APUSH: Unit 1 Review
APUSH: Unit 2 Review
What materials to study: (in order of importance)
▪ Terms, Lecture Notes, Essential Chronology (see below), video notes, etc.
▪ Essay Prep—See topics below.
▪ Sample APUSH Questions, major Topics of Classroom Discussion, Handouts, etc.
Important Content to Know:
▪ Impact of French & Indian War.
▪ Causes of American Revolution = Events leading up to Revolution, Political & Economic Motives
▪ Why Colonies Won the War
▪ Major events of the American Revolution
Battle of Saratoga
Benjamin Franklin
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Bunker Hill
Committees of Correspondence
Common Sense
Currency Issues
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Necessity of Taking Up Arms
French & Indian War
George Washington
Intolerable Acts (Coercive)
James Madison
John Adams
John Jay
Lexington & Concord
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
Olive Branch Petition
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Stamp Act, Boycott, & Repeal
Suffolk Resolves
Suspension of Colonial Legislatures
Sugar Act
Taxation Pre & Post Rev.
Tea Act
The American Crisis
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Tories/Loyalists
Townshend Acts
Treaty of Paris 1763 and 1783--Provisions
POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTION TOPIC: question may be similar to one below from 2009.
1. Analyze the ways in which British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonials’ resistance to British rule and their commitment to republican values. [09]
Essential Dates/Chronological Order for Colonial America: (The actual date is less important than a sense of the order of events & why important, *dates with asterisk should be accurate)
▪ 1754-1763: French and Indian War*
1763: Proclamation of 1763
1765: The Stamp Act *
1767: The Townshend Acts
1770: The Boston Massacre.
1773: Boston Tea Party*
1774: The Intolerable Acts
1774: First Continental Congress*
1775: Battles of Lexington/Concord
1775: Second Continental Congress
1776: Declaration of Independence*
1777: Battle of Saratoga *
1781: British surrender at Yorktown*
1783: Treaty of Paris 1783
Sample APUSH Questions:
1. Which man is NOT paired with the correct description that applies to him regarding the Constitutional Convention?
A) Gouvernor Morris---prose stylist who wrote the Preamble to the Constitution.
B) Alexander Hamilton---most ardent federalist of all the delegates.
C) George Washington---presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention.
D) Patrick Henry---chief spokesperson for the pro-Federalist planter aristocracy at the Convention.
E) James Madison—called the father of the Constitution for his role in shaping the structure of the government.
2. In his famous political pamphlet, Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that
A) The American colonists should consider themselves fortunate that Great Britain had defended them in the French and Indian War
B) that America was too large to continue under colonial rule
C) that Great Britain’s foreign entanglements had never touched America
D) that unlike India, the America’s should continue under rule of the monarch
E) that representation should be on the basis of population
3. The primary issue in dispute in Shays’ Rebellion was:
A) the jailing of individuals or seizure of their property for failure to pay taxes during a time of economic hardship
B) the underrepresentation of western Massachusetts in the state legislature leading to accusations of “taxation without representation”
C) the failure of Massachusetts to pay a promised postwar bonus to the soldiers who had served in its forces during the Revolution
D) the failure of Massachusetts authorities to take adequate steps to protect the western part of the state from the depredations of raiding Indians
E) economic oppression practiced by the banking interests of eastern Massachusetts
4. The Sugar and Townshend Acts differed from the previously passed Navigation Acts in that:
A) the Navigation Acts taxed goods imported to the colonies directly from Britain, whereas the Sugar Act and the Townshend acts taxed only goods imported to the colonies from outside of Britain
B) The Navigation Acts taxed only the ships on which goods were transported to the colonies, not the merchandise carried by those ships. The Sugar Act and the Townshend Acts taxed specific merchandise carried by ships to the colonies
C) the Navigation Acts taxed goods based on the distance the goods traveled to reach America, whereas the Sugar Act and the Townshend Acts taxed the goods themselves, regardless of how far they traveled to reach America
D) the Navigation Acts taxed only goods imported to the colonies from outside of Britain, whereas the Sugar Act and the Townshend Acts taxed goods imported to the colonies directly form Britain
E) The Sugar Act and the Townshend Acts put specific limits on which goods imported to the colonies could be taxed, whereas the Navigation Acts had taxed virtually everything transported by ship from Britain to the colonies
5. A major impact of the French and Indian War on the attitudes of Americans was
A) it led many Americans to question the superiority of English colonial rule and to support French colonial rule
B) it convinced most Americans to avoid further exploration of settlement of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys until after the American Revolution
C) it bound the American colonists more tightly to England than ever before and made most of them realize they needed English protection from foreign powers such as the French
D) it led many colonists who had previously supported independence from England to call for moderation because they feared that the huge British military presence in the colonies (brought over from England to fight the French) could now be turned on rebellious colonists
E) with the threat of the French now gone form their borders, many colonists now felt that English protection was unnecessary and they felt free to take a more independent stand toward Britain than they had taken previously
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1. D
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. E
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