EXAM Study Guide Second Semester Year Final

8th Integrated U.S. History EXAM Study Guide – Second Semester Year Final

CDV Terms and Definitions Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation Shay’s Rebellion Constitutional convention, location, Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, Connecticut Plan, Great Compromise, Constitution. Preamble, Articles I – VII, how Constitution limited government People: George Washington, James Madison, Ben Franklin Northwest Ordinance of 1787 U.S. Flag and Star Spangled Banner, Meaning of flag parts like stripes and stars, etc. John Marshall as Chief Justice and his court decisions Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland Louisiana Territory: buying, importance, explorations, Pike, Louis and Clark Barbary Pirates Embargo Act of 1807 Impressments by British William Henry Harrison and his battles New Madrid Earthquakes War of 1812: Canada invasions, naval battles, ships, British attack on Baltimore and Washington, D.C., Writing of the Star Spangled Banner, Battle of New Orleans Missouri Compromise Monroe Doctrine Andrew Jackson & Battle of New Orleans + Florida doings Erie Canal and it’s importance Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Samuel Slater Lowell System Turnpikes, Canals, National Road Mountain Men in general and specifically Aster, Carson, Smith, Weaver, Johnson How the U.S. expanded its territory and the name of each additional part Issue of slavery in the new territories Manifest Destiny Moses and Stephen Austin, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis, Santa Anna, Sam Houston Texas Revolution plus Goliad, Alamo, Gonzales, San Jacinto Oregon Fever, Oregon Territory, Whitman’s Mexican war and leaders like General Winfield Scott The Trail of Tears Donner Party Gold Rush, mining, Levi Strauss, San Francisco Mormons, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Utah Abraham Lincoln, Secession, Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis Civil War: Start, war goals, strategic plan of Union, advantages of each side, Mississippi area battles, Battle in the East, Importance of the war Civil War People: Ulysses S. Grant, David Farragut, Robert E. Lee, George Meade, Joshua Chamberlain, George Pickett Battles: Monitor vs. Merrimac, Antietam, Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg each day, Vicksburg,