Final Exam Questions, Concepts, People, and Terms

“Stuff” from before midyears: Values and Reasoning Skills

1.Going back to the start of the year, make sure you can recognize and apply the values and reasoning skills.

Some important terms/names/events from this unit

Reasoning, Comparison, Cause and Effect, Generalization

Argument, Thesis, Evidence,

Values: Liberty/Order, Capitalism/Centralization, Democracy/Authority, Equality/Hierarchy, Individualism/Collectivism

I. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights

  1. The Articles of Confederation and the creation of Constitution
  2. The Constitution: The Preamble, Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 – Powers and Limitations, Articles 4-7 – General overview
  3. The Bill of Rights: Amendments 1-6; Amendments 7-10

Some important terms/names/events from this unit

  • States Rights, Articles of Confederation, Shays’ Rebellion, Constitutional Convention, Federalists and Anti-Federalists, Ratification,
  • Preamble, Article 1, Article 2, Article 3, Articles 4-7, Bill of Rights, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Press, Right to Bear Arms, Defendants Rights, Plead the 5th, Search and Seizure, Amendments, Passing an Amendment, President, Bicameral Legislature, Congress, Senate, House of Representatives, Supreme Court, Justices, Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, Elastic Clause

II. Early Presidents/Early America

  1. Washington’s selection/election as President
  2. Washington’s presidency – building a new government
  3. Comparing Hamilton and Jefferson
  4. Adams’ Presidency , Jefferson’s election and Presidency

Some important terms/names/events from this unit

  • Washington’s Precedents and Running the Government: The Cabinet, The Vice President, Secretary of State, War, Treasury, Attorney General, The Judiciary Act of 1789
  • Whiskey Rebellion, Political Parties, Two Party System,Reign of Terror, Pinckney’s Treaty, Jay’s Treaty, Sectionalism, XYZ Affair, Nullification
  • Political Philosophy: Mob rule, Virtuous farmers, a well educated elite, Loose interpretation vs. Strict Interpretation , Debt and the National Bank, Protective TariffExcise Tax
  • The French, Alien and Sedition Acts, Native American concerns/warfare
  • Hamilton vs. Burr, Federalists and Democratic Republicans, the Louisiana Purchase, Napoleon Bonaparte, Marbury vs. Madison, Lewis and Clark, Manifest Destiny

III. The War of 1812 and the Age of Jackson

  1. Reasons, events, and outcomes of the War of 1812
  2. Andrew Jackson -- The Man and the Myth; Protector of the Common American; Danger to Democracy

Some important terms/names/events from this unit

  • Monroe Doctrine, James and Dolly Madison, Impressment, Nationalism, Sectionalism, Battle of Baltimore, Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson, Star Spangled Banner,
  • Democratic Party, Election of ’28, Old Hickory, Spoils system, Native American Assimilation, Indian Removal Act of 1830, Trail of Tears, Cherokee, Worcester v. Georgia, John C. Calhoun, Nullification, Henry Clay, Industrialization, Manufacturing, Mass Production, Cotton Gin

IV. Antebellum and Civil War

  1. US and Confederate Geography
  2. Causes of the Civil War: Northern and Southern economic and social differences; divisive politics of Slavery, Lincoln’s election, Ft. Sumter, and Southern secession
  3. Fighting the war: Advantages and disadvantages for the Union and the Confederacy
  4. Fighting the Civil War – events and battles, the end of the war

Some important terms/names/events from this unit

  • Pre- Antebellum, States’ Rights, North and South differences,
  • Laws and such: Wilmot Proviso, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Secession, popular sovereignty, Fugitive Slave Act, personal liberty laws, Kansas-Nebraska Act,
  • People and ideas: Henry Clay, Abe Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Dred Scot, Justice Taney, Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Brown, Harpers Ferry, Charles Sumner, Bleeding Kansas.
  • Jefferson Davis, Confederate States of America, Union, Habeas Corpus, Anaconda Plan, Unconditional Warfare, Lincoln’s values, Grant, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Bull Run, General McClellan, Gettysburg, Emancipation Proclamation, Sherman’s March, Antietam, Richmond, Appomattox, 13th Amendment, Andrew Johnson, Reconstruction