Name: Unit 3 Test Review (Study Guide) 1) Who were some of the important figures in George Washington's administration? 2) What were the primary beliefs of the Democratic Republican Party? Who was the party's leader? 3) What were the primary beliefs of the Federalist Party? Who was the party's leader? 4) What were the two components of Alexander Hamilton's plan to pay back the debts accrued during the Revolutionary War? 5) What was the cause of the outbreak of the Whiskey Rebellion? 6) Explain George Washington's foreign policy of non-intervention. What was the reason for his support of such a policy? 7) What were the main ideas contained within George Washington's farewell address? 8) Explain the Alien and Sedition Acts. 9) What were the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? 10.) When Thomas Jefferson took office, what was his main objective? What did he do to accomplish this objective? 11) Explain the importance of New Orleans to the American economy: 12) How did Thomas Jefferson propose to solve the problem of the US' limited access to the Mississippi River? What was Napolean's counter-proposal?
13) Why was Thomas Jefferson reluctant to authorize the Louisiana Purchase? 14) What was the objective of the Lewis & Clark expedition? 15) Where did the Lewis & Clark expedition begin? How long did it take? Was it successful? Why or why not? 16) Explain how British-Indian relations led to the first calls for war between the US and Britain: 17) Explain how British actions on the high seas led to further calls for war between the US and Britain: 18) When did these issues finally lead to a US declaration of war against Great Britain? Who was President at the time? 19) What happened when the British invaded Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1814? 20) What were the provisions of the Treaty of Ghent? 21) What was the significance of the Battle of New Orleans? Who led the Americans to victory? 22) From the American perspective, what were the results of the War of 1812? 23) What is nationalism? 24) How did growing American nationalism change Americans' feelings about their relationship to the United States? 25) What were the provisions of the Monroe Doctrine? 26) Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny:
27) Who was Henry Claw, and what was his American System? 28) What was the Industrial Revolution? What changes occured in American society as a result of the Industrial Revolution? 29) Who invented the cotton gin? 30) How did the cotton gin change cotton production in the South? 31) What was the long term effect of the invention of the cotton gin? 32) Where was the Erie Canal constructed? 33) What were some of the economic effects of the Erie Canal? 34) How did the Erie Canal affect New York City? 35) What was the Second Great Awakening? 36) What was the goal of the temperance movement? 37) Who led the movement for public education? Why did education reformers argue that our country needed a system of public education? 38) What was the goal of the abolitionist movement? 39) How did the abolitionists differ from the radical abolitionists? 40) Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
41) Who was Frederick Douglass? 42) What was the primary goal of the reform-era Women's Movement? 43) Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton? 44) What was the purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention? 45) With whose support was Andrew Jackson elected president in 1828? 46) What changes occurred in the American political system as a result of the advent of Jacksonian Democracy? 47) Explain the Indian Removal Act. 48) Describe the SECTIONALISM evident in the United States by the 1830's: 49) Describe the working and living conditions of Northern factory workers in the years prior to the Civil War: 50) By the 1820's, was what the basis of the Southern economy? 51) How did life differ for slaves on plantations compared to those who lived and worked on small farms? 52) By the 1850's, how had most Northerners come to view the institution of slavery? What had caused them to come to this conclusion? 53) Why did Southern slaveholders believe their slaves to be better treated than factory workers in the North?
54) What was the aim of Turner's Rebellion? 55) What was the result of Turner's Rebellion? How did the rebellion change the ways in which slaves were treated? 56) When Missouri applied for statehood, why did Northern states object? 57) Explain the components of the Missouri Compromise: 58) Why were the Southern states so outraged by the passage of the Tariff of 1828? 59) Explain the concept of nullification. What was John C. Calhoun's role in the nullification debate? 60) Describe President Andrew Jackson's response to the nullification crisis: 61) Why did Northern states oppose Texas' application for US statehood? 62) Who were the "Forty-Niners"? How did their arrival affect the population of California? 63) What were Northerners' views in respect to the legality of slavery in the territory taken from Mexico in the war? What were Southerners' views? 64) When California applied for statehood in 1850, what kind of state did it request to be? 65) Explain the provisions of the Compromise of 1850: 66) Why were Northerners particularly upset by the Fugitive Slave Act?
67) Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act? What was its purpose? What is popular sovereignty? 68) What were the ideals upon which the Republican Party was founded? 69) What was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? 70) When Dred Scott attempted to sue for his freedom, what was his primary argument? 71) What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case? 72) What were the implications of the Dred Scott decision? 73) Who was John Brown? What was the purpose of his raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry? What was the result?