JOHN C. KINCHELOE Northern
Virginia Community
College
Exam Review Sheet
US1- Early American History
There are two exams for this course.The Midterm Exam
deals with material from the first half of the course and the
Final Exam deals with material from the second half.
Each exam will feature a 20 item Map section, a
Chronology section, and 1 essay.
You will be given 2
lists of 10 locations from the following list and
asked to place them on a blank maps of
North America
[link] and the Atlantic [link.]
Map items for
midterm exam
Cahokia
St. Augustine
New Amsterdam
New Orleans
New Haven
Jamestown
Tenochtitlan
Chaco Canyon
Lisbon
Paris
London
Canary
Islands
Plymouth
Ft. Orange
Savannah
River
Delaware
River
Hudson River
Bunker Hill
Boston
Haiti
Jamaica
Philadelphia
Boston
Charleston
Newport
Salem
Chesapeake
Bay
Williamsburg
Yorktown
Atlantic
Ocean
Hartford
Long Island
Sea Islands
Map items for
final exam
Sutter’s Mill
Rio Grande
River
Mississippi
River
Potomac River
Annapolis
Tennessee
River
Gulf of
Mexico
Geneva
Istanbul
Philadelphia
Tippecanoe
Lowell
Erie Canal
St. Louis
Savannah
Lake Michigan
Merrimack
River
Santa Fe
Knoxville
Rochester
Albany
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Chicago
Cumberland
Concord
Chattanooga
Columbia
River
New Echota
Richmond
Pittsburgh
Newark
Nantucket
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II - Chronology: (10%)
--Drawn from
historical events and people covered in
lecture. (Review of
Lecture Notes on the syllabus may be
helpful.)---
-matching =
You will be given a list of people, events,
etc. to be matched to its associated
Culture/Region. (Context)
-timeline = You
will be given a list of events or people to
be put in order of when they happened.(Causation)
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III – Essay: (70%)
You will be given 1
out of the following list of essays and
asked to answer it as an argumentative
essay.
-You must
incorporate the required number of primary
sources chosen from those
listed/linked in the course schedule.
-Citations are not required, but documents
and quotes must be clearly attributed, and
must have notations in the margin.
-Plagiarism
policy applies...this must be a product of
your own efforts.
Midterm
Exam essay questions:
What was the
importance of Native Americans to the
European settlement of the new world and the
colonial formation of the United
States? Use at least 2
primary sources to discuss the topic.
What is the
role of diversity in the history of
pre-Revolutionary America?Defend
your argument fully using multiple different
groups in multiple time periods.Use at least 2 primary
sources to discuss the topic.
There are
many causes that led up to the colonial
revolt that became the American Revolution.Which
was the most influential cause of
dissatisfaction?Why this one as opposed to
others? Use at least 2
primary sources to discuss the topic.
It
has been argued that the motivating factor
of North American Colonial settlement was
the pursuit of profit.Do
you agree with this? Why or why not?Address
multiple colonies. Use
at least 2 primary sources to discuss
the topic.
Final Exam
essay questions:
Slavery was
a political issue within America from the
founding of the Unites States.Why
was it such a hotly debated issue?Address
the Early Republic, Market Revolution, and
Civil War Eras?Use at least 2 primary
sources to discuss the topic.
Which of the
following themes do you think is the most
useful for understanding the first 90 years
of the United States:Political
Conflict, Expansionism, or Economic
Sectionalism?Why?
Use at least 2 primary
sources to discuss the topic.
As theUnited
States entered an age of rapid
transportation and production, the northern
and southern states increasingly based their
economies on different types of production.Were
these divergent directions a hindrance or a
benefit to a rapidly growing country? Why?Use
at least 2 primary sources to discuss
the topic.
It has been
argued that the history of the early
development of the United States was the
struggle between competing visions of
America’s economic future.What
were these competing visions?Do
you agree with this statement? Why or why
not? Use at least 2 primary
sources to discuss the topic.