Study Guide: The Nation's Early Beginnings, 1789-1840

Goal 1 & 2: The Nation’s Early Beginnings (1789-1840)
1. Who was the first President?
2. What is a precedent?
3. What group did Washington create to advise him?
4. What two important pieces of legislation did the 1st Congress pass?
5. Who wanted to create a national bank?
6. What powers would be used to create a national bank?
7. How did the U.S. react to the latest British and French war?
8. What precedent for future Presidents did Washington set at his retirement?
9. What two things did Washington warn the nation about?
10. What were the names of the first two political parties?
11. Name the group led by Alexander Hamilton?
12. Name the group led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?
13. What type of government did Hamilton’s group support?
14. What role did Jefferson’s group want the government to play?
15. Who ran in the 1796 election?
16. Who became the 2nd President?
17. What problem was there with the Vice-President that term?
18. Name the scandal that involved the French and a bribe demand?
19. What laws passed by the Federalists limited criticism of the government?
20. Which states objected to the laws with written resolutions?
21. The idea of a state ignoring an unconstitutional law is called?
22. What happened in the election of 1800?
23. Who wins the 1800 election?
24. What was Jefferson’s philosophy of government?
25. What Supreme Court case began the power of Judicial Review?
26. What lands did Jefferson acquire for the nation?
27. Who did Jefferson send to explore these new lands?
28. What Indian leader tried to unite Indians into a confederation?
29. Name the famous battle where the Indians were defeated by William Henry Harrison?
30. What group eventually began to encourage war against Britain?
31. When did the war with Britain begin?
32. The British managed to partially destroy which U.S. city?
33. What major battle did the Americans under Andrew Jackson win?
34. Name the system of internal improvements designed to unite the nation?
35. Who were the promoters of the internal improvements?
36. Name the Supreme Court case that confirmed the use of implied powers?
37. What was the name of the covered wagons that many people used for travel?
38. Name the political statement that told European powers to stay out of this hemisphere?
39. What did Eli Whitney do?
40. How did the cotton gin affect slavery?
41. What three issues began to divide the nation into sectional interests?
42. Name the compromise that determined the future of slavery in the new states after 1820?
43. Who won the election of 1824?
44. How was this person chosen to be President?
45. Who won the election of 1828?
46. Who was commonly called the “Common Man’s President”?
47. What is the practice of giving jobs as rewards for service called?
48. What large Indian group resisted the efforts of the gov’t to move them?
49. What was the forced migration of this group called?
50. What state nearly left the Union over the high tariff of 1828?
51. Why did Jackson kill the National Bank?
52. What political party arose to oppose Jackson and his followers?
54. Which President died soon after taking office?
55. Which Vice-President became the first to become President?
56. Which reformer promoted free public education?
57. Which reformer advocated mental hospital reformers?
58. Name the Convention where women stated their belief in equal rights?
59. System of abolitionists who helped slaves escape to freedom?
60. Wrote “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience”?
61. Why is “Civil Disobedience” famous?
62. Group of artists who painted landscapes of the American frontier?
63. Movement to ban alcohol?
Goal 3: The Civil War Era and Reconstruction Age
1. The idea that the U.S. should expand across the continent?
2. Name of the route that many settlers took to go west?
3. Who settled the area of Utah? 4. Which person led the settlers to Utah?
5. Who did Texas revolt against in 1835?
6. Famous battle where the Texans were defeated by the Mexican Army?
7. When did Texas become a state? 8. Who did the U.S. go to war with in 1845?
9. What lands became part of the U.S. after the war?
10. What new state raised the issue of slavery again in 1850?
11. How did that territory become a state so quickly?
12. Name the agreement that solved the problem temporarily?
13. Name the idea that the people should vote to determine the future of slavery?
14. What law was passed to help Southern states capture escaped slaves?
15. Name the political party that opposed immigration?
16. Name the 1820 Agreement that drew a line to determine slavery?
17. Name the network of safe houses to help escaped slaves?
18. Name the book which depicted the evils of slavery in the south?
19. Name the author of this influential book?
20. In what territory did pro-slavery and abolitionist groups actually shed blood?
21. What Supreme Court case made slavery legal all over the nation?
22. What law did this case declare unconstitutional?
23. Name the participants in the famous 1858 Illinois Senate race?
24. Who won the debates?
25. Name the idea (from S. Douglas) that slavery can’t exist without supporting laws?
26. Abolitionist who raided Harper’s Ferry?
27. Who won the election of 1860?
28. Why did southern states secede?
29. Name the starting point of the Civil War?
30. Name the first real battle?
31. What was the single deadliest day of the war?
32. What is the significance of this battle? (2)
33. Who was the leading General of the Confederates?
34. What is the turning point of the Civil war? Why? (3)
35. In what year and state did this battle take place?
36. What did Pres. Lincoln deliver after this battle?
37. Name the charge on the last day of this battle?
38. What battle effectively split the south?
39. Name the General that led the destructive “March to Sea” in the South?
40. Where did the war end? 41. Who surrendered to whom?
42. When did the war end?
43. Name two advantages of the Union in the war?
44. Name one advantage of the Confederates?
45. What were Buffalo Soldiers?
46. What was the substitution policy?
47. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? 48. When did it take effect?
49. What did Clara Barton do?
50. What group wanted to punish the South for the war?
51. Where did many slaves go after the war?
52. What are tenant farmers?
53. What are sharecroppers?
54. What was the job of the Freedman’s Bureau?
55. What was Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan?
56. Name two parts of the Congress’ Military Reconstruction Plan?
57. Who assassinated Lincoln? 58. Who became President?
59. What were laws restricting the activities of African Americans called?
60. What is the 13th Amendment? 61. What is the 14th Amendment?
62. Who were southerners who supported Reconstruction?
63. Who were Northerners who came south to help in Reconstruction?
64. What was the15th Amendment?
65. Name two scandals that affected the Grant Presidency?
66. Who ran for President in the 1876 election? 67. How was the 1876 election won?
68. What are Jim Crow laws?
69. What is separation of the races by law called?