Semester 1 Test Review:

Unit One: Reagan and the American Colonies to 1763. Chapters 1-4 + Reagan

  1. Things you should know…
  2. Rise of conservatives
  3. End of Cold War
  4. Economic policies of Reagan and Reaganomics
  5. Supply side vs Keynesian economics
  6. American Indian empires in MEsoAmerica, SW, MS Valley
  7. American Indian cultures of North America at time of European contact
  8. First European contact with Native Americans
  9. Spain vs. France vs. British empires in North America
  10. How the English settled New England, Mi-Atlantic region and the South and how those areas developed include similarities and differences
  11. How we went from indentured servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake
  12. Religious diversity (or not?) in English colonies
  13. How people resisted colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, Glorious Revolution and Pueblo Revolt
  14. How/why colonies grew in population/impact of immigration
  15. Transatlantic trade
  16. 18th century “backcountry”
  17. Growth of plantation economies and slave societies
  18. Enlightenment’s impact
  19. First Great Awakening
  20. Colonial governments (House of Burgesses) and imperial policy in British North America
  21. French and Indian War/Seven Years War
  22. Resistance to Britain
  23. Proclamation of 1763
  1. Unit Two: The American Revolution(s) including the War of 1812. Chapters 4 (last part)—8.
  2. Road to revolution-important acts, people, dates, events
  3. Federalists vs. anti-federalists
  4. US Constitution
  5. Bill of Rights
  6. Saratoga
  7. Yorktown
  8. Foreign involvement in the American Revolution
  9. Causes of the War of 1812
  10. Treaty of Paris 1783
  11. Impact of Proclamation Line of 1763
  12. Impact of French and Indian War on colonial relations
  13. Salutary neglect
  14. Comprises to create US Constitution
  15. Articles of Confederation
  16. Whiskey Rebellion
  17. Founding Brothers-assumption, duel, the silence, successes and failures of the leaders
  18. Shays rebellion
  19. Republican Motherhood
  20. Embargo act
  21. Revolution of 1800
  22. Marbury v Madison
  23. Hamilton vs Jefferson’s visions for the nation
  24. Washington’s Farewell Address
  25. Strict vs loose constructionist
  26. Women and rights
  27. Most commonly missed questions from unit 1 test.
  1. Things you should know for Unit 3…chapters 9-10
  2. Panic of 1819 and 1837 with causes and effects
  3. Specie circular
  4. Market revolution and 1800-1840 American economy with impact on families, unions, gender
  5. Second great awakening
  6. Nativism
  7. Rise of factories
  8. Impact of factory work on women and poor and unskilled
  9. American System
  10. Cult of domesticity
  11. Transportation revolution
  12. 1828 election results
  13. “Common Man” President Jackson
  14. Era of good feelings
  15. Samuel slater
  16. Jackson’s presidency including Nullification Crisis, Trail of Tears, Kitchen Cabinet, etc…
  17. Migration patterns from 1800-1840
  18. Monroe Doctrine
  19. North vs south economic specialization
  20. Worcester v Georgia
  21. Bank War
  22. Force Bill 1833
  23. Democracy in America
  24. John C. Calhoun
  25. Daniel Webster
  26. Henry Clay
  27. Tariff of Abominations
  28. McCulloch v Maryland
  29. Lowell factory system and “Lowell” girls
  30. Hartford Convention
  31. Early labor unions
  32. War Hawks
  33. Effects of War 1812
  1. Things you should know for Unit 4 test over chapters 11-12
  2. Impact of cotton gin
  3. Cotton production on southern economy and US economy
  4. Slave culture in the South: examples and how it developed
  5. Nat Turner’s rebellion
  6. Silent sabotage
  7. Second middle passage
  8. Societal structure of the Old South
  9. Proslavery arguments
  10. Beginnings of abolitionist movements
  11. How freedom was defined by Whites in the South and how free Blacks defined freedom
  12. Upper vs. lower (Deep) south
  13. System of control over slaves: drivers, overseers, plantation rules
  14. Amistad case
  15. Denmark Vesey’s slave rebellion
  16. “peculiar institution”
  17. Reform movement: what was it? Why did it occur in first half of 19th century? Did it make America more “democratic?”
  18. Utopian communities
  19. Shakers
  20. Mormons
  21. Oneidas
  22. Transcendentalists and Brook Farm (R. W. Emerson, H.D. Thoreau)
  23. Owenites
  24. Temperance
  25. “True national freedom in the American view was anything but an absence of restraint. It rests on moral groundwork including self-control in individual citizens.” Significance of quote applied to reform era.
  26. Militant, immediate abolitionists like David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Elijah Lovejoy
  27. Other abolitionists like Lydia Marie Child, Grimke sisters, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Fuller and how abolition also was a cause for women to be public speakers and participators, in turn, fighting for women’s suffrage
  28. Seneca Falls Convention and Declaration of Sentiments
  29. Splits in the abolitionist movement: why?
  1. Things you should know for unit 5, covering chapters 13 and 14….
  2. Texas Revolution/Alamo/San Jacincto
  3. Impact of Mexican American War on slavery
  4. “spot” resolutions and Lincoln
  5. Compromise of 1850
  6. Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
  7. Bleeding Kansas
  8. John Brown’s Raid
  9. Dred Scott v Sanford
  10. Lincoln Douglas Debates
  11. 1860 election results
  12. First state to secede
  13. Why secede?
  14. Lincoln’s first inaugural address
  15. Gettysburg address
  16. Lincoln’s second inaugural address
  17. Battles that were turning points in Civil War and why
  18. 13th amendment
  19. Black soldiers’ impact on Civil War
  20. Causes of Civil War besides slavery
  21. Lincoln’s meaning of the war at beginning and how it changes by the end
  22. Emancipation Proclamation
  23. Border states
  24. Union and Confederacy strengths and weaknesses during the war
  25. President of Confederacy
  26. Sherman’s March to the Sea
  27. Anaconda Plan
  28. Robert E. Lee
  29. George McClellan
  30. Ulysses S. Grant
  31. Appomattox Court House
  32. Draft riots
  33. Wilmot’s Proviso
  34. Republican Party platform
  35. 54’40’ or Fight! and James K. Polk
  36. Know Nothing Party
  37. Popular sovereignty
  38. Crittendon Compromise
  39. How the Civil War was first “modern war”
  40. Women’s war efforts
  41. How did the civil war lay the foundation for modern America?
  1. Things you should know from chapter 15…
  1. Impact on African Americans political and social lives…
  1. Lincoln’s 10% plan
  1. Johnson’s reconstruction plan
  1. Radical reconstruction plan
  1. The various definitions of freedom…
  1. 40 acres and a mule
  1. Freedman’s Bureau
  1. 13-14-15th amendments (civil war amendments)
  1. 1866 Civil Rights Bill
  1. Compromise of 1877
  1. Black codes
  1. Sharecropping and its impact
  1. Carpetbaggers and scalawags
  1. Civil Rights Act of 1875
  1. Slaughterhouse cases
  1. The New South
  1. How were Black Americans active agents in Reconstruction?
  1. WEB DuBois’ Black Reconstruction
  1. To what extent was reconstruction a “splendid failure?”