Unit 2:
From Making a Revolution to Making a Nation
– 1776 to 1830s (Lessons 1-4)
The Objective Exam will consist primarily of multiple choice questions. The total value is
100 points. There are 25 questions each at 4 points. Reminder: This Unit
consists of Lessons 1-4. The word Lessons
refers to Blackboard learning modules. Blackboard learning modules have a
Table of Contents on the left that let you see all of the resources available
so you can click on the one you want. All Lessons have links from your
instructor and sometimes additional resources such as maps and Learning
Quizzes. Note:
·
8 of the 25
questions come from these Learning Quizzes (and those concepts in the Learning
Quizzes help you understand the other content in the Unit, especially the ones
on the Constitution)
·
17 of them come
from below. (Questions are written so
you do not have to prove that you know everything, but that you know
something.)
The 5 Ws rule is a good guide to understanding the items below: you
should know Who, What, When, Where, and Why—and sometimes How. The Instructor’s links provide visuals,
frequently in tables, to help you compare facts to see similarities and
differences. Tip: Remind me to tell you about a type of
question that has ___ and ___.
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1.
War issues (Resource: instructor’s links in Lesson 1): ·
War for Independence, Patriot and British weaknesses and strengths at
the start ·
Saratoga, what it is and why is it significant including in what
nations are fighting 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 (and in the nation’s first years)? 2.
Post-war issues (Resource: instructor’s links in Lesson 2): ·
Northwest Ordinance, its parts and significance ·
Shays’s Rebellion, its causes and the consequences 3.
Constitution (Resource: in Lesson 2, instructor’s links and Learning
Quizzes on the framers and the Constitution): ·
Constitutional Convention and compromise (large state, small state issues;
slavery and taxation and voting; creditors/debtors, electoral college, and
creation of a republic) ·
Constitution, Madison’s roles ·
Slaveholder/slave trade protection in Constitution and slaveholder protection in state slave codes ·
Economic policy, who does what ·
Foreign policy and war, who does what ·
Federalist Papers, 3 authors and purpose in
ratification ·
Bill of Rights, what it is and including the Anti-Federalists 4.
The New Republic from 1788-1800, ·
Rise of political parties, Federalists and Democratic Republicans (AKA
Republicans—but they are not like
modern Republicans) ·
1796-1800, party divisions on: ·
Whiskey Rebellion, causes, suppression, and significance ·
Election of 1800 and the peaceful transfer of power 5.
President Jefferson (Resource: instructor’s links in Lesson 3) ·
Parties: Democratic-Republicans and Federalists ·
Louisiana Purchase, economic policies, ending of slave trade with Africa (U.S. slavery remains.) 6.
War of 1812 Issues In both of
President Madison’s terms ·
Native Americans, allies with British in last attempt to get their
land back. It fails leading to removal of them in the North 7.
President Monroe – last president from Virginia ·
Monroe Doctrine, its purpose and author ·
Missouri Compromise (See the caution in the instructor’s link and the
primary in Lesson 3 and Learning Quizzes on the maps.) |
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President John Quincy Adams ·
Election of 1824, so-called “corrupt bargain” of a tied election ·
Decline of economic nationalism 9.
1828-1836, President Andrew Jackson ·
The “spoils system” ·
Veto of the national bank (and recession ) ·
States’ rights views BUT stops
nullification attemp in South Carolina (and what
makes the state volatile) – a prelude to a later secession attempt ·
Removal of Native Americans in the South and the Trail of Tears Changes
that develop and increase over time (See Lesson 3 and 4): 10.
Supreme Court, corporations, national government over states ·
Marbury v. Madison and judicial review ·
Chief Justice John Marshall, 1801-1835 and his decisions 11.
Suffrage shifting with states decreasing property requirements to vote
and increasing the number of white male voters (Begins in Jefferson’s time
and escalates in Jackson’s. States vary; in the North some free blacks vote.) 12.
Immigration and rise of nativism as a political party ·
Irish mainly to the Northeast, type of work, their religion ·
Germans mainly to the new Northwest, type of work 13.
Fertility of land: ·
Northeast and Southeast depleted farmland ·
Northwest and Southwest 4 X the productivity 14.
Developing technology and diversified economy in the North; wealth in
slavery and cash crops in the South –What are differences between 4 regions
of the Northeast, Southeast (old colonial areas), Northwest, and South west
(newly settled areas) and how they became the North and the
South ·
Cotton gin, inventor; 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 railroad (Erie Canal - See Lesson 4 and the Learning Quiz
on this.) ·
New means of transportation—Conestoga wagons, steamboats, steamships,
clipper ships ·
New agricultural machinery in the North—Deere plow, McCormick reaper
(but not in the South) |