u.s. history part i 1607-1865 colonial period virginia jamestown, virginia was founded in 1607....
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US HistoryPart I
1607-1865
Colonial Period
Virginia Jamestown Virginia was
founded in 1607 First permanent English
settlement in North America
A corporate colony founded by the Virginia Company
Investors hoped to make a profit from the colony
Powhatan Indians Hostile to new settlers Attacked Jamestown John Smith was able to negotiate
with them for food
Success of the Virginia Colony
Tobacco became the most profitable cash crop
Headright System allowed families to move in and own land
House of Burgesses allowed self-government
Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
Virginiarsquos colonial legislature Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion
because the legislature failed to provide settlers protection from hostile Indians in the backcountry
First Africans in Virginia
In 1619 a Dutch slave ship arrived in the colony
The Africans on board (who were destined to be traded as slaves in the West Indies) were traded for supplies in Virginia
The Virginia colony treated the Africans as indentured servants not slaves
All of them eventually gained their freedom before slavery was introduced in Virginia
Sample Question
One reason the colony of Virginia succeeded was the
a profitable tobacco cropb leadership of John Smithc management of the Virginia
Companyd relationship with the Powhatan
Indians
Answer A the profitable tobacco crop
New England Originally settled by English
Separatists who had broken away from the Anglican Church
They were persecuted These settlers were called ldquoPilgrimsrdquo They sailed on the Mayflower from
England to America
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by English Puritans (who were Anglican but wanted to reform the Church of its ldquocatholicrdquo practices)
They were persecuted in Great Britain
They established their ldquoCity Upon A Hillrdquo what they considered a model utopia in Boston
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Colonial Period
Virginia Jamestown Virginia was
founded in 1607 First permanent English
settlement in North America
A corporate colony founded by the Virginia Company
Investors hoped to make a profit from the colony
Powhatan Indians Hostile to new settlers Attacked Jamestown John Smith was able to negotiate
with them for food
Success of the Virginia Colony
Tobacco became the most profitable cash crop
Headright System allowed families to move in and own land
House of Burgesses allowed self-government
Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
Virginiarsquos colonial legislature Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion
because the legislature failed to provide settlers protection from hostile Indians in the backcountry
First Africans in Virginia
In 1619 a Dutch slave ship arrived in the colony
The Africans on board (who were destined to be traded as slaves in the West Indies) were traded for supplies in Virginia
The Virginia colony treated the Africans as indentured servants not slaves
All of them eventually gained their freedom before slavery was introduced in Virginia
Sample Question
One reason the colony of Virginia succeeded was the
a profitable tobacco cropb leadership of John Smithc management of the Virginia
Companyd relationship with the Powhatan
Indians
Answer A the profitable tobacco crop
New England Originally settled by English
Separatists who had broken away from the Anglican Church
They were persecuted These settlers were called ldquoPilgrimsrdquo They sailed on the Mayflower from
England to America
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by English Puritans (who were Anglican but wanted to reform the Church of its ldquocatholicrdquo practices)
They were persecuted in Great Britain
They established their ldquoCity Upon A Hillrdquo what they considered a model utopia in Boston
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Virginia Jamestown Virginia was
founded in 1607 First permanent English
settlement in North America
A corporate colony founded by the Virginia Company
Investors hoped to make a profit from the colony
Powhatan Indians Hostile to new settlers Attacked Jamestown John Smith was able to negotiate
with them for food
Success of the Virginia Colony
Tobacco became the most profitable cash crop
Headright System allowed families to move in and own land
House of Burgesses allowed self-government
Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
Virginiarsquos colonial legislature Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion
because the legislature failed to provide settlers protection from hostile Indians in the backcountry
First Africans in Virginia
In 1619 a Dutch slave ship arrived in the colony
The Africans on board (who were destined to be traded as slaves in the West Indies) were traded for supplies in Virginia
The Virginia colony treated the Africans as indentured servants not slaves
All of them eventually gained their freedom before slavery was introduced in Virginia
Sample Question
One reason the colony of Virginia succeeded was the
a profitable tobacco cropb leadership of John Smithc management of the Virginia
Companyd relationship with the Powhatan
Indians
Answer A the profitable tobacco crop
New England Originally settled by English
Separatists who had broken away from the Anglican Church
They were persecuted These settlers were called ldquoPilgrimsrdquo They sailed on the Mayflower from
England to America
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by English Puritans (who were Anglican but wanted to reform the Church of its ldquocatholicrdquo practices)
They were persecuted in Great Britain
They established their ldquoCity Upon A Hillrdquo what they considered a model utopia in Boston
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Powhatan Indians Hostile to new settlers Attacked Jamestown John Smith was able to negotiate
with them for food
Success of the Virginia Colony
Tobacco became the most profitable cash crop
Headright System allowed families to move in and own land
House of Burgesses allowed self-government
Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
Virginiarsquos colonial legislature Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion
because the legislature failed to provide settlers protection from hostile Indians in the backcountry
First Africans in Virginia
In 1619 a Dutch slave ship arrived in the colony
The Africans on board (who were destined to be traded as slaves in the West Indies) were traded for supplies in Virginia
The Virginia colony treated the Africans as indentured servants not slaves
All of them eventually gained their freedom before slavery was introduced in Virginia
Sample Question
One reason the colony of Virginia succeeded was the
a profitable tobacco cropb leadership of John Smithc management of the Virginia
Companyd relationship with the Powhatan
Indians
Answer A the profitable tobacco crop
New England Originally settled by English
Separatists who had broken away from the Anglican Church
They were persecuted These settlers were called ldquoPilgrimsrdquo They sailed on the Mayflower from
England to America
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by English Puritans (who were Anglican but wanted to reform the Church of its ldquocatholicrdquo practices)
They were persecuted in Great Britain
They established their ldquoCity Upon A Hillrdquo what they considered a model utopia in Boston
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Success of the Virginia Colony
Tobacco became the most profitable cash crop
Headright System allowed families to move in and own land
House of Burgesses allowed self-government
Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
Virginiarsquos colonial legislature Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion
because the legislature failed to provide settlers protection from hostile Indians in the backcountry
First Africans in Virginia
In 1619 a Dutch slave ship arrived in the colony
The Africans on board (who were destined to be traded as slaves in the West Indies) were traded for supplies in Virginia
The Virginia colony treated the Africans as indentured servants not slaves
All of them eventually gained their freedom before slavery was introduced in Virginia
Sample Question
One reason the colony of Virginia succeeded was the
a profitable tobacco cropb leadership of John Smithc management of the Virginia
Companyd relationship with the Powhatan
Indians
Answer A the profitable tobacco crop
New England Originally settled by English
Separatists who had broken away from the Anglican Church
They were persecuted These settlers were called ldquoPilgrimsrdquo They sailed on the Mayflower from
England to America
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by English Puritans (who were Anglican but wanted to reform the Church of its ldquocatholicrdquo practices)
They were persecuted in Great Britain
They established their ldquoCity Upon A Hillrdquo what they considered a model utopia in Boston
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
Virginiarsquos colonial legislature Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion
because the legislature failed to provide settlers protection from hostile Indians in the backcountry
First Africans in Virginia
In 1619 a Dutch slave ship arrived in the colony
The Africans on board (who were destined to be traded as slaves in the West Indies) were traded for supplies in Virginia
The Virginia colony treated the Africans as indentured servants not slaves
All of them eventually gained their freedom before slavery was introduced in Virginia
Sample Question
One reason the colony of Virginia succeeded was the
a profitable tobacco cropb leadership of John Smithc management of the Virginia
Companyd relationship with the Powhatan
Indians
Answer A the profitable tobacco crop
New England Originally settled by English
Separatists who had broken away from the Anglican Church
They were persecuted These settlers were called ldquoPilgrimsrdquo They sailed on the Mayflower from
England to America
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by English Puritans (who were Anglican but wanted to reform the Church of its ldquocatholicrdquo practices)
They were persecuted in Great Britain
They established their ldquoCity Upon A Hillrdquo what they considered a model utopia in Boston
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
First Africans in Virginia
In 1619 a Dutch slave ship arrived in the colony
The Africans on board (who were destined to be traded as slaves in the West Indies) were traded for supplies in Virginia
The Virginia colony treated the Africans as indentured servants not slaves
All of them eventually gained their freedom before slavery was introduced in Virginia
Sample Question
One reason the colony of Virginia succeeded was the
a profitable tobacco cropb leadership of John Smithc management of the Virginia
Companyd relationship with the Powhatan
Indians
Answer A the profitable tobacco crop
New England Originally settled by English
Separatists who had broken away from the Anglican Church
They were persecuted These settlers were called ldquoPilgrimsrdquo They sailed on the Mayflower from
England to America
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by English Puritans (who were Anglican but wanted to reform the Church of its ldquocatholicrdquo practices)
They were persecuted in Great Britain
They established their ldquoCity Upon A Hillrdquo what they considered a model utopia in Boston
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Sample Question
One reason the colony of Virginia succeeded was the
a profitable tobacco cropb leadership of John Smithc management of the Virginia
Companyd relationship with the Powhatan
Indians
Answer A the profitable tobacco crop
New England Originally settled by English
Separatists who had broken away from the Anglican Church
They were persecuted These settlers were called ldquoPilgrimsrdquo They sailed on the Mayflower from
England to America
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by English Puritans (who were Anglican but wanted to reform the Church of its ldquocatholicrdquo practices)
They were persecuted in Great Britain
They established their ldquoCity Upon A Hillrdquo what they considered a model utopia in Boston
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Answer A the profitable tobacco crop
New England Originally settled by English
Separatists who had broken away from the Anglican Church
They were persecuted These settlers were called ldquoPilgrimsrdquo They sailed on the Mayflower from
England to America
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by English Puritans (who were Anglican but wanted to reform the Church of its ldquocatholicrdquo practices)
They were persecuted in Great Britain
They established their ldquoCity Upon A Hillrdquo what they considered a model utopia in Boston
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
New England Originally settled by English
Separatists who had broken away from the Anglican Church
They were persecuted These settlers were called ldquoPilgrimsrdquo They sailed on the Mayflower from
England to America
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by English Puritans (who were Anglican but wanted to reform the Church of its ldquocatholicrdquo practices)
They were persecuted in Great Britain
They established their ldquoCity Upon A Hillrdquo what they considered a model utopia in Boston
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by English Puritans (who were Anglican but wanted to reform the Church of its ldquocatholicrdquo practices)
They were persecuted in Great Britain
They established their ldquoCity Upon A Hillrdquo what they considered a model utopia in Boston
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Puritans vs Native Americans
King Philiprsquos War Chief of the Wampanoags (MetacomrdquoKing
Philiprdquo) led an attack on the Puritans in response to their laws that restricted the Indians
It was a very brutal and destructive war Food shortages disease and heavy casualties
kept the Indians from fighting Metacom was killed and the Indian resistance
in New England ended
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Tension in New England
Roger Williams challenged forced religion on the citizens of Massachusetts
He was exiled and eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island Separation of church and state
established in Rhode island
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Halfway Covenant Allowed second and third generation
Puritans partial membership in the church until they experienced a true religious conversion
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Salem Massachusetts
Location of Salem Witch Trials
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
Puritans refused to obey English law In 1684 King Charles II revoked the
colonyrsquos corporate charter Massachusetts became a royal
colony under strict control of the king
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Sample Question
Which factor directly affected the settlement of New England in the 1600s
A Religious persecution in Great BritainB The opportunity to cultivate tobaccoC Growing conflict with the southern
farmersD The chance to participate in the slave
trade
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Answer A religious persecution in Great
Britain
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Middle ColoniesNew Netherland to New
York Originally claimed and settled by
Netherland Diverse Population (settlers were allowed from
all over Europe) James Duke of York and brother of King
Charles II sent a fleet of ships to take the colony away from the Dutch It was accomplished without firing a single shot It became the English colony of New York
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Quakers were first settlers Pennrsquos ldquoHoly Experimentrdquo allowed
freedom of religion
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Sample Question
The original settlers of the Mid-Atlantic colonies were
a Pilgrimsb Quakersc Puritansd Dutch
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Correct Answer D Dutch
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Mercantilism Export raw materials from colonies to
England Sell manufactured goods back to the
colonies Become completely self sufficient as
a country Acquire wealth
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Triangular Trade Route
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
African Colonial Population
As employment opportunities increased in England fewer indentured servants came to America
Transatlantic trade included stops along the African coast to trade rum (from New England) and guns and manufactured goods (from England) in exchange for slaves
Slaves were taken to the West Indies and various parts of North America in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic trade
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Sample Question Rum Slaves Manufactured goods
The items listed above were part of thea Products produced in the New England coloniesb Products traded to England from the American
coloniesc Items traded along the transatlantic traded Items England provided to its American colonies
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Correct Answer C items traded along the
transatlantic trade
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American
Revolution
In the Treaty of Paris of 1763Britain won control of North America France lost most of its North American possessions
In its attempt to govern a larger colonial empire Parliament passed a series of laws to control the colonists Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlement west
of Appalachian Mountains to protect them from hostile Indians
Stamp Act placed direct taxes on printed materials to pay for war debt
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Colonial Reactions No taxation without representation ndash colonists believed only
their colonial legislatures could tax them In response to the Stamp Act the Sons of Liberty terrorized
stamp agents In response to the Boston Massacre each colony formed a
committee of correspondence to communicate with other colonies
In response to the Tea Act the colonists dumped British tea in the Boston Harbor
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the colony of Massachusetts
The Daughters of Liberty led boycotts of English goods especially tea
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Sample Question
Which event was NOT a direct result of the French and Indian Wara Proclamation of 1763b Stamp Actc Treaty of Paris of 1763d Tea Act
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Correct Answer D Tea Act
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Sample Question The Sons of Liberty The Daughters of Liberty The committees of correspondence
Which issue caused British colonists to form the organizations in the list above
A The British Parliament had passed series of taxes on its North American colonies
B Native Americans had attacked British colonial outpost within the Northwest Territory
C British naval vessels had seized colonial ships and forced colonial sailors into service in the British navy
D Armed slave rebellions had begun throughout the British colonies to end the continued practice of slavery
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Answer A The British Parliament had passed
series of taxes on its North American colonies
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
American Revolutionary
Period
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
IDEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Common Sense Written by Thomas Paine Message A call for independence Sold 500000 copies
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Declaration of Independence Author Thomas Jefferson Based on John Lockersquos
Enlightenment philosophy ldquoAll men are created equalrdquo All have natural unalienable
rights Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness (Locke
said ldquopropertyrdquo) Government gets its powers
from the consent of the people People have a right to alter or
abolish their government after a long period of abuses
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Grievances against King George III noted in the
Declaration of Independence
ldquoHe has obstructed the administration of justicerdquo
ldquoHe has kept among us in times of peace standing armiesrdquo
ldquoHe has plundered our seasrdquo
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Sample Question
John Lockersquos theory that all people have basic natural rights directly influenced
A The Proclamation of 1763B The Declaration of IndependenceC The outbreak of the French and Indian
WarD The expansion of transatlantic
mercantilism
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Answer B The Declaration of Independence
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Sample QuestionWhich idea from the Social Contract Theory is expressed within the US Declaration of IndependenceA Congress must consist of two legislative housesB Political term limits are necessary for all elected
officialsC Government authority comes from the consent
of the governedD Individual citizens must be protected by a
federal bill of rights
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Answer C Government authority comes
from the consent of the governed
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
American Revolution
The war for independence fought between Britain and 13 of its colonies in North America
1775-1783
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
MILITARY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
George Washington
Leader of the Continental Army during the Revolution
Took an all volunteer undisciplined inexperienced army and turned it into a professional army
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Battles that started the American Revolution
Battle of Trenton Christmas 1776 Washingtonrsquos army who had volunteered for one year of
service was about to go home There had been no victories for the army and no reason to
reenlist General Washington planned a surprise attack on Hessian
soldiers across the Delaware River from the Continental Army
Washington and his army crossed the Delaware in the middle of the night (see next slide)
In the early morning they attacked the Hessians and won In a few days they defeated a British force at Princeton NJ Many men in Washingtonrsquos army reenlisted and new recruits
joined
Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
Colonist victory over British
Turning point in Revolutionary War
Convinced the French to become ally of the United States
Benjamin Franklin played a key role as the US diplomat to France in convincing them to form this alliance
Marquis de LaFayette volunteers to fight
Valley Forge PA Winter of 1777-78 Washington and the Continental Army are
camped at Valley Forge They have little food They have poor shelter Many have no shoes or blankets to keep
them warm Yet Washington rallies his troops inspires
them and uses the time to prepare them for battle
Battle of Yorktown (1781)
Yorktown is located on the peninsula formed by the James and York Rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay
Washington and his army entrench themselves on the land side of Yorktown
The French fleet blocks the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay
Cornwallis and the British surrender
The American Revolution is over
Treaty of Paris (1783) Officially ended the Revolutionary War British recognized colonistsrsquo independence British gave colonists all the lands east of the
Mississippi River Florida was returned to Spain
Sample Question
What battle led the French to form a military alliance with the United States against the Britisha Concordb Trentonc Saratogad Yorktown
Correct Answer C Saratoga
Establishing a New Government
Constitutional Convention
1787 James Madison introduced a new plan of government to
address the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation The Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia PA
resulted in the creation of a FEDERAL government (separate executive judicial and legislative branches)
The convention replaced the Articles of Confederation with the US Constitution
Great Compromise of the Constitutional
Convention Virginia Plan
Bicameral Congress
Representation of both houses based on population of the individual states
New Jersey Plan Unicameral
Congress Representation
of states would be equalCOMPROMISE
bull Bicameral legislaturebull Representation in the House of Representatives
would be based on population of each statebull Representation of the Senate would be equal
with 2 senators from each state
The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional
Convention Debates over slavery resulted in
An agreement to outlaw the importation of slaves from Africa within 20 years (by 1808)
Southern states being able to count 3 out of 5 slaves in its census for the purpose of representation in Congress
However this formula would also be considered for the appropriation of taxes per state
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
Colonist victory over British
Turning point in Revolutionary War
Convinced the French to become ally of the United States
Benjamin Franklin played a key role as the US diplomat to France in convincing them to form this alliance
Marquis de LaFayette volunteers to fight
Valley Forge PA Winter of 1777-78 Washington and the Continental Army are
camped at Valley Forge They have little food They have poor shelter Many have no shoes or blankets to keep
them warm Yet Washington rallies his troops inspires
them and uses the time to prepare them for battle
Battle of Yorktown (1781)
Yorktown is located on the peninsula formed by the James and York Rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay
Washington and his army entrench themselves on the land side of Yorktown
The French fleet blocks the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay
Cornwallis and the British surrender
The American Revolution is over
Treaty of Paris (1783) Officially ended the Revolutionary War British recognized colonistsrsquo independence British gave colonists all the lands east of the
Mississippi River Florida was returned to Spain
Sample Question
What battle led the French to form a military alliance with the United States against the Britisha Concordb Trentonc Saratogad Yorktown
Correct Answer C Saratoga
Establishing a New Government
Constitutional Convention
1787 James Madison introduced a new plan of government to
address the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation The Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia PA
resulted in the creation of a FEDERAL government (separate executive judicial and legislative branches)
The convention replaced the Articles of Confederation with the US Constitution
Great Compromise of the Constitutional
Convention Virginia Plan
Bicameral Congress
Representation of both houses based on population of the individual states
New Jersey Plan Unicameral
Congress Representation
of states would be equalCOMPROMISE
bull Bicameral legislaturebull Representation in the House of Representatives
would be based on population of each statebull Representation of the Senate would be equal
with 2 senators from each state
The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional
Convention Debates over slavery resulted in
An agreement to outlaw the importation of slaves from Africa within 20 years (by 1808)
Southern states being able to count 3 out of 5 slaves in its census for the purpose of representation in Congress
However this formula would also be considered for the appropriation of taxes per state
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Valley Forge PA Winter of 1777-78 Washington and the Continental Army are
camped at Valley Forge They have little food They have poor shelter Many have no shoes or blankets to keep
them warm Yet Washington rallies his troops inspires
them and uses the time to prepare them for battle
Battle of Yorktown (1781)
Yorktown is located on the peninsula formed by the James and York Rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay
Washington and his army entrench themselves on the land side of Yorktown
The French fleet blocks the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay
Cornwallis and the British surrender
The American Revolution is over
Treaty of Paris (1783) Officially ended the Revolutionary War British recognized colonistsrsquo independence British gave colonists all the lands east of the
Mississippi River Florida was returned to Spain
Sample Question
What battle led the French to form a military alliance with the United States against the Britisha Concordb Trentonc Saratogad Yorktown
Correct Answer C Saratoga
Establishing a New Government
Constitutional Convention
1787 James Madison introduced a new plan of government to
address the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation The Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia PA
resulted in the creation of a FEDERAL government (separate executive judicial and legislative branches)
The convention replaced the Articles of Confederation with the US Constitution
Great Compromise of the Constitutional
Convention Virginia Plan
Bicameral Congress
Representation of both houses based on population of the individual states
New Jersey Plan Unicameral
Congress Representation
of states would be equalCOMPROMISE
bull Bicameral legislaturebull Representation in the House of Representatives
would be based on population of each statebull Representation of the Senate would be equal
with 2 senators from each state
The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional
Convention Debates over slavery resulted in
An agreement to outlaw the importation of slaves from Africa within 20 years (by 1808)
Southern states being able to count 3 out of 5 slaves in its census for the purpose of representation in Congress
However this formula would also be considered for the appropriation of taxes per state
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Battle of Yorktown (1781)
Yorktown is located on the peninsula formed by the James and York Rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay
Washington and his army entrench themselves on the land side of Yorktown
The French fleet blocks the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay
Cornwallis and the British surrender
The American Revolution is over
Treaty of Paris (1783) Officially ended the Revolutionary War British recognized colonistsrsquo independence British gave colonists all the lands east of the
Mississippi River Florida was returned to Spain
Sample Question
What battle led the French to form a military alliance with the United States against the Britisha Concordb Trentonc Saratogad Yorktown
Correct Answer C Saratoga
Establishing a New Government
Constitutional Convention
1787 James Madison introduced a new plan of government to
address the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation The Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia PA
resulted in the creation of a FEDERAL government (separate executive judicial and legislative branches)
The convention replaced the Articles of Confederation with the US Constitution
Great Compromise of the Constitutional
Convention Virginia Plan
Bicameral Congress
Representation of both houses based on population of the individual states
New Jersey Plan Unicameral
Congress Representation
of states would be equalCOMPROMISE
bull Bicameral legislaturebull Representation in the House of Representatives
would be based on population of each statebull Representation of the Senate would be equal
with 2 senators from each state
The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional
Convention Debates over slavery resulted in
An agreement to outlaw the importation of slaves from Africa within 20 years (by 1808)
Southern states being able to count 3 out of 5 slaves in its census for the purpose of representation in Congress
However this formula would also be considered for the appropriation of taxes per state
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Treaty of Paris (1783) Officially ended the Revolutionary War British recognized colonistsrsquo independence British gave colonists all the lands east of the
Mississippi River Florida was returned to Spain
Sample Question
What battle led the French to form a military alliance with the United States against the Britisha Concordb Trentonc Saratogad Yorktown
Correct Answer C Saratoga
Establishing a New Government
Constitutional Convention
1787 James Madison introduced a new plan of government to
address the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation The Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia PA
resulted in the creation of a FEDERAL government (separate executive judicial and legislative branches)
The convention replaced the Articles of Confederation with the US Constitution
Great Compromise of the Constitutional
Convention Virginia Plan
Bicameral Congress
Representation of both houses based on population of the individual states
New Jersey Plan Unicameral
Congress Representation
of states would be equalCOMPROMISE
bull Bicameral legislaturebull Representation in the House of Representatives
would be based on population of each statebull Representation of the Senate would be equal
with 2 senators from each state
The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional
Convention Debates over slavery resulted in
An agreement to outlaw the importation of slaves from Africa within 20 years (by 1808)
Southern states being able to count 3 out of 5 slaves in its census for the purpose of representation in Congress
However this formula would also be considered for the appropriation of taxes per state
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Sample Question
What battle led the French to form a military alliance with the United States against the Britisha Concordb Trentonc Saratogad Yorktown
Correct Answer C Saratoga
Establishing a New Government
Constitutional Convention
1787 James Madison introduced a new plan of government to
address the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation The Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia PA
resulted in the creation of a FEDERAL government (separate executive judicial and legislative branches)
The convention replaced the Articles of Confederation with the US Constitution
Great Compromise of the Constitutional
Convention Virginia Plan
Bicameral Congress
Representation of both houses based on population of the individual states
New Jersey Plan Unicameral
Congress Representation
of states would be equalCOMPROMISE
bull Bicameral legislaturebull Representation in the House of Representatives
would be based on population of each statebull Representation of the Senate would be equal
with 2 senators from each state
The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional
Convention Debates over slavery resulted in
An agreement to outlaw the importation of slaves from Africa within 20 years (by 1808)
Southern states being able to count 3 out of 5 slaves in its census for the purpose of representation in Congress
However this formula would also be considered for the appropriation of taxes per state
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Correct Answer C Saratoga
Establishing a New Government
Constitutional Convention
1787 James Madison introduced a new plan of government to
address the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation The Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia PA
resulted in the creation of a FEDERAL government (separate executive judicial and legislative branches)
The convention replaced the Articles of Confederation with the US Constitution
Great Compromise of the Constitutional
Convention Virginia Plan
Bicameral Congress
Representation of both houses based on population of the individual states
New Jersey Plan Unicameral
Congress Representation
of states would be equalCOMPROMISE
bull Bicameral legislaturebull Representation in the House of Representatives
would be based on population of each statebull Representation of the Senate would be equal
with 2 senators from each state
The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional
Convention Debates over slavery resulted in
An agreement to outlaw the importation of slaves from Africa within 20 years (by 1808)
Southern states being able to count 3 out of 5 slaves in its census for the purpose of representation in Congress
However this formula would also be considered for the appropriation of taxes per state
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Establishing a New Government
Constitutional Convention
1787 James Madison introduced a new plan of government to
address the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation The Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia PA
resulted in the creation of a FEDERAL government (separate executive judicial and legislative branches)
The convention replaced the Articles of Confederation with the US Constitution
Great Compromise of the Constitutional
Convention Virginia Plan
Bicameral Congress
Representation of both houses based on population of the individual states
New Jersey Plan Unicameral
Congress Representation
of states would be equalCOMPROMISE
bull Bicameral legislaturebull Representation in the House of Representatives
would be based on population of each statebull Representation of the Senate would be equal
with 2 senators from each state
The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional
Convention Debates over slavery resulted in
An agreement to outlaw the importation of slaves from Africa within 20 years (by 1808)
Southern states being able to count 3 out of 5 slaves in its census for the purpose of representation in Congress
However this formula would also be considered for the appropriation of taxes per state
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Constitutional Convention
1787 James Madison introduced a new plan of government to
address the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation The Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia PA
resulted in the creation of a FEDERAL government (separate executive judicial and legislative branches)
The convention replaced the Articles of Confederation with the US Constitution
Great Compromise of the Constitutional
Convention Virginia Plan
Bicameral Congress
Representation of both houses based on population of the individual states
New Jersey Plan Unicameral
Congress Representation
of states would be equalCOMPROMISE
bull Bicameral legislaturebull Representation in the House of Representatives
would be based on population of each statebull Representation of the Senate would be equal
with 2 senators from each state
The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional
Convention Debates over slavery resulted in
An agreement to outlaw the importation of slaves from Africa within 20 years (by 1808)
Southern states being able to count 3 out of 5 slaves in its census for the purpose of representation in Congress
However this formula would also be considered for the appropriation of taxes per state
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Great Compromise of the Constitutional
Convention Virginia Plan
Bicameral Congress
Representation of both houses based on population of the individual states
New Jersey Plan Unicameral
Congress Representation
of states would be equalCOMPROMISE
bull Bicameral legislaturebull Representation in the House of Representatives
would be based on population of each statebull Representation of the Senate would be equal
with 2 senators from each state
The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional
Convention Debates over slavery resulted in
An agreement to outlaw the importation of slaves from Africa within 20 years (by 1808)
Southern states being able to count 3 out of 5 slaves in its census for the purpose of representation in Congress
However this formula would also be considered for the appropriation of taxes per state
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional
Convention Debates over slavery resulted in
An agreement to outlaw the importation of slaves from Africa within 20 years (by 1808)
Southern states being able to count 3 out of 5 slaves in its census for the purpose of representation in Congress
However this formula would also be considered for the appropriation of taxes per state
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Limited Government The federal governmentrsquos powers are
limited to those specified in the US Constitution
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Separation of Powers
Each branch of government has a specific purpose and powers are different from the other branches A legislative branch
(Congress) An executive branch (the
President) A judicial branch (Supreme
Court)
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker Championed the idea of separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Checks and Balances
Each branch of the government checks the powers of the other two branches
Prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Federalism Distribution of the powers of
government between a central (federal) government and the regional (states) governments
State laws cannot interfere with federal law
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalists Supported ratification of US Constitution Supported strong central (national) government Believed it kept factions from becoming too powerful Believed the Presidentrsquos powers would be check by the other
branches Every state had its own Bill of Rights that was sufficient
Anti-Federalists Opposed ratification of the US Constitution Felt power of government should remain with the individual
states Believed factions could not be controlled from taking power Believed the President could become like a dictator with his
power as commander-in-chief Especially concerned about the absence of a Bill of Rights to
protect the rights of citizens
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Federalist Papers Newspaper articles published in New York Explained reasons why the states should ratify
the new US constitution The anonymous authors (Publius) Alexander
Hamilton James Madison John Jay
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Bill of Rights Freedom of speech press
religion petition and peaceful assembly
Right to bear arms Protection for unlawful
searches and seizures Rights of the accused
Attorney To remain silent To have charges explained To question witnesses Public trial by jury No excessive fines or cruel
or unusual punishment Protection of property Additional rights (9th) Statesrsquo rights (10th)
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Sample Question
The Bill of Rights was adopted by Congress in 1791 to preserve which political principle
A The separation of powersB The restriction of political termsC The prohibition of racial
discriminationD The limitation of the federal
government
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Answer DThe Bill of Rights limited the federal governmentrsquos ability to interfere with individualsrsquo and statesrsquo rights
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Early Presidents George Washington
Proclaimed US neutrality in the war between England and France
As commander in chief sent troops to stop the rebellion over the whiskey tax
First political parties formed during this presidency Federalists (Hamilton) Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)
John Adams Federalist Sent representatives to France to negotiate problems
French officials tried to bribe them Referred to as the XYZ Affair Led to a Quasi War with France
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Sample Question
President John Adams became involved with which US foreign-policy issue in the late 1790s
A Purchasing the Louisiana TerritoryB Avoiding full-scale war with FranceC Strengthening the Monroe DoctrineD Arranging for the annexation of
Texas
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Answer
C avoiding full-scale war with France
The XYZ Affair resulted in armed conflict (a Quasi War) with France but not full-scale war
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
United States History
1800 to 1865
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
Sent representative to France to purchase the port of New Orleans
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the US Doubled the size of US territory
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
War of 1812 President Madison declares war on
Great Britain Reasons Impressment of US sailors
in British navy War helped form a
strong national identity
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Monroe Doctrine Established US dominance in the
western hemisphere European countries could not claim
any more colonies here The US would stay out of European
affairs
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Sample QuestionWhat was the importance of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823A It reinforced tensions between pro-slavery and
anti-slavery factions in the United StatesB It authorized the creation of a permanent
professional military to defend the United States
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
D It proclaimed the US intention of expanding it political borders westward to the Pacific Ocean
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Answer
C It established the US policy of preventing other nations from interfering in Latin America
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Sample Question
Use this quote to answer the questionldquoBritish cruisers have been in the continued practice of
violating the American flag on the great highway of nations and of seizing and carrying off person sailing under ithelliprdquo
-President James Madison in a message to Congress
What resulted from the actions described by President Madison in the quotation
A The beginning of the War of 1812B The outbreak of the Revolutionary WarC The signing of the Treaty of Paris of 1783D The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Answer A The beginning of the War of 1812
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney Inventor Interchangeable parts aided growth of
industry in the North
Cotton gin aided growth of cotton as the main cash crop of the South
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Manifest Destiny
A God-given right to expand US territory
1845 Texas annexation 1846 Oregon Country (divided with
Britain) 1848 Mexican Cession (resulted from Mexican War)
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Reform Movements Temperance campaign to reduce or
ldquotemperrdquo the use of alcohol Abolition campaign to abolish
slavery Education effort to support the
funding of public education
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Seneca Falls NY Womenrsquos Rights convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton leading
advocate Main issue Womenrsquos Suffrage
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Jacksonian Democracy
Expanding voting rights Non-property owners could vote by 1828 Now all adult white males could vote Most supported Andrew Jackson the
symbol of the ldquocommon manrdquo Popular votes counted for the first time
in 1828 Increased suffrage led to increased
nationalism
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Sample Question
Which term BEST describes the period during which white male suffrage greatly expanded in the United States
A Manifest DestinyB The EnlightenmentC The Great AwakeningD Jacksonian Democracy
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Answer A Manifest Destiny
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
North-South Divisions Related to Westward
Expansion
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Key abolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Grimke sisters
Successful slave rebellion led by Nat Turner
Abolitionist Movement
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Missouri Compromise
1819Missouri requested admission into the Union as a
slave stateThere were an even number of slave and free
statesMuch congressional debate 1820
Compromise Maine would be admitted as a free state Missouri would be admitted as a slave state North of 36 30 North latitude slavery prohibited
South of 3630 North latitude slavery allowed
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Nullification Crisis Attempt by South Carolina to nullify
of federal tariff in 1832 South Carolina protestedrefused to
pay Vice-President John C Calhoun led
the protest Threatened to secede if force was
used President Jackson -gtForce Act Henry Clay offered a compromise
tariff Tariff would gradually be lowered
over a ten year period Increased the issue of sectionalism
putting the interests of a region over those of the entire nation
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Mexican War 1846
US declares war on Mexico over boundary disputeUS wins victories in El Paso TX Monterrey CA and Monterrey Mexico
Congressman David Wilmot proposes that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired in the war
Much congressional debate over the Wilmot Proviso it is defeated
1847 US wins victories in Buena Vista and Mexico City
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo establishes boundary at Rio
Grande gives entire southwestern territory to US (Mexican Cession)
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Sample Question
The western expansion of the United States in the early 1800s provoked a congressional debate over the slavery issue Congress resolved this debate by
A Making the Louisiana PurchaseB Passing a constitutional amendmentC Adopting the Missouri CompromiseD Accepting the doctrine of
nullification
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Answer C Passing a constitutional
amendment
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Sample Question
Which principle of US government did the Nullification Crisis of 1832 directly challengeA FederalismB Judicial reviewC Popular sovereigntyD Checks and balances
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Answer
A Federalism
When South Carolina declared their nullification of the federal tariff they were challenged federal law No state laws policy or court decision can conflict with federal law Therefore South Carolina was challenging the principle of federalism
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Causes Main Events and Consequences of
the American Civil War
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Compromise of 18501848
Gold discovered in California1849
Thousands of people travel to California in the Gold RushCaliforniarsquos population escalates enough to apply for statehood (free state)
1850 Much congressional debate (even number of free states and
slave states) Compromise
California will be a free state Utah and New Mexico will decide slavery by popular sovereignty Slave trade is abolished in Washington DC A stronger Fugitive Slave Law is passed to satisfy a pro-slavery
South
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening territory that had been closed to slavery
Left the slavery issue to be decided by the people who settled in those territories (popular sovereignty)
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo A race to Kansas between those who
supported slavery and those who didnrsquot began
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery forces fought against each other
Two territorial legislatures will be chosen
Popular sovereignty will fail
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave that had
been taken into free territory After his owner died Scott wanted
his freedom The Supreme Court decision
ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US
African Americans were not free just because they were taken into free territories by their owners
Laws like the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional
Congress could not deny slave owners from taking slaves into the western territories because they were property under the 5th Amendment
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
John Brown A staunch abolitionist Had committed five murders of pro-slavery
people in Pottawatomie Kansas in 1856 In 1859 he raided a federal arsenal in
Harperrsquos Ferry VA in an attempt to arm a slave resurrection
He was captured charged with treason and executed by hanging for his crimes
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Civil War Leaders NorthUnion
President Abraham Lincoln
Generals Ulysses S Grant ndash
defeated Lee and ended the war
William T Sherman ndash capture the railroad city of Atlanta GA and led a destructive march through Georgia
SouthConfederacy President Jefferson
Davis Generals
Robert E Lee ndash commander the Army of Northern Virginia successfully won defensive battles against the Union but lost both attempts at offensive battles
ldquoStonewallrdquo Jackson ndash Leersquos right-hand man helped him win many victories against the Union
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Civil War Battles Fort Sumter (April 1861) ndash where the Civil War began Antietam (August 1862) ndash Leersquos first attempt to fight an
offensive battle and first one outside the Confederacy he lost
Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) ndash Leersquos second attempt to fight an offensive battle the turning point of the war Lee would never recover from this loss
Vicksburg ndash ldquothe nail that held the two halves of the Confederacy togetherrdquo (Davis) located on the Mississippi River it fail to Union control on July 4 1863 the Union had control of the Mississippi
Atlanta (September 1864) ndash the main rail center of the southeast captured by General Sherman and where he began his March to the Sea
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln announced he would issue his proclamation on January 1 1863 if the Confederacy did not surrender
January 1 1863 Lincoln announced the he was freeing the slaves who were still in the states that continue to fight the Union
The Union army had a new purpose for fighting the war they would free all slaves as they moved through the states at war with them
Slaves in states still in the Union were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation but will be freed by the 13th Amendment
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Economic Disparity between the North and the
South
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Sample QuestionWhich factor provided a military
advantage during the US Civil WarA Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the NorthB Southern merchant ships outnumbered
those controlled by the NorthC Seventy percent of US railroad tracks
existed in the southern territoryD The North made an alliance with France
to receive troops and other aid to fight the South
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-
Answer A Over 80 of the nationrsquos factories
existed in the North
European nations essentially remained neutral throughout the course of the US Civil War The North possessed more merchant ships than the South as well as the majority of railroad tracks The North was far more industrialized than the South Northern factories gave the Union a powerful military advantage
- US History Part I 1607-1865
- Colonial Period
- Slide 3
- Powhatan Indians
- Success of the Virginia Colony
- Virginiarsquos House of Burgesses
- First Africans in Virginia
- Sample Question
- Answer
- New England
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Puritans vs Native Americans
- Tension in New England
- Halfway Covenant
- Salem Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay Loses Its Charter
- Sample Question (2)
- Answer (2)
- Middle Colonies New Netherland to New York
- Middle Colonies Pennsylvania
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer
- Mercantilism
- Triangular Trade Route
- African Colonial Population
- Sample Question
- Correct Answer (2)
- Results of French amp Indian War and Causes of the American Revol
- Colonial Reactions
- Intolerable Acts
- Sample Question (2)
- Correct Answer (3)
- Sample Question (4)
- Answer
- American Revolutionary Period
- Slide 36
- Common Sense
- Slide 38
- Grievances against King George III noted in the Declaration of
- Sample Question (5)
- Slide 41
- Sample Question (6)
- Answer (2)
- American Revolution
- Slide 45
- George Washington
- Lexington and Concord (1775)
- Battle of Trenton
- Slide 49
- Battle of Saratoga (October 1777)
- Valley Forge PA
- Battle of Yorktown (1781)
- Treaty of Paris (1783)
- Sample Question (3)
- Correct Answer (4)
- Establishing a New Government
- Constitutional Convention
- Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
- The Slavery Debate in the Constitutional Convention
- Limited Government
- Separation of Powers
- Montesquieu Enlightenment Thinker
- Slide 63
- Slide 64
- Federalists vs Anti-federalists
- Federalist Papers
- Slide 67
- Sample Question (7)
- Slide 69
- Early Presidents
- Sample Question (8)
- Answer (3)
- United States History 1800 to 1865
- Thomas Jeffersonrsquos Presidency
- War of 1812
- Monroe Doctrine
- Sample Question (9)
- Answer (4)
- Sample Question (10)
- Answer (5)
- Industrial Revolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Slide 83
- Reform Movements
- Seneca Falls NY
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Sample Question (11)
- Answer (3)
- North-South Divisions Related to Westward Expansion
- Missouri Compromise
- Slide 92
- Mexican War
- Sample Question (12)
- Answer (6)
- Sample Question (13)
- Answer (7)
- Causes Main Events and Consequences of the American Civil War
- Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- ldquoBleeding Kansasrdquo
- Slide 102
- John Brown
- Civil War Leaders
- Civil War Battles
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Economic Disparity between the North and the South
- Sample Question (14)
- Answer (8)
-