U.S. History. Regents Scavenger Hunt Review Packet. Bronx Engineering & Technology Academy. Name: Date: Karalyne Sperling, Principal. U.S.

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1 Bronx Engineering & Technology Academy U.S. History Mr. Bennett Mr. Ott Mr. Urrico Name: Date: U.S. History Regents Scavenger Hunt Review Packet

2 U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt Score Sheet Scavenger Hunt Review Section Possible Total Your Total Score Part 1 33 Part 2 34 Part 3 30 Part 4 30 Part 5 31 Part 6 28 Part 7 27 Part 8 29 Part 9 31 Part Total % %

3 U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt - Part 1 Grade: / 33 Please answer the following questions regarding the U.S. History Review Packet. All of the answers appear in the packet. Worth (1pt) each. These two (2) geographic features protect and isolate the United States Geographically today? This was the political border established by the British during Colonial rule? This was the geographic border of the U.S. during British rule? What was the economic policy of the British towards the colonies before the Revolution? This was the war between the French and the British in colonial times? What were two (2) characteristics of the Southern Colonies? What were two (2) characteristics of the Northern Colonies? What is the flat grassy region of the United States called? Name three (3) early attempts at colonial government? Define It: Define: Salutary Neglect 16.

4 How did this affect the colonies? 17. This was the first attempt at unifying the colonies under British rule? What was "Common Sense"? What was the purpose if the "Declaration of Independence"? What influenced Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration? Whose theory of natural rights is in the Declaration? How is it different in the Declaration? Name three (3) colonial responses to British economic policies Name three (3) ideas or influences during the writing of the Declaration of Independence that the colonists believed? Name two (2) British responses enacted towards the colonies? & Describe them What country assists the Colonies during the Revolutionary War? What becomes the western boundary of the United States after the Revolutionary War?

5 U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt - Part 2 Grade: / 34 Please answer the following questions regarding the U.S. History Review Packet. All of the answers appear in the packet. Worth (1pt) each. What was the first document and form of American government after independence from Britain? What were Americans distrustful of? and why? Name three (3) problems or weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? Name one (1) success of the Articles of Confederation? What were two (2) characteristics of the Northern Colonies? What were two (2) characteristics of the Southern Colonies? How was government organized under the Articles of Confederation? What was the Constitutional Convention? What was it supposed to do? List the differences between the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution? What event triggers the 15. government to realize that they needed a new form of government? Define: Three-Fifths Compromise 16. Define: Great Compromise 17.

6 List the differences between the New Jersey and Virginia Plan Name the three (3) responsibilities of the President of the U.S.? Define: Ratification 23. What is a Federalist? 24. Name the three (3) Branches of government and their responsibilities? What are Checks & Balances? Give an example What is the Unwritten Constitution? 30. What is Federalism? 31. What is Judicial Review? 32. Name the Court Case & Year that created Judicial Review?

7 U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt - Part 2 Grade: / 30 Please answer the following questions regarding the U.S. History Review Packet. All of the answers appear in the packet. Worth (1pt) each. How was government organized under the Articles of Confederation? Give two (2) examples of the Flexibility of the Constitution? Name the three (3) Branches of government and their responsibilities? What are the Federalist Papers? 7. What are Reserved Powers in the U.S. Constitution? 8. What are Delegated Powers in the U.S. Constitution? 9. What are Reserved Powers in the U.S. Constitution? 10. What is Division of Power in the U.S. Constitution? 11. Explain how we elect the President and Vice President? 12.

8 What was the first test of the U.S. Constitution regarding taxes? 13. What was the result of this test? 14. What did George Washington warn us about in his Farewell Address? (2 things) What was Thomas Jefferson's 17. interpretation of the U.S. Constitution? Define: Nationalism 18. Thomas Jefferson believed in? 19. Name two (2) effects of the Louisiana Purchase? Alexander Hamilton believed in? 22. Define: Sectionalism 23. Who was John Marshall and what did he do? Who did the U.S. fight in the War of 1812? and What was the War about? Thomas Jefferson went against his beliefs regarding the U.S. Constitution and did this without Congressional approval? What two (2) powers did Jefferson use? (for the above)

9 U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt - Part 2 Grade: / 30 Please answer the following questions regarding the U.S. History Review Packet. All of the answers appear in the packet. Worth (1pt) each. Name two (2) causes of the War of 1812? Define: Spoils System 3. What Supreme Court case established Judicial Review and the year? What political party was 6. formed as a result of Andrew Jackson's election? What change in voting 7. allowed Andrew Jackson to become president? What Presidential power 8. did Andrew Jackson use during his presidency? Define it. What did the U.S. 9. Government do to American Indians under Andrew Jackson? What was it called? What Supreme Court case 10. told Jackson he couldn't do? and What was his response? Define: Monroe Doctrine 11. What enabled midwest 12. farmers the ability to sell goods to the eastcoast? Define: Manifest Destiny 13. What occurred in California in 1849? What problems did this cause?

10 Define: The Homestead Act of Define: Popular Sovereignty Name two (2) causes of Westward Expansion? Name two (2) results of Westward Expansion? Define: Abolitionist 22. What Supreme Court case was a cause of the Civil War? Name the three (3) compromises to settle disputes over slavery in the western territories What phrase was used to describe clashes between pro-slavery and antislavery groups? This book showed the horrors of slavery and contributed to the start of the Civil War? also Name the Author? This was the secret network that helped slaves escape to the North?

11 U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt - Part 5 Grade: / 30 Please answer the following questions regarding the U.S. History Review Packet. All of the answers appear in the packet. Worth (1pt) each. Name three (3) causes of the Civil War? This person was the President during the Civil War? What was the main cause of the Civil War at the beginning of the war? What was Lincoln's main goal? Define: The Emancipation Proclamation After Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation this became the reason for the war? Name three (3) beliefs of Abraham Lincoln? Define: Habeas Corpus 12. What did Lincoln do with Habeas Corpus? Name three (3) policies Lincoln used to expand Presidential authority?

12 Why didn't Lincoln Free the slaves in ALL of the United States? What was the 13th Amendment? What was the 14th Amendment? What was the 15th Amendment? Name two (2) results of the Civil War? This was term used for the 23. time period after the Civil War to rebuild the South? What ended the period? 24. How was the North able to win the Civil War? Name four (4) results of the Civil War? What was the Solid South? 30. This group in Congress wanted harsh punishment for the South? 31.

13 U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt - Part 6 Grade: / 28 Please answer the following questions regarding the U.S. History Review Packet. All of the answers appear in the packet. Worth (1pt) each. Name two (2) results of the Civil War? This group in Congress wanted harsh punishment for the South? What was Lincoln's primary goal for Reconstruction? What did the Radical Republican's want for the South? What was the Radical Republicans' beliefs? What kind of reforms did the Radical Republicans want for the South? 7. How did Lincoln's death 8. change the course of Reconstruction? Define: Sharecropping 9. What were Black Codes? 10. What Supreme Court Decision promotes and legalizes segregation? Also give the Year What was the result of the Supreme Court decision?

14 What two (2) groups limited the civil rights of African-Americans during Reconstruction? How did the Southern 16. economy change after the Civil War? Define: Carpetbaggers 17. Define: Tariff 18. Name four (4) causes of the Industrial Revolution Name four (4) effects of the Industrial Revolution Name two (2) ways corporations used to be competitive?

15 U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt - Part 7 Grade: / 28 Please answer the following questions regarding the U.S. History Review Packet. All of the answers appear in the packet. Worth (1pt) each. This group in Congress wanted harsh punishment for the South? What two (2) groups limited the civil rights of African-Americans during Reconstruction? Name two (2) results of the Civil War? Define: Capital (economic) 5. How was Social Darwinism used in the Industrial Revolution? Define: Laissez Faire Capitalism What does Supply and Demand effect? 8. What are Trusts? 9. What are Monopolies? 10. Define the Free Enterprise System 11. Define: Robber Baron 12. Define: Rural 13. Define: Urban 14.

16 What was the 15. government's position on business before the Progressive Era? What is Urbanization? 16. What did Jacob Riis do? 17. What social class increased as a result of Urbanization? Describe the Working Conditions before government intervention during the Industrial Revolution? What role did Immigration play during the Industrial Revolution? Who was the Old immigrant group (1840s)? Who were the New Immigrant groups ( )? Name two (2) ways the government restricted immigration? Define: Nativism 25. Name two (2) ways Nativism was used to protect jobs?

17 U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt - Part 8 Please answer the following questions regarding the U.S. History Review Packet. All of the answers appear in the packet. Worth (1pt) each. Define: Capital (economic) 1. Grade: / 29 What are Monopolies? 2. What law was passed to 3. limit the power of Monopolies? What is Urbanization? 4. What did Upton Sinclair do? 5. Define: Interstate Commerce Act 6. What law/act made unions legal? 7. What Supreme Court decision made it legal for the government to regulate interstate commerce? also The year? What was the Progressive Movement? How did the government create a stable supply of money and credit? What were two (2) reasons people became progressives?

18 What was the 16th amendment? Define: Collective Bargaining Name three (3) reformers of the Progressive Movement and what they did? Name three (3) results/effects of the Progressive Era? What was the progressive political change for the Senate? What were Civil Service Exams meant to eliminate? Who was Samuel Gompers? Define: Labor Union 25. This fire drew national 26. attention to working conditions and worker safety? What is a muckraker? 27. Name tow (2) of the policies/platform of the Populist Party?

19 U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt - Part 9 Please answer the following questions regarding the U.S. History Review Packet. All of the answers appear in the packet. Worth (1pt) each. Define: Labor Union 1. Grade: / 29 What was the American 2. Federation of Labor? What book alarmed 3. citizens about the meat packing industry? What is a muckraker? 4. This law was a result of muckrakers and the progressive era for health and safety of the food supply? Name two (2) of Teddy Roosevelt's policies? and define them Name the reason the U.S. 8. needed to expand to overseas? Define: Yellow Journalism 9. What were two (2) causes of the Spanish American War? What were two (2) results of the Spanish American War? Name two (2) Yellow Journalists?

20 What was the Open Door Policy? 16. What Supreme Court decision limited free speech during wartime? and the year. Who was president during WWI? Name two (2) economic effects of WWI? What was his initial policy towards the war? What does "Clear and Present Danger" mean? Name two (2) ways Wilson increases Presidential power in a time of international crisis? What was the Fourteen Points? Why did the League of Nations eventually fail? 27. What was the Red Scare? 28. Define: 19th Amendment 29. Define: Roaring 20s 30. Define: Prohibition 31.

21 Name: Date: U.S. History Review Packet Scavenger Hunt - Part 10 Grade: / 76 Please answer the following questions regarding the U.S. History Review Packet. All of the answers appear in the packet. Worth (1pt) each. Name two (2) results of Prohibition? Why was the Assembly 3. Line important? What trial caused a 4. conflict between religion and science? What economic changes 5. occurred during the 1920s? What is a Flapper? 6. Define: Harlem Renaissance 7. What economic changes occurred in 1929? 8. What was the Dust Bowl? 9. Name four (4) causes of the Great Depression? What was Hoover's response to the Great Depression? 14.

22 What President was elected to fix the problems of the Great Depression? How many times was FDR elected to the presidency? Name four (4) New Deal programs and define them Name two (2) impacts/results of the New Deal? What was the U.S. policy regarding the start of WWII in Europe? What former President(s) had the same policy? This group went to work in factories in WWII? What was the even that 27. ended the war in the Pacific? This Supreme Court case 28. allowed the confinement of Japanese Americans during WWII? Define: Truman Doctrine 29. What other doctrine in U.S. History is about U.S. Foreign Policy? Name three (3) results of World War II?

23 What was the risk 34. associated with the Cold War? What was the Berlin 35. Airlift? Define: Containment 36. What was the Marshall Plan? What is NATO? and What does it do? Who was McCarthy and what did he do? 40. Name the two (2) cold war conflicts and their results What is the Domino Theory? 43. How were the war powers of the president limited by law? How did Eisenhower ensure African-American Civil Rights? What Supreme Court decision overturned Plessey v. Ferguson? and The Year? What were the goals of the NAACP?

24 Name three (3) uses of non-violence during the Civil Rights era? Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and what did he accomplish? Name three (3) government actions/programs/laws that assisted minorities and/or women? What law ended Jim Crow laws? What was Johnson's Great Society? Name two (2) Supreme Court Cases that expanded a persons' rights accused of a crime? What Supreme Court case 60. limited students' rights in school? Define: Detente 61. What was Watergate? 62. What happened to Nixon? 63. What was SALT and what did it do? What was Carter's most import foreign policy achievement? 66.

25 What was the economic policy of Ronald Reagan? 67. What is NAFTA? And What does it do? What made Ford's presidency unique? What was Nixon's greatest foreign policy achievement? How was Clinton similar to other presidents? (two similarities) What Supreme Court case limited the power of the President for executive privilege? What did Eisenhower warn the public about in his farewell address?