SAQs for APUSH Period 4
Short answer questions designed to help students review for the annual exam and that relate to all-important topics appearing in the Course and Exam Description
Topic 4.2 — The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson: Two short answer questions that relate to the rise, during the time of America’s third president, of the very thing that George Washington believed “agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another and foments occasionally riot and insurrection.”
Topic 4.3 — Politics and Regional Interest Three short answer questions that relate to the laws and policies that responded to the difference in regional interests between 1801–1848.
Topic 4.4 — America on the World Stage: Five short answer questions that relate to a conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain that resulted in Americans celebrated their victory in the war in terms of a “second war of independence,” beginning an era of partisan agreement and national pride.
Topic 4.5 — Market Revolution (Industrialization): Four short answer questions that relate to a fundamental transformation of the United States economy throughout the first half of the 19th century.
Topic 4.6 — Market Revolution (Society and Culture): Four short answer questions that relate to the customs, traditions, practices, values, and beliefs of the first half of the 19th century.
Topic 4.7 — Expanding Democracy: Three short answer questions that relate to the rise in political participation that occurred as states extended voting rights to all adult white men between 1800 and 1848.
Topic 4.8 — Jackson and Federal Power; Five short answer questions that relate to the presidency of ‘King Andrew.”
Topic 4.9 — The Development of an American Culture: (work in progress)
Topic 4.10 — Second Great Awakening: Ten short answer questions that relate to the Protestant religious revival that took place between 1800–1844.
Topic 4.11 — An Age of Reform; Three short answer questions that relate to a time period between 1830–1850 in which tens of thousands of Americans joined an array of movements dedicated to spiritual and secular uplift.
Topic 4.12 — African Americans in the Early Republic: Seven short answer questions that relate to the two-to-three million blacks, both the enslaved and the free, living throughout the country from 1800–1848.
Topic 4.13 — The Society of the South in the Early Republic: Thirty questions that relate to the culture, practices, traditions, customs, and beliefs of those who dominated a region of the country, in the years leading up to and following the Louisiana Purchase, where the economy was primarily based on agriculture and slavery.
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Questions relating to the all-important topics appearing below have been worked into one or more of the posts appearing above:
- Topic 4.1 — Contextualizing
- Topic 4.14 — Causation
All SAQs associated with this page have been produced by a team of APUSH teachers. They are not official CB-created exam questions. While CB/AP cannot endorse this work, it “appreciate(s) the enthusiasm and effort to create and share resources that students and teachers in the AP community may find helpful.”
