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Semester Review
Chapter 8 Concepts
• Articles of Confederation
• Northwest Ordinance
• New Jersey Plan vs. Virginia Plan
• Federalists vs. Anti Federalists
Articles of Confederation
• Purpose: • to create a government after the Revolutionary War
• Effect: • weak, did not hold states together, led to Constitutional
Convention
Northwest Ordinance
• Purpose:• Establish a process for creating new states in new territory
• How it worked:• Once territory had 5,000 free adult males=form a legislature
• Once territory had 60,000 people=could apply for statehood
New Jersey Plan vs. Virginia Plan
• New Jersey Plan:• Legislative branch would have only 1 house with equal
representation
• Virginia Plan• Legislative branch would have 2 houses both based on population
• The Great Compromise• Legislative branch has 2 houses one based on population (H of R)
and one equal representation (Senate)
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
• Federalists• Wanted strong central government, money over land, supported
by rich
• People: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
• Federalists Papers: written to encourage people to accept Constitution
• Anti-Federalists• Feared strong central government, states’ rights, land over money,
supported by farmers
• People: Thomas Jefferson
Chapter 9 Concepts
• Legislative, Executive, Judicial
• Checks and Balances
• Passing a Bill
• People
Legislative (Congress)
• House of Representatives (435) and Senate (100)
• Power to make laws
• Other powers: declare war, coin money, set up postal system
• Elected by: popular vote within state
House of Representatives
• 25 years old
• Citizen for 7 years
• Live in state they represent
• 2 year term
• All bills that deal with money must start here
Senate
• 30 years old
• Citizen for 9 years
• Live in state they represent
• 6 year term
• Hold trials for impeachment
Executive
• Enforce the laws
• Head of Executive: President• 35 years old
• Natural born citizen
• Lived in US for 14 years
• Cabinet
• Electoral College• 270 to win
• Wisconsin=10
Judicial
• Interpret the laws
• Highest Court: Supreme Court• District
• Court of Appeals
• 9 Supreme Court Justices
• Appointed by president, approved by senate
Checks and Balances
Passing a Bill
• Start in either house or senate
• Committee to subcommittee
• Discuss bill on floor• Senate=filibuster
• Passes one house goes to other
• If passed president can=sign or veto• Veto can be overridden by ¾ majority vote in both houses
People
• President: Obama
• Senators: Tammy Baldwin, Ron Johnson
• US Representative: Gwen Moore
• Wisconsin State Senator: Alberta Darling
Chapter 10 Concepts
• Bill of Rights• Secured certain rights people had
• Speech, press, right to bear arms, due process etc
Chapter 11 Concepts
• Whiskey Rebellion
• Election of 1800
• Alien and Sedition Acts
• Loose vs. Strict Construction
Whiskey Rebellion
• Congress passes bill that taxes luxury items including whiskey
• Farmers refuse to pay
• Washington leads 13,000 militia to end rebellion
Election of 1800
• Adams (Federalists) vs. Jefferson (D-R) vs. Burr (D-R)
• Tie between Jefferson and Burr
• Hamilton supports Jefferson
• 12th Amendment
Alien and Sedition Acts
• Extended time it took to become citizen
• Limited what was allowed to be written about government
• Designed to keep Federalists in power• John Adams
Loose vs. Strict Construction
• If Constitution didn’t say you could do it, you can’t (Loose, Jefferson)
• If Constitution didn’t say you couldn’t do it, you can (Strict, Hamilton)
• National Bank, power of federal government
Chapter 12 Concepts
• Jay’s Treaty
• XYZ Affair
• Embargo Act
• War of 1812
• Monroe Doctrine
Jay’s Treaty
• British in Ohio Valley
• John Jay creates treaty that has British leave territory
• France is upset US made treaty with British
XYZ Affair
• French impressing ships
• Adams sends representatives to negotiate treaty
• French refuse to listen until tribute paid
• Adams refuses tribute, tensions rise
Embargo Act
• Jefferson passes hoping to end impressments
• No trade allowed between European nations
• Huge failure
War of 1812
• Causes:• Impressment of sailors
• Seizing US ships
• British give Native American weapons
• Key Events:• Invasion of Canada=fail
• Washington burned (White House, Madison)
• Battle of New Orleans (Jackson)
• Treaty of Ghent
Monroe Doctrine
• Latin America revolutions in Mexico and South America
• President Monroe declares that North and South America are free/independent nations, any attack on those nations is an attack on the US
Chapter 14
• Indian Removal Act• Trail of Tears
Indian Removal Act
• Indian tribes could negotiate treaties to relocate
• Jackson ends up forcing removal of tribes in South
• Trail of Tears• Cherokee tribes forced to march hundreds of miles from
Florida/Georgia to territory in West (Oklahoma)
• Thousands die on the way
Chapter 15 Concepts
• LA Purchase
• Lewis and Clark
LA Purchase
• Causes:• US wanted European power out of North America
• France needed money to finance war with Britain
• Haiti lost, France no need for LA territory
• Manifest Destiny (right/duty to expand across NA)
• Effects:• US x2 in size
• Resources
• Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark
• Expedition to map new territory
• Maps, detailed journal about resources in territory, contact with Natives
• Opened up expansion in New Territory
Chapter 19 Concepts
• North
• South
North
• Geography: rocky, good coast, some good farmland, cold winters, hot summers
• Economy: based on business and industry, a variety of jobs
• Transportation: railroads very important, man made canals
• Society: free, African-Americans not equal, variety of people, immigrants
South
• Geography: flat farm land, rivers, longer growing seasons
• Economy: based on farming, plantations, few factories
• Transportation: used rivers, few railroads
• Society: three tier society, slaves
Chapter 21 Concepts
• Wilmot Proviso
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Lincoln-Douglas debates
• Dred Scott
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Harper’s Ferry
Wilmot Proviso
• An amendment that proposed the outlaw of slavery in land gained in Mexican War (Mexican Cession)
• Failed
Missouri Compromise
• Missouri slave state, Maine free state, 36 30 line (above free, below slave)
• Henry Clay
Compromise of 1850
• California free, Utah and New Mexico popular sovereignty, slave trade ended in DC
• Fugitive Slave Law• Southerners could retrieve runaways in North
• Northerners had to help
• Those who helped slaves would be jailed
Lincoln-Douglas debates
• Lincoln, slavery a moral issue, “A house divided”, all slave or all free
• Made Lincoln very popular
Dred Scott
• Slave sues for freedom using Missouri Compromise• Went to Wisconsin (free) with master and lived for a while
• Supreme Court rules (Roger Taney):• African American not a citizen, could not sue
• Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, 5th amendment (property)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Douglas wanted railroad through Kansas-Nebraska territory
• Gave these two territories popular sovereignty
• Northerners and Southerners flock there• Bleeding Kansas
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Exposed horrors of slavery
• Fueled abolitionist movement
Harper’s Ferry
• John Brown attacks federal arsenal hoping to arm slaves for a rebellion in the South; fails
• Hanged for treason, viewed as hero in North
• South fear more rebellions
Chapter 22 Concepts
• Anaconda Plan
• North vs. South
• Technology
• Battles/Places
• People
Anaconda Plan
• Blockade southern ports
• Seize Mississippi and cut confederacy in two
• Seize Richmond
• Wanted to suffocate economy
North vs. South
• North• Had to force South to surrender
• Much more resources, people and railroads
• Weaker generals, more difficult outcome
• South• Defend territory, quick big victory or drag out war
• Strong generals, home field advantage
• Fewer resources, suffer from damages of total war
• Both though war would be over quick
Technology
• Guns
• Telegraph
• Railroad
• Ironclads
• Photography
Battles/places• Bull Run
• Stonewall Jackson
• Antietam
• Bloodiest single day
• Gettysburg
• Turning point for north
• New Orleans
• Gain Mississippi, cut off trade to south
• Vicksburg
• Full control of Mississippi for North
• Sherman’s March to the Sea
• Capture supply depots in South, massive destruction (total war), helped Lincoln
• Appomattox Courthouse
• Surrender of Lee to Grant
People
• Jefferson Davis: President of Confederacy
• Northern Generals• McClellan (first northern general)
• Grant
• Sherman
• Southern Generals• Lee
• Jackson