HIST 1301 Final Exam Study Guide PDF

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decline of artisan system transportation revolution Erie Canal Declaration of Rights and Sentiments Frederick Douglass Missouri Compromise Nat Turner Rebellion Wilmot Proviso

Seneca Falls Convention

market economy Lowell Mills (Waltham System) William Lloyd Garrison Election of 1844

popular sovereignty

Compromise of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Stephen Douglas

Creation of Republican party

Dred Scott decision

Emancipation Proclamation

Elections of 1860 and 1864

Abraham Lincoln

New York draft riots

John Brown

Battle of Antietam Robert E. Lee U.S. Grant Reconstruction

Battle of Vicksburg Battle of Gettysburg Fourteenth Amendment

Freedmen's Bureau

Al soknow t heanswer st ot hef ol l owi ngquest i ons: 1. Know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. 2. What countries did most of the immigrants (from 1840-1860) come from? Why were they coming to the U.S.? 3. What were the reasons given by George Fitzhugh and other southerners for defending slavery? 4. What was the "corrupt bargain" between John Q. Adams and Henry Clay? 5. What was the significance of the following Supreme Court decisions: Marbury v. Madison and McCulloch v. Maryland? 6. What was the nullification crisis? What was Andrew Jackson's reaction? What role did John C. Calhoun play? 7. Why didn't Andrew Jackson like the national bank? What did he do to the bank? 8. What led to the formation of the Whig party? 9. Why did the United States government decide to move the Native Americans out of the South and across the Mississippi during Jackson's presidency? What role did the courts and Jackson play? How did the various tribes react ( VOF 64)? 10. In what legal and social ways were women kept from achieving equality in the 19th century? 11. Based on documents 77 and 78 in VOF what was the Beecher-Grimke debate

about? 12. Why did the women's movement become divided in the 1860s? Why did women's suffrage (right to vote) not pass in the nineteenth century on the national level? 13. What role did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony play in the women's movement? 14. Besides abolitionism and women's rights what were the other reform movements of the antebellum U.S. and what role did women and churches play in these movements? 15. What was the Benevolent Empire? 16. Why did the Industrial Revolution start in England first? Why did it start more slowly in the United States? 17. What was the difference between anti-slavery people and abolitionists? 18. Briefly understand how before the Civil War, the North and South differed economically and socially. 19. What advantages did both the North and South have in fighting the Civil War? Why did the North ultimately win? 20. What were the reasons for secession and the Civil War? What role did the extension of slavery play? 21. What was Manifest Destiny (VOF 80) and how did the Texas Revolution and Mexican-American War serve as examples of this idea (Manifest Destiny)? How did the Mexican-American War set the stage for secession and the Civil War?...