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APUSH REVIEW PACKET The Exam: • The exam is 3 hours and 5 minutes in length and consists of two sections. In section I, students answer 80 multiple choice questions in 55 minutes. In section II, students are given 15 minutes to plan and 45 minutes to write an essay on the document-based question (DBQ), and 70 minutes to answer two essay questions. Suggested time to be spent on each of the essay questions is 5 minutes planning and 30 minutes writing. Scoring: • The DBQ & two FRE are scored on a scale of 1-9 – Basis of a thesis, argument, and supporting evidence (including documents for DBQ) • The M/C counts for 50%, the Essays 50% – DBQ counts for 22.5%, FRE 27.5% ea. • 180 possible points – [# correct] x 1.125 = _________ MC – # out of 9 x 4.50 = ________ DBQ – # out of 9 x 2.750 = _______ FRE 1 – # out of 9 x 2.750 = _______ FRE 2 DBQ: • Requires you to answer by using documentary evidence AND your outside knowledge • READ QUESTION • BRAINSTORM!! • READ DOCUMENTS – Not statements of FACTS; descriptions, interpretations or opinions; READ THE SOURCE! • WRITE YOUR ESSAY Writing an Essay: • Thesis Paragraph – Addresses the QUESTION!! – Contains Thesis (what is YOUR theme) – Organizational Categories (set up your following paragraphs) • Supporting Paragraphs – Topic sentence – Specific factual information – Interpretive commentary – Documentation (DBQ)* – Clincher sentence • Conclusion – Supports, sums up Level of Questions Level One: questions are the facts of history. They can be answered from the text or other resources Level Two: questions require students to make inferences as to how and why the factual information has an impact in the historical context in which it occurs. Students might ask themselves “So What?” about the factual information to help them understand the relevance and move to level two questions. Level Three: questions are more abstract and attempt to get students to consider broader truths outside the historic context of the information. Examples: Level One: What was the Stamp Act? Level Two: What was the most important impact of the Stamp Act on colonial resistance? Level Three: Do attempts to assert control over people who have been allowed freedom for a long period of time always lead to resistance? Level One: What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850? Level Two: To what degree and in what ways did the Compromise of 1850 ultimately lead to increased sectional tension? Level Three: Are attempts to compromise on moral issues ever successful? Level One: What is a ‘lame-duck’ president? Level Two: To what degree and in what ways did Theodore Roosevelt’s announcement that he would not seek reelection in 1908 compromise his ability to successfully enact his reform agenda in 1904? Level Three: Does the 22nd amendment ensure that all two-term presidents will be less effective in their second term? Presidential Listing Critical Period: 1788-1815 1. George Washington (1789-1797) VP- John Adams Party: None Secretary of State- Thomas Jefferson Secretary of Treasury – Alexander Hamilton Secretary of War – Henry Knox Major Items: Judiciary Act (1789) Tariff of 1789 Hamilton’s Financial Policies • National Bank • Funding National Debt at ‘par’ • Assumption of State Debt • High Tariffs Whiskey Rebellion (1799) French Revolution (1793) • Neutrality • Citizen Genet Eli Whitney Invents Cotton Gin (1793) Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794) Jay’s Treaty with England (1795) Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain (1795) Farewell Address (1796) • No ‘permanent’ alliances • No Political Parties First Bank (1791 - 1811) 2. John Adams (1797-1801) VP- Thomas Jefferson Party: Federalist Major Items: X,Y,Z Affair (1797) War with France (Navy) Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) • Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1799) • Naturalization Act “Midnight Judges” (1801) 3. Thomas Jefferson (1801- 1809) VP- Aaron Burr Party: Republican Secretary of State- James Madison Major Items: Peaceful Transfer of Power Barbary Pirates (1801-1805) Marbury vs. Madison (1803) Louisiana Purchase (1803) Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804- 05) 12th Amendment (1804) Chesapeake & Leopard Affair (1807) Embargo Act (1807) 4. James Madison (1809- 1817) VP- George Clinton Party: Republican Secretary of State- James Monroe Major Items: Non-Intercourse Act (1809) Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810) Berlin and Milan Decrees Orders in Council “War Hawks” (1811- 12) Battle of Tippecanoe (1811) War of 1812 Hartford Convention (1814) Battle of New Orleans (1815) First Protective Tariff (1816) 2nd Charter for BUS (1816) Nationalism Era of Good Feelings/ Era of the Common Man: 1815 – 1840 5. James Monroe (1817- 1825) VP- Daniel Thompkins Party: Republican Secretary of State- John Quincy Adams Major Items: Marshall’s Decisions: -McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819) -Dartmouth College Case (1819) -Gibbons vs. Ogden (1824) Factions within Republican Party Begin (1816 – 1828) Rush-Bagot Amendment (1817) Panic of 1819 The American System Growth of Industry Acquisition of Florida from Spain (1819) Missouri Compromise (1820) Monroe Doctrine (1823) Sectional Tariff (1824) Favorite Sons Election (Jackson, J.Q. Adams, Crawford and Clay) (1824) The “Corrupted Bargain” 6. John Quincy Adams (1825- 1829) VP- John C. Calhoun Party: National Republicans Secretary of State- Henry Clay Major Items: New York’s Erie Canal (1825) Tariff of Abomination (1828) Calhoun’s Exposition and Protest (1828) 7. Andrew Jackson (1829- 1837) VP- John C. Calhoun Martin Van Buren Party: Democrat Major Items: Jacksonian Democracy Spoils System Manhood Suffrage Two-Party System (Democrats and Whigs) Raise of the “Third Party” Peggy Eaton Affair Indian Removal Act (1830) Tariffs of 1832 and 1833 Nullification Crisis The Second B. U. S. (due to expire in 1836) Pet banks Specie Circular (presidential order 1836) Texas War of Independence (1836) Formation of the Whig Party (1832) 8. Martin Van Buren (1837- 1841) VP- Richard Johnson Party: Democrat Major Items: Panic of 1837 -Over-speculating in land -Specie circular, no B.U.S. -Unsound financing by state governments -Failure of the wheat crops -British call in on foreign loans Election of 1840 “Hard Cider and Log Cabins” Antebellum Period 9. William Henry Harrison (1841) VP- John Tyler Party: Whig Secretary of State- Daniel Webster 10. John Tyler (1841- 1845) Anti-Jackson Democrat ran as VP on Whig ticket Secretary of State- Daniel Webster Major Items: Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) Vetoes Clay’s Bill for 3rd B.U.S. Canadian Border established on the 49th parallel Annexes Texas (1845) 11. James K. Polk (1845- 1849) VP- George Dallas Party: Democrat Major Items: Manifest Destiny Oregon Boundary settled (1846) Independent Treasury Lower Tariffs Mexican War (1845 - 1848) California & Mexican Cession Added to Union Guadalupe- Hidalgo Treaty (1848) Wilmot Proviso (kept slavery out of the newly acquired territory) 12. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) VP- Millard Fillmore Party: Whig Major Items: California Gold Rush Compromise of 1850 Free Soil Movement 13. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) Secretary of State- Daniel Webster Party: Whig Major Items: Clayton Bulwer Treaty 1850 Seventh of March Speech (Daniel Webster) Compromise of 1850 passes (Stephen Douglas) Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) 14. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) VP- William King Party: Democrat Major Items: Kansas-Nebraska Bill (1854) -Popular sovereignty (Stephen Douglas) Know Nothing Party & Republican Party (1854) Japan opened to world trade (1853) Gadsden Purchase (1853) Underground Railroad Bleeding Kansas Ostend Manifesto (1854) desire for Cuba. Spain; offered $100,000,000 in Ostend, Belgium Charles Sumner & Preston Brooks (1856) – ‘hit him again!’ 15. James Buchanan (1857-1851) VP- John C. Breckenridge Party: Democrat Major Items: Dred Scott Decision (1857) – 5th amendment Lecompton Constitution (1857) Lincoln- Douglas Debate (1858) John Brown Raids Harpers Ferry (1859) 16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) VP: Hannibal Hamlin (1861) & Andrew Johnson (1865) Party: Republican/Union Secretary or State- William H Seward Secretary of Treasury- Salmon P. Chase Major Items: Civil War (1861-1865) Crittenden Compromise Abuse of Executive Powers Border States Trent Affair (1861) Antietam (1862) Emancipation Proclamation (1863) Gettysburg Address (1863) Homestead Act (1862) Morill Act (created agricultural colleges) 10% Plan verses Wade-Davis Bill Freedmen’s Bureau (1865) Lincoln’s Assassination -April 14, 1865 (John Wilkes Booth) Reconstruction: 1865- 1877 17. Andrew Johnson (1865- 1869) Secretary of State- William H. Seward Party: Republican Major Items: 13th Amendment (1865) 14th Amendment (1868) 15th Amendment (1870) Reconstruction Act (1867) Radical Republicans (Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner) Congressional Election of 1866 (Swing ‘round the Circle) Civil Rights Act 1866 Tenure of Office Act (1867) Impeachment Trial (1868) Formation of KKK Adoption of Black Codes Sharecropping 18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869- 1877) VP-Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson Secretary of State- Hamilton Fish Party: Republican Major Items: First Transcontinental Railroad (1869) Tweed Ring – Thomas Nast Panic of 1873 – “Crime of ‘73” Credit Mobilier – Union Pacific Railroad Whiskey Ring Gilded Age: 1877- 1900 19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877- 1881) VP – William Wheeler Party: Republican Major Items: Compromise of 1877 Bland- Allison Act (1878) (free coinage of silver) Troops withdrawn from South (1877) 20. James A. Garfield (1881, March 4- September 19) VP- Chester Arthur Party: Republican (Half Breed) Secretary of State- James Blaine Major Items: Garfield’s Assassination - Charles