KEY CONCEPTS
 Declaration of
Independence,
Political Spectrum, Great Compromise, 3/5 Compromise, Checks
and Balances, Indentured
Servitude,
Bicameral Legislature,
Stamp Act/Intolerable Acts,
Tea Party,
Boston Massacre,
Olive Branch Petition, Neutrality, Articles of
Confederation, Salem, Elastic Clause/Implied Powers, Saratoga,
Yorktown,
Valley Forge, Delegated Powers, Federalism,
Mercantilism, Electoral College,
Judicial Review,
John Marshall,
Monroe Doctrine, William
Pitt, Battle of Quebec,
Secession.
Emancipation Proclamation, Tariff,
Reconstruction Amendments, Manifest
Destiny,
Amendments 16-17, Mugwumps ... Mugwumps,
Knights of Labor,
AFL, Pendleton Act,
Shakers, Unitarians, Dawes Act, Eugenics, Deism, Great Awakening
I, Great Awakening II,
Mayflower Comp act,
Sherman's March, Daniel Webster,
Seward's Folly, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut,
John Brown,
John Muir, House of
Burgesses, New England Town Meetings, Transcendentalism,
Wild
West,
Capital Moves then
moves again,
The Alamo,
Louisiana Purchase, Shays's Rebellion,
Haymarket Affair,
Antietam,
Gettysburg, Unwritten
Constitution, Zenger Trial,
Ballinger-Pinchot, XYZ Affair,
Fort Sumter, Indentured Servitude,
Sharecropping,
Massachusetts 54th, Jay and Pinckney Treaties, Fort
McHenry, Lecompton Constitution, Mother's
pensions, Triangle Fire, Jefferson Davis, Temperance, Suffrage,
Treaty of Ghent,
Omaha Platform,
Trail of Tears,
Citizen
Genet, USS Constitution,
American System, Cheese.
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MAJOR THEMES
Wha t
were the major events of the American Revolution? Also know the
French and Indian War.
What role did religion play
in the colonies?
What were the weaknesses of
the Articles of Confederation?
What were the major
Compromises of the Constitution?
Why did America want
Independence? What did the Declaration of Independence actually say?
 How
do the branches of government check one another?
What was
Washington’s
stance on foreign policy?
How are the Virginia and
Kentucky Resolutions related to secession plots during Jackson's
Presidency?
What
were the major events of the War of 1812? I can think of
more
than one. More than two.
 How
did America expand during manifest destiny?
You may
want to know about
certain ... important ...
Civil
War ... Battles and
facts.
What were the causes of the Civil War? What part did slavery play in
it? Know your compromises!
What were the major issues
under "Jacksonian Democracy."
How did the United States
deal with Native Americans from colonial days to the Gilded Age?
How did women affect social
movements?
What were the strength and weaknesses of Presidential and
Congressional Reconstruction? What happened in its aftermath?
What
happened during the Gilded Age concerning "Robber Barons" and
industrialization?
Why did
immigrants move towards cities? How did the cities emerge?
How did Populists influence
the Progressives?
Civil War
Compromises
1820 - Missouri is
a slave state, no slavery north of 36'30, Maine is a free state. --
Henry Clay.
1850 - Fugitive
Slave Law, No Slave Trade in DC, former Mexican Territory now Utah and
New Mexico has Popular Sovereignty, California is Free, Texas gave up
western land and received $10 Million to pay off its national debt. --
Henry Clay
1854 - Kansas
Nebraska Act = Popular Sovereignty. This of course led to Bleeding
Kansas, then the Lecompton Constitution. -- Stephen Douglas
STAR 16
= OMAHA PLATFORM = Senators (direct election of), Progressive Income
Tax, Australian Ballot, Railroad Regulation, 16:1 Ratio of Silver to
Gold
IF YOU KNOW ALL OF THIS
STUFF, THEN YOU WILL BE
WINNERS!!!!
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