A More Perfect Union - Final Exam Review List

Be prepared – any of the following can show up on the Final Exam
Review people, places and dates that relate to these topics. 

1.     Conflict between England & Spain

2.    Reasons to come to New World

3.    Jamestown - John Smith

4.    Mayflower – Pilgrims

5.    13 Colonies Expansion

6.    Causes of the Revolutionary War

v  Quartering Act

v  Stamp Act

v  Boston Massacre

v  Intolerable Acts

7.    Whigs & Tories

8.    Paul Revere

9.    Middle Passage

10. Battles of Revolutionary War

v  Battle at Lexington and Concord

v  Treaty of Paris

11.   Declaration of Independence

v  Thomas Jefferson

v  George Washington

12. Various Founding Documents/Resources:  Articles of Confederation, Mayflower Compact, Magna Carta, Common Sense

13. Constitution

v  Convention Compromises

v  Branches of Government  - Balance of Power

v  Bill of Rights - Amendments

v  Courthouse terminology

14.  Louisiana Purchase

v  President Jefferson

v  Manifest Destiny

15.  Lewis & Clark Expedition - Sacajawea

16. Life in the North VS. Life in the South

v  Industrial Revolution

v  Cotton Gin - Eli Whitney

17. Social Reforms

v  Horace Mann

v  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Clara Barton

18.  Underground Railroad & Abolitionists

v  William Lloyd Garrison

v  Frederick Douglas

v  Harriet Beecher Stowe

v  Harriet Tubman

19. Causes of the Civil War

v  Compromises

v  Bleeding Kansas

v  Dred Scott

v  secession

20.Battles of the Civil War

v  Fort Sumter

v  Chancellorsville

v  Vicksburg

v  Gettysburg - Pickett’s Charge

v  Appomattox

21. Key Figures of the war

v  Jefferson Davis

v  Stonewall Jackson

v  Robert E. Lee

v  Ulysses S. Grant

22.Abraham Lincoln

v  Emancipation Proclamation

v  Gettysburg Address

v  Assassination – John Wilkes Booth

23.Miscellaneous

v  state capitals

v  Maps from units throughout the year

v  Transcendentalists, American writing style in the 1800's

24.Reconstruction

v  Freedmen's Bureau

v  Military Districts

v  Impeachment of President Johnson

v  Rise of Ku Klux Klan

v  Black Codes, Plessy v. Ferguson, rise of Jim Crow

24.The Closing of the American Frontier, Industry and the Rise of Cities

v  Indian Wars

v  The New Industrialists:  Carnegie, Rockefeller, Edison, Ford

v  Second Industrial Revolution

v  Spanish American War

v  The End of the Gilded Age (Beginning of WWI)