FALL EXAM REVIEW
COLONIAL ERA, PRE-1763
Terms, Laws, Important Events, People:
 Albany Plan of Union
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 Anne Hutchinson
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 Bacon’s Rebellion
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 Deists
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 French and Indian War
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 Fundamental Orders of
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Connecticut
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 Great Awakening
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 Half Way Covenant
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 House of Burgesses
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 indentured servants
John Peter Zenger
John Rolfe
John Smith
John Winthrop
Joint stock company
Jonathan Edwards
Lord Baltimore
Maryland Act of Toleration
Mayflower Compact
Mercantilism
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Pilgrims v Puritans
Pocahontas
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Roanoke, Jamestown
Roger Williams
Salem Witch Trials
slavery in the 17th century
status of colonial women
William Penn
Themes:
1. Relations between the colonists and Native Americans
2. Geographic differences between the regions
3. Motivation for settlement of different European colonies, especially the English
4. The economic development of the colonies
5. The establishment of local political and social institutions in each colony
REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA, 1763-83
Terms, Laws, Important Events, People:
 George Washington
 Ben Franklin
 Stamp Act
 Benedict Arnold
 Patrick Henry
 Thomas Jefferson
 Sam Adams
 French & Indian War
 Crispus Attucks
 Diplomacy-France et al
 John Adams
 Declaration of Independence
 Salutary neglect
 Virtual Representation
 First Great Awakening
 Sons of Liberty
 Boston Tea Party
 Sugar Act
 Proclamation of 1763
 Townshend Act
 John Paul Jones
 Intolerable Acts
 Paul Revere
 Mercantilism
 Locke/Rousseau
 Military:
o Lexington & Concord
 Thomas Paine
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o Breed’s/Bunker Hill
o Valley Forge
o Yorktown
Non-importation Acts
Quartering Act
Declaratory Act
Tea Act
Boston Port Bill
Stamp Act Congress
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Continental Congress (both)
Don’t Tread on Me
Themes:
1. Long and short term causes of the Revolution
2. The role of colonial assembly leaders against England
3. In what ways the 13 colonies were similar and different prior to the Revolution?
4. What were the accusations, and their foundations, in the Declaration?
5. Why were the French allied with the colonists and what was their contribution?
FEDERAL ERA, 1783-1800
Terms, Laws, Important Events, People:
 Alexander Hamilton
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 Alien & Sedition Acts
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 Annapolis Convention
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 Articles of Confederation
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(strengths & weaknesses)
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 Ben Franklin
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 Citizen Genet
 Constitutional Convention
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o Great Compromise
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o 3/5ths Compromise
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o Elastic Clause
o Supremacy Clause
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o Bill of Rights
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Electoral College
French Revolution
George Washington
Hamilton’s fiscal policy
James Madison
Jefferson’s philosophy on
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John Adams
John Jay
Kentucky & Virginia
Resolutions
Northwest Ordinance 1787
Pickney’s Treaty
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Quasi-War
Ratification of Constitution
(Pros & Cons)
Shay’s Rebellion
The Federalist Papers
Thomas Jefferson
Treaty of London
Washington’s Neutrality
Proclamation
Whiskey Rebellion
XYZ affair
Themes:
1. How the Founding Fathers feel about political parties and how political parties developed
2. Conflicts between Hamilton and Jefferson
3. Causes of continuing conflict with Britain
4. Causes and results of ongoing conflicts with France
5. Significance of the Revolution of 1800
EARLY NATIONAL ERA 1800-30
Terms, Laws, Important Events, People:
 Aaron Burr
 John Marshall
 Barbary Pirates
 Lewis & Clark
 Embargo Act
 Louisiana Purchase
 Hamilton-Burr Duel
 Marbury v Madison
 Hartford Convention
 McCulloch v Maryland
 Hartford Convention
 Monroe Doctrine
 impressment
 Non-Intercourse Act
 James Madison
 Thomas Jefferson
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War Hawks
War of 1812
o Causes
o Ft. McHenry
o Washington DC
o Great Lakes
o New Orleans
o Treaty of Ghent
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Samuel Slater
Spoils system
Tariff of 1816
Tariff of 1833
Tariff of Abominations (1828)
Trail of Tears
Universal white male suffrage
Themes:
1. Growing sense of nationalism after 1814
THE AGE OF JACKSON, 1820s-1850
Terms, Laws, Important Events, People:
 Alexis de Tocqueville
 Henry Clay
 Andrew Jackson
 John C Calhoun
 Kitchen cabinet
 Cherokee v Georgia
 Clay’s American System
 Nullification Crisis
o South Carolina
 Corrupt Bargain
Exposition and Protest
 Elections of 1824 & 28
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Force Bill
 Eli Whitney
 Peggy Eaton
 Hayne-Webster Debate
 Robert Fulton
Themes:
1. Causes of growing sectional conflict
2. The impact of Jackson on the presidency
3. Development of the market economy: inventions, transportation, internal improvements, tariff policy
SECOND GREAT AWAKENING AND REFORM MOVEMENTS, 1820s-50s
Terms, Laws, Important Events, People:
 Abolition
 Harriet Tubman
 Sojourner Truth
 Burned Over District
 Horace Mann
 Spiritualists
 Cult of domesticity
 Lucretia Mott
 Sylvester Graham
 Dorothea Dix
 Lucy Stone
 Temperance
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 Millerites
 Transcendentalism
 Frederick Douglass
 Mormons
 Utopian societies
 Harriet Beecher Stowe
 Shakers
 William Lloyd Garrison
Themes:
1. Goals and accomplishments/failures of the abolitionist movement
2. Goals and accomplishments/failures of the health/temperance movements
3. Goals and accomplishments/failures of the utopian movement
4. Goals and accomplishments/failures of the women’s movement
SECTIONALISM, 1830s-1860
Terms, Laws, Important Events, People:
 Abraham Lincoln
 John Sutter
 Alamo
 Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding
Kansas
 antebellum
 Lincoln-Douglas Debates
 Compromise of 1850/ Fugitive
 Manifest Destiny
Slave Law
 Dred Scott case
 Mexican War
o Slidell Mission
 Election of 1860
o Spot Resolutions
 Gadsden Purchase
o Mexican cession
 Henry Clay
o Treaty of Guadalupe
 James Buchanan
Hidalgo
 James Polk
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Missouri
Compromise
 John Brown
Themes:
1. Impact of annexing western lands
2. Political, social, and economic causes of the Civil War
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Raid at Harper’s Ferry
Republic of Texas
Republican Party
Sam Houston
Santa Anna
South Carolina secession
Stephen Douglas
Trails West
Underground Railroad
Wilmot Proviso