MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

Midterm Study Guide/Winter 2012/History 231/Schmoll

Exam Date: FEB. 6

You need to bring a blue book.

There will be two essay questions on the midterm exam. You will write on one of them.

The essay questions will be taken from the following themes:

1.     The books: Consider the two books we have read thus far. How does each represent its time and try to cause historical change.

2.     Mid-Century Challenges: Consider issues such as the American Enlightenment, the Great Awakening, the French and Indian War, the Susquehanna Company, the Paxton Boys, and/or the Regulator Movements.

3.     Causes and course of the American Revolution: Consider the major ideas and events that led to the revolution.

HOW TO STUDY FOR THIS EXAM:

Ø  Make outlines. Make sure that your outlines have way too much detail, way more than any normal human could ever remember.

Ø  Try to memorize the outlines. Try to write them word for word without looking at the original. Fill in the gaps where you did not recall something. Do it again. Walk around your study area speaking the outline, looking down only when you need to for a quick reminder of the detail. Speak it again. Write it again…and most of all, have fun.

Ø  Fill in the gaps in your notes and add detail where you lack it. To do this, get a textbook or find an online source.

Ø  Follow Napoleon’s advice: “In planning a campaign I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible.”