Midterm Exam II

For the midterm exam, you will answer your choice of five of the following fifteen chapter questions in detail.

1. Who was in North America on the eve of European contact?
2. Describe early attempts at establishing settlements in North America.
3. What role did religion play in the early European colonies?
4. How did France, Britain, and Spain compete in North America before 1750?
5. What led to resistance against Britain?
6. How did the colonists defeat the greatest empire of the day?
7. What was the process of creating the current government of the USA? (documents)
8. What was the significance of the war of 1812?
9. What is the connection between industrialization and westward expansion?
10. Andrew Jackson, discuss.
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12. Describe the social divisions of the pre-civil war south and the importance of cotton.
13. How did immigration and westward expansion influence American party politics?
14. Why did the South secede?
15. How did the issue of emancipation transform the war?
16. Why did Reconstruction fail?

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