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What difference existed between the old world and new world regarding the social standings of people? How are the social hierarchies more restrictive? What happened to the native population in the new world? What was the importance of the Mayflower Compact? Who signed it? What was their goal? How wa...

What difference existed between the old world and new world regarding the social standings of people? How are the social hierarchies more restrictive? What happened to the native population in the new world? What was the importance of the Mayflower Compact? Who signed it? What was their goal? How was it different than the government in England? Why did laborers come to the new world? What type of labor systems so we see during this time period? What was one of the major objectives of individuals who made the trek to the new world? After settlements were established how was life better for those who came to the new world? What were the roles of women in early American life? What was the role and expectations elites held for themselves? Why was the Virginia House of Burgesses established? What roles did it play in Virginian society? What differences in slavery begin to develop in the north as opposed to the south? Why did these differences occur? How do these differences shape society in both regions What is Republicanism mean in the 18th century? What was required initially for people to vote in the colonies? Why did some individuals/ groups in society have restrictions? Why was the Seven Years’ War fought? How did it change the relationship between England and the Colonies in the 1600s and 1700s? Understand what steps occurred and how this changed the relationship between the colonist and England. What were the listed and the significance of them: Sugar Act Stamp Act Townsend Acts Navigation Acts Intolerable Acts Tea Acts and what happened because of these? Taxation without representation Boston Massacre Who attended the First Continental Congress and what was their goal? What demographic did they come from? What is significant regarding the Battels of Lexington and Concord? What did Thomas Paine write and why was it significant to the colonies? What did Adam Smith write and why was it economically significant? What does the Declaration of Independence symbolize, how does it change the ideals of government and how does it embody the Enlightenment? What is the idea of American exceptionalism? What political principles does early Republicanism mean to the colonist and early Americans? What does democracy mean to those during the American Revolution? What do state governments expand as a right during the revolution? When thinking about the aftermath of the revolution what do the states want and expect as their rights? How do the founding fathers feel about religion? What was the religion practice that most of them followed? What is Christian liberty? What is the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith about and how does it apply to the new country? What is the view of the United States towards Native American people? How is this different than the British? What is Republican motherhood? What does it imply for women? What were the Articles of Confederation? What type of government did it establish? What were its successes and failures? What is the New Jersey Plan, the Virginia Plan, and the Connecticut Compromise? How do the above impact the new form of government created? How is the Constitution different? What did it provide for? What was it missing? How many states needed to ratify the Constitution? What were the different goals of government according to Hamiliton, Jefferson, Madison and his supporters? What were the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 and what did they try to achieve? What was the significance of Marbury v. Madison? McCulloch v. Maryland? Dred Scott v/ Sanford? What was the War of 1812? Why did it start? How did it end? How does it change America? What did the Embargo Act of 1807 achieve? Who enforced / supported it? Was it successful? What was the role of the Harford Convention? How did it impact the Federalist Party? What was the Market Revolution? How did it start? What did it change in America? What was the most significant American product? What technology helped increase this production usefulness? How does the above impact slavery? What was the goal in westward movement? What encouraged this migration? What was Manifest Destiny? What events helped to substantially increase the American factory system? What is the American System of Manufactures? What role does this have in the market revolution and the changing economy in America? How does all this feed into the idea of individualism? What does the American System call for? What role does it try to establish for government and the economy? What is nativism? How does it impact immigration and the view of who citizenship and participation in politics? When looking at the market revolution era, how does the concept of individualism apply? What do the social movements of the Second Great Awakening and the Utopian movements have upon society? Why are they formed? What do they call for? How does it influence society? How does Jackson see the roles of women and African Americans in society and politics? What are the generally beliefs in the Age of Jackson towards government, the economy, and different groups of people in society? Why does he think women and blacks should not vote? What is the general outlook and belief system of the Democrats during this time period? Who are the Whigs? Why did they emerge? What are they against? What is the American System? What is the economic differences between the North and South? What is the nullification crisis and what does it indicate about the issue of slavery What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820? What does it establish? What problem does it try to fix? What is the abolitionist movement? What makes it different from an antislavery effort? What is the abolitionist version of freedom? What is the Compromise of 1850? What does it call for, what does it actually do and undo? What does the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 do to intensify the slavery issue? What does the Monroe Doctrine establish- how does it change America’s outlook? How does the war with Mexico impact the slavery issue? What is meant my antebellum Southern society? What is significant about the planer class? Who is involved in this group? What is their outlook in society? How do other social/economic groups view this group? What are the goals of the abolitionist movement? How does this organization change over time? Who supports it? What are the goals- are they all the same? What is this groups concept of freedom? What other social group does this organization support? What is the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention? What document do they create? What are the free soil, Know nothings, and free labor arguments? What do each support/advocate? What are their roles in the slavery debate? What are the major points made during the Lincoln-Dougals debates of 1858? What causes the South to finally declare separation form the Union? What do they stand for? Does Lincoln support full emancipation- why? Understand Lincoln’s beliefs on the slave issue. What was the Dread Scott about? What was the decision? What does the Confederacy fight for? Who is in charge? What do they want to achieve? What makes the Civil War such a different war than any in the past? Why is it called the first modern war? What does the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1863 declare? How does it change what was stated before? And how the country would move forward? During the Civil War, what legislation is passed? How does the Civil War change society: politically, economically, and socially? Does the federal government increase in size? Does the war benefit labor and industrial states? What are the goals of Reconstruction? How does the South and the North see Reconstruction differently? What are the problems with it? How did the Civil War change to rights of the freed slaves political, economically (property), and socially? Do these changes stay in effect? What is the goal of the Freedman’s Bureau? What were the Radical Republicans and what did they believe? What was their plan for after the war? What do the 13, 14, and 15th Amendment call for? What are the Enforcement Acts? What are the roles of redeemers? How does Johnson deal with Reconstruction and the former traitors? Does the Civil War / Reconstruction improve the lives of the poor farmers, slaves, and plantation owners? What happened to the land in the South after the Civil War? Who owned it? What type of labor system emerged?