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. Feel free to print this and expand upon the topics. 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.

Do not panic like its 1837. You know this!

  1. Jamestown
  2. Joint Stock Company
  3. Early conflict with Natives
  4. Indentured Servant
  5. Royal Colony vs. Proprietary Colony
  6. House of Burgesses
  7. First form of representative government
  8. Breakout of Colonies – What did they come here for?
  9. North
  10. Middle
  11. South
  12. Salutary Neglect
  13. Mercantilism
  14. Staple Crops
  15. Indigo
  16. Tobacco
  17. Cotton
  18. Great Awakening
  19. French and Indian war
  20. Who was involved?
  21. Treaty of Paris
  22. Leading to a Revolution
  23. Proclamation of 1763
  24. Stamp Act Crisis, Sugar and Quartering Acts, Intolerable Acts
  25. Boycotts and the Sons of Liberty
  26. The Boston Massacre and Tea Party
  27. 1st Continental Congress
  28. Common Sense
  29. Declaration of Independence
  30. Key Battles and Resolutions
  31. Lexington and Concord
  32. Saratoga
  33. Siege at Yorktown
  34. Treaty of Paris
  35. 2nd Continental Congress
  36. Loyalists and Mercenaries
  37. Blockades and Profiteering
  1. Three Branches of Government – Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances
  2. Executive
  3. Judicial
  4. Legislative
  5. The Preamble, Constitution and Bill of Rights – Know what the differences are (don’t need to memorize)
  6. Shay’s Rebellion
  7. Constitutional Convention
  8. Great Compromise
  9. Virginia Plan vs. New Jersey Plan
  10. 3/5th’s Compromise
  11. Electoral college
  12. Federalists vs. Anti-federalists
  13. Washington’s Presidency – Begin Federalist Era
  14. Cabinet
  15. Jay’s Treaty
  16. Whiskey Rebellion
  17. Use of Hamilton’s advice over Jefferson
  18. Proclamation of Neutrality/Farewell Speech Advisements
  19. Adam’s Presidency – Federalist
  20. XYZ Affair
  21. Alien and Sedition Acts
  22. Virginia and Kentucky Resolution
  23. Jefferson’s Presidency - End of Federalist Era, beginning of Jeffersonian Era
  24. Midnight Judges
  25. Marbury vs. Madison
  26. Judicial Review
  27. Louisiana Purchase through Monroe - $15 million instead of the $15 million he was suppose to spend
  28. Lewis and Clark
  29. Reservations
  30. Duel between Hamilton and Burr
  31. Madison’s Presidency
  32. War of 1812
  33. Impressment
  34. Missouri Compromise
  35. Manifest Destiny
  36. Monroe’s Presidency
  37. Adams- Onis Treaty
  38. Monroe Doctrine
  39. Election of 1824 – Complications – 4 People, Only one can win
  40. John Quincy Adams wins
  41. Corrupt Bargain
  42. John Quincy Adam’s Presidency
  43. 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