US I-S FINAL EXAM REVIEW

Mr. Bian

1. Thomas Jefferson’s beliefs

2. Louisiana Purchase
3. Lewis and Clark expedition
4. Francis Scott Key ( Battle of Fort McHenry)
5. President Monroe (“ Era of Good Feeling”)
6. The Monroe Doctrine
7. Sectionalism
8. Tariff of 1828
9. President Jackson’s popularity
10. President Jackson’s “spoils system”
11. President Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet
12. Jackson and poor white men
13. The Indian Removal Act
14. Westward expansion (transportation)
15. Samuel Morse
16. Texas in 1821
17. Manifest Destiny
18. President Polk’s land acquisitions
19. Gadsden purchase
20. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
21. The Oregon Territory
22. California’s population explosion
23. Define sectionalism
24. Slavery
25. Slaves legal status
26. King cotton
27. Slave labor
28. Abolitionists
29. Harriet Tubman
30. The Missouri Compromise
31. Frederick Douglass
32. The Compromise of 1850
33. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
34. Abraham Lincoln- ‘a house divided against itself cannot last half free and half
slave
35. Secede or Secession
36. President Jefferson Davis
37. The Union
38. Southern Advantages
39. The Conda Plan
40. The 54th Massachusetts Regiment
41. The Emancipation Proclamation
 42. General Ulysses S. Grant
43. The Battle of Gettysburg
44. John Wilkes Booth
45. Issues settled by the Civil War
46. The Reconstruction Program
47. The Freedmen’s Bureau
48. The Radical Republicans vs. President Johnson
49. The Black Codes
50. The 14th Amendment
51. The 15th Amendment
52. Sharecropping
53. Carpetbaggers
54. President Johnson’s impeachment
55. Jim Crow laws
56. Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
57. The KKK
58. Buffalo hunters
59. Native Americans of the frontier
60. Reservations

Essay Topics

1. Causes and consequences of the War of 1812

2. President Jackson’s Democratic reforms and failures
3. The issue of slavery: North vs. South
4. Union and Confederate advantages in the Civil War
5. The rights of African Americans during Reconstruction Era
6. Frontier life