Final Exam Study Guide
Know the significance of the following terms, including the definition of each and its significance in the overall context of American history. Use your chapter section review packets, returned tests, and book to study for this mid-term. You may prepare a 3”x5” note card, front and back, as a cheat sheet for this exam.
Chapter 10 First Seminole War Chapter 15 California Gold Rush George Washington Adams-Onis Treaty Second Great Awakening Prospecting Martha Washington Simon Bolivar Transcendentalism Electoral college Monroe Doctrine Ralph Waldo Emerson Chapter 18 John Adams Henry Clay Henry David Thoreau Popular sovereignty Precedent Missouri Compromise Utopian communities Henry Clay Alexander Hamilton American System Thomas Cole Compromise of 1850 Thomas Jefferson John Quincy Adams Nathaniel Hawthorne Fugitive Slave Act Cabinet Nominating conventions Edgar Allan Poe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Judiciary Act of 1789 Andrew Jackson Blight Harriet Beecher Stowe John Jay Democratic Party Nativists Stephen Douglas Edmund Randolph John C. Calhoun Know-Nothing Party Kansas-Nebraska Act National debt Spoils system Middle class Bleeding Kansas Bonds Tariff of Abominations Tenements John Brown Speculators States’ Rights Temperance movement Pottawatomie Creek Massacre Protective tariff Nullification Crisis of 1832 Common-school movement Republican Party Loose construction Daniel Webster Abolition Dred Scott v. Sanford Strict construction McCulloch v. Maryland Emancipation Abraham Lincoln Bank of the United States Whig Party Robert Finley Lincoln-Douglas Debates French Revolution William Henry Harrison American Colonization Society John Brown’s Raid on Neutrality Proclamation Indian Removal Act David Walker Harper’s Ferry Edmond Genet Indian Territory William Lloyd Garrison Election of 1860 Privateers Bureau of Indian Affairs The Liberator Secession Little Turtle Sequoya American Anti-Slavery Society Confederate States of America Anthony Wayne John Ross Angelina and Sarah Grimke Jefferson Davis Battle of Fallen Timbers Worcester v. Georgia Frederick Douglass Treaty of Greenville Trail of Tears Underground Railroad Chapter 19 Whiskey Rebellion Second Seminole War Harriet Tubman Fort Sumter Political parties Osceola Border States Federalist Party Chapter 16 Advantages of North and South Democratic-Republican Party Chapter 13 Californios Anaconda Plan XYZ Affair Industrial Revolution Tejanos Battle of Bull Run Alien and Sedition Acts Textiles Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Robert E. Lee Kentucky and Virginia Richard Arkwright Empresario Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson Resolutions Samuel Slater Stephen F. Austin George McClellan USS Constitution Technology Old Three Hundred Battle of Antietam Eli Whitney Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Ironclads Chapter 11 Interchangeable parts William Travis Ulysses S. Grant Thomas Jefferson Mass production Jim Bowie Siege of Vicksburg James Madison Rhode Island System Juan Seguin Emancipation Proclamation William Marbury Francis Cabot Lowell Davy Crockett George Meade John Marshall Lowell System The Alamo Battle of Gettysburg Marbury v. Madison Trade Unions Battle of Goliad Little Round Top Judicial Review Strikes Sam Houston Joshua Chamberlain Napoleon Bonaparte Transportation Revolution Battle of San Jacinto Pickett’s Charge Louisiana Purchase Robert Fulton Mountain men Gettysburg Address Meriwether Lewis Clermont John Jacob Astor Total War William Clark Gibbons v. Ogden Rendezvous Appomattox Courthouse Sacagawea Peter Cooper Oregon Trail Barbary States Tom Thumb Donner Party Impressment Samuel Morse John Sutter Embargo Act Telegraph Sutter’s Fort Non-Intercourse Act Morse code Tecumseh John Deere Chapter 17 William Henry Harrison Cyrus McCormick Manifest Destiny Battle of Tippecanoe Isaac Singer John O’Sullivan War Hawks John Tyler War of 1812 Chapter 14 Henry Clay James Madison Eli Whitney James K. Polk USS Constitution vs. Cotton Gin Mexican-American War HMS Guerriere Cotton Belt Zachary Taylor Oliver Hazard Perry Long Staple Cotton Winfield Scott Battle of Lake Erie Short Staple Cotton Bear Flag Revolt Andrew Jackson Scientific agriculture Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Battle of New Orleans Yeomen Mexican Cession Treaty of Ghent Mark Twain Gadsden Purchase Gang labor Joseph Smith Chapter 12 Slave codes Mormons James Monroe Folktales Brigham Young Rush-Bagot Agreement Spirituals Mormon Trail John Quincy Adams Nat Turner Forty-Niners