Final Review Sheet
Pre-Columbian American
Mesoamerican
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Incas
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Mayans
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Aztecs
North American Civilizations
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Northeastern
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Mississippi Valley
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South Western
Columbian Exchange
Colonial Period
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Pilgrims
Puritans
Mayflower Compact
Sir Walter Raleigh
John Winthrop
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Jamestown
Plymouth Rock
John Smith
House of Burgesses
General Court
French and Indian War
British vs. French relationships with Native Americans
Salutary Neglect
American Revolution Review
Basic concepts of Historiography and developing your own argument on this
Radical Whigs
Mercantilism
Navigation Law 1650
End of Salutary Neglect
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
Non importation agreements
Committee of correspondences / local state assemblies
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable / Coercive Acts
First Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress
Olive Branch Petition
King George III’s Proclamation of 1775
Lee’s Resolution
Declaration of Independence
British Strategy
Treaty of Paris 1783
Loyalists / Tories
People
John Adams
Abigail Adams
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
Thomas Hutchinson
Ben Franklin
John Dickinson
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Nathanial Greene
George III
General Howe, Burgoyne, Cornwallis
Battles
Lexington and Concord
Ticonderoga
Bunker Hill
Siege / Battles of New York
Trenton
Princeton
Brandywine / Germantown
Saratoga
Monmouth
Charleston / Savannah
Yorktown
Early Founding / Constitutional Period
Articles of Confederation Pros and Cons
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Constitution Convention (Debate over Ratification)
Federalists VS. Anti-Federalists
Federalists Papers (especially Fed # 10)
System of Checks and Balances
Summaries of Article 1, Article 2, Article 3, and Article 4
Necessary and Proper Clause
Bill of Rights
Washington’s Presidency
Hamilton’s Financial plan
National Bank
Jefferson’s economic ideas
Whiskey Rebellion
Differing Views on French Rev
Citizen Genet Affair
Conflicts with France and England
Proclamation of Neutrality
Jay’s Treaty
Washington’s Farewell Address
Adams’ presidency
XYZ Affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Federalists VS. Jeffersonian Republicans
Jefferson to Jackson
1800 Election
Jefferson’s Inaugural Address
Jefferson and Gallatin’s economic policy
Marbury v. Madison
Judiciary Act of 1801 and 1803
Judicial Review
Judicial Restraint VS. Judicial Activism
Conflict with Barbary Pirates
Louisiana Purchase
International Slave Trade Laws
U.S. relations with France and Great Britain
Embargo Act
Evaluation of Jefferson’s presidency and possible contradictions
Causes of the War of 1812
Impressment
British involvement in North America
Conflict over Trade
“Mr. Madison’s War”
Battle of New Orleans
Treaty of Ghent
Rise of American Nationalism
The Era of Good Feelings
American System
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Major Decisions for Marshall’s Court
McCulloch v. Maryland
Cohens v. Virginia
Gibbons v. Ogden
Flectcher v. Peck
Dartmouth v. Woodward
Sectionalism and Regional Divides
Election of 1824 and 1828
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Campaign of 1832
Spoils System
Tariff of Abominations
Jackson’s Native American policies
Nicholas Biddle
Jackson’s conflict with the Bank
Jackson’s conflicts with Whigs
Evaluating the connections between Jefferson and Jackson
Manifest Destiny
Mexican American War
James Polk
Disputes with British and Canada
Abolitionists
Women’s Rights
Temperance
Transcendentalists
Second Great Awakening
Social Reform
Early Industrialism
Leading Up to the Civil War
Popular Sovereignty
Wilmot Proviso
Free Soil Party
Underground Railroad
Compromise of 1850
Fire Eaters
Fugitive Slave Act
Gadsen Purchase
Stephen A Douglas
Kansas Nebraska Act
Know Nothing Party
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown
Nativists
Election of 1856
Dred Scott Case
Panic of 1857
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Harpers Ferry Raid
Free Soilers VS. Abolitionists
Lincoln’s “A House Divided” Speech
Campaigns / Election of 1860
Jefferson Davis
South Carolina Secedes
Formation of Confederacy
Civil War 1861-1865
Fort Sumter
Border States
Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Northern Advantages / Disadvantages going into war
Southern Advantages / Disadvantages going into war
George McClellan
Stonewall Jackson
Robert Lee
Ulysses Grant
Immigrant participation
Cotton Production during war
NY Draft Riots
Economics in North and South
First Bull Run
Peninsula Campaign
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Massachusetts 54th Regiment
Gettysburg
William T Sherman
Georgia Campaign
Election of 1864
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln’s Assassination
Appomattox Courthouse
Reconstruction
Political Goals
Social / Cultural Goals
Economic Goal
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Freedmen Bureau
Black Codes
Jim Crow laws
Voting Restrictions
Andrew Johnson
10 percent plan
Sharecroppers
40 acres and a mule
Pacific Railroad Act
Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
African American participation in government
KKK
Johnson Impeachment
End of Reconstruction / Gilded Age
U.S. Policy towards Native Americans post Mexican War
Battle of Little Bighorn
Massacre of Wounded Knee
Dawes Act
Attempts at forcing Assimilation
Grant Administration
Boss Tweed
Tammany Hall
Political Machines
Horace Greeley
Liberal Republican
Panic of 1873
Speculation
Bubble
Currency Inflation
Greenbacks
Patronage
Difference between Democrat and Republican constituents
Stalwarts vs. Half Breeds
Compromise of 1877
Jim Crow Laws
Crop lien system
Sharecropping
Plessy v. Ferguson
Pendleton Act 1883
Mugwumps
Grover Cleveland
Laissez faire
Populists
Homestead Strike
Tariff Issues
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Knights of Labor
John D. Rockefeller
Union Pacific
Regulatory Commission
Credit Mobilier
Samuel Gompers
Transcontinental Line
Yellow Dog Contract
Central Pacific
Populist
AF of L (AFL)
Social Darwinism
Bessemer-Kelly Process
Interstate Commerce Act
Socialist
JP Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Plutocracy
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Black List
Jay Gould
Haymarket Square Bombing
Gospel of Wealth
Growth of cities
Improvements to Cities
Assimilation
Melting Pot vs. Salad Bowl
Second Wave of Immigration
Jane Addams
Social Reformers and Immigration
Nativist
Xenophobia
Jingoism
Immigrant Legislation
Changes to Religious Demographics
Darwin vs. Religious Conservatives
Normal schools
Education and Immigration
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Dubois
Tuskegee Institute
NAACP