Advanced Placement United States History (APUSH) (Period 3) Assignments

APUSH Final Exam Review Fall Semester 2013/2014

Civil War

**John Brown's Raid -- Where, When, Why, Outcome?

**Crittenden Compromise -- What was it, what was the outcome of it?

**Lincoln's Election and First Inaugural -- what were his goals?  What were his views of slavery/union?

**Secession -- what were the reasons?  What was the chronology?

**Outbreak of War -- why and where?

**Advantages and Disadvantages of both sides

** Role of US Congress during the war -- significant legislation, acts affecting the war and slavery

**Makeup of both armies -- social status of soldiers, role of the draft, daily life of soldiers, etc.

**Draft Riots -- causes/effects

**Lincoln's suspension of civil liberties during war -- what did he do and why?

**1864 election -- candidates, issues, outcome

**Copperheads

**Radical Republicans

**Emancipation Proclamation -- Lincoln's motivations, objective of EP, outcome of EP

**Northern vs. Southern economies

**Role of Women in the Civil War

**Role of Slaves and Free Blacks in the Civil War

**Effect of Civil War on Native Americans

**Concept of "States' Rights"

**Military Strategies of North vs. South

**Key military leaders of the North and South

**Role of naval power in the Civil War

**European involvement in the war

**Role of weapons technology in the war

**Key battles in the war … also know how the momentum went in key regions and time periods

**End of the war -- where, significance, treatment of Confederate soldiers, what was left to be done?

Reconstruction

**Northern view of Reconstruction

**Status of former slaves (freedmen) and how the aftermath of war affected them

**13th/14th/15th Amendments -- key objectives of each, how were they implemented/enforced?

**Radical Republicans and Reconstruction

**Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction

**Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner

**Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction … describe it … how did Johnson's plan resemble it or differ?

**Freedmen's Bureau

**Wade-Davis Bill

**Lincoln's Assassination -- who did it, why, what was effect on the nation and on Reconstruction?

**Black Codes

**Johnson's Impeachment -- causes and outcome

**Military Districts -- why were they created?  How were they administered?

**Tenure of Office Act

**Attempts by black freedmen to participate fully in society -- what steps did they take?

**Black freedmen and involvement in politics, voting process, holding elected office

**Overall outcome of Reconstruction on the South -- social, economic, political

**Crop Lien system/Sharecropping

**Presidency of Grant -- what problems did he encounter, what were his actions, controversies?

**Credit Mobilier

**Panic of 1873

**Greenbacks

**Election of 1876  -- candidates, issues, outcome

**End of Reconstruction -- factors?

**Jim Crow -- how were blacks treated after Reconstruction ended?

**Birth and growth of KKK

**Post-war Southern economy and industry

**Voting laws that disenfranchised blacks

**Plessy vs. Ferguson

**Booker T. Washington and his vision for black equality and education