Terms to Study for 1st Test (2007) - UPDATED

Here are some terms that you should study for the upcoming test. The IDs will be drawn directly from this list, but not all of these are necessarily of equal weight. The terms come from both the reading and the lectures. Ask any questions as comments on this posting. I am doing this on the road without the books in front of me, so check back in a day or two for any changes or second thoughts.

• Sectional crisis cast of characters: Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, Charles Sumner, John Brown, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Henry Clay, James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren, John Wilkes Booth
  
• Missouri Compromise
• Mexican-American War
  
• Wilmot Proviso
• Free Soil
  
• Compromise of 1850
  
• Whigs
  
• doughfaces
• "Black Republicans"
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• popular sovereignty
  
• Bleeding Kansas
• Lecompton Constitution
  
• Election of 1860
• secession
• police power
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Reconstruction [broad outlines]
  
• protective tariff
• National Guard
• greenbacks
• patriarchy: as family structure & political model
  
• role of women: coverture
  
• child-rearing: "breaking the will"
• Protestantism: Calvinism, "election," sola scriptura
  
• New England Primer
  
• Great Chain of Being
• Divine Right of Kings
• royal touch
  
• Filmer, Robert
• Stuarts
  
• sovereignty
  
• Hobbes, Thomas
  
• "imperium in imperio" (body metaphor)
  
• original sin
• Eastern Woodlands Indian culture: population patterns, agriculture, gender roles, family structure, clans, captives, beloved men, ideas of land ownership, fur trade
  
• Beaver Wars
  
• "white Indians"
  
• Iroquois Confederacy
• Powhatan Confederacy
• Jamestown
  
• Early Virginia cast of characters: Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechanacanough, Captain John Smith, John Rolfe
  
• Colonial crops: tobacco, rice, indigo
• joint-stock companies
  
• Virginia Company of London
• Laws Divine, Moral, and Martial
• indentured servants
• "transportation"
  
• 17th-century Virginia society (gender ratio, life expectancies, social structure)
  
• vacuum domicilium
• "waste" land
• Pilgrims
• Plymouth Colony
  
• Wampanoags
• Massasoit
• Tisquantum
  
• King Philip's War
• Spanish Empire
• Aztecs
• Tenochtitlan
  
• reconquista
• conquistadores
• requerimiento
• berdaches
  
• Papal "donation"
  
• Cortes, Hernan
• syncretism
• English vs. Spanish patterns of colonization