1. U.S. History Semester One Exam
January 7 & 8, 2015

2. US History Study Guide Objective: Purpose: Standard(s):
Students will be able to review information learned and assess comprehension.
Purpose:
To Prepare for the Semester One Exam.
Standard(s):
Historical Thinking Skill:
Analysis & Interpretation.
Cause & Consequence.

3. Farewell the Tea board with your gaudy attire,
Ye cups and saucers that I did admire;
To my cream pot and tongs I now bid adieu;
That pleasure’s all fled that I once found in you…
No more shall my teapot so generous be
In filling the cups with this pernicious [evil] tea,
For I’ll fill it with water and drink out of same,
Before I’ll lose Liberty that dearest name…
The verses above come from a colonial poem entitled “A Lady’s Adieu to Her Tea-Table.” Read and answer the following question:
53. Why do you think this poem might have been written and distributed?
To gain support for women’s right to vote
To get people to drink more tea
To explain to colonists what liberty means
To boycott British tea

4. Read them and answer the following question:
. . . When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does. . . Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the common good.
—Henry D. Gilpin, Ed., the Papers of James Madison (New York, 1841)
The words above were used by Benjamin Franklin to urge his fellow delegates to the Constitutional Convention to adopt the Constitution.
Read them and answer the following question:
61. Why did Franklin support a Constitution that he felt was not perfect?
He felt that his opinion was more important than the common good.
He believed that in a diverse nation absolute perfection would not be possible.
He felt the Revolutionary War was a mistake.
He thought the Constitutional Convention could do better.

5. Use the graph above to answer the following question:
78. Which region had both a better transportation system and was more industrial?
North
South
Both
Neither

6. 95. According to the above cartoon, how did the Ku Klux Klan view post-Civil War America?
As the end of White rule
As an admission of defeat
As a continuing struggle to make the lives of African Americans “worse than slavery”
As continuing the Revolutionary War

7. 100. Which era of American history does this graphic evoke?
Revolutionary War
Monroe Doctrine
Westward Expansion
Industrial Revolution

8. Activity: Semester One Exam Short Answers
Short Answer Questions Pick 4 of the following questions full paragraphs each. A paragraph is a minimum of 5 Sentences.
At the Constitutional Convention, delegates debated whether or not slaves should be included when calculating a state’s population. Why was this issue important, and how was the debate resolved?
Northern abolitionists and southern slaveholders both believed they were defending the Constitution. Summarize their opposing beliefs on this point.
Compare the hardships faced by former slaves, plantation owners, and poor white southerners after the Civil War
Explain the theory of social Darwinism
Compare the ways in which Native Americans and homesteaders used land on the Great Plain
How would you contrast the impact that the French fur traders had on Native American groups with that of the English settlers?
Your textbook states that “the status of women in colonial society was determined by the men in their lives.” What facts can you cite to support this conclusion?
Compare American and British advantages and disadvantages during the Revolutionary War.
Explain the thinking behind the protest “no taxation without representation!”

9. Assessment: Jeopardy Game

10. Closure: CNN Student News
Write down 5 facts for extra credit.

11. What is one thing you are looking forward to next semester?
Closure: Exit Slip
What is one thing you are looking forward to next semester?
Put the textbooks on the front or side of the classroom.