Semester+Exam

=Semester Exam=

Your semester exam will cover the key people, terms, and main ideas of the entire first semester. The test will include matching, true-and-false, multiple choice, and essay questions. //**Those students who have a solid "A" in our U.S. History class after Week 13 will only be responsible for completing the essay portion of the exam**//. Listed below are the **Immersion** pages for each week as well as a HippoCampus link that will host all of the videos we watched also. I encourage you to lean heavily on the Social Studies notebook you have been developing all first semester and that you ask questions of me or others to help you with that material that you might not be able to recall or correctly understand.

Immersion Links

 * Week 1 - Immersion
 * Week 2 - Immersion
 * Week 3 - Immersion
 * Week 4 Immersion
 * Week 5 - Content Review (Weeks 1-4) w/ ToonDoo
 * Week 7 Immersion
 * Age of Exploration & 13 Colonies Test Review
 * Week 8 Immersion
 * French & Indian War Immersion
 * Conflict in the Colonies
 * Weeks 8 - 10 Test Reveiw(Review)
 * The American Revolution & Declaring Independence
 * The Fight for Liberty

Essay Questions
Be prepared to answer one of the following essay questions for your exam. //**It is __imperative__ (important) that your essay include multiple examples of evidence and information that reflects the content we covered in class first semester.**// The better you are able to support your argument with these facts and details, as well as expand upon them (assume the reader knows nothing), the stronger your essay will be and hence, the better your grade.

> • Land acquisition > • Politics > • Economics
 * 1) America is known today as the land of freedom and equality. **Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equality for all, and representative government** are all key components of the nation and are at the core of the democratic principles it promotes throughout the world today. In your essay, identify and defend the key people, and the events that surrounded them, of America's past that helped to create and establish these ideas. Describe who they are and how they represented the ideas of freedom that America is known for today.
 * 2) How did **economic**, **geographic**, and **social factors** encourage the growth of slavery as an important part of the economy of the southern colonies?
 * 3) The American Revolution forever altered the relationship between Great Britain and its North American colonies. Assess this change with regard to TWO of the following:

Video Resources
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