Review Sheet for American History
     
    Directions: This sheet will provide you with a basic outline and content that you need to know for the midterm. Be sure to look over your textbook (expecially the chapter summaries) and you earlier quizzes and tests.
     
     
    Geography
     Study of land and how it shapes people
     Themes – place, region, location, interaction, movement
     Examples of impact on American history – colonization, transportation
     
    Age of Exploration
     Motives for exploration
     Location of New France, New Spain, and English Colonies
     Mercantilism
     
    13 Colonies
     New England, Middle, Southern Colonies
     Colonial economies
     “Triangle of Trade”
     Political ideas – the Enlightenment – Locke, Rousseau; Magna Carta,
     Colonial Experiences – Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses
       Albany Plan of Union, New England town meetings, Zenger case
     
    Revolutionary War and Declaration of Independence
     Changes in English policy due to French and Indian War
     Revenue Acts - Stamp Act, Townshend Acts etc
     Colonial Response – Continental Congresses, Sons of Liberty, boycotts
         Boston Tea Party
     Declaration of Independence
    Natural rights – governments formed to protect them, duty to change or abolish, “Free and independent states”
     Lexington and Concord, Saratoga, Yorktown
     American leaders
     Treaty of Paris
     
    Forming a New Government
     Creation of New York Constitution
     Articles of Confederation – the good and bad
     Shays Rebellion
     Constitution Convention in Philadelphia May 1787
       Great Compromise, three fifths compromise
     Ratification of the Constitution - Bill of Rights
     
     Washington as President
       Setting precedents; Hamilton’s Plan, Whiskey Rebellion
     Adams as President
       Alien and Sedition Acts, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
     Foreign Policy
    Neutrality Proclamation (Washington) Xyz Affair, undeclarated war with France
     
    Growth and Change in America
     Geographic
       “From Sea to Sea – “Manifest Destiny”
    Louisiana Purchase, Florida, Oregon, Mexican Session, Gadsden Purchase - when, who, how
    Lewis and Clark expedition, Mormons
    Development of Transportation system – turnpikes canals, railroads
     Economic
       Industrial Revolution – new technology – Whitney, Lowell,
       Growth of northern economy & southern plantation systems
       Impact – growing towns and cities, changes in working conditions
     Social and Cultural
    New American culture – art(Hudson River School), literature (Cooper, Irving)
       Age of reform
         Temperance movement
         Dix and care of mentally ill
         Seneca Falls Convention -  women rights
         Abolition – Garrison, underground RR
       Immigration - Irish immigrants – Potato famine
     Political Changes
       Increase democracy – expansion of suffrage
       Increased nationalism - War of 1812,
    Growth in strength of Federal Government – Marshall court, Presidents Jefferson and Jackson
    Political Parties- changes in the 2 parties
    Foreign Policy - Monroe Doctrine
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Rise of Sectionalism
     Slavery in the South
     Abolitionist movement – gradualism – immediate emancipation
     Struggle for political power in Congress
     Missouri Compromise
     Wilmot Proviso
     Compromise of 1850
     Kansas Nebraska Act
     Dred Scott Decision
     Republican Party
     John Brown’s Raid
     Election of 1860
     
    Civil War
     Southern secession – South Carolina and others
     Advantages and Disadvantages
     Strategies – Anaconda Plan
    Battles: Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Appomattox Courthouse Generals – Lee, Jackson Grant
    Lincoln’s Actions - goals of war, increased executive power, draft, Emancipation proclamation Habeus Corpus
    Results of War
    Reconstruction - 10% plan, Johnson Plan
    Freedmen -- 13th, 14, 15th, amendments
     
     
     
    ALSO – primary and secondary sources – Branches of Government – how a bill becomes a law, SUPREME COURT DECISIONS (Marbury vs Madison) impact of action of federal government on Americans
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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