AP US Midterm Review
Chapter 1 (Beginnings – 1500)
The First Americans (Theories of how they arrived, Types of Societies)
Cultural Diversity (Mesoamerica, Southwest, Eastern Woodlands, Nonfarming societies)
Family, Kinship, Gender Roles, Spiritual Values
Chapter 2 (1400 – 1625)
European Culture and Society (Religious Upheavals, Renaissance, English Reformation)
Europe’s Exploration (Portugal, Spain, Columbian Exchange, France, England – Virginia and New England, New Netherlands)
Chapter 3 (1625 – 1700)
Puritanism (City on a Hill, Society, Tensions, Native Americans, Salem Witchcraft)
Chesapeake Society (Virginia, Maryland, Family, Tobacco, Bacon’s Rebellion, Slavery – Caribbean and Carolina)
Middle Colonies (New Netherlands, New Sweden, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware)
North American Rivals (French Empire, New Mexico and the Pueblos, Florida and Texas)
Chapter 4 (1660 – 1750)
Rebellions (Royal Centralization, Glorious Revolution, Wars)
Colonial Economies (Mercantilism, Navigation Acts, French, Spanish, Population, Slaves, Rural Whites, Farmers, Environment, Urban Life, Colonial Elites)
Continental Competition (New Orleans, Native Americans, Georgia, Spain’s Borders)
Public Life (Colonial Politics, Enlightenment, Great Awakening)
Chapter 5 (1750 – 1776)
Tensions (French Expansion, French and Indian War, Treaty of Paris, Writs of Assistance, George III, Frontier)
Imperial Authority (Financial Problems, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Ideologies, Quartering Act)
Resistance and Rebellion (Townshend Acts, Lord North, Women, Racketeering, Wilkes, Boston Massacre, Committees of Correspondence, Conflicts, Tea Act and Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress, Common Sense, Richard Henry Lee)
Chapter 6 (1776 – 1788)
War Prospects (Loyalists v. Patriots, Opposing Sides, War in North, War in West, War in South, Treaty of Paris)
Social Change (Egalitarianism, White Women, Blacks, Native Americans)
New Governments (Colonies to States, Articles of Confederation, Economic Issues, Ordinances in the West)
New Constitution (Shay’s Rebellion, Philadelphia Convention, Ratification Stuggles)
Chapter 7 (1788 –1800)
The New Government (Election, Federalists, Judiciary, Bill of Rights, Cabinet)
Hamiton’s Domestic Policies (Objectives, “Report on Public Credit”, National Bank, Partisanship, Whiskey Rebellion)
Foreign Policy (Spanish, American Expansion, French Revolution, Jay and Pinckney, XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts)
Parties and Politics (Hamilton v. Jefferson, Republican Party, Farewell Address, Election of 1796, Election of 1800)
Economic and Social Change (New England markets, industry, white women, Native Americans, African-Americans)
Chapter 8 (1801 – 1824)
Jeffersonianism (“Pomp and Circumstance”, Federalism, Republicanism, Jefferson’s Beliefs, Jefferson’s “Revolution”, Marbury v. Madison, The Louisiana Purchase, The Election of 1804, Lewis and Clark Expedition)
Challenges to Jefferson (Aaron Burr, Yazoo Land Scandal, Quids, Impressment of Seamen, Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, “Peaceable Coercion”, Embargo Act of 1807,
Madison’s Term (Election of 1808, “War Hawks” and Doves, Tecumseh, The War of 1812, The Treaty of Ghent, The Hartford Convention)
American Nationalism (Era of Good Feelings, Election of 1816, Election of 1820, John Marshall, The Missouri Compromise, Adams-Onis Treaty, Monroe Doctrine)
Chapter 9 (1815 –1840)
Western Expansion (New States, Navigable Rivers and Canals, “Mountain Men” like Jedidiah Smith, John Jacob Astor’s fur trade, Federal Government acts, Indian Removal Act, Five Civilized Tribes, “Trail of Tears”, Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin)
Market Economy (Commercial Agriculture, Land Policies, Speculators and Squatters, Panic of 1819, Transportation Revolution with Steamboats, City Growth)
Industrial Growth (Urbanization, Samuel Slater’s mill, Causes of Industrialization, Tariffs, Eli Whitney, Textile Towns like Waltham and Lowell, Artisans)
Economic and Social Inequality (Rich Districts, Poor Districts, Free Blacks, “Middling Classes”, Professionals, Family, Wives and Husbands, Voluntary Associations)
Chapter 10 (1824 – 1840)
Democratic Politics (Republican Fragmenting, Democratic Politics, Election of 1824, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Election of 1828, “Tariff of Abominations”, Maysville Road Veto, Spoils System, Nullification Crisis, The War on the Bank)
The Second Party (“Pet Banks”, Whigs, Election of 1836, Panic of 1837, Election of 1840)
Popular Religion and Reform (Second Great Awakening, Eastern Revivals, Unitarians, Mormons, Shakers, Temperance Movement, Public Schools, Abolitionists, Women’s Rights, Prisons, Utopias)
Chapter 11 (1840 – 1860)
Technology and Growth (God’s Will, Standards of Living, Agricultural Advancement, Industrial Progress, Railroads, Worker Prosperity)
Quality of Life (Middle Class, Row Houses, Conveniences, Diseases, Phrenology, Newspapers, Theater, Minstrel Shows, P.T. Barnum)
Literature and Art (American v. European art, American Renaissance, American novelists – both optimistic and pessimistic, Lyceums, Hudson River Painters, City Designers)
Chapter 12 (1830 – 1860)
King Cotton (Tobacco’s decline, Lower v. Upper South, slavery)
Social Groups (Planters, Small Slaveholders, Yeomen, Squatters)
Social Relations (Political Differences, Proslavery Argument, Violence and Dueling, Southern Evangelicals)
Slave Life (Plantation System, Slave Families, Slaves off Plantations, Free Blacks in the South, Slave Resistance, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Slave Language and Culture, Spirituals)
Chapter 13 (1840 – 1848)
Immigration (Irish and Germans, Nativism and Know-Nothings, Politics)
The West (Oregon Territory, Fur Trade, The Texas Revolution, California, Overland Trails)
Expansion Politics (Whigs, Clay’s American System, Annexation of Texas, Election of 1844, Manifest Destiny, 54 40 or Fight, 49th Parallel, California Gold Rush)
Mexican-American War (Annexation of Texas, John Slidell, Zachary Taylor, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Wilmot Proviso, Election of 1848)
Chapter 14 (1850 – 1861)
Compromising Slavery (Zachary Taylor, California’s Admission, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Election of 1852)
Political Changes (Kansas-Nebraska Act, Popular Sovereignty, Stephen A. Douglas, Free Soilers, Whigs, Know-Nothings, Republicans, “Bleeding Kansas”, Election of 1856)
The Union in Crisis (Dred Scott Case, Lecompton Constitution, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Harpers Ferry, Secession)
The Union Collapses (Election of 1860, Secession of the Deep South, Crittenden Compromise, Fort Sumter, Secession of Upper South, Confederacy v. Union)
Chapter 15 (1861 – 1865)
Mobilizing for War (Conscription Acts, Impressment Act, Enrollment Act, War Bonds, Greenbacks, Lincoln and Davis, Radical Republicans, Military Occupation, Suspension of Habeas Corpus, Ex Parte Merryman and Ex Parte Milligan)
Battle Strategies (North v. South Advantages and Disadvantages, Anaconda Plan, Eastern Stalemate and Battles, Western Battles, Naval War, Monitor v. Merrimac, Diplomatic War – Trent Affair and “Cotton Diplomacy”, Emancipation Proclamation)
Soldiers and Slaves (Volunteers, Sanitation, Casualties, Medical War – Dorothea Dix, First Confiscation Act, Second Confiscation Act, Emancipation Proclamation, Freedmen’s Bureau, Black Soldiers)
Union Victory (Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Grant v. Lee, Sherman’s March, Appomattox)
Impact of War (Dissenters, Peace Democrats or Copperheads, Draft Riots, Southern Economic Problems, Northern Economic Boom, Women’s Rights, Election of 1864)
Chapter 16 (1865 – 1877)
Reconstruction Plans (Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Andrew Johnson, 13th Amendment, “Black Codes”, Radical Republicans, Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14th Amendment, Congressional Reconstruction, Military Occupation, Impeachment of Johnson, 15th Amendment, Women’s Suffrage)
Reconstruction Governments (Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, Republican Government, Southern Democrats Counterattacks)
The “New” Economy (Freedmen, Black Schools, Sharecropping, Crop-Lien Economy)
The End of Reconstruction (Election of 1868, Grantism, Liberal Republican Party, Panic of 1873, Supreme Court, “Redeeming” the South, Election of 1876, Compromise of 1877)
Chapter 17 (1860 – 1900)
The Native Americans (Five Civilized Tribes, Indian Territory, “Buffalo Bill”, Sand Creek and Red River War, Custer’s Last Stand, Assimilation, Dawes Severalty Act, Ghost Dance Movement, Sitting Bull, Wounded Knee)
Settling the West (Transcontinental Railroad, Railroad Companies, Homestead Act, Cash Crops, Statehood, Women’s Suffrage, Polygamy, Mexican-Americans)
Exploiting the West (Mining, Cowboys and the Open Range, Cattle Towns, Bonanza Farms, Oklahoma Land Rush, The Dime-Novel Hero, Frontier Legends, National Parks Movement)
Essay Questions (you will pick 1)
If the enduring vision of America is embodied in the Declaration of Independence's statements about equality and universal rights to justice, liberty, and self-fulfillment, how much progress toward those ideals had the United States made by 1877? Back up your evaluation with as many specific facts as possible.
How do you define the American dream? Based on your definition, during which period has American society come closest to fulfilling your vision? Explain your choice by discussing as many facts about that period as possible.