HONORS US I



Pre-AP US I

Revised: 5/6/2010

PRE-AP US I FINAL EXAM: STUDY GUIDE

• What should I study?

o class notes, notes from Maier, class materials

• How should I use this study guide?

o This guide is a point to which you should return several times—perhaps most importantly as you begin to study (so you have a sense of what to study) and as you think about concluding your studying (to make sure you have covered all topics and as a list from which you can quiz yourself). The guide itself is not meant to be “studied,” nor is it meant to be all-inclusive. Seek help if you need it.

(Format:

• Multiple choice exam covering material from the French and Indian War through the Progressive Era (50%) (recommended time: 45 minutes)

• Two (2) Free-Response Questions (50%) (recommended time: 70 minutes)

o FRQs will be assessed using same rubric used on previous FRQs

(Major Eras:

• Colonial

o People:

▪ Franklin, B.

o Concepts:

▪ Major colonies; their successes and failures, differences and similarities

▪ Evolution of slavery

▪ Eventual dominance of England

• Relationship b/t England and colonies

• French and Indian War

o Nations involved

o Reasons for fighting

o Turning point

• Albany Plan

• “Join, or Die”

• Proclamation of 1763

• Revolutionary

o People:

▪ Paine, Thomas

▪ Jefferson, Thomas

▪ Washington, George

▪ Hamilton, Alexander

▪ Madison, James

▪ Adams, Sam

▪ Adams, John

▪ Adams, Abigail

▪ Henry, Patrick

▪ Hancock, John

▪ Revere, Paul

▪ Locke, John

o Concepts/terms:

▪ Series of events leading to Declaration and war

▪ Declaration of Independence

• Rationale/purpose of

▪ Olive Branch Petition

▪ Coercive Acts

▪ Intolerable Acts

▪ Stamp Act

▪ Sugar Act

▪ “Midnight Ride”

▪ “Shot heard round the world”

▪ “summer soldier and sunshine patriot”

▪ Battles

• Saratoga

• Lexington and Concord

• Bunker Hill

• Yorktown

▪ Treaty of Paris

• Effects

▪ Articles of Confederation

• Purpose, positives and negatives

▪ Northwest Ordinance of 1787

▪ Constitution

• Rationale for

• Federalist Papers

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

• Bill of Rights

• Representation questions

o Virginia Plan

o New Jersey Plan

o Great Compromise

• slave question

o 3/5 Compromise

• Early government and first administrations

o People:

▪ Washington

▪ Hamilton

▪ Jefferson

▪ Adams, John

▪ Adams, John Quincy

▪ Madison

▪ Marshall

▪ Jackson, Andrew

▪ Burr, Aaron

o Concepts/terms:

▪ Northwest Ordinance

▪ Political parties, goals and views

▪ Cabinet

▪ Hamilton’s financial plan

▪ Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures (SUM)

▪ Departments created under Washington

• Responsibilities of Secretary of Treasury

• Responsibilities of Secretary of State

▪ XYZ Affair

▪ Impressment

▪ Alien and Sedition Acts

▪ Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

▪ Marbury vs. Madison

• Midnight Judges

• Judicial oversight

• Judicial review

• Power of Supreme Court

▪ Election of 1800

• “Revolution” of 1800/significance of election of 1800

• 12th amendment

▪ Louisiana Territory

• Details of purchase

• Explorers of

• long-term impact of (issues related to expansion, slavery, governance of territories)

▪ War of 1812

• Causes, major personalities, results

▪ Hartford Convention

▪ “Era of Good Feelings”

• sectionalism

• nationalism

▪ Clay’s American System/Madisonian Platform

▪ 2nd BUS

▪ McCulloch v. Maryland

▪ Panic of 1819

▪ “market” revolution, as opposed to industrial revolution

▪ the “Corrupt Bargain”

▪ 2nd Party System

• Jacksonian Democracy

o Bank War

▪ Biddle

o Nullification crisis

o Maysville Road veto

o Peggy Eaton Affair

o Seminole Wars

o Suspension of habeas corpus

o Excessive use of veto

o States’ rights vs. federal power

o Executive power

o Webster-Hayne debate

o Internal improvements

o Indian Removal Act

o Tariff of Abominations

o Tariff of 1832

o Expansion of right to vote

o Spoils system

o Gag rule

o Clay, Henry

o Calhoun

o Van Buren

o

• Antebellum Reform

o Abolitionism

o Second Great Awakening

o Senaca Falls; Declaration of Sentiments

o Burned over district

o American Anti-slavery Society

o American Colonization Society

o Education reform

o Prison reform

o Transcendentalism

o Women in the abolitionist movement

o Cult of domesticity and republican motherhood

o Separate spheres

o Utopian societies

o Thoreau

o Emerson

o Hudson River School

o Garrison

o Douglass

o Finney, Charles G.

o Grimke sisters

o Mann, Horace

o Dix, Dorothea

o Stanton, Elizabeth C.

o Mott, Lucretia

o Beecher, Catherine

o Stowe, Harriet Beecher

o Calhoun

o Slavery as positive good (vs. necessary evil)

• Physical and economic growth of the nation and growth of sectionalism

o People:

▪ Jackson, Andrew

▪ Whitney, Eli

▪ Calhoun, John C.

▪ Clay, Henry

▪ Lincoln, Abraham

▪ Douglas, Steven

▪ Monroe, James

▪ Polk, James K.

▪ Taylor, Zachary

▪ Stowe, Harriet Beecher

▪ Taney, Roger

o Concepts/terms:

▪ Sectionalism

▪ Nationalism

▪ Missouri Compromise

▪ Indian removal

• Trail of tears

▪ Major sections: North, South, West

▪ Texas’s Independence

▪ Annexation of Texas

▪ War with Mexico

▪ Compromise of 1850

▪ Popular sovereignty

▪ Gadsden Purchase

▪ Treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo

▪ Kansas-Nebraska Act

▪ Bleeding Kansas

▪ Bleeding Sumner/Senatorial beating/Brooks vs. Sumner

▪ Dred Scott

▪ John Brown

▪ Uncle Tom’s Cabin

▪ Lincoln-Douglas debates

▪ Crittenden Compromise

▪ Personal liberty laws

▪ Election of 1860

▪ Secession

• Civil War and Reconstruction

o People:

▪ Stevens, Thaddeus

▪ Sumner, Charles

▪ Lincoln, Abraham

▪ Davis, Jefferson

▪ Grant

▪ Meade

▪ Lee

▪ McClellan

▪ Johnson, Andrew

▪ Du Bois, W.E.B.

▪ Washington, Booker T.

o Concepts/Terms:

▪ Battles:

• Fort Sumter

• Bull Run

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

▪ KKK

▪ Redeemers

▪ Participation of blacks in Southern governments

▪ Emancipation Proclamation as political and military strategy

▪ Gettysburg Address

▪ Lincoln’s views on slavery and race

▪ Causes of Civil War

▪ Changing goals/purposes of Civil War

▪ New York City Draft Riots

▪ Appomattox Court House

▪ Reconstruction

• Congressional

• Lincoln’s 10% Plan

• Presidential

• Wade-Davis

• Radical Republicans

• Impeachment of Johnson

• Reconstruction Amendments

• Freedman’s Bureau

▪ Black codes

▪ Jim Crow Laws

▪ Carpetbaggers

▪ Disenfranchisement

▪ Civil Rights legislation

▪ Scalawags

▪ Historiography of Reconstruction

▪ “New” South

▪ Atlanta Compromise

▪ gradualism

▪ accommodationist

▪ Foner’s Forever Free

• Gilded Age

o Impact of the second industrial revolution

▪ Growth of unions: goals, leaders, actions, accomplishments, shortcomings

• Knights of Labor

• AFL

• Debs

• Gompers

• strikes, e.g., Pullman; Haymarket

▪ Rise of big business

• monopolies, trusts

• vertical, horizontal integration

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Porter’s Rise of Big Business

• wage gap; wealth gap

o Transcontinental railroad

o growth of national and international markets

o Urbanization

o Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall

o machine politics

o New West

o Twain

o Minority rights

▪ Women, African-Americans

o Immigration

• Populism

o Populist movement: goals, causes, leaders, accomplishments, failures

o Gold standard vs. bimetallism

o 1892, 1896 elections

o Grange movement, farmers’ alliances

o Bryan, William Jennings

• Imperialism

o Roosevelt, T.

o trace the evolution of the US as an imperial power

o Hawaii

o Spanish American War

▪ Philippines

▪ Cuba

o Yellow journalism

o Hearst, Pulitzer

o causes, purposes/rationales for imperialism

o McKinley

o Alfred T. Mahan

o Aguinaldo, Emilio

o Maine

o Chocolate éclair

• Progressivism

o muckrackers

o trustbusting

o principles, goals of Progressives

o Pure Food and Drug Act

o Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Live

o Sinclair’s The Jungle

o Roosevelt, T.

o Taft, Wm.

o Wilson, W.

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