Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Chapter 16 Study Guide
Battles You Need To Know:
1. Fort Sumter
2. Battle of Chancellorsville
3. Battle of Vicksburg
4. Battle of Gettysburg
5. Petersburg
6. Battle of Bull Run
7. Second Battle of Bull Run
8. Port Hudson
9. Gettysburg
10. Battle of Shiloh
11. Appomattox Court House
12. Battle-of Spotsylvania Court House
Places You Need to Know:
1. Richmond, Virginia
2. Washington D. C.
People. You Need to Know:
1. Stonewall Jackson
2. General McDowell
3. Major Robert Anderson
4. Jefferson Davis
5, Robert E. Lee
6. General Ulysses S. Grant
7. General William Tecumseh Sherman
9. General McClellan
10. General Pope
Terms You Need to Know:
1. Gettysburg Address
2. Army of the Potomac
3. cotton diplomacy
4. total war
5. North’s strategy for victory
6. South’s strategy for victory
7. Advantages of the North and South at the start of the war
8. Emancipation Proclamation

Sunday, May 8, 2011

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"

Monday, April 11, 2011

Chapter 13 Slavery and Abolition
Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin
Upland Cotton
Sea Island Cotton
"Cotton is King"
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

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Chapter Eight Study Guide
Vocabulary to Know:
1. antifederalist
2. Convention of 1800
3. Macon's Bill Number Two
4. unconstitutional
5. Embargo Act
6. doctrine of nullification
7. nullify
8. First Amendment
9. Non-Intercourse Act
10. Twelfth Amendment
11. repeal
12. secession
13. right of deposit
14. Columbia River
15. Corps of Discovery
16. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
17. dictator
18. continental divide
19. Barbary pirates
20. impressment

People to Know:
1. Zebulon Pike
2. Aaron Burr
3. Charles L'Enfant
4. Thomas Jefferson
5. Toussaint L'Ouverture

Concepts to Know:
1. Economic consequences of the Embargo Act
2. Events and outturn of the election of 1800
3. The effects of the purchase of the Louisiana territory
4. Motives behind the Sedition Act
5. Significance of the case of Marbury V. Madison
6. 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?

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Chapter Seven Study Guide
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?

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Chapter 6 Sections 4-5 Study Guide

Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Delegated Power
Concurrent Power
Reserved Power
tariffs
Constitution
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Republican form of government
Great Compromise
Constitution and slaves, women
Preamble
Three-fifths Compromise
Why is the Convention called a “Compromise Convention”
ratify
ratifying convention
Three Branches of Government main job
Make up of Congress
John Hancock Anti- Federalists
Source of Government’s power
Federalism
Checks and Balances
Separation of Power

Monday, January 10, 2011

Chapter Six — Sections 1-3 Creating the United States 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
Problems facing America following the Revolutionary War