AP US HistoryUnit 4 review—key things to study for MC test

Antebellum political issues Elections of 1824, 1828,

1832, 1836, 1840 Jacksonian democracy Corrupt bargain Spoils system Tariff and nullification

crisis of 1832 Force Act Maysville Road veto Jackson’s distrust of big

government projects

Cherokees and the Trail of Tears

Worcester v. Georgia Whigs Supreme Court cases—

Gibbons v. Ogden, Dartmouth v. Woodward (going back to 1819)

Federal right to control interstate commerce

Gag rule, 1836

Antebellum economic issues Henry Clay’s American

System Bank crisis—death of the

2nd National Bank Specie circular Depression of 1837 Very early factories=water

power Industrial Revolution Interchangeable parts Lowell factory system

Inventions (i.e. cotton gin, plow, telegraph) and who invented them

Impact of industrialization on North, South, and West

Move from unmarried women to Irish immigrants as factory workers

Transportation—turnpikes (National Road), canals, railroads, steamships

Antebellum social issues Immigration from Ireland

and Germany Know Nothing Party and

nativism Deism Religious revivalism, 2nd

Great Awakening Burned over district Mormons and other groups Utopian communities Reformers—mainly

women

Various reforms, i.e. temperance, education, antislavery, women’s rights

Transcendentalism—Emerson and Thoreau

Major authors—Poe, Hawthorne, Irving, etc.

Slavery and its defenders American Colonization

Society Experiences of free blacks