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Common AP Essay Content Review
1.
Compare and contrast the Chesapeake and New England colonies
Chesapeake
Plantations
Slaves (Triangular Trade)
Cash crops (Tobacco)
Home schooled
House of Burgesses
2.
New England
Small Farms
Rum, logging, ship building, trade
Puritans (Education)
Town meetings
Discuss the 1st and 2nd great Awakening
Great Awakening
2nd Great Awakening
1730s-1740s
Early 1800s
Jonathon Edwards
Response to the Enlightenment
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Revivals
George Whitefield
Salvation for all
People did not have to depend on ministers Baptists, Methodists,
Mormons
Evaluate the relative importance of the following as factors prompting Americans to rebel in 1776.
Parliamentary taxation, restriction of Civil Liberties, British Military Measures, Religious & Political ideas
3.
Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation and the US Constitution
AOC Problems- weak foreign policy, congress couldn’t tax, only one branch in govt., all changes
had to be unanimous, each state had one vote, lack of national unity, States had more power
AOC Good Points- Land Ordinance of 1785, Northwest Ordinance, Treaty of Paris
US Constitution: 3 branches, bi-cameral legislature, great compromise, 3/5 compromise,
delegated and reserved powers, bill of rights, organized Federalist and a strong national
government
Q. Analyze the contributions of the following in helping establish a stable gov't after the adoption of the
constitution.
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
4.
Discuss Sectionalism compared to Nationalism
Webster Hayne Debate
John C. Calhoun and Nullification (Tariffs)
States Rights v. Federal Power
Secession
5.
Explain Jacksonian Democracy
Spoils System
Trail of Tears
Bank Wars (Jackson v. Biddle) Pet banks
Calhoun v. Jackson (Tariff of Abominations)
Kitchen Cabinet
Peggy Eaton Affair
Specie Circular
Q. The Jacksonian period (1824-1848) has been celebrated as the era of the “common man.” To what extent
did the period live up to its characterization? Consider TWO of the following in your response:
Economic development
Politics
Reform movements
6.
Reform Movements (1820-1860)
2nd Great Awakening
Transcendentalism (Brook Farm)
Communal Experiments
Shakers
Oneida Community
Temperance
Prisons/Asylums (Dix)
Public Education (Horace Mann)
Cult of Domesticity (Republican Motherhood)
Women’s Rights (Seneca Falls Convention)
Abolition (Garrison/Douglas)
American Anti-Slavery Society
7.
Populists
Omaha Platform (1892)
Farmers
Opposed trusts and banks
Political Reforms
More power to people in Govt.
Proposed direct election of senate
Initiatives
Referendums
8.
Economic Reform
Unlimited Coinage of Silver
Graduated income tax
Public ownership of RRs
Loans to farmers
Warehouses for farmers
8 hr. work day for industry
Progressives (Early 1900s)
Middle Class reform movement in US cities
Teddy Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson
Muckrakers (Sinclair, Tarbell)
Secret ballot
Direct primaries
Robert Lafollette
(Wisconsin)
Temperance
16, 17, 18, 19 Amendments
Initiative, Referendums, Recall
Social Welfare
Hull House (Jane Addams)
End Boss Rule
Control Public Utilities
Q. How did progressive reformers bring about change in the following areas between 1900-1920
1. political
9.
2. Economic
3. social
Theodore Roosevelt
Domestic Policy
Square Deal
United Mine Workers Strike
Trust Busting
RR Regulation
Elkins Act
Hepburn Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Conservation
Forest Reserve Act
10.
FDR’s New Deal
Relief
FERA (1933)
Harry Hopkins
PWA
11.
Foreign Policy
Big Stick Diplomacy
Roosevelt Corollary
Ruso-Japanese War
(Treaty of Portsmouth)
Gentleman’s Agreement
Great White Fleet
Panama Canal
Open Door Policy (John Hay)
Recovery
NIRA (1933)
Hugh Johnson
NRA
TVA
Reform
FDIC (1933)
(Glass Stegal Act)
SEC
(Truth in Securities Act)
Social Security Act (1935)
Francis Perkins
Immigration
1840s
“Old Immigrants” (Irish, Germans) Opposed: Nativists (Know Nothings)
1890s
“New Immigrants” (Eastern/Southern Europe) Opposed: Labor Unions
(Chinese Exclusion Act 1882)
1920s
Catholics and Jews from Eastern and Southern Europe
Opposed: KKK
Quota Laws
Sacco and Vanzetti (1921)
1960s-1980s
Asians (Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam)
Latin America
Immigration Act of 1965 (Ended Ethnic Quotas)
2000- Hispanic Immigrants
12.
Native Americans (1860s)
Jackson’s Trail of Tears
Gold is discovered/RR construction
Govt. forces the Natives (Plains Indians) onto reservations
Indian Wars
Massacre at Sand Creek (1864)
Cheyenne are killed
Sioux Wars
Led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
Battle of little Big Horn (1876)
Custer’s last stand
Chief Joseph
Attempts to lead the Nez Perce to Canada
Buffalo are destroyed
A Century of Dishonor (Helen Hunt Jackson 1881)
Assimilation
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Divide tribal lands into 160 acre plots
Ghost Dance Movement
Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890)
End of the Indian resistance
1924 the govt. grant all Native Americans citizenship
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Reestablished tribal organization and culture