APUSH Period 4 (1800-1848) Study Guide
The new republic struggled to define and extend democratic ideals in the face of rapid
economic, territorial, and demographic changes.
1. What are democratic ideals?
2. Know specific economic changes:
3. Know specific territorial changes:
4.
Know demographic changes:
APUSH Period 4 Study Guide
Key Concept 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.
1st and 2nd political party system:
Democratic/Republicans
Federalists
Whigs
Era of Good Feelings
“Common Man”
Jacksonian Era/Democracy
Supreme Court Cases: Marbury v. Madison, Maryland v. McCulloch, Commonwealth v.
Hunt, Gibbons v. Ogden
Hartford Convention
Nullification Crisis
2nd Great Awakening
African-American issues (Abolition, Garrison, ACS, etc.)
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Xenophobia
Nativism
Know-Nothings
Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears
“Cult of Domesticity”
Seneca Falls Convention – 1848
Declaration of Sentiments
Shakers
Mormons
Utopian Soceties
Key Concept 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.
All Technological Innovations
Lowell Mills
Cotton Impact
American System
War of 1812 Causes and Effects
Growing differences between North and South
Market Revolution
National Bank
Tariffs
Key Concept 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.
Monroe Doctrine
Louisiana Purchase
Texas Annexation
Missouri Compromise (3 parts)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Slavery expands
Trade with China (Treaty of Wanghia)