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AP U.S. History
Beginnings and Colonial America through the Revolution
Exploration and DiscoveryMotivations
To the Far East
To the Americas
Christopher Columbus 1492
Iroquois Confederacy
Jamestown 1607
Effects of Indentured servitude
The “Middle Passage”
Slave labor in the colonies
The Puritans in Massachusetts 1630
Halfway Covenant
Religious liberty in colonies
First Great Awakening
Characteristics of colonial cities
Bacon’s Rebellion / Results of the French & Indian War
Terms of Treaty of Paris (1783) & follow-through
Ordinances of 1785 & 1787
Mercantilism and its results
Origins of the American Revolution
Boston Massacre 1770, Boston Tea Party 1773
The Declaration of Independence 1775
The Revolutionary War 1775–1783
Causes
France’s aid in Revolutionary War
Republicanism (Revolutionary era)
Ideas in the Declaration of Independence
The New Nation; 1783-1860
The Articles of Confederation 1781Reasoning for and Weaknesses
Shays’ Rebellion
The Constitution Convention 1787
The Constitution of the United States
Powers of the federal government
Judicial review
Federalists vs. Antifederalists
The Bill of Rights
Virtual vs. actual representation
Beliefs of Hamilton vs. Jefferson
Whiskey Rebellion
Washington’s Farewell Address
Origins of political parties
Qualifications for early voters
Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions
Election of 1800
Deism
Jeffersonian Republicanism
Louisiana Purchase/Lewis and Clark
*De Toqueville’s Democracy in America
Marbury v. Madison
Growth of Canals vs. Railroads
Importance of Erie Canal
The Causes of the War of 1812
Monroe Doctrine
Impact of Whitney’s cotton gin
Jacksonian Democracy 1829–1837
Henry Clay’s American System
Protective tariffs (1816-1828)
Nullification and states’ rights
Results of Jackson’s economic policies
Wildcat currency & pet banks / Whigs vs. Jacksonian Democrats (1830’s-40’s)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
The Trail of Tears 1838
Cult of domesticity
Lowell, MA
Emerson/Thoreau vs. Hawthorne/Melville
The Reform Movement
Immediatism
Education Reform 1800-1860
Attitudes toward poverty 1880-1900
Causes of utopianism (Oneida, Brook Farm)
Seneca Falls Convention
Manifest Destiny
Texas
Mexican policy toward Texas
The Mexican War 1846–1848
The Whig Platfoem
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Slavery in the territories
The Missouri Compromise 1820
Ostend Manifesto
Popular Sovereignty
The Compromise of 1850
The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
“Bleeding Kansas”
Freedmen’s Bureau
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852
The Dred Scott case 1857
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry 1859
Republican Party Platform in 1860
The Election of 1860
Secession of the South
The Civil War and Reconstruction; 1861-1877
The Civil War 1861–1865Lincoln’s goals
Causes and conduct
Problems facing the Union (1861-3)
Advantages of both sides
Foreign relations in Civil War
The Gettysburg Address 1863
The Emancipation Proclamation 1863
The Confederate surrender
The end of slavery
Freedmen’s Bureau
Actions of Radical Republicans in Reconstruction / Reconstruction Acts of 1867
New rights for African Americans
Thirteenth Amendment 1865
Fourteenth Amendment 1868
Fifteenth Amendment 1870
Origins of the Ku Klux Klan
Economy right after Civil War
Southern Blacks in Reconstruction (jobs)
End of Reconstruction (1877)
Outcomes of sharecropping/crop lien laws Black Codes
Limits to voting rights (poll taxes, etc.)
The Settlement of the West; 1865-1900
Settlement of the Great PlainsReasons
The Homestead Act 1862
Transcontinental Railroad 1869
Assimilation of the Indians
The Dawes Act
Defeat of the Indians
Little Bighorn
The Ghost Dance
The Battle of Wounded Knee / Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis
Causes of farmers’ discontent (1875-1900)
The rise of the Populist Party
The Omaha Platform
The “Cross of Gold” speech
Election of 1896
Fall of Populist Party (reasons)
The Second Industrial Revolution; 1865-1900
Factors contributing to industrializationResulting social changes
Social Darwinism
The “robber barons”/“captains of industry”
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
Vertical/Horizontal Integration
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 / The Rise of Organized Labor
New labor unions
Strikes
Accidents on the job
Inventions and Technological Developments
Thomas Edison
Immigration and Urbanization; 1865-1900
Reasons for immigrationThe “old immigrants” and the “new immigrants”
Nativism
Know-Nothing Party (a.k.a American Party)
Jane Addams and the settlement house movement / African Americans during the Gilded Age
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois/NAACP
Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
Lynchings
Study Tips
q Form study groups to divide these. Meet to discuss them.
q Spread it out by doing 10/night.
Steps:
1. Glossary
2. Index > pg; read several surrounding paragraphs; take notes (alternative: table of contents)
3. Consult your binder for old lecture notes, class activities, etc.
Sample:
Results of Jackson’s Economic Policies/wildcat currency & pet banks
* What were his policies?
- The Bank War…Jackson destroyed the central Bank of the U. S. by claiming that it benefited the rich at the expense of the “common man” He “destroyed” it by removing federal deposits from the bank.
- Jackson then deposited those funds in “pet banks,” or various state banks controlled by loyal Democrats.
- Jackson also issued the Specie Circular of 1836, which stipulated that only specie (gold, not paper $) could be used to purchase gov’t land. It was meant to break the dangerous upward spiral of western land speculation, and it did just that and more. It likely caused the Panic of 1837, at least in part.
- “Wildcat” currency: (pg. 300) paper money, usually issued by western banks, without the backing of gold and silver reserves that became worthless when the bank that issued them skipped town. This was perceived by the “common man” as dishonest, confusing and unfair.
Jackson's Economic Policy Question
Which of the following resulted from the policies of the Andrew Jackson administration?
A. A central bank was established
B. The value of paper currency was issued by individual banks became uniform
C. The number of banks, each issuing its own paper currency increased
D. A nation wide banking was begun
E. Federal fiscal activities became linked to system of federal banks
Discuss the reasoning behind working one’s way through this question.
Answer:
C (pet banks)
* item is only one not in our book.
Alexis de Toqueville, a French visitor to the United States, marveled at the degree of rugged individualism he saw. He wrote about it in his famous book, Democracy in America, and he attributed this trait partially to the absence of aristocracy in the nation, giving more people an equal chance at improving their station in life.