Test will include
- 40 multiple choice questions (8-9 documents to analyze)
- 1 long essay question
Period One: 1491 - 1607
- Spanish Colonization
- Interactions with Native Americans (Columbian Exchange)
Period Two: 1607 - 1754
- English colonization (similar and different from Spanish)
- Settlement of Chesapeake and New England colonies
- Growth of 13 American colonies
- Influence of Anglicization, Enlightenment, and Great Awakening on American thought
Period Three: 1754 - 1800
- War for Empire: French and Indian War
- Colonial resistance to increased Britain's imperial control
- War for Independence
- Founding of New Nation: Experiments in Government (Articles of Confederation & Constitution)
Period Four: 1800 - 1848
- Democratic-Republicans in Power (Jefferson elected in 1800)
- Rise and fall of the first party system
- Changes to the American democracy
- Political changes (Jacksonian politics - KNICKS)
- Economic changes (Market Revolution)
- Social changes (Antebellum Reform)
Period Five: 1844 - 1877
- Increased sectional tension
- westward expansion increases tension between north and south
- Civil War
- Reconstruction
