APUSH Review – First Semester
Chapter 1 – New World Beginnings (33,000 BC- AD 1783)
Europeans spread outward – impact
Chapter 2 – The Planting of English America (1500-1733)
Motivations for British expansion, Jamestown/Virginia, Maryland, Carolina
Relationship with Native Americans
Impact of Religion
Chapter 3 – Settling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700)
Protestant Reformation –Puritans – Plymouth,Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Great Migration
General Court
Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams
Fundamental Orders, New England Confederation, Dominion of New England
Native American relationsGlorious Revolution
Impact of Dutch colonization
Pennsylvania – William Penn, Quakers
Chapter 4 – American Life in the 17th Century (1607-1692)
Development of tobacco, changes in labor forces (headright, indentured servants, development of slavery)
Bacon’s Rebellion
Half-Way Covenant
Family life in New England (Salem, Farming, importance of religion, Harvard)
Chapter 5 – Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution (1700-1775)
Structure of colonies (immigration, distribution of wealth, religion, agriculture)
Triangular trade, Molasses Act
The Great Awakening
Chapter 6 – The Duel for North America (1608-1763)
Development of New France – Competition with Britain
The French and Indian War
Causes, course, results, people (Pitt, Washington, Pontiac)
Albany Congress, Quebec, Treaty of Paris (1763), Proclamation of 1763
Chapter 7 – The Road to Revolution (1763-1775)
Republicanism
Economic causes – Mercantilism, Navigation Acts
Acts – Sugar, Quartering, Stamp, Declaratory, Townshend, Tea, Coercive (Intolerable)
Resistance – Stamp Act Congress, non-importation agreements, Sons/Daughters of Liberty, Committees of Correspondence, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, First Continental Congress, The Association
Representation – House of Burgesses, Articles of Confederation
Lexington and Concord, Valley Forge, Strengths and Weaknesses (British and Continental)
Chapter 8 – America Secedes from the Empire (1775-1783)
Second Continental Congress, Olive Branch Petition, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence,
Battles – Bunker Hill, New York/Long Island, Trenton, Princeton, Saratoga, Yorktown
Conditions of Treaty of Paris (1783)
Chapter 9 – The Confederation and the Constitution (1776-1790)
Pursuit of equality after revolution, freedoms, fundamental law
Articles of Confederation – strengths, weaknesses, achievements
Shay’s Rebellion
Annapolis Convention, Constitutional Convention: Great Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise, Ratification
Chapter 10 – Launching the New Ship of State (1789-1800)
Presidency of George Washington
Judiciary Act of 1789
Impact of Alexander Hamilton – Economics, Bank of the United States
Whiskey Rebellion
Development/Origins of political parties (Federalists and Democratic-Republicans)
French Revolution – American response, neutrality,
Presidency of John Adams – XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Chapter 11 – The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic (1800-1812)
Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, Naturalization, Constructionalism, Louisiana, Embargo/Intercourse Acts
Marbury v. Madison
Chapter 12 – The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism (1812-1824)
War of 1812 – Causes, course, result
Hartford Convention
The American System
Nationalism- McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, Gibbons v. Ogden
Missouri Compromise, sectional balance, Tallmadge Act
Monroe Doctrine
Chapter 13 – The Rise of Mass Democracy (1824-1840)
The election of 1824
Andrew Jackson – election, spoils system, treatment of Native Americans, attitude toward Bank
Tariff of Abominations, Nullification Crisis
Mexico Texas Texas independence
Democrats and Whigs
Chapter 14 – Forging the National Economy (1790-1860)
Westward Expansion (immigration/nativism, movement, industry)
New technology (cotton gin, interchangeable parts, steel plow), transportation
Labor – restrictions, child labor, women
Chapter 15 – The Ferment of Reform and Culture (1790-1860)
Second Great Awakening, Mormons
Education, Reform (Temperance, Seneca Falls)
Transcendentalism (Emerson, Thoreau)
Chapter 16 – The South and the Slave Controversy
Development of Cotton Industry, Southern hierarchy
Life and experience of slaves in the South, free blacks in the north
Abolition – origins, efforts, effects
Gag Resolution
Chapter 17 – Manifest Destiny and its Legacy (1841-1848)
Election of William Henry Harrison – Webster & Clay v. Tyler
Competition with Britain over territories (Maine, Oregon, Texas)
Manifest Destiny (Annexing Texas, Oregon, desire for California, presidency of James K. Polk)
Mexican American War – causes, course, effects, Wilmot Proviso
Chapter 18 – Renewing the Sectional Struggle (1848-1854)
Developing the concept of Popular Sovereignty
Growth of California – Compromise of 1850
Franklin Pierce – Expansion, Ostend Manifesto
Kansas-Nebraska Act, impact on political parties
Chapter 19 – Drifting Toward Disunion (1854-1861)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, John Brown
Lincoln Douglas debates, Election of Abraham Lincoln
Secession
Chapter 20 – Girding for War: The North and the South (1861-1865)
Fort Sumter and the start of the war, paying for the war
Strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages of both sides
Jefferson Davis v. Abraham Lincoln
Habeas Corpus
Chapter 21 – The Furnace of the Civil War (1861-1865)
Northern Military strategy, naval warfare (ironclads)
Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Atlanta
Emancipation Proclamation
Election of 1864 (Lincoln v. McClellan, copperheads)
Appomattox Courthouse
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln