APUSH Final Exam Review
1. Summarize the impact of the Columbian Exchange on North American natives BEYOND disease
2. Summarize the expansion of voting rights during America’s history
3. Outline the effects of the new technologies emerging from the Industrial Revolution prior to the Civil
War.
4. Identify the leading personalities of WWII and their interrelationships.
5. Identify the leading personalities of the Civil Rights movement and their contributions.
6. Identify the successes of the government under the Articles of Confederation, including the
Declaration of Independence and the Northwest Ordinances.
7. Summarize the major examples of both strict and loose approaches to control over the American
colonies taken by the British Government.
8. Outline the factors leading to the ratification of the Constitution and the debate surrounding
ratification.
9. Compare and Contrast the colonial Headright, Patroon, and Encomienda systems.
10. Compare and Contrast the three colonial regions AND the earlier Chesapeake Bay and Massachusetts
Bay colonies.
11. Explain the nature and impact of the Jim Crow system after the Civil War.
12. Summarize the goals and outcomes of the Marshall Plan
13. Identify the ways in which the British Colonies in America developed a more English style society and
culture in the years leading up to the French & Indian War.
14. What were the effects of the Erie Canal and other early American transportation improvement efforts?
15. Compare and Contrast the causes behind Indian Removal and the Slave Trade in early America.
16. What were the reasons behind and effects of the American adoption of laws modeled on the Barbados
Slave Codes?
17. Identify the leading personalities of the Labor movement of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s and their
contributions.
18. Summarize the changes American labor experienced as the 1800’s drew to a close.
19. Compare and contrast the post-war social movements of Republican Motherhood, the Cult of
Domesticity, and the 1950’s housewife.
20. Summarize the actions taken by Progressives to clean up politics and the city, state, and national levels.
21. Explain the legacy of the following court decisions:
a. Marbury v. Madison
b. McCullough v. Maryland
c. Dred Scott
d. Worcester v. Georgia
e. Plessy v. Ferguson
f. Dartmouth v. Woodward
g. Shenk v. US
h. Korematsu v. U.S.
i. Brown v. BOE
j. Roe v. Wade
22. Summarize the economic interactions between European settlers and Native Americans in the British
colonies.
23. Identify the populations involved in the major waves of immigration.
24. Explain the differing points of view on wealth expressed by Social Darwinism, the Gospel of Wealth,
and the Social Gospel.
25. Which region of the world became the major focus of proxy wars in the early Cold War?
26. Summarize the controversy surrounding the Tariff of 1828.
27. Summarize the major contributions of the United States in WWII which led to Allied victory.
28. Explain the American System and the opposition which developed.
29. Summarize the causes and effects of the war of 1812.
30. Identify the accomplishments of the following treaties executed by the government of the early
republic:
a. Webster-Ashburton
b. Treaty of Ghent
c. Jay’s Treaty
d. Adams-Onis Treaty
31. What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and what event precipitated the
movement to revise the Articles which led to the creation of the Constitution?
32. From what part of American society did most late 1800’s reformers come?
33. Summarize the major compromises if the Constitutional Convention.
34. Describe the major justification for slavery given by Southerners prior to the Civil War.
35. What was the Lowell System and what did it contribute to the early Industrial Revolution?
36. List the major reasons for the American Colonists’ success in the Revolutionary War.
37. Describe the following documents and their impact:
a. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
b. Emancipation Proclamation
c. Mahan’s Sea Power
d. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
e. Winthrop’s City on a Hill
38. Describe the relationship between French and Dutch settlers and the Native Americans.
39. What were the effects of Chinese immigration to the American West after the Civil War?
40. Describe the effect of the Cotton Gin on American Slavery.
41. Explain John Calhoun’s contention that slavery was a “positive good.”
42. Describe the Monroe Doctrine and its legacy.
43. Summarize the point of view of the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans in the Early Republic.
44. Describe the Japanese internment during WWII.
45. Explain the philosophical origins of the Antebellum Reform movements.
46. What was the Hartford Convention?
47. Explain the goals and outcomes of the Dawes Severalty Act.
48. What were the outcomes of the Sharecropping system which developed in the south after the Civil
War?
49. Who were the Copperheads?
50. Define Mestizo.
51. What were the goals and outcomes of HUAC?
52. Review the events leading to the Revolutionary War.
53. Following the Civil War, women’s rights movements focused on what major inequality?
54. Compare and contrast the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection.
55. How did American colonists first respond to greater economic regulation by Great Britain in the
colonial era?
56. Describe the supporters and the goals of the Populist or People’s Party.
57. What did the First Great Awakening signify about the American Colonies?
58. Historically speaking, what effect did alcohol have on Native American societies?
59. What caused American colonists to turn increasingly to slavery for labor in the 1700’s?
60. Which colonial settlements gained their land through conflict with the following Native American
groups?
a. Powhatan
b. Narragansett
c. Wampanoag
61. What group was responsible for drawing attention to the conditions of poverty in American cities in
the late 1800’s?
62. Summarize the provisions of Hamilton’s financial plan.
63. What were the effects of internal migration of African Americans after the Civil War?
64. What was the Grange movement?
65. What were the effects of the growth of cash crop agriculture in Southern states?
66. Between WWI and WWII, what region of the world experienced military interventions by the United
States?
67. What was the effect of Sugar cultivation in the Caribbean in the 1600’s and 1700’s?
68. Define Manifest Destiny.
69. The assembly line process first revolutionized what major American industry?
70. Give evidence that sectional concerns outweighed political party affiliation in the 1850’s.
71. What documents did Southern states draw most heavily upon in crafting their arguments for
secession?
72. Describe the process of the conquest of Western territories following the Civil War.
73. What New Deal programs have had the most lasting impact on American life and politics?
74. What organizations expanded in response to the growing economic pressures of the 1910’s and
1920’s?
75. What were the contributions of the transcontinental railroad?
76. What were the reasons for President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment?
77. What development in American foreign relations led to growing suspicion of the IWW?
78. What intellectual movement had the greatest influence on the American Revolution?
79. What was the impact of the Wilmot Proviso?
80. What was the Republican Party’s position on slavery in the election of 1860?
81. Explain the Missouri Compromise.
82. What were the major advantages and disadvantages faced by the opposing sides in the Civil War?
83. What was the concept of repatriation as it pertains to slavery in America prior to the Civil War, and
who were its greatest proponents?
84. Explain the significance of the following major events of John Adams’ presidency.
a. XYZ Affair
b. Sedition Act
c. Convention of 1800
85. The “Know-Nothing” party is an example of what continuity in American history?
86. Summarize the role and position of each of the following African American Civil Rights leaders:
a. W.E.B. DuBois
b. Malcolm X
c. Booker T. Washington
d. Martin Luther King, Jr.
e. Frederick Douglass
87. Summarize the following leaders of New Deal opposition:
a. Huey Long
b. Father Charles Coughlin
c. Dr. Francis Townsend
88. What made Maryland unique among the American colonies?
89. Summarize the effects of the following New Deal programs:
a. Social Security
b. TVA
c. FDIC
d. Federal Reserve
e. AAA
f. SEC
90. Who was Jane Addams?
91. Define Mercantilism.
92. Explain the Spanish colonial Mission System and Encomienda System and their effects.
93. Give evidence supporting the proposition that the 1920’s were a time of isolationism.
94. What were the goals and outcomes of the Homestead Act?
95. What significant demographic milestone did the United States pass in 1920?
96. Dust Bowl migrants most often moved to what region of the country?
97. Identify the most significant figures of the antebellum anti-slavery movement.
98. Describe “holding companies” and who pioneered the business concept.
99. Describe the restrictions experiences in the American home front during WWII.
100. Describe the following early American rebellions:
a. Stono Rebellion
b. Bacon’s Rebellion
c. Pope’s Rebellion
d. Shay’s Rebellion