APUSH: Unit 3 Review
Review Session: Sunday, November 10th from 1 – 4 p.m.
Important Content To Know: The DBQ essay question will be on one of these topics:
 Thomas Jefferson & His Administration
 John Marshall & Supreme Court Decisions
 Causes & Effects of the War of 1812
 Andrew Jackson & His Administration
 Growth of Democracy between 1800 and 1850
 Impact of the Market Revolution on Economy & Lives of People
 Transportation & Communication Changes in Antebellum America
 Antebellum Reform Movements
Some Specific People, Events & Ideas:
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Adams-Onis Treaty
Barbary Pirates
Chesapeake-Leopard affair
Clay’s American System
Cotton Gin
Cult of Domesticity & True
Womanhood
Daniel Webster
David Walker
Dorothea Dix
Edgar Allen Poe
Eli Whitney
Elisabeth Cady Stanton
Embargo Act
Erie Canal
Frederick Douglass
Gag rule
George Catlin
Hartford Convention
Henry Clay
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Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Horace Mann
Hudson River School
Indian Removal Act
James Fenimore Cooper
John C. Calhoun
John James Audubon
John Quincy Adams
Louisiana Purchase
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lucretia Mott
Manifest Destiny
Marbury v. Madison
Martin Van Buren
Maysville Road Bill
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Mormons
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nullification Controversy
Panic of 1837
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Romanticism
Samuel Morse
Second Great Awakening
Seneca Falls Convention
Shakers
Specie circular
Spoils System
Tariff of Abominations
Tecumseh
Temperance
Thomas Cole
Transcendentalism
Walt Whitman
Washington Irving
Webster-Hayne Debate
William Lloyd Garrison
Essential Dates/Chronological Order:
1793:
1800:
1803:
Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin.
Thomas Jefferson elected – gov’t change Dem-Repub
Louisiana Purchase
Marbury vs. Madison
1804-1806: Lewis and Clark Expedition.
1807:
Robert Fulton builds his first steamboat.
US ship Leopard sunk by Br. for refusal to be
searched
Embargo Act
1808:
African Slave Trade ends
1812-1814: The War of 1812
1814:
Treaty of Ghent
Era of Good Feelings begins
Hartford Convention
1816:
2nd Bank of U.S. created
1st protective tariff
Henry Clay’s American System
1819:
Panic of 1819
1820:
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1824:
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1828:
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine declared
Election John Quincy Adams
The Erie Canal is opened
Tariff of Abominations
Election of Andrew Jackson
"kitchen cabinet"
1829:
Maysville Road Bill Veto
Webster– Hayne Debates
1830s: The Second Great Awakening.
1830:
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad begins operation.
1831:
The Liberator begins publication.
1831-1838: The Trail of Tears—5 Civilized Tribes removed Ok
1833:
Compromise of 1833
1836:
The Gag Rule
Specie Circular
1837:
Panic of 1837
1850:
Comp. 1850
Sample Test Quesitons:
1.
The veto of the Maysville Road Bill of 1830 was sparked by
a. Andrew Jackson’s belief that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to provide funds for a road built
within the borders of a single state
b. Andrew Jackson’s belief that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to provide funds for a road built
across the borders of two or more states
c. Andrew Jackson’s resentment that the Maysville Road would be built in Kentucky, a state he had failed to carry in
the 1828 election
d. Andrew Jackson’s realization that the Maysville Road would be built by unpaid black slaves rather than paid workers
e. Andrew Jackson’s belief that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to provide funds for any type of road
building or road improvement project, whether or not it crossed state borders
2.
The Adams-Onis Treaty
a. provided for US acquisition of Spanish Florida in return for the assumption of $5 million in debt owed to US citizens
b. put an end to the Revolutionary War
c. negotiated the peace treaty of the War of 1812
d. attempted to settle disputed between the US and Great Britain concerning British impressment of American ships and
Western land disputes in the US
e. negotiated the Louisiana Purchase
3.
The establishment of penitentiaries during the 1840s reflected
a. a new attitude that looked upon criminals as misguided, in need of help, and penitentiaries were designed to help
these misguided souls reform
b. a public desire to completely remove criminals from public view and permanently separate them from society so
women and children would not be offended by having to look at them
c. a new attitude by the public that criminals were sinners who were beyond redemption; therefore, they should be
forced into isolation to protect society from their depredations
d. a new attitude that emphasized more intense corporal punishments for criminals rather than the old religious-based
efforts which had emphasized forgiveness
e. the shortage of space to house criminals during the massive crime waves that surged through East Coast cities
beginning in 1842
4.
In the 1830s and 1840s, the primary difference between the Whigs and the Democrats was that
a. the Whigs favored an expanded, activist federal government while the Democrats favored a limited noninterventionist federal government
b. the Whigs favored economic expansion while the Democrats favored a stable but retracted economy
c. the Democrats were strongly supported by Evangelical Christians and supported a wide range of moral reforms while
the Whigs were supported by Westerners who favored individual choice over morally based restrictions on behavior
d. the Whigs favored limitations on westward expansion while the Democrats favored the concept of “manifest destiny”
and expansion to the Pacific Ocean
e. the Democrats favored the abolition of slavery while the Whigs favored retaining the current system of slavery being
allowed in the southern states that desired it, but no further expansion of slavery north of the Mason-Dixon line
5.
The “Panic of 1837” was in large part precipitated by
a. fears of a war with Britain over disputed territory along the border between Canada and Maine
b. fears of a war with Mexico over disputed territory in Texas
c. uncontrolled inflation following actions by Jacksonian Democrats to take the US dollar off the “gold standard”
d. tight monetary policies by Jacksonian Democrats culminating in the issuance of the Specie Circular
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unrestricted land speculation in the new territories west of the Mississippi river
6.
All of the following concerning Thomas Jefferson’s stand against the Barbary Pirates are true EXCEPT:
a.
it was a great success and the US never paid tribute again
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it was a good effort, however, the US paid tribute until 1815
c.
it was the first time any country had taken a stand against blackmail in the Mediterranean
d.
Tripoli declared war on the US
e.
it was only a halfhearted and ill started attempt on the part of the US