US Exam Study Guide Winter 2016

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  1. “City upon a Hill”
  2. ½ way covenant
  3. 1763 Treaty of Paris
  4. 1783 Treaty of Paris
  5. 1st Continental Congress
  6. 1st Great Awakening
  7. 2nd Continental Congress
  8. 2nd Great Awakening
  9. 3 branches of government & Separation of Powers
  10. 3/5 compromise
  11. 49ers (effect in Cali)
  12. Abolition
  13. Abraham Lincoln
  14. Abraham Lincoln’s election 1860
  15. Adam Onis Treaty
  16. African American cultural development
  17. Alamo
  18. Alien and Sedition Acts
  19. All Amendments (yes, write out all 27)
  20. American Nationalism
  21. American System
  22. Andrew Jackson
  23. Antebellum
  24. Articles of Confederation
  25. Bacon’s Rebellion – importance too
  26. Bank of the United States (BUS)
  27. Battle of New Orleans
  28. Battle of San Jacinto
  29. Battle of Saratoga
  30. Benjamin Franklin (Why such a beast)
  31. Bill of Rights
  32. Boston Massacre
  33. Boston Tea Party
  34. Brigham Young
  35. Bunker Hill
  36. Canals (Erie)
  37. Checks and Balances
  38. Committees of Correspondence
  39. Common Sense
  40. Compromise of 1850 – Cause & 4 parts
  41. Constitutional Convention
  42. Continental Army (strengths and Weaknesses)
  43. Corrupt Bargain (JQ Adams)
  44. Declaration of Independence
  45. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
  46. Eli Whitney’s inventions (2)
  47. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  48. Embargo Act of 1807
  49. Erie Canal
  50. Federalist papers
  51. Federalist beliefs v Anti-federalist beliefs
  52. Fifty Four-Forty or Fight
  53. First political parties (Why formed?)
  54. Fort Sumter
  55. France’s help during Revolutionary War
  56. Frederick Douglass
  57. Freeport Doctrine
  58. French and Indian War (Causes/Results)
  59. Friedrich (Baron) von Steuben
  60. Fugitive Slave Act (Comp. of 1850)
  61. Gadsden Purchase
  62. General Cornwallis
  63. General/President Santa Anna
  64. George Washington (everything!)
  65. Georgia
  66. Grimke Sisters
  67. Hamilton v Jefferson (Fed vs. Antifed)
  68. Harper’s Ferry
  69. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  70. Harriet Tubman
  71. Head Right System
  72. Horace Mann
  73. House of Burgesses
  74. Indentured servants
  75. Indian Removal Act
  76. Individualism & Social Mobility (Ben!)
  77. Industrial Revolution
  78. Intolerable Acts
  79. Jacksonian Democracy (Changes)
  80. James Madison
  81. James K. Polk (Whoo!)
  82. Jamestown - Founder & reason for being founded
  83. John Adams
  84. John Brown
  85. John C. Calhoun
  86. John Locke
  87. John Marshall
  88. John Quincy Adams
  89. John Rolfe
  90. John Smith
  91. Joint stock company
  92. Jonathan Edwards
  93. Judiciary Act of 1789
  94. Judiciary Act of 1801
  95. Kansas-Nebraska Act
  96. King Phillip’s War
  97. Land Ordinance of 1785
  98. Lawrence, Kansas
  99. Lewis and Clark
  100. Lexington and Concord
  101. Limited government
  102. Lincoln/Douglas Debates
  103. Louisiana Purchase
  104. Manifest Destiny
  105. Marbury v Madison (1803)
  106. Martin Van Buren
  107. Marquis de Lafayette
  108. Maryland (founder and reason)
  109. Massachusetts (founder and reason)
  110. Mayflower Compact
  111. McCulloch v. Maryland
  112. Mercantilism
  113. Metacom/King Phillip
  114. Mexican-American War
  115. Mid-Atlantic colonies - Founder and reason for being founded
  116. Middle Passage
  117. Midnight Judges
  118. Minute men
  119. Missouri Compromise
  120. Monroe Doctrine
  121. Montesquieu
  122. Mormons
  123. Nat Turner
  124. National Infrastructure (importance)
  125. National Road
  126. New Amsterdam
  127. New England colonies - Founder and reason for being founded
  128. New Orleans
  129. Non-intervention in foreign affairs (Washington)
  130. Northern strengths & weaknesses before the Civil War
  131. Nullification
  132. Nullification Crisis
  133. NW Ordinance of 1787
  134. NY City (importance)
  135. Oregon Trail
  136. Paul Revere
  137. Pennsylvania (founder & reason)
  138. Pilgrims
  139. Plymouth - Founder and reason for being founded
  140. Chief Pontiac/ Rebellion
  141. Popular Sovereignty
  142. -Powhatan
  143. Proclamation of 1763
  144. Puritans
  145. Quakers (colony)
  146. Quebec – reason for founding
  147. Roanoke - reason for founding
  148. Roger Sherman
  149. Sacajawea
  150. Salem Witch Trials
  151. Salutary neglect
  152. Samuel Adams
  153. Santa Fe Trail
  154. Sectionalism
  155. Seneca Falls Convention
  156. Separatists
  157. Shay’s Rebellion
  158. Sojourner Truth
  159. Sons and Daughters of Liberty
  160. Southern colonies – reason for being founded
  161. Southern defense of slavery – 3 reasons
  162. Southern strengths & weaknesses before the Civil War
  163. Spoils System
  164. Stamp Act
  165. States’ Rights
  166. Steamboats (inventor & importance)
  167. Stephen Douglas
  168. Stonewall Jackson
  169. Stono Rebellion
  170. Tariff of Abominations (1828)
  171. Temperance movement
  172. Tent Revivals
  173. Texas Revolution
  174. The Great Compromise
  175. Thomas Jefferson
  176. Thomas Paine
  177. Tobacco
  178. Trail of Tears
  179. Trans-Atlantic trade
  180. Treaty of Fort Laramie
  181. Treaty of Ghent
  182. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  183. Trenton, NJ (Battle)
  184. Underground Railroad
  185. Valley Forge
  186. Virginia (founder & reason)
  187. Voltaire
  188. War of 1812 (Causes & Results)
  189. Washington’s 1st cabinet
  190. Washington’s Crossing the Delaware River
  191. Whigs
  192. Whiskey Rebellion
  193. William Henry Harrison
  194. William Lloyd Garrison
  195. William Tecumseh Sherman
  196. Wilmot Proviso
  197. Women’s suffrage
  198. XYZ Affair
  199. Yorktown
  200. Zachary Taylor

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