A Push Midterm Exam Rev Sheet

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AP US History - Midterm Review

Info to cover: 1492-1917

Your DBQ time window will be between: 1865-1920

Your A.P. US History midterm will be 120 min ( 2 hrs) and will consist of the following:Questions for this exam will be drawn from a variety of different AP sources. Be sure to review

notes, texts, primary documents, Supreme Court Cases and AP review books to prepare.

Part I: 80 Mult Choice questions (55 min) - 1 pt each -80 pts: The multiple choice will not be

given in chronological order, but they tend to be grouped (in groups of 3-5 questions) which

come from the same era. This is not an exact science, but it does help to know.

I have a bank of questions that I choose from broken down into the following categories: Use

the blackboard tab: Unit Themes and Terms (Units One - Unit Nine). See below for sample

Multiple Choice questions: Your midterm exam can cover ANY piece of American history during

this time period. It will be a replica of the actual AP US History exam

Pre-colonial (Approx 1492-1760)

Colonial & Rev Era (Approx 1760-1789)

Post Rev - Antebellum Era (Approx 1781-1830)

Antebellum & Civ War (Approx 1830-1877)

Reconstruction & West (Approx 1877-1900)

Gilded Age & Progressives (Approx 1877-1917)

Part II: DBQ (60 min): 80 pts: You will be given a Document Based Question (DBQ). You will

be given a suggested 15 minute reading and preparing time and will be given 45 minutes to

write your answer. Use the 15 minutes to make an outline and create a list of information.

Remember, you MUST include outside information in order to get maximum credit. I will beusing the followingDBQ scoring guide. Your DBQ time window will be between:

1865-1920

Some Topics to Review (including, but CERTAINLY) not limited to:

Major Elections:

Election/Revolution 1800: No clear winner in EC Jefferson wins

Election 1824: Corrupt bargainno clear winner in ECJQA wins

Election 1860: Lincoln / Southern secession

Election 1876: Hayes ends Recon, Union military vacates the SouthElection 1912: Wilson, Taft, Teddy Roosevelt

Major Supreme Court Cases:

Judiciary Act 1789

Marbury vs. Madison / Judicial Review
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McCullough vs. Maryland

Worcester vs. Geogria

Fletcher vs. Peck

Darmouth College vs. Woodward

Gibbons vs. Ogden

Dred Scott / SlaveryPlessy vs. Ferguson / Separate but Equal

Civil Rights:

William Lloyd Garrison: The Liberator

American Anti-Slavery Society

Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Toms Cabin

Underground Railroad / Harriet Tubman

John Brown / Bleeding Kansas

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

Freedmens Bureau

Civil Rights Bill 1866

Civil Rights Act 1875

Influential Senators & Statesmen

Thomas Jefferson

Alexander HamiltonBenjamin Franklin

James Madison

Henry Clay

David Wilmot

Daniel Webster

Stephen Douglas

Political Parties

Federalists

Democratic Republicans

Whigs

Era of Good Feelings

Know Nothing Party

Democrats

Republicans


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Populists

Amendments: You should know which unit of study each one comes from

1-10 = Bill of Rights12th = President and Vice President on same ballot

13th = Abolition of slavery

14th = Anybody born or naturalized in the U.S. is an American citizen

15th = Cannot deny right to vote based on race, creed or color

16th = Income Tax

17th = Direct Election senators

18th = Prohibition

19th = Womens suffrage

20th = Shortened lame duck period

Beginning, Turning Points, and ending battles of War:

Saratoga / Rev War / Help from French

Battle of New Orleans / Andrew Jackson / War 1812

Battle of Fort Sumter / Civil War

Battle of Antietam / Emancipation Proclamation / Stopped Euro involvement

Battle of Gettyburg / Lee turned around

Battle of Appomatox Court House / Lee final loss

Rebellions / Uprisings / Issues / Compromises

Proclamation of 1763

Pontiacs Rebellion

Bacons Rebellion

Nat Turner Revolt

Great Compromise

Compromise

Shays Rebellion

Whiskey Rebellion

Annapolis Convention

Hartford Convention

XYZ Affair

Nullification Crisis

Trail of Tears

Bleeding Kansas

Missouri Compromise


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Compromise 1850

Haymarket Riot

Pullman Strike

Great Railroad Strike 1877

Major pieces of Literature:

Thomas Paine / Common Sense

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Transcedentalists

Harriet Beecher Stowe / Uncle Toms Cabin

Upton Sinclair / The Jungle

Jacob Riis / How the Other Half Lives

Sample Multiple Choice:

1. Which was the dominant economic occupation in colonial America?

a. Lumbering d. Agriculture

b. Fishing e. Iron Making

c. slave trading

2. The Revolution of 1800 refers to:

a. The industrialization of the United States

b. The victory of the Americans over the British

c. The election of Thomas Jefferson

d. The abolition of the slave trade in the United Statese. The election of Andrew Jackson

3.Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT:

a. Indian Removal

b. The right of nullification

c. The removal of federal deposits from the bank of the United States

d. Annexation of New Territory

e. Use of the Presidential veto

4. Bleeding Kansas:

a. Refers to the attempt by the British to subjugate Americans who settled west of theMississippi River

b. Involved a pre-Civil War conflict between proslavery and antislavery forces to determine

that states status

c. Describes the massacre of Native Americans by U.S. troops in the late nineteenth

century

d. Describes the effects of the Mexican-American War on residents of that state


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e. Was the name given to that state by Native Americans who were forced onto

reservations in the early twentieth century

5. Thomas Paines pamphlet Common Sense:

a. Supported the idea that the colonies would benefit by remaining the British Empire

b.Argued for reconciliation between Britain and the American colonies

c. Repudiated the goal of achieving independence from Britain

d. Emphasized the virtues and advantages of a constitutional monarchy

e. Provided intellectual justification for American independence

6. Which of the following best explains why the earliest factories in the United States were located in New

England (19th Century):

a. Its easy access to large quantities of coal

b. Abundant water power

c. A well-developed railroad network

d. A well-developed system of canals

e. Good harbors

7. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall issued a series of decisions during his term that reflected his

Federalist beliefs. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) was an example of this because it

a. Ruled that state courts had the power to alter or invalidate a contract

b. Allowed individual states to control interstate commerce

c. Reinforced the power of the central government over state governments

d. Authorized a state banking system

e. Granted states the power to tax federal institutions

8. Transcendentalist writers found their major source of truth and inspiration in:

a. Church dogma d. Natureb. The Bible e. History

c. The political situation of the time

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