US History
Topics 4&5 Study Guide
Topic 4 Names to Know
Daniel Shays
Adam Smith
Henry Knox
John Adams
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
John Jay
John Marshall
Napoleon Bonaparte
Tecumseh
Tenskwatawa
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
Dolley Madison
Francis Scott Key
Toussaint L’Ouverture
William Henry Harrison
Topic 5 Names to Know
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Jacobs
Solomon Northup
Nat Turner
Grimke Sisters
William Lloyd Garrison
SengbePieh
John Quincy Adams
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Sacagawea & Pomp
Thomas Malthus
Alexander MacKenzie
Andrew Jackson
John Ross
John Marshall
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Davy Crocket
Sam Houston
Stephen E. Austin
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
Henry David Thoreau
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Clay
Hugh Glass
Topic 4 Vocabulary
Capitalism
“laissez-faire”
Unitary Government
Confederal Government
Federal Government
Unicameral Legislature
Bicameral Legislature
Checks and Balances
House of Representatives
Senate
Chief Executive
Electoral College
Federal Judiciary
Census
Amendments
Factions
Ratification
Preamble
Bill of Rights
Protective Tariff
Yeoman
Impressment
Excise Tax
Alien
Sedition
Demagoguery
Secession
Assimilation
12th Amendment
Peaceable Coercion
Continental System
Orders of Council
Nullification Doctrine
Topic 5 Vocabulary:
Chattel Principle
Commodification
Theory of Hegemony
Semiotic Rebel
Paternalism
Northwest Passage
Portage
Annexation
Tejanos
American Exceptionalism
Assimilation
Concepts
Types of Government – Unitary, Confederal, Federal, Democracy, Oligarchy, Dictatorship, Constitutional Monarchy, Democratic-Republic
Articles of Confederation – problems? response?
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Mason-Dixon Line
Wealth of Nations
Shays’ Rebellion – responses to it? results?
Factions
Federalists
Anti-Federalists, Jeffersonians, Democratic-Republicans
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Checks & Balances
“The Great Compromise”
3/5 Compromise
Slavery and the Constitution
Federalist No. 10
XYZ Affair – Results?
Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798
Virginia Resolves
Kentucky Resolves
Judiciary Act of 1789
Hamilton’s fiscal program
“venerate the plow”, yeoman
Excise tax on whiskey – Response?
Partisan politics
Revolution of 1800
12th Amendment
Jeffersonian Simplicity
Embargo Act (1807)
Indian Intercourse Act of 1790
Native resistance under Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa
Pan-Indian Confederacy
Pan-Indian religious revival
War Hawks
Madison’s war message
Burning of Washington, D.C.
Fort McHenry and the siege of Baltimore
Hartford Convention
Treaty of Ghent, 1814
Battle of New Orleans
Missouri Compromise of 1821
Pro-Slavery arguments
Cotton Gin’s effect upon the institution of slavery
Repatriationists
United States v. Amistad
Jefferson’s motives for Louisiana Purchase
Lemhi Pass
Jackson’s use of the veto
Jackson’s spoils system
Monroe Doctrine
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Cherokee Response to the Indian Removal Act of 1830
Trail of Tears
Manifest Destiny
Battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto
Protest to the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo