American History I
MSL Review
Goal 1: The New Nation
1.01 Early Domestic Issues
a. Who was Washington’s Secretary of State?
b. Who was Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury?
c. What did they disagree about?
d. Which political party did each help develop?
e. Why was the election of 1800 significant?
f. What did Marbury v. Madison establish?
g. What is the difference between a strict and loose interpretation of the Constitution?
1.02 Early Political Freedoms
a. What treaty required 11 American Indian Nations to give up their territory?
b. Who invented the cotton gin?
c. Did the cotton gin increase or decrease the number of slaves? Why?
d. Which first lady is known for the quote “Remember the Ladies”?
1.03 Early Foreign Policy Issues
a. What were the key points of Washington’s Farewell Address?
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Under what agreement did Britain agree to pay for the ships it damaged?
In which situation did the French ask for a bribe to stop attacking U.S. ships?
What was Jefferson’s form of “peaceful coercion”?
Who wanted war against Britain?
What ended the War of 1812?
Which country were Pinckney’s Treaty and the Adams-Onis Treaty with?
Goal 2: Expansion and Reform
2.01 Territorial Expansion
a. Why did Jefferson worry about the Louisiana Purchase?
b. What was the major route west?
c. What was Polk’s campaign slogan?
d. What war led to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Mexican Cession?
e. What purchase was made with the intent of building a Southern transcontinental railroad?
f. Which Supreme Court case challenged the Indian Removal Act, was ignored by Jackson,
and led to the Trail of Tears?
g. What temporarily solved the problem of slavery in 1820?
h. What did it do?
i. What is the right to vote called? Which group in society had it in the Jacksonian era?
j. Which area did 54 40 or Fight refer to?
2.02 Nationalism in Art and Literature
a. Who helped develop the American language in his Blue-Backed Speller and dictionary?
b. Who were four authors who developed an American form of writing?
c. Which school of landscape painting developed in the early 1800s?
d. What type of architecture existed?
e. Who were the two leading Transcendentalists (one wrote Civil Disobedience)?
2.03 Economic and Social Issues in the Early 1800s
a. What did Samuel Morse invent? (This revolutionized communication)
b. Match the inventor to each invention: John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, Robert Fulton
mechanical reaper, steamboat, steel plow
c. Which political party developed because of nativist (anti-immigrant) feelings?
d. What was the difference in the economy of the North and the South?
2.04 Political Issues in the Early 1800s
a. What warned European powers against involvement in the Western Hemisphere?
b. Which “Great Compromiser” developed the American System (tariffs, transportation, bank)?
c. Which election was called a “Corrupt Bargain” when J.Q. Adams appointed Clay Sec. Of State?
d. After the Panic of 1819, what banks did Jackson put money into?
e. Which famous slave rebellion was in 1831 in Virginia?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
A.H.’s economic plan
TJ–Dem-Rep;AH-Feds
Dem-Rep took control
judicial review
literally vs. implied
a.
b.
c.
d.
Treaty of Greenville
Eli Whitney
inc. demand for cotton
Abigail Adams
a. no political parties, no
sectionalism, no
alliances, no European
affairs
b. Jay’s Treaty
c. XYZ Affair
d. Embargo of 1807
e. War Hawks
f. Treaty of Ghent
g. Spain
a. maybe unconstitutional
b. Oregon Trail
c. 54 40 or Fight!
d. Mexican American
e. Gadsden Purchase
f. Worcester v. Georgia
g. Missouri Compromise
h. Maine-free state
Missouri-slave state
i. suffrage; white males
j. Oregon Territory
a. Noah Webster
b. Irving, Poe,
Hawthorne, Cooper
c. Hudson River School
d. neoclassical
e. Thoreau, Emerson
a. telegraph
b. Deere-sp, Fulton-sb
McCormick-mr
c. Know-Nothings
d. N-industry,S-farming
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Monroe Doctrine
Henry Clay
Election of 1824
pet banks
Nat Turner’s
f. The Tariff of 1828 (called the Tariff of Abominations) led to what?
2.05 Reform Movements of the Early 1800s
a. Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention?
b. Which former slave spoke there?
c. Who pushed for equal pay for women? (Hint: She’s on a dollar)
d. Which religious movement led to societal reform (like temperance – anti-drinking)?
e. Who pushed for better treatment for the mentally ill?
f. What was an attempt to create perfect societies like Brook Farm, Oneida, and New Harmony?
2.06 The Role of Religion in Social Movements
a. Who was a well-known preacher during the Second Great Awakening?
b. Which sisters spoke at many abolitionist meetings?
c. Who published the antislavery newspaper The Liberator?
Garrison
d. Who was a radical abolitionist?
e. Which escaped slave wrote Narrative of the Life of an American Slave?
Goal 3: Civil War and Reconstruction
3.01 Antebellum Economic, Social, and Political Events
a. Which two candidates ran for Senator of Illinois in 1858?
b. Which Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were property?
c. What allowed the people of a territory to allow slavery (mentioned in the Freeport Doctrine)?
d. What allowed California to enter as a free state and supported the Fugitive Slave Law?
e. Who led a violent antislavery movement in Bleeding Kansas? He also raided Harper’s Ferry.
f. What reversed the Missouri Compromise?
g. Who was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad which helped slaves escape?g.
h. Which political party was founded on an antislavery platform?
i. Which famous debate was about tariffs and states’ rights?
3.02 Causes of the Civil War
a. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
b. What immediately followed the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860?
c. Who was the President of the Confederacy?
d. Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
3.03 Turning Points of the Civil War
a. What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
b. What was the single bloodiest day of the Civil War?
c. What battle did the Union win to split the Confederacy at the Mississippi?
d. What battle was the turning point of the war? Lincoln later gave a famous address here.
e. Where did Robert E. Lee surrender for the Confederacy?
f. Who assassinated Lincoln?
g. The name of the Union strategy to win? (Blockade, division at Miss., capture of Richmond)
h. Who was the commander of Confederate troops? Who was the commander of Union troops?
i. What did Lincoln suspend during the war? (There had to be cause for imprisonment)
j. What was Lincoln’s goal at the beginning of the war?
k. What turned the war into a moral issue?
Proclamation
3.04 Political, Economic, and Social Impact of Reconstruction
a. What is the time period 1865-1877 called?
b. Who became President after Lincoln died?
c. What did Radical Republicans (like Thaddeus Stevens) want to expand? (food, medicine, ed.)
d. What did Johnson violate which led to his impeachment?
e. Which hate group emerged during Reconstruction?
f. What two new forms of labor emerged in the South?
g. What was an example of scandal during Grant’s administration?
h. What were the names of laws passed to limit the rights of African Americans?
i. What was the South called when it remained loyal to the Democratic Party?
j. What ended Reconstruction?
3.05 Test of the Government
a. Which Amendment made the Emancipation Proclamation constitutional (freed the slaves)?
b. Which Amendment guarantees the rights of citizenship?
c. Which Amendment gave all males the right to vote?
d. Which Amendment gives rights to the states?
f. SC Exposition&Protest
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
Stanton and Mott
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
2nd Great Awakening
Dorothea Dix
Utopian Communities
a. Charles G. Finney
b. Grimke
c. William Lloyd
d. David Walker
e. Frederick Douglass
a. Lincoln & Douglas
b. Scott v. Sandford
c. Popular Sovereignty
d. Compromise of 1850
e. John Brown
f. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Harriet Tubman
h. Republican
i. Webster-Hayne
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
b. secession of the South
c. Jefferson Davis
d. Fort Sumter, SC
a. First Bull Run
b. Antietam
c. Vicksburg
d. Gettysburg
e. Appomattox
f. John Wilkes Booth
g. Anaconda Plan
h. Lee; Grant
i. Writ of Habeas Corpus
j. to preserve the Union
k. Emancipation
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
Freedmen’s Bureau
Tenure of Office Act
Ku Klux Klan
sharecropping, tenant
farming
g. The Whiskey Ring
h. black codes, Jim Crow
i. Solid South
j. Compromise of 1877
a.
b.
c.
d.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
10th Amendment
*Va.Ky.,Hartford,WebHayne
Goal 4: Moving West
4.01 Groups that Moved West
a. What were the three reasons that Americans moved west?
b. Which religious group was founded by Joseph Smith and later led by Brigham Young?
c. What was the name of a very important mining discovery?
d. When was gold discovered in California?
e. What encouraged settlers to move west by giving out free land to farm?
f. What kind of houses did western settlers build since there were very few trees?
g. What provided land grants for colleges?
4.02 The Impact of Westward Movement
a. What was completed on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah?
b. Which two immigrant groups assisted greatly in the building of this railroad?
They were met with discrimination.
c. Which group of American Indians led by Chief Joseph was forced onto a reservation?
d. Which battle was a reaction to the Ghost Dance Movement led by Sitting Bull?
e. Which battle between the Sioux and the US Cavalry is also called Custer’s Last Stand?
f. What nickname was given to African-American cavalrymen?
g. Who wrote A Century of Dishonor which described the abuse of American Indians?
h. Which act broke up the American Indian reservations in order for Indians to assimilate?
4.03 Difficulties for the American Farmer
a. Which movement grew out of farmers’ discontent in the late 1800s?
b. What were the three major farmers alliances?
c. What Supreme Court ruling allowed states to regulate private property for public use?
d. What act required railroads to charge reasonable rates?
e. What was the idea of money being backed by both gold and silver called?
f. What was William Jennings Bryan’s famous speech that criticized the gold standard?
g. What party of the late 1800s wanted govt. ownership of railroads and to restrict immigration?
4.04 Agriculture Technology
a. What were four ways in which agriculture improved in the late 1800s?
b. What developed to help farmers buy supplies as a group?
c. Which business practice allowed a few people to control an industry as directors?
d. What is the process of buying out one’s suppliers?
e. What is the process of buying out one’s competitors?
f. What term means very little government control of business?
Goal 5: Immigration, Urbanization, and Industrialization
5.01 Immigration and Urbanization
a. What inventions of the late 1800s improved business and industry?
b. Which immigrants were primarily from Western Europe? Eastern Europe and Asia?
c. Which act prohibited the Chinese from immigrating to the United States?
d. What uniquely shaped buildings allowed more room for windows?
e. Who wrote How the Other Half Lives?
f. Who started the settlement house movement? (These were community centers.)
g. What did Frederick Law Olmstead develop?
5.02 Business and Industrial Leaders
a. What allowed for mass production of steel?
b. Who invented the oil drill?
c. Who merged with J.P. Morgan to form U.S. Steel?
d. What was the term for owners allowing a board of trustees to control businesses?
e. When these trusts eliminated all competition, what were they called?
f. Who started Standard Oil?
g. They thought of themselves as “Captains of Industry,” but what did some call Carnegie, etc.?
h. When Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest” is applied to the human population?
a. God, Gold, Glory
b. Mormons
c. Comstock Lode
d. 1848
e. Homestead Act
f. sod houses
g. Morrill Land Grant Act
a. Transcontinental
Railroad
b. Chinese and Irish
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
Nez Perce
Wounded Knee
Little Big Horn
Buffalo Soldiers
Helen Hunt Jackson
Dawes Severalty
a. The Grange
b. National, Colored,
Southern
c. Munn vs. Illinois
d. Interstate Commerce
e. Bimettallism
f. Cross of Gold
g. Populist
a. windmill, barbed wire,
steel plow,
refrigerated railcar
b. cooperatives
c. interlocking
directorates
d. vertical integration
e. horizontal integration
f. laissez-faire
a. elevator, Bell’s phone,
Edison’s light bulb,
Sholes’ typewriter
b. Old; New
c. Chinese Exclusion
d. Dumbell Tenements
e. Jacob Riis
f. Jane Addams
g. Central Park
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
Bessemer Process
Edwin Drake
Andrew Carnegie
trusts
monopolies
John D. Rockefeller
Robber Barrons
Social Darwinism
i. Who wrote many “rags to riches stories” about young men who were honest and hardworking?
j. What did Mark Twain call the late 1800s?
5.03 Labor Unions
a. What unions included all kinds of workers? What included workers from the same occupation?
b. Who was the president of the American Federation of Labor?
c. Which President of the AFL ran for U.S. President five times as a socialist?
d. Which union allowed women and African Americans to be members?
e. What was the major railway strike of 1877 called?
f. What major strike occurred at one of Carnegie’s steel works factories?
g. What was a demonstration in Chicago in which someone killed eight policemen with a bomb?
h. What was a strike in which federal troops had to intervene?
i. What act made monopolies illegal and forced them to break up into smaller companies?
j. Which union lost popularity after the Haymarket Riot?
5.04 Changing Role of Government
a. What Supreme Court case showed that the government was pro-business?
b. What were groups of politicians that gained control of public services and practiced patronage?
c. What was the most famous one and who was the boss?
d. What act created the civil service system? (Qualifications for jobs instead of favors)
e. What well-known scandal involved Union Pacific stockholders selling shares to congressmen?
f. What were Republicans that supported Civil Service Reform called?
g. What were four political changes that took place in the late 1800s?
i. Horatio Alger
j. The Gilded Age
a. trade; craft
b. Samuel Gompers
c. Eugene V. Debs
d. Knights of Labor
e. The Great Strike
f. Homestead
g. Haymarket Riot
h. Pullman Strike
i. Sherman Antitrust
j. Knights of Labor
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
US vs. EC Knight
political machines
Tammany Hall; Tweed
Pendleton
Credit Mobilier
Mugwumps
initiative, referendum,
recall, secret ballot