Advanced Placement US History

Test Reviewhistoryteacher.netwww.apstudent.com/ushistory

What About the Test? Three Parts – 3 hours and 5 minutes

Part I – 80 Multiple Choice in 55 minutes 50 % of the score

Part II – DBQ 15 minute mandatory reading time 45 minutes to write

Part III – Essays 4 essays in two categories Choose 1 out of each category 35 minutes each

Part II and III together comprise 50% of your score.

Colonial America / Early Republic

Colonial America ROANOKE JAMESTOWN THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT THE PILGRIMS AND PLYMOUTH

COLONY THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY

COLONY SALEM WITCH TRIALS KING PHILIP'S WAR NATIVE AMERICANS BACON'S REBELLION FIRST GREAT AWAKENING THE MARYLAND TOLERATION ACT THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR PONTIAC'S REBELLION PROCLAMATION OF 1763

THE EARLY REPUBLIC, 1775-1820 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION SHAY'S REBELLION THE FEDERALIST PAPERS THE CONSTITUTIONAL

CONVENTION OF 1787 THE WHISKEY REBELLION THE BURR CONSPIRACY LEWIS & CLARK TECUMSEH The War of 1812 Report and Resolutions of the

Hartford Convention Francis Scott Key Era of Good Feelings Henry Clay - John C. Calhoun THE MARSHALL SUPREME COURT

CASES

Expansion and Reform /Women and Social ReformEXPANSION AND REFORM, 1820-

1860 THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE,

1820 The Monroe Doctrine The Erie Canal Jacksonian Democracy Trail of Tears The Texas Revolution MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE FUR

TRADE Oregon-Trail Manifest Destiny Daniel Webster - Webster-Hayne

Debate The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848 The Second Great Awakening

WOMEN AND SOCIAL REFORM, 1820-1940

United States Utopian Communities

The American Immigration Hudson River School of Art The Industrial Revolution DOROTHEA DIX Seneca Falls Convention Early Nineteenth Century

American Literature

Slavery and Abolitionism /Union in Peril SLAVERY AND

ABOLITIONISM Slave Revolts The Underground

Railroad The Slave Trade Abolitionist Movement William Lloyd Garrison "Bleeding Kansas" Dred Scott Decision HARRIET BEECHER

STOWE Uncle Tom's Cabin

THE UNION IN PERIL, 1820-1860

THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

POLITICS AND SECTIONALISM IN THE 1850s

THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 and the FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

THE FREE SOIL PARTY JOHN BROWN

Civil War and Reconstruction/Rise of Industrial AmericaCIVIL WAR AND

RECONSTRUCTION, 1861-1877 CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA ABRAHAM LINCOLN CIVIL WAR AND

RECONSTRUCTION, 1861-1877 THE TRANSCONTINENTAL

RAILROAD AMERICAN IMMIGRATION HAYES VS. TILDEN: THE 1876

ELECTORAL CONTROVERSY

THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST

FACTORY FIRE CHILD LABOR IN THE EARLY

1900s TEMPERANCE AND PROHIBITION THE GILDED AGE AND THE

PROGRESSIVE ERA HULL HOUSE THE 1886 HAYMARKET SQUARE

RIOT SAMUEL GOMPERS THOMAS ALVA EDISON SPANISH AMERICAN WAR ANTI-IMPERIALISM IN THE UNITED

STATES , 1898-1935 THE HISTORY OF JIM CROW

PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION AND WAR / America Since 1945

PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION AND WAR, 1920-1945

RED SCARE CHARLES LINDBERGH THE SACCO-VANZETTI CASE THE 1929 STOCK MARKET CRASH THE SAD TALE OF THE BONUS

MARCHERS FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S FIRESIDE

CHATS FDR AND THE DEPRESSION - A

NEW DEAL WORLD WAR II - THE YALTA

CONFERENCE ATOMIC BOMB: DECISION NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIALS

AMERICA SINCE 1945 COLD WAR BAY OF PIGS INVASION THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND

ITS AFTERMATH THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT,

1955-1965 GREENSBORO SIT INS: LAUNCH

OF A CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE ROSA PARKS VIETNAM WAR JFK / THE KENNEDY

ASSASSINATION UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY

FOR THE 1970s WATERGATE: THE SCANDAL THAT

DESTROYED PRESIDENT NIXON

AP U.S. History Exam ReviewFrequently Asked MCQs

MCQs on the following topics frequently appear on the “real” exam. Be sure to understand the concepts behind the terms.

1. Puritan motive (build a city on a hill, i.e. provide a model) 2. Motive of those settling Virginia (seek profit) 3. 1st Great Awakening (Ivy League colleges founded by New Lights) 4. Deism 5. Albany Congress, 1754 (Franklin, first attempt to unite colonies – failed) 6. Stamp Act / Stamp Congress 8. Slavery in pre-independence times / Indentured servants (all the rage prior to slavery) 10. Proclamation of 1763 11. Articles of Confederation 12. Bill of Rights (1st 10 Amendments to Constitution, protecting individual liberties, and giving states

the powers not directly given to the feds) 12. Attitude of founding fathers towards political parties (Jeff “We’re all feds, we’re all reps) 13. Hamilton’s economic plans 14. Shay’s Rebellion 15. XYZ Affair 16. Marbury .v. Madison 17. Louisiana Purchase – why ? control mouth of Mississippi 18. Hartford Convention (federal law null & void ??) / Nullification, John C. Calhoun, Tariff of

Abominations (1828) 19. Eli Whitney (interchangeable parts to rifle, cotton gin) 20. Henry Clay’s “American System” (high tariffs, BUS, federal funding of internal improvements)

More Multiple Choice? 21. Monroe Doctrine 22. Andrew Jackson (Indian removal / Trail of Tears, veto Congress, opposes nullification, opposes BUS, supports Westward

expansion) 23. Transcendentalists 26. Ralph Waldo Emerson (stressed individuality, self-reliance) 27. Wm Lloyd Garrison, “The Liberator” – abolitionist 28. Harriet Tubman – Underground Railway 29. Dred Scott .v. Sanford, 1857 (slave is not a citizen, slave is property, Missouri Compromise is dead) 30. Popular Sovereignty 31. Kansas-Nebraska Act 32. Douglas’s Freeport Doctrine (popular sovereignty can exclude slavery anywhere) 33. Primary cause of Civil War (maintain the union) 34. Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 – gave North the moral high ground, calculated to win support of Britain & France) 35. Radical Reconstruction 36. Compromise of 1877 (ends Reconstruction in South) 37. Knights of Labor 38. Dawes Act, 1887 (assimilate Indians into mainstream America = kill tribal identity) 39. Social Gospel 40. Populists – farmers’ party, wanted “free silver” 41. Yellow Press (Hearst, Pulitzer – called for war with Spain. “Remember the ‘Maine’”) 42. “New Immigration” – from SE Europe, after Civil War (Gilded Age) 43. Open Door Policy (open access to China for Am investment) 44. Du Bois & Booker T. Washington 45. Muckrakers (Sinclair Lewis, Mother Jones) 46. Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare (main reason for US joining WWI) 47. Wilson’s 14 Points (Article X). Wilson lost vote in Senate ‘cos he wouldn’t compromise on wording. Senate didn’t want US

totally tied to L of N charter) 48. Bonus Army, 1932 (give us our bonus, now) 49. 100 Day Congress, New Deal / Civilian Conservation Corps

You Have to Be Kidding? 51. Cuban Missile Crisis 52. Brown .v. Board of Education (overturned old Plessy .v.

Ferguson) 53. Sputnik, 1957 ~ arms & space race, & education

receives greater emphasis in US 54. Sit-Ins, 1960, Greensboro, NC (seeking integration of

public facilities) 55. Civil Rights Acts 1960, 1964 56. Malcolm “X” 57. Gulf of Tonkin Incident (& Resolution – gave LBJ a free

hand to escalate Vietnam War) 58. Watergate 59. Tet Offensive, 1968 60. Camp David Accords (Carter, Begin & Sadat, peace in

Middle East)

ERASEarly Republic 1789 - 1829

George Washington

John Adams Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Jacksonian Democracy 1829 - 1853

Andrew Jackson

Martin Van Buren

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler James Polk Zachary Taylor

Millard Fillmore

Sectional Conflict 1853 - 1881

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

Ulysses Grant

Rutherford Hayes

Gilded Age 1881 - 1897

James Garfield

Chester Arthur

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

Grover Cleveland

Progressive Era 1897 - 1921

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

William Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Depression & World Conflict 1921-1961

Warren Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Franklin Roosevelt

Harry Truman

Dwight Eisenhower

Social Change& Soviet Relations 1961 - 1989

John Kennedy

Lyndon Johnson

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

Globalization 1989 -

George H. W. Bush

Bill Clinton George W. Bush

Barack Obama

Presidential ReviewThe Young Republic, 1788-1815

1. George Washington, 1789-1797 VP – John Adams Secretary of State – Thomas Jefferson Secretary of Treasury – Alexander Hamilton Major Items: Judiciary Act, 1789 Tariff of 1789 Whiskey Rebellion, 1799 French Revolution – Citizen Genét, 1793 Jay Treaty with England, 1795 Pinckney Treaty with Spain, 1795 Farewell Address, 1796 First Bank of United States , 1791-1811

2. John Adams, 1797-1801 Federalist VP – Thomas Jefferson Major Items: XYZ Affair, 1797 Alien Act, Sedition Act, 1798 Naturalization Act "Midnight Judges," 1801 Kentucky (Jefferson) & Virginia (Madison) Resolutions, 1798

3. Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809 Republican VP – Aaron Burr, George Clinton Secretary of State – James Madison Major Items: Marbury v. Madison, 1803 Louisiana Purchase, 1803 Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1804-1805 12th Amendment, 1804 Embargo Act, 1807 Non-Intercourse Act, 1809

4. James Madison, 1809-1817 RepublicanVP – George Clinton, Elbridge GerrySecretary of State – James MonroeMajor Items: Macon Act, 1810Berlin & Milan DecreesOrders in Council"War Hawks," 1811-1812 - War of 1812Hartford Convention, 1814First Protective Tariff, 1816Era of Good Feelings & the Common Man, 1815-1840