Fall Semester REVIEW 2010

Apush Final Exam Review (part I)

Here is a list of some of the majority of the topics to be covered on the objective section of the final exam! Check back to this page throughout the weekend as the Exam gets "tweeked."

Essay Questions-

• Beginning in 1763, American colonists faced a series of conflicts that lead to the break with Great Britain. Discuss these crises, stressing the role of each in the growth of the independence movement.
• What problems did the United States face in the West during the 1790's? How did President Washington deal with them?
• What economic policies did Alexander Hamilton implement? What purpose did they serve?
• Creating the United States Constitution was accomplished through a series of compromises. Explain three such compromises.

• Ways Captain John Smith helped Jamestown

• John Rolfe

• The "headright" system

• Freedom of religion in which colony?

• Factors leading to Bacon's Rebellion?

• Significance of Bacon's Rebellion

• Economies of the Caribbean islands

• African slaves vs. indentured servants

• The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony

• Anne Hutchinson's reason for exile

• Characteristics of the Restoration colonies

• The overthrow of James II in the Glorious Revolution affected the colonies in which way?

• During the seventeenth century, at least three-fourths of the immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region…

• The mid-1690s marked a turning point in the history of the black population in America because…?

• Historian Edmund S. Morgan argued that the institutionalization of African slavery in America reflected…what?

• The most numerous of the non-English immigrants were…?

• Conditions were good in PA for agricultural because...?

• A common problem in American commerce in the seventeenth century

• The functions of an colonial American city

• Reasons for the decline of piety in colonial America

• The Great Awakening

• Purpose of the Albany Conference (1754)

• Reason(s) for the English decision to reorganize the British Empire after 1763

• Feeling by the colonists after the French and Indian War

• Problem facing the Brit. gov’t after the French &  Indian War

• The purpose of the Proclamation Line of 1763

• British colonial policies after 1763

• The Sugar and Stamp acts were designed chiefly to

• Colonies main objection tot he Stamp Act

• Townshend believed that colonists would not protest his taxes because…

• Attempts by the colonies to unify

• The objectives of the Committees of Correspondence

• The Quebec Act angered colonists because…

• American complaints concerning lack of representation made little sense to the English who pointed out that…

• The event leading to the passage of the Intolerable Acts

• Conditions of the Intolerable Acts

• Common Sense about American complaints against…

• Advantages British had during the Revolutionary War

• Summarize the move for independence by Americans

• The Declaration of Independence accomplished…

• Which of the following was NOT a step taken by the First Continental Congress?

• The First Continental Congress did all of the following EXCEPT

• Characteristics of early state constitutions

• Successes under the Articles of Confederation

• Weaknesses under the Articles

• The most significant division in the Constitutional Convention was between:

• James Madison's Virginia Plan proposed:

• The most important issue left unaddressed when the Constitutional Convention adjourned was:

• The Constitution's most distinctive feature was its:

• Which major concern did the original constitution not address

• The most distinctive feature of the constitution was…

• Why did the framers include an Electoral College

• The ideologies of A. Hamilton

• President Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion

• Under the Constitution, the status of the western Indian tribes was

• The only real success of Jay’s Treaty

• In the election of 1796

• Controversies surrounding the election of 1800

• List the differences and examples between delegated, concurrent and reserved powers
• List the goals of the "Jefferson Era"
• Characterize the religious atmosphere during the Jefferson Era
• And anything else we happen to cover...
• strict vs. broad construction/interpretation of the Constitution
• Hamilton's financial plan
• Reason for the passage of Hamilton's Plan on Public Credit
• Problems Washington faced during this second term as President
• Identify the treaties the US entered into with other countries as well as the Native Americans
• Alien & Sedition Acts
• Virginia & Kentucky resolutions
• Locke & Hobbes and the Enlightenment ideas on governing
• The Connecticut Compromise
• Concurrent powers of the National and State governments