APUSH Mid-Term Review Part 1
Chapter 2-The English Transplantation
1. What were the differences
between the Jamestown
and Plymouth colonies in
terms of objectives, type of
settlers, early problems,
and reasons for success?
2. What was the cause and
significance of Bacon’s
Rebellion?
3. What was the background
of the Massachusetts Bay
colony?
4. What were the early
economic, religious, and
political factors in the
colonies that produced
sectional differences?
5. What was the Glorious
Revolution and what were
its effects?
Chapter 3-Society and Culture in Provincial America
1. What were the sources of
colonial labor?
2. How did the emergence of
the plantation system impact
southern society?
3. What were the reasons for the
appearance of a variety of
religious sects in the colonies
and what was the effect of the
Great Awakening on the
colonists?
4. What were the beginnings of
colonial industry and
commerce?
5. In what ways did colonial
literature, education, science,
law and justice diverge from
the English systems?
Chapter 4-The Empire Under Strain
1. What were the primary
reasons for the growth of the
differences between colonial
Americans and the British
government that resulted in a
clash of interests?
2. What were the causes of the
French and Indian War?
What was its impact on the
colonies? What was its
impact on Britain?
3. How did crisis like the Sugar
Act through and the Coercive
Acts change colonial attitudes
toward the mother country?
4. What did the slogan "No
taxation without
representation" really mean?
5. What was the significance of
the convening the First
Continental Congress and
what did it accomplish?
Chapter 5-The American Revolution
1. What were the American war
aims and what were the
problems experienced by the
Revolutionary governments
in carrying on a protracted
war?
2. What was the aim of the
Declaration of Independence
the reasons for its issuance
and its influence throughout
the world since 1776?
3. How was diplomatic triumph
for American negotiators
embodied in the Treaty of
Paris?
4. What were the features of the
Articles of Confederation and
the reasons for its creation?
5. What were the problems
faced by the government
under the Articles of
Confederation and how they
were addressed?
APUSH Mid-Term Review Part 2
Chapter 6-The Constitution and the new republic
1. What was the origin of the
Constitutional Convention?
What type of people were the
delegates and how well did
they represent the people?
2. What was the importance of
The Federalist Papers in the
ratification struggle and their
significance in years since?
3. How did George Washington
shape the presidency and the
executive branch of
government?
4. Describe the financial
programs of Alexander
Hamilton and their
contribution to the success of
the new government?
5. How did political parties
emerge, what was their
political philosophies, and
how did they influence the
election of 1800?
Chapter 7-The Jeffersonian Era
1. How did the struggle
between the Federalists and
Anti-Federalists shape the
new nation politically,
socially, and economically?
2. How was manifest destiny
realized during this era?
How did Jefferson justify
expansion under the
Constitution?
3. How did Jefferson’s
presidency represent a
“fundamental change” in the
direction of the federal
government?
4. What were the causes of the
War of 1812?
5. What were the political,
social, and economic costs
and results of the War of
1812?
Chapter 8-Varieties of American Nationalism
1. How did the “Era of Good
Feelings” come to be and
how did it end? What were
its effects?
2. How did the admittance of
new states into the union
reflect the growing
sectional politics of the
time?
3. How did the Panic of 1819
cause an economic
depression? What was the
depression’s lasting impact?
4. What was the Monroe
Doctrine and how did it
shape American foreign
policy?
5. How did Andrew Jackson
and his election to the
White House represent a
change in the American
psyche/character?
Chapter 9-Jacksonian America
1. What was Andrew
Jackson’s philosophy of
government and what was
his impact on the office of
the presidency?
2. What was the nullification
theory and what problem
was it meant to solve?
What problems did it
cause?
3. How did Native American
relations change during the
Jacksonian ere? How was
that representative of
culture changes among
most Americans.
4. How did the party
philosophy of the Whigs
differ from that of the
Democrats?
5. How did the bank wars of
the Jacksonian era reflect
the economic philosophy of
Jackson and the economic
issues of the day?
APUSH Mid-Term Review Part 3
Chapter 10-America’s Economic Revolution
1. How did Urbanization and
immigration effect the
population of the United
States, its politics,
economics and society?
2. How and why did the
South become more
isolated during this period?
3. What was the Nativist
Movement and how did it
influence society and
politics?
4. How did the Northeast
change economically
during this period?
5. What was the “cult of
domesticity” and what
influence and impact did it
have on society and the
economy?
Chapter 11-Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
1. How did the cotton
industry shape the
economics, politics, and
culture of the Antebellum
South?
2. What were the economic
differences between the
North and the South?
3. What was life like for
slaves in the Antebellum
South?
4. Describe the ways slaves
resisted slavery and how
successful they were?
5. Describe the abolitionist
movement in the North,
who was involve, and what
they were looking for.
Chapter 12-An Age of Reforms
1. Who were the
transcendentalists and
what was their impact on
society?
2. Who were the Mormons?
What were their origins
what did they believe and
why did they end up in
Utah?
3. The "philosophy of reform"
that shaped this era rose
from what two distinct
sources?
4. How did the rise of
feminism reflect not only
the participation of women
in social crusades but also a
basic change in the nature
of the family?
5. What was the antislavery
philosophy of William Lloyd
Garrison? How did he
transform abolitionism into
"a new and dramatically
different phenomenon"?
Chapter 13-The Impending Crisis
1. What was the controversy
surrounding the admission of
Texas and other Western
states into the union?
2. What was the impact of the
Wilmot Proviso on the
sectional controversy?
3. What were the results of the
Compromise of 1850?
4. How did the KansasNebraska Act effect the
growing division in the
United States?
5. How did Abraham Lincoln
get elected as president and
what was its impact?
APUSH Mid-Term Review Part 4
Chapter 14-The Civil War
1. Why did all attempts to
prevent succession and war
fail in 1860-61?
2. What were the social,
political and economic
differences between the U.S.
and the Confederate States
of America?
3. How was the Emancipation
Proclamation used as both a
tool of war against the South
and as a moral booster for the
North?
4. How did war change in
during the civil war and how
did this change effect the way
in which it was fought and its
affects on society?
5. Militarily, how did the North
defeat the South in the Civil
War?
Chapter 15-Reconstruction and the New South
1. What were the differences
between the plan for
reconstruction as envisioned
by the Conservative
Republicans as apposed to the
Radical Republicans?
2. How did the passing of the
14th-16th Amendments effect
society, politics, and the
economy in the North and the
South?
3. What political struggles did
Ulysses S. Grant have as
President and how did those
struggles reflect the time?
4. Why did the Federal
Government abandon
Reconstruction and what
were the results of such
abandonment?
5. What were Jim Crow laws,
what did they do, and how
did they change the South for
white and black Americans?
Chapter 16-The Conquest of the Far West
1. What were the key
disadvantages that the
Plains Indians had in their
conflicts with white
settlers?
2. What was the composition
and structure of the labor
force in the West? How was
it shaped by racial
prejudice?
3. How did promoters of the
West like Buffalo Bill Cody,
Frederick Jackson Turner,
and others shape the
popular image of the
American West?
4. What actions were taken
under the Dawes Act and
what basic objective did the
federal government hope to
achieve by this legislation?
5. How did railroads, settlers,
sodbusters, miners,
farmers, etc. change the
landscape of the West?
Chapter 17 & 18
1. Explain the reasons for the
rapid industrial development
of the United States in the
late 19th century?
2. What changes occurred in
business that allowed for
Industrialization to succeed
and prosper?
3. How did the distribution of
wealth effect society? What
was the criticism of wealth?
What did its defenders argue?
4. How did the city change
life for women? What did it
provide them?
5. How did immigrants shape
cities and the industry in the
late 19th century?