Download AP 1st Semester Final

AP 1st Semester Final
PART I: Ch. 20-21 Imperialism & Progressivism
PART II: Semester Review:
 Colonial Period- Foundation & Political, Economic & Social contrasts from New England,
Southern and Middle Colonies: Jamestown, Roger Williams & Anne Hutchinson, 1st Great
Awakening – Jonathan Edwards, Navigation Acts & Mercantilism, Quakers, Puritans, Indentured
servants, Bacon’s Rebellion, French & Indian War, Dutch New Netherlands, rise of slavery,
Stono Rebellion
 Causes & Results of the American Revolution: Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Common
Sense, French alliance
 Early Republic Period: Constitution (1787 to 1800): AOC, Shays’ Rebellion, Great
Compromise, 3/5s Compromise, “elastic clause”, Federalist Papers, Whiskey Rebellion,
Hamilton’s economic program, Washington’s Farewell Address, Alien & Sedition Acts, VA &
KY Resolutions, Federalists vs. Antifederalists & Democratic Republicans
 Age of Jefferson & Era of Good Feelings: deism, Louisiana Purchase, Embargo Act, Market
Revolution, Lowell mills, War of 1812, 2nd Great Awakening, “burned-over district”, Hudson
River School, John Marshall, American Colonization Society, Monroe Doctrine, Missouri
Compromise, Henry Clay’s American System
 Age of Jackson & Antebellum Period: Andrew Jackson, 2nd BUS, Nullification Crisis,
Webster-Hayne Debate, Transcendentalism, temperance, utopias, “perfectionism”, Whigs vs.
Democratic Party, Texas, Wilmot Proviso, Mexican-War, Irish immigration, nativism – “Know
Nothings”, Abolitionism – William Lloyd Garrison & Frederick Douglass
 Civil War & Reconstruction Era: Compromise of 1850, Kanas-Nebraska Act, 13-15th
Amendments, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, John Brown, Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, NY Draft
Riots, reconstruction plans, Radical Republicans, Johnson’s impeachment, Freedmen’s Bureau,
sharecropping, “carpetbaggers”, Republican Party, “Exodusters”
 Gilded Age: Industrialization, Carnegie & Rockefeller, “Gospel of Wealth”, Social Darwinism,
political machines, Boss Tweed & Tammany Hall, Dawes Act, Ghost Dance, rise of the Populist
Movement, Coxey’s Army, rise of labor movement – Knights of Labor & AFL, strikes,
tenements, Jacob Riis, “new” immigrants, William Jennings Bryan, silver vs. gold, Turner’s
“Frontier Thesis”
 Changing roles of women: Republican Motherhood, Cult of Domesticity, Seneca Falls
 Famous Supreme Court Cases: Marbury v. Madison (1803), McCulloch v. Maryland (1819),
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), Fletcher v. Peck (1810), Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), Cherokee
Nation v. Georgia (1831), Worcester v. Georgia (1832), Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837,
Taney), Commonwealth v. Hunt (MA 1842), Scott v. Sanford (1857, Taney), Ex parte Milligan (1866),
Civil Rights Cases of 1883. Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois (1886), Plessy v.
Ferguson (1896), "Insular Cases" / Downes v. Bidwell (1901), Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Peace Treaties & Causes & Results of Wars 1763-1900
Important or controversial elections 1800, 1824 “Corrupt Bargain, 1840 (Log Cabin), 1860,
1876, 1896
PART III: FRQ
*Note: I will select two of the 10 topics listed below to appear on the Final Exam. You will then
choose one of the two topics for your FRQ essay.
1. Analyze the ways in which the United States sought to advance its interests in world affairs between
1789 and 1823.
2. Analyze the effect of the French and Indian War and its aftermath on the relationship between Great
Britain and the British colonies. Confine your responses to the period from 1754 to 1776.
3. The Jacksonian Period (1824-1848) has been celebrated as the era of “the common man.” To what
extent did the period live up to its characterizations? Consider TWO of the following in your response:
Economic developments
Politics
Reform movements
4. “American reform movements between 1820 and 1860 reflected both the optimistic and pessimistic
views of human nature and society.” Assess the validity of this statement in reference to reform
movements in THREE of the following areas:
Education
Temperance
Women’s Rights
Utopian experiments
Penal institutions
5. Explain the ways in which women’s participation in reform activities and in work outside the home
changed between 1830 and 1870, and analyze the extent to which the changes affected the status of
women in the United States.
6. Analyze the economic consequences of the Civil War with respect to any TWO of the following in the
United States between 1865-1880.
Agriculture
Labor
Industrialization
Transportation
7. Compare and contrast the attitudes of THREE of the following toward the wealth that was created in
the United States during the late 19th Century:
Andrew Carnegie
Eugene Debs
Horatio Alger
Booker T. Washington
8. Compare the debates that took place over American expansionism in the 1890s with those in the
1840s, analyzing similarities and differences in the debates of the two eras.
9. Analyze the ways in which farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded
Age (1865-1900).
10. Analyze the roles that women played in the Progressive Era reforms from the 1880s through 1920.
Focus your essay on TWO of the following.
Politics
Social Conditions
Labor and Working Conditions