Midterm Study Session

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Midterm Study Guide, Jacksonian (h302) 2012

Midterm Study Guide, H302--Jacksonian; Birzer

Part I: Essay (worth 40% of your midterm grade)

• Explain the ways in which the Jefferson and Madison administrations reshaped the constitutional understanding of the United States.
• Explain the ways in which the rise of a democratic ethos remade (or attempted to remake) the American republic.
• In what ways was the War of 1812 commensurate (or not) with republican theory?

Part II: Terms (four total; worth a total of sixty percent of your midterm grade)

Terms A: Last of the Mohicans (will answer one; worth 15% of your grade; make sure you incorporate any ideas that might have been presented in lectures as well)

• Natty
• Cora
• Uncas
• Magua
• Duncan
• David
• Alice
• Battle of Fort William Henry

Terms B: Tecumseh (will answer one; worth 15% of your grade; make sure you incorporate any ideas that might have been presented in lectures as well)

• Tecumseh
• Tenskwatwa
• Prophetstown
• Shawnee culture
• Treaty of Greenville
• Battle of Prophetstown
• William Henry Harrison
• Battle of the Thames

Terms C: from What Hath God Wrought (will answer two; worth 30% of your grade; make sure you incorporate any ideas that might have been presented in lectures as well)

• Samuel Morse
• republicanism
• Santa Fe Trail
• National Road
• Creek War
• John Marshall
• Fur Trade
• Algiers War
• Madisonian Platform
• Second Bank of the U.S.
• Great Migration