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AP US History
AP Exam Review Packet
1. Early Colonial America
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The reasons behind the settlement of the different English Colonies
The differences between the Southern, New England, and Middle colonies.
Characteristics of the Puritan experience. [“City on a Hill”]
Origins of slavery.
Indentured servitude and its role in the colonial economy.
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Jamestown
Captain John Smith
Plymouth Colony
Pilgrims
Puritans
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
“City on a Hill”
Virginia House of Burgesses
Proprietary Colonies
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George Calvert
Act of Toleration (1649)
Bacon’s Rebellion
Headright system
Indentured Servant
Antinomianism
Roger Willliams
Anne Hutchinson
Quakers
William Penn
2. Late Colonial America
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The impact of social, intellectual, and religious movements on the Colonies [Enlightenment,
Great Awakening]
The slow evolution from separate colonies to unity by 1763.
Economic and political relations between Great Britain and the colonies to 1763.
Impact of the colonial wars on the colonies and on their relationship with Britain.
Mercantilism and the colonies.
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Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
Triangular Trade
Halfway Covenant
First Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
Cotton Mather
Salem (1692)
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Manumission
Poor Richard’s Almanac
John Peter Zenger
French and Indian War
Albany Plan of Union
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Salutary Neglect
3. Revolutionary America
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The short- and long-term causes of the American Revolution.
Colonial assemblies as leaders against Great Britain.
The Revolution was fomented by changes in British colonial policy in the 1763-1776 period.
The Revolution was brought on by tight economic controls and loose political controls.
The ideas/ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Several different interpretations by historians on the causes of the American Revolution.
Was the Treaty of Paris (1783) a victory for the U. S.?
How had the 13 separate colonies become similar by the time of the Revolution?
The American Revolution as a democratic revolution turned into an aristocratic government by
the Constitution.
The American Revolution as a question of home rule and who should rule at home.
The American Revolution as a revolutionary event  consider the economic and social
changes associated with the Revolution.
Was the Revolution avoidable?
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Salutary Neglect
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act (1764)
Virtual Representation
Stamp Act (1765)
Quartering Act (1765)
Virginia Resolves
Stamp Act Congress
Sons of Liberty
Writs of Assistance
Declaratory Act (1766)
Townshend Acts (1767)
Sam Adams
Boston Massacre
Patrick Henry
John Dickinson
Crispus Attucks
Committees of Correspondence
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Boston Tea Party (1773)
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) (1774)
Quebec Act (1774)
First Continental Congress
Lesington and Concord
Articles of Confederation
Second Continental Congress
Common Sense
Olive Branch Petition
Saratoga
French Alliance of 1778
Loyalists (Tories)
Yorktown
Treaty of Paris 1783
Shays’ Rebellion
Annapolis Convention
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
4. Constitution and Early Republic
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Enlightenment concepts and the Constitution.
How critical was the “Critical Period”?
Compare and contrast the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the
Constitution.
Origins of the ideas of separation of powers, written constitutions, and federalism.
Areas of agreement at the Constitutional Convention.
Bill of Rights: provisions and meanings.
Slavery and the Constitution.
Failures of the Constitution led to the evolution of political parties.
Liberty versus law and order in the 1790s.
Hamilton’s economic program.
Thomas Jefferson versus Alexander Hamilton.
Differences between the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists.
Compare 1763-1776 with 1783-1800 in regard to the relationship between the central
government and the colonies or states.
Significance of these election years: 1796 & 1800.
The “Revolution” of 1800.
Loose versus strict construction as a matter of sectional or political interest.
The significance of George Washington’s “Farewell Address”.
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Philadelphia Convention
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
Federalists
Antifederalists
Strict Construction
Loose Construction
Federalist Papers (esp. #10, #51)
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Judiciary Act of 1789
Report on Public Credit (1790)
Citizen Genet
Jay’s Treaty
Whiskey Rebellion
Washington’s Farewell Address
Democratic-Republican Party
XYZ Affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Kentucky and Virginina Resolutions
“Revolution” of 1800
5. Jeffersonian Era
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Decline and death of the Federalist Party.
“Era of Good Feeling”.
Marshall and his Supreme Court decisions.
What caused Jeffersonian Democracy to develop?
Compare the Second Party System with the First.
Rise and development of political parties  economic, social, and geographical characteristics
and leaders.
Hamilton’s economic program created the political issues for the next 50 years.
The positions, rationale, issues, and spokesmen for the sections on the following political
topics: tariff, banking, internal improvements, expansion, and slavery.
The significance of the 1824 election.
The War of 1812 as a second War for Independence.
Foreign policy united and divided Americans between 1800 and 1824.
The interests of the West were satisfied by neither the Jeffersonians nor the Federalists
between 1789 and 1815.
Provisions and impact of the Monroe Doctrine.
Clay’s “American System”.
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Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
Judiciary Act of 1801
“Midnioght Judges”
Judicial Review
John Marshall
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Aaron Burr
Embargo Act (1807)
Macon’s Bill #2 (1810)
War Hawks
John C. Calhoun (SC)
Henry Clay (KY)
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War of 1812
Impressment
Hartford Convention (1814)
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Battle of New Orleans
“Era of Good Feeling”
Tariff of 1816
Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)
Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
Panic of 1819
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Erie Canal
Robert Fulton
Eli Whitney
Samuel Slater
Lowell System
Denmark Vessey (1822)
6. Jacksonian Era
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What caused Jacksonian Democracy to develop?
Immediate and long range consequences of the split between Jackson and Calhoun.
Significant elections: 1828, 1832, and 1840.
An era of the common man?
Sectional tensions: 1800-1840  what were the issues?
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“Corrupt Bargain”
Tariff of Abomination (1828)
“Age of the Common Man”
“King Andrew”
spoils system
Peggy Eaton Affair
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
“Trail of Tears”
nullification
Tariff of Abomination
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Webster-Hayne Debate
Proclamation to the People of SC
Second Bank of the U. S.
Nicholas Biddle
Two-Party System
“pet banks”
Roger Taney
Specie Circular
“Log Cabin & Cider” campaign
“peculiar institution”
Nat Turner
Panic of 1837
7. Antebellum Reform
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Transcendentalism: why, what was it, leaders.
Reform characterized by perfectionism, distrust of established institutions, and
uncompromising impatience.
Establishment, philosophy, and failure of Utopian Communities
Hudson River Valley School of Painting and a unique American culture [art, literature,
education]
Compare the First and Second Great Awakenings.
Strengths and weaknesses of democracy as illustrated by abolitionism and the women’s
movement.
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Second Great Awakening
Mormons
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Brook Farm
Shakers
Oneida Community
Joseph Henry Noyes
Thomas Cole
Frederick Church
Hudson River School
Washington Irving
James Fennimore Cooper
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Nathanial Hawthorne
Temperance
Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
McGuffey Reader
Grimke Sisters
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Susan B. Anthony
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
David Walker
Amelia Bloomer
8. Manifest Destiny and Sectionalism
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Principles that caused territorial expansion between 1815 and 1860.
Trace sectionalism from 1810-1850 through the careers of Clay, Calhoun, and Webster.
Manifest Destiny and the road to war.
Impact of Manifest Destiny on both foreign affairs and domestic politics.
Why was Oregon annexed peacefully, but not Texas?
Southern arguments defending slavery; abolitionist counterarguments and institutions
Slavery from the viewpoint of the slave, the slaveholder, and the non-slaveholding white
Southerner.
The issue of slavery in the territories.
Slavery as a threat to white Northern labor.
Compare the black struggle to achieve freedom with the abolitionist struggle to free slaves.
Blacks in the North: 1790-1860.
William Lloyd Garrisonhero or villain of the antislavery movement.
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Whigs
Manifest Destiny
Stephen Austin
Sam Houston
Santa Ana
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
Gold Rush
Samuel F. B. Morse
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Underground Railroad
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hinton R. Helper
George Fitzhugh
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Know-Nothings
Commodore Matthew Perry (1853)
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Mexican War (1846-1848)
John C. Fremont
Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo (1848)
Wilmot Proviso
Free Soilers
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
Popular sovereignty
“Bleeding Kansas”
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry, VA
Sumner-Brooks
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
A House Divided
Freeport Doctrine
Crittenden Compromise (1860)
9. Civil War and Reconstruction
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The Civil War began with the Mexican War!?
Northerners objected not to slaves but to the political and economic power and influence
slavery gave the slaveholder in the national government.
Event, person, or place as a symbol of North-South division, such as Bleeding Kansas, John
Brown, or the Crittenden Compromise.
Southern grievances against the North.
North-South economic differences before the Civil War that continued unresolved after it.
The 1850sa decade of political sectionalism and economic nationalism.
Role of the Supreme Court in the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Breakdown of both the Whig and Democratic parties in the 1850s and rise of the third party
system.
Struggle between the president and Congress for dominant political power within the federal
government, 1850-1868.
States’ rights from 1790-1860 for all the sections.
Civil War  triumph of American democracy over European aristocracy (“slaveocracy”).
When did the Civil War become inevitable and why?
What causes of the Civil War were resolved by the Civil War and Reconstruction?
Was the Republican Party consistent in its policies from the 1850s to 1877?
The issues of the Civil War were similar to those of the American Revolution.
Accomplishments and failures of Reconstruction.
Compare the social and political gains made by Blacks during Reconstruction with those
during the second Reconstruction, and during the 1950s and 1960s.
Major developments in the history of Blacks between 1865 and 1912.
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Fort Sumter
Jefferson Davis
Bull Run (I & II)
Anaconda Plan
George McClellan
Antietam
Merrimac & Monitor
Gettysburg
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Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
Appomattox
ex parte Merriman
Copperheads
Greenbacks
Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
Homestead Act (1862)
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
Ex Parte Milligan
10% Plan
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Presidential Reconstruction
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Sherman’s Field Order #15
Freedman’s Bureau
Black Codes
Radical (Congressional) Reconstruction
Civil Rights Act (1866)
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15 Amendment
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
Scalawag
Carpetbagger
Crop lien system
“Waving the Bloody Shirt”
Credit Mobilier
Panic of 1873 (“Crime of ‘73”)
Redeemers
KKK
Compromise of 1877
10. The West and the New South
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Why was the Great Plains settled last?
What brought a speedy end to the frontier?
Economic and political consequences of the closing of the frontier.
Theories of Frederick Jackson Turner The “myth” of the frontier in American culture and how
did it influence American character?
Evolution of federal land policy toward Indians to 1924.
Farmers versus the railroads and industry.
Southern whites reestablished political control after Reconstruction and modernized the
Southern economy.
Rise of Jim Crow laws.
Booker T. Washington versus W. E. B. DuBois.
Populism urged political solutions to economic problems.
Why did Populism fail, or did it?
Problems facing farmers.
Compare and contrast the Grange, the Farmers’ Alliance, and Populism.
Connect Southern Populism and the rise of racism.
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Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Frederick Jackson Turner
George A. Custer
Little Big Horn
Chief Joseph
Helen Hunt Jackson
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Grandfather clause
Ida B. Wells
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. DuBois
Granger Laws
Munn v. Illinois (1876)
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
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Ghost Dance
Wounded Knee
George Washington Carver
Tuskegee Institute
Jim Crow
Civil Rights Cases of 1883
Interstate Commerce Act (1886)
National Alliance
Populism
Ocala Platform
Dear money
Soft money
William Jennings Bryan
“Cross of Gold”
11. Big Businesses, Labor, Urbanization
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Changes in the economy from 1865-1900 in transportation, agriculture, labor force, and
industry.
Rise of corporations, trusts, pools, and holding companies.
Factors that promoted industrialization.
Trace shifting Supreme Court decisions in regard to the regulation of railroads and industry.
This period as one of governmental intervention in the economy, NOT of laissez-faire.
The role and significance of technological innovations.
Characteristics of different labor unions  NLU, Knights of Labor, AFL, ARU—differences,
successes, failures, leaders, reasons for directions they took.
Changing workplace conditions  wages, hours, safety.
Compare and contrast the Haymarket Square riot, the Homestead strike, and the Pullman
strike.
Attitude of government, state and federal, toward labor unions to 1914.
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Gilded Age
Robber Barons
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Jay Gould
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
U. S. v. E. C. Knight (1890)
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Thomas A. Edison
Horatio Alger
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Yellow-dog contract
Open shop
Closed shop
Railroad Strike of 1877
Knights of Labor
Haymarket Riot (1886)
AFL
Samuel Gompers
Homestead Strike (1892)
Pullman Strike (1894)
In Re Debs
12. Urbanization and Politics
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Compare and contrast the Democratic and Republican Parties: base of support, policies,
successes, etc.
The 1890s as a decade of economic, political, and social crises.
Explain the location and growth of the post-Civil War cities.
Rise of speactator sports.
Gilded Age as an era of “conspicuous consumption” [Thorstein Veblen’s phrase].
Reformers’ attempts to address problems of poverty, housing, and health.
Municipal governments  why were they so bad? Why so frustrating to reformers?
Women’s Movement: 1848-1920.
Churches’ attack on social and economic problems.
The Social Gospel as a religious movement.
Darwinism and church leaders.
Reactions to immigration: pre-Civil War versus Civil War to 1920s.
Urbanization reflected in art and literature.
Compare and contrast Henry George and Edward Bellamy.
Compare and contrast the treatment of immigrants, Blacks, and Indians during this post-Civil
War era.
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Boss Tweed
Thomas Nast
Henry George
Jacob Riis
Edward Bellamy
Settlement Movement
Jane Addams
Social Gospel
Carry Nation
Louis Sullivan
Chicago School of Architecture
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William Lloyd Wright
“Melting Pot” theory
Emma Lazarus
Pendleton Act (1885)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Panic of 1893
Coxey’s Army
Mark Hanna
Silver bugs
Gold bugs
13. Imperialism
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Organize U. S. foreign policy from 1870-1920 by:
(1) geographic regionFar East, Latin America, Caribbean, Europe;
(2) American motiveseconomic, moral, Monroe Doctrine, balance of power among European
nations, dominance in the Caribbean;
(3) influence of domestic policies on foreign policy.
Imperialism: characteristics, sources, nature, causes, impact, results, compared to European
imperialism.
LinkReconstruction, Populism, and Imperialism.
Compare and contrast the old and the new Manifest Destiny.
Roosevelt’s foreign policy.
Wilson’s foreign policy.
U. S. policy toward Mexico and Cuba, 1890s-1930s.
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Treaty of Kanagawa
“Seward’s Folly”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Jingoism
Yellow journalism
William Randolph Hearst
Spanish-American War (1898)
De Lome Letter
Remember the Maine, to Hell with
Spain!
Teller Amendment
Rough Riders
Queen Liliukalani
George Dewey
Walter Reed
Emilio Aguinaldo
Treaty of Paris 1898
“White Man’s Burden”
Anti-Imperialist League
Insular Cases
Platt Amendment
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Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
“Big Stick” policy
Roosevelt Corollary
Protectorate
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Pan-Americanism
John Hay
Panama Canal
Gentleman’s Agreement
Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
Great White Fleet
“Dollar Diplomacy”
Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.
Jones Act (1916, 1917)
“Moral Diplomacy”
Tampico Incident
Pancho Villa
John J. Pershing
“Colossus of the North
14. Progressive Era
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Compare and contrast the Populist and Progressive movements.
Compare Progressivism and Jacksonianism.
Goals of Progressivism: successes, failures.
Progressives as the new Federalists: Compare Hamilton’s program and Progressivism.
Progressivism as the “have-nots” against the “haves”: role of labor unions, immigrants, Blacks,
women, and urban poor.
Corporations and unions both wanted governmental protection but not governmental
regulation.
Trace the regulation of big business and court interpretations from the Interstate Commerce
Act to U. S. v. U. S. Steel Corp. in 1920.
Trace the long history of a reform such as prohibition, women’s rights, or banking.
Supreme Court interpretations and changing economic and social conditions, 1890-1920.
Significant elections: 1900, 1912, 1920.
Compare and contrast the programs and administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow
Wilson, and William Howard Taft: banking, railroads, trusts, tariffs, etc.
Progressivism  a liberal or conservative movement?
War and the threat of war united and divided Americans in the 1898-1920s period.
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Muckrakers
Jacob Riis [How the Other Half Lives]
Thorstein Veblen [The Theory of the
Leisure Class]
Lincoln Steffens [The Shame of the
Cities]
Frank Norris [The Octopus]
Ida Tarbell [History of Standard Oil Co.]
John Dewey [The School and Society]
Margaret Sanger
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire
Anti-Saloon League
Square Deal
Newlands Reclamation Act (1902)
Forest Reserve Act (1891)
Anthracite Coal Strike (1902)
Hepburn Act (1906)
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“Trustbuster”
Meat Inspection Act
Upton Sinclair [The Jungle]
Pure Food and Drug Act
Panic of 1907
Wisconsin, “Laboratory of Democracy”
Bob LaFollette
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
Bull Moose Party
Roosevelt’s Osawatomie, KS speech
New Freedom
New Nationalism
Socialist Party
IWW [“Wobblies”]
“Big Bill” Haywood - Federal Reserve
Act (1913)
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
15. World War I and the Roaring Twenties
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Causes of U. S. entry into World War I and its attempts to remain neutral.
World War I both helped and hurt Blacks and labor.
Compare the domestic impact of the First and Second World Wars.
Defeat of the Versailles Treaty: immediate and long-term consequences.
Harding and the 1920s as the end of Progressivism.
What aspects of Progressivism survived into the 1920s?
Were the 1920s “golden” or “roaring” for farmers, labor, and business?
Coolidge: The man who builds a factory builds a temple; the man who works there worships
there.
The 1920s as an age of nonconformity: Blacks, feminists, literary criticism, new sexual
freedoms.
The dark side of the 1920s: anti-immigration, KKK, Scopes Trial, prohibition.
Alienation as a literary them in the 1920s  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby [the “Lost
Generation”].
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“Return to Normalcy”
Teapot Dome Scandal
Muscle Shoals
Secy. of the Treasury Mellon (tax cuts)
Election of 1924
Progressive Party
Federal Farm Board
“The Lost Generation”
Theodore Dreiser [An American
Tragedy]
Ernest Hemingway [A Farewell to Arms]
T. S. Eliot [The Waste Land]
prohibition [Volstead Act]
fundamentalists
Immigration Acts (1921, 1924)
Billy Sunday
Scopes Trial
Henry Ford [Model T]
The Jazz Singer [1st talking movie]
flappers
the “New Woman”
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
Pan-African movement
Charles Lindbergh
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“Spirit of St. Louis”
Twenty-One Demands
Washington Naval Conference
5:5:3:1.75:1.75 naval ratio
Dawes Plan
Young Plan
Kellogg-Briand Treaty
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
Central Powers
Lusitania
Zimmermann Note
War Industries Board
Herbert Hoover, Food Administration
Espionage Act (1917)
Sedition Act (1918)
selective service
Fourteen Points
Versailles Treaty
Big Four
collective security
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
Red Scare
Palmer raids
16. Depression and New Deal
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Causes of the Great Depression.
Compare the criticisms of American society writers made in the 1920s with those made in the
1930s.
Compare Hoover’s and FDR’s response to the Depression.
Compare the role of the federal government in the economies of the 1920s and 1930s.
The twenties were pro-business; the thirties were anti-business.
Compare Progressivism and the New Deal.
Compare and contrast the First and Second New Deals.
Different characterizations of the New Deal: it was socialistic, conservative, revolutionary,
liberal
Successes and failures of the New Deal.
The Supreme Court and the New Deal.
Impact of various New Deal programs and agencies on American society.
Rise of the welfare state.
Big government and big labor checked big business.
Explain the critics of the New Deal: Townsend, Coughlin, Huey Long, leftists, conservatives.
What ended the reform effort by the late 1930s?
Reform would have come without a depression because reform in American history is the
periodic readjustment of aspects of the economy.
Compare the labor movement of the 1930s with the labor movement of the late 19c.
Why did the Socialist Party fail to become a serious factor in American politics?
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
(RFC)
Bonus Army
“Hoovervilles”
Good Neighbor Policy
Norris-LaGuardia Act (1932)
election of 1932
20th & 21st Amendments
bank holiday
Hundred Days
Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933)
“Relief, Recovery, Reform!”
Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
(1933)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC)
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
the “Blue Eagle”
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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Federal Emergency Relief Admin.
(FERA)
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Harry Hopkins
Federal Arts Project
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
(HOLC)
Federal Housing Authority (FHA)
Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC)
Joseph Kennedy, Sr.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Rural Electrification Administration
(REA)
National Youth Administraiton (NYA)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Wagner Act (1935)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Fair Labor Standards Act
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Congress of Industrial Organization
(CIO)
John L. Lewis
Dust Bowl
Oakies
John Steinbeck [The Grapes of Wrath]
Frances Perkins, Secy. of Labor
Eleanor Roosevelt
Keynesian economics
Huey Long [the “Kingfish”]
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“Share the Weath”
Father Charles Coughlin
Election of 1936
Social Security Act
Schechter v. US
“Court Packing”
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
Hatch Act (1939)
17. World War II
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Compare isolationism after World War I with leadership of the Western world after World War
II.
What were the causes of World War II up to 1939
Events leading to US involvement in WWII
Effects of WWII on American society and economics
Manhattan Project and the reasons to use the Atomic Bomb
Results of Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
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Montevideo Conference
Rio de Janeiro Conference (1933)
Buenos Aires Conference (1936)
Lima Conference (1938)
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
Francisco Franco
Adolph Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Chiang Kai-shek
Panay Incident
General Tojo
Lend Lease
Atlantic Charter (1941)
Pearl Harbor (12/7/41)
War Production Board
Office of Price Administraiton (OPA)
genocide
Holocaust
“Final Solution”
D-Day (6/4/44)
Stalingrad
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Winston Churchill
Casablanca Conference (1943)
Teheran Conference (1943)
“unconditional surrender”
Battle of the Bulge
Manhattan Project
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
V-E Day
V-J Day
Manzinar
Relocation
Korematsu v. US
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
Bretton Woods Conference
Dunbarton Oaks Conference
UN Charter
Nuremberg trials
18. Post WWII and The 1950s
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Compare and contrast American foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s with American foreign
policy in the fifteen years after World War II.
The impact of communism upon both foreign and domestic affairs in the two decades after
World War II.
Was the Cold War inevitable?
Compare and contrast the foreign policies of Truman and Eisenhower.
How consistent was U. S. policy toward China from 1900-1949?
Impact of the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II on our commitments and
security in Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
American foreign policy from 1945-1960 was controlled by the ghost of Woodrow Wilson.
Social, economic, and demographic changes within the United States (1945-1960)
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Voice of America
Marshall Tito
containment
George F. Kennan
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Blockade
NATO
Warsaw Pact
SEATO
CENTO
ANZUS
collective security
Mao Tse-tung
Korean War
General Douglas MacArthur
Gandhi
Bricker Amendment
John Foster Dulles
mutual assured desgtruction (M.A.D.)
brinksmanship
Nikita Khrushchev
Hungarian Revolt (1956)
Common Market
Organization of American States (OAS)
U-2 Incident
G. I. Bill of Rights (1944)
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Baby Boom
Youth culture
Taft-Hartley Act
Senator Robert A. Taft
Dixiecrats
Senator Strom Thurmond
Henry Wallace
Fair Deal
National Security Act (1947, 1949)
McCarthyism
Senator Joseph McCarthy
Alger Hiss
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
McCarran Internal Security Act (1950)
22nd Amendment
Ayn Rand [The Fountainhead]
McCarran-Walter Immigration Act
(1952)
Interstate Highway Act
Dept. of Health, Educ. & Welfare (HEW)
St. Lawrence Seaway
Jimmy Hoffa
AFL-CIO merger
Sputnik
National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
“military-industrial complex”
19. The Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1970s)
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Supreme Court ruling against segregation and placement of constitutional authority over
desegregation
Leaders who advocated use of nonviolent protest through the 50s and 60s
Federal actions attempting to protesct individuals’ civil rights, including Executive actions and
Congressional legislation
Emergence of the militant black protests of the mid-60s, 70s
Movement of debate from civil rivghts to economic equality
Compare and contrast the experiences of various groups—labor, Blacks, business, farmers—
following the First and Second World Wars.
Disputes among black leaders over goals, methods, and the degree of integration.
1950s as an era of social anxiety.
Reasons for and consequences of black migration from the rural South to the urban North in
the 20c.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Jim Crow System
Brown v. Board of Education
desegregation
“Separate But Equal”
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Little Rock, AR Central High School
Civil Rights Act (1957)
Civil Rights Act (1960)
Greensboro, NC sit-ins
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee [SNCC]
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference [SCLC]
Congress of Racial Equality [CORE]
Freedom Riders
Birmingham Church Bombing
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March on Washington (1963)
poll taxes
Mississippi Freedom Summer
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Nation of Islam
Elijah Muhammad
Malcolm X
Black Panthers
March form Selma to Montgomery
James Meredith
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Stokely Carmichael
Watts Riots
Civil Rights Act of 1968
24th Amendment
George Wallace for President
Affirmative Action
Regents v. Bakke (1978)
20. The Sixties and Seventies
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Significance of the Election of 1960
Explain and evaluate the goals of the New Frontier and the Great Society and their successes and
failures
Modification of American foreign policy to confront perceived communist aggression
Impact of Vietnam of American society, culture, economy, and politics
Supreme Court cases involving issues of individual rights, power of government, rights of the accused
Moderate and conservative policies of the Nixon Administration in foreign and domestic affairs
Growth and significance of the counterculture movement in the United States.
Impact of the Watergate scandal on American society
Stagflation and the inability of three Presidents (Nixon, Ford, Carter) to effectively deal with it
Emphasis of Human Rights in Carter’s foreign policy and their effects
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Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
Alliance for Progress
Cuban Missile Crisis
ICBM
Ich bin ein Berliner
Great Society
Medicare/Medicaid
VISTA
Dien Bien Phu
Ho Chi Minh
Domino theory
Ngo Dinh Diem
Viet Cong
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Hawks and doves
Agent Orange
Tet Offensive
My Lai Massacre
Vietnamization
Cambodia
Kent State
Pentagon Papers
War Powers Act
26th Amendment
Saigon (1975)
Hippies
Students for a Democratic Society
Woodstock
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Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinem
Phyllis Schlafly
Warren Court
Miranda v. Arizona
Assassinations of 1968
Apollo Program
Rachel Carson
National Organization for Women
(NOW)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
American Indian Movement (AIM)
Caesar Chavez
United Farm Workers
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)
Henry Kissinger
Détente
Watergate
Gerald Ford
Roe v. Wade
Arab Oil Embargo
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC)
Camp David Accords
Panama Canal Treaty
Three Mile Island
Afghanistan (1979)
Ayatollah Khomeini
Iran Hostage crisis
21. 1980 to Present
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Resurgance of conservatism in the election of Ronald Reagan
Reagan’s stance against the Soviet Union, compared with his willingness to foster better
relations
Reasosn for American victory in the Cold War
Collapse of the Soviet Union, end of the Cold War, and the impact on fAmerican domestic and
foreign policies
Causes and consequences of Operation Desert Storm
Transformation of American Society, especially due to rapid advances in technology
Domestic agenda of Bill Clinton’s administration and his legacy
Controversy surrounding the Election of 2000
Foreign Policy aims of George W. Bush’s administration
Polarization of the American electorate
Election of Barack Obama (2008)
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Ronald Reagan
Moral Majority
Lebanon
Grenada
Strategic Defense Initiative, aka “Star
Wars”
Libya (1986)
Sandra Day O’Connor
Geraldine Ferraro
Iran-Contra Scandal
Supply-side economics
Mikhail Gorbachev
Chernobyl
AIDS
Savings and Loan Crisis (1989)
George H. W. Bush
Tiananmen Square
Manuel Noriega
Fall of Berlin Wall
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Los Angeles Riots (1992)
Bill Clinton
North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA)
Contract with America
Newt Gingrich
Oklahoma City Bombing
Madeline Albright
Al Gore
George W. Bush
September 11, 2001
Invasion of Iraq (2003)
John McCain
Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton
Stimulus Package
Health Care Reform Bill
Mid-Term Elections of 2010