APUSH Spring Final Exam Review
1865-1989
There is a question about:
1. The Civil War amendments and what they said
2. Lincoln’s attitude toward Reconstruction
3. The views of moderate and radical Republicans
4. The end of Radical Reconstruction
5. the difference between the Black Codes and the Jim
Crow Laws
6. Plessy v. Ferguson
7. The Interstate Commerce Act
8. The New South
9. The Supreme Court and how it interpreted the
Constitution in the late 19th century
10. The difference between the Knights of Labor and the
American Federation of Labor
11. The new immigrants of the Gilded Age
12. The Plains Indians and their realities during the late
19th century
13. The Dawes Act
14. The farmer’s dilemma during the Gilded Age
15. the Election of 1896 (a few questions)
16. the Omaha Platform
17. Birth of a Nation
18. Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn
19. the Robber Baron Thesis
20. Imperialist and Anti-Imperialist arguments in regard to
the Philippines
21. Why we became an imperialist country in the late 19th
century
22. what progressivism was all about
23. Teddy Roosevelt and his impact on the presidency
24. the rise of socialism and Eugene V. Debs
25. Capitalism and its characteristics vs. Socialism and its
characteristics
26. the Triangle Shirtwaist fire
27. the political parties of the Gilded Age, the
characteristics that they shared and the characteristics
that differentiated them
28. a comparison between the Populists and the
Progressives
29. Wilsonian idealism
30. How Americans felt about the beginning of WWI in
Europe
31. The Red Summer and Claude McKay’s If We Must
Die
32. the 14 Points
33. Civil liberties during WWI
34. The first Great Migration of black Americans
35. Characteristics of the 1920’s
36. the fight over the ratification of the Treaty of
Versailles
37. The Red Scare of 1919-20
38. The Klan and the cultural tensions of the 20’s
39. The conservative presidents of the 20’s and the
policies they stood for
40. WWI propaganda on the home front
41. Hoover’s approach to the depression
42. The Bonus Army
43. FDR’s first 100 days including his first actions as
president
44. The goals of the New Deal in relation to the capitalist
system
45. The accomplishments and failures of the New Deal; its
legacy
46. Conservative and liberal critiques of the New Deal
47. The first and second New Deal
48. Court packing
49. Dorothea Lange
50. Roosevelt’s steps from 1938-1941 that led the U.S.
into WWII
51. Basics about the military course of WWII including
our initial military actions
52. the Big Three conferences
53. Traditional vs. Revisionist explanations of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki
54. Truman Doctrine
55. Cold War foreign policy – Dems and Republicans
56. Major events of the Truman presidency
57. Why we fought in Korea
58. The roots of our involvement in Vietnam
59. Major early events of the civil rights movement
60. Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis
61. LBJ’s Great Society
62. Civil Rights Act of 1964
63. Voting Rights Act of 1965
64. Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution
65. Tet
66. Why we fought in Vietnam
67. The major events of 1968
68. Major events of the Carter presidency
69. The span of time we consider to be the radical sixties
70. Brown v. Board and its importance
71. Reagan’s first inaugural address
72. How the Nixon presidency ended
73. five 20th century presidents and the years they served
in office