AP United States History-- Unit Three Study Guide
Due November 30, 2012
Text Chapters:
Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism
Chapter 9: Jacksonian America
Chapter 10: America’s Economic Revolution
Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform
Reading Questions: Think about these questions before, during, and after the reading you do. If you
understand their complexity and feel confident in using information from the text and the
supplementary reading in answering these very general questions, you should under the period well.
Identifications: Write down the important aspects regarding each term on an index card. On your card
explain WHY the term is important. If you do not do this, you will not get credit.
Questions and Themes: By the end of this unit, through reading, homework, and class discussion we will
have covered these questions and topics. Keep this list at the back of your mind as you study and read
throughout the unit. Be prepared to discuss these questions in class. This list will also be a good review
sheet when you study for the AP exam. You do NOT have to turn these questions in. They may
however be used as Free Response Questions on tests.
Keep the following in mind as you answer these questions and all future study questions for me.
 You don’t need complete sentences if it is easier to make lists or use phrases. Bullet points are a
useful tool.
 Include enough information so that you demonstrate that you understand the major points, but
don’t go overboard making your life an utter misery.
 Think of this as a guided outline of the reading with my questions helping you focus on what is
important.
 Keep an eye on the Identification items. As one of them is mentioned in the readings, make
sure you learn it.
 If a question has two parts, answer both!
 The Reading Questions may be answered by typing but the Identifications must be handwritten
on index cards. This is so you can carry them with you to study anywhere you go.
 This is a homework grade that is due the day of the test. There is no exception!
AP United States History-- Unit Three Study Guide
Due November 30, 2012
Reading Questions
1. How did John Marshall mold a Federalist interpretation of law? Summarize the issues and
significance of the following important Supreme Court cases: Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v.
Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, Fletcher v. Peck, and Dartmouth College v. Woodward.
2. Summarize or make a bullet list of the social and political changes of this period. How were states
starting to become both more and less democratic?
3. What were the issues involved in the Missouri Compromise? What was the final deal?
4. What was the Second Great Awakening and how did it affect American society?
5. Summarize the information on the political effects of the following: the election of 1824, the
American System, the Tariff of 1828, and the election of 1828.
6. Make a bullet-point list of the information on the rise of political parties.
7. Summarize the information on politics: Spoils System, Kitchen Cabinet, veto of the National
Road (Maysville) Bill.
8. Summarize the following aspects of Jackson’s presidency: the crisis over the Tariff of
Abominations, the war over the bank, and Indian Removal.
9. How did states apply Jacksonian principles on the state level?
10. Make a bullet-point list of the information on the Whig Party.
11. Summarize information on the Panic of 1873.
12. Summarize the information on Van Buren’s presidency and the election of 1840.
13. Make a bullet-point list summarizing the information of the rise of the factory system, the textile
industry, and the labor movement.
14. How did the economy change in this period? Include information on migration, transportation,
and urbanization
15. Summarize the information on the changes in social classes.
16. What was the connection between reform, religious revivalism, and the new business ethics.
17. What was the impact of the increased immigration in this period on the United States.
18. Summarize the main ideas of transcendentalism. Who were the other writers associated with this
movement? What was Brook Farm?
19. Summarize the information on the various other communalist religious movements of this period:
the Shakers, Oneida Community, and the Mormons.
20. Who were the opponents of abolitionism and what were the methods they used?
21. What was the role of women in this era?
22. How did marriage, the role of women, and family life change in this period? Make a list.
Identifications
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American
Nationalism
Marbury v. Madison
judicial review
McCulloch v.
Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Fletcher v. Peck
Dartmouth College v.
Woodward
Era of Good Feeling
8. St. Jean de
Crevecoeur
9. Eli Whitney and
Cotton Gin
10. Tallmadge
Amendment
11. Missouri
Compromise
12. Rush-Bagot Treaty
13. Adams-Onis
(Transcontinental)
Treaty
14. Second Bank of the
U.S.
15. Panic of 1819
Jacksonian
Democracy
16. Corrupt Bargain
17. Election of 1824
18. Election of 1828
19. Jacksonian
Democracy
20. Spoils system
21. Caucus System
AP United States History-- Unit Three Study Guide
Due November 30, 2012
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Kitchen Cabinet
Peggy Eaton Affair
Whigs
Maysville Road Veto
Election of 1832
John C. Calhoun
Tariff of
Abominations
Nullification
Daniel Webster
SC Exposition and
Protest
Jefferson Day Dinner
Compromise Tariff of
1833
Force Bill
Martin Van Buren
Henry Clay
Nicholas Biddle
Bank Recharter Bill
Pet Banks
Roger B. Taney
Specie Circular
Panic of 1837
Indian Removal Act
of 1830
Black Hawk War
Trail of Tears
Worcester v. Georgia
Economic
Revolution
Samuel Slater
Francis Cabot Lowell
Waltham Plan
Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin
Interchangeable
parts
National Trades
Union
Working Men’s
Parties
National Road
Erie Canal
Robert Fulton
Transportation
Revolution
59. Samuel F.B. Morse
60. Henry Clay’s
American System
61. Nativism
62. Know-Nothing Party
Women’s and
Reform Movements
63. Republican Mothers
64. Catherine Beecher
65. “Cult of Domesticity”
66. Dorothea Dix
67. Horace Mann
68. Noah Webster
69. The McGuffey
Reader
70. American
Temperance
Movement
71. Lucretia Mott
72. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
73. Seneca Falls
Convention
74. Declaration of
Sentiments and
Resolutions
75. Susan B. Anthony
76. Prison Reform
Movement
Intellectual
Movements
77. Transcendentalism
78. Romanticism
79. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
80. Henry David Thoreau
81. Walden
82. “On Civil
Disobedience”
83. Margaret Fuller
84. Louisa May Alcott
85. The Last of the
Mohicans
86. Moby Dick
87. Nathaniel
Hawthorne
88. Brook Farm
89. Edgar Allan Poe
90. Washington Irving
91. Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
92. Walt Whitman
93. Alexis de Tocqueville
94. Hudson River Art
school
Slavery and
Abolitionism
95. American
Colonization Society
96. Gag Rule
97. William Lloyd
Garrison
98. The Liberator
99. American Antislavery
Society
100. Angelina and Sarah
Grimke
101. Nat Turner’s Revolt
102. Log Cabin Campaign
103. Webster-Ashburton
Treaty
Religious
Movements
104. Charles G. Finney
105. Second Great
Awakening
106. Mormons
107. Joseph Smith
108. Brigham Young
109. Utah
110. Oneida Community
111. Shakers
112. Unitarian Church
113. African American
Churches
114. African Methodist
Episcopal Church
115. Sojourner Truth
116. Frederick Douglass
117. Free Soil Party
118. Liberty Party
119. Underground
Railroad
AP United States History-- Unit Three Study Guide
Due November 30, 2012
Questions and Themes
By the end of this unit, through reading, homework, and class discussion we will have covered
these questions and topics. Keep this list at the back of your mind as you study and read
throughout the unit. Be prepared to discuss these questions in class. This list will also be a good
review sheet when you study for the AP exam.
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5.
What was the impact of the War of 1812?
What led to the collapse of the Federalist Party?
What were the foreign policy accomplishments of the Monroe administration?
Was it truly an Era of Good Feelings? Were there underlying tensions?
What divisions existed between the North and South in this time?
Economic Changes
6. What elements contributed to the economic growth of the U.S. during this period?
7. What were the reasons for increased urbanization during this period? What were the changes that
resulted from that expansion?
8. What was the impact of economic change and urbanization during the first half of the 19th century
on the family and the role of women?
9. What was the impact of increased immigration on American society and politics?
10. What technological advances made in this period and how did those advances alter American
society?
11. How and why did the life of the working class change in this period?
12. What effect did the revolution in transportation have on American society, economics, and
politics? Did the changes in transportation increase or decrease sectionalism?
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The Jackson Presidency
How was democracy broadened during this period? Who benefited and who didn’t?
Was this truly the “Age of the Common Man?” Why or why not?
To what extent did Jacksonian Democracy reflect the social and economic developments in the
nation?
What were the crises during this period? How were each resolved?
What signs are there of developing sectionalism during this period?
What was the status of minorities during this period?
Compare and contrast Jacksonian Democracy and Jeffersonian Democracy.
What issues divided the Whigs and Democrats?
The Age of Reform
21. How did the philosophy of the Transcendentalists encourage people to reform their own society?
22. To what extent did religious and reform movements of the period extend democratic ideals?
23. How did these early 19th century reform movements for abolition and women’s rights illustrate
strengths and weaknesses of democracy in America?
24. What is similar and different in the various religious movements of the time? What accounts for
the increasing interest in religious experiences and expression?
25. Compare and contrast the First and Second Great Awakenings.
26. What kinds of institutions and cultural developments established a national identity?
27. To what extent did a truly American culture develop in this period?