U.S. History & Gov’t.
Mr. Santini
Class Notes
Homework
Power Points (on the Web Site)
Tests Returned
January 26, 2011
Study Guide
Voices Passage Qs
Redbook Summaries
Handouts
 American Revolution
Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill, Boston Massacre, Battle of Saratoga and its importance,
Treaty of Paris
 Washington Administration
Hamilton’s Financial Plan, Impressment, Whiskey Rebellion
 Adams Administration - Alien & Sedition Acts, XYZ Affair, Virginia & Kentucky
Resolutions
 Articles of Confederation (1781-1788)- strengths & weaknesses
 Constitutional Convention (1787)- U.S. Constitution
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Key Compromises: Great Compromise, 3/5 Compromise, Trade, Executive
Federalists & Anti-Federalists, Bill of Rights.
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Three Branches of Gov’t:
Executive (President), Legislative (Congress), Judicial (Supreme Court).
Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances.
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Federalism, Delegated Powers, Reserved Powers, Concurrent Powers,
Elastic Clause/Implied Powers, Election Process, Amending Process.
 Sectionalism & Westward Expansion( 1800-1850’s)
Tariff Issue, Nullification Theory, Slavery Issue, Missouri Compromise 1820,
Abolitionist Movement, Indian Removal, Early Immigration, Bleeding Kansas, Manifest
Destiny, Compromise 1850, Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act,
Election of 1860.
 Civil War (1861-1865)
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Causes & Results, Confederacy & The Union, Advantages/Disadvantages of both
North and South,
Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address
 Reconstruction (1865-1876)
10% Plan (Lincoln); Presidential Plan (Johnson); Congressional (Radical Reconstruction)
Social, Political, Economic effects on North and South
Political Struggles and reasons; Positive and negative results of Reconstruction
 People and Their Accomplishments
Founding Fathers (Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, James Madison), Thomas
Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman,
Abraham Lincoln, John Deere, Eli Whitney, Dorothea Dix, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, James
Buchanan, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Booker T. Washington
 Supreme Court Cases
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Marbury v. Madison (1803), Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), McCulloch v. Maryland (1819),
Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Review Terms
Northern Colonies
Trail of Tears
Turning Point of Civil War
Southern Colonies
Cabinet
Military Technology
Proclamation of 1763
Westward Expansion
Reconstruction
Stamp Act
Manifest Destiny
Radical Reconstruction
Boston Massacre
Mexican War
Carpetbaggers
Social Contract
Monroe Doctrine
Scalawags
Declaration of Independence
Missouri Compromise
Black Codes
Common Sense
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Iron Clad Oath
Articles of Confederation
Bleeding Kansas
13th, 14th & 15th Amendments
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Dred Scott Decision
“40 Acres and Mule”
Great Compromise
Emancipation Proclamation Freedmen’s Bureau
Federalist Papers
Compromise of 1850
Sharecroppers & Tenant Farmers
Federalist
Bleeding Kansas
Ku Klux Klan & Enforcement Acts
Anti-Federalist
Gettysburg
Credit Mobilier & Whiskey Ring Scandals
Preamble
North’s Advantages
Panic of 1873
Legislative Branch
South’s Advantages
Election of 1876
Executive Branch
Judicial Branch
Redemption & Home Rule
Alexander Hamilton
Popular Sovereignty
New South
Washington’s Farewell Address
Andrew Jackson
Jim Crow Laws
Louisiana Purchase
Spoils System
Bill Of Rights
War of 1812
Electoral College
Industrial Revolution
Amendment Process
Gibbons v. Ogden
Marbury v. Madison
Sectionalism
Judicial Review
Anaconda Plan