US History EOCT Study Guide

SSUSH1: The student will describe European settlement in North America during the 17th century.
1. How did Virginia develop into a colony?

2. What was the significance of tobacco cultivation? How did it effect such settlements like Jamestown?

3. Who was Powhatan? Why was he important?

4. What was the House of Burgesses? What was its significance?

5. What was Bacon’s Rebellion? Why was it significant? What changes did it cause?

6. What events led to the development of the New England Colonies?

7. How did religion effect the development of each region?

8. What was King Phillips War? Why was it significant?

9. What was the purpose of town meetings?

10. What events led to the development of Rhode Island?

11. What was the Half-Way Covenant?

12. What were the Salem Witch Trials? How were they significant?

13. What caused the loss of the Massachusetts Charter?

14. Why did the mid-Atlantic Colonies develop? What were the major reasons?

15. How was New Amsterdam created? Why was it important?

16. Why did the English take New Amsterdam?

17. How and why was Pennsylvania developed?

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18. What were the main reasons for the French settling Quebec?

SSUSH2: The student will trace the ways that the economy and society of British North America
developed.

19. What is Mercantilism? Who benefits from it?

20. What was the trans-Atlantic trade system?

21. What was the middle passage?

22. How did the African American population grow during this time?

23. Who was Ben Franklin? Why was he an American Icon?

24. What is Social Mobility? Individualism?

25. What was the Great Awakening?

SSUSH3: The student will explain the primary causes of the American Revolution.

26. What was the French and Indian War? Who won? How did it affect colonists?

27. What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris 1763? How did it affect the colonists?

28. How did the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?

29. What were the following acts? How did the colonists respond?
a. Proclamation of 1763

b. Sugar Act

c. Intolerable Acts

30. Who were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?

31. Who were the Committees of Correspondence?

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32. Who was Thomas Payne?

33. What was Common Sense? How did it effect the independence movement?

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SSUSH4: The student will identify the ideological, military, and diplomatic aspects of the American
Revolution.
34. What was the Declaration of Independence?

35. Who was John Locke? What did he write? How did it affect the DOI?

36. Who was Montesquieu? What did he write? How did it affect the DOI?

37. What was Thomas Jefferson’s role in writing the DOI?

38. Explain the significance of the colonist alliance with France during the Revolution.

39. How did Ben Franklin and Lafayette help this alliance?

40. How effective a leader was George Washington as a military leader?

41. How did the Continental Army become a professional fighting force?

42. What was life like at Valley Forge?

43. What was the significance of the crossing of the Delaware River and the victory at Trenton?

44. What happened at Yorktown?

45. Who was General Lord Cornwallis?

46. What was the Treaty of Paris 1783? What were the terms of the Treaty?

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SSUSH5: The student will explain specific events and key ideas that brought about the adoption and
implementation of the United States Constitution.

47. What were the Articles of Confederation?

48. What were the weaknesses of the AOC?

49. What was Shay’s Rebellion?

50. How did the rebellion show the weaknesses of the AOC?

51. Who were Federalists? What did they believe?

52. Who were anti-federalists? What did they believe?

53. How did James Madison and Alexander Hamilton influence the creation of the Constitution?

54. What was the Great Compromise? How did satisfy both large and small states?

55. How did the Constitution deal with slavery?

56. What is the Bill of Rights?

57. What rights do the first 10 amendments protect?

58. Why was George Washington’s presidency so important?

59. How did John Adams change the office of President?

60. What was the Whisky Rebellion?

61. What caused the development of political parties?

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SSUSH6: The student will analyze the nature of territorial and population growth and the impact of this
growth in the early decades of the new nation.

62. What was the Northwest Ordinance?

63. How did the Northwest Ordinance affect westward expansion?

64. How did the Northwest Ordinance deal with:

a. Slavery?

b. Education?

c. New States?

65. How did Jefferson obtain the Louisiana Purchase?

66. What was the goal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

67. What caused the War of 1812?

68. What were the significant events of the war?

69. How did the war affect national identity?

70. What is the importance of the Erie Canal?

71. What was the importance of New York City?

72. How did national infrastructure develop?

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SSUSH7: Students will explain the process of economic growth, its regional and national impact in the
first half of the 19th century, and the different responses to it.
73. What was the Industrial Revolution? How did it effect the US?

74. What was the Cotton Gin?

75. What is the significance of interchangeable parts?

76. What is manifest destiny? How did it affect westward expansion?

77. What was the Temperance Movement?

78. What was abolitionism?

79. What efforts were made to change public schools?

80. What was the Women’s Suffrage Movement?

81. Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

82. What was the Seneca Falls Conference?

83. What is Jacksonian Democracy?

84. What is the concept of nationalism?

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SSUSH8: The student will explain the relationship between growing north-south divisions and
westward expansion.

85. What was the Nat Turner rebellion?

86. Who were the following abolitionists?

a. William Lloyd Garrison?

b. Fredrick Douglas?

c. The Grimke sisters?

87. What was the Missouri Compromise? How did it affect slavery?

88. Describe the Nullification Crisis?

89. Who was John C Calhoun?

90. What is sectionalism?

91. What were the causes, events, and effects of the War with Mexico?

92. What was the Wilmot Proviso? How did it try to effect slavery in the new territory?

93. What were the major components of the compromise of 1850?

SSUSH9: The student will identify key events, issues, and individuals relating to the causes, course,
and consequences of the Civil War.

94. What were the major components of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

95. What was popular sovereignty? Why did it fail?

96. What was the Dred Scott Case? How did it affect slavery?

97. What was John Brown’s raid? How did it affect views on slavery?

98. Describe the main points and effects of the Gettysburg Address
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99. What is Habeas Corpus? Why did Lincoln suspend it?

100. What were the Civil War roles of:

a. General Grant

b. General Lee

c. General “Stonewall” Jackson

d. General Sherman

e. President Jefferson Davis (CSA)

101. What was the significance of the following places?

a. Fort Sumter?

b. Antietam?

c. Vicksburg?

d. Gettysburg?

e. Atlanta?

102. What was the Purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?

103. How did it change the purpose of the war?

104. What were the differences between the North and South in the following areas:
a. Population

b. Railways

c. Industrial output

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SSUSH10: The student will identify legal, political, and social dimensions of Reconstruction.
105. What were the major differences between reconstruction plans coming from the President and
the Radical Republicans?

106. What methods were used to redistribute land to former slaves and provide education?

107. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? What was its significance?

108. What was the 13th amendment? How did it change America?

109. What was the 14th amendment? How did it change America?

110. What was the 15th amendment? How did it change America?

111. What are the Black Codes? Why were they created?

112. What was the KKK? What were their major objectives?

113. What other forms of resistance were used to stop racial equality during Reconstruction?

114. Why did congress attempt to impeach Johnson?

SSUSH11: The student will describe the growth of big business and technological innovations after
Reconstruction.
115. How did the railroad expansion help industries?

116. How did the railroad industry affect the steel industry

117. What events affected the development of the Transcontinental Railroad?

118. How did the use of Chinese labor lead to changes in immigration policy?

119. Who was John D. Rockefeller?

120. What was the Standard Oil Company?

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121. Who was Thomas Edison?

122. How these inventions affect Americans:

a. Light bulb

b. Motion pictures

c. Phonographs

SSUSH12: The student will analyze important consequences of American industrial growth.
123. What was the purpose and Ellis Island?

124. Where did immigrants during this time period come from?

125. How did this change urban America?

126. What was the American Federation of Labor? What was their purpose?

127. Who was Samuel Gompers?

128. How did the Western US during this time in regards to Native Americans?

129. What happened at Wounded Knee?

130. Who was Sitting Bull?

131. What was the 1894 Pullman strike? Why did it happen?

132. How did it signify industrial unrest during this time?

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SSUSH13: The student will identify major efforts to reform American society and politics in the
Progressive Era.
133. Who was Upton Sinclair?

134. What affects did The Jungle have on federal oversight on food and drug processing?

135. Who was Jade Addams? What was the Hull House?

136. What are Jim Crow Laws?

137. What was the ruling of Plessey v. Ferguson? How did it change America?

138. Who is the NAACP? What is its mission?

139. Who was Ida Tarbell?

140. What was a Muckraker?

141. How did they change American society?

142. What are the following political reforms:

a. Initiative

b. Recall

c. Referendum

d. Direct election of senators

e. Reform of labor laws

143. What progressive reforms improved living conditions for poor people in cities?

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SSUSH14: The student will explain America’s evolving relationship with the world at the turn of the
twentieth century.
144. What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

145. What did it say about anti-Asian sentiment on the West Coast?

146. What were the major events of the Spanish-American War? What did the US gain from it?

147. What happened during the war in the Philippines?

148. What is expansionism? How did these events change America?

149. What is the Roosevelt Corollary? How did it affect Latin American relations?

150. What is the Panama Canal? Why did the US create it?

SSUSH15: The student will analyze the origins and impact of U.S. involvement in World War I.
151. What is the policy of neutrality?

152. Why did the US stay neutral at the beginning of WWI?

153. What is unrestricted submarine warfare? How did it affect the US?

154. What happened on the home front during WWI?

155. What was the Great Migration?

156. Who was Eugene Debs? What were his goals?

157. What were the major purposes of Wilson’s 14 Points?

158. What was the League of Nations?

159. What was the 18th amendment? Why was it passed?

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160. What is prohibition?

161. What was the 19th amendment? What did it establish?

SSUSH16: The student will identify key developments in the aftermath of WW I.
162. What is communism? Socialism?

163. What was the Red Scare?

164. Who was Henry Ford?

165. What was mass production?

166. How did radios affect Americans?

167. How did TV’s affect Americans?

168. What was the Harlem Renaissance?

169. How did the following people / places / events influence the Harlem renaissance?
a. Louis Armstrong

b. Jazz

c. Langston Hughes

d. Irving Berlin

e. Tin Pan Alley

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SSUSH17: The student will analyze the causes and consequences of the Great Depression.
170. Describe the following causes of the Great Depression

a. Overproduction

b. Under consumption

c. Speculation

d. The Crash of 1929

171. How did drought affect the depression?

172. How did the Dust Bowl effect the depression?

173. How did unemployment affect Americans during this time?

174. What were Hoovervilles?

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SSUSH18: The student will describe Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal as a response to the depression
and compare the ways governmental programs aided those in need.
175. What was the TVA? What was it created to do?

176. What was the purpose of the Wagner Act?

177. What is industrial unionism?

178. What is the Social Security Act?

179. What was the second New Deal?

180. Who was Eleanor Roosevelt? What did she do as a women’s activist?

181. Who was Huey Long?

182. What was the Court Packing Bill?

183. What was the Neutrality Act?

SSUSH19: The student will identify the origins, major developments, and the domestic impact of World
War II, especially the growth of the federal government.
184. Who was A Philip Randolph? What did his March on Washington seek to do?

185. How did Americans treat Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor?

186. How were German-Americans and Italian-Americans treated?

187. What was the Lend-Lease program?

188. What was D-Day?

189. What is War Mobilization?

190. What is Rationing?

191. What was the role of women during the war?

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192. What was atomic bomb?

SSUSH20: The student will analyze the domestic and international impact of the Cold War on the
United States.
193. What was the Marshall Plan created to do?

194. What are examples of the US commitment to Europe?

195. What was the Truman Doctrine? Why was it created?

196. What was the Containment Policy?

197. How did China become Communists?

198. What was the Korean War about? What did it represent?

199. What was McCarthyism?

200. How did the Cuban Revolution affect the US?

201. What happened at the Bay of Pigs?

202. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

203. What were the major events of the Vietnam War?

204. What was the significance of the Tet offensive?

SSUSH21: The student will explain economic growth and its impact on the United States, 1945-1970.
205. Who are the Baby Boomers?

206. What are Levittowns?

207. What was the Interstate Highway Act?

208. How did all of these affect modern America?

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209. What was this significance of the Kennedy / Nixon debates?

210. How did TV affect the Civil Rights Movement?

211. Describe the importance of the personal computer and the cell phone as modern
conveniences?

212. What was the impact of Sputnik I to US-USSR relations?

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SSUSH22: The student will identify dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1970.
213. What effect did President Truman’s order to integrate the US troops have on the Civil Rights
Movement?

214. What were the social effects of Jackie Robinson and the integration of Baseball?

215. What court decision did Brown v. Board of education reverse? Why this decision was resisted
so much?

216. What issues did the Letters from a Birmingham Jail expose and address? What was the
significance of the “I Have a Dream Speech”?

217. What was the affects of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

218. What was the affects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

SSUSH23: The student will describe and assess the impact of political developments between 1945
and 1970.
219. Who was Earl Warren?

220. What cases did his court hear and how did they affect America?

221. How did JFK’s assassination affect America?

222. How did it affect Civil Rights legislation?

223. What was the Great Society?

224. What were Medicare / Medicaid?

225. Describe the significance of the following events

a. Assassination of Dr. King

b. Assassination of RFK

c. Democratic Convention of 1968

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SSUSH24: The student will analyze the impact of social change movements and organizations of the
1960s.
226. What was the purpose of the SNCC and the SCLC? What are the differences in their
approaches to Civil Rights reforms?

227. What were sit-ins? Freedom rides?

228. What happened at Kent State?

229. Who was Chavez? What did he fight for?

230. Who were the UFW?

231. Who was Rachel Carson? What was Silent Spring?

232. What is Earth Day?

233. Who is the EPA? What are their responsibilities?

234. Who was Barry Goldwater? What did he start?

235. What is the significance of the election of Nixon?

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SSUSH25: The student will describe changes in national politics since 1968.
236. Why did Nixon go to China?

237. What was the Watergate Scandal?

238. What was significant about President Ford?

239. What was significant about Roe v. Wade?

240. What is Affirmative Action?

241. What did Carter do during

a. The Camp David Accords?

b. The Iranian Revolution?

c. The Iranian Hostage Crisis?

242. What happened domestically and internationally during Reagan’s presidency?

243. What was Reaganomics?

244. What was the Iran-contra scandal?

245. Why did the Soviet Union collapse?

246. What happened during the Clinton administration?

247. What was NAFTA?

248. Describe Clinton’s impeachment and acquittal.

249. What is the Electoral College?

250. Who won the race of 2000?

251. What were the reasons for the 9/11 attacks?

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252. How did President Bush respond?

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