STUDY GUIDE 3
JEFFERSON [Chapter 8-to page 236]
What new power for the Supreme Court gain from Marbury v. Madison?
Why did Spain give away Louisiana?
What role does Louisiana play in Napoleon’s plans for France?
What events led Jefferson to attempt to buy New Orleans? 
What events led Napoleon to sell Louisiana?
Identify the purposes and places of the Lewis & Clark expedition and Zebulon Pike expeditions. 
What circumstances led to Alexander Hamilton’s death? 
What plot was Aaron Burr involved with concerning the western territories?  Why did the plot fail?  How did Burr avoid conviction for treason?  What precedent for future treason trials was set by this case?
TERMS: Treaty of San Ildefonso

FOREIGN AFFAIRS [Chapter 8, p. 236-]
Be familiar with the events that inflamed anti-British feelings in the United States.
Identify the provisions of the Embargo Act of 1807, the Nonintercourse Act of 1809, and Macon’s Bill Number 2.
What was Prophet’s appeal to Indians in the old NW?
What final events led to war with Great Britain?
TERMS: Tecumseh, Battle of Tippecanoe

WAR OF 1812 [Chapter 8, p. 236-]
What was Madison’s battle plan and why did it fail?  How did the war expose sectional differences throughout the United States?
What was the British battle plan in 1814?  What overall result were the British hoping for?
What does the phrase “status quo ante bellum” mean?
TERMS: Battle of New Orleans, Treaty of Ghent

BOUNDARIES [Chapter 9]
What are the provisions of the Convention of 1818 and the Rush-Bagot Agreement?
Why did President Monroe send Andrew Jackson to Florida?
What steps would be necessary for Spain to perform before the US would leave Florida?
What are the provisions of the Adams-Onis Treaty?
What are the three principles of the Monroe Doctrine?  Why was the United States unable to enforce its principles?

TRANSPORTATION [Chapter 9]
Can you define “autarky”?  What are the elements of the “American System”?  How will the America system help the US become an autarky?
What were the problems with using rivers for transportation?  What was the economic impact of the steamboat and canals on trade?
How do improvements in transportation change agriculture and influence the western market economy?  How does this benefit eastern manufacturing?
What factors allow cotton to become the dominant crop in the South?
TERMS: Robert Fulton, Erie Canal

POLITICS [Chapter 9]
What were the provisions of the Missouri Compromise?
Why does the Democratic Party begin to fall apart after the election of 1820?
Who are the four candidates in the election of 1824?  How do their individual candidacies reflect the political fracturing of the Republican Party?
What is the “corrupt bargain” in the election of 1824?

JACKSON PRESIDENCY [Chapter 10]
Can you define “nullification”?  What crisis does it revolve around in 1832?  How does Jackson solve the Nullification Crisis?  What was the real issue in the nullification crisis and how would that issue be protected by the power of nullification?
With regard to the Indians, what are the differences in the “remove versus reform” arguments?
What are the ideas of Lewis Cass?
Where, and over what, did the Indian crisis begin?
What is Jackson’s reason for the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
What are the provisions of the Indian Removal Act and who is the act aimed at?
TERMS: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Worcester v. Georgia, Trail of Tears

THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION [Chapter 11 & 12]
What is “free will” theology?  How did it lead to a belief called “perfectionism”?  What was the effect on society at large?
What is the chief feature to come out of the Second Great Awakening in the Northern states?  Why did the South generally shy away from serious social reform?
Who are the Shakers?  Why are they unsuccessful?
What were the claims put forth by Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon?  What practices of the Mormons got them into so much trouble?
What were the plans of the American Colonization Society?
Can you define and give sufficient examples of “Moral Suasion”?  Whose tool was it?
What is the argument put forth in James Hammond’s Mudsill Theory?
What third political parties are created by the growing slavery crisis?  Why are they important?
TERMS: Oneida Community, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner

MANIFEST DESTINY [Chapter 13]
What is “Manifest Destiny”?  What are its key themes?
How is ownership of the Oregon Territory finally decided?
What part of Texas was claimed by both Texas and Mexico after Texas won its independence?
What incident does President James Polk use as an excuse to declare war on Mexico?
What are the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
How does the North view the war?  What are the provisions of the Wilmot Proviso?

NORTH & SOUTH
In the South, why was there so little investment in manufacturing?
What does a person need to be classified as a “planter”?
What are the levels and characteristics of the South’s social system?  For what reasons did those on the low end of the social system fail to rise against the slaveowners?
What were the North’s advantages in transportation and in manufacturing?
What was the legal status of slaves?  What were some of the restrictions placed on them? 
What were the dangers of being a free black in the South?
TERMS: chattel

“America and the Monroe Doctrine”
Why did Britain part ways with the Holy Alliance?  What was Britain’s concern about trade with South America?
How did the Russian Czar attempt to consolidate his grip over Alaska and Oregon?
What did Richard Rush want from George Canning in their talks about an alliance in August 1823?
What is “Greek fever”?
What “misgivings” did John Quincy Adams have about any alliances with the British?
What does the phrase” Britain’s stout wooden walls” refer to?
Be able to explain the non-colonization principle, the non-intervention principle, and the
non-entanglement principle. (THIS WILL ALSO BE DISCUSSED IN CLASS)
What promise did the Polignac memorandum make?  What effect did the memorandum have on the Czar?  How was it received in Spanish America?