U.S. History
First Semester Review Guide
Colonization (Units 1 and 2)
Location of Spanish, French, English colonies
Journey of Christopher Columbus
Northwest Passage
Columbian Exchange
Triangular Trade
Encomienda System
Mission System
Joint-Stock Company
English motivation(s) for colonization
Mercantilism
Balance of Trade
Proprietary v. Royal Colonies
Cash Crop
Relationship with Natives of French, English, and Spanish
Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts Bay
John Smith, John Winthrop, William Penn, Roger Williams
Puritans
Navigation Acts
Causes and Effects of the French and Indian War
New England v. Middle v. Southern Colonies
Proclamation of 1763
New Orleans
Salutary Neglect
Indentured Servant
Revolution
Rousseau v. Montesquieu v. Locke
The Enlightenment
Taxation Without Representation
Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts
Lexington and Concord
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Loyalist v. Patriots
Strengths/weaknesses of both sides
Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Yorktown
Treaty of Paris
Articles of Confederation – structure and faults
Shay’s Rebellion
Constitutional Convention
Great Compromise
3/5ths Compromise
Federalists v. Antifederalists
Bill of Rights
Federalism, Representative Government, Checks and Balances
Early Nation
Whiskey Rebellion
Precedent (what is it and what precedents did Washington set?)
Cabinet
Judiciary Act of 1789
Federalists v. Democratic Republicans
U.S. and the French Revolution
Neutrality in early U.S.
Alien and Sedition Acts
War of 1812
Impressment
Louisiana Purchase
Nation Changes, Develops, Grows
Nationalism
Transportation and technology changes
Industrialization
Differences between North and South
Monroe Doctrine
Jacksonian Democracy
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Tariff of Abominations
Nullification Crisis
Whig Party
Second Great Awakening
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Utopianism
Temperance Movement
Underground Railroad
Frederick Douglas
Oregon Trail v. Santa Fe Trail v. Mormon Trail
Americans settling in Texas
Causes and Effects of Mexican-American War
Cotton Gin
Lowell Mills
Erie Canal
Manifest Destiny
Civil War
Missouri Compromise v. Compromise of 1850 v. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular Sovereignty
John Brown
Dred Scott Decision
Election of 1860
Secession
Fort Sumter
Advantages and disadvantages of North and South
Plans for North and South
Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam, Gettysburg, Sherman’s March to the Sea, Vicksburg, Appomattox Court House
Total War
Reconstruction
Civil War Amendments
Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan
Andrew Johnson v. Radical Republicans
Freedman’s Bureau
KKK
Sharecropping
Black Codes
Carpetbagger v. Scalawag
Robert E. Lee v. Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
End of Reconstruction
Urbanization, Industrialization, and Immigration
Capitalism
Entrepreneur
Laissez-Faire
Electricity, Communication, Steel
Effects of Industrialization
Corporation
John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, George Pullman
Horizontal v. Vertical Integration
Robber Barons v. Captains of Industry
Social Darwinism
Government regulations
Company Towns
Collective Bargaining
Child Labor
Knights of Labor v. American Federation of Labor
Socialism
Railroad Strike of 1877
Homestead Strike
Haymarket Riot
Pullman Strike
New v. Old Immigrants
Push v. Pull Factors
Ellis v. Angel Island
Americanization Programs
Melting Pot
Nativism
Chinese Exclusion Act
Urbanization
Advantages of cities
Tenements
Problems of cities
Gilded Age
Monopoly
Cartel