AP US Study Guide Semester 1

1. Industry boomed, new & bigger cities (Interior waterside villages), flotillas of steamships plied Great
Lakes connecting w/ canal barges
2. Peaceful and orderly transfer of power; TJ could restore the Republican gov’t and stop Federalist rule.
TJ narrowly won..tied with Burr, and the tie was broken by the House of Reps
3. What was unique…??
Sewing machine boosted Northern industrialization, became the foundation of clothing industry, drove
seamstresses from their homes to factories
4. Concessions to N: CA admitted as free state; territory disputed by TX and NM(New Mex.) to be
surrendered to NM ; abolition of slave trade in District of Columbia
Concessions to S: Remainder of Mexican Cession formed into NM & UT w/out restriction on slavery –
open to popular sovereignty; TX received $10 mil. from federal gov’t as compensation; harsher fugitive
slave law created most controversy
5. reasons: people began to mobilize against monopoly – tried to control trusts through state legislation.
-forbade combinations in restraint of trade; w/out distinction between “good & bad trusts”
-used to curb labor unions/ labor combinations that were deemed to be restraining trade
6. immigrants had high birthrate; scared that nativists would be mongrelized by mix of “inferior”
Southern European blood; degradation of urban gov’t – nativists voted against Roman Catholics
7. ?
8. -Came from W coast of Africa, especially area from Senegal to Angola.
-Most hostile treatment in South (climate/ labor plantations); easier in tobacco-growing Chesapeake –
mainly tedious tasks in general for slaves
-became Christian
9. dissolved tribes as legal entities; wiped out tribal ownership of land; set up individual Indian family
heads w/ 160 free acres
-if Indians were “good white settlers” theyd get full title to holdings/citizenship in 25 years
-took their land and sold it to white settlers
10. S won Missouri; 10 year joint-occupation of OR country; already claimed W FL & gained all FL and St.
Marks and Pensacola(Spain territory)
11. stated 1.)noncolonization 2.) nonintervention
-NW could keep what they had, but couldn’t seize/acquire anything more
-US wouldn’t intervene in Greeks v. Turks war
12. wanted to get rid of fears of Federalist overturning them
13. support: to open Indian lands to white settlement, but also wanted to move Indians to W
- Spoils system
Not Support: Bank of US
-nullifiers
-tariff of abominations
14. Emancipation proclamation made the Civil War about slavery. It as abstract because it said slaves
were free, but really they were not.
15. Congress imposed the Radical Reconstruction because they wanted South to feel guilt for starting
war and they wanted to bring the Union together.
16. People were unsatisfied with the Constitution.
17. Own property
18. Free public education, more and better schoolhouses, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers,
and expand curriculum.
19. Sewers
20. Sates started tightening slave codes. Garrison released the Liberator during this time and was seen
as a terrorist.
21. Married woman were not allowed to do any labor. They could only gather and be mothers.
22. Washington voted unanimously as President; Antifeds/Feds
23. Purpose of the Stamp Act was to bring money to British to support them after the Seven Years War.
24. Diseases and the Anglo-Powhatan War was a defeat for Indians.
25. The laws were designed to regulate the affairs of the emancipated blacks.
26. Page 246 (Map) Any state above line are free and below Slave
27. Loss of money and discrimination
28. GA government threatened to resort to arms to resist efforts of Washington government to
interpose federal authority on behalf of the Cherokees
29. Judicial review which states the Supreme Court alone had the last word on the question of
Constitutionality
30. The book chronicled the sorry record of government ruthlessness and chicanery in dealing with the
Indians
31. He wanted to quiet the clamor of the west. It also secured the western half of the richest river valley
in the world
32. IdeologiesAll men are created equal with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness. If this is taken away by a government, then the people have a right to separate
from the government and become their own state. Britain has violated these rights and we have warned
them, but now we are separate from Britain and have all the rights of a free state.
Grievances royal veto, governors can’t pass important laws, won’t establish new countries, removed
MA assembly to Salem, VA assembly, can’t populate states, proclamation of 1763, Townshend acts,
navigation laws, Boston Massacre, 1774 Acts, Boston Port Act, Stamp Act, Quebec Act, burning of
Fallmouth, Hessians, impressments, raised slave rebellions
Slave Trade wants slave trade to continue
33. the people
34. Articles of Confederation was the written constitution for the new US nation. It also decided that the
states with a lot of land had to cede their western claims for the “common benefit”. The extra land
eventually became republican states, not colonies, and were accepted into the Union.
35. outstanding leaders (George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Marquis de Lafayette)
36. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
37. Farmers’ Issues  angered at industrialism and wanted agriculture to be the leading economy, as it
was in the past
Discovery of Gold in Alaska ?
European Crop Failures ?
Immigration to Urban Areas more people in urban areas decreased the farmer population and gave
industry the advantage
Election of 1896 Bryan was the agrarians’ last chance of winning. Unfortunately, McKinley won, which
meant presidential politics were not laid on the farms, but in the mushrooming cities
38. Deists believed in Deism, which was created by Thomas Paine. They relied on reason rather than
revelation, on science rather than the Bible; rejected original sin and denied Christ’s divinity; and
believed in a supreme being whom created a universe and endowed human beings with a capacity for
moral behavior
39. Henry David Thoreau
40. ?
41.
42. Debt and Plan Picture
43. South Carolina was the first to fire at Fort Sumter and the Union had to respond by joining of the
war.
44. The Seven Years’ War with France & Britain
45. Mostly Irish and German
46. American System:
-strong banking system
-protective tariff
-transportation (roads and canals)
47. The idea that they would find gold and find a passage through America to the Indies
48. Prohibited the settlement west of the Appalachians
49. 26 men discontent with the federalist met in Hartford Connecticut for 3 weeks to discuss their
grievances and redress for their wrongs, they wanted war
50. Irish/Germans/Immigrants