Below please find a study guide that breaks out ideas and concepts that we have covered this year. They are listed
chronologically –for the most part. You can use this to help organize your ideas and thoughts. It will help you to retain
the information we have reviewed over the past few days. By this point, each topic should be familiar to you. If you do
not remember what a certain topic was about, use your notes or your textbook to help remind you.
1. Jamestown
a. Joint Stock Company
b. Early conflict with Natives
2. House of Burgesses
a. First form of representative government
3. Breakout of Colonies – What did they come here for?
a. North
b. Middle
c. South
4. Salutary Neglect
5. Mercantilism
6. Staple Crops
a. Indigo
b. Tobacco
c. Cotton
7. Great Awakening
8. French and Indian war
a. Who was involved?
b. Treaty of Paris
9. Leading to a Revolution
a. Proclamation of 1763
b. Stamp Act Crisis, Sugar and Quartering Acts, Intolerable Acts
10. Boycotts and the Sons of Liberty
11. The Boston Massacre and Tea Party
12. 1st Continental Congress
13. Common Sense
14. Declaration of Independence
15. Key Battles and Resolutions
a. Lexington and Concord
b. Saratoga
c. Siege at Yorktown
d. Treaty of Paris
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16. 2 Continental Congress
17. Loyalists and Mercenaries
18. Blockades and Profiteering
19. Three Branches of Government – Separation of Powers/Checks and Balances
a. Executive
b. Judicial
c. Legislative
20. The Preamble, Constitution and Bill of Rights – Know what the differences are (don’t need to memorize)
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The Unwritten Constitution
Shay’s Rebellion
Constitutional Convention
Great Compromise
Virginia Plan vs. New Jersey Plan
3/5th’s Compromise
Electoral college
Federalists vs. Anti-federalists
Washington’s Presidency – Begin Federalist Era
a. Cabinet
b. Jay’s Treaty
c. Whiskey Rebellion
d. Use of Hamilton’s advice over Jefferson
e. Proclamation of Neutrality/Farewell Speech Advisements
Adam’s Presidency – Federalist
a. XYZ Affair
b. Alien and Sedition Acts
c. Virginia and Kentucky Resolution
Jefferson’s Presidency - End of Federalist Era, beginning of Jeffersonian Era
a. Midnight Judges
i. Marbury vs. Madison
ii. Judicial Review
b. Louisiana Purchase through Monroe - $15 million instead of the $10 million he was suppose to spend
c. Lewis and Clark
d. Reservations
Duel between Hamilton and Burr
Madison’s Presidency
a. War of 1812
i. Impressment
b. Missouri Compromise
c. Manifest Destiny
Monroe’s Presidency
a. Adams- Onis Treaty
b. Monroe Doctrine
Election of 1824 – Complications – 4 People, Only one can win
a. John Quincy Adams wins
i. Corrupt Bargain
John Quincy Adam’s Presidency
a. Tariff of Abominations
37. Jackson’s Presidency
a. Native Americans
i. Indian Removal Act
ii. Indian Territories
iii. Trail of Tears
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b. Doctrine of Nullification
c. Removal of Second National Bank
Van Buren’s Presidency
a. Panic of 1837
b. Plagued by the decisions of those who came before him = Depression
1840’s as the era of Reform
a. Education, prison, religion, ideology
b. Sectionalism – north, south, west
Addition of states
a. Missouri Compromise
b. Compromise of 1850
c. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Causes of the Civil War
a. Abolitionist movement
b. Fugitive Slave Act
c. Dred Scott v. Sanford
d. Election of President Lincoln