APUSH: Unit 2 Review
Study Sessions: Sunday, Oct. 9th, 2-4:30 p.m. in Room 108
What materials to study: (in order of importance)
 Terms, Lecture Notes, Essential Chronology (see below), etc.
 Essay Prep—See topics below.
 Sample APUSH Questions, major Topics of Classroom Discussion, Handouts, etc.
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Important Content to Know:
 Impact of French & Indian War.
 Causes of American Revolution = Events leading up to Revolution, Political & Economic Motives
 Why Colonies Won the War
 Founding Fathers, their state & most important impact
 Strengths & Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation, Accomplishments of Government under the articles.
 Major Issues of Constitutional Convention.
 Pros & Cons of Ratification of the Constitution—Federalists v. Anti-Federalists
 Bill of Rights
 Accomplishments & Failures of Washington & Adams Administrations
 Hamilton’s Economic Program
 Development of 1st Political Parties and the Differences Between Them
1st Continental Congress
2nd Continental Congress
3/5th Compromise
Alexander Hamilton
Alien & Sedition Acts
Alliance with France
Annapolis Convention
Anti-Federalists
Articles of Confederation
Battle of Saratoga
Benjamin Franklin
Bill of Rights
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Bunker Hill
Committees of Public Safety
Common Sense
Congressional Representation
Connecticut Compromise
Constitutional Convention
Currency Issues
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Necessity of Taking
Up Arms
Democratic-Republicans
Election of 1796
Election of 1800
Federalists
Federalists Papers & Authors
French & Indian War
George Mason
George Washington
Governor Morris
Great Compromise
Hamilton’s Economic Program
Intolerable Acts (Coercive)
James Madison
James Otis
Jay’s Treaty
John Adams
John Dickenson
John Hancock
John Jay
Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions
Land Ordinance of 1785
Lexington & Concord
Loose/Strict Interpretation
Massachusetts Role Pre-Revolt
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
New Orleans
Northwest Ordinance (Land Ord.
1787)
Olive Branch Petition
Pinckney’s’ Treaty
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Quasi War with France
Sam Adams
Secretary of State
Shay’s Rebellion
Stamp Act, Boycott, & Repeal
State Constitutions
State Debts
Suffolk Resolves
Suspension of Colonial Legislatures
Sugar Act
Taxation Pre & Post Rev.
Tea Act
The Crisis
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Tories/Loyalists
Townshend Acts
Treaty of Paris 1783--Provisions
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
Washington’s Cabinet
Whiskey Rebellion
Writs of Assistance
ESSAY QUESTION TOPICS: Be prepared to do either question.
1.
Analyze the ways in which British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonials’ resistance to
British rule and their commitment to republican values. [09]
2.
Analyze the degree to which the Articles of Confederation provided an effective form of government with respect to any
TWO of the following: (96)
Foreign Relations
Western Lands
Economic Conditions
Essential Dates/Chronological Order for Colonial America: (The actual date is less important than a sense of the order
of events & why important, *dates with asterisk should be accurate)
1754-1763: French and Indian War*
1774: First Continental Congress*
1783: Treaty of Peace
1763: Proclamation of 1763
1775: Battles of Lexington/Concord
1787: Constitutional Convention*
1765: The Stamp Act *
1775: Second Continental Congress
1787: Northwest Ordinance*
1767: The Townshend Acts
1776: Declaration of Independence*
1789: Inauguration of Washington*
1770: The Boston Massacre.
1777: Battle of Saratoga *
1791: The Bill of Rights is ratified
1773: Boston Tea Party*
1777: Articles of Confederation
1796: Washington's Farewell Address
1774: The Intolerable Acts
1781: British surrender at Yorktown*
1798: Alien and Sedition Acts
Sample APUSH Questions:
1. Which man is NOT paired with the correct description that applies to him regarding the Constitutional Convention?
(A) Gouvernor Morris---prose stylist who wrote the Preamble to the Constitution.
(B) Alexander Hamilton---most ardent federalist of all the delegates.
(C) George Washington---presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention.
(D) Patrick Henry---chief spokesperson for the pro-Federalist planter aristocracy at the Convention.
(E) James Madison—called the father of the Constitution for his role in shaping the structure of the government.
2.
In his famous political pamphlet, Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that
(A) The American colonists should consider themselves fortunate that Great Britain had defended them in the French and
Indian War
(B) that America was too large to continue under colonial rule
(C) that Great Britain’s foreign entanglements had never touched America
(D) that unlike India, the America’s should continue under rule of the monarch
(E) that representation should be on the basis of population
3.
The primary issue in dispute in Shays’ Rebellion was:
(A) the jailing of individuals or seizure of their property for failure to pay taxes during a time of economic hardship
(B) the underrepresentation of western Massachusetts in the state legislature leading to accusations of “taxation without
representation”
(C) the failure of Massachusetts to pay a promised postwar bonus to the soldiers who had served in its forces during the
Revolution
(D) the failure of Massachusetts authorities to take adequate steps to protect the western part of the state from the
depredations of raiding Indians
(E) economic oppression practiced by the banking interests of eastern Massachusetts
4.
The Sugar and Townshend Acts differed from the previously passed Navigation Acts in that:
(A) the Navigation Acts taxed goods imported to the colonies directly from Britain, whereas the Sugar Act and the
Townshend acts taxed only goods imported to the colonies from outside of Britain
(B) The Navigation Acts taxed only the ships on which goods were transported to the colonies, not the merchandise
carried by those ships. The Sugar Act and the Townshend Acts taxed specific merchandise carried by ships to the
colonies
(C) the Navigation Acts taxed goods based on the distance the goods traveled to reach America, whereas the Sugar Act
and the Townshend Acts taxed the goods themselves, regardless of how far they traveled to reach America
(D) the Navigation Acts taxed only goods imported to the colonies from outside of Britain, whereas the Sugar Act and the
Townshend Acts taxed goods imported to the colonies directly form Britain
(E) The Sugar Act and the Townshend Acts put specific limits on which goods imported to the colonies could be taxed,
whereas the Navigation Acts had taxed virtually everything transported by ship from Britain to the colonies
5.
A major impact of the French and Indian War on the attitudes of Americans was
(A) it led many Americans to question the superiority of English colonial rule and to support French colonial rule
(B) it convinced most Americans to avoid further exploration of settlement of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys until after
the American Revolution
(C) it bound the American colonists more tightly to England than ever before and made most of them realize they needed
English protection from foreign powers such as the French
(D) it led many colonists who had previously supported independence from England to call for moderation because they
feared that the huge British military presence in the colonies (brought over from England to fight the French) could
now be turned on rebellious colonists
(E) with the threat of the French now gone form their borders, many colonists now felt that English protection was
unnecessary and they felt free to take a more independent stand toward Britain than they had taken previously