Part 1. First Five Presidents:
Summary: Decisions made by early presidents (and the chief justice of the Supreme Court) strengthened the power of the national government. The first two political parties emerged. America went from a foreign policy of neutrality to an increasingly aggressive one.
Terms to Know
Chapter 8 (Washington & Adams)
Washington
1. Proclamation of Neutrality
2. Whiskey Rebellion
3. Strict/Loose construction (interpretation) of the Constitution
4. implied powers (elastic clause)
Chapter 9 (Jefferson & Madison)
Jefferson
8. Revolution of 1800
9. midnight judges
10. Marbury v. Madison
13. impressments
14. Embargo Act
15. Nonintercourse Act
11. Barbary Coast
12. Burr & Hamilton Duel
Chapter 10 (Monroe)
22. Era of Good Feelings
23. Internal improvements
24. infrastructure
25. American System
26. McCulloch v. Maryland
27.
16. Battle of Tippecanoe
Gibbons v. Ogden
28. Monroe Doctrine
Adams
5. XYZ affair
6. Alien & Sedition Acts
7. Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
Madison
17. War Hawks
18. nationalism
19. War of 1812
20. Francis Scott Key
21. Treaty of Ghent
(how did it compare to Washington’s policy?)
Part 2. Age of Jackson and Westward Expansion
Summary: The Age of Jackson (1824 – 40) was marked by a new system of political parties. Manifest Destiny became a driving force in U.S. growth in the 1 st half of the 19 th century and led to the expansion of U.S. territory. Be able to identify the land acquired by the U.S. between 1800 and 1853 and the benefits of these acquisitions.
Terms to Know
Andrew Jackson (ch 11)
1. The Corrupt Bargain
2. Jacksonian Democracy
3. Jackson & the national bank
4. Tariff of Abominations 1828
5. Nullification Crisis
6. Force Bill
7. Indian Removal Act
8. Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
9. Trail of Tears
Manifest Destiny (ch 12)
10. Oregon Country
11. Adams-Onis Treaty
12. Oregon Trail
13. "Fifty four forty or fight"
14. California Gold Rush
15. Mexican War
16. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
17. Mexican Cession
18. Texas annexed
19. Mormons
20. Gadsden Purchase
21. James K. Polk

Part 3: Industrialization & Reforms, ch 10, 13, & 14
Summaries
 Reform movements were grassroots movements that began to address problems in the social fabric of the U.S.
 Industrialization and the rise of commerce led to urbanization.
 Connection: a new emphasis on the power of the individual to make change in politics and society
Essential Information (you should be able to answer by the end of the unit):
 What were the effects of technological and scientific innovations such as the steamboat, the cotton gin, and interchangeable parts?
 Analyze the impact of transportation and communication systems on the growth, development, and urbanization of the
United States
 What were the causes and effects of the early 19 th century reform movements?
Terms to KNOW:
Industrialization (ch 10, 13)
1. Industrial revolution
2. Capitalism / free enterprise
3. cotton gin
4. factory system
5. interchangeable parts
Reforms (ch 14)
1. Hudson River School
2. Second Great Awakening
3. Temperance movement
4. Education reform
5. Horace Mann
6. Transcendentalists
6. Samuel Slater
7. “Lowell girls”
8. National Road
9. Steam engines
10. Erie Canal
7. Abolitionists
9. Grimke sisters
8. William Lloyd Garrison
10. Frederick Douglass
11. Sojourner Truth
12. Seneca Falls Convention
11. Internal improvements
12. Infrastructure
13. telegraph / Morse Code
14. John Deere
15. McCormick’s reaper
13. Underground Railroad
14. Harriet Tubman
15. Women's movement
16. Lucretia Mott
17. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
18. Prison & Mental reforms/Dorothea Dix
Part 4. Old Stuff:
1. Colonial Era
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Early settlements: Jamestown and Plymouth
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Be able to compare the political, economic, religious, and social reasons for the establishment of the 13 colonies
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Be able to explain the impact of geography / climate on the development of the three colonial regions
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Be able to explain the reasons for the development of the plantation system, the transatlantic slave trade, and the spread of slavery
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Be able to explain how the Mayflower Compact and House of Burgesses show the growth of representative government
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People to know: Thomas Hooker, William Penn, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Nathaniel Bacon
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Be able to explain the effects of the First Great Awakening
2. American Revolution
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People: King George III, John and Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Henry, Thomas
Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Washington
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Know the key events leading up to the Revolution (Proclamation of 1763, taxes, Boston Massacre and Boston Tea
Party)
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Declaration of Independence
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Know the significance of the battles of Saratoga and Yorktown
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Know what the U.S. gained in the Treaty of Paris of 1783
3. Government
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Strengths and Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
 Shays’ Rebellion
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Constitutional Convention: Know the major issues, plans and compromises
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Federalists vs. Anti-federalists and Federalist Papers
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Know the 7 principles of the Constitution
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Amendment Process
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Federalism
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Main powers of the 3 branches
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Checks and Balances
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The Bill of Rights