APUSH MIDTERM REVIEW SHEET
BRUMER – CARUSO- LOWENHAUPT - SPICONARDI
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THE ENCOUNTER
o Impact of the Columbian Exchange
 Diseases decimated the Native American Indian population
o Encomienda System
 Explain how it functioned and explain its purpose
o Conflict
 Pueblo Revolt
 Explain how the revolt impacted Spanish policy towards Native American
Indians
COLONIZATION
o Explain how the British, Dutch, French, and Spanish colonization patterns differed
 Geographic Settlement
 Relations with Native Americans
 Reasons for Colonization
o Puritan Society
 Identify the characteristics
 Anne Hutchinson
DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL PARTIES
o Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists/Democratic-Republicans
o Issues
 Ratification of Constitution
 Explain why Anti-Federalists wanted a Bill of Rights
 Interpretation of the Constitution
 Loose vs. Strict
 Constitutionality of the National Bank
 Foreign Policy
 Support French Revolution or not?
 Jay’s Treaty
 Explain why the treaty was criticized
MARKET REVOLUTION
o Evaluate how developments in industry and transportation bought about economic and
social change
 The sources below are well worth checking out to help with the objective above
 Vast Designs: How American Came of Age by Jill Lepore:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/10/29/vast-designs
 The Market Revolution: Crash Course US History:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNftCCwAol0
JACKSONIAN AMERICAN
o Explain the extent to which the Jackson presidency was a turning point in the expansion of
democracy in American politics
 Defender of the Common Man?
 Veto of the Bank of the United States
 Office Rotation*
 Support of immigrants of European descent
 Contradictions of Jacksonian Democracy
 Indian Removal
 Spoils system*
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Contradictions of Jacksonian Democracy (con’t)
 Support of slavery
 Increased power of the presidency
o Use of veto more than previous six presidents combined
o Force Bill
EXPANSION OF SLAVERY
o Explain how the acquisition of new territory brought the expansion of slavery to
prominence and increased sectional tensions.
o Missouri Compromise
 Identify the specifics of the compromise
o Arguments For the Expansion of Slavery
 Positive Good
 Blacks more “civilized” than they would have been in Africa
 Christianization of blacks
 Mudsill Theory
 In every society there is a lower class that works the menial jobs thus
allowing the upper class to progress the civilization forward
 Enslaved blacks lived a better life than northern workers
 Necessities provided, lifetime employment, etc.
o Arguments Against the Expansion of Slavery
 Hindered the economic opportunities of free whites
 Opposes Jefferson’s “empire of liberty”/agrarian republic
 Free Soil
o Compromise of 1850
 Explain why the compromise did NOT resolve the issue of slavery and its expansion
 Explain how the Fugitive Slave Act strengthened the resolve of abolitionist
and encouraged non-abolitionist Northerners to oppose slavery
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
o Second Great Awakening
 Inspired reform movements due to its focus on individuals’ ability to attain salvation
o Temperance Movement
o Abolition Movement
o Women’s Rights Movement
o Explain the extent to which these reform movements expanded democratic ideals
MANIFEST DESTINY
o Ideology
 Many Americans believed it was God’s providence that the U.S. expand from coast to
coast in order to spread republicanism, democracy and Protestantism in order to
civilize and tame the continent.
o Explain how the ideology of Manifest Destiny shaped American policy
 Mexican War
CIVIL WAR
o Causes
 Defend why a particular event led to the outbreak of the Civil War
 Northwest Ordinance 1787, Missouri Compromise, Acquisition of the
Mexican Cession, Dred Scott Case
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RECONSTRUCTION
o Reforms
 13th Amendment
 14th Amendment
 15th Amendment
o The End of Reconstruction
 Explain why Reconstruction came to an end
 Northerners’ interest in reforming the South and helping newly freed blacks
diminished over time
 Compromise of 1877
o In exchange for Hayes becoming President, federal troops removed
from South and President would select one Democrat to be a
member of his cabinet
 Explain how the South undermined Reconstruction
 Black Codes, Literacy tests, emergence of KKK, grandfather clause
TEST FORMAT
35 Multiple Choice Questions
1 Short Answer
1 Long Essay
*Bring a sharpened pencil and pen to the exam