Unit 2: From Making a Revolution to
Making a Nation – 1776 to 1830s
(Lessons 1-4)
The Unit Exam consists primarily of multiple choice questions in sets with different possible questions. The total value is 100 points. There are 25 questions in sets each at 4 points:
· 8 of the 25 questions come from the Learning Quizzes (and those concepts in the Learning Quizzes help you understand the content in the Unit)
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17 of them come from below. The Instructor’s links provide visuals,
frequently in tables, to help you compare facts to see similarities and
differences. To be efficient in studying, use
the Lesson links, not the textbook. (Ctrl-F is a wonderful way to find what
you need.)
The 5 Ws
rule is a guide to understanding: you should know Who, What, When, Where, and Why—and
sometimes How.
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Lesson 1 –Use its Learning Quiz on
Essential Terms 1st 1.
War
for Independence and the Confederation ·
Patriot
and British weaknesses and strengths ·
Saratoga,
what it is and why is it significant including in what nations fight the
British ·
Yorktown,
what it is and why is it significant ·
Articles
of Confederation- What is a confederation? How does it cause problems for the
war effort? ·
Terms
of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 ------------------------------------------------- 2.
Notice
the differences in periods marked with blue. 3.
New
nation under the Articles of Confederation ·
New
state constitutions (with some states abolishing slavery and some creating state slave codes) ·
Northwest
Ordinance, its parts and significance ·
Shays’s
Rebellion, causes including financial troubles of the period and consequences 4.
New
nation under the Constitution ·
The
convention (why a convention?) and major compromises (large state/small
state; slavery/ taxation/national voting; electoral college; powers given to
Congress/President/national judiciary; and creation of a republic) ·
National
protections for slaveholders and the slave trade (protection in addition to
state slave codes) ·
Federalist Papers, authors and purpose in ratification ·
Anti-Federalists,
who they are and their role in the Bill of Rights (what it that) ·
James
Madison, diverse roles in the Constitution and Bill of Rights |
5.
President
George Washington (1788-1796) ·
President,
setting precedents for the office ·
Congress,
passing tariffs for income ·
Congress,
passing laws establishing the executive departments and national judiciary ·
Congress,
passing laws to create the national financial system using Secretary of
Treasury Alexander Hamilton’s plan, including a National Bank (based on
“implied powers”) ·
Whiskey
Rebellion, causes and suppression 6.
President
John Adams (1796-1800) – A
difficult time spent primarily keeping us out of a European War and dealing
with partisan politics. ------------------------------------------------- Lesson 3 – Use its Learning Quiz on the
1783-1803 Map 1st ·
The
Federalist Party lost the election; they went home. ·
The
Democratic-Republicans won, but did not
try to undo Federalist actions like the National Bank. 7.
President
Thomas Jefferson (1800-1808) - Virginian ·
Marbury v. Madison (Covered in Lesson 4) ·
Reduction
in taxes –but still able to buy the Louisiana Purchase ·
Ending
of the slave trade when its
constitutional protection of 20 years ended. (Slavery remains.) ·
European
war (France and Britain and their allies) becomes US issue with impressment
of our sailors 8.
President
James Madison (1808-1816) – Virginian –dominated by the War of 1812 with the
British ·
Native
Americans as allies with the British in their last attempt to get their land
back, but it fails, leading to removal
of Native Americans in the North. (Covered
in Lesson 4) ·
Battle
of New Orleans after the end of
the war and how Andrew Jackson becomes famous Continues
on the next page |
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Continues Lesson 3 9.
President
James Monroe (1816-1824) –Virginian
(last of the so-called Virginia dynasty) ·
Era
of Good Feelings ·
Monroe
Doctrine, its purpose and author ·
Missouri
Compromise and how new land and slavery came to a crisis in 1820 10.
President
John Quincy Adams (1824-1828) ·
Election
of 1824--so-called “corrupt bargain” and rise of Andrew Jackson ·
Decline
of economic nationalism (what was it?) 11.
Election
of 1828, conditions leading to it: ·
Use
of public conventions to choose candidates (Parties previously used a
caucus—a different meaning than the modern usage.) ·
Rise
of universal white male suffrage. (States decreased property requirements to
vote and this increased the number of white male voters. This begins in
Jefferson’s time and escalates in Jackson’s. States vary; in the North some
free blacks vote.) 12.
President
Andrew Jackson (1828-1836) ·
The
“spoils system” and its increasing volatility ·
Veto
of the national bank (and later recession) ·
Attempt
by South Carolina to “nullify” a national law about a tariff and how Jackson crushed that attempt ·
Newly-independent
Texas asks to be annexed, but its slavery means it is too volatile a time. ·
Removal of Native Americans in the South and the Trail of Tears (Covered in Lesson 4.) |
----------------------------------------- Lesson 4 – Use its Learning Quiz on the
1800-1860 Map 1st. 13.
Removal
of the Native Americans over time from the North and from the South to west
of the Mississippi 14.
Transformation
of the Supreme Court over time ·
Marbury v. Madison and judicial review ·
Chief
Justice John Marshall, 1801-1835 and his decisions (corporations, power of
the national government over the states) 15.
Development
of sectional differences between the four sections: Northeast, Northwest,
Southeast, and Southwest (with the eastern sections being the original
colonies). Notice such things as whether urban/rural, use slaves (or not),
have immigrants (or not), have factories (or not), have worn out land (or
not), and transportation and internal improvements. 16.
Immigration
and rise of nativism as a political party ·
Irish
mainly to Northeast, type of work, their religion ·
Germans
mainly to new Northwest, type of work 17.
Developing
technology and economy in the North and wealth but lack of diversification in
the South ·
Cotton
gin, inventor and role in the westward expansion of slavery ·
Cotton
textile mills, Lowell Mills in New England (but British textile mills were
the major purchasers of Southern cotton) ·
New
internal improvements in transportation mainly in the North—canals, turnpikes
(toll roads), and later the
railroad. ·
New
means of transportation such as Conestoga wagons, steamboats, steamships,
clipper ships ·
New
agricultural machinery, such as Deere plow, McCormick reaper |