IB/APUSH First Semester Final Review Terms
Unit 1:
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Unit 2:
Exploring countries
o Portugal, Spain, France,
England, Netherlands
Push/Pull factors for British colonization
of North America
Corporate, Proprietary, and Royal
colonies
Jamestown
o John Smith, John Rolfe, JointStock Company, Tobacco, etc.
Religion-based American colonies
o Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay,
Pennsylvania, Maryland
 Quakers, William Penn,
Maryland Act of
Religious Toleration,
Lord Baltimore
Plymouth Pilgrims and Massachusetts
Bay Puritans
o Mayflower Compact
o Calvinism, Predestination,
intolerance
o William Bradford, John
Winthrop
o “City on a Hill”
o Education, “Old Deluder” law,
Universities
o Town Hall Meetings
o Spin-off colonies – Rhode
Island, Connecticut
 Roger Williams, Anne
Hutchinson, Thomas
Hooker
 Religious Tolerance
First Great Awakening
o Old vs. New Lights, new
colleges, causes and results
o Enlightenment philosophy and
ideas; Deists
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French and Indian War (Seven Years
War)
o Causes and results
Trade laws and Mercantilism
o Salutary Neglect
o Writs of Assistance and ViceAdmiralty Courts
o Navigation Acts, Sugar Act,
Stamp Act, Townshend Duties
 Types of protests,
Stamp Act Congress,
Declaratory Act
o Boston Tea Party, Sons of
Liberty, Intolerable (Coercive)
Acts
o Triangular Trade, Middle
Passage, Slavery
John Peter Zenger and Freedom of the
Press
Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration
of Independence
o Locke and Social Contract
Theory
General George Washington
Major Battles of the American
Revolution
o Lexington and Concord,
Trenton, Saratoga, Yorktown,
Valley Forge
Articles of Confederation
o Strengths and weaknesses
o Land Ordinance, Northwest
Ordinance
o Shay’s Rebellion
IB/APUSH First Semester Final Review Terms
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Constitutional Convention- Philadelphia
1787
o Small vs. Large states
o Compromises
o Main ideas of document
o James Madison
o Ratification struggle and the
Federalist Papers
o Bill of Rights
 Why added? Purpose?
Hamilton and Federalists
o Financial policies
o Attitude toward common vs.
rich and powerful people
o Bank of the United States
o Attitude toward Britain and
views on Federal power
o Loose interpretation of
Constitution
Jefferson and Democrat-Republicans
o Attitude toward common
people
o Agriculture-based society
o Power of the states
o Strict interpretation of
Constitution
President Washington
o Neutrality in war between GB
and FR
o Citizen Genet Affair
o Whiskey Rebellion – response
to it
o Farewell Address – key points
made
President Adams
o Alien and Sedition Acts
o Virginia and Kentucky
Resolutions
o XYZ Affair
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Supreme Court
o John Marshall and key case
decisions
 What were they and
what did they say
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President Jefferson and Revolution of
1800
o Louisiana Purchase
o Lewis and Clark Expedition
o Embargo of 1807
President Madison
o War of 1812
 Causes and results
 Hartford Convention
and end of Federalists
President Monroe
o Missouri Compromise and
slavery issue
o Sectionalism
o Era of Good Feelings
o Monroe Doctrine
Internal Improvements
o Erie Canal, National road,
railroads
o Henry Clay’s American System
President John Quincy Adams
o Corrupt Bargain with Henry Clay
President Andrew Jackson
o Democratic Party
o Tariff of Abominations
 South Carolina and
Nullification Crisis
 Compromise Tariff of
1833 and the Force Bill
o War against the Bank of the
U.S. and bank president
Nicholas Biddle
 Pet Banks, Specie
Circular
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Indian Removal Act of 1830
o 5 Civilized Tribes
o Trail of Tears
o Andrew Jackson vs. Marshall
and the Supreme Court
President Van Buren
o Panic of 1837
o Independent Treasury Act
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American Renaissance
o Authors, artists, etc. and
significance
o Transcendentalists
o Utopian societies
o Reform movements and
reformers
 What areas were
reformed? How
successful?
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Abolitionists – key activists and
their philosophies
 Garrison, Douglass, etc.
 Free-Soilers
o Nat Turner’s Rebellion
o “King Cotton”
Immigration vs. Nativism
o Old immigrants (Germany,
Ireland, etc.)
o Native-born anti-immigration
groups
 Know-Nothing
(American) party
President Polk and Manifest Destiny
o Oregon and “54-40 or Fight”
o War with Mexico
 Goals and results
 Wilmot Proviso
 Treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo – terms
Presidents Harrison and Tyler (Whig
Party)
o Democrat in Whig’s clothing
Texas Independence
o Stephen Austin, Sam Houston,
General Santa Anna
o The Alamo, Goliad, Battle of San
Jacinto
o Annexation issue and slavery
Slavery
o Reasons for continued use
o End of International Slave Trade
(1808) and breeding/sale
o Eli Whitney and Cotton Gin
 Whitney’s invention of
interchangeable parts
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Compromise of 1850
o California, Popular Sovereignty,
Fugitive Slave Law
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
Stephen Douglas
o Kansas-Nebraska Act
o Senate race against Lincoln
 Debates and Freeport
Doctrine
Formation of the Republican Party
Bleeding Kansas
o Abolitionists vs. Pro-slavery in
popular sovereignty
o Lecompton vs. Topeka
constitutions
o John Brown and Pottawattamie
Massacre
o Sumner-Brooks Affair
IB/APUSH First Semester Final Review Terms
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Dred Scott Supreme Court decision and
results
President Lincoln
o How elected?
o Southern response?
Secession
o Failure of Crittenden
Compromise
o Formation of Confederate
States of American and
Jefferson Davis
Civil War
o Fort Sumter
o Chances for European
intervention
 Sources of support
 Trent Affair
o Advantages and disadvantages
for each side
o Reasons for fighting (both sides)
 Evolving reasons
 Anti-war Northerners
(Copperheads)
o Key Battles
 Bull Run, Antietam,
Gettysburg, Vicksburg
 Technology of the war
o Border states
o Emancipation Proclamation,
Gettysburg Address, 2nd
Inaugural Address
o Key Generals
 Lee, Grant, Sherman,
Stonewall Jackson,
McClellan, etc.
o Surrender at Appomattox
Courthouse, VA