Below please find a study guide that breaks out ideas and concepts that we have covered this year. They are listed chronologically –for the most part. You can use this to help organize your ideas and thoughts. It will help you to retain the information we have reviewed over the past few days. By this point, each topic should be familiar to you. If you do not remember what a certain topic was about, use your notes or your textbook to help remind you.

  1. Jamestown
  2. Joint Stock Company
  3. Early conflict with Natives
  4. House of Burgesses
  5. First form of representative government
  6. Breakout of Colonies – What did they come here for?
  7. North
  8. Middle
  9. South
  10. Salutary Neglect
  11. Mercantilism
  12. Staple Crops
  13. Indigo
  14. Tobacco
  15. Cotton
  16. Great Awakening
  17. French and Indian war
  18. Who was involved?
  19. Treaty of Paris
  20. Leading to a Revolution
  21. Proclamation of 1763
  22. Stamp Act Crisis, Sugar and Quartering Acts, Intolerable Acts
  23. Boycotts and the Sons of Liberty
  24. The Boston Massacre and Tea Party
  25. 1st Continental Congress
  26. Common Sense
  27. Declaration of Independence
  28. Key Battles and Resolutions
  29. Lexington and Concord
  30. Saratoga
  31. Siege at Yorktown
  32. Treaty of Paris
  33. 2nd Continental Congress
  34. Loyalists and Mercenaries
  35. Blockades and Profiteering
  36. Three Branches of Government – Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances
  37. Executive
  38. Judicial
  39. Legislative
  1. The Preamble, Constitution and Bill of Rights – Know what the differences are (don’t need to memorize)
  2. The Unwritten Constitution
  3. Shay’s Rebellion
  4. Constitutional Convention
  5. Great Compromise
  6. Virginia Plan vs. New Jersey Plan
  7. 3/5th’s Compromise
  8. Electoral college
  9. Federalists vs. Anti-federalists
  10. Washington’s Presidency – Begin Federalist Era
  11. Cabinet
  12. Jay’s Treaty
  13. Whiskey Rebellion
  14. Use of Hamilton’s advice over Jefferson
  15. Proclamation of Neutrality/Farewell Speech Advisements
  16. Adam’s Presidency – Federalist
  17. XYZ Affair
  18. Alien and Sedition Acts
  19. Virginia and Kentucky Resolution
  20. Jefferson’s Presidency - End of Federalist Era, beginning of Jeffersonian Era
  21. Midnight Judges
  22. Marbury vs. Madison
  23. Judicial Review
  24. Louisiana Purchase through Monroe - $15 million instead of the $10 million he was suppose to spend
  25. Lewis and Clark
  26. Reservations
  27. Duel between Hamilton and Burr
  28. Madison’s Presidency
  29. War of 1812
  30. Impressment
  31. Missouri Compromise
  32. Manifest Destiny
  33. Monroe’s Presidency
  34. Adams- Onis Treaty
  35. Monroe Doctrine
  36. Election of 1824 – Complications – 4 People, Only one can win
  37. John Quincy Adams wins
  38. Corrupt Bargain
  39. John Quincy Adam’s Presidency
  40. Tariff of Abominations
  1. Jackson’s Presidency
  2. Native Americans
  3. Indian Removal Act
  4. Indian Territories
  5. Trail of Tears
  6. Doctrine of Nullification
  7. Removal of Second National Bank
  8. Van Buren’s Presidency
  9. Panic of 1837
  10. Plagued by the decisions of those who came before him = Depression
  11. 1840’s as the era of Reform
  12. Education, prison, religion, ideology
  13. Sectionalism – north, south, west
  14. Addition of states
  15. Missouri Compromise
  16. Compromise of 1850
  17. Kansas-Nebraska Act
  18. Causes of the Civil War
  19. Abolitionist movement
  20. Fugitive Slave Act
  21. Dred Scott v. Sanford
  22. Election of President Lincoln