Politics + Public Policy
25%of exam
Colonial GovernmentRevolutionConstitutionParty Systems
Social Developments
25%of exam
SlaveryReligionReformImmigration
Economic Developments
15%of exam
Culture + Ideas
20%of exam
EnlightenmentAwakeningsTranscendentalismAbolition
Diplomacy + Transnational
15%of exam
EmpireExpansionWar of 1812Mexico
Quick Facts
- Exam
- History US I
- Period
- 1500–1877
- Questions
- About 120
- Time
- 90 minutes
- Format
- Multiple choice
- Credit
- ACE: 50 / 3
- Chronology
- 30% / 70%
Sectional Flashpoint
MAP: Missouri, Annexation, Popular sovereignty
Missouri CompromiseTexas annexationPopular sovereignty
Articles vs Constitution
Articles
- Weak central power
- No taxation power
Constitution
- Stronger federal power
- Tax and regulate
Shays highlighted Articles weakness
Period Picker
- Before 1500 Americas→Indigenous societies(Small exam share)
- 1607–1754→Colonial development(English colonies emphasized)
- 1754–1763→Seven Years' War(Imperial debt follows)
- 1763–1776→Imperial crisis(Taxation and resistance)
- 1776–1789→Revolution and Confederation(Articles era)
- 1789–1824→Early republic(Federal power grows)
- 1824–1850→Jackson and reform(Market change)
- 1850–1877→Sectional crisis(War then Reconstruction)
Colonial Foundations
- Jamestown
- 1607 English settlement
- House of Burgesses
- Virginia representative assembly
- Mayflower Compact
- Plymouth self-government agreement
- Salutary neglect
- Loose imperial enforcement
- Navigation Acts
- Mercantilist trade rules
- Great Awakening
- Evangelical revival movement
- Albany Plan
- 1754 colonial union proposal
Federalists vs Republicans
Federalists
- Stronger national government
- Commercial interests
Democratic-Republicans
- Limited federal government
- Agrarian ideals
Early party-system contrast
Revolution + Constitution
- Stamp Act
- 1765 direct tax
- Common Sense
- Paine independence pamphlet
- Declaration
- Natural-rights justification
- Articles
- Weak central government
- Shays' Rebellion
- Stronger-government catalyst
- Federalism
- Shared national-state power
- Bill of Rights
- First ten amendments
Proclamation vs 13th
Emancipation
- War measure
- Rebel states targeted
13th Amendment
- Constitutional abolition
- Nationwide rule
War policy versus amendment
Sectional Crisis + War
- Missouri Compromise
- 1820 sectional balance
- Compromise of 1850
- California and fugitive law
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Popular sovereignty revived
- Dred Scott
- Black citizenship denied
- Harper's Ferry
- Brown's 1859 raid
- Emancipation Proclamation
- War aims transformed
- Gettysburg
- 1863 Union turning point
Reconstruction Amendments
13 free, 14 citizen, 15 vote
13th: slavery14th: citizenship15th: voting
Abolition vs Free Soil
Abolition
- End slavery
- Moral reform
Free Soil
- Block western expansion
- Free labor focus
Different antislavery goals
Slavery + Society
- Encomienda
- Spanish coerced labor
- Middle Passage
- Atlantic enslaved crossing
- Bacon's Rebellion
- 1676 Virginia uprising
- Slave codes
- Racial bondage laws
- Underground Railroad
- Escape assistance network
- Nat Turner
- 1831 Virginia rebellion
- Domestic slave trade
- Forced southern migration
Presidential vs Radical Reconstruction
Presidential
- Lenient readmission
- Johnson approach
Radical
- Congressional control
- Rights enforcement
Conflict over postwar change
Reconstruction
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Postwar aid agency
- Black Codes
- Freedpeople restrictions
- 13th Amendment
- Abolished slavery
- 14th Amendment
- Citizenship and equality
- 15th Amendment
- Voting discrimination barred
- Radical Republicans
- Stronger Reconstruction policy
- Compromise 1877
- Troops withdrawn South
Clay's System
BIT: Bank, Improvements, Tariff
BankInternal improvementsTariff
Market Revolution
- Mercantilism
- Empire serves mother country
- Tobacco
- Chesapeake cash crop
- Cotton gin
- Expanded cotton production
- Erie Canal
- New York-Midwest trade
- Lowell mills
- Early factory system
- American System
- Bank, tariff, improvements
- Panic of 1837
- Major financial downturn
Religion + Reform
- Enlightenment
- Reason and natural rights
- Deism
- Creator through reason
- Second Awakening
- Antebellum revivalism
- Transcendentalism
- Individual intuition
- Temperance
- Alcohol reform movement
- Seneca Falls
- 1848 women's convention
- Declaration of Sentiments
- Women's equality statement
Issue Picker
- Imperial trade rules→Mercantilism(Navigation Acts)
- Colonial representation→Assemblies(Burgesses example)
- Natural-rights claim→Declaration(Enlightenment language)
- National power dispute→Federalism(Constitutional balance)
- Western land conflict→Expansionism(Native and Mexico)
- Labor-system question→Slavery(Cotton and resistance)
- Antebellum reform→Second Awakening(Moral activism)
- Postwar rights question→Reconstruction Amendments(13th–15th)
Expansion + Diplomacy
- Proclamation 1763
- Appalachian settlement restraint
- Treaty of Paris
- 1783 independence settlement
- Louisiana Purchase
- 1803 western acquisition
- War of 1812
- Britain and American nationalism
- Monroe Doctrine
- Opposed new colonization
- Manifest Destiny
- Continental expansion ideology
- Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Mexican War settlement
Common Traps
American Revolution
Independence begins 1776 ≠ Peace treaty 1783
Great Awakenings
First: colonial revival ≠ Second: antebellum reform
Compromises
Missouri: 1820 line ≠ 1850: fugitive law
War Outcomes
1812: nationalism ≠ Mexican War: cession
Reconstruction Rights
14th: citizenship ≠ 15th: voting rights
Last Minute
- 1.30% 1500–1789; 70% later
- 2.Political and social: 25% each
- 3.Culture: 20%; economy/diplomacy: 15%
- 4.Articles weak; Constitution stronger
- 5.Declaration: natural rights
- 6.Monroe: no new colonization
- 7.Kansas-Nebraska revived popular sovereignty
- 8.13 free; 14 citizen; 15 vote
- 9.Compromise 1877 withdrew troops
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