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cumulative-final-review — 6 short write-ups

Question 1 of 6

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Explain action and consequence

Compare one Indigenous action or alliance in the conquest of central Mexico with the Pueblo Revolt. For each, explain what people did and how it affected the outcome.

Use Contact Zone: Central and South America (Chapter 2) and The Pueblo Revolt (Chapter 4). Keep the different peoples, aims, and outcomes distinct.

Question 2 of 6

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Explain a change in imperial policy

How did Britain’s victory in the Seven Years’ War contribute to conflict with its North American colonists? Explain one new imperial pressure, a policy response, and why colonists objected.

Use A New Reckoning in Chapter 6. Connect the pressure to a policy and the objection; do not jump straight to independence.

Question 3 of 6

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Explain an Atlantic connection

Explain how the Haitian Revolution helped make the Louisiana Purchase possible, and why that outcome was ironic for Jefferson.

Use Envisioning and Pursuing an Empire in Chapter 8. Distinguish Napoleon’s plans, their reversal, and Jefferson’s position.

Question 4 of 6

A checkpoint, not a test

Explain a change in war aims

How did enslaved people’s flight to federal lines help change the slavery question during the Civil War? Explain the mechanism and distinguish the first contraband policy from the later Emancipation Proclamation.

Use The Rebellion of the Enslaved in Chapter 14. Separate an action, an initial military response, and the later policy.

Question 5 of 6

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Compare two regions

Compare federal nation-building in the Reconstruction South and West. Explain one policy mechanism in each region and a difference in its consequences for Black and Indigenous people.

Use Political Revolution and Its Limits in Chapter 16. Compare authority and participation with authority and sovereignty; explain each.

Question 6 of 6

A checkpoint, not a test

Explain a political reversal

How could Reconstruction create real political change yet lose its protections? Connect Black political organizing to one achievement, then explain how violent opposition and federal retreat made that achievement vulnerable.

Use Building a Republican Base in the South and The Weakening of the Radicals and the Ending of Reconstruction in Chapter 16.