Ap Midterm Study Guide
American History AP
Mid Term Study Guide-2012
Mr. Lester
I have provided you with a basic guideline to study from. Below is a list of units and sample topics from which you need to prepare from. The list is NOT all inclusive, it is a guideline. Also use old reading quizzes, tests, and links that I have placed on Moodle. You also might look in your AP review book and read through the outlines and look at some sample questions.
A. Columbus - Colonization
• Columbian Exchange
• St. Augustine
• Virginia o Roanoke o Jamestown o Virginia Company o John Smith o Powhatan o Pocahontas o John Rolfe o Head Right System o House of Burgesses o Indentured Servants
• Massachusetts o The Great Migration o Puritans o Mayflower Conflict o Squanto o Pequot and King Philips Wars o John Winthrop o Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Anti-nomianism
• Rhode Island – Religious Sanctuary
• Penn – The Quakers
• Oglethorpe - Georgia
B. Colonial Wars and American Revolution
• What was going on in Europe that led to more conflict between Fr and Br?
• French and Indian War – Causes, Course, and Consequences o Albany Plan of Union o G. Washington o Ft. Duquesne and Ft Necessity o Braddock o William Pitt o Amherst and Wolfe o Treaty of Paris 1763
• End of Salutary Neglect
• George III
• George Grenville
• Taxes that led to conflict (Stamp, Townshend, etc…)
• Pontiac’s Rebellion and Proclamation Act
• Sons of Liberty – Sam Adams
• The first Conflicts – Massacre and Tea Party
• Intolerable Acts
• Continental Congress – 1st and 2nd
• The American Revolution – Course and Consequences
• Treaty of Paris 1783
C. The Beginning of America
• The Articles of Confederation – Goods and Bads o Land Ordinances o Unanimous Voting o Shays Rebellion
• The Constitution o The Convention o The Compromises o The Organization of the Government o Checks and Balances o Bicameralism o Elastic clause o Federalists v Anti-Federalists o Federalist
Mid Term Study Guide-2012
Mr. Lester
I have provided you with a basic guideline to study from. Below is a list of units and sample topics from which you need to prepare from. The list is NOT all inclusive, it is a guideline. Also use old reading quizzes, tests, and links that I have placed on Moodle. You also might look in your AP review book and read through the outlines and look at some sample questions.
A. Columbus - Colonization
• Columbian Exchange
• St. Augustine
• Virginia o Roanoke o Jamestown o Virginia Company o John Smith o Powhatan o Pocahontas o John Rolfe o Head Right System o House of Burgesses o Indentured Servants
• Massachusetts o The Great Migration o Puritans o Mayflower Conflict o Squanto o Pequot and King Philips Wars o John Winthrop o Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Anti-nomianism
• Rhode Island – Religious Sanctuary
• Penn – The Quakers
• Oglethorpe - Georgia
B. Colonial Wars and American Revolution
• What was going on in Europe that led to more conflict between Fr and Br?
• French and Indian War – Causes, Course, and Consequences o Albany Plan of Union o G. Washington o Ft. Duquesne and Ft Necessity o Braddock o William Pitt o Amherst and Wolfe o Treaty of Paris 1763
• End of Salutary Neglect
• George III
• George Grenville
• Taxes that led to conflict (Stamp, Townshend, etc…)
• Pontiac’s Rebellion and Proclamation Act
• Sons of Liberty – Sam Adams
• The first Conflicts – Massacre and Tea Party
• Intolerable Acts
• Continental Congress – 1st and 2nd
• The American Revolution – Course and Consequences
• Treaty of Paris 1783
C. The Beginning of America
• The Articles of Confederation – Goods and Bads o Land Ordinances o Unanimous Voting o Shays Rebellion
• The Constitution o The Convention o The Compromises o The Organization of the Government o Checks and Balances o Bicameralism o Elastic clause o Federalists v Anti-Federalists o Federalist