AP U.S.

History MIDTERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE Your Midterm Exam will be a comprehensive exam covering ALL of the material covered during the Fall Semester. Any of the material from the class discussions and notes as well as the assigned readings is fair game for the Midterm Exam. However, the following is a specific list of topics that you should be familiar with. Early American Colonies (Reasons for Settlement: Virginia, Purtians, etc.) The Navigation Acts (mercantilism) The First and Second Great Awakenings 18th Century Philosophy (Deism) The American Revolution (Cause, Course, and Consequence; Proclamation of 1863, Stamp Act, etc.) Articles of Confederation The U.S. Constitution (Constitutional Conventions, the Federalist papers, compromises, Bill of Rights, etc.) The Alien and Sedition Acts (Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions) Alexander Hamilton and the American system First Political Party System (Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans) The Election of 1800 Major Supreme Court Cases (Marbury v. Madison and Dred Scott) Louisiana Purchase The War of 1812 (Cause, Course and Consequence; the Hartford Convention, etc.) The Monroe Doctrine Jacksonian Democracy (Jacksons attitude toward Native Americans, etc.) Texas Independence and Mexican-American War (Cause, Course, Consequence; Annexing Texas, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, Manifest Destiny) The Cult of Domesticity Political Parties 2nd & 3rd Generation (Whigs, Democrats, Know-Nothings, Republicans) The Slave Issue (Eli Whitneys Cotton Gin, Popular Sovereignty, KansasNebraska Act, etc.) The Civil War (Cause, Course, Consequence; Election of 1860, etc.) Reconstruction (Presidential vs. Congressional, Black Codes, sharecropping, etc.) The New South The Great West (reasons for settlement, etc.) Gilded Age Politics (labor, etc.) Industrial Boom and Expansion of late 19th Century Note: The above list is not all inclusive!!! Exam Components: 50 Multiple-Choice Exam with Scantron 1 DBQ Essay