Unit 1 Test Tomorrow (Friday, 10/25)

U.S. History Unit 1 Test Review Guide

Ideas Influencing the Colonies

mercantilism, Magna Carta, Great Awakening, Enlightenment/Enlightenment Thinkers and their main ideas

Pre-Revolution Events

·      Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Common Sense

·      “No taxation without representation”

·      Why did the U.S. declare independence from Great Britain?

Articles of Confederation and its weaknesses

·      Why did the Articles of Confederation fail? What were its weaknesses?

·      Shay’s Rebellion, Class Conflict

U.S. Constitution

·      Constitutional Convention and Major Issues (Representation: republic vs. democracy, Great Compromise, bicameral legislature, equal versus proportionate representation, Three-Fifths Compromise; Division of Power: Federalism (different levels of government and examples of their appropriate functions); Separation of Power: Branches of Government and their functions, the legislative process; Amendments: “elastic clause”)

·      Ratification: Federalist vs. Antifederalist, 1788)

·      Six Big Ideas: Limited Government, Republicanism (the system, not the political party), Federalism, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, Popular Sovereignty (Explain idea/Match idea and quote)

·      Senate/House of Representatives/The Executive Branch Today

·      George Washington elected as the first POTUS in 1789

·      Bill of Rights (#1-10)