US History Final Study Guide
Henry Clay -The leader who tried to resolve sectional disputes by compromise
Cyrus McCormickfirst mechanical reaper
Eli Whitney- invented Cotton Gin
US maps of 1783, 1820, 1850
Revolutionary War and Revolutionary War Vocab – Patriots, Tories, Intolerable Acts, Coercive Acts
- Why were American colonists unhappy with the British?
Technological advances to overseas travel
Bill of Rights and amendments (13,14,15 - 1870 constitutional amendment prohibited governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen?, 19 - gave women the right to vote,26)
Ulysses S. Grant – Main Union general - Civil War general became president in 1869
Abraham Lincoln – 16th president during the Civil War. was unable to carry out his Reconstruction plan because he was Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Reconstruction – rebuilding the South after the Civil War
Monitor v. Merrimac – Battle of Ironclads
Civil War Battles (1st Bull Run- first major battle of the Civil War, Antietam, Gettysburg)
Reform movements (Abolitionism-movement to end slavery, Temperance – movement to stop the sale of alcohol)
thousands of women serve during the Civil War as nurses
Religious camp meetings were called revivals
Early US factories hired immigrants, because immigrants would work long hours for low pay.
Andrew Jackson’s Presidency- President Jackson's opposition to the National Bank forced it to close
How were the Aztecs and Incas alike?
Judicial Review – gives the Supreme Court the final say over all laws passed in the United States
Pinckney’s treaty - treaty with Spain gave Americans access to the Mississippi River
Embargo Act - banned imports to and from all foreign countries
Articles of ConfederationAmerica's first constitution
Shay’s RebellionShays's Rebellion in 1787 was an attack on the new federal government
The national government's first attempt to halt slavery is found in the Northwest Ordinance
Thomas Paine and Common Sense - Common Sense, the pamphlet supporting American independence
French and Indian War - After the French and Indian War, Britain was left with huge debt. It was fought over land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River
How a bill becomes a law - Congress(Both parts) must approve it and the president
Intolerable Acts aka the Coercive Acts.
Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson
First Americanshunters cross between Siberia and Alaska on a land bridge the Americas were cut off from Asia after the Ice Age
Oregon Trailpioneer trail that began in Missouri and crossed the Great Plains into the Oregon country
John MarshallPresident John Adams ask to serve as chief justice of the Supreme Court
Manifest DestinyUnited States was destined to extend its boundaries to the Pacific
Economy of the North
Economy of the SouthThe Southern economy after the Civil War was mainly based on agriculture
The Stamp Act, Sugar Act, and Townshend Act were British taxes imposed on the colonies