Study Guide: EOC

History End of Course Study Guide

Information you need to know to pass the 50-question History 8 End of Course Exam

What you need to know What was the Enlightenment? How did it influence the writers of the Declaration of Independence? Who was John Locke? Which of his ideas influence the founding fathers (the men who established representative government in the United States)? Who was Baron de Montesquieu? Which of his ideas influence the founding fathers (the men who established representative government in the United States)? What was the Magna Carta? How did it influence colonial government? What was the English Bill of Rights? How did it influence colonial government? What was the Glorious Revolution? How did it influence colonial government? What was the Great Awakening? How did it influence revolutionary leaders? What is the classical liberal system? How does it protect the rights of citizens? Why werent the Articles of Confederation successful? What impact did Shays

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Study Guide: EOC Rebellion have on the new government? What was the Three-Fifths Compromise? What problem did it solve? What event occurred as a result of Shays Rebellion? What is federalism? Why are the Bill of Rights important? What are they? What is the Preamble of the United States Constitution (What does it say)? Although Congress can determine and collect taxes, the amount should be uniform across the United States. (Constitutional Article I, Section 8, Clause I). What does this mean? What are the dates of these events: o Boston Tea Party o French and Indian War o Declaration of Independence o Boston Massacre What are the Federalist Papers? How were they important to the signing of the Constitution? What is most important to the success of true democracy? On what issue did George Washington and Thomas Jefferson disagree? Why is freedom of the press important? What are the Alien and Sedition Acts? Why were they passed? Who are the DemocraticRepulicans? What do they believe in? Why was Jefferson hesitant to

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Study Guide: EOC agree to the Louisiana Purchase? What was Manifest Destiny? How was it used by Americans in the 1840s? What was the Trail of Tears? What is the Declaration of Sentiments? What document influenced the writers of the Declaration of Sentiments? What did George Washington warn against in his farewell address (two things)? What responsibilities do ALL citizens have, no matter how old you are? What was the Monroe Doctrine? Why was it important? What did it do? What were members of the womens rights movement fighting for? What were members of the abolitionist movement fighting for? How are these two movements the same? Who was Horace Mann? What did he say about American Education? Who is Eli Whitney? What are interchangeable parts? What effect did cotton have on exports (goods leaving the country)? What can be said about German immigration during the 1840s-1850s? (increase or decrease) What can be said about Irish immigration during the 1840s1850s? (increase or decrease) How did the cotton gin affect

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Study Guide: EOC slavery in the United States? How did the slave rebellions affect slave life? What was the Fugitive Slave Act? How did it affect slaves? How did it affect slaveholders? What is Jacksonian Democracy? What are the two parts of Jacksonian Democracy? Why was Andrew Jackson against the National Bank? What did he do to destroy it? Who was Sojourner Truth? Who was Frederick Douglass? Why were they important to the abolitionist movement? After the South left the United States to form the Confederacy, why was the North ready to go to war? How did the Souths economy affect its performance in the Civil War? Why did the Union perform a naval blockade at the beginning of the war? The North had a difficult time at the start of the war. Which event turned the war around for them? What important ideas did Lincoln try to express in his Second Inaugural Address? What was Plessy v Ferguson? What did the outcome support? What was the main affect of Reconstruction? What were the black codes?

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