United States History I: Final Exam Review Sheet

United States History I: Final Exam Review Sheet Columns Read Top to Bottom then Left to Right Unit 1: American Electoral College Trail of Tears Treaty of Paris: Revolution Guantanamo Bay Boston Tea Party Unit 3: Testing the Worcester vs. Georgia Territories gained by Republic Ameirca Intolerable Acts Hamilton vs. Jefferson The Nullification Unit 6: Antebellum Theory and South America Carolina Thomas Jefferson Whiskey Rebellion Force Bill William Lloyd Garrison Declaration of Bank of the United King Andrew Jackson The Liberator Independence States I Reasons for US Unit 4: Expanding Unit 5: Manifest John C. Calhoun victory in the Nation Destiny, Mexican Revolution American War, and Imperialism Battle of Saratoga Marbury vs. Madison John O’ Sullivan and Defense of Slavery. Manifest Destiny Slavery a “positive good” Loyalists Louisiana Purchase Samuel Morse and the Compromise of 1850 Telegraph Unit 2: Constitution Factors leading to the Eli Whitney and the Popular Sovereignty War of 1812 Cotton gin Weaknesses of the Impressment Factors leading to the Fugitive Slave Law Articles of Texas Revolution Confederation Purpose of Checks and Opposition to the War Appeal of Texas to Bleeding Kansas Balances of 1812 Americans Examples of Checks Adams-Onis Treaty Battle of t Alamo John Brown and Balances and the acquisition of Florida Impeachment Monroe Doctrine Opposition to the Dredd Scott Annexation of Mexico Judicial Review Corrupt Bargain an the Yellow Journalism Harper’s Ferry Election of 1824 Strict vs. Loose Andrew Jackson The Alfred T. Mahan Unit 7: Civil War Constructionist common man President Proportional Spoils System Imperialism Election of 1860 Representation Elastic Clause Bank of the United Sinking of the Maine Abe Lincoln and his States support for the Union in 1860 Power to Override a Pet Banks Spanish American The Confederacy’s Presidential Veto War goal with secession South Carolina’s The Radical Republicans Civil Rights Act of 1964 secession Strengths and “40 Acres and a Mule” weaknesses of the North and South Sectionalism Andrew Johnson as President Emancipation Andrew Johnson and Proclamation impeachment Battle of Antietam The Compromise of 1877 Emancipation Plessey vs. Ferguson Proclamation Court Case U.S. Grant, William W.E.B. Dubois and Sherman and Robert E. Booker T. Washington Lee Battle of Gettysburg and Jackie Robinson and Vicksburg Civil Rights Gettysburg Adress Harry Truman and Desegregation of the Armed Forces Sherman’s March to Sea Civil Disobedience and Non-Violenc Lincoln’s Second Rosa Parks and the Inaugural Address Montgomery Buses, 1955 Total War Defacto and Dejure Segregation Appomattox Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954 Lincoln’s Assassination Martin Luther King, Jr. John Wilkes Booth and Lyndon Johnson Ford’s Theater Unit 8: Reconstruction Freedom Riders and Civil Rights 13th, 14th, and 15th March from Selma to Amendments Montgomery Rise of the Ku Klux Klan Black Codes Reconstruction and Lincoln’s Plan for the South US I CP Final Essays. You will be given a choice of four of these essays on the day of the final exam you must select one of them.

1. Compare and contrast the political views of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.

2. Explain the causes of the War of 1812. How did world events draw us into war? What groups supported war and how did they push us towards the conflict?

3. President Andrew Jackson’s administrations (1828-1836) were marred by fierce battles over a range of issues including: regional opinions concerning the national tariff, the fate of Indian tribes that existed east of the Mississippi River, and the future of the National Bank.

Provide a detailed explanation of TWO (2) of the above mentioned issues identified. Your answer must include an account of how the crises were resolved.

4. The 1850s were a decade of near continuous crisis. The interests of the northern and southern states clashed repeatedly. Identify and explain three separate issues/crises that you feel are most important to understanding the secession of southern states after Lincoln’s election and the outbreak of Civil War

5. In regard to the Civil War, explain briefly the war strategies of both the Union and the Confederacy at the start of the war, including two advantages for each side. Also discuss two dramatic changes brought about by the Civil War.

6. Explain the social evolution of African-Americans from the turn of the century to 1968.