HUSI Final Exam Review

HUSI Final Exam Review

HUSI Final Exam Review

Date of the exam: Friday 6/21/13 from 10:25 – 12:25

Period 5  room 521

Period 8  room 519

Format of the exam:

  • 175 multiple choice questions  1 point each/175 points total
  • 1 essay response*  50 points total

(*you will have three choices)

  • Total Exam  225 possible points

Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800

Cabinet

Thomas Jefferson

Alexander Hamilton (and his financial plans, ex assumption)

Bill of Rights

Judiciary Act of 1789

John Jay

Whiskey Rebellion (excise tax)

Bank of the United States

Federalists

Anti-Federalists

(Jeffersonian) Democratic Republicans

Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality

Jay’s Treaty

Washington’s Farewell Address

XYZ Affair

Citizen Genet

Alien and Sedition Acts

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

Washington Elected President

Bill of Rights

Hamilton Revives the Corpse of Public Credit

Customs, Duties, and Excise Taxes

Hamilton Battles Jefferson for a Bank

Mutinous Moonshiners in Pennsylvania

The Emergence of Political Parties

The Impact of the French Rebellion

Washington's Neutrality Proclamation

Embroilments with Britain

Jay's Treaty and Washington's Farewell

John Adams Becomes President

Unofficial Fighting with France

Adams Puts Patriotism Above Party

The Federalist Witch Hunt

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Federalists versus Democratic-Republicans

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812

Election of 1800/Revolution of 1800

Judiciary Act of 1801

Marbury v. Madison

Barbary Pirates

Louisiana Purchase

Hamilton-Burr Duel

Embargo Act

Non-Intercourse Act

War of 1812 (causes/effects/key battles)

Black Hawk War

War Hawks

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

Federalist and Republican Mudslingers

The Jeffersonian "Revolution of 1800"

Jeffersonian Restraint

The "Dead Clutch" of the Judiciary

Jefferson, a Reluctant Warrior

The Louisiana Godsend

The Aaron Burr Conspiracies

America: A Nutcrackered Neutral

The Hated Embargo

Madison's Gamble

Tecumseh and the Prophet

Mr. Madison's War

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

Battle of New Orleans

Francis Scott Key

Treaty of Ghent

Hartford Convention

Nationalism

Henry Clay

The American System

Tariff of 1816

Era of Good Feelings

Tallmadge Amendment

Missouri Compromise

John Marshall

McCulloch v. Maryland

Gibbons v. Ogden

Monroe Doctrine

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

n to Canada over Land and Lakes

Washington Burned and New Orleans Defended

The Treaty of Ghent

Federalist Grievances and the Hartford Convention

The Second War for American Independence

"The American System"

The So-Called Era of Good Feelings

The Panic of 1819 and the Curse of Hard Times

Growing Pains of the West

Slavery and the Sectional Balance

The Uneasy Missouri Compromise

John Marshall and Judicial Nationalism

Judicial Dikes Against Democratic Excesses

Sharing Oregon and Acquiring Florida

The Menace of Monarchy in America

Monroe and His Doctrine

Monroe's Doctrine Appraised

The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840

Election of 1824/Corrupt Bargain

Era of Common Man

Spoils System/Patronage

Tariff of 1828

South Carolina Exposition

Vesey’s Rebellion

John C. Calhoun

Nullification

Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears

Bank War

Specie Circular

Panic of 1837

Whigs (and Democrat Party, two-party system)

Mexican Independence (Alamo, San Jacinto, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

The "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824

A Yankee Misfit in the White House

Going "Whole Hog" for Jackson in 1828

"Old Hickory" as President

The Spoils System

The Tricky "Tariff of Abominations"

"Nullies" in the South

The Trail of Tears

The Bank War

"Old Hickory" Wallops Clay in 1833

Burying Biddle's Bank

The Birth of the Whigs

The Election of 1836

Depression Doldrums and the Independent Treasury

Gone to Texas

The Lone Star Rebellion

Log Cabins and Hard Cider of 1840

Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

Irish Immigration

Potato Famine

German Immigration

Nativism

Eli Whitney

Samuel Slater

Cotton Gin

Interchangeable Parts

Elias Howe

Samuel Morse

Commonwealth v. Hunt

John Deere

Robert Fulton

National Road

Erie Canal

Telegraph

Transportation Revolution

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

The Westward Movement

Shaping the Western Landscape

The March of Millions

The Emerald Isle Moves West

The German Forty-Eighters

Flare-ups of Antiforeignism

The March of Mechanization

Whitney Ends the Fiber Famine

Marvels in Manufacturing

Workers and "Wage Slaves"

Women and the Economy

Western Farmers Reap a Revolution in the Fields

Highways and Steamboats

"Clinton's Big Ditch" in New York

The Iron Horse

The Transport Web Binds the Union

The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

Second Great Awakening

Joseph Smith

Brigham Young

Horace Mann

Dorothy Dix

American Temperance Society

Seneca Fall Movement

Lucretia Mott

Susan Anthony

Transcendentalism (Thoreau, Emerson, …)

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

Reviving Religion

Denominational Diversity

A Desert Zion in Utah

Free Schools for a Free People

Higher Goals for Higher Learning

An Age of Reform

Demon Rum - The "Old Deluder"

Women in Revolt

Wilderness Utopians

The Dawn of Scientific Achievement

Artistic Achievements

The Blossoming of a National Literature

Trumpeters of Transcendentalism

Literary Individuals and Dissenters

Portrayers of the Past

The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

King Cotton

American Colonization Society

Abolitionism

Abolitionists (Garrison, Truth, Douglass, etc)

Nullification Crisis

Gag Revolution

Free-Soil Party

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

"Cotton is King!"

The Planter "Aristocracy"

Slaves of the Slave System

Free Blacks: Slaves Without Masters

Plantation Slavery

Life Under the Lash

The Burdens of Bondage

Early Abolitionism

Radical Abolitionism

The South Lashes Back

The Abolitionist Impact in the North

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

Ashburton’s Treaty

Annexation

Fifty-Four Forty of Fight

Manifest Destiny

James K. Polk

Mexican-American War (causes, effects)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Wilmot Proviso

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

The Accession of "Tyler Too"

John Tyler: A President without a Party

A War of Words with Britain

Manipulating the Maine Maps

The Lone Star of Texas Shines Alone

The Belated Texas Nuptials

Oregon Fever Populates Oregon

A Mandate for Manifest Destiny

Polk the Purposeful

Misunderstandings with Mexico

American Blood on American Soil

The Mastering of Mexico

Fighting Mexico for Peace

Profit and Loss in Mexico

Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

Popular Sovereignty

Free-Soil Party

Forty-Niners

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

Ostend Manifesto

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Stephen Douglas

Republican Party

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

The Popular Sovereignty Panacea

Political Triumphs for General Taylor

"Californy Gold"

Sectional Balance and the Underground Railroad

Twilight of the Senatorial Giants

Deadlock and Danger on Capital Hill

Breaking the Congressional Logjam

Balancing the Compromise Scales

Defeat and Doom for the Whigs

President Pierce the Expansionist

Coveted Cuba: Pearl of the Antilles

Pacific Railroad Promoters and the Gadsden Purchase

Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Scheme

Congress Legislates a Civil War

Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

Bleeding Kansas

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Scott v. Sandford

John Brown (Pottawatomie Creek, Harpers’ Ferry)

Sumner-Brooks Affair

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Election of 1860

Secession

Jefferson Davis

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

Stowe and Helper: Literary Incendiaries

The North-South Contest for Kansas

Kansas in Convulsion

"Bully" Brooks and His Bludgeon

"Old Buck" Versus "The Pathfinder"

The Electoral Fruits of 1856

The Dred Scott Bombshell

The Financial Crash of 1857

An Illinois Rail-Splitter Emerges

The Great Debate: Lincoln versus Douglas

John Brown: Murderer or Martyr?

The Disruption of the Democrats

A Rail-Splitter Splits the Union

The Electoral Upheaval of 1860

The Secessionist Exodus

The Collapse of Compromise

Farewell to the Union

Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865

Civil War Battles (Ft. Sumter, Bull Run, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Appomattox Court House)

Border States

Confederate Leaders (Jefferson Davis, Robert Lee, Stonewall Jackson)

Habeas corpus

Conscription

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

The Menace of Secession

South Carolina Assails Fort Sumter

Brothers' Blood and Border Blood

The Balance of Forces

Dethroning King Cotton

The Decisiveness of Diplomacy

Foreign Flare-Ups

President Davis versus President Lincoln

Limitations on Wartime Liberties

Volunteers and Draftees: North and South

The Economic Stresses of War

The North's Economic Boom

A Crashed Cotton Kingdom

The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865

Union Leaders (Scott, McClellan, Grant)

Anaconda Plan

Ironclads

Emancipation Proclamation

Gettysburg Address

Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

Total War

John Wilkes Booth

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

Bull Run Ends the "Ninety-Day War"

"Tardy George" McClellan and the Peninsular Campaign

The War at Sea

The Pivotal Point: Antietam

A Proclamation without Emancipation

Blacks Battle Bondage

Lee's Last Lunge at Gettysburg

The War in the West

Sherman Scorches Georgia

The Politics of War

The Election of 1864

Grant Outlasts Lee

The Martyrdom of Lincoln

The Aftermath of the Nightmare

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Freedmen

Ten Percent Plan

Freedmen’s Bureau

Johnson’s impeachment

Wade-Davis Bill

Black Codes

Civil War Amendments (13, 14, 15)

Sharecropping

Radical Republicans

Scalawags

Carpetbaggers

KKK

Events, Terms, People, Etc.

The Problems of Peace

Freedmen Define Freedom

The Freedmen's Bureau

Johnson: The Tailor President

Presidential Reconstruction

The Baleful Black Codes

Congressional Reconstruction

Johnson Clashes with Congress

Swinging 'Round the Circle with Johnson

Republicans Principles and Programs

Reconstruction by the Sword

No Women Voters

The Realities of Radical Reconstruction in the South

The Ku Klux Klan

Johnson and the Impeachment Process

The Purchase of Alaska

The Heritage of Reconstruction