Chapter 15 Study Guide

The Election of 1860*

John Breckinridge

Abraham Lincoln

John Bell

Stephen Douglas

nativists

John C. Fremont

Lecompton Constitution

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Roger Taney

segregation

popular sovereignty

free soilers

Ostend Manifesto

Pottawatomie Massacre.

Raid on Harpers Ferry*

Gadsden Purchase

Dred Scott decision*

Wilmot Proviso

Kansas-Nebraska Act*

Missouri Compromise

Compromise of 1850

Lincoln Douglas debates views on race and slavery

The Freeport Doctrine

Why Southern states seceded from the Union

Fugitive Slave Act*

"Beecher's Bibles"

Chapter 13 Slavery and Abolition

 Eli Whitney                                                                                                       

Cotton Gin                                                                                                      

Upland Cotton                                                                                                               

Sea Island Cotton                                                                                                 South’s defense of slavery                                                                                  

Legal status of slavery                                                                                         

American Colonization Society                                                                  

David Walker                                                                                                        

William Lloyd Garrison                                                                                      

 Frederick Douglass                                                                                                       

Gabriel Prosser                                                                                               

Abolitionists ; were they successful?                                                            

Nat Turner                                                                                                          

Benjamin Lundy                                                                                                     

Angelina Grimke                                                                                                

Robert Purvis                                                                                                         

Henry Garnet                                                                                                

Harriet Tubman                                                                                                      

 Paul Cuffe                                                                                                    

Sojurner Truth                                                                                                     

 “Cotton is King”                                                                                                     

George Fitzhugh      

Chapter 8 The Age of Jefferson

Vocabulary to Know:
1. Anti-federalist
2. Convention of 1800
3. unconstitutional
4. doctrine of nullification
5. nullify
6. First Amendment
7. Twelfth Amendment
8. repeal
9. secession
10. right of deposit
11. Columbia River
12. Corps of Discovery
13. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
14. dictator
15. continental divide
16. Barbary pirates
17. impressment
People to Know:
1. Zebulon Pike
2. Aaron Burr
3. Charles L'Enfant
4. Thomas Jefferson
5. Toussaint L'Ouverture
6. Charles Pinkney
Concepts to Know:
1. Events and outturn of the election of 1800
2. The effects of the purchase of the Louisiana territory
3. Motives behind the Sedition Act
4. Significance of the case of Marbury V. Madison
5. The significance of the statement "We are all Republicans-we are all Federalists"
Essays:
1. What type of information did Thomas Jefferson request that Lewis and Clark collect on their expedition? Give at least six examples and tell how they collected that information.
2. Why did the United States wish to purchase New Orleans? Why did France eventually agree to the Louisiana Purchase?

Chapter 7 Governing the United States

Terms to Know:

1. bank notes        
2 Federalists   
3. Security  
4.Speculators     
5. Democratic-Republicans    
6. government bonds         
7. right of deposit     
8. elastic clause       
9. Market     
10. necessary and proper clause
11.Capitalism    
12. Tariff Act of 1789            
13. profit

People to Know:

1. Edmund Randolph     
2. Alexander Hamilton   
3. "Citizen" Genet     
4. Thomas Jefferson
5. Talleyrand

Ideas and Concepts to Review:

1. What did the government add to the Constitution that reassured the people that they wouldn't have too much power?

2. General knowledge of the Bill of Rights

3. Know the policies and ideas supported by the following people:

a. Hamilton                                           
b. Jefferson

4. The purpose and use of the necessary and proper clause

5. Washington's Farewell Address

6. Alien and Sedition Acts

7. Election of 1796 - plans, conspiracies, outcome

8. XYZ Affair

9. Departments created in Washington's presidency

10. Battle of Fallen Timbers

Essay Questions:

Please prepare for these essays:

1. How did Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson each use the necessary and proper clause of the Constitution to support their opinions on the constitutionality of establishing the Bank of the United States?

2. Why was George Washington a good choice to be the first president of the United States?

Creating the United States Chapter 6 Study Guide

Differences between Revolutionary War and American Revolution
public servants
Terms of Peace of Paris Treaty
Continental dollars
ratify
Constitution
Articles of Confederation
hard money
Revolutionary dollars
republican
federalism
weakness in the Articles of Confederation
the Magna Carta.
the Enlightenment.
the Mayflower Compact.
Cite examples of how Second Continental Congress performed the duties of a national government?
The first two step in creating a new system of government in the United States. The hardest step? The most Important step?
Characteristics of the state constitutions?
Land Ordinance of 1785
tariffs
inflation
depression
Northwest Ordinance
Shays' Rebellion
"league of friendship"
Maryland’s threat to refuse to ratify the Articles of Confederation

1.     Identify the meaning for each of the terms in Section 4 – 5.

2.    Identify:  Delegated, Reserved, and Concurrent Powers

3.    Identify the qualifications to serve as President – House of Representatives and Senate.

4.    Identify the main purpose of each branch.

5.    Identify the main points of the:  Virginia Plan

                                      New Jersey Plan

                                      Great Compromise

                                      3/5 Compromise

6.    Explain how the Constitution dealt with the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

7.    Describe how the Constitutional Convention settled the question of how state representation in Congress would be determined.

American Revolution Part II

Minute Men
Tories and Whigs
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson                                                                                                                             

Declaration of Independence Purpose and basic rights
mercenaries tyranny, monarchy, democracy
sunshine patriots
Benedict Arnold
George Rogers Clark                                                                                           
Thomas Paine
America’s darkest hour the fall of 1776
British strategy for 1777                                                                                                         
General Howe
General Clinton
General Burgoyne
Battle of Brandywine                                                                                                                        
Battle of Germantown
Battle of Saratoga:Why it was a turning point in the war                                                                        
Valley Forge
Battle of Monmouth Courthouse:
Battle of Long Island New York                                                                                                               
British strategy for the south
Nathanael Greene 
Battle of Cowpens and Guilford Court House
General Cornwallis 
Battle of Yorktown
George Washington                                                                                                                          
Battle of Princeton and Trenton
John Hancock 
Patrick Henry
Benedict Arnold.

Chapter 5 The Revolutionary War Study Guide (Sections 1-3)

A.   Explain the cause and effect chain of reaction that began with the Tea Act in 1773 and ended with the fighting on Breeds Hill in Boston.  Focus on the following:

1.     Tea Act

2.    Boston Tea Party

3.    Coercive or Intolerable Acts

4.    1^st Continental Congress

5.    Lexington and Concord

6.    2^nd Continental Congress

7.    Breeds Hill

B.    Compare and contrast the American and British army’s at the start of the Revolutionary War.

C.    Identify:

1.     Paul Revere

2.    George Washington

3.    Committee of Correspondence

4.    King George III

5.    Intolerable Acts four actions taken be England

6.    Minute men

7.    Tories

8.    Whigs

D.   Identify the actions of both the 1^st and 2^nd Continental Congress