Final Review — Spring 2013

• APUSH - 2013 Spring Final Review!
• Tecumseh;
• Hartford Convention;
• “Era of Good Feelings;”
• The influence of J. Marshall
• “Results of the Panic of 1837;
• “The American System” and the “Bonus Bill;”
• Goals of the Jacksonians;
• Identify the changes which took place during the Jasksonian Era regarding political parties;
• Be able to identify the arguments behind those issues defining “states rights”
• Kentucky & Virginia resolutions;
• The South Carolina Exposition and Protest;
• The South’s reasons for secession resulting in Civil War;
• The Peggy Eaton Affair;
• Arguments presented by each in the Hayne-Webster Debates;
• MO Compromise;
• Manifest Destiny;
• Characterizations of the United States between 1820 and 1850;
• The early feminist movement (leaders, goals & Sentiments);
• The most significant result of the Mexican-American War
• Define & give examples of “Popular Sovereignty;”
• Feature(s) of the Compromise of 1850;
• Significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act;
• Why John Brown was a, “... very important person;”
• Everything about the Dred Scott Decision;
• Reason(s) why the Republican party originated;
• The various bills (and compromises) introduced in the 1860’s that attempted to prevent a Civil War (including the Wilmot Proviso);
• A question asking you to identify causes of the Civil War in order of significance;
• Effects of the Emancipation Proclamation;
• How did Lincoln’s view & objectives change as the war advance;
• Characterize the South’s economy prior to the Civil War (and do not forget to factor in the fact that most were poor);
• How could the South (Confederate) win the war?;
• Antietam;
• Civil Rights Act of 1866;
• Reconstruction plans;
• A. Johnson’s impeachment;
• Jim Crow;
• The Civil War Amendments;
• The meaning of “redemption;”
• The primary, underlying reason for the end of Reconstruction;
• Facts concerning the “disputed election””
• Seward’s Folly
• The biggest failure of Reconstruction

Essay: From the three essays below, you will be given two, from which you will choose one to write:

Analyze the ways in which controversy over the extension of slavery into western territories contributed to the coming of the Civil War. Confine your answer to the period 1845–1861. 

The Civil War was doubly tragic because it was completely unnecessary. Slavery had been ended in other nations by the stroke of a pen, and so it could have been in the United States.

Assess the validity of this statement.

The sectional compromises of the first half of the nineteenth century were not in fact compromises but rather “sectional sellouts” in which the North gave in to the insistent demands of the slaveholding South.

Assess the validity of this statement.

The DBQ

To assist in writing a good DBQ, please read the following:

1. Read the question -- that is, the prompt -- three times. Remember that in this instance "AP" stands for "address prompt."
2. Identify the task. State in your own words what you are being asked to write.
3. Circle or underline the main words, especially words of direction, such as "analyze," "explain," "compare and contrast," "evaluate," and "to what extent."
4. Briefly list the main events of the historical time period addressed. Use the acronym PERSIA to help you categorize the political, economic, religious, social, intellectual, and artistic aspects of the period. This is outside information that may be included in the essay.
5. Read each document, noting the source or the title. Briefly write the main point of each document. If the prompt requires you to take one position or another, group the documents on the basis of those positions. 
6. Use the source or the title when referring to the information in the document. Do NOT use the word "document" in the narrative of your essay. (Writing "Document A says," "Document B says," and so on results in a laundry list of documents instead of an essay.) You may use the word "document" in parentheses as a reference to a specific document at the end of the information you have included from that document. These notes help you organize your use of the documents throughout your essay. Essential note to remember: Students write the essay; documents don't write the essay.

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