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Please someone take this over…

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Review #41

How many states had to ratify the Constitution for it to go into effect?

Nine of the thirteen! Even when this was achieved, the Constitution’s initiation was delayed slightly because the founding fathers wanted the two largest states (Virginia and New York) to ratify it as well. 

Rhode Island (the one state that did not send delegates to the assembly that drafted the Constitution) was the last to ratify it, which occurred nearly a year after it went into effect.

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The ratification of the Constitution! 

Knowing that the Constitution was officially put into effect on March 4, 1789, what conclusions can you draw from the chart?

Which states had the most narrow voting statistics? How does that compare to what you know about that state’s stance during previous politics?

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Bill of Rights

In conjunction with the Constitution, a Bill of Rights was drafted to secure the rights of American citizens. These rights include the following: freedom of speech, right to bear arms, freedom from search, trial by jury, no cruel or unusual punishment, and many more.  The first ten amendments to the Constitution are the Bill of Rights.

The Bill of Rights was proposed at the first session of Congress and ratified on December 15, 1791 (two years after the Constitution took effect). 

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i bought this book just so you all could read this

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*imagines a battle between Hamilton’s legs versus Shakespeare’s arms*

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A small comic I made about the origins of political parties in America.

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DEC 18 1865

Slavery abolished in America #apush # equality

[apushstruggler]

The ratification of the Constitution! 

Knowing that the Constitution was officially put into effect on March 4, 1789, what conclusions can you draw from the chart?

Which states had the most narrow voting statistics? How does that compare to what you know about that state’s stance during previous politics?

[apushstruggler]

Bill of Rights

In conjunction with the Constitution, a Bill of Rights was drafted to secure the rights of American citizens. These rights include the following: freedom of speech, right to bear arms, freedom from search, trial by jury, no cruel or unusual punishment, and many more.  The first ten amendments to the Constitution are the Bill of Rights.

The Bill of Rights was proposed at the first session of Congress and ratified on December 15, 1791 (two years after the Constitution took effect). 

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Do you have any favorite resources for studying for the APUSH midterm? I've mostly been looking over my notes and watching Adam Norris chapter summary videos on YouTube but I wanted to ask you bc you're an expert.

Oh, I’m far from an expert! I’m just a student, but I’ll try to give my best advice. 

Videos area great start because they summarize the main details of a time period. It’s also important to know the smaller parts. What I like to do is find an important part of history, like the expansion of slavery in the 1800s, for example. 

Then I find all the details that relate to it without going back to my notes. This is purely to see how much I can remember.

The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney allowed for white slave owners to produce more cotton efficiently and then slavery spread. 

Seeds which were usually hard to pick out of the cotton fluff could be pulled out by the teeth in the machine and thus fewer slaves were needed to process the cotton and more could be put to work in the fields to pick. 

If I can, I build off of it and add as many details as I can remember. 

Slaves were kept in chains and whipped brutally on large plantations, which gave this type of slavery the name “chattel” which literally means “chained up”. 

American slaves were held in the worst conditions compared to slavery in all other countries in the world. 

If I am reminded of another time in history, I allow myself to go down that path and see how long I can go on listing details. 

From the brutality of slavery grew a strong Abolitionist movement especially in the Northern states. 

After the publishing of Harriett Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It convinced many people that slaves could be people and convinced many apathetic people to support abolitionism. 

I could go on, but you get the idea. Whether you write it down or just think about it, this helps you figure out how much you know and what you should study more. 

This is also a good technique that helps you prepare for the writing portions of the AP test. Being able to think of many specific details that connect to a certain topic is the basis of those types of essays.

Good luck, I hope this helps!

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Finals Study Guides

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AP Study Notes

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Why Teach History

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DEC 12 1937

USS Panay sunk by Japan on the Yangtze River #apush

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Why did Southerners refer to slavery as a peculiar institution?

It was used to explain away the statement that all men were created equal as is stated in the Declaration of Independence. Calhoun stated that Jefferson was not clear enough in the Declaration that he said he rectified this mistake in his speech "Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions". It also refers the use of peculiar (related to the word peculium meaning one's own private property) to maintain the right to private property even if the property was human. It was considered much more proper than slavery, so much so that in some areas it was banned altogether.

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if you’re taking AP US History this year listen up

So today was the first day and my APUSH teacher gave us this website, apnotes.net, and I thought, oh, cool, maybe it’ll have some extra information and just basic stuff to help with the course.

But, oh man, it’s so much more than that.

This has complete notes on each individual chapter, links to more resources, exam info, and probably my favorite part, a list of all of the presidents, up to Obama, with little notes underneath with their achievements and little facts you’ll need to know about them. 

The notes are based off of the 12th and 15th editions of The American Pageant, which I’m pretty sure is what most, if not all APUSH classes use. Even if you’re not using that book, though, the notes are still amazing. This helps with any US History course, really.

Of course, you should still take your own notes and all so you can interpret the text and your teacher’s lectures in your own way that’s easy for you to understand (plus writing stuff down makes it easier to remember), but it’s still a really great resource to have to make sure you have everything you need and that you understand everything.

APUSH is hard, so this makes things so much easier and I knew I had to share this website to anyone else who may need it this upcoming school year.

Best of luck!  (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

[night-studying]

Night-Studying’s APUSH Study Guides

Hello! As I know the school year is starting up for many students, I thought I’d share my study guides and flashcards that I created for AP United States History last year. Without my guides I probably would not have gotten a 5 on the exam or an A in the class. 

These guides define the major people, events, and ideas of each era, and color code them (well, up through Unit 10 at least) based on Geography, Government, Religion, Economy, Art, Science, Education, and Social. They also contain links to the AMSCO book (which is a very helpful resource, I highly suggest reading the corresponding chapters), quiz questions so you can practice, timelines, John Green’s Crash Course US History videos (which are also great), and Quizlet flashcards. 

Access the Entire Folder 

Unit 1: Colonial Era

Unit 2: The Revolution 

Unit 3: The Early Republic

Unit 4: The First Era of Reform

Unit 5: The Age of Jackson

Unit 6: The Civil War

Unit 7: Restoration

Unit 8: Gilded Age

Unit 9: Progressive Era

Unit 10: Imperialism and WWI

Unit 11: 1920′s and the Great Depression

Unit 12: WWII and the Early Cold War

Unit 13: The Eisenhower/Kennedy Years

Unit 14: The Vietnam Era

Unit 15: The Late 20th Century

Quizlet Flashcards: These flashcards contain all of the terms listed in the guide so you can practice and learn them more effectively. 

Please share this so people who need APUSH resources can see it! I’m happy to answer any questions people may have about APUSH, whether it’s about the curriculum or just study tips. 

Good Luck!

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What compromises attempted to resolve the conflicts over the expansion of slavery into new territories? To what degree were these compromises successful? Why did they eventually fail to resolve the differences between the North and the South?

The Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) was a resolution to the entrance of Missouri to the Union as a slave state that helped eased tension between the slave and free states. It let Missouri enter as a slave state and Maine enter as a free state. It also drew a line that went across the northern boarder of Arkansas that said any state above it was free while everything south was a slave state. This compromise was very successful to ease tensions and settle the slavery dispute until the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise of 1850 allowed for California to become a free state and allowed the majority of other territories that were won over in the Mexican-American War to be entered into the union as either free or slave states by popular sovereignty. It also ended the slave trade in America, but not slavery. It also put in the fugitive slave act that required that if a slave was caught in the north, they were to be returned to their slave owners. This passed mostly because President Taylor, although a slaveholder himself, did not want slavery in the west and they allowed this as a way to honor him after his passing. This was successful mostly because without it, the Civil War would have happened 11 years earlier than it did. Neither of these compromises did anything more than upset one side in one way or another because they did not either end or allow slavery, but rather they just pushed back an outbreak. Eventually the compromises ended with the Kansas- Nebraska in 1854 that made popular sovereignty the primary way of choosing if a state was to be a free state or not. It was successful in the fact that it gave the people a choice, but it failed mostly because it caused Bloody Kansas that failed to solve anything other than making violence.