Unit I (14 Questions)

Spanish Settlements in North America

Subduing the native populations

Encomienda system

English Settlements in North America- New England, Middle and Southern Colonies

Motivations for migrating to the New Word

Motivations for founding of Colonies

Contrasting New England and The Chesapeake

The Columbian Exchange

Mercantilism

Bacon’s Rebellion

Great Awakening

African Slavery

Unit II (22 Questions)

Stamp Act and Stamp Act Congress

Declaratory Act

Methods of colonial resistance

Effects of the French and Indian War

Thomas Paine and Common Sense

Key Battles of Revolutionary War-Saratoga, Trenton and Princeton, Yorktown

Shays Rebellion

Northwest Ordinance 1787

Government under the Articles of Confederation-Strengths Weaknesses

Constitutional Convention-Issues-Resolutions

3/5ths Compromises

Debates over Constitution-Federalist/Anti-Federalists

Whiskey Rebellion

Strict versus Loose Constructionism and the Elastic Clause

Hamilton’s Economic Plan

Hamilton and Jefferson

The Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans

Washington’s Farewell Address

Alien and Sedition Acts

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

XYZ Affair

Unit III (27 Questions)

Eli Whitney

Hamilton and Burr

Marbury v Madison

Louisiana Purchase

War of 1812-Causes and Effect

Monroe Doctrine

War with Mexico-Cause and Effect

Missouri Compromise

Whigs and Democrats

2^nd Great Awakening

The South and Slavery in the territories

John Marshall and the Supreme Court

Vesey, Prosser, Turner

William Lloyd Garrison

Market Revolution

Canals, Steamboats, Railroads

Jackson and

The Election of 1828

The “Common Man”

Spoils System or Rotation in Office

Bank War

Kitchen Cabinet

Internal Improvements (Maysville Road Veto)

Nullification Controversy

Specie Circular

Indian Removal 

“Trail of Tears”

Panic of 1837

Henry Clay’s American System

Textile Mills

Onset of Manufacturing in New England-Why?

Unit IV (17 Questions)

Compromise of 1850

“54’ 40 or fight!”

Popular sovereignty

Dred Scott v Sanford

Election of 1860

Advantages and Disadvantages of Union and Confederacy

Lincoln’s view of the War

Turning Points in Civil War-Antietam, Gettysburg, Fall of Atlanta

Emancipation Proclamation

Scalawags and Carpetbaggers

Reconstruction Failures and Successes

Black Codes

President Johnson and Reconstruction

Impeachment

Radical, Congressional, or Military Reconstruction

Share-cropping and Crop-lien system

The Compromise of 1877

Unit V (20 Questions)--> ch.16

Transcontinental Railroad and U.S. Government-Pacific Railway Act

Workers on the Union and Central Pacific Railroads

Homestead Act

Life for the Plains Indians –Significance of the Buffalo

Ghost Dance

Wounded Knee (1890)

Board of Indian Commissioners

Indian Schools

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Dawes Severalty Act of 1887

Helen Hunt Jackson

Second Sioux War and The Battle of Little Bighorn

Turner’s Frontier Thesis

Women’s Suffrage in The West (p521)