“Top 10 terms” chapter study guides

 

*The following people, places and things have been organized for your benefit.  Please don’t assume this is “all you need to know” in order to do well on the test, you know to study ALL we’ve done (don’t forget the chapter previews in your notebook!) to best be prepared.  In a pinch, or as a last minute “check-up”, knowing these terms and all related to them should serve you well…Happy studying!

 

 

Chapter 2

Conquistadors

Aztecs

Incas

Mestizos

Spanish Armada

New France

Missions

Slave labor

Columbian Exchange

Native American labor

Chapter 3

Patroon system

King Phillip’s War

Bacon’s Rebellion

Massachusetts Bay Colony

New England Way

Joint-stock companies

House of Burgesses

Jamestown

Plymouth

New Netherland

Chapter 4

Backcountry

New England colonies

Middle colonies

Southern colonies

Navigation Acts

Planters

Triangular trade

Artisans

Subsistence farming

Plantation life

Chapter 5

Benjamin Franklin

Great Awakening

Albany Plan of Union

Enlightenment

John Locke

Salutary neglect

English Bill of Rights

French and Indian War

Glorious Revolution

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Chapter 6

Ohio Valley

Stamp Act

Declaratory Act

Tea Act

Intolerable Acts

Writs of Assistance

Sons of Liberty

Continental Congress

Boston Tea Party

Thomas Jefferson

Chapter 7

George Washington

Hessian mercenaries

Hudson River Valley

Battles of Saratoga

Marquis de Lafayette

King Louis XVI

Serapis

Privateers

Treaty of Paris of 1783

Geography of War

Chapter 8

Articles of Confederation

Federalism

Ratification

Northwest Ordinance

Annapolis Convention

James Madison

Alexander Hamilton

Antifederalists

Branches of Government

Shays’s Rebellion

Constitution Handbook

Seven Principles

Electoral College

Impeachment

Ratification

Bill of Rights

Due process of law

Lame duck

Amendment

Suffrage

Treason

Chapter 9

Foreign policy

“necessary and proper”

Battle of Fallen Timbers

XYZ Affair

Pinckney’s Treaty

Whiskey Rebellion

Political parties

Election of 1796

George Washington

Neutrality

Chapter 10

Election of 1800

Judicial Review

Louisiana Purchase

Napoleonic Wars

Embargo Act

War of 1812

Battle of Lake Erie

Lewis and Clark

Battle of New Orleans

Thomas Jefferson

Chapter 11

Cotton gin

Gibbons v. Ogden

Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819

McCulloch v. Maryland

Sectionalism

Missouri Compromise

National Road

Ohio and Erie Canal

Nationalism

James Monroe

Chapter 12

Andrew Jackson

Trail of Tears

Election of 1824

Doctrine of nullification

Webster-Hayne debate

Panic of 1837

Spoils system

Indian Removal Act

Jacksonian democracy

Inflation

Chapter 13

Manifest Destiny

Tejanos

Battle of the Alamo

Annexation

California gold rush

Mexican War

Sam Huston

Treat of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Mexican Cession

Oregon Trail

Chapter 14

Susan B. Anthony

Abolitionist

Harriet Tubman

Seneca Falls

Noah Webster

Women’s suffrage

Push factors

Pull factors

Dorothea Dix

Underground Railroad

Chapter 15

Popular sovereignty

Compromise of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Republican Party

Fugitive Slave Act

Dred Scott

Bleeding Kansas

John Brown

Election of 1860

Stephen Douglas

Chapter 16

Fort Sumter

Rifle technology

Blockade

Railroads

New Orleans

Border States

King Cotton

Battle of Antietam

George McClellan

Mississippi River

Chapter 17

Battle of Gettysburg

Income tax

Emancipation Proclamation

54th  Massachusetts Reg.

Women in the War

William Tecumseh Sherman

Stonewall Jackson

Siege of Vicksburg

Civil War economies

The Draft

Chapter 18

Fifteenth Amendment

Compromise of 1877

Freedmen’s Bureau

Panic of 1873

Liberal Republicans

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Tenure of Office Act

40 acres and a mule

Radical Republicans

Black codes