US Midterm Review

 

Foundations Unit

Democracy

Limited Government

Magna Carta

English Bill of Rights

European Enlightenment

Locke

Montesquieu

Voltaire

Rousseau

Colonial Experiences

Mayflower Compact

Virginia House of Burgesses

Salem Witch Trials

Peter Zenger Court Case

Albany Plan of Union

French and Indian War

Salutary Neglect

Mercantilism

Triangle Slave Trade

Proclamation Line of 1763

Sugar Act

Stamp Act

Stamp Act Congress

Townsend Act

Tea Act

The Intolerable Acts

Common Sense

The Declaration of Independence

The Articles of Confederation

State v. National Power

Shay’s Rebellion

 

The U.S. Constitution

 

The Preamble “We the People”

Great Compromise- Bi- Cameral Legislature

3/5 Compromise

Slave Trade Compromise

Separation of Powers

Amendment Process

Judicial, Legislative and Executive Branches

 

Checks and Balances

Federalism

Reserved, Concurrent and Delegated Powers

The Electoral College

Federalists and Anti- Federalist

The Federalist Papers

Founding Fathers- Washington, Madison, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton

The Ratification Debate

The Bill of Rights

Freedom of Expression

Protections from Illegal Searches and Seizures

Habeas Corpus Protection

 

Early Challenges

 

Washington’s Cabinet

Unwritten Constitution

Neutrality

The Whiskey Rebellion

The National Bank

Strict and Loose Constructionists

The Elastic Clause

Washington’s Farewell Address

The XYZ Affair

The Alien and Sedition Acts

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

The Louisiana Purchase

Marbury v Madison- Judicial Review

The Embargo Acts

The War of 1812

The Marshall Courts

The Era of Good Feelings

The Monroe Doctrine

The Missouri Compromise

Jacksonian Democracy

Indian Removal Act

Seneca Falls Convention

Women’s Suffrage

Transcendentalism

 

 

Civil War Causes and Results

 

Sectionalism

The Nullification Crisis

The Gag Rule

Abolitionists

Manifest Destiny

Annexing Texas

The Mexican War

The Compromise of 1850

Popular Sovereignty

Bleeding Kansas

The Fugitive Slave Act

The Dred Scott Case

Lincoln v. Douglas 1858

The Election of 1860

The Massachusetts 54^th

Emancipation Proclamation

Ex Parte Merriman

Ex Parte Milligan

Reconstruction

Wade Davis Plan

1/10^th Loyalty Oath

Andrew Johnson v Radical Republicans

Black Codes

Reconstruction Amendments

Jim Crow Laws

Segregation

Compromise of 1877

Plessy v Ferguson

Voting Restrictions

 

Industrialization and Urbanization

 

Homestead Act

Pacific Railway Act

Dawes Act

Surrender of Chief Joseph

Helen Hunt Jackson

Trans- Continental Railroad

Steam Engine

Telegraph and Telephone

Capitalism

Free Enterprise

Gilded Age

Captains of Industry

Robber Barons

Morgan, Carnegie Rockefeller

Standard of Living

Urbanization

Pools, Trusts, Holding Companies

Vertical and Horizontal Integration

Monopolies

“Gospel of Wealth”

Philanthropy

Horatio Alger “Rags to Riches”

Social Darwinism

Political Bosses- Tammany Hall

Boss Tweed vs Thomas Nast