Tuesday

 You need to work on the following review guide:

STUDY GUIDE

 

Revolutionary War:

 

Outline the following acts and events. Discuss what each was and why it might have been important.

 

1763 - The Proclamation Act of 1763
1764- Sugar Act
1765 - Stamp Act

1766 – Declaratory Act
1767 - Townshend Act
1770 - Boston Massacre
1773 - Tea Act
1773- Boston Tea Party
1774 - Intolerable Acts (include the various acts listed under this one act – include the Quebec Act)

1st and 2nd Continental Congress

April 1775 - Lexington and Concord

May 1775 – the capture of Fort Ticonderoga

 

Other battles to know – what happened and why they were important:

 

Battle of Bunker Hill

Battle of Long Island (Brooklyn Heights)

Battle of Saratoga

Battle of Cowpens

Siege of Yorktown

 

People: Sam Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, Ben Franklin. George Washington, Nathaniel Greene, Daniel Morgan, Benedict Arnold, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox, Johnny Burgoyne, General Howe, General Cornwallis,

 

Election of 1800/Louisiana Purchase/Manifest Destiny

 

Discuss the election of 1800

Marbury v Madison

 

 

 

The Louisiana Purchase (particularly how much it was brought for, why France sold it, what it did for the U.S.):

 

 

 

The Embargo Act (what was it, why was it enacted)

 

 

 

What was the Battle of Tippecanoe?

 

 

 

What were the causes of the War of 1812?

 

 

 

Election of 1824

The Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears

The Spoils System

The Nullification Crisis and how it was resolved

Andrew Jackson's war on the Bank of America 

Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, the Whig Party

 

Who was John Marshall?
Why did France sell its North America possessions (the Louisiana territory) to the U.S.?
What did Lewis and Clark do? Describe their journey?
How did Hamilton incur the wrath of Aaron Burr? Was he right in what he did? How did the ordeal end?
What was Jefferson's Embargo Act? Why was it unpopular and what was it supposed to do?
What did Tecumseh try and do?

Most historians call the War of 1812 a draw. Why?
Describe the Battle of New Orleans.

What did the Monroe Doctrine state?
What was the Missouri Compromise?
How was the election of 1824 decided? Why was it called a "corrupt bargain"?
List some of the labels attached to Andrew Jackson.
Was Andrew Jackson an Indian hater? What did the natives call him? What "Indian Wars" did he fight in and what was the outcome? What was his native "policy" as President?
How did Jackson come to symbolize the common people?


War of 1812

1) Importance of Fort McHenry.
2) Burning of D.C. by the British.
3) Battle of New Orleans

 

Also know the following:

 

What problems did the “little magician” (Martin Van Buren) face while in office?

 

 

What was William Henry Harrison’s campaign like?

 

What was the Alamo?

 

Discuss the Texas War of Independence. Why did Jackson not want to annex Texas?

 

Who was Nat Turner?

 

What was Manifest Destiny?

 

Mexican American War-election of Lincoln

 

The Compromise of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Bleeding Kansas 

Dred Scott Case

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

John Brown and Harper's Ferry

Presidents 1-16