1. AP U.S. Review Session #2 Friday, April 15
Politics and Power
AP U.S. Review Session #2
Friday, April 15

2. 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

3. 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

4. #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

6. “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)

7. #1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
1754

8. #2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society

9. #1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.

10. #2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society

11. #1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
1787

12. #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

13. 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

14. #2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society

15. #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
“Era of Good Feelings

16. #3 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies

17. #1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.

18. 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

19. #2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society
The County Election, George Caleb Bingham, 1852

20. #2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society

21. #1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.

22. #1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.

23. #1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.

26. #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
Reconstruction
Gilded Age

27. #1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.

28. #1 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.

29. #2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society

30. #3 Explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies

32. #2 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society