APUSH Final Study Guide- (SAQ) Questions and Answers
Things to Know - -- 33 mc questions only over
period 5 "To win the war America freed the slave and armed him;
- 1 short answer question over period 4 + 5 and the threat to arm the mass of the Black workers of the
- 1 essay over all periods Confederacy stopped the war. . . . Most Americans used
the negro to defend their own economic interests and,
refusing him adequate land and real education and even
"If your [newspaper] columns are open to the women of common justice, deserted him shamelessly as soon as
Seneca county, we throw down the glove to any one who their selfish interests were safe.
will meet us, in fair argument, on the great question of "The main question to which the Negroes returned again
Woman's Rights. Depend upon it, this soon will be the and again [during Reconstruction] was the problem of
question of the day. All other reforms, however important owning land. It was ridiculed as unreasonable and unjust
they may be, cannot so deeply affect the interests of to the impoverished landholders of the South, and as a
humanity as this one. Let it [this challenge] therefore be part of the desire for revenge which the North had. . . .
fairly and candidly met. . . . [But] again and again . . . [formerly enslaved people]
"We have recently had the pleasure of listening to a expressed their right to the land and the deep importance
sermon on this subject, and we feel truly grateful that the of this right. . . .
pulpit is, at length, calling public attention to this important "What [White Southerners and some White Northerners]
question. In the course of this sermon the Bible argument insisted on during Reconstruction was labor, continuous,
was touched upon. We hope it may yet be gone into more steady labor. . . . Of labor for the econom - -SAQ #2
fully: for the Bible is the great Charter of human rights (the first excerpt)
when it is taken in its true spiritual meaning; though its
great, immortal, life-giving truths can be perverted by
narrow, bigoted, sectarian teachers so as to - -SAQ "For the Black men and women who lived to experience
#1 the Civil War, there would be the moment when they
learned a complex of new truths: they were no longer
slaves, they were free to leave the families they had
Briefly describe ONE purpose of the excerpt. - -- It served, they could negotiate the terms of their future labor,
depicts an effort to convince the public to support woman and they could aspire to the same rights and privileges
suffrage enjoyed by their former owners. . . .
- It argues in support of reform movements in the mid-19th "Never before had Black people in the South found any
century reason to view the future with more hope or expectation
- It attempts to call on the influence of religion in support than in the 1860s. . . . To measure the significance of
of 19th century reform movements. emancipation is not to compare the material rewards of
freedom and slavery, as many contemporaries were apt to
do, but to appreciate the many and varied ways in which
the newly freed moved to reorder their lives and priorities
Briefly explain ONE audience of the excerpt. - --
and the new assumptions upon which they acted."
The excerpt reached out to the primarily male newspaper-
Leon F. Litwack, historian, Been in the Storm So Long:
reading public in order to gain popular support for its
position. The Aftermath of Slavery, published in 1979 - -SAQ
- The excerpt attempts to reach political decision #2 (the second excerpt)
influencers and decision makers in order to gain support
for women's rights.
- It attempts to elicit the support of religious leaders for the Briefly describe ONE major difference between Du Bois'
cause of women's rights. and Litwack's historical interpretations of Reconstruction. -
-- DuBois argues that African Americans gained little
from Reconstruction. They fought in the Civil War to
Briefly explain ONE historical development illustrated by protect White Americans' economic interests, and then
the excerpt. - -- Reflects the growing involvement of received little in return. African Ams desired land as a
women in the public sphere as part of reform movements source of economic security but did not receive it.
that arose from the Great Awakening. - Litwack argues that African Americans experienced
- It illustrates the impact of increasing educational significant gains from Reconstruction, starting with their
opportunities for women, especially in the middle class, freedom. As a result, they could take control of their lives
which contributed to women seeking voting rights. in ways that the never could before.
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, APUSH Final Study Guide- (SAQ) Questions and Answers
Briefly explain ONE historical effect of Reconstruction, as territories as a result
described by Du Bois or Litwack. - -DuBois - Idea of Manifest Destiny
- Land redistribution to newly freed African Ams was - Concept of Popular sovereignty
extremely limited - Efforts to maintain a political balance of power between
- Both southern and northern white people sought to free states and slave states
establish systems such as sharecropping to utilize Af Am - Election of 1860, in which Lincoln won with no electoral
labor. votes in the South
- Many formerly enslaved people became sharecroppers
or tenant farmers. Thesis
- Northern Identity was shaped by ideas of free labor and
Litwack a desire for free soil (no slavery) while southern identity
- Many formerly enslaved people moved around the was shaped by ideas that the concept of slavery was the
country in search of separated family members or new key to economic prosperity.
opportunities - Southern identity was shaped by the idea that the north
- The Freedmen's Bureau established schools and job sought to destroy their way of life whereas northern
agencies to help formerly enslaved people as well as identity was shaped by a desire to maintain the Union.
white people living in poverty
- Some Af Ams found political opps by being elected to Main Points
local, state, and a few federal offices. - Explaining that the Northern economy relied more on
manufacturing while the Southern economy relied more on
commercial agriculture
Briefly describe ONE way in which the effects of - Explaining that the northern economy relied on free labor
Reconstruction for African Americans, as described by Du and had a large immigrant population of workers while the
Bois or Litwack, compared with the effects of the southern economy relied on the labor of enslaved African
American Revolution for African Americans in the period Ams
from 1776 to 1800. - -- Reconstruction was broadly - Both the North and south favored expansion, but did so
similar to the effects of the Am Rev on African Ams in that for different reasons. The north wanted expansion to
the 13th amendment, ratified in 1865 at the start of provide more land for free white farmers and workers
Reconstruction, ended slavery and created new opps for while the south wanted expansion to provide more land for
African Ams, while the Am Revolution also contributed to plantation agriculture and enslaved labor.
the end of slavery in some Northern states - Both the north and south wanted to expand their
- Reconstruction was broadly similar to the Am Rev for Af representation in Congress, which would be achieved
Ams in that, in both cases, the political and social gains through having more free or slave states. Both at least
for Af Ams were not complete nor necessarily lasting. wanted to maintain a balance of power between the 2
- The effects of Recon on Af Ams were broadly different regions.
from those of the Am Rev in that the effects of
Reconstruction were much broader - ending slavery, Other pieces of Evidence
establishing citizenship, and suffrage rights - than were - Abraham Lincoln
the limited effects of the Am Rev. - Emancipation Proclamation
- Slavery
- Robert E. Lee
LEQ Format - -- Intro: Contextualization and Thesis - Jefferson Davis
- Gettysburg Address
- 3 body paragraphs with examples/evidence
- Lincoln articulated ideas that the main goals of the Civil
- Conclusion
War were to preserve the Union, expand on the ideas of
liberty central to the founding of the US, and to ensure
Evaluate the most significant differences between ideas of
regional identity in the North and in the South during the
Evaluate the extent to which new technologies caused a
Civil War from 1861 to 1865. (Period 5) - -LEQ #1 market revolution in the period from 1800 to 1848. (Period
4) - -LEQ #2
How to Write Essay #1 - -Contextualization
- The expansion of the US to the West
How to Write Essay #2 - -Contextualization
- The Mexican-Am War and the acquisition of new US
- The shift of the US from an agrarian to a capitalist
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Things to Know - -- 33 mc questions only over
period 5 "To win the war America freed the slave and armed him;
- 1 short answer question over period 4 + 5 and the threat to arm the mass of the Black workers of the
- 1 essay over all periods Confederacy stopped the war. . . . Most Americans used
the negro to defend their own economic interests and,
refusing him adequate land and real education and even
"If your [newspaper] columns are open to the women of common justice, deserted him shamelessly as soon as
Seneca county, we throw down the glove to any one who their selfish interests were safe.
will meet us, in fair argument, on the great question of "The main question to which the Negroes returned again
Woman's Rights. Depend upon it, this soon will be the and again [during Reconstruction] was the problem of
question of the day. All other reforms, however important owning land. It was ridiculed as unreasonable and unjust
they may be, cannot so deeply affect the interests of to the impoverished landholders of the South, and as a
humanity as this one. Let it [this challenge] therefore be part of the desire for revenge which the North had. . . .
fairly and candidly met. . . . [But] again and again . . . [formerly enslaved people]
"We have recently had the pleasure of listening to a expressed their right to the land and the deep importance
sermon on this subject, and we feel truly grateful that the of this right. . . .
pulpit is, at length, calling public attention to this important "What [White Southerners and some White Northerners]
question. In the course of this sermon the Bible argument insisted on during Reconstruction was labor, continuous,
was touched upon. We hope it may yet be gone into more steady labor. . . . Of labor for the econom - -SAQ #2
fully: for the Bible is the great Charter of human rights (the first excerpt)
when it is taken in its true spiritual meaning; though its
great, immortal, life-giving truths can be perverted by
narrow, bigoted, sectarian teachers so as to - -SAQ "For the Black men and women who lived to experience
#1 the Civil War, there would be the moment when they
learned a complex of new truths: they were no longer
slaves, they were free to leave the families they had
Briefly describe ONE purpose of the excerpt. - -- It served, they could negotiate the terms of their future labor,
depicts an effort to convince the public to support woman and they could aspire to the same rights and privileges
suffrage enjoyed by their former owners. . . .
- It argues in support of reform movements in the mid-19th "Never before had Black people in the South found any
century reason to view the future with more hope or expectation
- It attempts to call on the influence of religion in support than in the 1860s. . . . To measure the significance of
of 19th century reform movements. emancipation is not to compare the material rewards of
freedom and slavery, as many contemporaries were apt to
do, but to appreciate the many and varied ways in which
the newly freed moved to reorder their lives and priorities
Briefly explain ONE audience of the excerpt. - --
and the new assumptions upon which they acted."
The excerpt reached out to the primarily male newspaper-
Leon F. Litwack, historian, Been in the Storm So Long:
reading public in order to gain popular support for its
position. The Aftermath of Slavery, published in 1979 - -SAQ
- The excerpt attempts to reach political decision #2 (the second excerpt)
influencers and decision makers in order to gain support
for women's rights.
- It attempts to elicit the support of religious leaders for the Briefly describe ONE major difference between Du Bois'
cause of women's rights. and Litwack's historical interpretations of Reconstruction. -
-- DuBois argues that African Americans gained little
from Reconstruction. They fought in the Civil War to
Briefly explain ONE historical development illustrated by protect White Americans' economic interests, and then
the excerpt. - -- Reflects the growing involvement of received little in return. African Ams desired land as a
women in the public sphere as part of reform movements source of economic security but did not receive it.
that arose from the Great Awakening. - Litwack argues that African Americans experienced
- It illustrates the impact of increasing educational significant gains from Reconstruction, starting with their
opportunities for women, especially in the middle class, freedom. As a result, they could take control of their lives
which contributed to women seeking voting rights. in ways that the never could before.
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, APUSH Final Study Guide- (SAQ) Questions and Answers
Briefly explain ONE historical effect of Reconstruction, as territories as a result
described by Du Bois or Litwack. - -DuBois - Idea of Manifest Destiny
- Land redistribution to newly freed African Ams was - Concept of Popular sovereignty
extremely limited - Efforts to maintain a political balance of power between
- Both southern and northern white people sought to free states and slave states
establish systems such as sharecropping to utilize Af Am - Election of 1860, in which Lincoln won with no electoral
labor. votes in the South
- Many formerly enslaved people became sharecroppers
or tenant farmers. Thesis
- Northern Identity was shaped by ideas of free labor and
Litwack a desire for free soil (no slavery) while southern identity
- Many formerly enslaved people moved around the was shaped by ideas that the concept of slavery was the
country in search of separated family members or new key to economic prosperity.
opportunities - Southern identity was shaped by the idea that the north
- The Freedmen's Bureau established schools and job sought to destroy their way of life whereas northern
agencies to help formerly enslaved people as well as identity was shaped by a desire to maintain the Union.
white people living in poverty
- Some Af Ams found political opps by being elected to Main Points
local, state, and a few federal offices. - Explaining that the Northern economy relied more on
manufacturing while the Southern economy relied more on
commercial agriculture
Briefly describe ONE way in which the effects of - Explaining that the northern economy relied on free labor
Reconstruction for African Americans, as described by Du and had a large immigrant population of workers while the
Bois or Litwack, compared with the effects of the southern economy relied on the labor of enslaved African
American Revolution for African Americans in the period Ams
from 1776 to 1800. - -- Reconstruction was broadly - Both the North and south favored expansion, but did so
similar to the effects of the Am Rev on African Ams in that for different reasons. The north wanted expansion to
the 13th amendment, ratified in 1865 at the start of provide more land for free white farmers and workers
Reconstruction, ended slavery and created new opps for while the south wanted expansion to provide more land for
African Ams, while the Am Revolution also contributed to plantation agriculture and enslaved labor.
the end of slavery in some Northern states - Both the north and south wanted to expand their
- Reconstruction was broadly similar to the Am Rev for Af representation in Congress, which would be achieved
Ams in that, in both cases, the political and social gains through having more free or slave states. Both at least
for Af Ams were not complete nor necessarily lasting. wanted to maintain a balance of power between the 2
- The effects of Recon on Af Ams were broadly different regions.
from those of the Am Rev in that the effects of
Reconstruction were much broader - ending slavery, Other pieces of Evidence
establishing citizenship, and suffrage rights - than were - Abraham Lincoln
the limited effects of the Am Rev. - Emancipation Proclamation
- Slavery
- Robert E. Lee
LEQ Format - -- Intro: Contextualization and Thesis - Jefferson Davis
- Gettysburg Address
- 3 body paragraphs with examples/evidence
- Lincoln articulated ideas that the main goals of the Civil
- Conclusion
War were to preserve the Union, expand on the ideas of
liberty central to the founding of the US, and to ensure
Evaluate the most significant differences between ideas of
regional identity in the North and in the South during the
Evaluate the extent to which new technologies caused a
Civil War from 1861 to 1865. (Period 5) - -LEQ #1 market revolution in the period from 1800 to 1848. (Period
4) - -LEQ #2
How to Write Essay #1 - -Contextualization
- The expansion of the US to the West
How to Write Essay #2 - -Contextualization
- The Mexican-Am War and the acquisition of new US
- The shift of the US from an agrarian to a capitalist
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