AP US Mid-Term Review

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Terms to ID

John Smith John C. Calhoun

Peter Zenger Trial, 1736Whigs

Ben Franklin, AutobiographyAbolitionist

Bartolome de Las Casas“Positive Good” Defense of slavery

Thomas Paine, Common Sense Manifest Destiny

Thomas Jefferson“Republican Motherhood”

The EnlightenmentSeneca Falls Convention, 1848

FederalistsDeclaration of Sentiments, 1848

Democrat-RepublicansSuffrage

Declaration of IndependenceCarl Shurz, “liberal republican”1865

First Great AwakeningSocial Gospel

George WhitefieldJacob Riis

Protestant“dumbbell tenements”

EvangelicalPlessy v. Ferguson, 1896

Chief Justice John MarshallSpanish-American War

NATO

  1. Demographic trends in 18th century and relationship with 1st Great Awakening?
  2. 1st Great Awakening: style and types of sermons and cultural trends in American colonies?
  3. What “push” factors contributed to US immigration patterns 1840’s-1850’s?
  4. Region(s) that benefitted most from immigration?
  5. Hostility to immigration was called?
  6. What factors contributed to American industrialization?
  7. Cult of Domesticity?
  8. Women’s movement and the 14th and 15th Amendments? Effects on movement?
  9. New British Colonial Policy after the French and Indian War. What? Why? Effects?
  10. Influence of Enlightenment thinkers on founding ideas? (Hobbs, Locke, Rousseau)
  11. Key weaknesses of Articles of Confederation? By design?? Why? Why not?
  12. What event(s) of the 1790’s might prompt G.W. to issue warning against partiality for one country over others?
  13. Which group(s) or political party would have supported the French Revolution?Why?
  14. Positive effects of Columbian Exchange for Europeans? Negative effects for Native Americans?
  15. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were a response to what event(s)? Asserted whose power?
  16. Purpose of the Federalist Papers? Authors?
  17. McCullough v. Maryland, 1819? Which political party would have supported? What was the ruling?
  1. How were the Navigation Acts examples of mercantilist policies towards the American colonies? Examples? Effects on relationship?
  2. What factors contribute to tensions between backcountry settlers and coastal elites in the American colonies 1700-1775?
  3. What evidence in the Antebellum South might debunk the “positive good” arguments of southerners in the antebellum south?
  4. Relationship between John C. Calhoun’s views and growing sectionalism before the Civil War?
  5. Settlement patterns of English v. French?
  6. Laborsystem which replaced slavery? Why?
  7. Second Great Awakening sermons & teachings about slavery?
  8. 20th century foreign policy decision most influenced by G.W.’s Farewell Address?
  9. Three warnings in G. Washington’s Farewell Address?
  10. Reformers of the Gilded Age promoted what role for government?
  11. Jacob Riis book of the Gilded Age? Impact? Where?