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1st Semester Final Exam

Study Guide

Advanced Placement

United States History

Your final exam will consist of 100-125 multiple-choice questions from the list of items

below. Also be sure to study your map books as their will be several maps and charts on

your final exam.

1. North American Indians prior to Columbus (culture, political & economic systems)

2. Spanish colonization (reason, methods)

3. Mercantilism

4. English colonization (reason, methods)

5. Act Concerning Religion

6. Colonies (reason for creation, culture, political & economic systems)

7. Great Awakening (Jonathan Edwards)8. The Enlightenment

9. Seven Years War

10. The Proclamation of 1763

11. Taxation w/o Representation

12. Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Navigation Act, Townsend Act

13. Boston Massacre

14. Common Sense

15. Causes and Conduct of American Revolution

16. Advantages/Disadvantages

17. Battle of Saratoga

18. Treaty of Paris19. State governments during the 1770s

20. Weakness of the Articles of Confederation

21. Constitutional Convention

22. George Washington as President

23. Bill of Rights

24. 26 Amendments

25. Founding Fathers (beliefs, general background)

26. Federalist Party

27. Anti-Federalists

28. Representation in Congress

29. Revolution of 1800 (Thomas Jefferson)30. Louisiana Purchase

31. Death of the Federalist Party

32. Jeffersonian Education

33. Alexander Hamilton

34. Monroe Doctrine

35. Early American literary figures

36. Second Great Awakening


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37. The Marshall Court

38. Judicial Review

39. Marbury v. Madison

40. War of 1812 (causes & consequences)

41. Bank of the United States (purposes, reasons for not re-chartering)

42. Era of good feelings43. McCullock v. Maryland

44. Monroe Doctrine

45. Corrupt bargain

46. Andrew Jackson (background)(policies, scandals)

47. Theory of nullification

48. Bank of the United States

49. Philosophy of the Whig, free soil, Know-Nothing, & Republican parties

50. Erie Canal

51. American industry in the 1840s & 1850s

52. Irish/German Immigration/Factory Life

53. Political Cartoons54. Reform Movements in America 1820-1860s

55. Farming communities

56. Antebellum South

57. Importance of Cotton

58. Nat Turners rebellion

59. Slave resistance

60. Underground Railroad

61. Edgar Allan Poe

62. Henry David Thoreau

63. Mormons

64. Missouri Compromise

65. Seneca Falls

66. Womens Rights Movement

67. Manifest Destiny

68. Timeline of Manifest Destiny

69. Early western settlement

70. Election of 1844

71. Mexican-American War

72. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

73. Gadsden Purchase

74. Compromise of 1850

75. Abolitionists and Movement

76. Stephen Douglass/Poplar Sovereignty

77. Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas78. Causes of Civil War

79. Republican Party during the Civil War

80. Lincolns response to opposition (Lincolns Actions during war time)81. Emancipation Proclamation

82. 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments


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83. North vs. South in the Civil War (advantages/disadvantages)strategies

84. General Jackson

85. Confederate War effort

86. General Lee

87. Abraham Lincoln

88. Jefferson Davis89. Habeasous Corpus

90. General Grant

91. General Sherman

92. Battle of Antietam

93. Battle of Gettysburg

94. Results of the Civil War

95. Views of Reconstruction

96. Radical Republicans

97. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

98. Freedmens Bureau/Black Codes

99. Compromise of 1877100. All outlines, handouts, primary sources etc.

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