APUSH Review

Periods 3 and 4 Slides with Notes

Notes:
● Salutary Neglect: British failed to enforce the navigation acts
● French and Indian War: attempted expansion past Appalachian
mountains
○ Native conflict: french side with natives
○ British help colonies
■ Taxes to recover debt
● Enlightenment ideas kindle the fire of revolution
Notes:
● Navigation Acts: taxation and strict mercantilism
● Taxes:
○ Stamps, Sugar
● Quartering Acts: required colonists to house soldiers
● Natural Rights: rights guaranteed as a citizens inspired by
enlightenment
● Olive Branch Petition: proposition to the king offering settlements
● John Locke: enlightenment thinker that inspired revolutionary
ideas
○ Inspired Common Sense by Thomas Paine
● Son’s of Liberty organize protest: Boston Tea Party
● Daughters of Liberty: conspired
● Lexington and Concord: shot heard around the world starts the
war
● Declaration of Independence written by Ben Franklin in 1776

Notes:
● Articles of Confederation: first American government. Failed to
solve interstate issues, too much power to states
○ Shay’s Rebellion exposes failures
● Northwest Ordinance: territory by great lakes, any state in that
territory would be a free state
● Constitutional Convention needs to get it ratified
○ The Great Compromise
○ Bill of Rights
○ ⅗ compromise for slaves counting
● Federalists vs Antifederalists emerge
○ Hamilton versus Jefferson
Notes:
● Revolution of 1800: Jefferson wins as first democratic-
republican president
● Democratic-Republicans are antifederalists
● Neutrality Proclamation: not helping french revolution
● Jay’s Treaty: Washington's blunder, failed to address arming of
natives
● XYZ Affair: failed diplomacy with France where they tried to get a
bribe from US to even meet with the diplomats
● Alien and Sedition Acts: silenced the public and the media and
limited immigrants
Notes:
● Sectionalism
○ North: factories
○ South: agriculture
○ West: mining
● Market Revolution: new tech
○ Telegraph
○ Textile mills
○ Railroads
○ Steam power
○ New manufacturing tech
● Mill girls: women working in textile factories
● Nativism: sentiment against immigrants

Notes:
● Antebellum Period
● Spoils system: Andrew Jackson rewarding his supporters with
government positions
● Second Great Awakening: religious revival that led to social
change, Charles Finney
● Era of the Common Man: Jackson's presidency
● Women moving up
○ Dorthea Dix: prison reform and reform for mental
asylums
○ Temperance: no alcohol, spearheaded by women
○ Seneca Falls Convention: women's suffrage
■ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony
Notes:
● New Political Parties
○ Democrats: think andrew jackson
■ Common man
■ Economic
■ Conservative
■ Broke off of democratic republicans
○ Whigs
■ Followed dissolved federalist party
■ More liberal
■ Big govt

Notes:
● Missouri Compromise: detailed where slavery would be allowed
○ 36’30 line
○ MIssouri as a slave state
○ Maine as a free state
○ Arguments over congress’s power over slavery
○ Popular sovereignty
● Sectionalism progresses as tensions over slavery grow
● American System: the second bank of the united states
○ Henry Clay
■ Modeled after hamilton’s
○ Bank wars with Jackson
 Notes:
● War of 1812: lost
○ Started as trade war trying to stay out of England and
France's conflict
○ Jefferson’s Embargo Act
○ Hartford Convention: federalists tried to succeed because
they didn’t agree with the war
■ Nail in the coffin of the federalist party
○ Tariff of Abominations: 1828, heavy tax on imported
goods to stimulate domestic economy
● Nullification Crisis: states nullifying federal law (South Carolina)
● Marbury v Madison: established judicial review
○ Supreme court had the power to overturn laws if they
violated the constitution
● Teetering over civil war, tensions are high

Must Know Below:

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Explain the context in which America gained independence and America gained independence following the French and Indian War
developed a sense of national identity. when salutary neglect ended and the navigation acts along with other
taxes were strictly enforced. Common Sense by Thomas Paine had a
significant impact on the sense of American identity.

Explain the causes and effects of the Seven Years’ War (the French and The Seven Years war occured primarily due to attempted expansion by
Indian War). American colonists. There were scurries and quarrels with natives and
the French sided with the natives in the war. The colonists could not win
alone so England had to step in. This created a lot of debt that the
colonists then had to pay off.

Explain how British colonial policies regarding North America led to the British colonial policies such as the Proclamation Act of 1763 did not
Revolutionary War. allow colonists to move past the Appalachian mountains which upset
many.

Explain how and why colonial attitudes about government and the Increased taxes, as well as the Quartering Act, angered colonists as
individual changed in the years leading up to the American Revolution. they felt their natural rights were being imposed upon. Common sense
fueled the fire that had already begun.
Explain how various factors contributed to the American victory in the America was able to win the war using guerilla war tactics, french naval
Revolution. aid, and unpopularity of the war from English citizens.

Explain the various ways the American Revolution affected society. The American Revolution stirred a sense of national pride within the
newfound country.

Describe the global impact of the American Revolution. The American Revolution was a knock on England’s prowess and global
power. It also inspired the French Revolution

Explain how different forms of government developed and changed as a Government developed and changed through the revolutionary period
result of the Revolutionary Period. because of the change from the articles of confederation to the
constitution

Explain the differing ideological positions on the structure and function Federalists: big govt, pro constitution
of the federal government Anti-federalists: states rights, against consitution

Explain the continuities and changes in the structure and functions of Government takes on a larger role, bill of rights keeps states rights
the government with the ratification of the Constitution. people at bay

Explain how and why competition intensified conflicts among peoples American revolution inspires french revolution
and nations from 1754 to 1800.

Explain how and why political ideas, institutions, and party systems Hamilton heads the federalist party versus Jefferson and the democratic
developed and changed in the new republic. republicans

Explain the continuities and changes in American culture from 1754 to American culture changes as expansion continue and sectional
1800. identities foster animosity

Explain how and why migration and immigration to and within North Migration to the west created conflict over slavery. Immigration and
America caused competition and conflict over time. nativism

Explain the continuities and changes in regional attitudes about slavery The north favored free states and the South was pro-slavery.
as it expanded from 1754 to 1800. Eventually, abolition spreads like wildfire in the north. West became the
battleground

Explain how the American independence movement affected society The American independence movement created a sense of pride and
from 1754 to 1800. togetherness in American society

Explain the context in which the republic developed from 1800 to 1848. The republic developed from only one political party, the democratic-
republicans. It became the Jacksonian Democrats and the whigs to
 counter him.

Explain the causes and effects of policy debates in the early republic. Divisive political parties

Explain how different regional interests affected debates about the role South wanted less control, north wants big gov
of the federal government in the early republic.

Explain how and why American foreign policy developed and expanded Stayed as isolationism formally up until WWI. only fought defense and
over time. for american interests

Explain the causes and effects of the innovations in technology, Textiles revolutionize the economy
agriculture, and commerce over time.

Explain how and why innovation in technology, agriculture, and More tension between north and south
commerce affected various segments of American society over time.

Explain the causes and effects of the expansion of participatory Jacksonian democracy, the era of the common man
democracy from 1800 to 1848.

Explain the causes and effects of continuing policy debates about the Progression of slavery, Marbury v madison, judicial review
role of the federal government from 1800 to 1848.

Explain how and why a new national culture developed from 1800 to Change in politics and democratic views, religious revival
1848.

Explain the causes of the Second Great Awakening. Social change spurred the need for good works

Explain how and why various reform movements developed and The second great awakening and the women's suffrage movement
expanded from 1800 to 1848. inspired many reforms of the time

Explain the continuities and changes in the experience of African Experiences for African-Americans got progressively worse as fugitive
Americans from 1800 to 1848. slave laws and the dred scott case emerged

Explain how geographic and environmental factors shaped the The agrarian society of the south greatly shaped the culture
development of the South from 1800 to 1848.

Explain the extent to which politics, economics, and foreign policy Politics had a large impact on american identity because of how closely
promoted the development of American identity from 1800 to 1848. held views were to people’s hearts