Advanced U.S. History Study Guide for the Midterm
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1. |
The
Great Awakening |
10. |
Declaratory
Act |
19. |
Lexington and Concord |
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2. |
Jonathan
Edwards |
11. |
Townshend
Acts |
20. |
Second Continental
Congress |
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3. |
George
Whitefield |
12. |
Boston
Massacre |
21. |
Olive Branch Petition |
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4. |
French
and Indian War |
13. |
Committees
of Correspondence |
22. |
Common
Sense |
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5. |
Treaty
of Paris |
14. |
Tea
Act |
23. |
Thomas
Paine |
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6. |
Pontiac’s
Rebellion |
15. |
King George III |
24. |
Lexington and Concord |
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7. |
Proclamation
of 1763 |
16. |
Boston Tea party |
25. |
Declaration
of Independence |
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8. |
Stamp
Act and Stamp Act Congress |
17. |
Intolerable Acts |
26. |
Battles
of Saratoga and Yorktown |
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9. |
Samuel
Adams |
18. |
First Continental Congress |
27. |
Treaty
of Paris 1783 |
·
The significance of the Great Awakening
and how it affected the colonists
·
Consequences of the French and Indian
War: how the war and its results affected relations between the colonies and
England; Territorial changes as a result of the Treaty of Paris
·
Changes in the British attitude
towards the colonies in this period from the early 18th century to 1763
·
By understanding the role of cause and effect, be able to
put events into chronological order. Know the events leading up to the outbreak
of hostilities between America and Great Britain and how one event caused a
reaction that lead to another event.
·
Be
able to analyze the language and purpose of Common Sense.
·
Be
able to analyze the language and purpose of the Declaration of Independence.
·
What
advantages and disadvantages did the British and Americans have at the start of
the war?
·
The development of a sense of unity among the colonists
·
Why Americans were able to win the Revolution
·
Economic and social changes brought forth by the Revolution
The New Nation
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1. |
Alexander
Hamilton |
14. |
Jay’s Treaty |
27. |
Louisiana
Purchase |
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2. |
Thomas
Jefferson |
15. |
Washington’s Farewell
Address |
28. |
Lewis
and Clark Expedition |
|
3. |
Hamilton’s
economic plan |
16. |
XYZ
Affair |
29. |
impressment |
|
4. |
National
Bank |
17. |
“Quasi-War”
with France |
30. |
Embargo Act
(1807) |
|
5. |
Federalists |
18. |
Alien
Act |
31. |
Nonintercourse
Act (1809) |
|
6. |
Republicans |
19. |
Sedition
Act |
32. |
Tecumseh |
|
7. |
Protective
tariff |
20. |
Naturalization
Act |
33. |
Battle of
Tippecanoe and William Henry Harrison |
|
8. |
Excise
tax |
21. |
Virginia
and Kentucky Resolutions |
34. |
War Hawks |
|
9. |
Whiskey
Rebellion |
22. |
Nullification |
35. |
Henry Clay |
|
10. |
French Revolution |
23. |
Election
of 1800 |
36. |
Hartford
Convention |
|
11. |
Proclamation of Neutrality |
24. |
John
Marshall |
37. |
Treaty of Ghent |
|
12. |
Pinckney’s
Treaty |
25. |
Marbury v. Madison |
38. |
Battle of New
Orleans |
|
13. |
Treaty of Greenville |
26. |
Judicial
Review |
39. |
Rush-Bagot
Treaty |
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|
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|
40. |
Convention on
the Canadian-US Boundary |
o
Hamilton’s financial program
o
The development of political parties: What issues
separated them? How did domestic and foreign policy questions influence the
development of parties? Was this development inevitable?
o
What were foreign policy questions during the
Washington presidency
o
What did Washington warn America about in his
Farewell Address? Was he justified in
his warnings?
o
How did the division between the parties deepen
during Adams’ presidency?
o
What was the meaning of the election of 1800? What
is truly a ‘revolution’ as Jefferson said?
o
What was the impact of Jefferson’s decision to
purchase the Louisiana Territory?
o
What were foreign policy questions during
Jefferson’s presidency? How did he work to avoid war? Was he effective?
o
What were the issues that led us to war in 1812?
o
What was the impact of the War of 1812?
o
What led to the collapse of the Federalist Party?
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1. |
Eli Whitney |
18. |
Spoils System |
35. |
Dorothea Dix |
|
2. |
Industrial Revolution |
19. |
Indian Removal Act of 1830 |
36. |
New Harmony |
|
3. |
Samuel Slater |
20. |
Worcester v. Georgia |
37. |
Brook Farm |
|
4. |
Waltham Plan/Lowell factory |
21. |
Trail of Tears |
38. |
Utopian Movements |
|
5. |
Henry Clay |
22. |
Tariff of Abominations |
39. |
Oneida Community |
|
6. |
American System |
23. |
John C. Calhoun |
40. |
The Shakers |
|
7. |
Era of Good Feelings |
24. |
Nullification crisis |
41. |
Abolitionism |
|
8. |
Gibbons
v. Ogden
|
25. |
Compromise tariff |
42. |
William Lloyd Garrison |
|
9. |
McCulloch
v. Maryland
|
26. |
Force Bill |
43 |
The
Liberator |
|
10. |
Fletcher v. Peck
|
27. |
Second National Bank |
44. |
Frederick Douglass |
|
11. |
Dartmouth College v. Woodward |
28. |
Pet banks
|
45. |
Nat Turner’s Rebellion |
|
12. |
Adams-Onis Treaty |
29. |
Second Great Awakening |
46. |
Slave codes |
|
13. |
Monroe Doctrine |
30. |
Charles Grandison Finney |
47. |
Temperance Movement |
|
14. |
Missouri Compromise |
31. |
Transcendentalism |
48. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
|
15. |
Election of 1824 |
32. |
Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
49. |
Lucretia Mott |
|
16. |
“The Corrupt Bargain” |
33. |
Henry David
Thoreau |
50. |
Seneca Falls Convention |
|
17. |
Election of 1828 |
34. |
Horace Mann |
51. |
Sojourner Truth |
The Jackson Presidency
o
How was democracy broadened during this period? Who benefited and who didn’t?
o
What were the crises during this period? How were each resolved?
o
How did Jackson extend the power of the presidency?
o
What signs are there of developing sectionalism
during this period?
o
What issues divided the Whigs and Democrats?
The Age of Reform
o
How did the philosophy of the Transcendentalists
encourage people to reform their own society?
o
How did these early 19th century reform
movements for abolition and women’s rights illustrate strengths and weaknesses
of democracy in America?
o
What is similar and different in the various
religious movements of the time? What
accounts for the increasing interest in religious experiences and expression?
Economic Changes
o
What elements contributed to the economic growth of
the U.S. during this period?
o
What was the impact of economic change and
urbanization during the first half of the 19th century on the family
and the role of women?
o
What technological advances were made in this period
and how did those advances alter American society?
Sectionalism and
the Coming of the Civil War
|
1. |
Elias Howe |
26. |
Election of 1848 |
37. |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
|
|
2. |
Samuel R. B. Morse |
27. |
California Gold Rush |
52. |
Harriet Beecher
Stowe |
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3. |
Robert Fulton |
20. |
Wilmot Proviso |
53. |
Kansas-Nebraska
Act |
|
4. |
Erie Canal |
21. |
Compromise
of 1850 |
38. |
Bleeding Kansas |
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5. |
John Deere |
22. |
Popular
Sovereignty |
39. |
Nativism |
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6. |
Cyrus McCormick |
23. |
Gadsden
Purchase
|
40. |
Know-Nothing
Party |
|
7. |
Manifest Destiny |
24. |
Free-Soil Party |
41. |
Republican Party |
|
8. |
Mormons |
25. |
Election of 1848 |
42. |
James Buchanan |
|
9. |
Election of 1844 |
26. |
California Gold Rush |
43 |
Dred
Scott v. Sanford
|
|
10. |
James K. Polk |
27. |
Wilmot Proviso |
44. |
Chief Justice
Roger B. Taney |
|
11. |
General Santa Anna |
28. |
Compromise
of 1850 |
45. |
Lincoln-Douglas
Debates |
|
12. |
Texan Revolution |
29. |
Popular
Sovereignty |
46. |
Freeport Doctrine |
|
13. |
Sam Houston |
30. |
Stephen
A. Douglas |
47. |
Harpers Ferry |
|
14. |
Republic of Texas |
31. |
Fugitive
Slave Act |
48. |
Election of 1860 |
|
15. |
Bear Flag Republic |
32. |
Personal
liberty laws |
49. |
Abraham Lincoln |
|
16. |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
33. |
Underground
Railroad |
50. |
Confederate States
of America |
|
17. |
Gadsden Purchase
|
34. |
Harriet Tubman |
51. |
Jefferson Davis |
|
18. |
Annexation of Texas |
35. |
John Brown |
|
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|
19. |
Free-Soil Party
|
36. |
Senator Charles Sumner |
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Sectionalism and the Mexican War
o
How did the South,
North, and the West differ as sections of the country in the antebellum years?
o
Why did
Americans settle in Texas? How did it
become an independent country in 1836? What problems did the annexation of
Texas bring to the country?
o
In what ways
did the concept of Manifest Destiny affect the foreign and domestic policies of
the US in the years 1840-1850?
o
What were the
arguments that both sides employed for and against going to war with Mexico?
o
What problems
arose with the new territory gained in the Mexican Cession? How did the Mexican
War exacerbate political and social tensions between the South and the North?
The Road to the Civil War
o
How did the
introduction of the Wilmot Proviso affect the North and the South?
o
Why was
Congress able to pass the Compromise of 1850?
How did the Compromise affect the balance between the South and the
North?
o
What was the
impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin on both the North
and the South?
o
What specific
events and/or acts were associated with the widening breach between the North
and South concerning the problems of slavery?
How did the events of the 1850s increase northern fears that slavery was
going to spread to the new territories?
o
What was the
impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
o
What were the
constitutional implications of the Dred Scott decision? What were the practical consequences?
o
Why did the
Whig Party break up in the 1850s? Why
did the Republican Party form? What was
the Republican platform? How did issues in the 1850s impact these two parties?
o
What were the
positions of Lincoln and Douglas in their debates?
o
What was the
impact of the issues of the 1850s on the election of 1860? What was the platform of each party in the
election of 1860? What were the electoral results of the election? Why did Lincoln win?
The Civil War
|
1. |
Fort
Sumter |
7. |
Writ of habeas corpus |
13. |
Appomattox |
|
2. |
Border
states |
8. |
Copperheads |
14. |
General McClellan |
|
3. |
Anaconda
plan |
9. |
New York Draft riots |
15. |
General Grant |
|
4. |
King
Cotton Diplomacy |
10. |
Gettysburg
Address |
16. |
General Lee |
|
5. |
Trent Affair |
11. |
Sherman’s
March to the Sea |
17. |
Ironclads |
|
6. |
Emancipation Proclamation
|
12. |
Election of 1864 |
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|
o
What were the
relative advantages and disadvantages of each side at the start of the
war? How did these strengths and
weaknesses determine the strategy that each side took to fight the war?
o
What means did
each side pursue in seeking foreign allies? Why did the Confederacy’s hope for
European allies not materialize?
o
What were the
key turning points in the war?
o
What did the
Emancipation Proclamation do and not do for the slave population of the South?
How did blacks contribute to the war effort?
o
How did each
side curtail the rights of individual private citizens?
o
What impact did
the war have on people’s daily lives during the war? In what ways did women contribute to the war
effort?
o
In what ways
did the North’s goals in fighting the war change during the war?
Reconstruction
|
1. |
Lincoln’s
Ten Percent Plan |
6. |
Johnson’s plan of
Reconstruction
|
10. |
Tenure of Office Act |
|
2. |
Radical
Republicans |
7. |
Freedmen’s Bureau
|
11. |
Impeachment of Johnson |
|
3. |
Thaddeus
Stevens |
8. |
Fourteenth
Amendment |
12. |
Civil Rights Act of 1875 |
|
4. |
Wade
Davis Bill |
9. |
Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
13. |
Ulysses Grant |
|
5. |
Andrew
Johnson |
|
|
14. |
Fifteenth Amendment |
o
What were the differences among the various plans
for Reconstruction? What did they have in common? What were the strengths and weaknesses of
each plan?
o
What were the motives of the Radical Republicans in
choosing harsh political, social, and military Reconstruction measures in the
South?
o
Why did the Radical Republicans try to impeach
Andrew Johnson and why did they fail?
o
What were the short-run and long-term impacts of the
Civil War Amendments?
o
What was the plight of the freedmen in the
South? How did they fare economically?
o
What were the major accomplishments of Republican
Reconstruction?
o
Why did Reconstruction end? What were the short-term
and long-term consequences of its end?
o
Was Reconstruction a total failure?