United States History I Final Exam Study Guide
Identifies: You should be able to identify all the following people, places and terms. Identify means that you
understand the historical significance, characteristics, and relationship of that person, place or term. Make sure your
understanding is complete and detailed. The more you know the better off you will be for the final exam.
Essays: You should be prepared to write well developed essays about the following topics. Your answers should
indicate that you understand the historical significance of your topic and should include multiple, specific
supporting historical facts, including the relevant people, places and terms associated with the event.
From Nationalism to Sectionalism
Identifies:
1. Treaty of Ghent (Components)
2. Monroe Doctrine
3. Era of Good Feeling
4. The Corrupt Bargain Election (1824)
5. Jacksonian Democracy
6. Spoils System
7. Trail of Tears
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Nullification Crisis (Tariff 1828 / 2832)
Lowell Mills hiring practices 262
National Bank Veto
Manifest Destiny
Purchase of Florida
Republic of Texas
Mexican War (Causes and Results)
Essay Topics:
1. Andrew Jackson as “the reign of King Andrew” and others as “the Era of Jacksonian Democracy.”
2. What were the causes and effects of Manifest Destiny?
Events Leading to the American Civil War
Identifies:
15. Missouri Compromise of 1820
16. John Brown
17. Underground Railroad
18. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
19. Compromise of 1850
20. Popular Sovereignty
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Dred Scott decision
Bleeding Kansas
Fugitive Slave Acts
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Caning of Charles Sumner
Election of 1860
Essay Topics:
4. Choose two events below. Describe the event and explain how each event demonstrated 1 of
the 4 “Underlying Causes” of the American Civil War.
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Events
Compromise of 1850
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Raid on Harper’s Ferry
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Underlying Causes
Slavery as a growing moral issue in the North, versus
its defense and expansion in the South.
Constitutional Disputes over the power of the
federal government at the expense of states’ rights.
Economic Differences between the industrial North
and the agricultural South.
Political Blunders & Extremism on both sides which
resulted in this unnecessary national tragedy
Civil War
Identifies:
27. Secession
28. Fort Sumter
29. War of attrition
30. War strategies: N. & S.
31. Conscription
32. Lincoln’s main goal
33. Border States
34. Bull Run
35. Emancipation Proclamation
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Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Martial law
Writ of habeas corpus
Copperheads
Anaconda Plan
Greenbacks
Blockade
Mass. 54th regiment
Essay Topics:
5. What were the strengths and weaknesses between the North and South during the American Civil War
(PRIMES)
6. Causes and Effects of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Reconstruction
Identifies:
45. Black Codes
46. 14th Amendment
47. Carpetbaggers & Scalawags
48. Goals of Congressional Reconstruction
49. Impeachment of President Johnson
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Sharecropping
Ku Klux Klan
Freedmen’s Bureau
Election of 1876
Essay Topics:
7. What were the main ideas within the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, and explain two
ways in which white Southerners found ways around the amendments?
8. Describe how the federal government was successful or failed in accomplishing their three Reconstruction
goals:
 Developing a plan to readmit rebellious confederate southern states back into the Union.
 Create a society where the recently freed African Americans had social, economic and political
freedoms.
 Help rebuild the social and economic war devastated southern states