FINAL STUDY GUIDE

 

 

Chapter 9

 

Cabinet – a group of dept. heads who serve as the president’s chief advisors

 

 

Tariff –

 

 

Whiskey Rebellion –

 

 

Foreign Policy- relations with the government of other countries

 

 

Political Party-

 

 

Alien & Sedition Acts – a series of laws in 1798 to reduce the political power of immigrants to the U.S.

 

 

Why did Washington send troops to put down the Whiskey Rebellion?

 

 

Chapter 10

Lewis & Clark:

 

 

Impressment: the act of seizing by force

 

 

Francis Scott Key:

 

 

War Hawk:

 

 

Dolly Madison:  wife of President Madison who saved valuable items from the white house before it was burned by the British during the War of 1812

 

 

Toussaint L’Ouverture:

 

 

Judicial Review:  the Supreme Court has the final say in interpreting the Constitution

 

 

Tecumseh:

 

 

Treaty of Ghent:  ended the War of 1812

 

 

Chapter 11

 

Industrial Revolution – when machines replaced tools and manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work.

 

 

Robert Fulton-

 

 

Nat Turner –

 

 

Nationalism- feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward one’s country

 

 

Sectionalism – placing the interests of one’s own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole

 

 

Missouri Compromise –

 

 

Monroe Doctrine –

 

 

 

Why was New England a good place to build early factories?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 12

 

Andrew Jackson –

 

 

Corrupt Bargain –

 

 

Spoils System –the practice of winning candidates giving government jobs to political backers or supporters

 

 

Indian Removal Act – this 1830 act called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west.

 

 

Trail of Tears –

 

 

How did the Indian Removal Act affect Native Americans?

 

 

Tariff of Abominations –

 

 

Doctrine of nullification – right of a state to reject a federal law that it considers unconstitutional

 

 

Webster-Hayne Debate –

 

 

Secession –  withdrawal

 

 

Why did the South oppose high tariffs?

 

 

Whig Party – a political party organized to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson

 

 

William Henry Harrison –

 

 

                                   

Chapter 13

 

Tejano –  a person of Spanish heritage who considered Texas his or her home

 

 

Manifest Destiny –

 

 

Mexican Cession – a vast region given up by Mexico after the War with Mexico; it included present day CA, NV, UT, most of AZ, and parts of NM, CO and WY.

 

 

California Gold Rush –

 

 

What were the three main trails that led to the West?

- Santa Fe Trail, Oregon Trail, and Mormon Trail

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 14

 

Labor Union –

 

Nativist –  a native-born American who wanted to eliminate foreign influence

 

 

Frederick Douglas –

 

 

Civil Disobedience – peacefully refusing to obey laws one considers unjust

 

 

Horace Mann –

 

 

Dorothea Dix –

 

 

Seneca Falls Convention -

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton –

 

 

Second Great Awakening – the renewal of religious faith in the 1790’s and early 1800’s.

 

 

Know Nothing Party – 

 

 

 

What factors influenced so many immigrants to come to America in the 1800’s?

(Push-Pull Theory)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER 15

 

 

Wilmot Proviso –  a proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico

 

 

Compromise of 1850 –

 

 

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe portraying the evils of slavery

 

 

John Brown-  extreme abolitionist who attempted to raid a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA.

 

 

Kansas-Nebraska Act –

 

 

Fugitive Slave Act –

 

 

 

 

Republican Party –

 

 

Confederation States of America –

 

 

Jefferson Davis-  president of the Confederate States of America

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How did Northerners react to the Fugitive Slave Act?

 

 

 

 

 

 

How did Southerners react to Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER 16

 

 

Anaconda Plan –  the North’s plan to defeat the South in the Civil War.  They would establish a blockade along the sea coast and split the Confederacy in two.

 

 

 

Battle of Antietam –  Civil War battle in which 25,00 men were killed or wounded.  Considered the bloodiest day in U.S. history.

 

 

 

Ulysses S. Grant –

 

 

 

 

 

 

FortSumter –

 

 

 

Ironclads –  warship covered with iron

 

 

 

Robert E Lee –

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blockade –

 

 

 

How did the South’s plantation economy put it at a disadvantage in fighting a war against

the North?

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER 17

 

Appomattox Court House –  location where Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant, ending the Civil War.

 

 

John Wilkes Booth –  supporter of the Confederacy who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln

 

 

Conscription –

 

 

Copperhead –

 

 

Emancipation Proclamation –

 

 

 

 

 

54^thMass. Regiment –

 

 

Total War – 

 

 

How did Sherman’s march help the Union? It helped change the North’s attitude about the war giving them a sense that they would win.  It helped convince the public to reelect President Lincoln.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DON’T FORGET GEOGRAPHY… KEEP GOING DOWN!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please identify all 50 states.

 

 

 

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