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APUSH Semester Final Study Guide
Reminders!
 The multiple-choice exam will slightly emphasize the Gilded Age / Great West. We didn’t
spend much time discussing that content, so PLEASE watch the videos and go through the
lecture notes on the website: https://apusheagles.wordpress.com
 There are also extra study guides on the website, print extra copies of the study guide and
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!
 Re-read your notes and chapters of the book that you need the most review on.
 Use the website Learnerator to practice quizzing yourself.
 Study groups.
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UNIT 1: Exploration & Colonial Period
Pre-Colombian Era
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Major tribes / locations in South and North America -
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The Columbian Exchange –
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Native American reaction to European colonization –
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Encomienda System
Colonial America
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*** Must know the SPRITE of the Southern, Middle and Northern Colonies (see separate
handout)
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Bacon’s Rebellion (cause, effect) -
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SLAVERY (characteristics of slavery in the 1600 and 1700s) –
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Women (Marriage, rights) -
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Mercantilism (theory/concept) -
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1st Great Awakening (characteristics, effects, location)
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Salutary Neglect (what is it?, reaction to it…) -
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Proclamation of 1763 (cause/effect) -
UNIT 2: Revolution & Constitution
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Stamp Act (what/purpose) –
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Declaration of Independence – contents/philosophy
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American Revolution (Major contributions to American cause, Patriot vs. Loyalist beliefs)
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Articles of Confederation (Successes, failures) -
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Constitution (what did it include, what did it NOT include)
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Bill of Rights – purpose for writing it, general content/theme
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Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 –
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Alien and Sedition Acts (what/why so controversial) -
UNIT 3 – The New Nation
FEDERALISTS
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War of 1812 (causes, effects)
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Era of Good Feelings (why was it good/bad)
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John Marshall -
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Marbury vs. Madison -
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The “American System” -
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Monroe Doctrine - Purpose, effects
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Andrew Jackson
Common Man
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS
King Andrew
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Nullification Crisis
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Whig Party (platform)
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Transcendentalists (Philosophy, writers) -
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Deism (18th century) - Central beliefs
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Market Revolution
o Innovations o Immigration –
o Regions –
o Women/Families –
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Second Great Awakening (cause/effects) –
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Reform Movements (what were they/names):
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Missouri Compromise -
UNIT 4 – Sectionalism & Civil War
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Slavery (characteristics/changes in the 1800s) -
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Manifest Destiny –
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Compromise of 1850 -
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Dred-Scott Case –
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates –
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin –
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John Brown –
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Dred-Scott Case -
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Kansas-Nebraska Act -
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Civil War
o Reasons for…
o Emancipation Proclamation (cause and effect) -
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Reconstruction
o Radical Reconstruction (cause/features) o Moderate v. Radical Republicans o 13th, 14th 15th Amendments –
o END of Reconstruction –
UNIT 5 – The Gilded Age & Great West
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Gilded Age (general) –
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“New Immigration” (characteristics and nativist reactions)
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Big Business
o Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890 –
o Interstate Commerce Act –
o Carnegie, Rockefeller, JP Morgan o Transcontinental Railroad – effects –
o Vertical / Horizontal Integration –
o Party Bosses / Politics –
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Urbanization & Reform
o Urban innovations o Tenements o Suffrage movement o Temperance –
o Settlement Houses –
o Education -
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Labor Movement
o Knights of Labor o Haymarket Incident o American Federation of Labor -
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Frederick Jackson Turner - beliefs
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The Homestead Act -
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POPULISM
o Goals –
o Why did it fail?
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Mining Frontier (significance) -
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Pullman Strike -
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Native Americans
o Dawes Act of 1887 – purpose
o Plains Indians - culture, destruction of lifestyle
o Major leaders
o Conflicts in response to removal
o Change in treatment of Indians by government (compared to past policies)
o Helen Hunt Jackson -