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American
History
1.
Who were the Mandans?
2.
What did the Native Americans use the buffalo for?
3.
How did the Spanish profoundly affect the life style of the Native
Americans?
4.
How did the Native Americans adapt to the lifestyle of a nomadic people?
5.
How was the status of Native American women affected by the nomadic
lifestyle?
6.
Where was the strength of the Spanish colonies in the continental United
States?
7.
Be able to describe a settlement of the Spanish in the western part of
US?
8.
What was the capitol of the California Territory and other major cities?
9.
Be able to explain the status of women in the New Mexico territory?
10.
Name the priest who started Mexico’s rebellion for Independence?
11.
What does secular mean?
12.
What are presidios?
13.
Who was William Becknell?
14.
What led to Americans immigrating to northern Mexico and what happened to the
settlers?
15.
What parts of the United States made up northern Mexico?
16.
Who were the two leaders of the Texans in northern Mexico?
17.
What was the Texas War for Independence?
18.
Remember the Alamo?
19.
What countries had claims to the Pacific Northwest?
20.
Who were the mountain men?
21.
What and where was the Sante Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail, and Mormon Trail?
22.
Define manifest destiny.
23.
When did the Bear Flag Revolt and the Mexican and American War occurred?
24.
What was so important about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
25.
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
26.
Define the Wilmot Proviso.
27.
What happened in California to cause Americans to rush across the nation?
28.
How did the United States’ government address the Indian Question?
29.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
30.
What were the differences between the north and the south with regards to
slavery issues?
31.
The Missouri Compromise addressed what problems faced by the growing nation?
32.
How did the Compromise of 1850 affect the United States?
33.
What changes in the political parties came about in mid 1800’s?
34.
What were the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
35.
Define the Lecompton Constitution?
36.
What was so important about the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
37.
What was John Brown’s raid?
38.
Why was the election of 1860 so important to the beginning of the Civil War?
39.
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
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