APUSH Chapter 16 Terms and Questions

Chapter 16 Terms

  • Southern Society
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Compromise of 1850
  • King Cotton
  • Comparisons with the North
  • Life for AA in the South
  • Nat Turner Rebellion
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  • African American culture
  • Resistance to Slavery
  • Underground Railroad
  • Abolitionist Movement
  • American Colonization Society
  • Sojourner Truth
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • Frederick Douglas
  • Gag Resolution

 

Questions:

  1. How did the reliance on cotton production and slavery affect the South’s relations with the North?
  2. How did the reliance on cotton production and slavery affect the South economically, socially , and morally and how did this reliance affect its relations with the North?

US History- Plan a Trip Assignment

Plan a trip-

  1. You must start in the state assigned to you and plan a trip from there at least 1,500 miles to a location of your choosing
  2.  You can not drive more than 550 miles a day
  3. You must go through 4 states
  4. You need to figure out:
  • Identify the states that you are going to drive through
  • Give a brief description of the towns you are going to stay and what you might see there
  • What attractions you might stop at
  • What roads you are going to take
  • Map out your trip
  • Explain why you choose to end in the location that you did

Have fun with this. Create a slide to show your information.

Chapter 15 Terms and Questions

Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790-1860

Terms to Know:

  • The Age of Reason
  • Deism
  • Unitarians
  • Second Great Awakening
  • Mormons
  • American Temperance Society
  • Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls
  • Oneida Community
  • Shakers
  • Hudson River School
  • Romanticism
  • transcendentalism
People to Know:

  • Charles Grandison Finney
  • Joseph Smith
  • Brigham Young
  • Horace Mann
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Walt Whitman
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Herman Melville

Questions:

  1. Describe the widespread revival of religion in the early nineteenth century and its effects on American culture and social reform.
  2. Identify the most notable early American achievements in science, medicine, the visual arts, and music, and explain why advanced science and culture had difficulty taking hold on American soil.

 

 

 

APUSH Chapter 14 Terms

Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy 1790-1860

Terms to Know:

  • “Self-Reliance”
  • ecological imperialism
  • Molly Maguires
  • Tammany Hall Know-Nothing Party
  • Industrial Revolution
  • cotton gin
  • Patent Office
  • limited liability
  • Commonwealth v Hunt
  • factory girls
  • cult of domesticity
  • McCormick reaper
  • Erie Canal
  • clipper ships
  • Pony Express
  • Transportation revolution
  • market revolution
People to Know:

  • Samuel Slater
  • Eli Whitney
  • Isaac Singer
  • Samuel F. B. Morse
  • John Deere
  • Cyrus McCormick
  • Robert Fulton

Questions:

  1. Describe the largely German and Irish wave of immigration beginning in the 1830s and the reactions it provoked among native Americans (Not Indians).
  2. Explain why the emerging industrial economy could raise the general level of prosperity, while simultaneously creating greater disparities of wealth between rich and poor.

APUSH Chapters 13 Terms

Chapter 13: The Rise of Mass Democracy

Terms to Know:

  • Corrupt bargain
  • spoils system
  • Tariff of Abominations
  • Nullification Crisis
  • Force Bill
  • Indian removal Act
  • Trail of Tears
  • Black Hawk War
  • Bank War
  • pet banks
  • panic of 1837
  • Alamo
People to Know:

  • John Quincy Adams
  • Andrew Jackson
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Black Hawk
  • Daniel Webster
  • Henry Clay
  • Stephen Austin
  • Sam Houston
  • Santa Anna             
  • William Henry Harrison

Questions:

  1. Compare the two-party political system of the 1830s’ New Democracy (similarities and differences) to the first two-party system of the early Republic (from Chapter 10).
  2. Why did Calhoun and the South see the Tariff of 1828 as such an ‘”abomination” and raise threats of nullification over it?

US History Chapter 11 Study Guide

Chapter 11 Study Guide: Know the following terms and questions

 Terms

  • Armistice
  • Fourteen Points
  • League of Nations
  • Militarism
  • Propaganda
  • Selective Service Act
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • Trench Warfare
  • War Guilt Clause
  • Zimmerman Note
  • Sedition and Espionage Act
  • Great Migration
  • Allied Powers
  • Central Powers
  • Assassination of Ferdinand
  • American Neutrality
  • U-Boats
  • Lusitania
  • “Black Jack” – John J. Pershing

World War I Essential Questions:

  1. What were the overreaching causes of World War I?
  • And how was the war fought before the US became involved?

2. Why did the US choose to remain neutral at first?

  • What changed that caused US public opinion to favor the war?

3. As the US entered the war, what problems did we face militarily?

  • What new weapons were used to fight the war?
  • How did US involvement change the tide of the fighting?

4. How did the US government fight the war economically?

  • How did it promote the war to gain support?
  • And how did that propaganda have a negative effect on some people?

5. How did the war affect women and minorities?

6. What were Wilson’s main hopes with his fourteen points?

7. How did the views of the European countries and Wilson’s views about peace differ at the end of the war?

8. What were the long term consequences of the War?

APUSH DBQ Outline Format

DBQ OutlineYour outline is due Monday 11/7

Intro:

a) Intro sentence

b) Thesis- What you are trying to prove

Body:

a) 1st Body paragraph topic sentence

  • 1st document to support topic sentence
  • Outside information to support the doc
  • 2nd document to support topic sentence
  • Outside information to support the doc

b) 2nd Body paragraph topic sentence

  • 1st document to support topic sentence
  • Outside information to support the doc
  • 2nd document to support topic sentence
  • Outside information to support the doc

c) Repeat as needed

APUSH Chapter 12 Terms and Questions

Chapter 12

  • War of 1812
  • Battle of New Orleans
  • Treaty of Ghent
  • Hartford Convention
  • Tariff of 1816
  • American System
  • Era of Good Feelings
  • Panic of 1819
  • Land Act of 1820
  • Tallmadge Amendment
  • peculiar institution
  • Missouri Compromise
  • McCulloch v Maryland
  • loose construction
  • Cohens v Virginia
  • Gibbons v Ogden
  • Monroe Doctrine
  • Russo-American Treaty
  • Oliver Hazard Perry
  • Francis Scott Key
  • James Monroe

Ch 12 Questions

  1. What was the intended purpose of Henry Clay’s American System?
  2. What justifications were given for the Monroe Doctrine?