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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
Weaknesses
*Peace of Paris (1783):
*political:
*Ordinance of 1785:
*economic:
*Northwest Ordinance (1787):
*diplomatic-military:
Major Concepts and Compromises of the Constitutional Convention
natural rights
social contract
federalism
separation of powers
checks and balances
electoral college
republicanism
Connecticut (Great) Compromise
Three Fifths Compromise
elastic clause
commerce clause
supremacy clause
AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM PREPARATION
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THE YOUNG REPUBLIC, 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. Kentucky & Virginia 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)
Dartmouth College 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/Generals
Ten Key Social Reformers/Cultural Figures
1. James K. Polk
2. Henry Clay
3. John C. Calhoun
4. Stephen Douglas
5. Abraham Lincoln
6. Jefferson Davis
7. Robert E. Lee
8. William Seward
9. Charles Sumner
10. Ulysses S. Grant
1. Horace Mann
2. Dorothea Dix
3. William Lloyd Garrison
4. Frederick Douglass
5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
6. Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Henry David Thoreau
8. Harriet Beecher Stowe
9. Lyman Beecher
10. 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 Jennings Bryan
7. Sitting Bull
8. Jane Addams
9. Booker T. Washington
10. Mark Twain
Major Trends
Major Philosophies/Movements
urbanization
immigration
industrialization
machine politics
imperial expansion
modernism
westward expansion
national markets
Social Darwinism
laissez-faire capitalism
socialism
populism
women’s suffrage
temperance
labor movement
Social Gospel
Compare the views of:
Booker T. Washington
W.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
Morrill Land 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:
*17th Amendment
*19th Amendment
*referendum
*initiative
*recall
*city managers
Economic:
*16th Amendment
*Underwood Tariff
*Federal Trade Act
*Federal Reserve Act
*Clayton Anti-Trust Act
*trust-busting
Social Welfare:
*18th Amendment
*Pure Food & Drug Act
*Meat Inspection Act
*Keating-Owens Act
*labor reforms
*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
1. What motivated the United States to acquire overseas territories in the late 1800s and
early 1900s? Why did some Americans oppose this imperial expansion?
2. What were the motives of progressives in the early 1900s? Why were they more
successful than the populists of the 1890s?
3. 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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Torch
Battle of the Atlantic
strategic bombing campaign
D-Day (Operation Overlord)
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Midway
island-hopping campaign
liberation of the Philippines
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
Military Leaders:
General Dwight Eisenhower
General Omar Bradley
General George Patton
General Douglas MacArthur
Admiral Chester Nimitz
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
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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
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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
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Michael Harrington, The Other America
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Major Supreme Court Cases
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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