APUSH Midterm Review Sheet

APUSH Midterm Review Sheet

Brumer – Caruso- Lowenhaupt - Spiconardi

The Encounter
Impact of the Columbian Exchange
Diseases decimated the Native American Indian population
Encomienda System
Explain how it functioned and explain its purpose
Conflict
Pueblo Revolt
Explain how the revolt impacted Spanish policy towards Native American Indians
Colonization
Explain how the British, Dutch, French, and Spanish colonization patterns differed
Geographic Settlement
Relations with Native Americans
Reasons for Colonization
Puritan Society
Identify the characteristics
Anne Hutchinson
Development of Political Parties
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists/Democratic-Republicans
Issues
Ratification of Constitution
Explain why Anti-Federalists wanted a Bill of Rights
Interpretation of the Constitution
Loose vs. Strict
Constitutionality of the National Bank
Foreign Policy
Support French Revolution or not?
Jay’s Treaty
Explain why the treaty was criticized
Market Revolution
Evaluate how developments in industry and transportation bought about economic and social change
The sources below are well worth checking out to help with the objective above
Vast Designs: How American Came of Age by Jill Lepore:
The Market Revolution: Crash Course US History:
Jacksonian American
Explain the extent to which the Jackson presidency was a turning point in the expansion of democracy in American politics
Defender of the Common Man?
Veto of the Bank of the United States
Office Rotation*
Support of immigrants of European descent
Contradictions of Jacksonian Democracy
Indian Removal
Spoils system*
Contradictions of Jacksonian Democracy (con’t)
Support of slavery
Increased power of the presidency
Use of veto more than previous six presidents combined
Force Bill
Expansion of Slavery
Explain how the acquisition of new territory brought the expansion of slavery to prominence and increased sectional tensions.
Missouri Compromise
Identify the specifics of the compromise
Arguments For the Expansion of Slavery
Positive Good
Blacks more “civilized” than they would have been in Africa
Christianization of blacks
Mudsill Theory
In every society there is a lower class that works the menial jobs thus allowing the upper class to progress the civilization forward
Enslaved blacks lived a better life than northern workers
Necessities provided, lifetime employment, etc.
Arguments Against the Expansion of Slavery
Hindered the economic opportunities of free whites
Opposes Jefferson’s “empire of liberty”/agrarian republic
Free Soil
Compromise of 1850
Explain why the compromise did NOT resolve the issue of slavery and its expansion
Explain how the Fugitive Slave Act strengthened the resolve of abolitionist and encouraged non-abolitionist Northerners to oppose slavery
Reform Movements of the 19th Century
Second Great Awakening
Inspired reform movements due to its focus on individuals’ ability to attain salvation
Temperance Movement
Abolition Movement
Women’s Rights Movement
Explain the extent to which these reform movements expanded democratic ideals
Manifest Destiny
Ideology
Many Americans believed it was God’s providence that the U.S. expand from coast to coast in order to spread republicanism, democracy and Protestantism in order to civilize and tame the continent.
Explain how the ideology of Manifest Destiny shaped American policy
Mexican War
Civil War
Causes
Defend why a particular event led to the outbreak of the Civil War
Northwest Ordinance 1787, Missouri Compromise, Acquisition of the Mexican Cession, Dred Scott Case

Reconstruction
Reforms
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
The End of Reconstruction
Explain why Reconstruction came to an end
Northerners’ interest in reforming the South and helping newly freed blacks diminished over time
Compromise of 1877
In exchange for Hayes becoming President, federal troops removed from South and President would select one Democrat to be a member of his cabinet
Explain how the South undermined Reconstruction
Black Codes, Literacy tests, emergence of KKK, grandfather clause