1. Brainstorm significant people, presidents, events, themes, trends and/or ideas from 1789-1865

2. Key concepts to consider
Political: Republicanism, Significant Presidents, Supreme Court/Judicial Review, interpretation of Constitution, Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, Westward expansion & clash w/slavery, Popular Sovereignty, Jacksonian Democracy, Nullification
Social: expansion of rights of men, Reform movements & role of women and African Americans in this, slavery, immigration, Republican Motherhood, Cult of Domesticity, 2nd Great Awakening, Trail of Tears
Economic: Impact of Market Revolution, American System, regionalized economy, slavery, role of federal government & banking

3. In what ways and to what extent did Constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 amount to a revolution?

4. Evaluate the impact of the Civil War on political and economic developments in TWO of the following regions:
The South
The North
The West
Focus your answers on the period between 1865 and 1900.

5. Describe the patterns of immigration in TWO of the periods listed below. Compare and contrast the responses of Americans to immigrants in these periods.

6. Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of TWO of the following:
Missouri Compromise
Mexican War
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act

7. Analyze how western expansion contributed to growing sectional tensions between the North and the South. Confine your answer to the period from 1800 to 1850.

8. The Jacksonian Period ( ) has been celebrated as the era of the “common man.” To what extent did the period live up to this characterization?

9. Analyze the impact of the market revolution ( ) on the economies of TWO of the following regions.
The Northeast
The Midwest
The South

10. In what ways did the 2nd Great Awakening influence TWO of the following during the period 1820-1860?
Abolition
Temperance
Utopian Communities

11. Analyze the causes of growing opposition to slavery in the United States from 1776 to In your response, consider both underlying forces and specific events that contributed to the growing opposition.

12. With respect to the federal Constitution, the Jeffersonian Republicans are usually characterized as strict constructionists who were opposed to the broad constructionism of the Federalists. To what extent was this characterization of the two parties accurate during the Thomas Jefferson’s presidency? (DBQ)