ADVANCED PLACEMENT AMERICAN HISTORY
Test 2:
The Early Republic
Understand the following terms and
concepts.
1. Early state
governments (especially Pennsylvania and Tennessee)
2. Republicanism,
virtue, independence, property requirements, and
republican motherhood
3. Religious
disestablishment
4. The Articles of
Confederation and their strengths and weaknesses
5. Western lands, the
Land Ordinance, and the Northwest Ordinance
6. Paper money and
specie
7. Jay’s treaty with
Spain
8. The Mississippi
River
9. The State of
Franklin and John Sevier
10. The Western Indian
Confederation
11. American debts
12. Tariffs
13. Shays’s Rebellion
14. Alexander Hamilton
15. James Madison
16. George Washington
17. John Jay
18. The Annapolis
Convention
19. The Constitutional
Convention
20. The Great Compromise
21. The Three-Fifths
Compromise
22. Powers of the
Government, especially the Commerce Clause and Elastic
Clause
23. Ratification of the
Constitution
24. Federalists and
Anti-Federalists
25. The Federalist Papers
26. The Bill of Rights
27. John Adams
28. The Judiciary Act of
1789
29. The Cabinet
30. Federalists and
Democratic-Republicans
31. Loose Construction
and Strict Construction
32. Speculation in paper
money and in land
33. Hamilton’s financial
plans
34. The Assumption Act
of 1790
35. The District of
Columbia
36. The Whiskey Tax and
the Whiskey Rebellion
37. The First and Second
Bank of the United States
38. The French
Revolution
39. The Franco-American
Alliance
40. Citizen Genêt
41. British forts in the
Northwest
42. St Clair’s Defeat
43. Mad Anthony Wayne
44. The Battle of Fallen
Timbers and the Treaty of Greenville
45. Impressment
46. The Jay Treaty with
Britain
47. The Pinckney Treaty
with Spain
48. Territory of the
United States South of the River Ohio and William Blount
49. New states—Vermont,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri, and Maine
50. The Two-Term
Tradition
51. Thomas Jefferson
52. The XYZ Affair and
Talleyrand
53. The Quasi-War
54. Napoleon
55. The Alien Acts
56. The Sedition Act and
Matthew Lyon
57. The Kentucky
Resolution, the Virginia Resolution, and nullification
58. The XII Amendment
59. Aaron Burr
60. The Revolution of
1800
61. Midnight Judges
62. John Marshall
63. Marbury
v. Madison
64. Samuel Chase
65. The Mosquito Fleet
66. The Barbary Wars
67. The Hatian
Revolution and François Toussaint-L’Ouverture
68. Robert Livingston
and James Monroe
69. The Louisiana
Purchase
70. Lewis and Clark and
the Corps of Discovery
71. Zebulon Pike
72. The Burr
Conspiracies
73. Orders in Council
74. The Chesapeake Affair
75. The Embargo Act
76. The Non-Intercourse
Act
77. Macon’s Bill No. 2
78. Causes of the War of
1812
79. Opposition to the
War of 1812
80. Tecumseh and the
Prophet
81. War Hawks
82. Henry Clay
83. John C. Calhoun
84. William Henry
Harrison
85. The Battle of
Tippecanoe and Battle of the Thames
86. USS Constitution versus HMS Guerriere
87. American invasions
of Canada
88. Oliver Hazard Perry
and the Battle of Lake Erie
89. The Creek War of
1814 and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend
90. Tennessee Volunteers
and Andrew Jackson
91. Winfield Scott
92. The Battle of Lake
Champlain and Thomas Macdonough
93. Fort McHenry,
Francis Scott Key, and ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’
94. The Bladensburg
Races and the Burning of Washington, D.C.
95. The Hartford
Convention
96. The Treaty of Ghent
97. The Battle of New
Orleans
98. The Second War of
American Independence
99. The Rush-Bagot
Treaty and the Anglo-American Treaty of 1818
100. The American System
101. The Tariff of 1816
102. The Second Bank of
the United States
103. Internal
improvements, the National Road
104. The Era of Good
Feelings
105. John Quincy Adams
106. Land speculation and
paper money speculation
107. The Panic of 1819
108. The Missouri
Compromise
109. McCulloch v.
Maryland
110. Cohens v. Virginia
111. Gibbons v. Ogden
112. The Yazoo Land Fraud
and Fletcher v. Peck
113. Dartmouth
College v. Woodward
114. Daniel Webster
115. The Oregon Country
116. Florida
117. The Seminole
118. The Adams-Onis
Treaty
119. Russian America and
the
Russo-American Treaty of 1824
120. The Monroe Doctrine
121. The Missouri
Compromise
122. Old Hickory, Andrew
Jackson (and Rachel Jackson)
123. John Quincy Adams
124. Henry Clay
125. John C. Calhoun
126. Expanding suffrage
127. The Election of 1824
and the Corrupt Bargain
128. The American System
129. The National Road
130. The Tariff of
Abominations
131. Daniel Webster
132. Denmark Vesey
133. The South Carolina
Exposition
134. The Jacksonian
Revolution
135. Martin van Buren
136. The Election of 1828
137. The Revolution of
1828 and Jacksonian Democracy
138. Rotation in Office
or the Spoils System
139. The Peggy Eaton
Affair
140. The Maysville Road
Bill
141. The Hayne-Webster
Debate
142. States Rights
143. The Tariff of 1832
144. The Nullification
Crisis
145. The Force Bill
146. The Compromise
Tariff of 1833
147. The election of 1832
148. The Anti-Masonic
Party
149. The Second Bank of
the United States and Nicholas Biddle
150. The Bank War
151. Pet Banks and
Wildcat Banks
152. Land Speculation
153. The Specie Circular
154. The Panic of 1837
155. The Black Hawk War
156. The Indian Removal
Act
157. The Cherokee and the
White Man’s Path
158. Sequoya
159. Worcester v
Georgia
160. The Trail of Tears
161. Stephen Austin
162. Antonio Lopez de
Santa Anna
163. William Travis, Jim
Bowie, and Davy Crockett
164. Sam Houston
165. The Battles of the
Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto
166. The Treaties of
Valesco, Texan Independence, and the Republic of Texas
167. The Whigs
168. The Second Two-Party
System
169. The Caroline Affair
170. The Creole Affair
171. The ‘Divorce Bill’
and the Independent Treasury
172. Tippecanoe and
Tyler, Too! ----- Log Cabins and Hard Cider
173. John Tyler
174. The Aroostook War
175. The
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
176. The Second Great
Awakening
177. Presbyterians and
Baptists
178. Methodists, Circuit
Riders, and Francis Asbury
179. The Revival of 1800
180. The Cane Ridge
Revival
181. The Stone-Cambpell
Movement
182. The African
Methodist Episcopal Church
183. Charles Grandison
Finney
184. The Burned-Over
District
185. Missionaries
186. The Unitarians
187. The Shakers
188. The Millerites and
the Great Disappointment
189. Mary Ellen White and
the Seventh-Day Aventists
190. Joseph Smith and the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
191. Brigham Young, the
Mormon Migration, and Deseret
192. Transcendentalism,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau
193. Robert Owen and New
Harmony
194. John Humphrey Noyes
and the Oneida Community
195. John Audubon
196. The Hudson River
school of art
197. Greek Revival
architecture
198. Universities, Free
Schools, and Catholic Schools
199. Temperance
200. Lyman Beecher
201. Prison Reforms
202. Insane Asylums
203. Dorothea Dix
204. The Cult of
Domesticity and Separate Spheres
205. The Women’s Movement
206. The Seneca Falls
Convention and the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments
207. Lucretia Mott,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony
208. The Agricultural
Revolution
209. The Industrial
Revolution
210. Water Power
211. James Watt and the steam
engine
212. Textiles
213. Samuel Slater
214. Eli Whitney, the
Cotton Gin, and interchangeable parts
215. The Lowell Mills,
Lowell System, and Lowell Girls
216. Elias Howe, Isaac
Singer, and the sewing machine
217. Wage slavery,
unions, the General Trades Union, and strikes
218. Commonwealth
v. Hunt
219. John Deere and the
steel plough
220. Cyrus McCormick and
the mechanical reaper
221. The Transportation
Revolution
222. Turnpikes, canals,
and railroads
223. DeWitt Clinton and
the Erie Canal
224. Cornelius Vanderbilt
225. The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad
226. Robert Fulton, the Clermont, and
steamboats
227. Clipper ships
228. The Communication
Revolution
229. Samuel Morse and the
telegraph
230. The Irish Potato
Famine
231. Irish Immigration to
America
232. German Immigration
to America
233. Nativism
234. The American
(Know-Nothing) Party
235. Tammany Hall and
Boss Tweed
236. Frederick Jackson
Turner and the Frontier Thesis
237. John L. O’Sullivan
and Manifest Destiny
238. Oregon
239. The Oregon Trail and
the Willamette Valley
240. The Columbia River,
the 49th Parallel, or ‘54°40’ or Fight!’
241. California
242. Young Hickory, James
K. Polk, the Dark Horse candidate
243. Polk’s campaign
promises
244. The Walker Tariff
245. The Gag Rule
246. The Annexation of
Texas
247. The Rio Nueces and
the Rio Grande
248. Old Rough and Ready
Zachary Taylor
249. American blood shed
on American soil
250. The Mexican-American
War
251. Abraham Lincoln and
the Spot Resolution
252. The Battles of
Monterrey and Buena Vista
253. Old Fuss and
Feathers Winfield Scott
254. The Siege of Vera
Cruz
255. Chapultepec and the
conquest of Mexico City
256. West Point
257. John C. Frémont and
the Bear Flag Republic
258. Stephen Kearny and
New Mexico
259. Nicholas Trist
260. The Treaty of
Guadalupe-Hidalgo
261. Conscience Whigs
262. David Wilmot and the
Wilmot Proviso
263. Henry David Thoreau
and Civil Disobedience
264. The California Gold
Rush
Be prepared to
answer one of the following questions.
What were the major
weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, and how was
the Constitution meant to address them?
How did the ‘First
Two-Party System’ develop and decline between 1783 and
1823, and what did the two factions stand for?
What was the purpose
of the Louisiana Purchase and what benefits and problems
came from America’s acquisition of Louisiana?
Be prepared to
answer one of the following questions.
What were the major
ideological positions of the Democrats and the Whigs in
the 1830s and 1840s?
How did the idea of
Manifest Destiny shape American government policies, the
American economy, American foreign policy, and American
Indians?
How did the Market
Revolution affect America between 1790 and 1850?
What were the main
causes of American nativism in the 1840s and 1850s and
what major groups in America were not part of the nativist
movement at that time?