UNIT FOUR 1800-1848
AP College Board Key Concepts
4.1 The United States developed the world’s first modern mass democracy and celebrated a
new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and to
reform its institutions to match them.
4.2 Developments in technology, agriculture, and commerce precipitated profound changes in
U.S. settlement patterns, regional identities, gender and family relations, political power, and
distribution of consumer goods.
4.3 U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade, expanding its national borders, and isolating itself
from European conflicts shaped the nation’s foreign policy and spurred government and private
initiatives.
PART THREE KEY RESEARCH TERMS DUE Tuesday December 1st, 2015
With these terms give examples from the reading to explain the term, for instance; early unions
explain what types of unions, methods used by the union, results of those methods.
THE SLAVE INDUSTRY (MIG/WXT)
King Cotton
“peculiar institution”
Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
slave codes
INDUSTRY & PROBLEMS (WXT)
Industrial Revolution (American)
early unions
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Samuel F.B. Morse
railroads (where/how?)
URBAN GROWTH (MIG)
Urbanization (where? Examples?)
Immigrants (Irish/German/Catholic)
CHANGING POLITICS (POL)
Daniel Webster
Tammany Hall
MIGRATION PATTERNS (NAT/MIG)
Deep South (who/where?)
Great Plains (who/where?)
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Worchester v. Georgia
Cherokee trail of tears
COMMON MAN (NAT/POL)
universal white suffrage
popular election of the president
BELIEF (NAT)
Manifest destiny
ECONOMICS (WXT)
2nd Bank of the United States
Nicholas Biddle
Roger Taney
“pet banks”
Specie Circular
Panic of 1837
POLITICS (POL)
spoils system
“corrupt bargain”
Tariff of abominations 1828
Revolution of 1828 (election)
Andrew Jackson (spoils system/petticoat revolution)
States’ rights/nullification crisis
Webster-Hayne debate
Democrats (beliefs/leaders)
Whigs (beliefs/leaders)
EXPANSION POLITICS (POL)
Oregon territory
“fifty-four Forty or Fight”
Wilmot Proviso
WESTWARD (PEO/GEO)
mountain men (where/job?)
overland trails (where?)
gold rush (where/when?)
silver rush (where/when?)
Federal land grants
MILITARY & DIPLOMATIC EXPANSION (WOR)
Texas/ Stephen F. Austin/ Santa Ana/Sam Houston/Alamo
Mexican War (1846-1847) Zachary Taylor (causes/results?)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
California; Bear Flag Republic