US History 111 Final Exam Review
War of 1812
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Causes of the war
Non-Intercourse Act & consequences
War Hawks
Major battle
War at Sea – USS Constitution
Burning of DC
Results of the War
Jackson and New Orleans
Monroe Doctrine & Missouri Comp
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Era of Good Feelings – what was it?
Sectionalism and sectional leaders
American System
Balance of Power – Missouri’s admission to the Union – Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
o History, Provisions, effect then and today
Jackson becomes President – Elections of 1824 & 1828 – Mudslinging
Pres. Jackson
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Jeffersonian Democracy vs. Jacksonian Democracy
Killing the Bank of the US
Nullification Crisis
o What was this? What were the issues?
Van Buren elected
Panic of 1837
Election of 1840
o Log Cabin and Hard Cider
The Death of Harrison
Manifest Destiny – what is it?
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Texan Revolution
o Why did they settle in Mexico?
o How did the conflict start?
o Border dispute with Mexico
o Annexed into US? Why not?
Election of 1844
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Winner & Issues
War with Mexico
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Why did it start?
Major battles
Treaty results – land secession – effect on coming Civil War
Oregon Country
King Cotton & Slavery
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Relationship between the growing of cotton and slavery
Types of cotton grown
Cotton Gin
Tasks/jobs for slaves
Physical treatment
Underground Railroad
Free Blacks in the North – what was life like for them?
Abolitionists
Compromise of 1850
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California Gold Rush
Compromise of 1850 provisions, author, etc.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Fugitive Slave Law
Events leading up to War
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Kansas-Nebraska Act, author, purpose, effect
Republican Party
John Brown – Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Violence in the Senate
Bleeding Kansas
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Election of 1860
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Candidates, issues, winner, effect
Secession
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First State
Others
Formation of the Confederate States of America
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Reason for secession
Pres. Buchanan’s Response
War
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Advantages of both sides – short war/long war advantages
Major battles
o Commanders
 Union commander changes
Union War Goals
War at Sea
o CSS Virginia v. USS Monitor
o CSS Hunley
Role of African-Americans
Medical Treatment
Turning Point – Gettysburg
War of Attrition
Appomattox
Assassination of Lincoln
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Assassin(s)
Conspiracy
Punishment
Reconstruction
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Lincoln’s Plan
Radical Republican Plan
What actually happened
Success or failure?