

1800’s?

2. What happened when the United States industrialized?

3. Immigrants from which country came to work in factories during the mid 1800’s?

4. What pushed Irish immigrants to the United States in the 1800’s?

5. What pulled Irish immigrants to the United States in the 1800’s?

6. What pulled Southern and Central Europeans to America in the late 1800’s?

7. What pushed Southern and Central Europeans to America in the late 1800’s?

8. What were the educational and religious practices of free African Americans in

the Northeast during the 1800’s?

9. Why was public education introduced to America by Horace Mann, and others?

10. What is women’s suffrage and why is it important?

11. What role did the following women play in the struggle for women’s rights?

a. Susan B. Anthony

b. Elizabeth Blackwell

c. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d. Lucretia Mott

e. Sojourner Truth

12. What are the long term effects of Industrialization?

Events to the Civil War:

1. What states are considered northern and which are considered southern?

2. What are three major differences between the North and South?

3. How did the “cotton gin” affect cotton production and slavery?

4. What did each of these people do to end slavery?

a. Frederick Douglass

b. John Brown

c. Harriet Tubman

d. William Lloyd Garrison

e. Theodore Weld

5. What was the Underground Railroad?

6. What were the following events and their results?

a. Missouri Compromise

b. Compromise of 1850

c. The Kansas Nebraska Act

d. The Dred Scott Decision

e. The Lincoln Douglas Debates

f. The Election of 1860

The Civil War:

1. What advantages did the North have in fighting the Civil War?

2. What advantages did the South have in fighting the Civil War?

3. Why was the firing on Fort Sumter important?

4. Why was the First Battle of Bull Run important?

5. Why was the Battle of Gettysburg important?

6. Who did many consider the best general for the North?

7. Who did many consider the best general for the South?

8. Who was president of the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.)?

9. Who was president of the United States of American (U.S.A.) during the Civil

War?

10. How do Lincoln’s speeches and writings relate to the Declaration of

Independence?

11. What were three technological advances made during the Civil War?

12. Where did General Lee surrender to Grant?

Reconstruction:

1. What was Reconstruction:

2. What organization was set up during Reconstruction to assist former slaves by

building schools, supplying food, and giving medical care?

3. What were the “Black Codes”?

4. What was the main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan?

5. What was the purpose of “Radical Reconstruction”?

6. What were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?

7. What were “Jim Crow” laws?

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Congrats!!! You are done answering questions, now all you have left to do is read two

books and write journals for them!!! ----If you have reached this point before eating turkey

you are doing well!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Vacation Homework - History Reading Journal

Title: _________________________________ Author: ______________________

One Paragraph Summary: ____________________________________________________

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I. ASKING QUESTIONS - If you could ask the protagonist or antagonist one question, what would it be? Below create a fake interview question and answer it as if you were the character.

Question: _________________________________________________________________________

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Answer:_______________________________________________________________________

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II. MAKING CONNECTIONS - While you read, you should make connections to your life, to what you have read in the past, and to what you know about the world. After you read your book, explain how the book connects to the real world and what you have studied in History.

Text to World Connection: ________________________________________________________________

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III. EVALUTION - Did you like the book? Explain why or why not in complete sentences. Be specific.

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AR QUIZ: __________% correct Points Earned: ___________

Parent/Guardian Signature: _________________________________ Date ____________

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History Reading Journal