AP EXAM REVIEW -- GET YOUR CREDITS

 

AP US History Review Sheet for the APUSH Test.

KEY CONCEPTS  

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Declaration of Independence,   Political Spectrum, Shays’s Rebellion,    Olive Branch, Great Compromise,    3/5 Compromise,    Bicameral Legislature, USS Constitution,    Stamp Act/Intolerable Acts,  New England Town Meetings,  Tea Party,    Neutrality,    Articles of Confederation,  Elastic Clause/Implied Powers,    Delegated Powers,  Federalism, SalemSaratoga, Yorktown, Valley Forge,  Mercantilism,   William Pitt, Battle of Quebec, Electoral College,   Judicial Review,  Paul Revere, John Marshall,     Monroe DoctrineBoston Massacre,    Secession.    Emancipation Proclamation,    Tariff,    Manifest Destiny,    Amendments 13-15, Mugwumps ... Mugwumps,    Knights of Labor, AFL, Pendleton Act,    Shakers, Haymarket Affair,    Unitarians,    Eugenics, Deism, Sherman's March, Great Awakening I,    Great Awakening II, John Brown, Transcendentalism, Wild WestCapital Moves then moves again, The Alamo,   Louisiana Purchase, Shays's Rebellion,  Unwritten Constitution,  Zenger Trial,  XYZ Affair,   Fort Sumter, John C. Calhoun, Indentured Servitude,  Sharecropping, Homestead Act, femme covert, cult of domesticity, Jay and Pinckney Treaties,  Transcontinental Railroad, Mother's pensions, Settlement Houses, Triangle Fire, Temperance, Suffrage, Trail of Tears, Citizen Genet, Lewis and Clark, American System, Treaty of Ghent, Jefferson Davis, William Jennings Bryan, Dawes Act, Cross of Gold, Populism, Granger Movement, 16:1, Conservation, Trustbuster, Ballinger-Pinchot, John Muir, Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts, Fort McHenry, Red Scare (Palmer Raids), Lusitania, Zimmerman Note, Treaty of Versailles Ratification, Scopes Trial, Harlem Renaissance, Charles Lindbergh, Coney Island, "Seward's Folly" (Alaska), Flapper, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Scopes Trial, Susan B. Anthony, Seneca Falls Convention, Temperance, Stockmarket Crash, Margin, Open Door Policy / John Hay, Art Deco, Relief Recovery Reform, AAA, SEC, CCC, WPA, PWA, Social Security, TVA, NIRA, NRA, Social Security, Court Pack, Huey Long, Shirtwaist Triangle Fire, FDIC, Neutrality Acts, Bases for Destroyers, Cash and Carry, D-Day, Island Hopping, Manhattan Project, Japanese Internment, War Bonds and Taxes to beat the Axis!, Prohibition and Bootlegging, Good Neighbor Policy, Al Capone Truman Doctrine, Containment, Atlantic Charter, UN, Marshall Plan, U2, Rosenbergs, McCarthyism, NATO and Warsaw Pact, Ike, The New Frontier (JFK), The Fair Deal (Truman), The Square Deal (TR), The New Deal (Duh) ... Pearl HarborD-Day, Truman fires MacArthur, detente, Little Rock, SALT, Iran-Contra, Miracle on Ice, Iran Hostage Crisis, Star Wars (SDI), Secret Testing, Gulf of Tonkin, Tet Offensive, Bank Holiday, Taft-Hartley Act (restricting unions), Watergate, Nixon and ping pong diplomacy, Great Society, Clinton and Nato, NAFTA,  Reaganomics, stuff that happened in your lifetime. HamiltonHamiltonHamiltonHamiltonHamiltonHamiltonHamiltonHamilton

MAJOR THEMES

What were the major events of the American Revolution? Also know the French and Indian War.

What role did religion play in the colonies?

The Pilgrims were separatists, Puritans are non-separatists. The way you remember this is: onThanksgiving (Pilgrims) you separate your turkey from your stuffing and cranberry sauce. Separatists disassociated themselves from the King of England who was the head of the Church of England.

What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

What were the major Compromises of the Constitution?

Why did America want Independence? What did the Declaration of Independence actually say?

How do the branches of government check one another?

What was Washington’s stance on foreign policy?

How are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions related to secession plots during Jackson's Presidency?

What were the major events of the War of 1812? I can think of more than one.

How did America expand during manifest destiny?

You may want to know about certain ... important ... Civil War ... Battles, and facts.

What were the causes of the Civil War? What part did slavery play in it? Know your compromises! (see below)

What were the major issues under "Jacksonian Democracy." Hint: Tariff, Bank, Nominating Conventions, Spoils System, Trail of Tears, Specie Circular, Ordinance of Nullification, Force Bill. (Perhaps that was more than a hint.)

How did the United States deal with Native Americans from colonial days to the Gilded Age?

How did women affect social movements?

Westward Expansion -- Know the Turner Thesis, Homestead Act, and the plight of Native Americans during manifest destiny.

What happens to tariffs when Democrats (Underwood Tariff) or Republicans (Hawley-Smoot) are in office?

What were the strength and weaknesses of Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction? What happened in its aftermath?

What happened during the Gilded Age concerning "Robber Barons" and industrialization?

What were some of the cultural innovations of the Roaring 20s? Sports, Music, etc.

Why did immigrants move towards cities? How did the cities emerge?

How did Populists influence the Progressives?

What were the Progressive Reforms?

Why was it called the Roaring 20s?

What were the causes of the Great Depression, and the solutions implicated by the New Deal (RRR)?

How did we move away from Neutrality during WWII? How was WWII a Glorious War?

What were the major clashes of the Cold War?

How did different generations of Americans clash during the 60s and 70s?

How did segregation come to an end? What impact did the Warren Court have? Know all about the turbulent Civil Rights Era, and the importance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

What's the deal with Federalist #10?

ESSAY TIP: BE PREPARED TO WRITE ABOUT SOCIAL HISTORY. THE AP EXAM LOVES: Race, Gender, Religion, and Culture questions ... especially concentrated before 1800!!!! BUT AS I SAID IN CLASS: KNOW 4 THINGS REEEEEALLY WELL ... I RECOMMEND:

1. POPULISM --> PROGRESSIVISM --> NEW DEAL (TRACE THE LIBERAL REFORM MOVEMENTS) Omaha Platform = STAR 16 (Senators, Tax, Australian Ballot, RR control)

2. Civil War and Reconstruction

3. Jacksonian Democracy

4. Race/Gender

 

Know your Court Cases!!!!!

Marbury v. Madison = Judicial Review

McCullough v. Maryland = Federal Supremacy, and the right to charter a bank. "The Power to Tax is the Power to Destroy!"

Dred Scott v Sanford = Roger B. Taney says that slaves are property.

Muller v. Oregon = Limits hours women can work.

Adkins v. Children's Hospital = refutes Muller decision

Schenck v. US = "Clear and Present Danger" Can't shout "FIRE!!!!" in a crowded theater.

Schecter v. US - Declares the NIRA Unconstitutional

Butler v. US - Declares AAA Unconstitutional

Korematsu v. US = Japanese Internment is Constitutional as Executive Order 9066 states that in times of War, rights can be limited.

Plessy v. Ferguson = Justifies Jim Crow laws.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka KS - Ends segregation in schools.

Roe v. Wade = legalizes abortion, but not in all cases.

Dennis v. US - Due process limited because of a fear of Communism. Similar to "clear and present danger" mentioned above.

Miranda v. Arizona, Gideon v. Wainwright, Mapp v. Ohio = rights of the accused.

DBQ Tip = USE ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS, AND GROUP THEM TOGETHER AS WELL AS YOU HAVE DONE ALL YEAR!!!!!!!

SIMPLE FOREIGN POLICY TIMELINE ......

1783------------Neutrality ----------- War of 1812 -----Neutrality ----------------1845, Mexican War ------- Sectionalism -------------------------- Civil War, 1861-1865 -------------- Reconstruction, 1865-1877------------ Neutrality ------------ 1898 Spanish-American War and Imperialism ------- Neutrality ---------------- WWI Involvement, 1917-1918 ----------- Neutrality -------------- 12/7/1941 - 1945 WWII--------------- Containment 1945-1991 ------------------- Police Powers

COMPROMISES

Constitutional = The Great Compromise (Virginia (bicameral on population) vs. NJ Plan (equal representation), 3/5 Compromise, and Commercial Compromise.

Civil War: Missouri Comp, Comp of 1850, K-N Act (KNOW THESE PROVISIONS WELL)

1820 - Missouri is a slave state, no slavery north of 36'30, Maine is a free state. -- Henry Clay.

1850 - Fugitive Slave Law, No Slave Trade in DC, former Mexican Territory now Utah and New Mexico has Popular Sovereignty, California is Free, Texas gave up western land and received $10 Million to pay off its national debt. -- Authored by Henry Clay

1854 - Kansas Nebraska Act = Popular Sovereignty. This of course led to Bleeding Kansas, then the Lecompton Constitution. -- Authored by Stephen Douglas

Political Parties

Federalist --> Whigs --> Republicans (Free Soilers and Know Nothings unite here)

Democrat-Republicans --> National Republicans (era of good feelings) --> Democrats

AUTHORS WE READ THIS YEAR FOR ESSAYS

Battle Cry of Freedom ... by James McPherson - Use this to show the differences between the North and South in terms of industry, or use it to show how controversial the K-N Act was.

Short History of Reconstruction ... Eric Foner - Use this to show how hated Johnson was by the Republicans, or that he vetoed a lot, or that Reconstruction was controversial.

The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin, and The Transplanted by John Bodnar = Immigration ... Use this to show the two theories of lost vs. immigrants maintaining identity.

BEST ONE TO USE!!!! Age of Reform = Richard Hofstadter ... shows the patterns of liberal reform from Populism to Progressive to New Deal

The Hundred Days ... by David Kennedy ... use this when describing just how grand in scale the 100 days were.

Frederick Lewis Allen wrote Only Yesterday, which was about Roaring 20s Morality.

David S. Reynolds -- John Brown: Abolitionist. John Brown can be remembered in many different ways, depending on the time period one is writing in, and where one was from.

Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer - No one knows who fired the first shot at Lexington and Concord

The Turner Thesis = Frederick Jackson Turner contends that the West truly is the story of the country.

TARIFFS TO KNOW

1. 1828 Tariff of Abominations (and Compromise Tariff

2. Underwood Tariff of 1913 - Democrats regain office and decrease the tariff rates.

3. Hawley Smoot Tariff of 1930 = Raised tariffs to highest point since the Tariff of Abominations. This was done mostly to protect the agriculture industry.

Remember -- when Democrats are in office, tariffs typically go down. When Republicans are in office, tariffs typically go up. Tariffs eased after WWII.

 

Presidential Slogans ...

TR (Rep) = A Square Deal for Americans! Support consumers over trusts.

Woodrow Wilson (Dem) = New Freedom (defeats TR's New Nationalism) and trustbusts with even more tenacity!

Warren G. Harding (Rep) = Return to Normalcy post WWI

FDR (Dem) = The New Deal - Public Works, and Government Economic influence

Truman (Dem) = A Fair Deal - social improvement, and healthcare.

Eisenhower (Rep) = Dynamic Conservatism. The 1950s = A conservative time, economically (Gov supports Big Business), politically (McCarthyism), and socially (Women at home, Leave it to Beaver)

JFK (Dem) = The New Frontier, liberal problem solving for poverty, racial prejudice, and international aid.

LBJ (Dem) = The Great Society - Money to the poor, education, and an end to discrimination.

If Betty Friedan comes up on the test -- it's 1960s-1970s Feminism. I know this is a random thing, but she often comes up on the test.

Bill Clinton = Know all about NATO troops, and obstruction of justice.

The Presidents Song, by The Social Studs

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Guns N' Roses, US History Megamix

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Klaff and the Chipmunks, Cold War Video!

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Political Spectrum Song "That is my Ideology"

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