P a g e 1 AP US History Semester I Final Exam Study Guide Study Guide Due Dates Pages 1, 2 & 3: Monday 12/8 Pages 4, 5 & 6: Friday 12/15 Page 7 & WHOLE PACKET: Day of your final exam Exam Format 55 Multiple Choice questions AP Style stimulus-based questions Questions grouped around a stimulus and NOT in chronological order Scantron Bring a pencil! Additional RECOMMENDED review materials: AP US Study Guide from the Gilder Lehrman Institute available online: http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/ The Semester I Study Guide is a REQUIRED assignment that will be completed according to the checkpoints above. YOU MUST BRING YOUR COMPLETED STUDY GUIDE WITH YOU ON THE DAY OF THE FINAL!!! DIRECTIONS: Complete ALL of the boxes focusing on the significance of each event from: 1. Class notes & worksheets/handouts 2. Textbook information (page numbers are helpful!) START with information from your notes. Ask questions on checkpoint days to fill in missing information. Early Explorers (conquistadors, Cortez & Aztecs, etc) Columbian Exchange (benefits to Europeans, impact on Native American societies, etc) Pueblos in 1680s (encomienda system) Jamestown (early struggles, eventual success)
P a g e 2 Native American response to early English colonies Compare/Contrast New England vs. Chesapeake region Massachusetts Bay Colony (importance of religion, Anne Hutchinson silencing dissention) First and Second Great Awakenings Mercantilism Navigation Acts Salutary Neglect End of Salutary Neglect Impact of the Seven Year s War (a.k.a. French & Indian)
John Dickinson s Letters from a Farmer The Enlightenment (influences on American Revolution/early American government) P a g e 3 Thomas Paine s Common Sense Declaration of Independence (influences, debate over, etc) Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation Compare/Contrast Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists Bill of Rights & Constitution (debates over, basic government structure, etc) Government Action in the 1790s (response to French Revolution, conflicting political parties, fear of alliances, presence of British after American Revolution, etc) Jay s Treaty XYZ Affair
P a g e 4 Compare/Contrast Federalists vs. Republicans John Marshall (background and cases: Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, etc) Washington s Farewell Address (political parties and Jeffersonian Democracy (vision vs. actions) foreign relations) Era of Good Feelings (Sectionalism vs. Nationalism) Monroe Doctrine US migration 1820s-1860s (push/pull factors, Nativism, Missouri Compromise of 1820 settlement patterns, etc) Jacksonian Democracy (expansion of executive Emergence of Whig Party power, nullification, bank war, Native American removal, etc)
P a g e 5 Manifest Destiny James K. Polk Mexican-American War and spread of slavery Abolition (role of women, influence of Second Great Awakening, etc) William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglass Peculiar Institution and Southern support for slavery Northern restrictions to African American citizenship Women s rights (Republican Motherhood, Cult of Domesticity, women s sphere of influence, Seneca Falls Convention, activism in abolition/other movements) Antebellum Reform Movements (temperance, prison reform, Transcendentalism, etc)
P a g e 6 Sectional tension in 1850s Free Soil movement Popular Sovereignty Caning of Charles Sumner Dred Scott Decision Abraham Lincoln s Republican Party & Election of 1860 Secession of Southern States Reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation European Involvement in the Civil War (Northern & Southern strategies to gain support) Recruitment of African American soldiers during Civil War
P a g e 7 Advantages/Disadvantages (North & South) President Lincoln & the Civil War During the Civil War 13 th, 14 th & 15 th Amendments Reconstruction (readmitting Southern States, Republican Party agenda) You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. ~ Saint Francis de Sales