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 be using the following DBQ 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 bargain no clear winner in EC JQA wins Election 1860: Lincoln / Southern secession Election 1876: Hayes ends Recon, Union military vacates the South Election 1912: Wilson, Taft, Teddy Roosevelt

Major Supreme Court Cases: Judiciary Act 1789 Marbury vs. Madison / Judicial Review

McCullough vs. Maryland Worcester vs. Geogria Fletcher vs. Peck Darmouth College vs. Woodward Gibbons vs. Ogden Dred Scott / Slavery Plessy 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 Hamilton Benjamin 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

Populists

Amendments: You should know which unit of study each one comes from 1-10 = Bill of Rights 12th = 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

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 States e. 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 the Mississippi 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

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. Nature b. The Bible e. History c. The political situation of the time