Homework 7: AP Benchmark Review
- Review the following key terms:
Columbian Exchange
Plains Indians Eastern Woodlands Indians Virginia Company indentured servitude Chesapeake Anglican Church Articles of Confederation French and Indian War Northwest Ordinances Bill of Rights |
Great Compromise (Constitution)
cotton gin Mexican Cession Wilmot Proviso popular sovereignty Compromise of 1850 transcontinental railroad secession of South Carolina Chinese Exclusion Act railroad land grants |
laissez-faire
Progressivism Warren G. Harding New Deal FERA CCC WPA Court-packing Lend-Lease Act nuclear deterrence military-industrial complex |
2. Answer the following review questions. (All these topics will be on the Benchmark; however, I only require that you submit 5 of the following 8 questions):
- What were the major effects of the Columbian Exchange?
- How did New England and Virginia differ in the colonial era?
- What were the successes and failures of the Articles of Confederation?
- Why did the institution of slavery grow stronger from 1790 to 1860?
- How did the Mexican-American War affect the debate over slavery?
- What were the effects of the expansion of the railroads?
- What was the "Return to Normalcy" of the 1920s?
- How did the New Deal permanently affect the role of the government?