AP US History Midterm Review-Thomas
Define/Explain/Discuss the following
Colonial Era through American Revolution
1. Thirteen original colonies-reasons settled
2. Plymouth/Mayflower Compact/William Bradford
3. Massachusetts Bay
4. City Upon a Hill/John Winthrop
5. Half-Way Covenant
6. Roger Williams
7. Anne Hutchinson
8. Ann Bradstreet
9. Jamestown/John Smith/John Rolfe/African Americans (1619)
10. VA House of Burgesses
11. Colonial Regions Compared: Economics, Society
12. William Penn/Quakers
13. Maryland Toleration Act
14. Mercantilism/Navigation Acts
15. Triangular Trade
16. French and Indian War
17. Sugar Act
18. Proclamation of 1763
19. Quartering Act
20. Stamp Act
21. Boston Massacre
22. Boston Tea Party
23. Intolerable/Coercive Acts
24. Patriots, Tories(Loyalists), Moderates
25. Indirect Tax/Direct Tax
26. VA Statute for Religious Freedom
27. VA Declaration of Rights
28. Second Continental Congress
29. Olive Branch Petition
30. Declaration of Independence/Principles of English Government
31. George III
32. Lexington/Concord/Valley Forge/Saratoga/Yorktown
33. France
New Nation/Jeffersonian Democracy/Era of Good Feelings
1. Articles of Confederation/Strengths and Weaknesses
2. Land Ordinance of 1785
3. Northwest Ordinance-1787
4. Shays Rebellion
5. Constitutional Convention
6. Federalists/Anti-Federalists
7. The Federalist Papers
8. George Washington
9. Thomas Jefferson
10. Alexander Hamilton
11. Hamilton’s Financial Plan
12. Washington’s Presidency: Precedents/Farewell-warnings
13. Whiskey Rebellion
14. John Adams
15. John Marshall
16. Marbury v Madison
17. McCullough V Maryland
18. Dartmouth v Woodward
19. Gibbons v Ogden
20. Federalists/Democrat Republicans-Issues
21. Alien and Sedition Acts
22. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
23. Thomas Jefferson
24. Louisiana Purchase
25. Embargo Act
26. Macon’s Bill No. 2
27. James Madison
28. War of 1812/Impressment/Treaty of Ghent
29. Hartford Convention
30. James Monroe
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Monroe Doctrine
Era of Good Feelings
Adams-Onis Treaty/ Rush-Bagot Treaty
Missouri Compromise
National Road
Age of Jackson/Reform/Sectionalism
1. Henry Clay and the American System
2. Lowell Factory/Waltham System
3. Republican Motherhood/Doctrine of Separate Spheres
4. John Quincy Adams
5. Corrupt Bargain
6. Common Man
7. Andrew Jackson/King Andrew/Veto Powers/Spoils System
8. Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears
9. Tariff o Abominations/Compromise Tariff
10. South Carolina Exposition and Protest
11. Battle against the Second Bank of the US
12. Specie Circular
13. Horace Mann
14. Dorthea Dix
15. Temperance
16. Seneca Falls
17. Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Lucretia Mott/Susan B Anthony
18. Henry Clay-The Great Compromiser
19. Daniel Webster
20. John C Calhoun
21. Stephen Douglas
22. Manifest Destiny
23. Webster-Ashburton Treaty
24. Texas admitted to the US
25. James K Polk
26. Mexican-American War
27. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
28. Expansion=Sectionalism
Civil War and Reconstruction
1. Causes of the Civil War
2. States Rights vs. Federal Supremacy
3. Compromise of 1850
4. Wilmot Proviso
5. Fugitive Slave Act/Personal Liberty Laws
6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
7. Kansas-Nebraska Act/Popular Sovereignty
8. Bleeding Kansas
9. John Brown/Pottawatomie Massacre, Harper’s Ferry
10. Dred Scott (Dred Scott v Sanford)
11. Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks
12. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
13. Election of 1860
14. Suspension of Habeas Corpus
15. Ex parte Merryman (1861)
16. Advantages/Disadvantages: North/Union/USA, South/Confederacy/CSA
17. Emancipation Proclamation
18. Black Troops
19. Results of Civil War
20. Presidential Reconstruction: Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan, Johnson’s Plan
21. Radical Republicans
22. Congressional Reconstruction/Radical Reconstruction
23. Radical Republican/Black and Tan/Black Reconstruction Governments
24. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
25. Black Codes
26. Jim Crow Laws
27. Crop Lien System/Sharecropping
28. Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
29. Freedman’s Bureau
30. Civil War Amendments: 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
31. Civil Rights Act of 1875
32. Compromise of 1877
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Contrast the values, government and economic life in Massachusetts Bay Colony with the Virginia Colony
Explain the causes of the American Revolution. Include the ways the economic and political situation changed.
What factors led to the American victory in the Revolution? Include morale, strategy, leadership, foreign aid.
Describe the major compromises in the Constitution. Did the compromises point to sectional and ideological differences?
Explain
Compare Jefferson’s and Hamilton’s views on the Constitution. Give examples of their views on major issues and explain
how this affected the development of political parties
Explain these nicknames for the War of 1812: The Second War for American Revolution, Mr. Madison’s War
What were the reasons for the issuance of the Monroe Doctrine? Did it represent a policy of isolationism or expansionism
during the early 19th century? Explain.
What limitations affected American women during the first half of the 19th century? What reform movements did women
participate in? What were the goals of leading women’s rights advocates? How did the Civil War affect the women’s
movement?
Compare the contributions of the following to American territorial growth. Include both the location and size of the growth
and the Constitutional issues involved.
Why did sectionalism grow in the 19th century? What attempts were made to reduce it? Include the effects of the growth of
transportation and industry in the North and slavery in the South.
Compare the treatment of Native Americans by the English colonists (1607-1750) and by Andrew Jackson (1830’s).
Compare the First and Second Great Awakenings. What were the reasons for each? How did each lead to change and
reform?
What were the major reform movements of the early 1800’s? What changes did they bring to American society?
What policies of Andrew Jackson illustrate the rising influence of the “common man”?
How was Manifest Destiny carried out in American policy in the ante-bellum US?
What were the major reasons for the growth of slavery after 1619? What effects did slavery have on sectionalism?
Discuss causes of the Civil War: economic, political, moral issues
Assess the validity of this statement: The Union, led by the Republican Party, won the war but lost the Reconstruction.
List the Presidents through 1881-include their dates in office
1789179718011809181718251829183718411841184518491850185318571861List the Major American Wars
1754:
1763 (Pontiac)
1776:
1798:
1811 (Tecumseh)
1812:
1814/1836: (Creeks)
1831 (Nat Turner)
1832 (Black Hawk)
1836:
1846:
1861:
Significance of Major Court Cases
1. Marbury v Madison, 1803-established federal judicial
review
2. Fletcher v Peck, 1810
3. McCullough v Maryland, 1819
4. Dartmouth College v Woodward,1819
5. Gibbons v Ogden,1824
6. Cherokee Nation v Georgia, 1831
7. Worchester v Georgia, 1832
8. Commonwealth v Hunt, 1842
9. Dred Scott (Scott v Sanford), 1857
10. Ex parte Merryman, 1861
11. Ex parte Milligan, 1866
12. Civil Rights Cases, 1883
Define the Major Treaties
1. Treaty of Paris-1863
2. Treaty of Alliance,1778
3. Treaty of Paris 1883
4. Jay Treaty,1795
5. Pinckney’s Treaty (Treaty of San Lorenzo), 1795
6. Treaty of Greenville-1795
7. Convention of 1800 (Treaty of Mortefontaine)
8. Treaty of Ghent, 1814
9. Treaty of 1818
10. Adams-Onis Treaty (Transcontinental Treaty, 1819)
11. Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1942
12. Oregon Treaty, 1846 (Treaty with Great Britain, in regards
to limits westward of the Rocky Mountains)
13. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848
14. Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 1850-US and UK agree to not
colonize Central America
15. Convention of Kanagawa, 1854-forcibly opens Japan to
American trade
16. Alaska Purchase, 1867 (Seward’s Folly, Seward’s Ice-box)
17. Burlingame Treaty-US establishes relations with China