Review

1. Focus on the following when studying:
1. Period of time
2. Basic explanation of what happened
3. Key people involved
3. How did it impact the US both positively and
negatively
4. Key Terms/People and other topics I stressed in
class
Include pictures/maps and sources

2. Ten Events That Shaped US History to 1877
Native Americans Coming and Going(Forced)(10,000
years ago)
Exploration(1492-early 1600’s)
Colonization(early 1600’s-1770’s)
Revolutionary War(1775-1783)
US Constitution(1789)
Westward Expansion(1800’s)
Texas War for Ind.(1835-36)/Mexican-American
War(1846-1848)
Civil War(1861-1865)
Reconstruction(1865-1877)

7. What did the Europeans explorers and
eventually, the United States, do to
Native Americans over the years?

13. Transcript

14. The Articles of Confederation
1781-1788
The Un-United States of America

16. Constitutional Convention-1787

17. The US Constitution-1789-Present

18. Questions
What is the US Constitution?
Why did the US Constitution come about?
What is Separation of Powers?
What is the Checks and Balance system?
Who was the “Father of the
Constitution”?

19. More Questions
What are the two houses of Congress?
How many Senators? How is that
number determined?
How many people are in the House of
Representatives? How is that number
determined?
Length of term/Age requirement
What powers does Congress have?

20. Even More Questions
What is the length of a President’s term?
How old do you have to be to be
President?
What is the longest amount of time a
President can now serve?
Which President served the longest in US
History? How long?
What powers does a President have?

21. Yes, Even More Questions
 What are the qualifications for being in the
US Supreme Court?
 How do justices of the Supreme Court get
their job?
 How can a Supreme Court Justice lose his or
her job?
 What powers does the US Supreme Court
have?
 Who is the current Chief Justice of the US
Supreme Court?
 Current Justices of the US Supreme Court

22. What is the US Constitution? What does it do?
It is the supreme law of the United States
It sets up our government and it’s
responsibilities
It protects states and people’s rights through
the amendment process
It is a “living” document

24. Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances

28. Why Did People Move West?
Define the “West” in US History
Manifest Destiny

30. Lewis and Clark Expedition

32. Texas War for Independence-1835-1836
Causes
Results

35. Mexican-American War
1846-1848
Causes
Results

38. Civil War
1861-1865
Causes
Results

40. Missouri Compromise-1820

41. Compromise of 1850

42. Dred Scott Decision-1857
7-2 Decision by the US Supreme Court
Supreme Court said that blacks were not US
citizens and could not sue in court
Said that the government could not abolish
slavery
Suddenly, slavery could be open anywhere
Greatly upset abolitionists

45. Reconstruction-1865-1877
The period of time after the Civil War in
which the South had to be rebuilt and
reorganized and brought back into the
Union
President’s Lincoln and Johnson wanted to
be easy on the South
That changed in the 1866 Congressional
election

46. Republican Radical Reconstruction
Rebuilt south economically, socially, politically and
physically
Split South into five military district controlled by US
Army
13th
, 14th
and 15th
Amendments passed
Freedmen’s Bureau set up to help former slaves
Southern governments taken over by “carpetbaggers”
and “scalawags”
These governments set up schools, raised taxes, built
railroads, helped ex-slaves, industrialized the South
Governments were accused of widespread corruption
by southerners

52. Reconstruction 1865-1877
Reconstruction left very deep divisions
between the northern states and southern
states
Once the northern governments and
military left the south, traditional rich, white
racist males took back over
Jim Crow laws and segregation was
established
African-Americans would not see the rights
they should have had in 1865 until 1964

53. The End of Reconstruction-1877
The Compromise of 1877
Unwritten deal between Northern and
Southern politicians that settled the heavily
disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was
awarded the White House over Democrat
Samuel J. Tilden
Hayes would then remove the federal troops
from the south ending Reconstruction

54. Election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes vs.
Samuel J. Tilden
Tilden won the Popular
vote and was leading
electoral vote
Four states(with 20
electoral votes) had
disputed results