History of American Revolution Review Sheet

History of American Revolution Review Sheet

Some Themes:

1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin: reasons for popularity of; religion in antebellum America; northern households and the transformation of northern society; domesticity, motherhood; civility and violence; temper and temperance; age of reform; Fugitive Slave Law; the sentimental novel, religious vs. secular motivations; moral commitment

2. Amistad: the closing of the international slave trade; British antislavery; slavery and law: international and domestic; testing slavery in law; legitimate and illegitimate slaves; slavery and politics; Van Buren and the politics of slavery; Calhoun and southern political power

3. the meanings of representation: virtual and actual; and taxation; and Stamp Act controversy; republican; democratic; and Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776; ; democratization; Madisonian; in Constitution of the United States; Jacksonian; Whig Party ideas of; southern ideas of in antebellum America; John C. Calhoun and concurrent majorities

4. Common Sense: reasons for popularity of; Thomas Paine; Paine’s background; Paine and the American resistance movement; and Declaration of Independence; and monarchy; American self-sufficiency; and Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776; and Protestant ideas

5. The creation of a national government: why a confederation? Articles of Confederation; confederations and republics; confederations and empires; republicanism; Robert Morris; the impost; the Annapolis Convention; Shays’ Rebellion; the “Vices of the Political System”; James Madison; Philadelphia (Constitutional) Convention; Virginia Plan; Connecticut Compromise; Supreme Law of the Land; ratification; ratifying conventions; the Federalist essays; federalists and antifederalists; antifederalism after the constitution; the Whiskey Rebellion; the Jeffersonians and the federal government

6. Expansion and expansionism; and Jeffersonian politics; Louisiana purchase; Missouri Compromise; expansion and slavery; Texas; James K. Polk; Oregon territory; Mexican War; Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850; popular sovereignty; Kansas-Nebraska Act; anti-Nebraska (Republican) party; Lincoln and the expansion of slavery