Getting Your Midterm Study On...
Most Important Tip:
DO NOT STAY UP UNTIL ALL HOURS OF THE MORNING. Midterm review is just that...review. Theoretically, students have learned the information they need to learn. They just need to review it and brush up on any areas that need improvement. 2022:
Below are the recommended ways to brush-up on the history. |
Recommended Step: Watch Key Concept Review Videos
These videos will provide you with the most comprehensive and time efficient reviews of all of the major concepts that have been taught in the course thus far. HOW TO DO IT: participate in active watching, in which students don't simply view the videos, but instead take notes in the two column format (like Cornell Notes). In the right column, students take basic outline notes on the video's content. The left column is for students to mark concepts that they know they need to investigate further (as in, "I don't remember anything about this") or questions that might arise that could be asked in an online study session, |
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Periods 1-2 (1491-1607; 1607-1754)
Key Concept 1.1
Before the arrival of Europeans, native populations in North America developed a wide variety of social, political, and economic structures based in part on interactions with the environment and each other. Key Concept 2.1
Differences in imperial goals, cultures, and the North American environments that different empires confronted led Europeans to develop diverse patterns of colonization [varied models of colonization]. |
Key Concept 1.2
European overseas expansion resulted in the Columbian Exchange, a series of interactions and adaptations among societies across the Atlantic. Key Concept 2.2
European colonization efforts in North America stimulated intercultural contact and intensified conflict between the various groups of colonizers and native peoples |
Key Concept 1.3
Contacts among American Indians, Africans, and Europeans challenged the worldviews of each group. Key Concept 2.3
The increasing political, economic, and cultural exchanges within the “Atlantic World” had a profound impact on the development of colonial societies in North America |
Period 3: (1754-1800)
Key Concept 3.1
British attempts to assert tighter control over its North American colonies and the colonial resolve to pursue self-government led to a colonial independence movement and the Revolutionary War |
Key Concept 3.2
The American Revolution’s democratic and republican ideals inspired new experiments with different forms of government. |
Key Concept 3.3
Migration within North America and competition over resources, boundaries, and trade-intensified conflicts among peoples and nations. |
Period 4: (1800-1848)
Key Concept 4.1
The United States developed the world's first modern mass democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation's democratic ideals and to reform its institutions to match them. |
Key Concept 4.2
Concurrent with an increasing international exchange of goods and ideas, larger numbers of Americans began struggling with how to match democratic political ideals to political institutions and social realities. |
Key Concept 4.3
While Americans celebrated their nation's progress toward a unified new national culture that blended Old World forms with New World ideas, various groups of the nation's inhabitants developed distinctive cultures of their own |
Period 5 (1844-1877)
Key Concept 5.1
NOTE: Most of this was not entirely emphasized in this unit; we get to some of this in APUSH Period 6. |
Key Concept 5.2
Intensified by expansion and Deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural, and political issues led the nation into civil war. |
Key Concept 5.3
The Union victory in the Civil War and the contested reconstruction of the South settled the issues of slavery and secession, but left many questions about the power of the federal government and citizenship rights. |