UNITED STATES HISTORY I Final Exam Study Guide 2006
REVIEW SHEETS
2ND SEMESTER FINAL EXAM
EXAM INCLUDES:Multiple choice questions
Cartoon questions
Primary source reading questions
Graph/Chart analysis questions
DIRECTIONS:Study all course worksheets, homework papers, plus notes and review your textbook. Ask for review help if necessary!
The following is a list of course highlights but does not by any means include all the important work covered! Studying the causes and effects plus the persons or groups involved is very significant.
REMEMBER! Who, what when, where, why and how
Age of Jackson and Mexican War (pages 224-235; 274-299)
Indian Removal Act
Re-chartering of the Bank of the U.S.—who was for it? Against? Why?
Tariff of Abominations
“pet banks”
SC Exposition and Protest
Frederick Douglass
John Marshall
William L. Garrison
Henry Clay
Reasons why Americans went to Texas
Reasons why Texans declared independence
Alamo battle
Manifest Destiny
Causes of war with Mexico:
Winfield Scott
Zachary Taylor
James Polk
Franklin Pierce
Mexican Cession
Wilmot Proviso
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
54 40 or Fight!
Gold Rush
The Union in Peril (pages 304-333)
California statehood--what is the debate over?
John C. Calhoun
Stephen Douglas
popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
Dred Scott decision
Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
Election of 1860
Fugitive Slave Law
Ostend Manifesto
Kansas-Nebraska Act
secession
formation of the Republican Party
The Civil War (pages 338-373)
"The First Modern War"--Bruce Catton
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
William T. Sherman
George McClellan
U.S. Grant
Antietam
Shiloh
Gettysburg
"March to the Sea"
Anaconda Plan
Ford's Theater
J.W. Booth
Reconstruction (pages 375-403)
black codes
Emancipation Proclamation
13, 14, 15 Amendment
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stevens
Andrew Johnson
Reasons for impeachment trial
Precedent established by impeachment trial
poll taxes
black suffrage
literacy tests
grandfather clause
3 Reconstruction Plans
Tenure of Office Act
Amnesty Act
First Reconstruction Act
Plessy v. Ferguson
Jim Crow Laws
carpetbaggers
scalawags
freedmen
Southern conservatives
Radical Republicans
Freedman's Bureau
Ku Klux Klan
Populism (pages 425-429)
Populism: what was it? why?
Mary Lease
Grange
Oliver Kelley
Omaha Platform
James B. Weaver
William JenningsBryan
Cross of Gold speech
Marc Hanna
gold standard
Results of election of 1896
A New Industrial Age (p436-455)
effects of industrialization
laissez faire system
gospel of wealth
social darwinism
horizontal integration
vertical integration
Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
American reaction of Unions
Gilded Age (473-477)
Gilded Age: What does it mean? who named it?
Presidency during the Gilded Age
Legislative power during the Gilded Age
influence of trusts during the Gilded Age
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Garfield's assassination
Pendleton Act
Interstate Commerce Act
complaints against railroad
Sherman Anti-trust Act