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Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) Explain how early peoples evolved into stable and secure cultures. 2) Explain how the emergence of ecosystems made for ever greater biological diversity. 3) Compare and contrast the early cultures of ancient Mexico. 4) […]

• Identify the innovations and limitations that local resources provided early American civilizations. • Outline the process of crisis and transformation that North American and Mesoamerican societies experienced between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. ice spanning the Bering Strait in […]

IM – 10 | 1 • Describe the rise of factories and industrial work across eastern North America. • Explain the social structures of nineteenth-century American market society. • Explain the relationship between prosperity and anxiety in nineteenth-century America. encouraging […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) What were the new forms of transportation that developed in the period of 1800–1850? What was the importance of each type of transportation? Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : Understand Topic : […]

Americans and free Blacks. • Describe Calhoun’s theory of nullification and why it was unsuccessful. • Explain Jackson’s opposition to the Second Bank of the United States. • Compare and contrast the philosophies of the Whigs and Democrats, and describe […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) List four components of the new democratic political system. How did each of these represent a change from the previous political system? Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : Understand Learning Objective : […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) What distinguished Mormonism from main-line Christian Evangelicalism? Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : Understand Learning Objective : Compare and contrast the visionary reform groups of the early nineteenth century Topic : Visionaries […]

• Compare and contrast the visionary reform groups of the early nineteenth century with evangelicals. • Describe the antislavery and women’s rights movements and the schism between the two. • Explain how the temperance and abolitionist movements created instability in […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) Identify three major differences between society and life on the cotton frontier and in the Tidewater region. What was the significance of these differences? Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : Understand Learning […]

cotton production and the institution of slavery. • Examine the organization and maintenance of slave labor and the resistance efforts of enslaved people. • Describe the culture of enslaved people. • Identify the arguments used to defend the practice of […]

IM – 14 | 1 • Describe both the political origins of westward expansion and some of the significant consequences. • Compare and contrast the new societies that emerged in the West with increased expansion. • Outline the provisions of […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) During what time-period did the Sioux expand westward onto the Great Plains? Discuss at least two factors that helped them expand. Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : Understand Learning Objective : Explain […]

• Detail the events that led to the political realignment of the 1850s and the emergence of the Republican Party. • Identify the key issues of the worsening sectional crisis in the late 1850s. • Describe the sectional election of […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) Explain how changes in three of the following areas heightened sectional tensions: the new commercial agriculture, the growth of a railroad economy, rising industrialization, and immigration. Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : […]

• Describe the Emancipation Proclamation and its impact upon the war and the African American populace. • Describe life on the Confederate home front. • Describe life on the Union home front. • Describe the life of a soldier during […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) Discuss how four of the following factors worked as an advantage either for the North or for the South: geography, political leadership, manpower, industrial capacity, and relative strength of the central government. Question Details […]

• Compare and contrast the three main groups who represented the new Republican parties in the South: Black and white southerners and transplanted northerners. • Describe life for freed African Americans, including ways they asserted their new freedom. • Identify […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) Contrast the terms of Lincoln’s program of Reconstruction with Johnson’s program. Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : Understand Topic : Presidential Reconstruction Learning Objective : Describe the different presidential approaches to Reconstruction […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) Discuss conditions that encouraged early modern Europeans to undertake voyages of exploration and discovery. Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : Understand Learning Objective : Describe the beginnings of English colonization of North […]

Ages by conquering the world’s oceans, opening direct contact and commerce with Africa and Asia, and rediscovering America. Before the end of the fourteenth century, western Europeans had relied on the mariners and merchants of the Muslim world for their […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) Describe Wahunsenecawh’s reactions to the arrival of the English in the Chesapeake. Why did Powhatan allow the settlement at Jamestown to survive? Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : Understand Learning Objective : […]

• Detail the factors that led to the crisis within Chesapeake society by the 1660s. • Compare the important features of colonial societies in the Carolinas and Caribbean. advance his own longstanding objectives. Although he considered the colonists a nuisance, […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) Compare the French motives for colonizing North America with those of the English. Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : Understand Topic : France in North America Gradable : manual Learning Objective : […]

• Outline the development of law and stability in early New England. • Compare the reasons for the formation of the mid-Atlantic colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. • Summarize the impact of a tightening monarchical authority […]

• Analyze the important forces of division in late eighteenth-century British North America. • Describe slave societies across the eighteenth-century South. • Explain the impact of the Enlightenment and the First Great Awakening on colonial American society and culture. • […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) What forces of division were operating in the British colonies during the first half of the eighteenth century? Discuss with specific reference to at least two of the following areas: immigration, the backcountry, boundary […]

• Identify key events of and reasons for the crisis of imperial leadership between 1763 and 1775. • Identify the key events and causes of the evolution of colonial opposition to British rule. to protect their territory and political sovereignty […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) Explain the success of the British in the Seven Years’ War. Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Topic : The Seven Years’ War Bloom’s : Understand Learning Objective : Explain the reasons for and […]

• Explain key turning points in the Revolutionary War. • Outline the course of the war in the South. • Explain the impact of the Yorktown surrender and the end of the war. revenues, came to regard independence as their […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) Describe British and American military strategies as they evolved over the course of the War for Independence. Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : Understand Learning Objective : Outline the course of the […]

America. • Identify important features of early republican society and culture. • Outline the process and key events that led from the Confederation to the establishment of the U.S. Constitution in 1789. arising from independent nationhood and the challenge of […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) Discuss the ways in which the frontier influenced national politics during the Confederation period. Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s : Understand Learning Objective : Describe the role of western temptations, foreign intrigues, […]

• Explain the key features of the political culture of the early republic. • Describe the primary accomplishments and conflicts of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency. • Discuss the expansion of the nation and its impact on relations between whites and Native […]

Version 1 1 Student name:__________ 1) What social and economic groups in American society tended to support the Federalist Party? Why did each do so? Why did commercial groups generally support the Federalists? Question Details Accessibility : Keyboard Navigation Bloom’s […]