AP US HISTORY
MIDTERM REVIEW
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1. Explain the role of religion in the settlement of the colonies.
2. Describe the Great Awakening
3. Describe the 17th and early 18th century rebellions against or within the
American colonies.
4. List the causes and effects of the American Revolution.
5. Constitution:
Clauses
Due Process
Bill of Rights: First Amendment
Checks and Balances
Judicial Review
Compromises
6. How did the new nation react to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic
Wars?
7. Describe the economic and political interests of the three sections of the US
in the mid 19th century.
Northeast
South
Midwest
8. How was the election of Andrew Jackson significant?
9. Describe the “cult of domesticity”, “Republican motherhood”, and successes
(if any) of the pre Civil War women’s movement.
10. Causes and effects of the Civil War, including Manifest Destiny.
EVENTS LEADING UP TO CIVIL WAR
EVENT
Sectionalism
Tariff of
Abominations
Nullification
Crisis
Gag Rule
The Missouri
DATES
WHY WAS THIS EVENT IMPORTANT?
Compromise
Texas-Oregon
Wilmot Proviso
Compromise of
1850
Fugitive Slave
Act
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Kansas Nebraska
Lecompton
Constitution
Popular
Sovereignty
Ostend Manifesto
John Brown’s Raid
on Harper’s Ferry
South Carolina
Declaration of
Secession
CAUSES OF
Northern Interpretations
CIVIL WAR
Southern Interpretations
11. Describe the strategies and weapons of the Civil War.
12. Battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Atlanta (Sherman’s March to the Sea)
13. History of Enslavement
End of international slave trade
Nat Turner
Gabriel Prosser
Frederick Douglas
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
59th Massachusetts Regiment
Emancipation
13th , 14th, 15th Amendments
Juneteenth
BLACK CODES
PRES. ANDREW JOHNSON
RADICAL REPUBLICANS &
RECONSTRUCTION
COMPROMISE OF 1877
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