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APUSH Midterm Review
Directions: Using your knowledge of American history, explain the significance of the following terms:
I.
Early European-Native American encounters
a. Impact of European encounter/colonization on:
i. Native Americans
1. Native American response
ii. Europeans
II.
Early Native American – English encounters
a. Plymouth
b. Jamestown
i. Use of Indian labor
ii. Alternative
c. NE v Chesapeake
III.
Growth of American Colonies
a. Groups that made up American colonial population
i. Northern demographics
ii. Southern demographics
1. Changes in Southern population over time
2. Causes
IV.
Economic and Social Class in Colonial America
a. Protestant work ethic
b. Belief in self-reliance
c. Social mobility
i. North v South
d. Proper role of government (laissez-faire)
V.
Slavery
a. Slavery as a positive good
b. Northern complicity with slavery
c. Moral dilemma of slavery
VI.
War for Independence
a. Motives for rebellion
b. Philosophical underpinnings of rebellion
c. Impact of these ideas on early American government
VII.
Hamilton v Jefferson
a. Hamilton’s view of human nature (“the people”)
b. Hamilton’s preferred form of government
c. Jefferson’s view of human nature (“the people”)
d. Jefferson’s preferred form of government
e. Points of agreement?
VIII.
Jeffersonian Era
a. Revolution of 1800
b. Domestic policy
c. Foreign policy
i. Challenges
ii. Accomplishments
IX.
Antebellum Reform
a. Abolition
i. Evolution of anti-slavery movement
ii. Garrison
iii. Southern defense of slavery
iv. Growth of sectionalism
b. Women’s rights movement
i. Traditional view of women’s role
ii. Reform agenda
iii. Seneca Falls Convention
iv. Voting rights post-Civil War
c. Religious foundations
X.
Jacksonian Era
a. Supporters of Jackson
b. Opponents of Jackson
c. Major developments
i. Tariff crisis
ii. Bank crisis
iii. American system
iv. Native American relations
XI.
Immigration
a. Sources of “Old Immigration”
b. Push factors
c. Pull factors
d. Opposition to immigration
XII.
Sectionalism
a. Political compromises
b. Westward expansion and growing rift
c. Manifest Destiny
d. Mexican War
XIII.
Reconstruction
a. Reconstructed state governments
b. Gains made by Freedmen
c. Setbacks for Freedmen