The Short-Answer, LEQ and the DBQ
Period 1 Review
Important Vocab
Viewing Guide for Period 1 Overarching Concepts Major Themes: 1. Role of Maize - allows for Natives to shift from being nomadic hunters to settling permanent agricultural villagers. This will allow for more sophisticated agricultural techniques to develop. 2. Each Native tribe adapted to its surroundings and land - Know Pacific NW vs. Great Plains vs. Northeast/Atlantic Seaboard vs. Iroquois Natives 3. Impacts of Spanish Contact - new caste system and racially diverse populations (mestizos/Mulattos). Much more contact with Spaniards than English. 4. Natives attempt to adapt to Europeans while preserving their own autonomy/independence 5. Encomienda System - essentially slavery that forced Natives to do manual labor. Las Casas advocated for Natives' rights, which in turn, brought about the African slave trade. This was justified by white superiority, religion, and idea that non-whites were uncivilized. 6. Columbian Exchange: Three worlds collide: a. Impact on Europeans - increase food (higher population growth), shift from feudalism to capitalism b. Impact on Natives - diseases (especially smallpox); horses/guns c. Increase in slave trade from Africa due to Portugal and Spain |
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Period 2 Review
Important Vocab
Viewing Guide for Period 2.1 Viewing Guide for Period 2.2 Viewing Guide for Period 2.3 Overarching Concepts Major Themes 1. Compare/contrast European colonization a. French/Dutch: Friendly, intermarry, trade b. Spanish - brutal, new social hierarchy (mestizos), c. English - attempt to remain separate, many wars as colonists attempt to expand 2. Compare/contrast English colonies a. Northern - rocky, more families, small towns infertile, Puritans although dissent in Providence (Roger Williams), Anne Hutchinson b. Middle - Much more diverse demographically, grain colonies, more c. South - Slave labor, fertile soil, tobacco 3. Seeds of self-government: Salutary neglect, VA House of Burgesses, town meetings, Great Awakening 4. Mercantilism - part of salutary neglect, benefiting the mother country, Navigation Acts 5. English and Native Americans: Pequot War/Metacomb War, Bacon's Rebellion 6. Labor in Jamestown: Native Americans, Indentured Servants, Slaves 7. Religion and English Colonies: Lord Baltimore in Maryland, John Winthrop in New England, William Penn in Pennsylvania 8. Diversity and the colonies: a. Middle Colonies - very diverse including Germany 9. First Great Awakening - Jonathon Edwards, George Whitefield - Increase in conversions and new branches of Christianity. This will lead to questioning of authority. 10. Enlightenment - Questioning of authority. Locke: Life, liberty and property. Montesquieu - separation of powers. 11. Anglicization (absorbing English norms) - government structure of England, newspapers/trade, spread of Protestant Evangelicalism 12. Atlantic World - Triangular trade which included the middle passage (slave trade) 13. Reasons for resistance to British control - Salutary neglect (colonies begin to view themselves as Parliament), Enlightenment (question government), Great Awakening (questioning of authority), |
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Period 3 Review
Important Vocab
Viewing Guide for Period 3.1 Viewing Guide for Period 3.2 Viewing Guide for Period 3.3 Overarching Concepts |
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Period 4 Review
Important Vocab
Viewing Guide for Period 4.1 Viewing Guide for Period 4.2 Viewing Guide for Period 4.3 Overarching Concepts |
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Period 5 Review
Important Vocab
Viewing Guide 5.1 Viewing Guide 5.2 Viewing Guide 5.3 Overarching Concepts Major Themes: |
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Period 6 Review
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Period 7 Review
Important Vocab
Viewing Guide for Period 7.1 Viewing Guide for Period 7.2 Viewing Guide for Period 7.3 Overarching Concepts Major Themes |
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Period 8 Review
Important Vocab
Viewing Guide for Period 8.1 Viewing Guide for Period 8.2 Viewing Guide for Period 8.3 Overarching Concepts Major Themes: 1. Foreign Policy to Stop Spread of Communism: After WWII, US attempts to stop spread of communism through many means: Truman Doctrine, UN, Marshall Plan, NATO 2. US's utilized many measure to contain communism: Truman Doctrine, Domino Theory, hydrogen bomb, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, National Defense Education Act, JFK's flexible response policy, Sputnik/space race, National Security Report 68 (NSC-68) 3. Cold War had both direct and indirect military confrontations of mutual coexistence and detente: Khrushchev's visit to the US, US-2 incident, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, detente, Nixon's visit to China, Nixon's Vietnamization policy, SALT I 4. Cold War extended to Latin America where the US supported non-Communist regimes: Guatemala, Bay of Pigs, Alliance for Progress, Cuban Missile Crisis 5. Cold War led to public debates over power of federal government: HUAC, Federal Employee Loyalty Program, Senator McCarthy, Execution of the Rosenbergs, Army-McCarthy hearings 6. Vietnam War inspired anti-war protests that escalated to violence at times: Pentagon Papers, Kent and Jackson State, Democratic National Convention Riots, Woodstock 7. Americans debated the merits of large nuclear arsenals and the military industrial complex: Eisenhower's farewell speech, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, SALT I, War Powers Act 8. US involvement in the Middle East caused several oil crises: OPEC, Arab Oil embargo, Iranian hostage crisis 9. Political and civil rights leaders achieved some legal and political successes to end segregation: CORE, Montgomery Bus Boycott, MLK's nonviolent civil disobedience, Little Rock Nine, SNCC, Freedom Rides, March on Washington, Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP 10. Three branches of the government worked on civil rights matters: Executive Order 9981 to desegregate US armed forces (Truman), Brown v. Board of Ed, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Affirmative Action and LBJ, Fair Act 11. Debates grew among civil rights activists on common goals: Malcolm X, black nationalism, Black Panther Party, Watts Riots, Little Rock Nine 12. New rights movements spurred after the Civil Rights Movement for African-Americans: Feminists, gays and lesbians seek rights, The Feminine Mystique, Equal Pay Act of 1963, Stonewall Riots, NOW, Roe v. Wade 13. Latino and American Indians demand rights: Cesar Chavez, American Indian Movement 14. Environmental problems lead to new regulations: Clean Air Act of 1970, Environmental Protection Act of 1970 15. Liberalism will grow under Johnson's Great Society and in court decisions: Medicaid, Medicare, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona, Gideon v. Wainwright, Jobs Corp, Food Stamp Act 16. Conservatives challenged liberalism in the 1960s: Barry Goldwater, opposition to Warren Court decisions, Election of Richard Nixon 17. Rapid economic and social changes after WWII: Baby boom, GI Bill, Codl War defense spending, NASA 18. Higher education leads to increased social mobility which encouraged migration: Sun Belt, suburbanization, Levittown, aerospace industry boom in the South and West 19. Immigrants sought political, social, and economic opportunities after new immigration laws: Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, increase in immigration from America and Asia 20. Mass culture becomes homogeneous in post war years: Beat Movement, hippies, Woodstock, 26th amendment 21. Rapid and substantial growth of evangelical Christians: Focus on the Family, Moral Majority, Ronald Reagan |
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Period 9
Important Vocab
Viewing Guide 9.1 Viewing Guide 9.2 Overarching Concepts Major Themes 1. Conservative beliefs significantly increase in the 1980 regarding role of the federal government: Reagonomics, tax cuts, deregulation of airlines, increase in defense spending, Contract with America (Newt Gringrich), Welfare Reform Act under Clinton 2. Policy debates over free trade: NAFTA, WTO 3. End of Cold War under Reagan: Evil Empire Speech, Star Wars (missile defense system), START II, glasnost, perestroika, Persian Gulf War |
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