United States History I: Final Exam Review Sheet



United States History I: Final Exam Review Sheet

Columns Read Top to Bottom then Left to Right

|Unit 1: American Revolution |Electoral College |Trail of Tears |Treaty of Paris: Guantanamo Bay |

|Boston Tea Party |Unit 3: Testing the Republic |Worcester vs. Georgia |Territories gained by Ameirca |

|Intolerable Acts |Hamilton vs. Jefferson |The Nullification Theory and South |Unit 6: Antebellum America |

| | |Carolina | |

|Thomas Jefferson |Whiskey Rebellion |Force Bill |William Lloyd Garrison |

|Declaration of Independence |Bank of the United States |King Andrew Jackson I |The Liberator |

|Reasons for US victory in the |Unit 4: Expanding Nation |Unit 5: Manifest Destiny, Mexican |John C. Calhoun |

|Revolution | |American War, and Imperialism | |

|Battle of Saratoga |Marbury vs. Madison |John O’ Sullivan and Manifest |Defense of Slavery. Slavery a |

| | |Destiny |“positive good” |

|Loyalists |Louisiana Purchase |Samuel Morse and the Telegraph |Compromise of 1850 |

|Unit 2: Constitution |Factors leading to the War of 1812 |Eli Whitney and the Cotton gin |Popular Sovereignty |

|Weaknesses of the Articles of |Impressment |Factors leading to the Texas |Fugitive Slave Law |

|Confederation | |Revolution | |

|Purpose of Checks and Balances |Opposition to the War of 1812 |Appeal of Texas to Americans |Bleeding Kansas |

|Examples of Checks and Balances |Adams-Onis Treaty and the |Battle of t Alamo |John Brown |

| |acquisition of Florida | | |

|Impeachment |Monroe Doctrine |Opposition to the Annexation of |Dredd Scott |

| | |Mexico | |

|Judicial Review |Corrupt Bargain an the Election of |Yellow Journalism |Harper’s Ferry |

| |1824 | | |

|Strict vs. Loose Constructionist |Andrew Jackson The common man |Alfred T. Mahan |Unit 7: Civil War |

| |President | | |

|Proportional Representation |Spoils System |Imperialism |Election of 1860 |

|Elastic Clause |Bank of the United States |Sinking of the Maine |Abe Lincoln and his support for the|

| | | |Union in 1860 |

|Power to Override a Presidential |Pet Banks |Spanish American War |The Confederacy’s goal with |

|Veto | | |secession |

|South Carolina’s secession |The Radical Republicans |Civil Rights Act of 1964 |

|Strengths and weaknesses of the North |“40 Acres and a Mule” | |

|and South | | |

|Sectionalism |Andrew Johnson as President | |

|Emancipation Proclamation |Andrew Johnson and impeachment | |

|Battle of Antietam |The Compromise of 1877 | |

|Emancipation Proclamation |Plessey vs. Ferguson Court Case | |

|U.S. Grant, William Sherman and Robert|W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington| |

|E. Lee | | |

|Battle of Gettysburg and Vicksburg |Jackie Robinson and Civil Rights | |

|Gettysburg Adress |Harry Truman and Desegregation of the | |

| |Armed Forces | |

|Sherman’s March to Sea |Civil Disobedience and Non-Violenc | |

|Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address |Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Buses, | |

| |1955 | |

|Total War |Defacto and Dejure Segregation | |

|Appomattox |Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954 | |

|Lincoln’s Assassination |Martin Luther King, Jr. | |

|John Wilkes Booth and Ford’s Theater |Lyndon Johnson | |

|Unit 8: Reconstruction and Civil |Freedom Riders | |

|Rights | | |

|13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments |March from Selma to Montgomery | |

|Rise of the Ku Klux Klan | | |

|Black Codes | | |

|Reconstruction and Lincoln’s Plan for | | |

|the South | | |

US I CP Final Essays. You will be given a choice of four of these essays on the day of the final exam you must select one of them.

1. Compare and contrast the political views of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.

2. Explain the causes of the War of 1812. How did world events draw us into war? What groups supported war and how did they push us towards the conflict?

3. President Andrew Jackson’s administrations (1828-1836) were marred by fierce battles over a range of issues including: regional opinions concerning the national tariff, the fate of Indian tribes that existed east of the Mississippi River, and the future of the National Bank.

Provide a detailed explanation of TWO (2) of the above mentioned issues identified. Your answer must include an account of how the crises were resolved.

4. The 1850s were a decade of near continuous crisis. The interests of the northern and southern states clashed repeatedly. Identify and explain three separate issues/crises that you feel are most important to understanding the secession of southern states after Lincoln’s election and the outbreak of Civil War

5. In regard to the Civil War, explain briefly the war strategies of both the Union and the Confederacy at the start of the war, including two advantages for each side. Also discuss two dramatic changes brought about by the Civil War.

6. Explain the social evolution of African-Americans from the turn of the century to 1968.

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