AMERICAN HISTORY 1 N.C. COMMON EXAM REVIEW PACKET 1
Unit One: Obedient Servants: North America Before Columbus European Exploration 1. Land Bridge/Beringia: Nomadic 2. Transition to Civilization: The Agricultural Revolution: 3. The Agricultural Revolution let to: a) b) c) d) 4. First Civilizations: 5. Fill in the chart: Maya Inca Civilization Location Fact Mexico City 6. North American Natives: Tribe Location Fact Pueblo People Ceremonial burial places Iroquois 7. Iroquois Confederacy: 8. 5 Civilized Tribes: 2
9. What defines civilization: 10. Three Sister Farming: Europeans Seek the East 1. 3G s: 2. Goal: Find a route to by sailing. Why? 3. New technology for exploration: a) Compass: b) Astrolabe: c) Caravel: 4. Explorers Chart Name Country Importance Henry the Navigator Portugal Vasco de Gama Amerigo Vespucci Ponce de Leon Vasco de Balboa Ferdinand Magellan Hernan Cortez Portugal Portugal Spain Francisco Pizarro 3
5. Columbian Exchange: 6. Treaty of Tordesillas Demarcation line Spain: Portugal Short end of the stick : 7. Settlement: English: French: Spanish: 4
AMERICAN HISTORY 1 Exploration-1877 STUDY GUIDE English Settlement in the Chesapeake Region 1587 The Lost Colony 1607 Jamestown John Smith Starving Time Tobacco Indentured Servants- Slaves Triangle Trade 1619 Virginia House of Burgesses 1676 Bacons Rebellion English Settlement in New England 1620 Pilgrims Mayflower Compact Puritans-literate/ Old Deluder Act John Winthrop- shining city upon a hill Massachusetts Bay Colony 1676 King Philips War 1686-89 Dominion of New England 1700 s European Enlightenment 1735 Zenger Trial 1739 Stono Rebellion 1740 s Great Awakening- Jonathon Edwards 1754 Albany Plan of Union Benjamin Franklin 1754-1763 French and Indian War Salutary Neglect Virtual Representation Patrick Henry 1763 Proclamation of 1763 Thinkers Locke Rousseau Montesquieu Thought Taxation Begins 1765 Stamp Act Stamp Act Congress- Boycotts Son s of Liberty 1767 Townshend Acts 1770 Boston Massacre 1773 Dec. Boston Tea Party Who was a Loyalist? Who was a Patriot? 5
1774 Intolerable Acts Committees of Correspondence 1774 Sept. 1 st Continental Congress meets 1774-1781 Revolutionary War 1775 April Lexington and Concord 1775 May 2 nd Continental Congress 1776 Jan. Common Sense Thomas Paine 1776 July Declaration of Independence What are the Natural Rights? 1776 Dec. The Crisis Thomas Paine 1777 Oct. Saratoga 1781 Oct. Yorktown 1783 Treaty of Paris Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. Tomas Paine, Common Sense Articles of Confederation Weaknesses 1781-1789 Articles of Confederation 1787 Northwest Ordinance 1787 Feb. Shays Rebellion 1787 May Constitutional Convention Federalism James Madison/Virginia Plan Great Compromise 3/5 Compromise Federalists/Anti-Federalists Bill of Rights Accomplishments 1787-1788 Federalist Papers 1788-1797 Washington Chosen as President PRECEDENT Unwritten Constitution Establishes the first cabinet Set up the Supreme Court Political Parties Two Party System Begins Hamilton- (loose) Federalists Jefferson- (strict) Dem-Republicans Who are these people? Federalists Dem-Republicans Foreign Affairs Neutrality Jay s Treaty Pinckney's Treaty 6
What did Washington say about our involvement in foreign affairs? Domestic Issues National Bank 1794 Whiskey Rebellion- (enforcement of Federal Law) 1793 Eli Whitney/ Cotton Gin 1796-1801 Adams Elected President Naturalization, Alien and Sedition Acts Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions 1797 XYZ Affair 1801 Midnight Judges John Marshall- strengthening of the Federal Government Did John Marshall demonstrate a Strict or Loose view of the Constitution? Federal Government Power Grows Supreme Court Decisions Marbury v. Madison- judicial review McCullough v. Maryland- national supremacy Gibbons v. Ogden- interstate commerce 1800-1809 Jefferson Elected President Election of 1800/ Hamilton- 12 th Amendment 1803 Louisiana Purchase/ Lewis and Clark Exploration What was the purpose of the Lewis and Clark Expedition? 1803 Marbury Vs. Madison Established Supreme Court power of Judicial Review 1800 s British Orders in Council complicates neutral trade with France 1807 Embargo Act of 1807- in response to the Chesapeake incident. 1808-1817 Madison Elected President Battle of Fallen Timbers- Treaty of Greenville Battle of Tippecanoe War Hawks 1812 War of 1812 Hartford Convention 1814 Dec. Treaty of Ghent 7
1815 Jan. 1816-1825 Battle of New Orleans Monroe Elected President Era of Good Feelings Nationalism Sectionalism 1790-1800 s Samuel Slater/Industrial Revolution North- Industrial VS. SouthAgricultural 1816 American System Henry Clay/ John C. Calhoun 1. Protective Tariffs 2. Internal Improvements 3. 2nd Bank of the US List some Internal Improvements 1 2 3 4 What did the protective tariffs of the American System protect? 1820 1823 Dec. 1824 Compromise of 1820 Missouri Compromise 36 30 Constitutional??? Monroe Doctrine No more colonization in Western Hemisphere Gibbons v. Ogden What did Gibbons v. Ogden say about interstate commerce? 1824-1829 John Quincy Adams Elected President Election of 1824: Corrupt Bargain/ Henry Clay 1828-1837 1833-1836 Jackson Elected President- spoils system National Bank Destroyed AKA: BUS Pet Banks Land Boom Specie Circular Nicholas Biddle The Tariff Debate/ Nullification Tariff of Abominations John C. Calhoun 1828 Hayne vs. Webster Debates 1832 1833 1830 s Compromise of 1833 Worchester v. Georgia Trail of Tears 1831 Nat Turners Rebellion 8
Name some early signs of sectionalism. 1836 Texas gains Independence Alamo Sam Houston 1820's-1850's Era of Reform and Change Transcendentalism Emerson Thoreau Self Reliance Civil Disobedience Utopias American Art Develops Hudson River School- paintings that emphasized natural Beauty Currier and Ives Lithography American Literature Develops- emphasized "American" themes Washington Irving- Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow James Fennimore Cooper- Last of the Mohicans, Deerslayer Nathaniel Hawthorne- Scarlet Letter Edgar Allan Poe- poet, short story writer, and critic Henry David Thoreau- Civil Disobedience/ Walden Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Toms Cabin How can we say writers in the first half of the 19 th Century "Americanized" literature and art? Benevolent Societies- Lyman Beecher Religion/Revivalism Second Great Awakening Reform In Schools and Prisons Dorthea Dix- helps the mentally ill Horace Mann- helps require standards for schools Alex De Tocqeville- wrote "Democracy in America" - condemned slavery and prison system Abolition Movement William Lloyd Garrison- The Liberator Frederick Douglass- North Star Gag rule Grimke' Sisters Sojourner Truth Uncle Tom s Cabin Industrialization 9
Lowell Mills Women and Children Working Organization of Labor Unions Erie Canal/Railroads Women's Suffrage Movement 1848 Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott Susan B. Anthony 1836-1841 Martin Van Buren Elected President 1837 Panic of 1837 1840 Treasury Established 1840-1841 William Henry Harrison Elected President Dead in 30 days 1841-1845 John Tyler becomes President Split with the Whig Party 1845 Dec. Texas becomes a State 1844-1849 James K. Polk becomes President Manifest Destiny 1846-1848 War With Mexico Rio Grande 1848 Feb. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Mexican Cession Popular Sovereignty Ignites the issue of expanding slavery into the territories What was the main issue when a territory applied for statehood? 1848-1850 Zachary Taylor is Elected President War Hero Whig Dies in office 1850-1853 Millard Fillmore Becomes President 1850 Compromise of 1850 California Free Stronger Fugitive Slave Laws A lot riding on the Compromise How did California have enough people to become a state? 1852-1857 Franklin Pierce Elected President 10
1852 Uncle Toms Cabin published 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas What was the official Republican party slavery? Formation of the Republican platform regarding Party 1856-1861 1857 James Buchanan Elected President Dred Scott Case Makes the South happy Declared the Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional SLAVES ARE PROPERTY 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates Freeport Doctrine 1859 John Browns Raid on Harpers FerryHERO or TERRORIST? 1860-1865 Lincoln Elected President If Lincoln is elected the South will secede What are your top 3 causes of the Civil War? 1 2 3 1860-1861 The South Secedes- forms the CSA 2 Plans 1. North- 3 parts Anaconda 2. South- Defense! 1861 April 1862 1862 1863 Jan. 1 1863 July 1863 July 1865 April 1865 April Fort Sumter Monitor vs. Merrimack Homestead Act to encourage settlement in plains Emancipation Proclamation Copperheads Radical Republicans South will fight "to the death" Gettysburg Vicksburg Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Lincoln Assassinated 1865-1869 Johnson becomes President 1865 Reconstruction Begins Congress vs. President Johnson Radicals- Wade Davis Bill Presidential 10% 11
Sharecropper Tenant Farmer Freedmen s Bureau Established to aid former slaves 1865 1866 1867 1865-1877 13th Amendment- Abolishes Slavery Civil Rights Act of 1866 Civil Rights/ no black codes/ Citizenship Leads to 14th Amendment Reconstruction Act of 1867 Voting for Blacks If South Ratifies the 14th Amendment they will be re-admitted Divided the South into 5 military districts Leads to 15th Amendment Resistance To Reconstruction Carpetbaggers Scalawags Segregation KKK 1867 1868 Alaska Johnson Impeached 1868-1876 Grant is Elected President Supported by the Radicals Gilded Age/ Corruption 1876-1881 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes Elected President Compromise of 1877 Reconstruction Ends New South Solid South Jim Crow Laws 12