AP U.S. Review Session #2 Friday, April 15 Politics and Power AP U.S. Review Session #2 Friday, April 15
Theme #2 Politics and Power How different social and political groups have influenced society and government in the United States, as well as how political beliefs and institutions have changed over time
Objectives Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed. Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies
#1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed. A Variety of Colonial Identities Urban vs. Rural New England vs. Middle vs. Southern Patriots vs. Loyalists Debtors vs. Creditors Traditions of Self-government Town Halls Colonial Assemblies MA- Influence of Puritan ministers VA- House of Burgesses Enlightenment Ideals Press Education
“let us observe the sudden Rise of their Estates composed with the Quality in which they first entered this Country Or the Reputation they have held here amongst wise and discerning men, And lett us see wither their extractions and Education have not bin vile, And by what pretence of learning and vertue they could soe soon into Imployments of so great Trust and consequence, let us consider their sudden advancement and let us also consider wither any Publick work for our safety and defence or for the Advancement and propogation of Trade, liberall Arts or sciences is here Extant in any [way] adaquate to our vast chardg, now let us compare these things togit[her] and see what spounges have suckt up the Publique Treasure and wither it hath not bin privately contrived away by unworthy Favourites and juggling Parasites whose tottering Fortunes have bin repaired and supported at the Publique chardg…” -Bacon’s Manifesto (1676)
#1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed. 1754
#2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society
#1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed. 1777-1787
#2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society
#1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed. 1787
#1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed. “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.” - George Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796
DEMOCRAT-REPUBLICANS #3 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies FEDERALISTS (Hamiltonians) DEMOCRAT-REPUBLICANS (Jeffersonians) Broad construction/loose interpretation National Bank Elastic Clause Assumption of state debt Protective tariffs Pro-British (trade) Whiskey Rebellion Alien and Sedition Acts Strict construction/narrow interpretation States’ Rights 10th Amendment Pro-French (ideals) Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions nullification
#2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society
#3 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies 1800- “Revolution of 1800” 1815- Hartford Convention 1817-1825- “Era of Good Feelings
#3 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies
#1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
National Republicans---- WHIGS #3 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies DEMOCRATS National Republicans---- WHIGS States’ Rights John C. Calhoun Tariff of Abominations Andrew Jackson Bank Veto Indian Removal Economic Nationalism Henry Clay- American System (1816) 2nd National Bank Protective Tariffs Internal Improvements Daniel Webster National Supremacy
#2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society The County Election, George Caleb Bingham, 1852
#2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society
#1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
#1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
#1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
#3 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS Economic Nationalism Free Soil Some abolitionists 13th Amendment Civil War- emancipation Radical Reconstruction 14th Amendment 15th Amendment Industry States’ Rights Limit federal power Peace Democrats (northern) Solid South Black Codes Jim Crow Laws Immigrants 1850s Civil War 1861-1865 Reconstruction 1865-1877 Gilded Age 1876-1896
#1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
#1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
#2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society
#3 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies
#2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society