10:00 Class: Mon., Dec. 10, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
11:00 Class: Wed., Dec. 12, 12:00-2:00

(Final Essay: Remember that each of you is required to write a typed, well-written essay (3-4 pages) reflecting on what you feel are the key theme or themes in the story of America through 1865. Give good reasons for your choices. Due Monday, Dec. 3.)

Know the following terms, themes, and questions. They come from the lectures and the assigned readings.

Map Questions : Be able to identify on a map the following:
Missouri Compromise Line
Route of Southern Indian removal .
Key pieces in U.S. territorial expansion by the mid-nineteenth century (particularly the following: Louisianna Purchase, Oregon Country in 1846; Mexico Cession of 1848; Gadsden Purchase of 1853, and Texas Annexation of 1845)
Also know the states that seceded from the Union and those that remained in the Union (p. 269)

From the Hollitz book:
Know key points from chapters 8, 10, and 11.

From lectures and discussions :

Government policy toward Indians 1790s-1830s
Shawnee experience
Tecumseh and the Prophet
Creek experience
Sequoyah
Cherokee experience
Trail of Tears
Black Hawk and the Black Hawk War.
Early industrialism; who began it, when, and how changed workers’ lives
cholera epidemic of 1832
Transportation revolution
Erie canal
Illinois and Michigan canal
significance of cotton gin
Missouri  Crisis and Compromise
Antebellum Reform Era and reasons why occurred
Temperance movement: Reasons for, effect.
Horace Mann and the push for public schools.
Abolition movement - key figures.
Women's Rights movement: how begun, how abolition movement connected to it
How women discriminated against politically, economically, educationally, and socially
          in  the 19th century (and earlier)
Seneca Falls convention.
All questions on viewing guide for video "The West"
Why tension between Texans and Mexican government
Battle of San Jacinto
Santa Anna
Texas’s relationship with U.S. after San Jacinto; why not annexed
Brigham Young
Experience of Tejanos during and after Texan Revolution
Vaqueros and cowboys: how influenced
Manifest Destiny
Oregon Trail
Acquisition of Oregon territory
War with Mexico; why, what happened, results
Antiwar sentiment during Mexican-American war
Thoreau and "Civil Disobedience"
Reasons for Northern opposition to slavery
California Gold Rush
white Southerners’ defense of slavery as "positive good;" how different from
    earlier arguments?
Differences between North and South labor systems and population diversity
Experience of slave life, according to "Civil War' video
Numbers of slaves; where concentrated
Various ways for slaves to rebel
Nat Turner’s revolt; consequences
Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin: significance, popularity
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law; controversy over it
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas: why; what happened
Beating of Charles Sumner
Dred Scott decision
John Brown’s raid in Harper’s Ferry
Election of 1860; why South seceded
Reactions in North to secession
Ft. Sumter
Relative strengths of  North and South during war
1st Battle of Bull Run -result
Lincoln’s "illegal" actions during war; why did them?
Type of government in Confederacy; problems they have
Antietam - result
Emancipation Proclamation; how changed war
Use of black soldiers in war; when started, results, numbers
New York City Draft riots - why, what happened
General Meade’s mistake after Battle of Gettysburg over
Gettysburg as turning point of war
Lee’s strategy after Gettysburg
Ulysses Grant: description, reasons won
Sherman’s March
Appomatax
Legacy of Civil War; also death and destruction caused by Civil War

Also know the following terms from earlier study guides

historiography
primary source
secondary source
Map questions from the 1st and 2nd study guides
Disease among Indians in first contact with Europeans
Contrast in world views and cultures between Native American and European
 - View of natural world;  Purpose of natural world
Indian / European trade
Plymouth settlers: why did they feel they deserved the land
England’s goals in New World; relationship with Indians because of it
How Pennsylvania started
William Penn: goals for colony; treatment of Indians
Population explosion in British America in 18th century
French and Indian war: effects on Indians, American colonists and British
Reasons WHY America had a revolution (roughly in chronological order)
Whig ideology
Stamp Act: reasons for it, reactions to it
Crowd action: how worked, how justified
Reasons why America reacted so strongly to British taxes
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts, and colonial response to them
Fighting at Lexington and Concord: what happened and why.
George Washington: significance to American war effort
French alliance with U.S.: when, and how changed war
Yorktown: what, who, when
Key points of 1783 Peace Treaty ending Rev. War
Debate about slavery after war: why an issue then, and for whom?
Articles of Confederation; type of government under it; problems
How questions about representation resolved in Convention.
How question about slaves resolved in Convention
How Constitution different than Articles of Confederation concerning federal government
Whiskey Rebellion
Federalist and Republicans: why tension between them; how each see the other
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
1800 election: significance
Louisiana Purchase