Final Exam Study Guide

Final Study Guide; Birzer

History of the Early American Republic (aka, “Jacksonian America”, H302)

Final: Worth 40% of your semester grade

I will provide the blue books for the exam.  For each section, I am assuming your knowledge of the books assigned and the lectures given.  You will be graded on knowledge as well as wisdom.

Section 1.  Possible essay questions.  The essay is worth 35 percent of your final examination grade.

•   Explain why and how democracy, nationalism, and imperialism intertwined during the time period, 1807-1848.
•   Did Republican Virtue survive the Second Great Awakening?  Why or Why not?  If so, how?
•   Compare Tocqueville’s and Calhoun’s criticisms of democracy.
•   In what ways did the emerging culture of letters shape, delimit, or influence the Early American Republic, 1807-1848?

Section 2.  Ids.  You will be given six, and you will have to answer four.  In each of the four, be sure to address the how, what, who, where, when, and, most important, why (that is, the significance and context).  Each answer is worth 10 percent of your final examination grade.

Anti-masonry

Bank Veto

Battle of the Alamo

Book of Mormon

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

Daniel Webster

Democratic Party

Force Bill

Henry D. Thoreau

Henry Clay

Indian Removal Act

James K. Polk

James Fenimore Cooper

John Tyler

John C. Calhoun

Joseph Smith

Martin Van Buren

Moses and Stephen Austin

Nathaniel Hawthorne

nativism

Nicholas Biddle

nullification

Orestes Brownson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Santa Anna

South Carolina Exposition and Protest

Tariff of Abominations

Texas Revolution

Thomas Hart Benton

Trail of Tears

Transcendentalism

Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo

Unitarianism

Ursaline Monastery Riot (Massachusetts)

Webster-Hayne Debates

Whig Party

William Leggett

Winfield Scott

Zachary Taylor

Section 3.  25 short answer questions.  This section is worth, roughly, 25 percent of your final examination grade.