Review Sheet

History 1301 – Test 4

 

NOTE: This review is intended to be a GENERAL guide to help you prepare for the upcoming test. It is not necessarily all inclusive; there may be questions on topics not specifically listed, but if you work conscientiously with the review sheet you should be adequately prepared.  

 

 

Topic 9: The Presidencies of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams

  • What was the Tallmadge amendment?
  • In trying to protect slavery, what was the “bottom line” for the South?
  • What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise?
  • What was the Rush-Bagot Agreement? The Convention of 1818? The Adams-Onis Treaty?
  • Why did John Quincy Adams not want to issue a joint statement with the British opposing European intervention in the Western Hemisphere?
  • Why would you say the Monroe Doctrine was at first a bluff?
  • What political changes did the rising spirit of democracy produce in America in the early 1800s?
  • Who were the presidential candidates in the election of 1824?
  • When and why did Jefferson’s Republican Party split? What were the names of the rival groups?
  • Why would we say that John Quincy Adams was out of place in the presidency in the 1820s?
  • What was the South Carolina Exposition and Protest? Who wrote it? What does the document tell us about changing southern attitudes?
  • What was the presidential election of 1828 like and who won this election?

 

Topic 10: The Age of Jackson

 

  • What was the spoils system?
  • What does Jackson’s handling of the tariff-nullification crisis tell us about Jackson?
  • What was Jackson’s position on the question of Indian removal? What was the Trail of Tears?
  • What was Jackson’s attitude toward the second Bank of the U.S.?
  • Why did the Bank question come up in 1832?
  • How did Jackson cripple the Bank?
  • What was the Specie Circular?
  • Who were the Whigs and what was their greatest problem? How did they try to win the election of 1836?
  • Why was Van Buren only a one-term president; what made him so unpopular?
  • What was the “log cabin” campaign for the presidency and who won it?

 

Topic 11: Territorial Expansion and rising sectional tensions

  • Who were the Abolitionists? Who were some of the better known Abolitionists?
  • Who were the Free-Soilers?
  • How did the cotton gin promote the spread of cotton production in the South?
  • How did Tyler complete the annexation of Texas?
  • How did Polk settle the Oregon question?
  • How did Polk try to deal with Mexico before the outbreak of war?
  • Why was young Congressman Abraham Lincoln called “Spotty”?
  • What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
  • What was the Wilmot Proviso?
  • How did Martin Van Buren and the Free-Soil Party influence the outcome of the election of 1848?
  • What do we mean when we say the name “Free-Soil Party” had a double meaning?

 

Topic 12: Sectional Conflict: the Union breaks up

  • What was Zachary Taylor’s view on slavery and how did he try to settle the slavery/territorial question that grew out of the Mexican War?
  • Why did southerners not like his proposal?
  • What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850?
  • Who was the Senator who was responsible for passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
  • What was the importance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and how did this lead to the organization of the modern Republican Party? What happened to the Whig Party?
  • What was the importance of “bleeding Kansas”?
  • What did Chief Justice Taney say in the Dred Scott decision?
  • What was the importance of the Illinois Senate race of 1858?
  • Who were the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates in the election of 1860?
  • What happened in the lower southern states after Lincoln’s election?
  • What was Buchanan’s view about the secession of the southern states?

 

Topic 13: Civil War

  • What was the importance of Ft. Sumter?
  • What advantages did the North have at the beginning of the war? What were the advantages of the South?
  • What effect did the Battle of Bull Run have on public opinion in the North and in the South?
  • At what battle was Grant surprised by the Confederates and almost driven into the Tennessee River? What was significant about the casualties suffered at this battle?
  • What was important about the Battle of Antietam?
  • What did the Civil War accomplish? (Look at your notes!)