Honors U.S. History
First Semester Review Guide
Colonization
Location of Spanish, French, English colonies
Encomienda system
Mission system
Northwest passage
Christopher Columbus
Columbian Exchange
Triangular Trade
Joint-Stock company
English motivation(s) for colonization
Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts Bay
Puritans
Mayflower Compact
Mercantilism
Balance of trade
Relationship with Natives - French, English, and
Spanish
Proprietary v. royal Colonies
Cash crop
House of Burgesses
John Smith, John Winthrop, William Penn,
Roger Williams
“City Upon a Hill”
Religious tolerance and the colonies
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
Forms of protest
“Taxation without representation”
Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Boston Massacre, Boston
Tea Party, Intolerable Acts
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Lexington and Concord
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
Constitution and slavery
Principles in the Constitution
Federalists v. Antifederalists
Ratification
Bill of Rights
Early Nation
Precedent
Cabinet
Hamilton’s economic plan
Judiciary Act of 1789
Whiskey Rebellion
Federalists v. Democratic Republicans
Loose v. Strict construction of the Constitution
U.S. and the French Revolution
Alien and Sedition Acts
XYZ Affair
Quasi War with France
Judicial review
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark expedition
Aaron Burr
Causes and Effects of War of 1812
Impressment
Monroe Doctrine
Jacksonian democracy
Increases in voter participation
Jackson and spoils system
Indian Removal Act
Tariff of Abominations
Nullification crisis
Whig party
Trail of Tears
Erie Canal
Railroads
Industrialization
Lowell Mills
Cotton gin
Differences between North and South
Reform Movements and Manifest Destiny
Second Great Awakening
Women’s suffrage movement
Utopianism
Temperance movement
Underground Railroad
Abolition movement
Frederick Douglas
Manifest destiny
Oregon Trail v. Santa Fe Trail v. Mormon Trail
Texas
President Polk
General Santa Anna
Causes and effects of Mexican-American War
Mexican Cession
California gold rush
Civil War
Missouri Compromise v. Compromise of 1850 v.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular sovereignty
Steven Douglas
John Brown
Bleeding Kansas
Fugitive Slave Act
Dred Scott decision
Election of 1860
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
Why the North won
Reconstruction
Civil War amendments
Reconstruction plans
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Freedman’s Bureau
KKK
Sharecropping
Black Codes
Jim Crow Laws
Limits on voting for African Americans
Carpetbagger v. Scalawag
Robert E. Lee v. Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
End of Reconstruction
Gilded Age
Causes of the Indian Wars
Sand Creek Massacre, Little Big Horn, Wounded
Knee
Gov’t policy towards Natives: Assimilation & Dawes
Act
Transcontinental Railroad
Capitalism v socialism
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
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Company towns
Collective bargaining
Knights of Labor v. American Federation of Labor
Major labor strikes
New v. old immigrants
Push v. pull factors
Ellis v. Angel Island
Americanization programs
Nativism
Chinese Exclusion Act
Urbanization – positive and negatives
Tenements
Gilded Age
Monopoly v. cartel v. trust
There will be maps!
All major presidents discussed in class are free game!