US History 1 – Final Exam Study Guide

Study the following topics

• abolition movement
• William lloyd garrison
• Frederick Douglas
• Women’s movement
• Declaration of sentiments
• The effects of the early industrial revolution and factory conditions
• Manifest destiny
• James Polk
• Mexican American war
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Harriet Tubman
• Wilmot proviso
• Secession
• Compromise of 1850
• Henry Clay
• Daniel Webster
• John C. Calhoun
• Stephen Douglass
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Popular Sovereignty
• Bleeding Kansas
• John Brown
• Whig Party
• Republican party
• Underground Railroad
• Lincoln-Douglass debates
• Dred Scott Decision
• Slave states not joining the confederacy
• Election of 1860
• Abraham Lincoln
• Causes of the civil war
• Anaconda Plan
• Sherman’s march to the sea
• Advantages of each side in the civil war
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Lincoln’s play for reconstruction
• problems faced with reconstruction
• Carpetbaggers
• scalawags
• Andrew Johnson’s impeachment
• 13th,14th,15th amendments
• Reconstruction act of 1867
• Civil rights act of 1866
• compare & contrast Sharecropping/tenant farming
• KuKluxKlan
• Goals of radical republicans
• Timeline of events in indian relations
• lifestyle of plains indians
• exodusters
• Wounded Knee
• Homestead Act
• McCormick Reaper
• Transcontinental Railroads
• Custer’s last stand
• Dawes Act
• Influence of vaquero’s on cowboys
• Morril act
• populism

History – Chapter 6 Study Guide

Chapter 6 – The New Nation

chapter review

Sectionalism – Tendency for governments to focus on state issues at the expensive of the nation

Nullification – To cancel, get rid of a bill

Midnight Judges – Judges indited at midnight, hours before a president left office

Judicial Review – To say a law is unconstitutional and change it

Louisiana Purchase – Doubles size of America, bought for 15 million $

Blockade – Britain blocked off French ports

Impressment – To commandeer trade boats, and take all their goods and let the people go free

Embargo – To stop trade usually for political reasons / wars

Treaty of Ghent – Declared U.S. borders, both sides decided to stop fighting, to move on

Armistice – Seize fire

George Washington – The first president; has to set precedent for all the following presidents

Thomas Jefferson – 3^rd President who bought Louisiana purchase

Alexander Hamilton – Founding father, fought with Gen. Washington, was appointed as first secretary Treasurer

Thomas Pinckney – U.S. Minister to Great Britain

Little Turtle – Warrior chief, Won most battles, sees American Army training, decides to fight for peace, ends up being a leader of the Native American Confederation

John Jay – Supreme Court Justice

Meriwether Lewis – Traveled with Clark, Sacajawea, team of people exploring the north western frontier and documenting everything that they discovered; Making trails for settlers to follow.

Sacajawea – Indian women who helped Lewis & Clark communicate and trade with Indians; showed them the land.

William Henry Harrison – Convinces Native Americans to give up 3 million acres of land for pennies

Tecumseh – Native American who formed a confederation against the colonist of America

Presidential Cabinet – advisers to the president (the president gets to choose who)

Whiskey Rebellion – Small farmers rebel whiskey absurd Whiskey Tax; proves government consolidation

Pinckney’s Treaty – America gains control of the Mississippi river and the area around it, Spain keeps Florida (also known as treaty of San Lorenzo)

Jay’s Treaty – After battle of fallen timbers; British are forced out of British forts and can only stay in America if they live in private homes and stay in America to trade.

Alien Act – Raises residency requirements from 5-14 years; allowed president to deport any illegal aliens

Sedition act – Act allowing government to arrest anyone who bad talked the government, it violates the first amendment and eventually backfires on the Federalist party, where Jefferson takes over and voids these laws

Kentucky resolution – Each state can nullify any act thats unconstitutional

Presidential election of 1800’s – Jefferson wins, Hamilton loses; Jefferson gives more power to states

Marbury Vs. Madison – Affirms Judicial Review

Cause of ‘the war of 1812’ – British blockades, British impressment’s, killings on the U.S.S. Chesapeake

Democratic-Republican – Believed in strong interpretation of the Constitution; strong state government; composed of mostly farmers, Jefferson, and Bur

Federalist – Loose interpretation of constitution; strong national government; only wealthy deserving of education; composed of wealthy people, Pickney, and Hamilton to name a few.

Challenges that George Washington faced – Establishing precedent, decisions to help the French, form first cabinet of advisor’s, Establishing national bank, ect.

XYZ Affairs – French officials ask for money from Adams in order to talk to their king about issues, which Adams refutes.

History – Chapter 5 Study Guide

Vocab

1. Republic – Government were people rule through elected officials
2. Articles of Confederation – Document written by the second continental congress in 1777, ratified in 1781, outlines laws for new government
3. Northwest Ordinance of 1787 – Laws establishing how new states would be added to the U.S.
4. Shay’s Rebellion – Uprising of debt ridden farmers protesting taxes in 1787.
5. The Great Compromise – That the government would be powered by 2 separate groups: House of Representatives have a number of representatives that is proportional to population; The Senate has 2 representatives from each state. (Compromise of the Virginia plan and New Jersey plan )
6. Three-Fifths Compromise – That for population and tax reasons slaves would be counted as 3/5ths of a real person.
7. Federalism – System were national government and local government share powers.
8. Checks & balances – Provisions where no branch can overpower another branch (they can overpower each other)
9. Federalist – Person who supported the constitution, and strong national government.
10. Anti-Federalist – Person who didn’t support the constitution and wanted a strong state government
11. Bill of Rights -First 10 Amendments protecting people from overpowering government

Main Ideas

• Shays rebellion – Daniel Shay, protesting taxes, ended articles of confederation, result was drafting for the constitution
• Three Branches of Government
  • Judicial Branch – Interpret Laws – Supreme Court
  • Legislative Branch – Make Laws – Congress (House of representatives / Senate)
  • Executive Branch – Enforce Laws – President / Vice President
• Bill Of Rights – Protects people’s rights, first 10 amendments
• Articles of Confederation – Weren’t successful because their were too many taxes
• Northwest Ordinance
• Ratification – Legally agreeing and signing off on – the constitution was ratified.
• First part of the Constitution – Preamble – Government were the government is their to work for the people
• Federalist papers – describe reasons to support the constitution
• Letters from the Federal Farmer – Described reasons for strong local government

History – Constitution Quiz

1. List the 3 branches and what each branch does.
   1. Judicial – Interpret Laws
   2. Executive – Enforce Laws
   3. Legislative – Make Laws
2. What was the New Jersey Plan?
   • Each state had 2 votes
3. What was the Virginia Plan?
   • Each state had representation proportionate the population.
4. What was the three-fifths compromise?
   • Slaves would count as 3/5^ths a person.
5. List 5  Amendments and describe it
   1. Right to speedy trial
   2. Right to bear arms
   3. Right to a jury
   4. Quartering Act
   5. Accuse anyone who lives here