AP US HISTORY UNIT 4 GUIDE
Covering Pageant Chapters 11-12
KEY PEOPLE
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
William Clark
Albert Gallatin
John Marshall
Aaron Burr
William Marbury
Zebulon Pike
Napoleon Bonaparte
Meriwether Lewis
James Madison
Henry Clay
Tecumseh
Andrew Jackson
Francis Scott Key
William Henry Harrison
John Quincy Adams
James Fenimore Cooper
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
KEY CONCEPTS
Patronage
Judicial Review
Impeachment
Impressment
Marbury vs. Madison
Louisiana Purchase
Judiciary Acts 1789 & 1801
Embargo Act
Sectionalism
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
war hawks
Tippecanoe
Nationalism
peculiar institution
protective tariff
isolationism
McCulloch vs. Maryland
American System
panic of 1819
Florida Purchase Treaty
Monroe Doctrine
Russo-American Treaty of 1824
Missouri Compromise
Nonintervention
Second Bank of the U.S.
Bonus Bill of 1817
Era of Good Feeling
Land Act of 1820
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Dartmouth College vs. Woodward
Fletcher vs. Peck
POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS
1. Why do the text's authors refer to the case of Marbury vs. Madison as
"epochal"? Describe the short and long-term ramifications of the decision.
2. When both France and Britain were guilty of placing commercial restrictions
on American trade, why did the United States declare war only on Britain?
3. Write your definition of isolationis. Then use this definition to argue that the
Monroe Doctrine was or was not an isolationist document.
4. The text's authors crown John Marshall as "the foremost of the Molding
Fathers," while a contemporary newspaper editorial condemned him as "a man
whose political doctrines led him always . . . to strengthen government at the
expense of the people." Which point of view do you think as the most
substance? Why?