Your Mid Term will be an oral exam… or..
Your mid term will consist of +/- 80 multiple choice questions drawn from a pool of released AP Exam materials, a thematic essay, and a document based question. More weight will be given to more recent material, but the exam will be cumulative. The Thematic and DBQ questions can be from any part of the material covered thus far. REMEMBER—these are very broad topics, more of a guideline than a specific list. For each item enumerated below, there are subtopics attached. Be thorough in your preparation. Work together, share the load!
Possibly the industrial era; any areas that we cover prior to the mid term are fair game. Then, these areas:
1. Reconstruction
a. the situation—post Appomattox
b. presidential reconstruction
c. congressional reconstruction
d. the Freedmen’s Bureau
e. amendments and redemption
2. The Civil War
a. constitutional issues
b. northern, southern expectations and strategies
c. Emancipation Proclamation
d. Cotton diplomacy
e. Social impact
3. Sectionalism
a. Territories
b. Compromise of 1850
c. Kansas-Nebraska Act
d. Fugitive Slave Laws
e. Secession
4. Expansion and westward migration
a. Manifest Destiny
b. War, Treaty, Annexation
c. Westward Migration
d. Railroads
e. Economic Push/Pull Factors
5. Antebellum reform
a. The Second Great Awakening
b. Utopian Communities
c. Abolition
d. Women’s Rights
e. Other Reforms (art, thought, lit, etc.)
6. The south: economics and slavery
a. Cotton
b. Tariffs
c. The National Bank
d. Slavery
e. Slave life, revolt, rebellion
7. The north: economics and immigration
a. Transportation
b. Manufacturing
c. Urbanization
d. Immigration
e. The Frontier
8. The Age of Jackson
a. Politics of the Common Man
b. Jackson v. Adams
c. The National Bank
d. Indian Removal
e. States Rights
9. The Era of Good Feelings
a. Cultural Nationalism
b. Industrialization
c. Infrastructure
d. Agriculture
e. The Missouri Compromise
10. The Jeffersonian Era
a. The Louisiana Purchase
b. Foreign Policy and War
c. The Marshall Court
d. Native Americans
e. The Political Fallout of the War of 1812
11. Transition to Peace: The Constitution in theory and in practice
a. Constitutional Convention and ratification
b. Shays rebellion, the Whiskey Rebellion and Hamilton
c. The French Revolution
d. The Election of 1800
e. Political parties
12. The Revolution
a. The Articles of Confederation
b. The Colonial Army and British Strategy
c. Turning points in the war
d. Winning the war and negotiating a peace
e. Problems created by the war
13. The Road to Revolution
a. The French and Indian(Seven Year’s War)
b. Parliament and Taxation—sugar, currency, and stamp acts
c. Political organization—the pub, Committees of Correspondence and the Boston Massacre
d. Lexington and Concord and Common Sense
e. The Declaration of Independence
14. The Colonial Period
a. “new “ immigrants
b. economic activity—the north
c. economic activity—the south
d. The Great Awakening
e. Colonial government
15. Planting and organizing the Colonies
a. The English, French, and Dutch in North America—original intent and form
b. Chesapeake, Massachussetts, New York and Pennsylvania
c. Slavery and Indentured servitude
d. Struggle with native Americans
e. The Salem Witch Trials