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Updated 12/11/12
 * A.P. U.S. History – 1st Semester Final Review**

Chapter 3
 * 1) 1st generation New England Land Settlement patterns
 * 2) Demise of Puritanism

Chapter 4
 * 1) Mercantilism
 * 2) American reaction to British navigation system between 1700-1763
 * 3) Great Awakening – what it was
 * 4) New Light vs. Old Light

Chapter 5
 * 1) Objections to the Sugar Act
 * 2) British reaction to Stamp Act Crisis
 * 3) Tea Act
 * 4) Coercive Acts
 * 5) What led the 2nd Continental Congress to declare independence

Chapter 6
 * 1) Battle of Saratoga - signficance
 * 2) Level of social revolution in the American Revolution – different groups
 * 3) Problems facing the Articles of Confederation government
 * 4) The ways the Constitution solved problems of the Articles of Confederation
 * 5) Bill of Rights

Chapter 7 Chapter 8
 * 1) Hamilton’s reports
 * 2) Republicans vs. Federalists in the 1790s – what were their ideological differences
 * 3) Adams and the Quasi War – effect on the Federalist Party
 * 1) Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates
 * 2) Non-Intercourse Act

Chapter 9
 * 1) The American System

Chapter 10
 * 1) Jackson’s role in the Bank War
 * 2) Trail of Tears

Chapter 12
 * 1) Southern defense of slavery

Chapter 13
 * 1) Americans and the West: 1820-1830
 * 2) John Tyler and the Whig Party
 * 3) Opposition to Mexican American War
 * 4) Squatter/Popular sovereignty

Chapter 14
 * 1) Why the Whig party began to disintegrate in the 1850s
 * 2) Kansas-Nebraska Act and “Bleeding Kansas”
 * 3) Republican Party, 1860 – its position on slavery and its general platform for the election
 * 4) Upper South and secession

Chapter 15
 * 1) Civil war conscription – draft policies and exemptions
 * 2) War financing – both North and South
 * 3) National bank act of 1863
 * 4) South advantages over the North heading into the Civil War
 * 5) Women in the Civil War
 * 6) Antietam- 1862
 * 7) Confederacy relations with England and France – attempt at recognition
 * 8) What occurred to slaves during the Civil War
 * 9) Role of Frederick Douglass in the Civil War
 * 10) Ex Parte Milligan – Supreme Court decisión
 * 11) General Sherman’s policy-1864

Chapter 16
 * 1) Lincoln’s 10% plan
 * 2) Differences and similarities in Johnson’s and Lincoln’s plans
 * 3) Black codes
 * 4) Results of Johnson’s Reconstruction policies for the South
 * 5) Events that brought Moderates and Radicals together in Congress
 * 6) 14th Amendment
 * 7) Scalawags and carpetbaggers
 * 8) Election of 1868 - campaign slogans of Democrats and Republicans
 * 9) Achievements of Congressional Reconstruction - both during Johnson's and Grant's presidencies
 * 10) Length of Congressional Reconstruction
 * 11) Reasons Congressional Reconstruction ended and Redemption began
 * 12) What occurred during Redemption

Chapter 17 and PBS’ Geography of Hope
 * 1) Frederick Jackson Turner
 * 2) Reasons for the end of cattle ranching and the open range
 * 3) What did mining, cattle ranching and farming all have in common?
 * 4) Friends of the Indian and their philosophy
 * 5) Oklahoma Land Rush
 * 6) Reasons for population boom in Los Angeles
 * 7) Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show – what was shown
 * 8) What led to the rapid settlement of the West?
 * 9) Ghost Dance – purpose