Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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 

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