REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM
FALL SEMESTER
2012
UNIT 1
Guiding Questions and Themes
1. What role did disease and unfree labor play in the early settlement of America?
2. Compare and contrast the interactions of the Spanish, the French, and the British with the various Indian tribes with whom they came in contact.
3. What factors motivated English settlers to move to Virginia?
4. Compare and contrast the settlement patterns, economies, societies, and geography of the British New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.
5. Explain the underlying principles of Puritanism.
6. Describe the causes and consequences of the Great Awakening.
Spanish America
1
Christopher Columbus
Columbian Exchange
Conquistadores
Hernan Cortes
Aztecs – Moctezuma
Encomienda system
“Black Legend”
Pueblo Revolt – Pope’s Rebellion
French America
1
Samuel de Champlain
Quebec
Coureurs de bois
Fur trading
Robert de la Salle and Louisiana
British North America (South
1
Roanoke Island
Joint-stock company
Virginia Company
Jamestown
John Smith
Pocahontas
Powhatan Confederacy
Anglo-Powhatan Wars
John Rolfe
Tobacco
House of Burgesses
Freedom dues
Royal colony
Indentured servants
Act of Toleration
Beginnings of slavery
Bacon’s Rebellion
Governor William Berkeley
Middle passage
Slave codes
Triangle trade
Stono Rebellion
Georgia
“buffer colony”
James Oglethorpe
British North America (New England)
1
Puritanism
Calvinism
the “elect”
predestination
conversion
Separatists
Mayflower
Plymouth Bay Colony
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Great Puritan Migration
John Winthrop
“city upon a hill”
Quakers
Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Navigation Laws
mercantilism
Salutary neglect
Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
British North America (Middle)
1
Dutch West India Company
New Amsterdam
Patroonships
Quakers
William Penn
Pennsylvania
1
Unit 2
Guiding Questions and Themes
1. What consequences did the French and Indian War have for North America (not just British North America)?
2. What impact did the French and Indian War have on British colonial policy?
3. Describe the impact of Enlightenment ideology on American political philosophy.
4. What impact did the mercantile system have on the 13 colonies?
5. How did colonists resist the taxes imposed by Parliament after the French and Indian War?
6. What factors led the 13 British North American Colonies to change from proud British citizens to defiant revolutionaries?
7. Why did the colonies win the war?
8. What factors led many leaders to support amendment to the Articles of Confederation?
9. What impact did the Revolution and Articles of Confederation have on westward expansion?
10. What compromises developed during the Constitutional Convention?
11. What issues arose during the debate over ratification of the Constitution?
Important Terms:
The French and Indian War
3
Fort Duquesne
Albany Congress
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
3
The Road to Revolution
3
Mercantilism
Sugar Act of 1764
Quartering Act of 1765
Stamp Tax of 1765
“Virtual” v. actual representation
Legislative authority v. taxing authority
Boston “Massacre”
Samuel Adams
Boston Tea Party
Committees of Correspondence
“Intolerable Acts”
Quebec Act
First Continental Congress
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Bunker Hill
Second Continental Congress
3
The Revolutionary War
3
Hessians
Benedict Arnold
“Olive Branch Petition”
Common Sense
Loyalists
Patriots
Declaration of Independence
Valley Forge
General John Burgoyne
*Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Yorktown
Treaty of Paris of 1783
3
Confederation and Constitution
3
“republican motherhood”
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Articles of Confederation
Shays’s Rebellion
“mobocracy”
Constitutional Convention
“Great Compromise”
“3/5ths Compromise”
Electoral College
Federalists
Anti-federalists
The Federalist Papers
3
Important People (notice these names throughout, they will come up repeatedly, but will not appear on quizzes)
3
George Washington
Samuel Adams
John Adams
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
John Hancock
Alexander Hamilton
George III
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
John Jay
3
Unit 3
Guiding Questions and Themes
1. Describe the political battles of the 90s – including the controversy over Hamilton’s financial plan, arguments about the French Revolution, foreign policy, territorial expansion
2. Discuss the rise of political parties in the 1790s.
3. Describe the turbulence during the Adams’ presidency.
4. Discuss the development of American foreign policy in the period.
5. Discuss the development of Indian policy in the period, including the Indian wars of the 1790s and Tecumseh’s uprising.
6. Discuss the ways in which the institution of slavery was both strengthened and weakened in the period.
7. Revolution of 1800?
8. Explain the significance of the Louisiana Purchase
9. Identify the causes and results of the War of 1812.
Important Terms:
The Turbulent 90s
4
Cabinet
Bill of Rights
Judiciary Act of 1789
Supreme Court
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
Bank of the United States
Whiskey Rebellion
Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation
Jay’s Treaty
Pinckney’s Treaty
Washington’s Farewell Address
Federalists
Democratic-Republicans
“High Federalists”
XYZ Affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
4
Jefferson’s Presidency
4
“Revolution of 1800”
Judiciary Act of 1801
Marbury v.Madison
Barbary Pirates
“Tripolitan War”
Louisiana Purchase
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Impressments
Embargo Act of 1807
4
Madison and His War
4
“war hawks”
Tecumseh
War of 1812
Fort McHenry
Francis Scott Key
Battle of New Orleans
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
“Second War for American Independence”
4
Other Terms & People
4
Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin
4
Important People
4
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Marshall
Aaron Burr
James Monroe
4
Unit 4
Guiding Questions and Themes
1. To what extent was James Monroe's presidency an Era of Good Feelings?
2. Explain the causes and effects of the Panic of 1819.
3. What factors led to the settlement of the West in the years following the War?
4. "John Marshall was the most important Federalist since George Washington." Assess.
5. What was there about Andrew Jackson which made him a man of the people?
6. Describe the nullification crisis.
7. Describe the development of the second party system from 1828-1836.
8. What caused the Panic of 1837, and what was done by the president to try to end it?
9. How did Texas, a part of Mexico settled by Americans, become independent of both?
10. Who were the Democrats and what did they believe? The Whigs?
11. Why were immigrants from Germany and Ireland feared and hated?
12. What types of work were done by women in antebellum America?
13. What factors led to increased productivity for farmers?
14. Explain the importance of changes in transportation in the period.
15. What effect did the Second Great Awakening have on organized religion?
16. What advances were made in the field of education from 1820 to 1850?
17. Assess the successfulness of antebellum reformers.
18. Describe the status of women in the first half of the 19th century.
19. In what ways were utopian communities different from mainstream America?
20. Was the United States a leader in the world in scientific pursuits? Explain.
21. Discuss the developments in literature in the antebellum period.
22. Discuss the rise of the abolitionist movement.
23. Describe the economic changes taking place during the period.
24. John Q. Adams = great Secretary of State/Not so great President?
Important Terms:
Politics
5
“Era of Good Feelings”
“corrupt bargain”
Spoils system
Anti-Masonic Party
National Republicans
Nicholas Biddle
“pet banks”
Specie Circular
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Cohens v. Virginia
Gibbons v. Ogden
Fletcher v. Peck
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
5
Reform Movements
5
Second Great Awakening
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism
Charles G. Finney
“Burned Over District”
temperance movement
Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
Oneida Community
Prison reform
5
Foreign Policy
5
Monroe Doctrine
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia
“Five Civilized Tribes”
Trail of Tears
Stephen Austin
Sam Houston
Santa Anna
Texas Annexation
54 40 or Fight
Alamo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Adams-Onis Treaty
Oregon Territory
5
Slavery & Sectionalism
5
Missouri Compromise
Tariff of Abominations
Nullification
Missouri Compromise
5
Westward Expansion
5
Manifest Destiny
Oregon Territory
Oregon Trail
Conestoga Wagon
Mormon Trail
5
Economics
5
Panic of 1819
Land Act of 1820
“American System”
Lancaster Turnpike
National Road
Cumberland Road
Robert Fulton
Erie Canal
Panic of 1837
Specie Circular
Samuel F. B. Morse/telegraph
“market revolution”
Industrial revolution
Isaac Singer
McCormick reaper
5
Women
5
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Declaration of Sentiments
Seneca Falls Convention
“cult of domesticity”
5
Important People
5
Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
James Monroe
5
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