REVIEW GUIDE – APUSH- To be used with Alan Brinkley’s American History: Connecting with the Past
Chapter 1 The Meeting of Cultures
Hispaniola
Gold God & Glory
Conquistadors
Pizzaro/Incas
Cortez/Aztecs
Spanish colonization
St. Augustine (1565)
Encomienda
Bartolomeo de las Casas
Pope’s Rebellion
intermarriage
Columbian Exchange
depopulation
smallpox/influenza
Disease
1) What was the Columbian Exchange?
2) Name 5 products that went from the new world to the old world and vice versa
3) How did Columbus’ landing on Hispaniola impact the world?
4) What were the hallmarks of Spanish colonization?
Chapter 2 Transplantations & Borderlands
Protestant Reformation
English navy
Push/pull factors
Primogeniture laws
Enclosure Acts
Jamestown (1607)
work to eat
Powhatan wars
Virginia Company
John Smith/John Rolfe
Starving time
Pocahanas
House of Burgesses
Triangular Trade
African laborers
indentured servants
Lord Baltimore/Catholic
Md. Act of Toleration
tobacco/rice/sugar cane
French colonization
Courieurs du bois
Quebec (1608)
Barbados slave codes
Huguenots
1) What was Jamestown’s economy based on and how did this affect its development?
2) Describe the ways in which the treatment of Black arrivals in Jamestown changed between 1619 and 1700.
What were the reasons for these changes?
3) How did British colonization differ from Spanish and French colonization?
Chapter 3 Society & Culture in Provincial America
Headright system
Bacon’s Rebellion(1676)
Royal African Co.
Stono Rebellion
planter class
Class structure
Calvinism/Puritans(non sep.) Plymouth Bay (1620)
Pilgrims (separatists)
Mayflower compact
William Bradford
Metacom(et) (Wampanoag)
King Philip’s War
John Winthrop
City on a Hill
Mass Bay (1629)
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
Fundamental Orders CT
mercantilism
First Great Awakening
Half Way Covenant
Jonathan Edwards
Sinners in the Hands. . . Jeremiads
Dominion of N.E.
Sir Edmond Andros
1) What was the Great Migration and when and why did it occur?
2) Why did the First Great Awakening occur, and what impact did it have on American society?
3) Why did the colonies in the Chesapeake region develop differently from those in New England?
4) Name the middle colonies and explain the characteristics that they shared. How did they differ from the
New England and southern colonies?
5) What was the system of mercantilism, and what impact did it have on the development of the colonial
economy?
Chapter 4 The Empire in Transition
The Iroquos Confederacy
French & Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
Braddock
Washington
Fort Duquesne
William Pitt (PITTsburg)
Albany Conference
Join or Die
Strict Efmt of Navig. Act
Benjamin Franklin
Treaty of Paris
Pontiac’s Uprising
Salutary Neglect
The Sugar Act (Sweet!)
John Peter Zenger
The Stamp Act (1767)
Tax. w/o rep. (Patrick Henry) Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Virtual v. Actual Rep.
Intolerable Acts
Quebec Acts
First Cont. Congress
Lexington & Concord
“shot heard round the world”
1)What caused the French & Indian War? Name the major areas of fighting in this war.
2) What was Franklin’s Plan at the Albany Conference, and why was it rejected?
3) Why did the relationship between the British and the colonists change after the war?
4) Outline the series of Parliamentary Acts which led to crisis with the colonies.
5) Why were the colonists so successful in getting parliament to back down?
Chapter 5 The American Revolution
Common Sense
Declaration of Indep.
Gen. Washington
Articles of Confed.
Battle of Saratoga
Southern Strategy
Treaty of Paris
Loyalists v. Patriots
VA. Statute of Rel. Lib.
Shay’s Rebellion
Land Ord. 1785/5
NW Ordinance
Currency shortage
Hessians
Republican Motherhood
1) What were the strengths & weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
2) What 2 competing principles relating to the power of the federal government were on the minds of those
who defined the role of the federal government in the Articles of Confederation.
3) Why did Maryland initially refuse to ratify the Articles of Confederation, and what
eventually broke the stalemate?
4) Why was the Electoral College included in the Constitution?
5) What was Shay’s Rebellion and why was it significant?
Chapter 6 – The Constitution & the New Republic
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Virginia Plan (Prop. Rep)
NJ Plan (Equal Rep.)
The Great Compromise
Three Fifths Compromise
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Federalism/10 Amendment
Bicameral Legislature
Separation of Powers
The Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
Assumption (debt) Policy Democratic Republicans
Views on the Fr. Rev
Whiskey Rebellion
Jays/Pinkney’s Treaty
GW’s Farewell Address
Adams Presidency
XYZ Affair
Alien & Sedition Acts
Va & Ky Resolutions
1) What were the major problems that had to be addressed at the Constitutional Convention and how were
they solved?
2) Why were the Federalist Papers Published?
3) What were the major principles set forth by Washington in his Farewell Address?
4) Why did Jefferson write the Virginia Resolution, and what did that Resolution allow?
Chapter 7 - The Jeffersonian Era (The Revolution of 1800)
Deism
Second Great Awakening
The Cotton Gin
The Turnpike Era
Judicial Review
Marbury v. Madison
John Marshall
The Louisiana Purchase
Lewis & Clark
Impressment
Reduction of Navy
The Embargo Act
The Non-Intercourse Act
Macon’s Bill #2
Tecumsah & The Prophet
Battle of Tippecanoe
War of 1812
Neutral Trading Rights
Battle of New Orleans
Hartford Convention
Treaty of Ghent
1) Did the Diests agree with the view of religion put forth in the Second Great Awakening? Why or why not?
2) Was John Marshall more aligned with the ideas of the federalists or the anti-federalists? Name 2 cases that
support your conclusion.
3) What caused the war of 1812?
4) What was the Embargo Act, and was it politically popular? Why or why not?
Chapter 8 – Varieties of American Nationalism
Second Bank of the US
Tariff of 1816
The Virginia Dynasty
Era of Good Feelings
Adams Onis Treaty
Talmadge Amendment
Missouri Compromise
The Monroe Doctrine
“The Corrupt Bargain”
1) What problems did the US face after the War if 1812?
2) Why did slavery expand during this era?
3) What was the Monroe Doctrine and why was it significant
4) Explain the origins of the Era of Good feelings.
Chapter 9 - Jacksonian America
Broadening the Franchise
Age of the Common Man
The Spoils System
The Nullificaton Crisis
Martin Van Buren
Worcester v. Georgia
“5 Civilized Tribes”
“Domestic Dependent Nations
Charles River Bridge
Trail of Tears
Indian Removal Act
“The Bank War”
Jackson’s Bank Veto
The American System
Henry Clay
1) In what ways did changes during the Jacksonian Era live up to the ideals of the era? In what ways did they
fall short?
2) Explain the origins of the Nullification Crisis and why it did not lead to succession.
3) Why did Jackson oppose the Bank of the US? What did he propose instead?
4) Explain the holding in Worcester v. Georgia. Who won in the big picture? Why?
Chapter 10 – America’s Economic Revolution
Irish & German Immigration
Nativism
Know Nothing Party
Canal Age
Erie Canal
Interchangeable Parts
The Lowell System
Immigrant Workers Cult of Domesticity
McCormick Reaper
Mechanization
Urbanization
1) Explain the rise of the Know Nothing Party in the late 1840’s
2) Explain the impact of the Erie Canal on commerce in the northeast.
3) Why did the Lowell System decline in the late 1830’s?
Chapter 11 - Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
Cotton Gin
Tobacco’s decline
Planter class
“Southern Lady”
The Peculiar Institution
Urban Slaves
Foreign slave trade
Slave culture/African roots King Cotton
1) Jefferson had argued that slavery would end on its own, yet there was a tremendous resurgence of the
institution in the early 1800’s. Why did this resurgence occur?
2) Why did the south fail to develop a strong manufacturing sector?
3) Describe the classes in southern society.
4) Why did the south begin to fall behind the north in terms of culture and the arts?
Chapter 12 – Antebellum Culture and Reform
Ralph Waldo EmersonHenry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism
Utopian Communities
Brook Farm/Shakers
Mormons/Joseph Smith
Horace Mann
Asylum Movement
Dorothea Dix
Seneca Falls Conference
Eliz.Cady Stanton/Lucretia Mott
Declaration of Sentiments
“ & women created equal” Wm. Lloyd Garrison
“The Liberator”
Fredrick Douglas
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1) Who were the leaders of the Transcendentalist movement and what did they believe in?
2) What were the goals of the Seneca Falls Conference, were they? What year did the Conference take place?
3) When Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he said “so you’re the little lady who started this great war.” What did
Lincoln mean by saying this?
Chapter 13 - The Impending Crisis
Manifest Destiny
Stephen Austin
Texas
54 40 or fight
Oregon Trail
President Polk
Mexican (American) War
Spot Resolution
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
Free Soil Party
Forty Niners
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Ostend Manifesto
Transcontinental RR
Kansas Nebraska Act “Bleeding Kansas”
Charles Sumner
Free Soil
Rise of Republican Party
Dred Scott
Lincoln Douglas Debates
John Brown
1) Identify the reasons Polk is often called “the Manifest Destiny President.” BE SPECIFIC
2) Why is it often said that the Civil War started early in Kansas? What issues caused the violence there, and what
happened there as a result?
3) What did each side gain in the Compromise of 1850?
4) What was President Lincoln’s position on slavery in the election of 1860?
Chapter 14 - The Civil War
Secession
The Confederacy
The Border States
Crittenden Comp.
Fort Sumpter
Draft Riots
Habeus Corpus Writ suspended
Antietam
Gettysburg
Emancipation Proclamation Vicksburg
Lee/Grant
Sherman’s March through GA.
Gettys burgh Address
Appomattax Courthouse
1) Why did the south secede from the Union despite Lincoln’s promise (in the campaign of 1860) to allow slavery to
continue where it already existed.
2) What advantages did each side have in the war?
3) How many slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation? In light of this, why is the 4) document
considered to be so significant?
5) Why did the north win the war?
Chapter 15 - Reconstruction & the New South
The Lost Cause
The Freedman’s Bureau
10% Plan
Wade Davis Bill
Assasination of Lincoln
President Johnson
Black Codes
13th/14th /15th Amend’s
Congressional Reconstruction
Impeachment
Carpetbaggers/Scalawags
Sharecropping/crop lien
40 acres & a mule
President Grant
Credit Mobilier
Seward’s Folly
Rise of the Klan
Compromise of 1877
Booker T. Washington
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
1) What successes were achieved during Reconstruction?
2) Why did the north’s early commitment to the ideals of reconstruction begin to wane in the mid-1870s?
3) After the end of slavery, how did the majority of the freedmen make their living? Was this an advantageous
system for them? Why or why not?
4) Account for the rise of the Klan in the South after the war.
5) What was the court’s holding in Plessey v. Ferguson, and why was it significant?