Ap U.S. History Exam Preparation

AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM PREPARATION

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REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA, 1754-1789

Ten Key Events/Actions

1. Albany Plan of Union (1754)

2. French & Indian War (1754-1763)

3. Sugar Act (1764)

4. Stamp Act (1765)

5. Townshend Acts (1767)

6. Boston Massacre (1770)

7. Intolerable Acts (1774)

8. American Revolution (1775-1783)

9. Shays’s Rebellion (1786)

10. Constitutional Convention (1787)

Thirteen Key People

1. George Washington

2. James Otis

3. Samuel Adams

4. John Hancock

5. John Dickinson

6. John Adams

7. Thomas Jefferson

8. Benjamin Franklin

9. Thomas Paine

10. Patrick Henry

11. Alexander Hamilton

12. James Madison

13. George Mason

Ten Key Documents

1. Peace of Paris (1763)

2. Common Sense (1776)

3. Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)

4. Declaration of Independence (1776)

5. Articles of Confederation (1777)

6. Peace of Paris (1783)

7. Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1786)

8. United States Constitution (1787)

9. The Federalist Papers (1788)

10. Bill of Rights (1789)

Major Causes of the American Revolution

Commercial Regulation / Western Expansion
Taxation / Self-Government

Strengths & Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

Strengths
*Peace of Paris (1783):
*Ordinance of 1785:
*Northwest Ordinance (1787): / Weaknesses
*political:
*economic:
*diplomatic-military:

Major Concepts and Compromises of the Constitutional Convention

natural rightsConnecticut (Great) Compromise

social contractThree Fifths Compromise

federalismelastic clause

separation of powerscommerce clause

checks and balancessupremacy clause

electoral college

republicanism

AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM PREPARATION

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THE YOUNGREPUBLIC, 1789-1841

Ten Key Events/Actions

1. Whiskey Rebellion (1794)

2. Alien & Sedition Acts (1798)

3. Louisiana Purchase (1803)

4. War of 1812 (1812-1815)

5. Missouri Compromise (1820)

6. Monroe Doctrine (1823)

7. Indian Removal Act (1830)

8. Nullification Crisis (1832-33)

9. Texas Revolution (1835-36)

10. Panic of 1837

Ten Key People

1. Alexander Hamilton

2. Thomas Jefferson

3. Eli Whitney

4. John Marshall

5. Tecumseh

6. Henry Clay

7. John C. Calhoun

8. Daniel Webster

9. John Quincy Adams

10. Andrew Jackson

Key Documents

1. Jay Treaty (1794)

2. Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)

2. KentuckyVirginia Resolutions (1798)

3. Treaty of Ghent (1814)

4. Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)

5. British-American Convention (1818)

6. Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)

7. South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832)

Connections

Identify the concept that each set of terms represents. Briefly describe how the terms connect to the concept.

funding and assumption of debt
protective tariff
First Bank of the United States
Neutrality Proclamation
implied powers
Chesapeake affair
Embargo Act
impressment
Macon’s Bill #2
War Hawks
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
DartmouthCollege v. Woodward (1819)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Second Bank of the United States
Tariff Act of 1816
Transportation Revolution
market revolution
Erie Canal
German and Irish immigration
factory system
urbanization
Lowell mills
trade unions
cotton gin
slavery
planter aristocracy
“King Cotton”
Nat Turner’s revolt

AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM PREPARATION

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NATIONAL EXPANSION & CIVIL WAR, 1841-1877

Ten Key Events/Actions

1. Mexican-American War (1846-48)

2. Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

3. California Gold Rush (1849)

4. Great Compromise of 1850

5. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

6. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

7. Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)

8. U.S. Civil War (1861-1865)

9. Andrew Johnson’s impeachment (1867-68)

10. Compromise of 1877

Ten Key Politicians/GeneralsTen Key Social Reformers/Cultural Figures

1. James K. Polk1. Horace Mann

2. Henry Clay2. Dorothea Dix

3. John C. Calhoun3. William Lloyd Garrison

4. Stephen Douglas4. Frederick Douglass

5. Abraham Lincoln5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

6. Jefferson Davis6. Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. Robert E. Lee7. Henry David Thoreau

8. William Seward8. Harriet Beecher Stowe

9. Charles Sumner9. Lyman Beecher

10. Ulysses S. Grant10. Charles G. Finney

Ten Key Documents/Books

1. Wilmot Proviso (1846)

2. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

3. Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)

4. “On Civil Disobedience” (1848)

5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

6. Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

7. Gettysburg Address (1863)

8. Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

9. Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

10. Fifteenth Amendment (1870)

Connections

Identify the concept that each set of terms represents. Briefly describe how the terms connect to the concept.

Second Great Awakening
transcendentalism
Seneca Falls Convention
abolition
temperance
Oregon Trail
annexation of Texas
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight”
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
Fugitive Slave Act
Underground Railroad
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Dred Scott v. Sandford
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Anaconda Plan
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Vicksburg
Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
Emancipation Proclamation
Freedman’s Bureau
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Reconstruction Act of 1877
Tenure of Office Act
Radical Republicans
Ku Klux Klan
sharecropping
“Jim Crow” laws
redemption
Compromise of 1877

AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM PREPARATION

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INDUSTRIAL AMERICA, 1865-1900

Ten Key Events

1. Seward’s purchase of Alaska (1867)

2. Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad (1869)

3. Bell’s invention of the telephone (1876)

4. Pendleton Act (1883)

5. Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

6. Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

7. Panic of 1893

8. Pullman Strike (1894)

9. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

10. Spanish-American War (1898)

Ten Key People

1. Thomas Edison

2. Andrew Carnegie

3. John D. Rockefeller

4. Alexander Graham Bell

5. Samuel Gompers

6. William JenningsBryan

7. Sitting Bull

8. Jane Addams

9. Booker T. Washington

10. Mark Twain

Major TrendsMajor Philosophies/Movements

urbanizationSocial Darwinism

immigrationlaissez-faire capitalism

industrializationsocialism

machine politicspopulism

imperial expansionwomen’s suffrage

modernismtemperance

westward expansionlabor movement

national marketsSocial Gospel

Compare the views of:

Booker T. WashingtonW.E.B. Du Bois

Connections

Identify the concept that each set of terms represents. Briefly describe how the terms connect to the concept.

Carnegie Steel
Standard Oil Company
General Electric
American Telegraph & Telephone
Union Pacific Railroad
National Grange
Granger laws
Interstate Commerce Commission
bimetallism (free silver)
Populist Party
Chinese Exclusion Act
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Haymarket Riot
Homestead Strike
Sand Creek Massacre
Battle of Little Big Horn
Dawes Severalty Act
Ghost Dance
Battle of Wounded Knee
settlement house movement
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Social Gospel
Susan B. Anthony
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Pacific Railroad Act
Homestead Act
MorrillLand Grant Act
free-soil movement
Transcontinental Railroad

AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM PREPARATION

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THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1900-1920

Ten Key Events

1. Coal Strike of 1902

2. Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

3. founding of the NAACP (1908)

4. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (1911)

5. Election of 1912

6. Sixteenth Amendment (1913)

7. Federal Reserve Act (1914)

8. Lusitania crisis (1915)

9. Fourteen Points (1918)

10. Nineteenth Amendment (1920)

Ten Key People

1. Theodore Roosevelt

2. William Howard Taft

3. Woodrow Wilson

4. Henry Cabot Lodge

5. Eugene V. Debs

6. Gifford Pinchot

7. Robert LaFollette

8. Carrie Chapman Catt

9. Alice Paul

10. John Pershing

Major Authors/Books

1. Lincoln Steffens (The Shame of the Cities)

2. Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives)

3. Ida Tarbell (The History of the Standard Oil Company)

4. Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)

5. W.E.B. Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk)

Summary of Progressive Reforms

Political:Economic:Social Welfare:

*17th Amendment*16th Amendment*18th Amendment

*19th Amendment*Underwood Tariff*Pure Food & Drug Act

*referendum*Federal Trade Act*Meat Inspection Act

*initiative*Federal Reserve Act*Keating-Owens Act

*recall*Clayton Anti-Trust Act*labor reforms

*city managers*trust-busting*conservation

Connections

Identify the concept that each set of terms represents. Briefly describe how the terms connect to the concept.

yellow journalism
U.S.S. Maine
Alfred Thayer Mahan
jingoism
Rough Riders
Roosevelt Corollary
dollar diplomacy
Platt Amendment
Panama Canal
Open Door policy
Wisconsin Idea
Square Deal
New Nationalism
New Freedom
Omaha Platform
Lusitania
Zimmermann Telegram
American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
Fourteen Points
Treaty of Versailles
War Industries Board
Food Administration
National War Labor Board
Selective Service Act
Espionage & Sedition Acts

Some Questions for Thought

What motivated the United States to acquire overseas territories in the late 1800s and early 1900s? Why did some Americans oppose this imperial expansion?
What were the motives of progressives in the early 1900s? Why were they more successful than the populists of the 1890s?
What factors contributed to a growing sense of disappointment and an increase in social tensions in the United States at the end of World War I?

AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM PREPARATION

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BOOM & BUST, 1920-1940

Ten Key Events

Teapot Dome Scandal (1923)
Scopes “Monkey” Trial (1925)
Lindbergh’s solo flight (1927)
Great Crash (1929)
Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)
Bonus March (1932)
The “Hundred Days” (1933)
Social Security Act (1935)
FDR’s “court-packing” scheme (1937)
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)

Ten Key People

1. Warren G. Harding

2. Calvin Coolidge

3. Herbert Hoover

4. Franklin D. Roosevelt

5. Charles Lindbergh

6. Henry Ford

7. Eleanor Roosevelt

8. Huey Long

9. Harry Hopkins

10. John L. Lewis

Major Authors/Thinkers

1. F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. John Steinbeck

3. Ernest Hemingway

4. Langston Hughes

5. John Maynard Keynes

Major Cultural Figures

Babe Ruth
Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
Billy Sunday
Georgia O’Keefe
Louis Armstrong
Frank Lloyd Wright
Marian Anderson

Connections

Identify the concept that each set of terms represents. Briefly describe how the terms connect to the concept.

consumerism
mass culture
Lost Generation
nativism
Prohibition
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Marcus Garvey
Jazz Age
lynching
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Social Security Act (SSA)
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
United Auto Workers (UAW)
Great Bull Market
Great Crash
Emergency Banking Act
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Dust Bowl
The Grapes of Wrath
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Resettlement Administration
Rural Electrification Administration

Remember to categorize New Deal programs according to relief, recovery, or reform

AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM PREPARATION

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AMERICA BECOMES A SUPERPOWER, 1940-1960

Ten Key Events

Pearl Harbor attack (1941)
D-Day invasion (1944)
atomic bombs dropped on Japan (1945)
National Security Act (1947)
formation of NATO (1949)
Korean War (1950-53)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Interstate Highway Act (1956)
Sputnik launched (1957)

Ten Key People

Harry S Truman
George C. Marshall
Joseph McCarthy
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Kennan
Earl Warren
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Elvis Presley

World War II Battles/Campaigns

European Theater:Pacific Theater:

Operation TorchBattle of Midway

Battle of the Atlanticisland-hopping campaign

strategic bombing campaignliberation of the Philippines

D-Day (Operation Overlord)Battle of Iwo Jima

Battle of the BulgeBattle of Okinawa

Military Leaders:

General Dwight EisenhowerGeneral Douglas MacArthur

General Omar BradleyAdmiral Chester Nimitz

General George Patton

Connections

Identify the concept that each set of terms represents. Briefly describe how the terms connect to the concept.

quarantine speech
cash and carry
destroyers for bases
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Selective Service Act
“Rosie the Riveter”
Double-V Campaign
Office of Price Administration
Korematsu v. United States
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NSC-68
NATO
GI Bill
consumer culture
television
suburbia
Baby Boom
HUAC
McCarran Internal Security Act
Alger Hiss
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Army-McCarthy hearings
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Rosa Parks
SCLC
SNCC
Little Rock Central High School

AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM PREPARATION

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AMERICA IN TRANSITION, 1960-1990

Ten Key Events

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
JFK”s assassination (1963)
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Tet Offensive (1968)
Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
Watergate scandal (1972-74)
Iranian hostage crisis (1979-81)
INF Treaty (1987)
fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
Gulf War (1990-91)

Ten Key People

John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Robert Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H.W. Bush
Cesar Chavez

Major Authors/Books

Michael Harrington, The Other America
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Major Supreme Court Cases

Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
United States v. Nixon (1974)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)

Connections

Identify the concept that each set of terms represents. Briefly describe how the terms connect to the concept.

New Frontier
Peace Corps
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Medicaid/Medicare
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Project Head Start
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Free Speech Movement
hippies
Woodstock
generation gap
Betty Friedan
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Roe v. Wade
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
“glass ceiling”
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
Vietnamization
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Kent State shootings
Nixon Doctrine
détente
SALT I & II
Reagan Doctrine
INF Treaty