ACS Review Ms. Michael's section.

Identify and state the significance of the following:
(Identify means say what/who it is; state the significance means explain why
it/he/she is important)

Mother country
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Navigation Act
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Declaration of Independence, July 4
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
Republic
Legislature: House of Representatives and Senate (introduce, debate, pass bills)
Executive: White House and President (sign bills)
Judiciary: Legal system (Make sure bills are constitutional)
American Revolution
Bill of Rights
Invention of the Cotton Gin
British close the international slave trade 1807
Missouri Compromise
Jim Crow
Uncle Tom?s Cabin
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman

Possible Questions
(the terms above could also be formed into questions such as those below)

Identify a slave revolt, what happened and why it was important.

What is the significance of ?Uncle Tom? (Who is he, what was he intended to
do and what did he actually do?)

Why was the American government formed the way it was? (The Republic)

What was significant about the founding of America? How did this impact slavery
in the country?

Draw a proper timeline of events that took place in your life today. Be sure to
refer to the five rules we discussed in class. (title, segments of time equal
length, scale included, lines appropriately labeled, compressions of long
periods of time labeled with a squiggly line.)