APUSH Review Session #1

Questions

Unit One: Exploration and Colonialization (Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5)

1.  How did the settlement of the English colonies give rise to unique economic, political and social conditions that defined an emerging American identity?

2.  How did the need for labor in the colonies give rise to chattel African slavery?

3.  How was religion both a unifying and a dividing force in the English colonies?

4.  How did the interaction between European and Native American peoples transform both groups and cultures?

5.  How did the colonies develop “democratic” principles such as representative government, written charters and lists of basic rights between 1607 and 1763?

Unit Two: Revolution and the New Nation (Chapters 6, 7, 8)

  1. How did the French and Indian War bring on a crisis of empire between the colonies and the crown?
  2. How did British policies from 1764 to 1775 appear to violate colonial economic and political rights?
  3. How did British military strategy develop and fail during the Revolution?
  4. Why can the Revolution be considered the first war of national liberation?
  5. Why did the Articles of Confederation fail to create an effective, long-term government in America?
  6. How did the Constitution represent a conservative counter-revolution to the Articles of Confederation?

Unit Three: The Rise of American Democracy (Chapters 9 & 11)

  1. How did Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic Republicans strengthen American democracy?
  2. How did America’s attempts at neutrality affect their economic standing?
  3. How did the War of 1812 change America politically and economically?
  4. How did the War of 1812 help launch the Market Revolution?
  5. How did democratic ideals evolve during the Jacksonian era?
  6. How were states’ rights issues defined in the Jacksonian era?
  7. How did Andrew Jackson change the focus and role of the presidency?

Unit Four: The Age of Reform and Expansion (Chapters 12, 13, 14)

  1. How did the rise of reform movements promote changes during the 1830s and 1840s?
  2. How did the “cult of domesticity” both promote and restrain the women’s movement in the 1840s and 1850s?
  3. How did the ideas of Manifest Destiny emerge from nationalistic beliefs about America’s past and its future?
  4. How did the Texas-Mexican conflict of the 1830s encourage America’s drive westward to the Pacific Ocean?
  5. How did the Mexican War promote sectional division rather than national unity?