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This chart can be used effectively to quiz yourself.  Pick out any term, and try to identify its time period and who was president.  Does the term refer to foreign policy (e.g., dealings with a foreign country) or domestic policy (e.g., an issue internal to the United States)?  Even if you don't recall immediately the meaning of the term, try to figure it out based on what you do know.

This chart can be used effectively to quiz yourself.  Pick out any term, and try to identify its time period and who was president.  Does the term refer to foreign policy (e.g., dealings with a foreign country) or domestic policy (e.g., an issue internal to the United States)?  Even if you don't recall immediately the meaning of the term, try to figure it out based on what you do know.

Quizzing yourself in this manner will both improve your test-taking skills, and identify for yourself what you need to study more.  Use the short descriptions for these terms that will be handed out in class (and which is available by email - contact me if you need a copy), or refer back to the lectures and the model answers.

Quizzing yourself in this manner will both improve your test-taking skills, and identify for yourself what you need to study more.  Use the short descriptions for these terms that will be handed out in class (and which is also available by email - contact me if you need a copy), or refer back to the lectures and the model answers.

As in baseball and in sales in business, simply try to improve your percentages with these terms.  If you know only 10%, try to improve that to 40%.  If you know 50%, then try to improve that to 75%.  If you know 70%, then strive for 90%.  Just as a batter in baseball should not be discourage by failing 2 out of 3 times to bat, you should not be discouraged by low initial percentages on this key term list.  Simply try to improve your percentages.  With effort, you'll amaze yourself at how much better you can become.  Your classmates will be working hard on this, and do not let them pass you up!

As in baseball and in sales in business, simply try to improve your percentages with these terms.  If you know only 10%, try to improve that to 40%.  If you know 50%, then try to improve that to 75%.  If you know 70%, then strive for 90%.  Just as a batter in baseball should not be discouraged by failing 2 out of 3 times at bat, you should not be discouraged by low initial percentages on this key term list.  Try to improve your percentages.  With effort, you'll amaze yourself at how much better you can become.  Your classmates will be working hard on this, and do not let them pass you up!

One approach to improving your knowledge of these key terms is simply to type or write out short descriptions of each one.  There are only 321 terms.  If you took 2 minutes for each one that you did not know, then it would take you only 1 hour to complete 30 that you did not know.  In one day you could cover nearly the entire list, and you would not like forget them for a long, long time.  Typing or writing out the meaning of something in one's own words has the effect of really burning it into one's memory! I still recall lines from Shakespeare that I wrote out by hand when I was in the eighth grade!

One approach to improving your knowledge of these key terms is to type or write out short descriptions of each one.  There are only 321 terms.  If you took 2 minutes for each one that you did not know, then it would take you only 1 hour to complete 30.  In one day you could cover nearly the entire list, and you would not like forget them for a long, long time.  Typing or writing out the meaning of something in one's own words has the effect of really burning it into one's memory. I still recall lines from Shakespeare that I wrote out by hand when I was in the eighth grade!

Our first through sixth lectures should have covered all of of the following terms, except the lectures did miss the Newburgh Conspiracy (or Address).  That was a plot among officers of the Continental Army (the Patriots fighting for the Americans in the Revolutionary War) to hold a military coup and establish martial law in order to obtain back pay that was owed to them by Congress for their military service.  The plot came to a climax when they angrily met on March 15, 1783, and were surprised by an unexpected appearance by George Washington.  He gave a short speech, but the officers were still still angry, and lacking in the respect that they usually gave to their esteemed leader.  Washington then pulled a letter from his pocket from a member of the Second Continental Congress.  But Washington was unable to read the letter without his reading glasses, and in a miraculous moment of sincere emotion, declared, "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country."  Many of the officers were suddenly moved to tears in the realization that Washington, like themselves, had sacrificed much for the country.  Washington then read the letter from Congress, and the officers abided by Congress's own timetable for paying them.

Our first through sixth lectures should have covered all of of the following terms, except the lectures did miss the Newburgh Conspiracy (or Address).  That was a plot among officers of the Continental Army (the colonial Patriots fighting in the Revolutionary War) to hold a military coup and establish martial law in order to obtain back pay that was owed to them by Congress for their military service.  The plot came to a climax when they angrily met on March 15, 1783, and were surprised by an unexpected appearance by George Washington.  He gave a short speech, but the officers were still still angry, and lacking in the respect that they usually gave to their esteemed leader.  Washington then pulled a letter from his pocket from a member of the Second Continental Congress.  But Washington was unable to read the letter without his reading glasses, and in a miraculous moment of sincere emotion, declared, "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country."  Many of the officers were suddenly moved to tears in the realization that Washington, like themselves, had sacrificed much for the country.  Washington then read the letter from Congress, and the officers subsequently abided by Congress's own timetable for paying them.

The Newburgh Conspiracy is a good story.  But develop a sensitivity or "ear" for the '''historical significance''' of each event or story in history class.  Why is this event important in the history of our nation?  The answer is this:  this event confirmed civilian authority or control over the military.  Congress, a civilian authority, decides if and when to pay the soldiers.  The soldiers have the guns, but they must submit to the civilian authority of Congress, as established by the above event

The Newburgh Conspiracy is a good story.  But develop a sensitivity or "ear" for the '''historical significance''' of each event or story in history class.  Why is this particular story important in the history of our nation?  The answer is this:  this event confirmed civilian authority or control over the military.  Congress, a civilian authority, decides if and when to pay the soldiers.  The soldiers have the guns, but they must submit to the civilian authority of Congress.

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| '''Christopher Columbus'''

| '''Christopher Columbus'''

| Declaration of Independence

| '''Declaration of Independence'''

| Shakers

| Shakers

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| Transatlantic cable/telegraph

| Transatlantic cable/telegraph

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| Colonies settled 1607-39

| '''Colonies settled 1607-39'''

| '''Thomas Jefferson'''

| '''Thomas Jefferson'''

|"'''Uncle Tom's Cabin'''"

|"'''Uncle Tom's Cabin'''"

| Scotch Irish

| Scotch Irish

| Erie Canal

| Erie Canal

| '''Sherman's march through Georgia'''

| Sherman's march through Georgia

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| '''Great Awakening'''

| '''Great Awakening'''

| King William's War

| King William's War

| Adams-Onis Treaty

| Adams-Onis Treaty

| '''Procl. of Amnesty and Reconstr.'''

| '''Procl. of Amnesty and Reconstruction'''

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| Queen Anne's War

| Queen Anne's War

| Albany Congress

| Albany Congress

| Denmark Vesey

| Denmark Vesey

| '''Appomattox Court House'''

| Appomattox Court House

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| Albany Plan of Union

| Albany Plan of Union

| Treaty of Paris

| Treaty of Paris

| caucus

| caucus

| '''Black Codes'''

| Black Codes

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| George III

| George III

| '''Colonial economy in 1763'''

| '''Colonial economy in 1763'''

| '''Andrew Jackson'''

| '''Andrew Jackson'''

| carpetbaggers

| '''carpetbaggers'''

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| Pontiac's Rebellion

| Pontiac's Rebellion

| '''Whigs'''

| Whigs

| Ku Klux Klan

| Ku Klux Klan

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| Sons of Liberty

| Sons of Liberty

| Antimasonic Party

| Antimasonic Party

|"Boss" Tweed

|'''"Boss" Tweed'''

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| Declaratory Act

| Declaratory Act

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[[Category:American History lectures]]

[[Category:American History lectures]]

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