Humane Letters 9
First Semester Final Exam
Study Guide
I.
Presidential Succession
Given the year a person was elected to office or assumed office, name the correct
person.
 Know who was elected in 1789, 1792, 1796…[every presidential election
through 1860].
 Know who assumed office in 1841 and in 1850.
 Know which party the person belonged to. (N.B.: Washington can be
considered either “Federalist” or “n/a.”) (See America A135-A136.)
 A name bank will be provided to help you.
II.
Timeline
Arrange the following historical events in chronological order.
1688 Glorious Revolution
1819 Transcontinental Treaty
1754 French and Indian War begins
1819 McCulloch v. Maryland
1765 Stamp Act Congress
1820 Missouri Compromise
1774 Coercive Acts
1832 SC’s Ordinance of Nullification
1777 Battle of Saratoga
1836 Alamo under siege
1787 Northwest Ordinance
1845 US annexes Texas
1787 Constitutional Convention
1845 Mexican War begins
1789 French Revolution begins
1848 Seneca Falls Convention
1791 First National Bank created
1853 Gadsden Purchase
1797 XYZ Affair
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
1803 Marbury v. Madison
1854 Republican party emerges
1803 Louisiana Purchase
1856 Bleeding Kansas
1807 Embargo Act is passed
1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford
1814 Hartford Convention
1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates
1816 First protective tariff
1860 SC’s Ordinance of Secession
 These thirty events will not appear altogether, but rather will be divided
into six sets of five.
III.
Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer to each question.
 Know about the people, terms, ideas, and events listed on the subsequent
pages.
IV.
Quotation Identification
Identify the speaker of each quotation.
 Quotations from America: A Narrative History and the seminar
consumables (The Crucible, The Federalist Papers, The Tempest, Billy
Budd, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Frederick Douglass).
 Not a lengthy section, but will rely on knowledge of history terms and of
main characters.
V.
Seminar on Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” (excerpt) and Lincoln’s Lyceum Address
Chapter Four
English Civil War
Restoration
Glorious Revolution
(English) Whigs, “Real
Whigs”
Virginia Plan, New
Jersey Plan
Declaratory Act
Great Compromise =
Connecticut Compromise
Revenue Act of 1767
French and Indian War
Second Continental
Congress
Treaty of Paris
Common Sense
John Locke’s contract
theory of government
Declaration of
Independence
mercantilism
Chapter Six
Navigation Acts
Battle of Saratoga
Chapter Five
French-American
Treaties
Royal Proclamation Line
of 1763
3/5 Compromise
importation of new slaves
compromise
designs of legislative,
executive, and judicial
branches
Federalists vs. AntiFederalists
The Federalist Papers
Chapter Eight
Valley Forge
Bill of Rights
Stamp Act
Yorktown
Townshend Acts
Treaty of Paris (1783):
terms
Alexander Hamilton:
vision for America, faith
in capitalism
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
republicanism
Coercive Acts
British model of mixed
government
First Continental
Congress
Articles of Confederation
Olive Branch Petition
independence’s effect on
institution of slavery:
northern, southern
George III
Chapter Seven
George Grenville
Confederation Congress
Samuel Adams, Sons of
Liberty
Northwest Ordinance:
statehood process,
significance
Lexington and Concord
Charles Townshend
John Dickinson
Lord North
Sugar Act
Shays’s Rebellion: causes,
political effects
Constitutional
Convention
debt-assumption plan
Whiskey Rebellion
Madison vs. Hamilton re:
debt, National Bank
Compromise of 1790
National Bank: function,
constitutionality
Hamilton’s Report on
Manufactures
formation of political
parties: Federalists,
Democratic Republicans
ideological differences
between Hamilton and
Jefferson
French Revolution 
neutrality policy
Land Acts of 1796, 1800,
1804: trends only
Washington’s Farewell
Address: concerns
War of 1812: regional
differences, financial and
military preparation
John Quincy Adams (as
president): personality,
1825 State of the Union
Battle of New Orleans
Tariff of 1828: cause
(Calhoun’s
machinations), result
(South Carolina
Exposition and Protest)
Election of 1796:
candidates, how partisan,
Hamilton’s machinations
 outcome
Hartford Convention
John Adams
Chapter Ten
XYZ Affair: causes, shortterm and long-term
effects
Madison’s ‘Federalist’
policies
Alien and Sedition Acts:
terms, intended target(s)
Judiciary Act of 1801
Kentucky and Virginia
Resolutions: authors,
argument
Election of 1800
Chapter Nine
Marbury v. Madison
(1803)
John Marshall
“wise and frugal
government”: specific
policies
Louisiana Purchase:
causes, constitutional
crisis
Old Republicans
Embargo Act
“peaceable coercion”
Election of 1808
Legacies of War of 1812:
political, economic
Second National Bank
protective tariff
internal improvements
American System
Henry Clay
Era of Good Feelings:
leading factors, ending
factors
Transcontinental Treaty
of 1819
Missouri Compromise
judicial nationalism
Dartmouth College v.
Woodward (1819)
McCulloch v. Maryland
(1819)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Monroe Doctrine: causes,
four major points, effects
(short- and long-term)
election of 1824: how a
“corrupt bargain”?
Chapter Eleven
Andrew Jackson as
president
Martin Van Buren
John Calhoun
1828 Tariff (Tariff of
Abominations)
South Carolina
Exposition and Protest
Webster-Hayne debate
Nullification Ordinance
 compromise tariff,
force bill
Jackson’s “just, humane,
liberal policy” towards
Indians
Indian Removal Act
Second National Bank:
functions, enemies,
recharter effort
Whig coalition: why
forms, significance of
name, strategy in
elections of 1836 and
1840
Chapter Twelve
Erie Canal
Industrial Revolution
Lowell System
19th-century immigration
trends
coined, how justification
and rationalization
William Lloyd Garrison
Elijah P. Lovejoy
nativism
development of American
settlement in Texas:
1821-1833
Southern defenses of
slavery
Chapter Thirteen
Santa Anna
Chapter Sixteen
the “rational religions”:
Deism, Unitarianism,
Universalism
the Alamo
Wilmot Proviso
Texan independence:
conditions, process
towards statehood
John C. Calhoun
Enlightenment’s effect on
Calvinist religious belief
Second Great Awakening:
causes, time period,
features
Joseph Smith, Brigham
Young
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints
(Mormon Church)
Romanticism 
Transcendentalism:
characteristics, legacy
James K. Polk: “Young
Hickory,” four major
objectives
annexation of Texas:
Tyler’s role, Mexico’s
response
54˚40’ or Fight
Mexican War: causes,
supporters, opponents
Polk’s flawed decisions
during Mexican War
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry David Thoreau:
beliefs, practices
Zachary Taylor
Horace Mann
Treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo: terms
temperance movement
Dorothea Dix
growth of women’s rights
Seneca Falls Convention
Chapter Fourteen
Tyler’s responses to
Clay’s resolutions
“Manifest Destiny”:
general meaning, how
Winfield Scott
popular/squatter
sovereignty
Great Debate 
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Gadsden Purchase
Stephen A. Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown
Election of 1856
James Buchanan
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Roger B. Taney
Chapter Fifteen
Harpers Ferry
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and
Gone with the Wind as
contrasting accounts of
the antebellum South
Election of 1860:
candidates, Republican
platform, “attitude
followed latitude”
Southern distinctiveness:
immigration trends, etc.
Confederate States of
America
Southern society:
plantations, middle class,
role of honor
Ft. Sumter