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Fall Semester Final Study Guide
[NOTE: THE FINAL WILL COVER THE FIRST TWENTYEIGHT CHAPTERS OF THE TEXTBOOK.
ANYTHING WITHIN THOSE CHAPTERS COULD BE FAIR-GAME FOR INCORPORATION INTO
THE TEST. THE FOLLOWING LIST HIGHLIGHTS THE TOPICS YOU MIGHT WANT TO
CONCENTRATE ON STUDYING. IN-ADDITION TO THE ITEMS ON THE FOLLOWING LIST, YOU
WILL WANT TO STUDY THE MAPS GIVEN AS ASSIGNMENTS. YOU SHOULD KNOW THE
LOCATION OF THE STATES, MAJOR CITIES, AND LOCATIONS WHERE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN
UNITED STATES HISTORY TOOK PLACE.]
o British colonization of North America
 purpose
- mercantilism
 colonies and their major products/exports
 Salem Witch Trials
 emerging social order
- social / political elites
- yeoman farmers / land-owning class
- indentured servants
- slavery
o Colonial Wars
 French & Indian War
- causes
- outcomes
 Treaty of Paris
 Proclamation Line of 1763
 Revolutionary War (War of American Independence)
- Issues / provocations (causes)
 Salutary Neglect
 Great Awakening
 Parliamentary Acts (i.e. Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts / Coercive Acts,
etc.)
 Colonial responses
 Committees of Correspondence
 Continental Congresses (1st & 2nd)
 Olive Branch Treaty
 Acts of Defiance (i.e. Boston Tea Party, organize militias, etc.)
- Ideas behind
 Enlightenment
 Natural Rights
 Declaration of Independence
- Conduct of War
 Skirmishes
 Lexington & Concord
 Bunker Hill
 Phase I – “Divide & Conquer”
 Battle of Saratoga
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Phase II – “Destroy Continental Army”
Phase III – “The Southern Strategy”
 Yorktown
Articles of Confederation
 Shays’ Rebellion
 Annapolis Convention
Constitutional Convention
 James Madison
 competing plans
- Virginia
- New Jersey
 Branches of Government
- Legislative
- Executive
- Judicial
 Key Concepts
- Federalism
- Separation of Powers
- Checks-and-Balances
 Compromises
- Great Compromise
- 3/5ths Compromise
 Bill of Rights
 Ratification
- Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
- Federalist Papers
Early Federal Period
 Washington Administration
- Domestic Problems
 Factions
 Funding & Assumption
 Bank of the United States (BUS)
 Whiskey Rebellion
- International Problems
 Jay’s Treaty
 Genet Affair
- Farewell Address (cautions)
 Adams Administration
- Domestic Problems
 Fries Rebellion
 accusations of being a monarchist
- International Problems
 Quasi-War with France
 XYZ Affair
Jefferson Administration
 Marbury v. Madison
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aka “Revolution of 1800”
- election of anti-Federalist Jefferson
 Domestic Problems
- stagnant economy / Embargo of 1807
- rumors of succession
 International Problems
- Barbary Wars
- Louisiana Purchase
 Lewis and Clark Expedition
War of 1812
 Causes / Results
 Treaty of Ghent
 Hartford Convention
- goal
- effect on Federalist party
American Triumvirate
 John C. Calhoun (South Carolina)
 Henry Clay (Kentucky)
 Daniel Webster (Massachusetts)
Andrew Jackson Administration
 Bank of the United States
 Nullification Crisis
 Indian Removal (i.e. Cherokee “Trail of Tears”, etc.)
Westward Movement / Expansion / “Manifest Destiny”
 Missouri Compromise
 Mexican-American War
 Slavery
- Gag Rule
- Fugitive Slave Act
Abolitionists (i.e. John Brown, etc.)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe/Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) / Popular Sovereignty
- Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Dred Scott Case
Civil War
 Election of 1860
- Major Candidates
John Bell (Constitutional Union)
John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat)
Stephen A. Douglas (Democrat)
Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
- Major Issues (Popular Sovereignty, State’s Rights, National Union, etc.)
- Crittenden Compromise
 Secession Crisis
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- Confederate States of America
- Jefferson Davis
- Fort Sumter
 Competing strategies (What must the Union do to win? What must the
Confederacy do to win?)
- Anaconda Plan
 Major Battles
- First Bull Run
- Fort Donnelson and Fort Henry
- Vicksburg
- Gettysburg
- Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
 New Weapons / Strategies
- Monitor and the Merrimack (Monitor and the Virginia)
- “Total War”
 Major military leaders
- Winfield Scott
- Ulysses S. Grant
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Robert E. Lee
o Reconstruction
 Presidential (Lincoln’s Plan)
 Congressional
- Radical Republicans
- Freedmen’s Bureau
 Southern Reaction
 Impeachment of President Johnson
 Election of 1877 (Hayes v. Tilden)
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mercantilism
boycott
tyrant/tyranny
blockade
siege
specie
ratify
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factions
neutrality
embargo
tariff
nullify/nullification
inflation
speculator
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Hudson River
Illinois
Kansas Territory / State
Mississippi River
Missouri Territory / State
Missouri River
New York
PLACES/LOCATIONS
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Albany
Boston
Cahokia
California
Detroit
Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh)
Fort Sumter / Charleston
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Ohio River
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh (Fort Duquesne)
Richmond
Saratoga
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Texas
Vicksburg
Vincennes
Washington, D. C.
Yorktown