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AP USH Mid Term Review Guide
America in the 1800’s
Describe life for Irish immigrants in the United States.
How did the cotton gin affect the cotton industry and slavery?
How did the concept of interchangeable parts affect American industry?
How did the Second Great Awakening influence the role of women in America?
Who led to the reform movement for tax funded public education?
Who was Dorothea Dix?
How did the Seneca Falls Convention launch the feminist movement?
What was the message of Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience”?
The New Nation
What are the features that define John Adams presidency?
Why did the United States declare war against Britain in 1812?
How did the Erie Canal affect transportation and trade in the United States?
What are the components of the 1820 Missouri Compromise?
What was the warning to the world issued by the Monroe Doctrine?
Who was the Great Compromiser?
Describe President Jackson’s actions regarding:
Native Americans
The BUS
Spoils System
The Power of the Veto
Common Man
State’s Rights/Tariff
Antebellum Era
What rules were Americans in Texas supposed to follow in order to get the cheap land from the Mexican
government?
What are the 4 main components of the Compromise of 1850?
How did President Polk provoke the War with Mexico?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What was the rationale for the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dredd Scott v. Sanford ruling?
How did the North and South respond to Harriett Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
What caused Bleeding Kansas?
In which 2 situations did John Brown demonstrate his radical views on abolition?
What was the message of the proposed Wilmot Proviso? How did this stir up the slavery controversy?
What are the dangers of the southern dependence on cotton as their primary source of income?
How were the abolitionist philosophies of William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas different?
Road to Revolution
Why did the British issue the Proclamation of 1763? Why did it anger colonists?
What was the role of the colonies according to the system of mercantilism?
What did the colonial slogan of “No Taxation without Representation” mean? What were they protesting?
Why was the Stamp Act resented more strongly than the Sugar Act?
What was the purpose of the Sons of Liberty? The Committees of Correspondence?
Who was the target of Tomas Paine’s essay, Common Sense? How did this pamphlet change the focus of the
American Revolution?
What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence? Which natural rights did Jefferson include?
Why was the Battle of Saratoga the turning point for the colonists in the American Revolution?
The Civil War
Why did the Confederacy feel confident that Britain would assist them in the Civil War?
How did the Confederacy feel after the 1st Battle of Bull Run? How did the Union feel?
What are the 3 main features of the Anaconda Plan?
What is the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg?
Why was the Confederate loss of Vicksburg especially devastating?
What were the disadvantages of the Confederacy during the Civil War? What were its advantages?
What is total warfare? How did Sherman’s March to the Sea put this philosophy into action?
Why were no slaves freed by the Emancipation Proclamation? Why didn’t it end slavery in all areas?
Why did President Lincoln suspend habeas corpus?
Explain the contributions of Ulysses S. Grant to the American Civil War?
Making Democracy Work
According to the philosophy of Republican Motherhood, what was the primary role of women?
What were the primary problems with the Articles of Confederation government? How did the Constitution
address these problems?
What were the long lasting effects of the Northwest Ordinance?
What were the causes and effects of Shays’ Rebellion?
What is the purpose of the Electoral College? Why did the Founding Fathers create this safeguard?
Why did the Anti-Federalists demand a Bill of Rights before they would ratify the Constitution?
What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights? Which rights are guaranteed in Amendments 1-3?
Who wrote the Federalists Papers? Why were these essays written?
How did the Great Compromise settle the issue of state representation in the Houses of Congress?
What did the Whiskey Rebellion reveal about the new American government under the Constitution?
What were the 2 warnings in Washington’s Farewell Address?
What was the Federalist and Anti-federalist argument over the Bank of the United States?
Why was Napoleon so eager to sell off its territory in North American to the United States?
Why did President Jefferson send Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory?
What was the significance of the Marbury v. Madison ruling?
Colonial America
What led to the development of stable civilizations in the Americas?
What affect did European disease have on Native American populations?
What was the purpose of the Virginia Company that created the English settlement at Jamestown?
What were the causes and effects of Bacon’s Rebellion?
What were the characteristics of a typical Puritan town in colonial New England?
Why did the Congregational (Puritan) Church offer the Halfway Covenant? What privileges were granted to
those who took advantage of this opportunity?
What was the effect of King Philip’s War?
Why did Roger Williams establish the colony of Rhode Island?
Describe the Salem Witch Trials
What was the Middle Passage?
Describe examples of African cultural influences on America.
What was the message of Jonathan Edward’s sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?
Why was Ben Franklin an example of both social mobility and an Enlightenment philosopher?