Study Guide- Midterm exam

Study Guide- Semester 1 Midterm
APUSH- Scoopmire
Midterm exam will be October 25th, 2007

Thematic considerations:
1. Early attempts at unity/ disunity: New England Confederation/Dominion of New England, Albany Plan of
Union, Confederation, Annapolis Convention
2. Tension between security and liberty
3. Problem of labor in American history (for example: indentured servitude- how it worked, weaknesses, transition to slavery in South), headright system
4. Slavery—intro, spread, crops, in Constitution, failure to end, cotton gin impact, middle passage, impact on territorial expansion, rebellions and uprisings
5. Impact of territorial expansion and Manifest Destiny (NW Ordinance, Land Act, Proclamation of 1763, La. Purchase, displacement of indigenous peoples, invasions of Canada, Lumberjack War, Mexican Cession, Compromises: Missouri and 1850, etc.
6. Class structure
7. Early foreign affairs: Our part in early world wars, smuggling, Barbary pirates, development of navy, merchant marine, Britain, France, Monroe Doctrine
Wars (King Philip, Queen Anne, King William, Seven Years’ etc.) and impact on America
8. Early Rebellions: Bacon’s, Regulator Movement, Shays’, Whiskey
9. Religion and its impact on society (Pilgrims, Rhode Island, Anne Hutchinson, Quakers, established churches, Deism, Unitarianism, 1st and 2nd Great Awakenings, Burned Over District, Millenarianism, etc.)
10. Life of women in early America (ability to inherit, legal status, femme covert, republican motherhood, cult of domesticity, separate spheres, feminization of churches, education, reformers, Seneca Falls and Declaration of Sentiments, early abolitionism)
11. states rights/ federalism and its significance
12. Loose construction/strict construction and its significance
13. Impact of immigration on industry and workers
14. Articles of Confederation compared to US Constitution
Achievements under Articles: land policy and education
Features of Constitution: prerogatives of House and Senate, checks and balances, necessary and proper clause (elastic clause), habeas corpus, Electoral College
Controversy of states’ rights vs. federalism, interpretation
15. Development of democracy in 19th century
16. Main elements of the reform movement in the antebellum period
17. Sectionalism versus nationalism

Documents:
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Constitution
Federalist Papers 51
George Washington’s Farewell Address
Committee of Correspondence Letter- Samuel Adams
Maryland Act of Toleration
Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty…”
Declaration of Sentiments
Fitzhugh’s Apology

Emerson and Thoreau quotes

Garrison’s Liberator

Colonization:
1. Treaty of Tordesillas
2. Chesapeake/New England comparison
3. Purposes for English colonization
4. Differences in settlement patterns and goals among French, Spanish, and English (fur trade, encomienda, Virginia Company, etc.)
4. Early French, Spanish, and English settlement (Quebec, Montreal, St. Louis, St. Augustine, Santa Fe, Roanoke)
6. Founding of early colonies: Jamestown, Chesapeake/New England, early colonies and towns, spread from Massachusetts, spread into Georgia, Deep South
7. Impact of Mercantilism/ beginnings of capitalism
8. Columbian exchange, Black Legend, treatment of Taino Indians by Spanish, encomienda
9. Comparison Pilgrims/Puritans, “the elect”
10. Early civil liberties: rights of Englishmen, common law, femme covert, Zenger trial
11. Bacon’s Rebellion and impact on need for labor
12. Early Indian policy among French, Spanish, and English
13. Early government: Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, town meetings, House of Burgesses, types of colonies (proprietary, royal, etc.)
14. Impact of disease
15. Unique features of certain colonies, “Charity Colony”, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania
16. cultivation of tobacco/ cotton/ indigo/ rice
17. Halfway Covenant
18. Iroquois Confederacy
19. Salem trials
20. status of women in North and South
21. New Lights/ Old Lights, founding of colleges, separation of church and state, established churches

Revolutionary/ Constitutional period:
1. Intolerable Acts/ Quebec Acts & colonial reaction, Quartering Act
2. Stamp Act/ Reactions
3. Proclamation of 1763
4. Native Americans in the French and Indian War and Revolution
5. Committees of correspondence/ Sam Adams
6. Sons and Daughters of Liberty
7. Acadians/Cajuns
8. 1st/ 2nd Continental Congresses: purposes, actions
9. Important Battles- French and Indian War
10. Important Battles- Revolution
11. Albany Congress
12. Great Compromise
13. Washington’s election and administration and traditions established
14. James Madison
15. Key treaties
16. Antidemocratic features of Constitution
17. Early parties and what they stood for: Federalists, Republicans, Democratic party, Whig party
18. Hamilton/ Jefferson dispute
Hamiltonian Federalism
Jeffersonian ideal
19. loose construction/strict construction
20. Purpose of Bill of Rights
21. King Philip (Metacom), Handsome Lake, Tecumseh, Black Hawk

Early republic & Antebellum period:
1. Revolution of 1800
2. Embargo Act
3. Jeffersonian ideal –Empire for Liberty
4. major court cases
5. judicial review/ John Marshall’s impact
6. Alien and Sedition Act, VA and KY resolutions
7. impressments
8. War of 1812: Andrew Jackson, Bladensburg Races, Ft. McHenry, Star Spangled Banner, Battle of New Orleans, Treaty of Ghent, status quo ante bellum
9. Aaron Burr and all his nutsiness
10. John Calhoun, SC Exposition, tariff of abominations, Force Bill
11. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster

12. War with Mexico

13. territorial expansion

14. MO Compromise

15. dividing lines between North and South; butternut regions in Old Northwest
16. Changing status of women: mill girls, cult of domesticity, etc.

17. Declaration of Sentiments and S. Anthony, L. Mott, E. Stanton, etc.

18. positive good argument, underground railroad, economic involvement in slavery- both North and South