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October Mid-Term Examination Guide

Comparison of the Middle, Southern and New England Colonies.

Life in the Colonies

· Religion.

· Native American relations.

· Mercantilism and the Navigation Acts.

Significance of the French and Indian War

The Revolutionary War Period

· Grenville and Stamp Acts, Townshend Acts, Tea Act & Intolerable Acts.

· Fighting the War.

· Treaty of Paris of 1783.

· State Constitutions.

· Articles of Confederation.

· Shays Rebellion.

The Constitution.

· Constitutional Convention.

· Struggle for ratification.

The Federalist Era

· Hamiltonian policies.

· Washington's administration.

· Whiskey Rebellion.

· Jay's and Pinckney's Treaties.

· XYZ Affair.

· Alien and Sedition Acts.

· Virginia and Kentucky Resolution.

· Farming, industry, inventions and labor - - 1800-1824.

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APUSH

Study guide Chapters 14-16

• Second Great Awakening
• Temperance movement
• Women’s Rights Convention
• “Civil Disobedience”
• The Liberator
• Liberia
• Seneca Falls Conference
• Oneida Colony/New Harmony and other Utopian societies

• German and Irish Immigration
• Slaves: Southerners (ownership of slave, social situation, how they treated theirs slaves), Northern attitudes toward free slaves
• Mormons
• Deists
• Urbanization/population movement
• Southern justification of slavery
• Catholic Education and rise of American Catholicism

·        Yankee Clippers

• Commonwealth v. Hunt

·        Shakers

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Chapter 17-19

1848-1860-----Walking the Road to War

Below is a list of questions covering the information you will need to know for the test on 11/21/2007.  The answers to these questions can be found in the text and from notes or discussions in class. THESE ARE THE TEST QUESTIONS!  Work with this guide and you will do well on the test.

Most of these questions will appear EXACTLY as they are here on the test.  Some will be VERY similar.  All questions will be short answer format. 

1. List the major reasons for Southern anxiety in 1850?
2. Discuss the relationship between the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas and the Lecompton Constitution.
3. Why did Southerners insist that the transcontinental railroad run through the Southwest?
4. Why were Cuba and Canada important goals of Manifest Destiny?
5. What is the significance to the Dred Scott case as it relates to:  the North, South and African-American?
6. What events surrounded the controversy of the election of 1860? (cause and effect)
7. Why were Lincoln and the Republicans opposed to the Crittenden Compromise?
8. At the outset of the Civil War, what advantages did the North have, including which key states?
9. Why wasn’t the South’s “King Cotton” a tool of wartime diplomacy?
10. List all the possible causes for the Mexican-American War.
11. Defend this statement:  “The Mexican-American War most benefited the South.”
12. According to the principle of “popular sovereignty,” how would slavery be determined in the territories?
13. What is the impact of California’s decision to enter the Union as a free state?
14. How did California thwart Southern Congressmen seeking to block free soil?
15. How did John C. Calhoun plan to protect the South and slavery?
16. What was Daniel Webster’s Seventh of March speech about, who or what group condemned it, and what did it result in?
17. What did both the North and South get out of the Compromise of 1850?
18. What were the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law?
19. How did President Taylor’s death in 1850, aid attempts to reconcile the Union?
20. Describe the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin in America and Europe?
21. Hinton R. Helper’s The Impending Crisis of the South said what about slavery?
22. What was the basis of the clash between Preston S. Brookes and Charles Sumner?
23. Name the Republican and Democrat candidates in the election of 1856 and which party they represented.
24. What was the platform of the Know-Nothing party?
25. List the major causes of the panic of 1857?
26. What is the historical importance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

27. What did John Brown intend to do, and why did the South react as they did?
28. What were 1860 candidates Lincoln, Douglas, and Breckenridge’s positions on slavery?
29. Did the election of 1860 indicate a strong sentiment for secession?
30. Who did Lincoln’s statements on slavery disappoint, and why?
31. List the causes of the American Civil War.
32. What did European powers have to gain from an American Civil War?
33. What made the Border States important, and how did Lincoln attempt to keep them?
34. What did the Plains Indians get for supporting the Union in the War?
35. List the advantages for the South on the eve of the Civil War?
36. Why did Lincoln’s government have fewer problems than Davis’?
37. List the consequences of the Mexican-American War.
38. How did Lincoln expand the powers of the Presidency in the early part of the war?
39. List James K. Polk’s campaign promises in the election of 1844.
40. List the impact of the California Gold Rush.

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Chapter 20-23 Essay Prompts:

• “The South’s decision to leave the Union was doomed from the start.”  Evaluate the validity of this statement, discussing the social, economic and political strength of the North.

• Discuss the economic, social and political impact of Reconstruction as it relates to any of the two below.

The South

The North

African-Americans

• Compare and contrast the Compromise of 1877 with the “Corrupt Bargain” of 1824.

• The period from 1868-1888 has often been referred to as the Gilded Age.  How accurate is this depiction as it relates to politics and corruption?

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1870-1896 Social/Economic and Political Observations

 J Chapters 24-26J

Acts to Know:

• Pension Act of 1890
• Sherman Silver Purchase of 1890
• McKinley Tariff Bill of 1890
• Wilson-Gorman Act
• Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
• Homestead Act of 1862

·        Morrill Act if 1862

·        Comstock Law

• Philosophy of Pragmatism

Governments attempts at regulation:

·        Sherman Anti-Trust Act

·        Interstate Commerce Commission

·        Tactics used by big business to remain on top (pools etc.)

People to Recognize:

• Eugene V. Debs, Attorney General Olney
• The Big Three: Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and Rockefeller
• Coxey and his march on Washington
• William Jennings Bryan (“Cross of Gold”)
• William McKinley (credentials, support, ideology), Grover Cleveland
• Helen Hunt Jackson (A Century of Dishonor)
• Carrie Chapman Catt
• Thomas Edison
• Jane Addams
• Florence Kelley
• Charles Darwin
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. Dubois
• Mary Baker Eddy
• Lewis Wallace
• Horatio Alger
• Henry James
• William Dean Howells
• George Custer
• Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Sitting Bull (what tribes did they belong to, what did they do?)

Events to Remember:

• “Billion-Dollar” (fifty-first) Congress
• Election of 1892 (candidates, party platforms, outcome) Hint: Look closely at the Populist party
• Homestead Strike of 1892
• Depression of 1892 (what caused it, what were some of the effects, etc)
• Election of 1896 (candidates and their supporters, gold/silver issue, aftermath)
• Fettermen massacre, Sand Creek, Large Big Horn
• Farming: agribusiness, Frontier Line, and the Grange (what did it want?)

·        Tools (weapons) of Unions

• Tools (weapons) of Management
• Railroads
• Factors promoting the growth of manufacturing
• Edison’s inventions
• Changes in the national economy
• Impact of the Poles
• Demographics of American cities
• The New Immigrants (including reaction, legal barriers, etc)
• Religion  (including the new morals, orthodox Protestant churches, etc)
• Literary notables
• Pastimes (leisure pursuits)

**********  Flashback  **********

·        Compare and contrast the Chesapeake, New England and Middle Colonies

1870-1896…….Chapters 24-26 ...Essay outlines

• Compare and contrast the Chesapeake, New England and Middle colonies as it relates to any three of the four below:

                                Social and Political mobility

                                        Treatment of Native Americans

                                        Degree of self-government (and restrictions)

                                        Economic base

• How was American religion affected by urban transformation, the New Immigration, and cultural and intellectual changes?

• William Graham Sumner said the wealth and luxury enjoyed by millionaires was justifiable as a “good bargain for society.”  Based on the industrialists’ role in the late 1800s, support or criticize Sumner’s assertion.

• Discuss the different approaches used by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois in dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the nineteenth century.

• Analyze the social, economic, and political barriers that confronted the American labor movement from 1870-1896.

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Imperialism, Roosevelt and the Progressives

Chapters 27-28 (new book)

People that you might want to know

ªTheodore Roosevelt; role in the Panamanian Revolution, Russo-Japanese War, Square Deal, trust busting, weakening political status of 1904, Election of 1912, Progressive reforming, Presidential achievements…know the man REALLY well

ªWilliam Howard Taft

ªSocial Critics: Theostien, Veblen, jack London, Jacob Reis, Henry Bermarest Lloyd

ªIdeologies of Socialists, Communists, trustbusters, and laissez-faire activists

ªUpton Sinclair and The Jungle (What was its intended purpose?)

·         Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan and his book and Helen Hunt Jackson (A Century of Dishonor)

·         Queen Liliuokalani

·         Theodore Roosevelt and the “Rough Riders”

·         Imperialists? Mark Twain, William James, Samuel Gompers, Henry Cabot Lodge, Carnegie

• Emilio Aguinaldo (hero or villian?)

Places and Events

ªProblems in China and America’s involvement in Asia

ªBuilding the Panama Canal (difficulties, etc.)

ªProgressive Movement (goals, socioeconomic background of reformers, ideologies, issues supported, muckrakers involvement in it and social justice)

ªMueller vs. Oregon (1908)

ª1902 anthracite coal strike (significant characteristics)

ª Panic of 1907 (stimulated reform in what?)

ªFilipino Insurrection of 1899 (why and what happened?)

·         Venezuela and British Guiana border dispute

·         US annexation of the Hawaiian islands (why and who?)

·         The Great Rapprochement

·         Explosion of the Maine,

·         America’s interest in Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam

• Dewey’s victory at Manila Bay, San Juan Hill, Battle of Santiago Bay

Bills, Laws, Policies and Treaties

ªHay Bunau-Varilla Treaty

ªHay-Pauncefote Treaty

ªClayton-Bulwer Treaty

ªGentlemen’s Agreement

ªBenevolent Assimilation

ªOpen Door Policy

ªTaft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”

ªFederal Meat Inspection Act

·         Foraker Act of 1900

·         Platt Amendment

·         Teller Amendment

Flashback:

Remember the lovely British Policy Chart? All about the Boston Tea Party and Intolerable Acts??? Yeah that. Know that.

Essay outlines---

•   Discuss how the early progressive movement (1890-1912)  was a “revolution” in the social, economic and political arenas.

• Choose three of the British Acts from 1763-1775 and describe their purpose, colonial reaction and how the enactment of this legislation moved the colonies down the road to revolution.

• Compare and contrast American Imperialism of the late 19th century to Manifest Destiny of the mid-19th century.

• Discuss American Imperialism from 1896-1910 as it relates to any three of the following below

                        Economic

Social

Political

Military

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Wilson and World War I

Chapters 29-30

People that you might want to know:

·         Henry Cabot Lodge

·         Oliver Wendell Holmes

·         Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando, Lenin, and Wilson.

·         Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Places and Events:

·         Election of 1912 (participants, platforms, influence of the Bull Moose Party)

·         Problems with Mexico.

·         Election of 1916 (who was involved, the winner)

·         Election of 1920 (who was involved, the winner)

World War I:

·         Sussex Pledge.

·         Zimmerman note.

·         American Neutrality and supplier of arms.

·         Major battles (look to your notes)

·         Propaganda. (impact of)

·         Timeframe of American participation.

·         Reasons for American entry into the war.

·         Reasons for WWI actually starting.

Bills, Laws, Policies and Treaties:

·         Wilson’s “Triple Wall of Privilege”.

·         Underwood Tariff bill

·         Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

·         Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914.

·         Clayton-Anti-trust Act of 1914.

·         Seaman’s Act of 1915.

·         Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916.

·         Warehouse Act of 1916.

·         Workingman’s Compensation Act of 1916.

·         Adamson Act of 1916.

·         Schneck v. United States.

·         Major aspects of Wilson’s 14 points.

·         Treaty of Versailles (importance, failings, opposition to ..)

·         Impact of the Russian Revolution.

·         French “moral obligation” treaty.

Flashback:

The time of the Federalists (1789-1800).

·         The Washington and Adams’ administrations.

·         Hamilton’s financial policies.

·         Problems with France.

·         Formation of the two-party system.

·         Etc…..

Essay Questions----

 ·        Explain the events surrounding America’s entry into WWI and the ways in which the Wilson administration sought to “sell” the war to the American public.

 ·        “The second casualty of war is personal thought and liberty.”  Defend or refute this statement.  Confine your answers within the years 1795-1919.

• Discuss how Woodrow Wilson continued the momentum of the progressive movement in the social, economic and political arenas.

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Chapters 31-33

Roaring 20's --- the Great Depression

People that you might want to know:

·        William Jennings Bryan

·        A. Mitchell Palmer

·        The Ku Klux Klan- When was it started?  What was its purpose?

·        John Scopes/ Clarence Darrow

·        Marcus Garvey

·        Presidents- Coolidge, Harding & Hoover (Scandals, strengths and weaknesses)

·        The Progressive Party- Goals, successes and members

·        F.  D. Roosevelt- The New Deal, Hundred Day Congress,  resulting programs, court packing

·        Critics of the New Deal

·        “The Lost generation”

·        Sacco & Vanzetti

·        Alfred E. Smith

·        New Deal critics- Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Francis Townsend

Places and Events ( Know the who, what, why and when):

·        “The Red Scare”

·        Growth of nativism & result

·        The Scopes trial

·        Economic Policies following World War I (tariffs, loans, paybacks)

·        The Bonus Expeditionary Force

·        The Great Depression-(how did it start and end?)

·        The Dust Bowl/ “Okies”

·        The roots of jazz

·        Buying stock “on margin”

·        The Stock market crash & result

·        Elections from 1920-1940

·        The rise of organized crime

·        “Black Sox” scandal

·        Race riots 1919-1921

Bills, Laws, Policies, Scandals and Treaties

·        Immigration Act of 1924

·        Volstead Act

·        Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928

·        Fordney-McCumber Tariff

·        Hawley-Smoot Tariff

·        Teapot Dome scandal

·        New Deal programs (know all these)-

Tennessee Valley Authority

Works Progress Act

Public Works Administration

Civilian Conservation Corps

·        19th, 20^th and 21^st Amendments

·        Wagner Act of 1935

·        National Labor Relations Act

·         Emergency Banking Relief Act

Flashback

·         The Jefferson Administration   1800-1808

 Essay outlines…

1. Describe the cultural revolution brought about by film, radio and changing morals in the United States during the 1920’s.

2. Explain the Republican administration’s policies of isolationism, disarmament, and high-tariff protectionism during the 1920's.

3. Discuss the early New Deal’s efforts to organize business and agriculture in the NRA and the AAA and indicate what replaced those programs after they were declared unconstitutional.

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World War II and the beginnings of the Cold War Essay Test

1.      “America foreign policy from 1929-1941 was strictly isolationist."  Defend or refute this statement.

2.      Discuss the American economic and political policies directed against Japan during 1940-1941.

3.      Discuss how World War Two changed the social fabric of America as it relates to any of the three areas below:

• Women

• Minorities

• the economy

• Foreign affairs

4.      Briefly describe US naval and land actions against Japan leading to victory in the Pacific.

5.      Why has the Korean War often been called America’s “forgotten war”? What purpose did the war serve, and what impact did it have?    

6.      Describe the reasons and direction of the Cold War between the USSR and the United States from 1946-1954.

7.      Discuss the content, implications and results of the conferences at Casablanca, Teheran, and Yalta. 

8.   Discuss American efforts to “contain” the Soviets through the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO.

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Eisenhower to Clinton Study Guide---The "last" Test

World Leaders:

Mao Zedong & Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nikita Kruschev, Fidel Castro, etc

Presidents from 1952 to 1992

·         Dwight Eisenhower- World War II, the Korean War, foreign policy

·         John F. Kennedy- Involvement in Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, New Frontier

·         Lyndon B. Johnson- “The Great Society”, escalation into Vietnam, war on poverty

·         Richard Nixon- Vietnamization, War Powers Act, Watergate

·         Gerald Ford- pardon and policy

·         Jimmy Carter-foreign and domestic policy/issues

·         Ronald Reagan- 1981 tax cut, “Star Wars”, supply-side economics, Iran -Contra

·         George Bush & Bill Clinton

 Other Political Figures:

• Truman doctine.... Marshall plan etc

·         Robert Kennedy

·         Eugene McCarthy

·         Hubert Humphrey

·         George Wallace

·         Spiro Agnew

·         Geraldine Ferraro/Walter Mondale

·         Earl Warren

·         Sandra Day O’Connor 

Civil Rights Leaders/ Figures:

·         Martin Luther King, Jr.

·         Malcolm X.  Stokely Carmichael,  Rosa Parks,  Medgar Evers,  James Meredith,

• FA#11...the other Civil Rights movements

• Corky Gonzales, Zoot Suit Riots... Chicano movement.

 Places & Events (Know the who, what, why & when)

·         Red Scare

·         Vietnam War, Operation Rolling Thunder, Dien Bien Phu & the Tet Offensive, Gulf of Tonkin and the protest movement (Kent State etc)

·       Geneva Conference &  Paris Summit

·         Bay of Pigs.. Berlin Airlift... Berlin Wall etc

·         Watergate scandal

·         SALT I and SALT II treaties

·         Glasnost & Parastroika

 Laws, Policies, Amendments, Court Cases

·         The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

·         The War Powers Act

·         Roe vs. Wade

·         Warren Court  Cases to include Griswold vs. Connecticut, Miranda v Arizona, Engle v Vitale, Mapp v Ohio, Brown vs. Board of Education, Univ. Cal v Bakke, etc.. use the sheet

·         Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Long hot summers... race riots

·         Voting Rights Act of 1965

·         The 22^nd -26^th  Amendments

·         Panama Canal Treaty

• Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

Supreme Court Issues

Brown v Board of Education, Topeka.                      University of California Regents v. Bakke

                 Roe v. Wade                    Miranda v. Arizona                       Mapp v Ohio

Earl Warren                  Thurgood Marshall                    Gideon v. Wainwright

Social and Economic aspects of the 1950’s 1960’s 1970’s and 1980’s

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First Semester Exam

The Study Guide

·        The American System

·        Articles of Confederation

·        Northwest Ordinance

·        Compromise of 1850

·        Slavery in the 19^th century

·        Missouri Compromise

·        “Popular sovereignty”

·        Reconstruction

·        Mercantilism

·        New American political ideas and institutions

·        Impact of technology in America

·        Dred Scott

·        Marbury v. Madison

·        Similarities and differences in Colonial America

·        Territorial expansion

·        Jackson and the Native Americans

·        Kentucky and Virginia resolutions

·        Texas, prior to annexation

·        Third political parties

·        British oppression tactics (remember the focus assignment)

·        War of 1812

·        The presidencies of Jackson, Jefferson.

  ·        Revolutionary War

·        Great Awakening 1 & 2

·        John Brown and his significance

·        Religious freedom in the colonies

·        Monroe Doctrine

·        The Constitution

·        British policy towards the colonies prior to the French and Indian War

·        Washington’s administration.  Accomplishments, personalities and their programs.

·        The Civil War