History 3.3, Winter 2004
Review Sheet for Final Exam

There will be a review session in Ellis Auditorium on Friday afternoon, 5/7, beginning at 3:30pm. You may also ask questions by posting to the bulletin board.  That's also where the links to the PowerPoint presentations will be posted. Check this page later for any changes, and check the website on Thursday afternoon for the actual text of the cumulative Civil War question that will be on the final.

• Founders:

  • Jefferson, Thomas

  • Adams, John

  • Hamilton, Alexander

  • Madison, James

  • Washington, George

  • Burr, Aaron

  • Paine, Thomas

• state constitutions

• Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence (as an example of the "right of revolution")

• impact of the Revolution on:
  • slavery
  • family
  • politics
  • religion ("disestablishment")
  • social life
• Hewes, George Robert Twelves
• The Articles of Confederation
• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
• Confederation government: powers it lacked, financial and diplomatic problems
• Shays' Rebellion
• debtor relief laws
• Annapolis Convention
• Constitutional Convention
• Virginia & New Jersey Plans
• Connecticut Compromise
• Committee of Detail
• Committee of Style
• Rutledge, John
• Constitution: 
  • enumerated powers
  • slavery protections: 3/5, "full faith and credit," slave trade, etc.
  • anti-democratic features
  • significance of Preamble
  • "necessary & proper" clause
  • judicial review
  • ratification process
  • Antifederalists
  • Bill of Rights

• Hamilton's financial program:

  • "funding" & "assumption" (national debt)

  • Bank of United States

  • excise tax

  • Report on Manufactures

• Jefferson vs. Hamilton:

  • visions of future

  • views of proper role & style of government, use of force

  • interpretations of Constitution

  • views on foreign policy & manufacturing

  • "commercial discrimination"

• first parties: Federalists and (Democratic) Republicans

• political parties: Founders' attitudes toward, rise of

• Compromise of 1790

• French Revolution, impact on U.S.

• Whiskey Rebellion

• Jay Treaty

• XYZ Affair

• Quasi-War

• Alien & Sedition Acts

• Direct Tax

• Lyon, Matthew

• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

• "compact theory"

• Fries Rebellion

• Burr, Aaron

• Election of 1800

• Jefferson's "experiment" (see Jefferson's First Inaugural Address)

• "peaceable coercion"

• Jefferson's foreign policy 

• Haitian Revolution (Saint Domingue)

• Louisiana Purchase

• Lewis & Clark expedition

• Indian Removal

• Northern Confederacy

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Embargo

• War of 1812

  • Harrison, William Henry

  • Tecumseh

  • Battle of Tippecanoe

  • Jackson, Andrew

  • Battle of Horseshoe Bend

  • Red Sticks

  • Battle of New Orleans

  • impact of on slavery, Indians, political parties

• Hartford Convention

• Boston Associates

• Adams, John Quincy

• Transcontinental Treaty

• "Great Migration" (1815-19)

• westward expansion, patterns of (expansion of section cultures)

• Indian removal

• Cherokees

• "Era of Good Feelings"

• Monroe, James

• Clay, Henry

• Calhoun, John C.

• Panic of 1819

• Missouri Compromise

• suffrage (voting rights), changes in

• Van Buren, Martin

• Albany Regency

• Jackson-era parties: Democrats and Whigs

• tariff issue

• Election of 1828

• Nullification Crisis: concept & process of "nullification,"  South Carolina Exposition and Protest, Force Bill

• Webster-Hayne debate

• Election of 1840

• rise of cotton growing & the expansion of slavery

• slave trade: end of international, rise of internal

• Industrial Revolution

• immigration (Irish Catholics)

• nativists

• Transportation Revolution

• Erie Canal

• evangelicalism (Charles G. Finney)

• "Benevolent Empire" (moral reform movements)

  • temperance

  • Sabbatarianism

• middle class

• "cult of domesticity"

• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

• African Methodist Episcopal Church

• American Colonization Society

• Vesey, Denmark

• proslavery argument

• Turner, Nat

• Virginia slavery debate

• Abolitionism: change from gradualism and colonizationism to "immediatism"

• Walker, David

• Garrison, William Lloyd

• “moral suasion”

• anti-abolitionist riots

• southern culture: violence, "honor," duelling, Cavalier myth

• Lovejoy, Elijah P.

• Douglass, Frederick

• "sectional imperialism"

• Texas annexation issue

• Oregon issue

• Polk, James K.

• Election of 1844

• Mexican War

• Wilmot Proviso

• "free soil"

• "popular sovereignty"

• Free Soil Party

• Taylor, Zachary

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• doughfaces: Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan

• Know-Nothings

• Ostend Manifesto

• Walker, William ("filibustering")

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