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SEMESTER ONE FINAL REVIEW ORGANIZER
Advanced Placement United States History
1. Geography: Be prepared to identify the location of specific events and features within the United States using a
blank map. In addition, you must be able to identify changes to the composition of the country. This will require you to
analyze and assess the elements on the map, and to place it within a specific period of time.
2. Multiple Choice: The majority of the exam will be multiple choice. You will be required to select the BEST answer
from the given choices. There is no penalty for guessing. Work to eliminate bad answers when you are unsure of the
correct answer. Read each question and answer carefully before you select a response.
3. Chronology: There are ten questions that specifically require you to place historical events into their respective
eras. The eras are as follows: 1763-1790, 1791-1815, 1816-1830, 1831-1860. These periods correspond roughly to
the Revolutionary, Federalist, Jeffersonian, Jacksonian, and Ante Bellum periods.
4. Quotations: Ten quotations have been selected from famous Americans. You will be required to match the
quotation to the person. Focus on their philosophies, you are not expected to have seen the quote before. Give your
attention to: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Transcendentalists, Abolitionists, Jackson, and Calhoun.
5. Short Answer: Twenty questions will require you to compose a written response. These questions can generally
be answered in 3-5 sentences or by listing your answers when requested. Short answer questions assess your
understanding of a subject and ability to relate your knowledge. Five questions ask you to make connections between
topics. Ten questions ask you to explain a topic from American history. Five questions as you to identify specific
events and or elements of a subject. Be clear and concise, no BS. I must be able to see immediately that you
understand the issue at hand or it is wrong.
6. Terms: The following list will give you an idea of the significant terms, topics, and names to study. Remember,
recall will not necessarily provide you with the correct answer. Think critically!!!
7. Names and Dates: In addition to the terms there are several names and dates you are responsible for. Be able
to identify the following people and their historical significance. (For some this might be quite large.) The dates
represent important "turning points" in American history. Be certain you can identify the significance of each date.
Broad Themes
Abolitionism
American Identity
American Nationalism
American System
Backwoods vs. Aristocracy
Birth of the Nation
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Causes of Exploration
Civil War
Common Man
Economic Growth
Expansion/Manifest Destiny
Federalism vs. Anti-Federalism
Geographic Determinism
Gilded Age
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Great Awakenings (1 / 2 )
Immigration
Jacksonian Democracy
Jeffersonian Democracy
Labor Rights
Leveling
Manifest Destiny
Mercantilism
Nativism
Nullification
Political Parties
Puritanism
Race and Culture
Reconstruction
Reform Movements
Salutary Neglect
Second Great Awakening
Sectionalism
Settlement Patterns
Tariffs
Wars
Dates
1607
1620
1629
1754
1763
1775
1776
1789
1800
1803
1812
1815
1820
1828
1836
1845
1850
1861
1865
1877
1896
People
Alexander Hamilton
Alexis de Tocqueville
Anne Hutchinson
Charles Grandison Finney
Cyrus McCormick
Daniel Webster
Davy Crockett
Dorothea Dix
Eli Whitney
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Clay
Henry David Thoreau
Jane Addams
Jefferson Davis
John Brown
John C. Calhoun
Court Cases
John D. Rockefeller
John Marshall
Jonathan Edwards
Louis Sullivan
Nat Turner
Nicholas Biddle
Robert Fulton
Sam Houston
Samuel Gompers
Samuel Slater
Stephen Douglas
Thomas Nast
William Bradford
William Lloyd Garrison
William Macy Tweed
William Seward
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Fletcher v. Peck
Gibbons v. Ogden
In Re Debs
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Plessy v. Ferguson
Scott v. Sanford
Wabash case
PRESIDENTS (all & order)
Terms
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3/5 s Compromise
Alien & Sedition Acts
Articles of Confederation
Assumption
Bacon’s Rebellion
Bill of Rights
Black Codes
Bleeding Kansas
Burned-over District
Chinese Exclusion Act
Colonial Advantages in War
Colonial Characteristics
Colonial Social Structure
Committees of Correspondence
Compact Theory
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1877
Comstock Law
Corrupt Bargain
Cotton Gin
Cult of Domesticity
Dawes Severalty Act
Elastic Clause
Emancipation Proclamation
Embargo Act of 1807
Family Life
Freedman’s Bureau
Fugitive Slave Laws
Funding at Par
Gag Resolution
Gibson Girl
Gospel of Wealth
Great Compromise
Half-way Covenant/the Elect
Hartford Convention
Haymarket Square Riot
Hayne-Webster Debate
Headright System
Homestead Strike
House of Burgesses
Hudson River School
Impressment
Indian Removal Policy
Jamestown
Jim Crow
Judicial Review
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Knights of Labor
Know-Nothing Party
Louisiana Purchase
Lowell System
Mexican-American War
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Morrill Act
Nativism
Navigation Laws
Northwest Ordinances
Old Northwest
Panics (of 1819, 1837, 1873, 1893)
Peculiar Institution
Pendleton Act
Popular Sovereignty
Presidential Reconstruction
Proclamation of 1763
Radical Reconstruction
Republican Motherhood
Revolution of 1800
Seneca Falls Convention
Settlement Houses
Sharecropping
Shay’s Rebellion
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Social Gospel
South Carolina Exposition
Spoils System
Stamp Act/Intolerable Acts
Strict vs. Loose Construction
Swinging ‘Round the Circle
Tallmadge Amendment
Tariff of Abominations
The Liberator
Trail of Tears
Transcendentalism
Virginia-Kentucky Resolutions
Wade-Davis Bill
War Hawks
Washington’s Farewell Address
Whigs
Whiskey Rebellion
Wilmot Proviso
XYZ Affair
Zenger case