APUSH - Sem 1
Chapters 1-3 – Colonization
Chapters 4-7 – The French & Indian War & American Revolution
Treaty of Paris (1763 & 1783) – What did the Colonies get (what did France, Spain lose)? Result in European New World control?
George Grenville: ‘Pay your share,’ Purpose & Rationale for the new taxes
British Colonial Taxes: Stamp, Declaratory, Townshend, Intolerable, etc.
Writings: Paine’s Common Sense, Dickinson’s ‘Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania,’ Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
Attempts at Colonial Unity: New England Confederation, Dominion of New England, Albany, Stamp Act Congress, Continental Congress (1st & 2nd)
The Power of Images: Revere’s Engraving, Washington Crossing the Delaware
Battles of the American Revolution & their importance: Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Yorktown
Colonial People: Benjamin Franklin, James Otis, John Dickinson, Samuel Adams, Richard Henry Lee, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, Phillis Wheatley, Nathan Hale, Sons of Liberty, Minute Men, Hessians, Patriots & Tories
Chapters 8-9 – Articles of Confederation, The Constitution & The New Government
The Arguments of Jefferson vs. Hamilton (or The Federalists vs. the Democratic-Republicans); Loose vs. Strict Interpretation
Writings: Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, John Locke & The Second Treatise on Government, The Federalist Papers, Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws, Fiske’s The Critical Period, Hamilton’s Report on Public Credit and Report on Manufactures, Beard’s An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution.
Hamilton’s Economic Plan: Funding at Par, Assumption, The Bank of the U.S., Excise Taxes, Tariffs, The ‘D.C. Compromise,’ Goals
Constitutional Compromises: The ‘Connecticut Compromise,’ ‘3/5ths Compromise,’ ‘Commerce Compromise’
Chapters 10-11 – Adams, Jefferson, Madison & Monroe and the War of 1812
The (John) Marshall Court cases: Marbury v. Madision, McCulloch v. Maryland, Fletcher v. Peck, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Gibbons v. Ogden
Jefferson & Madison Foreign/Trade Issues: Non-importation Act, Embargo Act, Non-Intercourse Act, Macon’s Bill No. 2
War of 1812: Causes/Results of the War, War Hawks, Madison’s War Declaration, Capture of Washington D.C., The Hartford Convention, Treaty of Ghent, Battle of New Orleans
The Missouri Compromise of 1820: Henry Clay, The Solutions/Provisions
Indian Relations: The Battle of Tippacanoe, Tecumseh, The Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Andrew Jackson
Chapters 12 – Jacksonian Democracy
The Election of 1824: The ‘Corrupt Bargain,’ The Candidates, How they fared, what happened in the election & overall significance of the election itself
The Tariff Controversy: Tariff of Abominations, Webster-Hayne Debate of 1830, South Carolina Exposition & Protest, Tariff of 1832, Ordinance of Nullification, The Force Bill & Compromise Tariff of 1833; Adams, Jackson, Clay, Calhoun – their responses?
The Bank Issue: Specie Circular, Pet Banks, Bank of the U.S. Veto, Western stance on the banks; Jackson, Effect on the Panic of 1837
Supreme Court Cases: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Worcester v. Georgia
Chapters 13-14 - American Society in the Antebellum Era
Inventors: Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Elias Howe, Isaac Singer, Samuel F.B. Morse, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, Robert Fulton, Cyrus Field
Transportation: Lancaster Turnpike, Erie Canal/Other Canals, The ‘Clippers’ & Steamboats, Cumberland Road/Other major roads, Railroads/RR Cos.
Religious Movements: 2nd Great Awakening, Deism, Charles Grandison Finney/Perfectionism, The ‘Burned-Over District,’ 7th Day Adventists/Millerites, Joseph Smith/Brigham Young/Mormonism
Books/Writers: Timothy Shay Arthur’s Ten Nights in a Barroom & What I Saw There; Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America; The Knickerbocker Group, Washington Irving, James Fennimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Audubon’s Birds of America
Women’s Movements: Republican Motherhood, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Angelina & Sarah Grimke, Lucy Stone, Amelia Bloomer, Margaret Fuller & The Dial, The Seneca Falls Convention, Dorothea Dix, The ‘Cult of Domesticity,’ Catharine Beecher, Elizabeth Blackwell, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson
Education: Horace Mann, Noah Webster, William H. McGuffey, Emma Willard, Mary Lyon, Oberlin College, Lyceums
Utopian Societies: New Harmony, Brook Farm, Oneida Community, Shakers, Amana Community
Chapters 15-16 – Pre-Civil War America
Free Blacks in the North & South – How were they viewed/accepted/treated?
Abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Dwight Weld, Elijah Lovejoy, Harriet Tubman, David Walker, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass
Literature: Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, The Liberator, American Slavery As It Is, A Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass
Political Parties: The American Party, Liberty Party, Free-Soil Party, Whig Party (& dissention over slavery), Republican Party
Slave Revolts: Stono Rebellion, Nat Turner Revolt
Chapters 17-20 – Causes of the Civil War & the War Between the States
Texas: Stephen F. Austin, 1825 Colonization Law, Mexico (Independence, Slavery, Santa Anna), Annexation
James K. Polk & The Election of 1844: Manifest Destiny, Dark-Horse Candidacy, The Election, The 4 Promises of Polk, Oregon, Horace Greeley
Mexican-American War: The Slidell Mission, California & Texas, The Wilmot Proviso, The Rio Grande & Nueces Rivers, Spot Resolutions, ‘American Blood on American Soil,’ Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Impending Crisis of the South & Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Missouri Compromise of 1820 & the Compromise of 1850: 1820: Missouri & Maine, the 36-30 Line, Henry Clay; 1850: California, Henry Clay, New Mexico & Utah Territories, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Personal Liberty Laws
Election of 1844, 1848, 1852, 1856: Lewis Cass, Popular Sovereignty, Zachary Taylor, The Free-Soil Party, Stephen Douglas, Franklin Pierce, Gadsden Purchase (1853), Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Ostend Manifesto (1854), James Buchanan
Bloody Kansas: Kansas & Nebraska Territories, Stephen Douglas, Popular Sovereignty, NE Emigrant Aid Society, The ‘Pottawatomie Massacre,’ Lecompton Constitution, Kansas’s Admission
Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The sides, Freeport Doctrine, Lincoln’s ‘House Divided’ Speech, Senate seat for Illinois, Impact on the Election of 1860
Dred Scott Case: Roger Taney, The Supreme Court’s statement on slaves
John Brown & Harper’s Ferry
Election of 1860 – Lincoln vs. Douglas, Breckinridge, Bell; Secession: Before & After Fort Sumter; The Border States
Civil War Era Prominent People:
CIVIL WAR
Lincoln & the Civil War: The Suspension of Habeas Corpus, Censorship of Newspapers
Chapter 21 – Reconstruction
Chapters 22-24, 26 – The Gilded Age
Industries contributing to modernization & the leading industrialists
Immigrant Groups before 1880 & after – differences, similarities, effect on the labor market
Advantages & Disadvantages of Big Business
Grant Administration Scandals: Black Friday, Credit Mobilier, Salary Grab Act, Whiskey Ring, Belknap Bribery
The End of Reconstruction: The Election of 1876 & Compromise of 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes & Samuel Tilden, Jim Crow Laws
Court Cases: Slaughterhouse Cases, Civil Rights Cases (& the 14th Amendment), Plessy v. Ferguson; Commonwealth v. Hunt, Munn v. Illinois, Wabash Case
Booker T. Washington: The Atlanta Compromise, Accomodationism/Gradualism
W.E.B. Dubois: The Niagara Movement, NAACP, Talented Tenth, Confrontationalism/Interracialism
Major Industrialists: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, James B. Duke, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Armour/Morris/Swift
Labor Unions: National Labor Union, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor – when were they powerful, how did they die out, what did they stand for? Terence Powderly, Samuel Gompers
Labor Unrest: The Great Railroad Strike, The Haymarket Square Bombing, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, The Molly Maguires
Native American Conflicts of the late 1800s: The Chivington/Sand Creek Massacre, Battle of Little Big Horn, Battle of Wounded Knee, The Dawes Severalty Act, A Century of Dishonor
Chapters 25 – Farmers’ Woes
People’s Part of the USA/Populist Party: Goals, People, Accomplishments, Failure?
Populist People: James B. Weaver, Ignatius Donnelly, Mary Elizabeth Lease, Tom Watson
The Election of 1896: William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley, Death of the Populist Party, Marcus Hanna, The Platforms
The Money Question: The ‘Ohio Idea,’ Greenbacks, Bitmetalllism, William Harvey, 16 to 1, Gold Standard, The ‘Cross of Gold’ Speech
Grangers: Oliver Hudson Kelley, Political & Social goals, Original purpose, Primary target of the movement
Government Aid to Business: Laissez faire, Tariffs (McKinley, Wilson-Gorman, Dingley), Rebates/Aid/Grants to Business & Railroads
Native American Issues: A Century of Dishonor – Helen Hunt Jackson, Chivington Massacre, The Dawes Act – its stipulations & results, The Oklahoma Land Grab/Sooners/89ers
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