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__**Final Exam Study Guide**__

__Unit 1 Exploration and Settlement__
 * three of the main countries that claimed land in the Americas
 * primary areas of settlement for those countries
 * three reasons for exploring the Americas
 * reason for using slaves from West Africa;
 * explain African Diaspora, Middle Passage, triangular trade
 * What happened to Native Americans after coming into contact with Europeans?
 * Aztec and Inca: two of the biggest conquests in the Americas
 * biggest advantages to the conquistadors in conquering Native Americans
 * location of largest slave populations in Americas (poster in classroom)

__Unit 2 The English Colonies__
 * Mayflower Compact; self government
 * Puritans and Pilgrims
 * Relations between Native Americans and English settlers
 * plantations; difference between cash crops and staple crops
 * Characteristics of the southern, middle and New England colonies
 * know similarities and differences between the groups of colonies
 * purpose of the Great Awakening
 * causes and results of the French and Indian War
 * Acts of Parliament from 1763-1774 (Proclamation Line of 1763, Sugar Act of 1774, Quartering Act of 1765, etc.); reasons for taxing colonists
 * reasons for colonial dissatisfaction over those acts
 * methods of resistance and rebellion (radicals, Sons of Liberty, Committees of Correspondence, boycotts, etc.); roles of Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry
 * Stamp Act Congress - What was it and what did it accomplish?
 * Impact of the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party

__Unit 3 Revolution__
 * First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress- What was it and what did it accomplish?
 * significance of the “shot heard round the world”
 * Lexington and Concord, Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott, William Dawes
 * Minutemen, Redcoats, Patriots, Loyalists
 * significance of the Olive Branch Petition, Declaration of Rights
 * Battles of the revolution (north, south, west, at sea)
 * Impact of Common Sense; Thomas Paine
 * roles of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin
 * Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation
 * Patriot victories and defeats
 * impact of Francis Marion “The Swamp Fox” on the war in the south
 * Turning points in the war
 * Foreign aid - Who were they and how did they help?; role of Hessians
 * terms of the Treaty of Paris