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Final Exam Study Guide: 2014-2015
Following is a list of concepts and terms that may appear on the final exam. Some definitions have been provided.
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15.2
Topic
Chapter 15
Louisiana Purchase
Details
effect on size of nation
territory gained
15.4
Manifest Destiny
define
justification for expansion
15.4
annexation of Texas
Northern opposition
15.5
Claims to Oregon Country
four nations that claimed Oregon country
15.6
Mexican-American War
causes
impact of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on Mexico
15.6
Gadsden Purchase
Who did US purchase from?
Why did US purchase?
16.2
Chapter 16
legacy
define
16.2
Louis and Clark Expedition
causes
16.7
Mormons
cause of move west
16.8
California Gold Rush
effect
16.9
Chinese immigrants
how treated / experiences
18.2
Chapter 18
Second Great Awakening
what was it
impact (effect)
18.2
Transcendentalism
define
18.4
education reform
who
goal
18.5
abolitionist
define
18.5
William Lloyd Garrison
who
beliefs
18.5
Frederick Douglass
who
message to Americans
18.6
suffrage
define: the right to vote
18.6
Women’s Rights Movement
Origin/ motivation
goal
18.6
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
who
goal/ reform
18.6
Seneca Falls Convention
define
effect
18.6
Declaration of Sentiments
define
18.6
Susan B. Anthony
modeled on
who
goal/ reform
19.4
19.4
and
19.5
Chapter 19
Southern economy
what was it based on?
cotton gin
define
effect on Southern economy
effect on slavery
effect on industry in North
19.5
Northern economy
what was it
who worked in factories
19.6
Northern transportation
identify improvements
impact of steamboat (river travel)
impact of clipper ships (ocean travel)
19.7
Southern transportation
how were goods transported
19.8
Southern society
class structure
who controlled politics & economy
20.2
Chapter 20
slaves
what was legal status
20.2
free Blacks in the South
living conditions
20.2
free Blacks in the North
living conditions
20.2
discrimination
define
20.2
segregation
define
policies
effects
20.3
economics of slavery
effect of cotton gin
20.7
resistance to slavery
how did slaves resist
20.7
Underground Railroad
define
examples of communication
conductor
20.7
Harriet Tubman
who
role
20.7
Nat Turner
who
20.7
slave rebellions
legacy
what was Southern response
20.1
African American culture
how was it created
how was it expressed
21.2
Chapter 21
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Slave issue
21.2
balance of power
why keep equal number of slave and free states
states’ rights theory
define: the theory that rights not specifically given to the federal government
by the Constitution remain with the states
popular sovereignty
define: the idea that the government’s authority comes from the people
states rights’ theory and
popular sovereignty
relationship
21.2
example
21.3
Missouri Compromise
conditions
reactions
border (latitude line)
21.5
Compromise of 1850
What pleased the south?
What pleased the north?
Arguments leading up to Compromise from Clay, Calhoun, Webster
21.5
Henry Clay
who
what
21.5
Daniel Webster
who
what
21.6
Fugitive Slave Act
conditions
reactions
reasons for failure
21.6
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
impact
21.6
Kansas-Nebraska Act
conditions
reactions
result
How did it nullify the Missouri Compromise?
21.7
Dred Scott Decision
results
importance
21.8
Abraham Lincoln
who
what
21.8
John Brown
who
action at Harper’s Ferry
21.9
Secession
what turned secession into civil war
economic reason for secession
21.9
John C. Calhoun
see 14.5
Election of 1869
Results
How the results contributed to secession
22.1
Chapter 22
border states
which border states seceded
22.2
North
Strengths: (beginning & end)
Weaknesses: (beginning & end)
22.2
South
strengths (beginning & end)
weaknesses (beginning & end)
22.3
Union
war strategy
22.3
women
roles in Civil War
22.3
Clara Barton
Role in Civil War
22.4
Antietam
significance
22.4
Anaconda Plan
Steps
22.4
and
22.6
22.4
Civil War technology
what is new
Casualties
reasons
greatest cause of death
22.5
Emancipation Proclamation
declared what
22.5
Battle of Gettysburg
Why is it a turning point?
22.5
habeas corpus
define
why did Lincoln suspend
22.5
Martial law
define (not in history book)
22.5
Gettysburg Address
reasons for it
document referenced
22.7
54th Massachusetts Regiment
Lincoln’s message
who
which fort did they attack
22.8
Sherman’s march
strategy
reasons for strategy
22.8
Appomattox Court House
Terms of surrender
23.1
Chapter 23
Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan
beliefs/ actions
23.2
Johnson’s Reconstruction
Beliefs/ actions
23.3
Plan Radical Republican
(Congressional)
Reconstruction Plan
Beliefs/ actions
23.3
What is the difference
between the plans of Johnson
and the Radical Republican’s
for Reconstruction?
13th Amendment
23.2
Why it passed?
23.2
Freedman’s Bureau
purpose
legacy
23.2
Black Codes
purpose
23.3
14th Amendment
define
23.4
15th Amendment
purpose
23.5
Ku Klux Klan
goal
23.5
federal troops
effect of removal in 1877
23.6
Plessy v. Ferguson
ruling
24.3
Chapter 24
Homestead Act
Effects
Transcontinental Railroad
Reasons settlers moved west
24.3
and
24.4
workers
impact on Native Americans
24.8
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Significance
25.4
Chapter 25
Monopoly v. Free Enterprise
System
define
problems
26.2
Chapter 26
immigrants
why treated badly?
why ethnic neighborhoods
26.7
nativism
define
cause