AP U.S. History
Mr. Mercado
POSSIBLE ESSAY TOPICS FOR UNIT 6 EXAM
Be prepared to describe each of the following and to analyze the ways in which each of the following was significant:
- Transportation Revolution
- Industrial Revolution
- Pro-business legislation & court decisions
- Workingmen’s Parties
- Inventions
- Second Great Awakening
- Liberal religion: unitarianism, deism, transcendentalism
- Denominational diversity
- Women’s rights movement; women reformers
- Utopian societies
- Alcohol reform
- Education reform
- immigration/ nativism
- Abolitionism (most important reform)
- Manifest Destiny and land acquisitions in the 1840s
- Polk’s four point plan
- The Mexican War (causes and effects)