1. Unit 4 review—key things to study for MC test
AP US History
Unit 4 review—key things to study for MC test

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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