APUSH Midterm Study Guide
Mr. Baker
AP US History - Hough High School
Directions: Go back and study all notes, handouts, and identifications. Use the list below to double check
your comprehensions of the people, events, etc.
Colonies
Revolutionary Era
Early Republic
Jacksonian Era
-difference between
-Benjamin Franklin
-Articles of Confederation
-Florida
French, Spanish, English -Proclamation of 1763
-Treaty of Paris 1783, Land -Indian removal,
colonies
-Sugar Act, Quartering
Ordinance 1785, Northwest Cherokees, Trail of Tears
-mercantilism
Act, Currency Act,
Ordinance 1787
-cult of domesticity,
-puritanism
Stamp Act, Declatory
-John Jay
separate spheres
-Sir Walter Raleigh and
Act
-Shays’ Rebellion
-Antebellum reforms and
Roanoke
-Samuel Adams
-Constitutional Convention, utopian communities,
-joint stock companies
-Stamp Act Congress
compromises and debates
Horace Mann, Dorothea
-Jamestown
-Townshend Acts
-New Jersey Plan, Virginia Dix, women’s rights,
-indentured servants
-Virtual Representation Plan, Great Compromise
Seneca Falls Convention
-John Rolfe
-Boston Massacre
(Connecticut Compromise) -2nd Great Awakening
-House of Burgesses
-Boston Tea Party
-Federalists vs. Anti-Lowell System
-headright system
-Coercive Acts
Federalists
-Transcendentalism
-Plymouth
-Ways colonists resisted -President George
-Missouri Compromise
-Massachusetts Bay
British before outbreak Washington’s
-Denmark Vesey
Company and John
of war
Administration
-Gibbons v. Ogden
st
Winthrop
-1 Continental
-Judiciary Act 1789
-Hudson River School
-Reason for each British
Congress
-Alexander Hamilton
-James Fenimore Cooper
colony’s founding
-Lexington and
-Thomas Jefferson
-“Corrupt Bargain” of
-Comparison between
Concord
-Jeffersonian Democratic1824
nd
British colony regions
-2 Continental
Republicans
-John Quincy Adams
(North, South, MidCongress
-Eli Whitney
-“Tariff of Abominations”
Atlantic)
-Bunker Hill, Saratoga, -Jay’s Treaty
-John C Calhoun
-Anne Hutchinson
Yorktown
-Pinckney Treaty
-Andrew Jackson
-Roger Williams
-Common Sense
-Whiskey Rebellion
-spoils system
-Maryland Act of
-Declaration of
-John Adams
-Martin van Buren
Toleration
Independence
-XYZ Affair
-Alexis de Tocqueville
-Fundamental Orders of
-General George
-Alien and Sedition Acts
-Mormons, Brigham
Connecticut
Washington, his
-Kentucky and Virginia
Young, Joseph Smith,
-salutary neglect
strategy
Resolutions
Mormon Trail
-Dutch in New York area -McCulloch v.
-Napoleonic Wars
-Nat Turner
-Quakers
Maryland
-John Marshall
-Tariff of 1832 and
-William Penn
-Dartmouth College v.
-Marbury v. Madison
Nullification crisis
-triangular trade
Woodward
-Louisiana Purchase
-Nicholas Biddle and
-navigation acts
-Lewis & Clark Expedition Bank issue
-Bacon’s Rebellion
-Burr conspiracy
-causes of Texas
-Halfway Covenant
-Embargo Act 1807, Nonrevolution, Alamo, Sam
-Salem Witch Trials
Intercourse Act
Houston
st
-1 Great Awakening
-James Madison
-Whig Party
-Jonathan Edwards and
-impressment
-Ralph Waldo Emerson,
George Whitfield
-Tecumseh
Henry David Thoreau
-Albany Plan
-Causes, Course, and
-French and Indian War
Counsequences of War of
1812
-James Monroe, Era of
Good Feelings, Monroe
Doctrine
Building up to Civil War
-abolitionism
-Southern defense of slavery
-William Lloyd Garrison
-Frederick Douglass
-William Henry Harrison, John Tyler
-Irish and German immigration
-Manifest Destiny
-slavery
-Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman
-James Polk
-Edgar Allan Poe
-Causes, course, and consequences of Mexican War
-Wilmot Proviso
-popular sovereignty
-free soil party
-Mexican Cession and slavery
-gold rush
-Zachary Taylor
-growing differences between North and South
-Compromise of 1850
-Stephen Douglas
-Fugitive Slave Act
-Millard Fillmore
-Franklin Pierce
-James Buchanan
-Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
-Ostend Manifesto
-Commodore Perry and Japan
-Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Bleeding Kansas
-John Brown
-Harper’s Ferry
-Republican Party
-Walt Whitman
-Dred Scott v. Sandford
-Lecompton Constitution
-Lincoln-Douglas Debates
-Election 1860
-Abraham Lincoln
-Secession
-Advantages of North and South
-Homestead Act
-course of Civil War, especially Antietam, Gettysburg, Emancipation Proclamation
-Lincoln’s 1st and 2nd inaugural addresses
-Sherman’s March to the Sea
-Why did the Union win? Consequences of war: