APUSH
Units 2-5 Study Guide
Unit 2 Terms:
1. Walter Raleigh
2. John Smith
3. James Oglethorpe
4. Joint-stock company
5. Royal colonies
6. Proprietary
7. House of Burgesses
8. Barbados Slave
codes
9. Act of Toleration
(1649)
10. Indentured servitude
11. Head-right system
12. Virginia Company
13. Iroquois
Confederacy
14. First and Second
Anglo-Powhatan
Wars
15. Anne Hutchinson
16. Roger Williams
17. William Penn
18. John Winthrop
19. The “elect”
20. Predestination
21. New England
Confederation and
Dominion of New
England
22. Massachusetts Bay
Company
23. Mercantilism
24. Puritans (Great
Puritan Migration)
25. Dutch West India
Company
26. Quakers
27. Mayflower Compact
28. Sir Edmond Andros
29. antinomianism
30. Navigation Laws
31. Nathaniel Bacon
(Bacon’s Rebellion)
32. Cotton Mather
33. Middle passage
34. Leisler’s Rebellion
35. William Berkeley
36. Triangular trade
Unit 3 Terms:
1. Jonathan Edwards
2. George Whitefield
3. Jeremiads
4. Great Awakening
5. John Peter Zenger
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
Paxton Boys
Regulator
movement
Molasses Act
Scots-Irish
John S. Copley
Poor Richard’s
Almanack
Old and new lights
Benjamin Franklin
Phyllis Wheatley
Triangular trade
Half-way covenant
Salem witch trials
Unit 4 Terms:
1. French and Indian
War
2. War of Spanish
Succession
3. Albany Congress
4. Iroquois
5. Treaty of Paris 1763
6. Proclamation of
1763
7. Sugar Act (1764)
8. Quartering Act
(1765)
9. Stamp Act (1765)
10. Declaratory Act
(1766)
11. Townshend Acts
(1767)
12. Patrick Henry
13. Stamp Act Congress
14. Sons and Daughters
of Liberty
15. Writs of assistance
16. Samuel Adams
17. Boston Massacre
(1770)
18. Crispus Attucks
19. Committees of
Correspondence
20. Tea Act (1773)
21. Boston Tea Party
(1773)
22. Intolerable Acts
(1773)
23. salutary neglect
24. Quebec Act (1774)
25. Enlightenment
26. John Locke
27. Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
28. mercantilism
29. Battle of Lexington
and Concord
30. Thomas Paine and
Common Sense
31. First Continental
Congress
32. Continental money
33. Second Continental
Congress (1775)
34. John Adams
35. Declaration of
Rights and
Grievances
36. Paul Revere and
William Dawes
37. Minutemen
38. Battle of Bunker
Hill
39. Olive Branch
petition
40. King George III
41. Loyalists (Tories)
42. Patriots/Whigs
43. Declaration of
Independence
44. Thomas Jefferson
45. Valley Forge
46. Battle of Saratoga
47. Battle of Yorktown
48. Treaty of Paris
(1783)
49. George Washington
50. “Republicanism”
51. General Cornwallis
52. France (ally)
53. Spain (ally)
54. privateers
55. Abigail Adams
56. Mary McCauley
(Molly Pitcher)
57. mercenaries
58. Shays’ Rebellion
59. Articles of
Confederation
60. Northwest
Ordinance of 1787
61. Land Ordinance of
1785
62. Federalists
63. Anti-Federalists
64. Great Compromise
65. Three-Fifths
Compromise
66. Ratification of
Federal Constitution
Unit 5 Terms:
1. Jay’s Treaty
2. Citizen Genêt
3. strict vs. loose
construction
4. Bill of Rights
(*additional focus
on 9th and 10th
amendments)
5. Neutrality
Proclamation by
Washington
6. Federalists
7. Pinckney Treaty
8. Alien and Sedition
Acts
9. Virginia and
Kentucky
Resolutions
10. Jeffersonian
Republicans
11. Judiciary Act of
1789
12. Treaty of Grenville
13. Whiskey Rebellion
14. Bank of the United
States
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
Excise tax
Assumption of debt
Elastic Clause
Treaty of 1794
XYZ Affair
French Revolution
Franco-American
Alliance of 1778
Washington’s
Farewell Address
(1796)
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
John Marshall
Aaron Burr
Samuel Chase
Toussaint
L’Ouverture
Judicial review
Impressment
Chesapeake Incident
Barbary pirates
Judiciary Act of
1801
“Revolution in
1800”
Marbury v. Madison
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
Embargo Act
Non-intercourse Act
Macon’s Bill No. 2
War Hawks
Burning of
Washington D.C.
Tippecanoe
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
Missouri
Compromise
Second Bank of the
United States
Battle of New
Orleans
Panic of 1819
Fletcher v. Peck
McCulloch v.
Maryland
Rush-Bagot
Agreement
Florida Purchase
Treaty
Monroe Doctrine
Focus Questions for Reading – Unit 2
Pages: Chapter 2
- Describe the roles of Indians and African slaves in the early history of England’s Southern
colonies.
- Describe changes in the economy and labor system in Virginia and the other Southern colonies.
- Indicate the similarities and differences among the Southern colonies of Virginia, Maryland, N.
Carolina, S. Carolina and Georgia.
Pages: 43-52
- Explain the basic governmental and religious practices of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- Explain how conflict with religious dissenters, among other forces, led to the expansion of New
England.
- Describe the changing relations between English colonists and Indians.
Pages: 52-65
- Describe the efforts made to strengthen English control over the colonies in the 17 th century, and
why they failed.
- Explain why New York, Pennsylvania, and the other middle colonies became some ethnically,
religiously and politically diverse.
- Describe the central features of the middle colonies and explain how they differed from New
England.
Pages: 66-76
- Explain how the problems of indentured servitude led to political trouble and the growth of
African slavery.
- Describe the slave trade and the character of early African-American slavery.
Pages: 76-83
- Explain how the New England way of life centered on family, town and church, and describe the
changes that affected this way of life.
- Compare and contrast the different populations and ways of life of the Southern colonies and New
England.
- Describe the various conditions affecting women and family life in the 17 th century colonies.
Focus Questions for Readings – Unit 3
Pages: 84-99
- Describe the basic population and social structure of the 18 th century colonies and indicate how
they had changed since the 17th century.
- Explain how the economic development of the colonies altered the patterns of social prestige and
wealth.
- Explain the causes and effects of the Great Awakening.
Pages: 99-105
- Describe the origins and development of education, culture and the learned professions in the
colonies.
- Describe the basic features of colonial politics, including the role of various official and informal
political institutions.
Focus Questions for Readings – Unit 4
Pages: Chapter 6
- Describe France’s North American empire and compare it with Britain’s colonies.
- Explain how North American political and military events were affected by development on the
larger European stage.
- Explain why France and Britain engaged in the French and Indian War, and why Britain won.
Pages: 122-130
- Explain how the French and Indian War affected Britain’s American subjects and helped pave the
way for their later rebellion.
- Explain why Britain attempted tighter control and taxation of Americans after 1763, and why
Americans resisted these efforts.
- Describe the methods of colonial resistance that forced the repeal of all taxes except the tax on tea.
Pages: 130-135
- Explain how sustained agitation and resistance to the tea tax led to the intolerable acts and the
outbreak of war.
Pages: 135-143
- Assess the balance of forces between the British and the American rebels as the two sides prepared
for war.
Pages: 143-150, 171-172
- Describe how America passed from military hostilities with Britain to declaring its independence.
- Explain the principle ideas of “republicanism” developed by Thomas Paine and other American
leaders.
- Explain why some Americans remained loyal to Britain, and what happened to them after the
revolution.
Pages: 151-163
- Describe how the British attempt to crush the revolution was quickly foiled, especially by the
battle of Saratoga.
- Describe the military and political obstacles Washington and his generals had to overcome before
the final victory at Yorktown.
- Describe the terms of the Treaty of Paris, and explain how America was able to achieve such a
stunning diplomatic victory.
Pages: 164-171
- How did the ideas of “republican motherhood” and “civic virtue” serve as a stabilizing force in
America’s political development after the war?
Pages: 171-178
- Describe the government of the Articles of Confederation and indicate its achievements and
failures.
- Explain the crucial role of Shay’s Rebellion in sparking the movement for a new Constitution.
Pages: 178-189
- Explain how and why the United States replaced the Articles of Confederation with the
Constitution.
- Describe the antifederalists and their social, economic and political differences with the
federalists.
Focus Questions for Reading – Unit 5
Pages: 190-201
- Describe the various means Alexander Hamilton used to put the federal government on a sound
financial footing.
- Explain how the conflict over Hamilton’s policies led to the emergence of the first political
parties.
- Describe the polarizing effects of the French Revolution on American foreign policy and politics
from 1790-1800.
- Explain why Washington negotiated the conciliatory Jay’s Treat with the British and why it
provoked Jeffersonian outrage.
Pages: 201-210
- Describe the causes of the undeclared war with France, and explain Adams’ decision to move
toward peace rather than declare war.
- Describe the political atmosphere that produced the Alien and Sedition Acts and the Kentucky and
Virginia Resolutions.
- Describe the contrasting membership and principles of the Federalists and the Republicans.
Pages: 211-219
- Explain how Jefferson’s moderation and compromises turned the Revolution of 1800 into a
relatively smooth transition of party control from Federalists to Republicans.
- Describe the conflicts between Federalists and Republicans over the judiciary and the important
legal precedents that developed from these conflicts.
Pages: 219-228
- Describe Jefferson’s basic foreign policy goals and how he attempted to achieve them.
- Describe how America became entangled against its will in the turbulent international crisis of the
Napoleonic wars.
- Describe the original intentions and actual results of Jefferson’s embargo, and explain why it
failed.
Pages: 228-240
- Explain the complex causes of the War of 1812.
- Describe the major issues and terms of the Treaty of Ghent, and explain the long-term results of
the War of 1812 for the United States at home and abroad.
Pages: 240-255
- Describe and explain the burst of American nationalism that followed the War of 1812.
- Describe the major economic developments of the period, particularly the tariff, finances, and the
Panic of 1819.
- Describe the conflict over slavery that arose in 1819, and the terms of the Missouri Compromise
that temporarily resolved it.
- Indicate how John Marshall’s supreme court promoted the spirit of nationalism through its rulings
in favor of federal power.
- Describe the Monroe Doctrine and explain its real and symbolic significance for American foreign
policy.