AP US HISTORY

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

What did “America” look like when Europeans got here?

What were the Natives like in Mesoamerica, Southwest, Mississippi Valley?

What were American Indian Cultures like when the Europeans got here?

If Columbus didn’t do squat, why is he still so important 1492

• Columbian Exchange

What did Spain want in America?

What did France want in America?

How did the British develop in the North, Mid Atlantic and the South?

Why did the South start to use slaves rather than indentured servants?

Were people in the colonies that came here for religious tolerance, religiously intolerant?

Did anyone revolt? Bacon, Glorious, Pueblo, Stono

Where did all the people come from?

Where did trade take place?

Who lived in the back country?

How did plantations develop?

What was the Great Awakening? Why was everyone asleep?

What did Colonists think of America before the Revolution?

How did the French and Indian War lead to the Revolution?

What angered the American Colonists enough to start a war?

What happened in the Revolution?

What did the first government look like?

How did we get a new Constitution?

What do Washington and Hamilton do when they start the new gov’t?

How do we get the Federalists and the Republicans?

What is Republican Motherhood? Is it a complement?

What is the significance of Jefferson’s presidency?

What started the expansion into the trans Appalachian west?

What made slavery grow in the US? Were there any free African American communities?

What were the consequences of the War of 1812

What do we mean by a national market economy?

How does industrialization change the US?

What was the response to new immigration in the US?

What social classes were in the South?

What is meant by Jacksonian Democracy and how did it change things?