AP US History
Benchmark #1 Review Guide
Name:
Date:
Section: Mon Tues
Instructions
You should find a spreadsheet shared with you in Google Drive and titled “US History – All Key
Terms.” It contains all 146 key terms that we’ve covered since the beginning of the year, in AP US
History and US History 2. (Wow.) You’ll also find your name next to five or six of those terms.
Your task is to complete an identification – date, definition, and significance – for each key term
you’ve been assigned. Make sure your IDs are as accurate and comprehensive as possible –
your classmates are relying on you to do a good job of this. In many cases this will require that
you update, revise, or totally rewrite what you did for homework. Use Foner and your coursepack
as first resources, but if they don’t have enough information, the Internet is your friend.
Your first-draft IDs are due by 2:30 PM on Thursday 10/22. I will add comments by Thursday
evening if I believe that revisions are necessary. If revisions are required, they are due by 5 PM on
Friday 10/23. I will compile them into a Quizlet set and make them available to all juniors by
Saturday afternoon. You’re welcome.
Over the weekend, as soon as the Quizlet set becomes available, you should start studying. The
more you review, the more you’ll get out of our benchmark review class.
Exit Ticket
“Thus, fellow citizens, have I pointed out what I thought necessary to be amended in our Federal
Constitution. I beg you to call to mind our glorious Declaration of Independence, read it, and
compare it with the Federal Constitution; what a degree of apostacy will you not then discover.
Therefore, guard against all encroachments upon your liberties so dearly purchased with the
costly expense of blood and treasure.”
A Georgian, Gazette of the State of Georgia, November 15, 1787
1. The opinion expressed in the excerpt would most likely have been held by
A.
B.
C.
D.
an advocate of republican motherhood
an Anti-Federalist
a Loyalist
an abolitionist
2. Which of the following factors contributed most directly to the views expressed in the excerpt?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The limitations placed on the federal government by the Articles of Confederation
The fear of excessive centralized authority
The efforts made to increase economic growth in the new nation
The desire to settle new territory controlled by American Indians
3. The views expressed in the excerpt contributed most directly to
A.
B.
C.
D.
the addition of the Bill of Rights shortly after the Constitution was adopted
a series of rebellions and revolutions in France, Haiti, and Latin America
the elimination of the international slave trade
the creation of a strong central government