- The document provides information about key events and people from the period of early American history known as Creating a Nation through Reconstruction. It includes details on presidents like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, as well as events like the Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812, Monroe Doctrine, Nullification Crisis, Mexican-American War, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott case, Civil War battles, Emancipation Proclamation, Reconstruction plans, amendments, Black Codes, and the Compromise of 1877. Multiple choice and short answer questions are also included to test understanding of these topics.

1. Domain 2 - Creating a Nation
to Reconstruction
Work Session
● Domain 2 Assignment (35 min)
● Domain 2 Discussion
Closing
● Finish Domain 2 Assignment for HW
Domain 2
Day 1

2. Domain 2 - Creating a Nation
to Reconstruction
Work Session
● Domain 2 Assignment (35 min)
● Domain 2 Discussion
Closing
● Domain 3 A/B Test for HW.
Domain 2
Day 2

3. Domain 3
Unit 3: Early Republic, Expansion, & Reform
Unit 4: Sectionalism, Civil War, & Reconstruction

4. What was the significance of
Washington’s Farewell Address?

5. Washington does not want to set up
alliances with other countries, from
now on.

6. List a precedent that was
established under Washington’s
Presidency

7. 2 terms, non-intervention, creates
cabinet

8. Why was the
Sedition Act
created during
the John Adam’s
Presidency?

9. The acts were passed to protect
John Adams from his critics (limited
the power of the press).

10. How did Adam’s
Sedition Act
influence the
election of 1800?

11. Lost him the election, democrats-
republican party takes control of
executive branch and congress.

12. Why did Thomas Jefferson think twice
about the Louisiana Purchase?
Article IV Section 3.
New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no
new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any
other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more
states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of
the states concerned as well as of the Congress.

13. He thought that it was
unconstitutional to purchase new
land

14. How did the Louisiana Purchase benefit
America?

15. To double the size of America and
gain the Mississippi River

16. What two
adventurers
explored the land
gained by the
Louisiana
Purchase?

17. Lewis and Clark

18. Why did James Madison declare war on
Britain in the War of 1812?

19. British aggression at sea
(impressment) and in Northwest
territory

20. How did the War
of 1812 impact
America?

21. Led to an increase in American
Nationalism

22. What was the
significance of
James
Monroe’s
presidency?

23. Monroe Doctrine

24. What was the
significance of
the Monroe
Doctrine?

25. He was concerned about national
security, Spanish American empire
declined in the Americas, and British
desire to expand into the western
hemisphere

26. List 3 significant
results of Andrew
Jackson’s Presidency
(JACKSONIAN
DEMOCRACY)?

27. All white males over 21 can vote,
Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal
Act

28. How did Jacksonian
Democracy impact
white males over 21
years old?

29. Property ownership was no longer a
voting requirement for white males

30. What Presidents
was involved in the
Nullification Crisis?

31. Andrew Jackson

32. What South
Carolina Senator
was involved in the
Nullification Crisis?

33. John C. Calhoun

34. Define Nullify

35. To cancel, void

36. Why did South
Carolina want
to nullify the
tariffs of 1828
and 1832?

37. They thought the tariff hurt the
South and help the North financially

38. What was
the result of
the
Nullification
Crisis?

39. Leads to an increase in State’s
Rights and Sectionalism

40. What was the
significance of
the Indian
Removal Act?

41. Native Americans were force to
move to reservations west of the
Mississippi

42. List three items include in Henry Clay’s
American System

43. Increase tariffs, improve roads and
canals, and increase federal funding

44. What was the industrial and economic
purpose of the American System?

45. Increased commerce and growth in
America, connected the eastern,
southern and western regions of
America

46. What was the
significance of
the Second
Great
Awakening?

47. Showed people could influence
change in American, Reform
Movements

48. List reform
movements
included in the
Second Great
Awakening?

49. Temperance, public school, and
women’s suffrage movement

50. What was the
importance of
the temperance
movement?

51. Decrease alcohol use in America

52. What was the
purpose of the
Seneca Falls
Conference?

53. Women’s Rights Protest

54. Why did slavery
become an
import political
issue in
America?

55. Increase in slave rebellions and the
abolitionist movement

56. Define: Abolitionism

57. To end slavery

58. What was the
impact of the
Missouri
Compromise?

59. Keeps political balance in the
Senate, Southerners happy, Led to
the admission of states from the
Louisiana Territory

60. •How did the
Missouri
Compromise
impact the
following states?
•Missouri:
•Maine:

61. Missouri becomes a slave state,
Maine becomes a free state

62. What was the
geographic
impact of the
Missouri
Compromise?

63. 36, 30 line and kept the balance
between slave and free states

64. Which president
promoted Manifest
Destiny by annexing
Texas and Oregon?

65. James K. Polk

66. List the states
were added as
a result of the
Mexican-
American
War?

67. California, New Mexico, Arizona

68. •What did the
following regions
want to do with the
land gained from
the Mexican
American War?
•Southern States:
•Northern States:

69. Southern States: Slave States
Northern States: Free States

70. Define:
Sectionalism

71. The division between different
regions in the United States

72. List 3 provision included in the
Compromise of 1850?

73. Fugitive Slave Act, California
becomes a free state, end of slave
trade in Washington D.C.

74. Why did
politicians
create the
Compromise of
1850?

75. To resolve the issue that came out
of gaining all the land from Mexico.

76. What was the
political
significance of
the Kansas-
Nebraska Act?

77. Showed popular sovereignty failed
and the increased the division
between the North and South

78. Define: Popular Sovereignty

79. Rule by the people, when the
population is allowed to vote on a
political issue

80. Who was Dred
Scott?

81. Enslaved slave, that unsuccessfully
sues for his freedom

82. What was the
significance of
Scott v Sanford?

83. African Americans have no right to
sue, and Congress can’t rule slavery
unconstitutional in any U.S. territory

84. Who was
John Brown?

85. Famous white abolitionist, decided
to fight slaver with violence and
killing

86. •How did the
following
regions feel
about John
Brown’s Raid on
Harpers Ferry?
•South:
•North:

87. South thinks John Brown is a terrorist,
North thinks John Brown is a martyr

88. What president was
elected in 1860?

89. Abraham Lincoln

90. How did the
Presidential
Election of
1860 impact
the United
States?

91. South Carolina votes to secede the
United States and other southern
states follow

92. List the four events that led to the Civil
War

93. Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Brown’s Raid
Scott v. Sanford
Election of Lincoln

94. Which side
(North or South)
had the
economic
advantage during
the Civil War?

95. North

96. Define: Habeas
Corpus

97. The legal rule that anyone
imprisoned must be taken before a
judge to determine if the prisoner is
being legally held in custody

98. Why did
Lincoln
suspend
habeas corpus
in the North?

99. To jail Confederate sympathizers in
the North during a national
emergency (Civil War)

100. Why did
Lincoln issue
the
Emancipation
Proclamation?

101. Lincoln gave Northerners a moral
motive in their fight against the
South.

102. Why did Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg
Address?

103. To turn the war into a fight over
slavery and for the soldiers who had
fallen in battle

104. •What were the roles of the following
leaders during the Civil War?
•Ulysses S. Grant:
•William T. Sherman:
•Jefferson Davis:
•Robert E. Lee:
•Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson:

105. Ulysses S. Grant:
Commanding General of Union
Army, accepted surrender of Gen.
Lee to end Civil War (Appomattox
Court House)

106. William T. Sherman:
Served under General Grant,
accepts the surrender of all
Confederate armies in the Carolinas,
Georgia and Florida.

107. Jefferson Davis:
President of the Confederacy

108. Robert E. Lee:
Only Southern General who won
major battles, surrenders to Gen.
Grant to end Civil War (Appomattox
Court House)

109. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson:
Served under General Lee, Lee’s
right hand man, died in battle

110. • What was the significance of the following
battles during the Civil War?
•Fort Sumter:
•Antietam:
•Vicksburg:
•Gettysburg:
•Battle of Atlanta:
•Sherman’s March to the Sea:

111. Fort Sumter:
Confederates attack
a federal the Federal
fort in South
Carolina, beginning
of the Civil War

112. Antietam:
Turning Point,
South’s failure to win
encouraged Lincoln
to issue the
Emancipation
Proclamation

113. Vicksburg:
Turing Point,
North gains
control of the
Mississippi River
and divides the
South in half.

114. Gettysburg:
Turning Point, South
gives up attempts to
invade the North,
Lincoln delivers
Gettysburg Address

115. Battle of Atlanta:
Grant and
Sherman use Total
War win the
Battle, North
knows it will win
the war, Lincoln
wins reelection

116. Sherman’s March
to the Sea:
Total War

117. Define:
Reconstruction

118. Economic and Political Rebuilding of
the South

119. What was the purpose of Lincoln’s
Second Inaugural Address?

120. Urged Americans not to punish the
South for the Civil War, instead he
urged reconstruction of the South
“with malice toward none; with
charity for all”

121. What was the purpose of Lincoln’s
and Johnson’s Presidential
Reconstruction Plan?

122. To urge no revenge on former
Confederate States and readmit the
Southern states to the Union as
quickly as possible

123. What was the
purpose of the
Congressional
Reconstruction
Plan?

124. To punish the South for the Civil
War and secure the rights of the
newly freed slaves.

125. What was the
significance of
Lincoln’s
Assassination?

126. Allowed Congressional
Reconstructionist to enforce harsh
actions against the South.

127. •List the two reasons
Andrew Johnson was
impeached?
(ANSWER A and B)
• What law did he
break?
• What was the
political reason?

128. What law did he break? Tenure of
Office Act
What was the political reason? They
did not like him

129. Define Impeachment

130. Accusing a political figure of a crime,
usually the President or a judge

131. Define Acquitted

132. To relieve from a charge or fault or
crime; declare not guilty

133. What groups
benefited from
the Bureau of
Refugees,
Freedmen, and
Abandoned
Lands?

134. Negotiated contracts between
freedmen and white landowners and
set up schools for African Americans

135. What was the significance of the 13,
14, 15 Amendment?

136. 13th: Freed the slaves
14th: Gave slaves citizenship
15th: Voting rights for slaves

137. How did the 13th,
14th, and 15th
Amendments
impact the
relationship
between the state
and federal
government?

138. The federal government gained
power over state government

139. What was the significance of the
Black Codes?

140. Laws written to control the lives of
slaves in ways slaveholders had
formerly controlled the lives of their
slaves

141. The Black Codes and the Ku Klux
Klan were attempts by the South to
……

142. Resist racial equality during
Congressional Reconstruction

143. What did the North gain in the
Presidential Election of 1876?

144. The election of President Rutherford
B. Hayes

145. What did the South gain in the
Presidential Election of 1876?

146. The removal of federal troops from
the South

147. What unofficially ends the
Reconstruction?

148. Compromise of 1877 or The Great
Betrayal