POTENTIAL TERMS

On the test you will find a selection of the following terms and be asked to chose a certain number to write on.  I will not test you on material not presented in this study guide.

The Articles of Confederation
Shays Rebellion
The Annapolis Convention
Republicanism
James Madison
The Virginia Plan
The New Jersey Plan
The Connecticut Compromise
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Bill of Rights
Alexander Hamilton
Broad v. Strict Construction
Report on Public Credit
First Bank of the United States
Report on Manufactures
Democratic-Republicans
The Whiskey Rebellion
National Road
Louisiana Purchase
Chesapeake Incident
Embargo Act
James Madison
War of 1812
Hartford Convention
“Mixed” agriculture
Barter exchange
Cash-crop agriculture
Artisans
Market Economy
Steamboats
Erie Canal
American System of Manufactures
Middle Class
Three-fifths compromise
Plantation System
Gradual Emancipation
The Cotton Gin
“King Cotton”
Black Hawk’s War
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Indian Removal Act
Treaty of New Echota
Indian Territory
Trail of Tears

POTENTIAL TOPICS FOR ESSAYS

• Political ideologies in the Early Republic period: notably Hamilton and Jefferson
• The transformations of the market economy and its impact on urban and rural Americans
• The origins, development, and nature of slavery