US I&II Final Exam Study Guide
Remember, on this list of what appears to be simple vocabulary terms, I can ask “Who? What? When?
Where? Why? How?” questions for nearly each one! Be prepared!
Chapter 9
1. Bill of Rights –
2.
Ninth Amendment –
3.
Tenth Amendment –
4.
U.S. Capitol (original+) –
5.
Whiskey Rebellion –
6.
Jay’s Treaty –
7.
XYZ Affair –
8.
Alien and Sedition Acts –
9.
Kentucky and Virginia Resolves –
10. Quasi-War –
11. Why was George Washington chosen as the first president of the U.S.?
12. According to Benjamin Rush, how could women best contribute to a better society?
13. What effect did the creation of a new nation have on traditional gender roles and relations?
14. Why did American cotton production experience a boom in the late 1790s?
15. What 1792 event stimulated the building of roads?
16. What did Alexander Hamilton propose to help restore faith in the credit of the federal
government?
17. Why did critics oppose the assumption of the states’ old Revolutionary War debts by the federal
government?
18. Jefferson advised Congress and the President that the Constitution prohibited which of
Hamilton’s economic programs?
19. What was President Washington’s response to Hamilton’s idea for a Bank of the United States?
20. What did Hamilton propose Congress create to meet the interest payments on the national debt
under his financial program?
21. What was the U.S. government’s response to early policies towards Indians in the Northwest
Territory?
22. What was the result of General Wayne’s victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
23. How did most Americans react to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789?
24. How did George Washington respond to the war between England and France in 1793?
25. What did most members of the Republican Party support in the late 1790s?
26. How did President Adams try to stop war with France in 1797?
Chapter 10
1. “Revolution of 1800” –
2.
Gabriel Prosser –
3.
“midnight judges” –
4.
Marbury v. Madison –
5.
Embargo Act of 1807 –
6.
Nonintercourse Act of 1809 –
7.
Treaty of Ghent –
8.
feme covert –
9.
Adams-Onis Treaty –
10. Monroe Doctrine –
11. “American system” –
12. “corrupt bargain” –
13. Why did Federalist Alexander Hamilton support Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr during the
presidential election of 1800?
14. Why did Thomas Jefferson criticize Alexander Hamilton’s vision of government?
15. According to Jefferson, what was the source of true freedom in America?
16. According to Jefferson, what was the proper task for the federal government?
17. Who owned the land west of the Mississippi River prior to 1800? Who did they give it to and
why was the U.S. concerned about that?
18. What did the Lewis and Clark expedition succeed in doing?
19. What was Congress’s response to the sinking of the Chesapeake in June 1807?
20. How did women play key roles in political circles during the early 19th century?
21. What was Tecumseh’s response to the Treaty of Fort Wayne in 1809?
22. Why did many northerners oppose war with Great Britain in 1812?
23. What significant event happened in Washington D.C. in 1814?
24. Why was Jackson’s defeat of the British in New Orleans surprising?
25. What was the fate of the Federalist Party as a result of the War of 1812 and the Hartford
Convention?
26. Who suffered the greatest losses in the War of 1812?
27. Why did slave marriages avoid the unequal power relationships characteristic of white
marriages?
28. What did the Troy Female Seminary and the Hartford Seminary prepare their female students to
do?
29. Which state was first in disenfranchising all adult males?
30. What complicated the presidential election of 1824?
Chapter 11
1. “Barbeque Orator” –
2. spoils system –
3. Indian Removal Act –
4. Worchester v. Georgia –
5. Trail of Tears –
6. nullification crisis –
7. Second Great Awakening –
8. Temperance movement of the 1830s –
9. gag rule –
10. What was the common belief of most Americans during the Jacksonian era?
11. Why were canals important in the early 19th century?
12. What were the effects of the first railroad lines in the U.S.?
13. Who made up the bulk of the workforce in New England textile mills until the 1840s?
14. Describe wages for the workers in the early Massachusetts factories.
15. Why did the number of white male voters increase between the elections from 1824 and 1828?
16. Why were newspapers important for political parties in Jacksonian America?
17. What type of government did Andrew Jackson favor?
18. What was Jackson’s beliefs regarding the Bank of the United States?
19. What caused the idea of separation of spheres and separate duties for men and women in 1815?
20. How did the increase in the number of public schools change teaching in the 1820s and 1830s?
21. Who organized the New York Female Moral Reform Society in 1833?
22. What did William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator advocate?
23. Why did few white northerners get involved in the campaign to eradicate slavery during the
reforms of the 1830s?
24. What caused the Panic of 1837?
25. How did William Henry Harrison win the election of 1840?
Chapter 12
1. Free-labor ideal –
2. Manifest destiny –
3. Brigham Young –
4. Battle at the Alamo –
5. Texas annexation –
6. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo –
7. American Colonization Society –
8. Underground Railroad –
9. What helped fuel economic growth in the U.S. during the mid-1800s?
10. What allowed factories to become more productive during the 1840s and 1850s?
11. What helped increase agricultural productivity in the Midwest in the late 1830s?
12. How did the federal government help facilitate agricultural productivity in the 1840s and 1850s?
13. Why did American manufacturers invent labor-saving methods and devices during the first half
of the 1800s?
14. What did the “American system” allow manufacturers to do?
15. What was the effect of the growth of railroads in the 1850s?
16. What two countries led immigration to the U.S. in the late 1840s?
17. What happened to most Irish immigrants once they arrived?
18. How did the U.S. and Britain compromise on the Oregon territory in 1818?
19. How did white settlers traveling across the Great Plains affect Indian settlements?
20. Why were Mexico’s northern territories vulnerable to American settlers?
21. How did Texas gain independence from Mexico?
22. Who opposed the Mexican-American War?
23. What was Polk’s strategy for winning the Mexican-American War?
24. Describe the social environment that the gold rush in CA created.
25. What were the beliefs of transcendentalists?
26. In the mid-1800s, how did abolitionists try to make their issue more attractive to northerners?
Chapter 14
13
Chapter
1.1. John
Nat Turner
– raid –
Brown’s
2. planter –
2. Wilmot Proviso –
3. What was the primary cause of growth in the southern slave population between 1790 and 1869?
3. Compromise of 1850 –
4. How important was agriculture to the economy of the North in the mid-nineteenth century?
Slave
Act
of 1850
5.4. Fugitive
Before the
Civil
War,
why –did the South remain agriculturally based instead of diversifying its
economy?
5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin –
6. By 1860, where could the southern slave system mostly be found?
6. Gadsden Purchase –
7. Where did the majority of plantation slaves work? What are the rarest of jobs for a slave to have?
of Charles
–
8.7. Caning
What was
the fate Sumner
of most runaway
slaves?
9.8. Dred
Why Scott
were open
slave
decision
– revolts uncommon in the South?
10. How/why did elite southerners maintain their power over the yeoman majority?
9. Freeport Doctrine –
Chapter 14
Jefferson
Davis
––
1.10.John
Brown’s
raid
2.11.Wilmot
Proviso –to most fugitive slaves when they were captured once the Fugitive Slave Act was
What happened
enacted?
3. Compromise of 1850 –
Why wasSlave
the Missouri
Compromise
repealed in 1854?
4.12.Fugitive
Act of 1850
–
5.13.Uncle
Cabin
– lead to the creation of the Republican Party in 1854?
What Tom’s
common
beliefs
6. Gadsden Purchase –
14. What happened when the first territorial legislature met in Kansas?
7. Caning of Charles Sumner –
15. What were Lincoln’s personal feelings for slavery?
8. Dred Scott decision –
According
to Lincoln,
9.16.Freeport
Doctrine
– who was responsible for stopping the spread of slavery?
10.
– Douglas’s response when the proslavery group drafted a “’fraudulent”
17.Jefferson
What wasDavis
Stephen
constitution in Lecompton, KS in 1857?
11. What happened to most fugitive slaves when they were captured once the Fugitive Slave Act was
enacted?
18. What was the result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
12. Why was the Missouri Compromise repealed in 1854?
19. What was the result when Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, to choose a presidential
13. What common beliefs lead to the creation of the Republican Party in 1854?
candidate for the 1860 election?
14. What happened when the first territorial legislature met in Kansas?
20. What made Abraham Lincoln an attractive candidate for the Republican nomination for the 1860
15. What
were Lincoln’s personal feelings for slavery?
election?
16. According to Lincoln, who was responsible for stopping the spread of slavery?
21. Which state was the first to secede from the Union after Lincoln’s election?
17. What was Stephen Douglas’s response when the proslavery group drafted a “’fraudulent”
Lecompton,
1857?
22.constitution
Why did theinslave
states inKS
the in
Upper
South initially reject secession?
18. What was the result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Chapter
15 was the result when Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina, to choose a presidential
19. What
for the
1. candidate
In what town
and1860
state election?
were the first shots of the Civl War fired?
20. What made Abraham Lincoln an attractive candidate for the Republican nomination for the 1860
2. election?
Which border states did not become part of the Confederacy?
21.
the first
to secede
fromcontrol
the Union
Lincoln’s
election?
3. Which
Howstate
was was
the Union
able
to mainatin
overafter
the border
states
listed in #2?
22. Why did the slave states in the Upper South initially reject secession?
4. What effect did the attack on Fort Sumter have on Northerners?
5.
WHY was the Civil War intially being fought?
6.
List Northern advantages during the Civil War.
7.
List Southern advantages during the Civil War.
8.
How did both the Union and the Confederacy secure the necessary troops needed to fight the war?
9.
What was the basic strategy used by the Confederacy to fight the Civil War?
10. What was one of the biggest problems for the Conferate exonomy during the Civil War?
11. What was happening in the North that required Lincoln to send in militia forces to subdue?
12. In 186j3, one of the bloodiest domestic riots in the U.S. occurred in this town town 120 IrishAmerican laborers attacked African Americans and opposed the draft.
13. Who was the Union General who replaced Winfield Scott as commander of Union forces? (p.431)
14. How did many wealthy Northerners and Southerners avoid military service in the war?
15. What was the result of the first major battle at Bull Run (Manasses)?
16, At which battle did the Union gain control of the Mississippi River?
17. What was the DIPLOMATIC objective of the Confederacy?
18. Why were Confederate leaders confident of British recognition?
19. What was the term/phrase used to describe the Confederate foreign policy?
20. Whatw as the DIPLOMATIC objective of the Union?
21
Who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?
22. Who was Lincoln's opponent for the presidential election of 1864?
23. What was the first state to secede from the Union?
24. Who was the most effective Union general?
25. During the Civil War, approximately how many individuals died in the conflict?