David M. Lauderback,
Ph.D.
STUDY GUIDE
U.S. HISTORY I
QUIZZES
Chapter Quizzes
Combined, the Chapter
Quizzes equal the value of one Unit Exam toward your final
grade.
Students will take 15 Chapter Quizzes, one for each chapter
in Foner, Give
Me Liberty! An
American History, vol. 1. Each Chapter Quiz is
available via the course
Blackboard
page. To receive full credit, students must
submit the Chapter Quizzes by 10:30 am on
the date the Chapter Quiz is due in the Course Schedule.
If the quiz is submitted after 10:30 am on
the date the Chapter Quiz is due in the Course Schedule,
it will be treated as a "late." The highest score you can
receive on a late quiz is 18/25 (72%).
The deadline for all
late quizzes is the deadline for the 5th Exam. If you do not
complete any quiz by the deadline for the 5th Exam, you will
receive a 0 for each missing quiz. No quizzes will be accepted
after the deadline for Exam 4 listed in the Course Schedule.
Students may:
Each chapter has a
twenty-five (25) question multiple-choice quiz that focuses on
the learning objectives found in the Study Guide. Please
see the Study Guide for
the steps to follow when reading the chapters in Give Me Liberty!
and the links on the course
Blackboard
page to use in order to prepare for the Chapter
Quizzes.
Combined, your average
on the 15 quizzes equals one exam.
REMEMBER: I am
always happy to meet before and after quizzes and exams to
talk about test-taking strategies and how to apply the study
guide to the quizzes and exams. Come on by or give me a call
during my office hours. Or send me an email. If my office
hours do not fit your schedule, let me know and we will set up
a time.:)
Preparing for the
Chapter Quizzes
Below are a series of steps designed to help you prepare for
the Chapter Quizzes and the Unit Exams. Each of the items
below are available via the course
Blackboard
page. Just click on:
Please note, only
the Chapter Quizzes and the Unit Exams will count toward your
semester grade. The other steps are set up to help you
prepare, first, for the chapter quizzes. Then, you can use the Chapter Quizzes to
practice for the the Unit Exams.
I am always happy to
meet before and after quizzes and exams to talk about
test-taking strategies and how to apply the study guide to the
quizzes and exams. Come on by or give me a call during my
office hours. Or send me an email. If my office hours do not
fit your schedule, let me know and we will set up a time.:)
Step 1: Focus
Questions
Each chapter begins
with a list of Focus Questions. You can find the Focus
Questions at the beginning of every chapter of the
textbook. At the bottom of the Study Guide below, you
will find the Focus Questions for each chapter and the pages
covered by each Focus Question.
Please note that each
Focus Question also has some additional, or supplemental,
questions listed right below with the page numbers for each
supplemental question.
The Focus Questions
and the additional supplemental questions are designed to give
you the structure to help guide your understanding of the
purpose and details of each chapter. Every link in the
Course Materials -- the Outline, the Guided Reading Exercises,
the Author Videos, the Sources of Freedom & the Voices of
Freedom, the US History Tour, the iMap,
and all the rest -- are created to help you make sense of the
details in the text book. The Focus Questions exist to help
you understand not only the details of the people and events
of American history, but also why the people who live
in United States have acted as they have.
Most important, all of
the links on the Course Materials for every chapter have been
set up to help answer the Focus Questions.
Why?
Because the questions
on the Chapter Quizzes and the questions in the Unit Exams
come from the Focus Questions and the additional
questions listed below each Focus Question.
See the Guided Reading
Exercises below for more details about how to review the text
for the Focus Questions and the additional supplemental
questions that you will find on the Chapter Quizzes and Unit
Exams.
See below for the
questions in the Guided Reading Exercises by Unit and Chapter.
Step 2:
Outline
Before you even begin
to read a chapter, spend some time with the Outline.
Familiarize yourself with some of the important terms and
people. Get a sense of the order in which events took place.
See how the author has organized the main information and the
subsets for each part of the chapter.
It is okay if you do
not understand or are able to memorize each of the details of
the Outline the first time if you review the Outline link.
Instead, think of the Outline as a way to organize your
thoughts about the chapter. Use the Outline to make sense of
the main points of each chapter. Then, when you do the Guided
Reading Exercises, spend time with the Sources of Freedom and
Visions of Freedom links, take the US History Tour, do some of
the exercises on iMap, and work
with any of the other links in each chapter, return to the
Outline to help remind you of the main points of each chapter.
Take advantage of the Outline to review, once again, the
details you need to answer the Focus Questions.
The Outline is not
a required element of the course. The Outline is not
graded.
The Outline is an
excellent tool to use when reviewing the material in each
chapter and will help you prepare for the Chapter Quizzes and
Unit Exams.
Step 3: Guided
Reading Exercises
The Guided Reading
Exercises are the most important tool to use for
reviewing the material in each chapter and preparing for the
Chapter Quizzes and Unit Exams.
You can find the
Guided Reading Exercise for the first Focus question
of each chapter available in Course Materials on the course Blackboard
page.
You are not
required to complete the 1st Guided Reading Exercise for any
or all of the chapters. But, if you do complete a Guided
Reading Exercise, I will give you feedback on your work.
Then, you can use the experience of the Guided Reading
Exercise to prepare for the remaining Focus Questions for the
chapter.
Remember, each Focus
Question covers specific pages in each chapter and, each Focus
Question has supplemental questions that each cover specific pages.
The Focus Questions
have several several important
factors, influences, steps, results, or developments
(whichever the Focus Question requires). As you do the
Guided Reading Exercises to direct your review of the text to
find the answers, you ought to find four or five factors, etc.
for each Focus Question and each additional
sub-question in each Guided Reading Exercise. None of
the Focus Questions or the additional questions in the Guided
Reading Exercises can be answered with one
word answers. As you find the four or five pertinent
factors, etc. for each Focus Question and each additional
question in each Guided Reading Exercise, WRITE OUT your
answers. Then, study your notes. Use the other links in
the course Materials to help you review the Focus Questions.
Follow the steps in
the Study Guide and you ought to do well on the exams.
If you simply skim the
text looking for one word answers
to the Focus Questions, you WILL have difficulty with the
quizzes and exams. Put the time into studying and
reviewing your notes regularly, and you should be pleased with
your test results.
The Guided Reading
Exercises are not a required element of the course.
The Guided Reading Exercises are not graded.
The Guided Reading
Exercises are the most important tool to use when
reviewing the material in each chapter and will help you
prepare for the Chapter Quizzes and Unit Exams.
See below for the
questions in the Guided Reading Exercises by Exam and Chapter.
Step 4:
Author Videos
Each chapter has a
series of Author Videos. Eric Foner,
the author of Give Me Liberty!,
uses the videos to explore some important events and details
for each Focus Questions. Watching the videos is a good
way to review the main themes of the chapter and think about
the Focus Questions.
The Author Videos are
not a required element of the course. The Author Videos
are not graded.
Step 5:
Flashcards
Each chapter has a
link to a series of "flashcards" that you can use to review
the Key Terms from the chapter. You can find the Key Terms at
the end of each chapter. You can download and/or print out the
flash cards to study at your convenience.
The Flashcards are not a required element of the
course. The Flashcards are not graded.
The Flashcards are
an excellent way to review the material in each Chapter and
will help you prepare for the Chapter Quizzes and Unit Exams.
Step 6:
Sources of Freedom & Visions of Freedom
Each chapter has
series of documents and images that explore differing
conceptions of "freedom." Spending time with the Sources
of Freedom and the Visions of Freedom will help you think
about the ways in which the people who have lived in the
Untied States conceive of freedom. And, each of the documents
and images are linked directly to the Focus Questions at the
beginning of the chapter.
The Sources of Freedom and Visions of Freedom are not
a required element of the course. The worksheets attached to
the Sources of freedom and Visions of Freedom are not
graded.
The Sources of Freedom
and Visions of Freedom are excellent tools to use when
reviewing the material in each chapter and will help you
prepare for the Chapter Quizzes and Unit Exams.
Step 7: US
History Tour & IMAP
The US history to
provides a series of interactive links that's racist Oracle
developments across time, touching down on locations vital to
our nation's heritage and development. Points of interest in
each tour launch primary and multimedia sources you can view
through Google Chrome.
Each chapter also has
a series of interactive maps, or IMAP. The interactive
maps are great way to take a look at the movement of people
and ideas overtime. You can really see the evolution of the
economy, agriculture, and movement of people over time.
The US History Tour
and IMAP are not a required element of the course. The
US History Tour and IMAP are not graded.
The US History Tour
and IMAP are excellent tools to use when reviewing the
material in each chapter and will help you prepare for the
Chapter Quizzes and Unit Exams.
Step 8: Review
Questions
At the end of each
chapter, you can find a list of Review Questions and Key
Terms. The author has written the review questions to help you
make sense of the details you just read. Most of all, the
review questions help you make sense of the Focus Questions
and the additional questions within the Guided Reading
Exercises. The Key Terms help you to understand which events,
themes, issues, and people, matter most in the chapter. See
the Flashcards for how to review the key terms.
The Review Questions
are not a required element of the course. The Review
Questions are not graded.
The Review Questions
are an excellent tool to use when reviewing the material in
each chapter and preparing for the Chapter Quizzes and Unit
Exams.
Step 9: InQuizitive
Each chapter has an online module designed to
help students review the material before taking the Chapter
Quiz: InQuizitive
You can find the link to on InQuizitive on
the Textbook link on the course
Blackboard
page.
The InQuizitive
modules
are not a required element of the course. The InQuizitive
modules are not graded.
The InQuizitive
modules
are an excellent tool to use when reviewing the material in
each chapter and preparing for the Chapter Quizzes and Unit
Exams.
Step 10:
Chapter Review Quiz
When you are ready to
take the Chapter Review Quiz, just go to the course
Blackboard
page, click on Course Materials, and then click
on the link to the Review Quiz.
Once you begin the
quiz, you need to complete in one sitting. You will have
twenty (20) minutes to complete the quiz. If you submit
without answering all the questions, then you will receive
zero (0) points for any unanswered questions. Once you
submit, the quiz is done. There are no retests for the Chapter
Review Quizzes.
Remember, to receive
full credit, students must submit the Chapter Review Quizzes by
10:30 am on the date the quiz is due in
the Course
Schedule. If the quiz is
submitted after 10:30 am on
the date the Chapter Quiz is due in the Course Schedule,
it will be treated as "late." The highest score you can
receive on a late quiz is 18/25 (72%).
The deadline for all
late quizzes is the deadline for the 5th Exam. If you do not
complete any quiz by the deadline for the 5th Exam, you will
receive a 0 for each missing quiz. No quizzes will be accepted
after the deadline for Exam 4 listed in the Course Schedule.
The Focus Questions have several several important factors,
influences, steps, results, or developments (whichever the
Focus Question requires). As you do the Guided Reading
Exercises to direct your review of the text to find the
answers, you ought to find four or five factors, etc. for
each Focus Question and each additional sub-question
in each Guided Reading Exercise. None of the Focus
Questions or the additional questions in the Guided Reading
Exercises can be answered with one word
answers. As you find the four or five pertinent factors,
etc. for each Focus Question and each additional question in
each Guided Reading Exercise, WRITE OUT your answers.
Then, study your notes. Use the other links in the course
Materials to help you review the Focus Questions.
Follow the steps in the Study Guide
and you ought to do well on the exams.
If you simply skim the text looking
for one word answers to the
Focus Questions, you WILL have difficulty with the quizzes
and exams. Put the time into studying and reviewing
your notes regularly, and you should be pleased with your
test results.
Unit Exams
Exams -- 100 points
Students will take four Exams. Each exam
will cover a separate chronological period:
1492-1763, 1763-1815, 1815-1840 and
1840-1877.
There will NOT be a comprehensive “final” exam.
The last exam will test for the material covered since the
third exam.
Each Exam will have 25 multiple-choice
questions.
The exams test your ability to analyze the
information contained in the textbook, documents, and the
class lectures. Memorization will NOT be enough. In order to
demonstrate your knowledge of the course materials, you must
be able to identify the best answer to each multiple-choice
question.
See the Course
Schedule for the dates of each Exam.
Retests
Students who fail either of the first two exams
will have the opportunity to retest. All retests must be
arranged with the instructor and must be taken by the date
specified by the instructor. The highest grade that can be
earned on a retest is a
18/25 or 72%. Students may NOT use the retest to make up an
exam.
Retests will be given at the Riverside Testing
Center. For hours, see the ACC Testing
Centers or call: 223-3164. And you MUST have
an ACC ID
before you can take an exam at one of the ACC Testing
Centers.
Make-Up Exams
Students who cannot attend class the day an exam
is given may have the opportunity to take a make-up exam.
Students must contact the instructor BEFORE the scheduled date
of the exam to arrange for a make-up exam. ONLY STUDENTS WHO
RECEIVE PERMISSION FROM THE INSTRUCTOR MAY TAKE A MAKE-UP
EXAM. See the Course
Schedule for the date when you take a make-up
exam.
All make-up exams for each of the first three
exams will be given at the Riverside Testing Center.
THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS POLICY. For hours,
see the ACC
Testing Centers or call: 223-3164. Remember,
you MUST have an ACC ID
before you can take an exam at one of the ACC Testing
Centers.
Two things to remember
about the Unit Exams:
How so?
The Chapter Quizzes
require you to apply what you have learned from one
chapter. The Unit Exams require you to apply what you
have learned from three (3) or four (4) chapters. See the Course Schedule
for which chapters are covered in which units.
2.) Your overall course average
determines your final grade. In that sense, you may fail one
or more exams and still pass the course provided that your average
of all 4 grades is 70% or better. In order to receive the
maximum score on an exam, students must take exams no
later than the deadline listed in the Course Schedule. If
you take the exam after the deadline, then it counts as a
re-test. See the re-test policy above.
And remember:
The Focus Questions have several several important factors,
influences, steps, results, or developments (whichever the
Focus Question requires). As you do the Guided Reading
Exercises to direct your review of the text to find the
answers, you ought to find four or five factors, etc. for
each Focus Question and each additional sub-question
in each Guided Reading Exercise. None of the Focus
Questions or the additional questions in the Guided Reading
Exercises can be answered with one word
answers. As you find the four or five pertinent factors,
etc. for each Focus Question and each additional question in
each Guided Reading Exercise, WRITE OUT your answers.
Then, study your notes. Use the other links in the course
Materials to help you review the Focus Questions.
Follow the steps in the Study Guide
and you ought to do well on the exams.
If you simply skim the text looking
for one word answers to the
Focus Questions, you WILL have difficulty with the quizzes
and exams. Put the time into studying and reviewing
your notes regularly, and you should be pleased with your
test results.
NOTE: Learning objectives and directions for the Exams
can be found below. Quiz directions start at the top
of the Study Guide.
!!EXAMS
1-4 REQUIRE MUCH MORE PREPARATION THAN the
QUIZZES!!
!!EXAMS 1-4 ARE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THAN the
QUIZZES!!
YOU MUST PAY ATTENTION
TO THE QUESTIONS ON THE TESTS
AND CAREFULLY APPLY
WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED FROM
THE STUDY GUIDE BELOW
REMEMBER, ALWAYS HAPPY TO
VISIT.:)
WE CAN MEET BEFORE AND AFTER YOUR EXAMS TO TALK ABOUT TEST
TAKING STRATEGIES AND HOW TO APPLY THE STUDY GUIDE TO THE
EXAMS.
JUST ASK.:)
Ch. 4
“Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire, to 1763”
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Ch. 5
“The American Revolution, 1763-1783”
Why did some promote education as necessary for
the new republic? p. 222
Ch. 7
“Founding a Nation, 1783-1791”
Ch. 8 “Securing the Republic,
1791-1815”
How did the French Revolution shape American
national politics in the 1790s? pp.
292-293
How did the the role of women in the
increase in the "public sphere"? pp.
296-301
How did the Marshall Court introduce the
concept of "judicial review"? pp.
309-310
Explain the irony of Thomas Jefferson's
acquisition of Louisiana. pp.
310-311
Ch. 9
“The Market Revolution, 1800-1840”
Focus Question 1. What were the main
elements of the market revolution? pp.
327-337
How did improvements in transportation and
communication alter the population distribution of the
United States in the first half of the nineteenth century? pp. 331-335
How did the rise of the “Cotton Kingdom” change
life in the South? pp. 335-337
Focus Question 2. How did the market
revolution spark social change? Pp. 337-347
Focus Question 3. How did the meanings of
American freedom change in this period? 347-356
How did the Second Great Awakening draw on the
individualism of the ear and change how Americans saw faith?
pp. 351-352
Focus Question 4. How did the market
revolution affect the lives of workers, women, and
African-Americans? Pp. 356-362
What improvements did the new "cult of
domesticity" bring to women's lives, and what disadvantages
did the new conception of femininity have? pp. 358-360
Why did early labor movements
stress the "liberty of living?" pp. 361-362?
Ch. 10 “Democracy
in America, 1815-1840”
Focus Question 1. What were the social
bases for the flourishing democracy of the early
mid-nineteenth century? pp.
366-373
How did the market economy and its technologies
shape the "information revolution" in the 1830s? pp. 368-369
Focus Question 2. What efforts were made
in this period to strengthen the economic integration of
the nation, and what major crises hindered these efforts?
pp. 373-379
How did the Supreme Court respond to the
challenges of the market revolution? 376
Focus Question 3. What were the major
areas of conflict between nationalism and sectionalism? pp. 379-387
Explain the significance of the Monroe
Doctrine. pp. 381
Why did Congress have to decide the Elec. of 1824. pp.
381-382
Focus Question 4. In what ways did Andrew
Jackson embody the contradictions of democratic
nationalism? pp. 387-397
Why did John C. Calhoun insist on the principle
of nullification? pp. 391-393
Focus Question 5. How did the Bank War
influence the economy and party competition? pp. 397-402
Ch. 11
“The Peculiar Institution”
Focus Question 1. How did slavery shape
social and economic relations in the Old South? pp. 405-418
Explain the relationship between white slaveowners and non-slaveholding
whites. pp. 410-413
Focus Question 2. What were the legal and
material constraints on slaves’ lives and work? pp. 418-428
Explain the various systems of slave labor in
the South. pp. 425-428
Focus Question 3. How did family, gender,
religion, and values combine to create distinct slave
cultures in the Old South? pp.
428-433
How did gender and religion shape the life of
slaves in the South? pp. 430-431
Focus Question 4. What were the major
forms of resistance to slavery? pp.
433-440
Ch. 12
“An Age of Reform, 1820-1840”
Focus Question 1. What were the major
movements and goals of antebellum reform? pp.442-451
Focus Question 2. What were the different
varieties of abolitionism? pp.
452-459
How did abolitionists spread their message? Pp.
454-457
Focus Question 3. How did abolitionism
challenge barriers to racial equality and free speech? pp. 459-464
How did women first enter the public sphere in
early-nineteenth-century America? pp.
464-465
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Ch. 13 “A House Divided,
1840-1861”
Focus Question 1. What were the major
factors contributing to U.S. territorial expansion in the
1840s? pp. 477-490
Why did Polk push war with Mexico?483-484
How did California become a center of American
settlement? pp. 487-489
Focus Question 2. Why did the expansion
of slavery become the most divisive political issue in the
1840s and 1850s? 490-498
How did the new Fugitive Slave Act intensify
the conflict over slavery? pp.
494-496
Focus Question 3. What combination of
issues and events fueled the creation of the Republican
Party in the 1850s? pp.
498-502
Discuss the significance of Kansas in the
escalation of the sectional conflict. pp.
502-503
Focus Question 4. What enabled Lincoln
to emerge as president from the divisive party politics of
the 1850s? pp. 503-514
How did Southern divisions doom the Democrats
in the Election of 1860? pp.
512-514
Focus Question 5. What were the final
steps on the road to secession? pp.
514-517
Ch. 14 “A New Birth of
Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865”
Focus Question 1. Why is the Civil War
considered the first modern war? pp.
521-529
What was modern about the fighting experience
in the Civil War? pp. 521-524
Compare the strengths of the Union to the
advantages of the Confederacy. pp.
524-52
How did the fighting in the West differ from
the battles in the East? pp.
526-529
Focus Question 2. How did a war to
preserve the Union become a war to end slavery? pp.529-536
Focus Question 3. How did the Civil War
transform the national economy and create a stronger
nation-state? pp. 536-549
What impact did the absence of southern
Democrats have on the nation’s economic development and the
West? pp. 541-546
How did the war open new doors of opportunity
for Northern women? pp. 547-548
Focus Question 4. How did the war effort
and leadership problems affect the society and economy of
the Confederacy? pp. 549-553
Focus Question 5. What were the military
and political turning points of the war? 554-556
Focus Question 6. What were the most important wartime
"rehearsals for Reconstruction"? pp.
556-562
How did the War change America in life and in
memory? pp. 561-562
Ch. 15 “What Is Freedom?
Reconstruction, 1865-1877”
Discuss the role of the Freedmen’s Bureau in
the postwar South. pp. 571-573
How did former slaveholders define their
freedom and that of their slaves? pp.
569-71
What did freedom mean to African-Americans in
the South after the Civil War? pp.
566-9
Focus Question 2, What were
the sources, goals, and competing visions for
Reconstruction? pp. 579-90
Discuss Radical Reconstruction as a
Constitutional Revolution. pp.
583-6
How did Radical Republicans gain control of the
Reconstruction process? pp.
581-3
What was Andrew Johnson’s vision for
Reconstruction? pp. 579-81
Focus Question 3.
What were the social and political effects of Radical
Reconstruction in the South? pp.
590-4
Discuss Southern blacks' struggle for economic
freedom. pp. 594.
Discuss the accomplishments of Southern
Reconstruction governments. pp.
593-4
Focus Question 4.
What were the main factors, in both the North and
South, for the abandonment of Reconstruction? pp. 594-601
How did Southern whites challenge
Reconstruction governments? pp.
594-6 & 598-9.
Why did Northerners lose their resolve to
pursue Reconstruction? pp.
597-601
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