Unit 2 Study Guide – a guide to preparation for all parts of the Unit Exam

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Table of Contents

Temporary Link to the Possible Questions for the Written Exam.. 1

Practical Issues That Students Frequently Want to Know the Two Parts of the Exam.. 1

Test questions will be from: 1

Caution: What’s Different about Any Unit Test with 6 Chapters. 1

Requirements for Evidence and Endnotes for Unit Writing Exams. 2

Practical Guidance on What You Need to Notice When You Read. 2

Specific Tips for Each Chapter. 2

In Chapter 5. 2

In Chapter 6. 2

In Chapter 7. 2

In Chapters 8, 9, 10. 3

The password. 3

 

Temporary Link to the Possible Questions for the Written Exam

Unit 2 Written Exam's list of possible questions

Practical Issues That Students Frequently Want to Know the Two Parts of the Exam

These issues are provided in this link because it is the same information for each Unit Exam: Click here for a link that covers that information for any Unit Objective Exam and for the Unit Written Exams for Unit 1 and Unit 2

Tip: There is no Written Exam for Unit 3.

Test questions will be from:

·         The textbook

·         The required primary sources

Caution: What’s Different about Any Unit Test with 6 Chapters

 

Requirements for Evidence and Endnotes for Unit Writing Exams

This link cover  how you must use the equivalent of endnotes and cite each fact

Practical Guidance on What You Need to Notice When You Read

Specific Tips for Each Chapter

In Chapter 5

  1. The test will only cover 2 battles—Saratoga and Yorktown. If you look at them, you will know why.
  2. You need to notice vulnerabilities of the Patriots and British.
  3. You need to understand the vulnerabilities of the Articles of Confederation and think that through
  4. You need to notice the state constitutions and the state government, what happens with slavery, and what happens with—something new—freedom of religion
  5. You need to understand the peace terms.
    FYI: The textbook author says it is surprising that the British gave the colonies the land not to the Appalachians, but to the Mississippi.

    My graduate course work included the British side of this war. One test of meaning is to ask yourself what would have happened if the British hadn’t made the decision to give the land (and all those Indians) to the new United States from the Appalachians to the Mississippi?

    Hmmmmm? The British would have been involved in defending the Indians or just fighting the Amercans who were trying move into that new land year after blood-spilled year.

    The British prevented a problem. If you look to the rest of the history of the British in this Unit, they walked away from Indian issues again and again (at the peace treaty and again after the War of 1812. This is no surprise.

 

In Chapter 6

  1. You need to notice Shays’s Rebellion—and later the Whiskey Rebellion. What do they tell you?
  2. You need to notice the Northwest Ordinances on slavery and on how they avoid territories being angry about being colonies by giving them an orderly process to become states. What is the clever solution? Do notice Thomas Jefferson’s role—one that is contrary to a slaveholder but not for someone who supports ordinary white people’s success—and that is a wild idea for that time.
  3. You need to notice what happens to white male voters, women, Native Americans, and slaves.
  4. You need to focus on the new structures that come out of this period, including the National Bank and tariffs and the 3 branches of government set in place. The last part of the chapter does a decent job on those.
  5. You need to notice how the 1st 2 administrations (Washington and John Adams) deal with things.

 

In Chapter 7

  1. You need to notice Jefferson’s administration. What was expected and what actually happened?
  2. You need to notice the mess with War of 1812, but notice most what are the trends that follow.
  3. Continue to notice what happens to white male voters, women, Native Americans, and slaves.

 

In Chapters 8, 9, 10

  1. You are covering trends such as n the economy, foreign policy, expansion west.
  2. You need to notice what happens to white male voters, women, Native Americans, and slaves.
  3. You are also encountering such as the Missouri Compromise, the Monroe Doctrine, the way the bank issues and tariff issues matter, the Panic of 1843 and how it happened.
  4. The link I provide you in each of these chapters in Figuring It Out (Learning is More Than Memorizing) can help you see the changes.

 

Caution: With the Missouri Compromise, you must look at the map provided in Figuring It Out. Notice that most of the Louisiana Purchase is even with the Northwest Territory (free since 1787!).

Notice as the results of the decision to forbid slavery in the rest of the territory above the border of Missouri how many Free states there will be? The Missouri Compromise is temporary solution.

 

You also must read the primary by John Quincy Adams. Boy, did he catch onto the present and future. Notice what he says Calhoun is thinking.

 

The password

You may take exams only 1 time; therefore, the password is


onetimeonly – no spaces and no capital letters.

 

 

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