AP US HISTORY REVIEW
COLONIZATION – NATIVE AMERICANS
• Natives in South America: Don’t need 2014
• Natives in Central America: Don’t need 2014
• Natives in North America:
• Iroquois, Pueblo, Southeast (Creek, Cherokee), Great Plains
(Sioux)
• Important Crops: Maize (corn), beans, squash
COLONIZATION
• Royal Colonies, Proprietary Colonies, Charter
Colonies
• Chesapeake:
• Roanoke, Jamestown, VA Company, John Rolfe, Tobacco,
House of Burgesses, Headright System, Indentured Servitude,
Bacon’s Rebellion, Lord Baltimore, Act of Toleration (1739)
COLONIZATION
• New England:
• Pilgrims (Separatists), Plymouth, Mayflower Compact,
Puritans (Non-Separatists), Massachusetts Bay Colony, John
Winthrop, Model of Christian Charity, City on a Hill,
Calvinism, Townhall Meetings, Salem Witch Trials, Ann
Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker, Fundamental
Orders (1649)
COLONIZATION
• Mid-Atlantic:
• William Penn, Quakers, New Amsterdam, Dutch East India Co.
• Southern Colonies:
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James Oglethorp
SC: Founded by 8 Wealthy Proprietors
NC: Founded by squatters, outcasts
Georgia: haven for debtors, buffer against Spain
Black Slavery
Middle Passage
Stono Rebellion
Black Codes
ROAD TO REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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Navigation Laws
Mercantilism
Triangular Trade
First Great Awakening
• Jonathan Edwards
• George Whitefield
• Enlightenment
• Salutary Neglect
New France
Ohio Valley
French and Indian War
William Pitt
Albany Plan (Ben
Franklin)
• Treaty of Paris of 1763
• Pontiac’s Rebellion
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ROAD TO REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act, 1764
Quartering Act, 1765
Stamp Act, 1765
Stamp Act Congress
Townshend Acts, 1767
Boston Massacre, 1770
Tea Act, 1773
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts), 1774
First Continental Congress
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
• Lexington and Concord, 1775
• Second Continental Congress
• Olive Branch Petition
• Bunker Hill, 1775
• Common Sense
• Declaration of Independence
• Natural Rights
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Patriots vs. Loyalists
Battle of Trenton, 1776
Battle of Saratoga, 1777
Franco-American Alliance
GW and Continental Army
Abigail Adams
Battle of Yorktown, 1781
Treaty of Paris, 1783
FORMING THE CONSTITUTION
• Articles of Confederation
• Strengths and Weaknesses
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Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance, 1787
Shay’s Rebellion
Constitutional Convention, 1787
Great Compromise
3/5th Compromise
Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances
Federalist Papers
Antifederalists
Republican Motherhood
Bill of Rights
THE FEDERALIST ERA
1788-1801
GEORGE WASHINGTON
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First Cabinet – treasury, war, state, attorney general
Judiciary Act 1789
First Bank of the US
NY Stock Exchange, 1792
First Fugitive Slave Law, 1793
Neutrality Proclamation, 1793
Cotton Gin patented, 1794
Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
Jay’s Treaty, 1795
Pinckney’s Treaty, 1795
Hamilton (Federalists) vs. Jefferson (Democratic Republicans)
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
Farewell Address, 1796
JOHN ADAMS
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XYZ Affair, 1797
Quasi-War, 1798-1800
Alien and Sedition Act, 1798
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 1798
Midnight Judges
JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY
THOMAS JEFFERSON (1801-1809)
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Revolution of 1800
Marbury vs. Madison, 1803
John Marshall, Judicial Review
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Aaron Burr
12th Amendment
National Road (Cumberland Road)
Impressment (1806-1812)
Embargo Act, 1807
Prohibition of Slave Trade into US, 1808
JAMES MADISON (1809-1817)
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Non-Intercourse Act, 1809
Macon’s Bill – 1810
Chesapeake-Leopard Incident
War Hawks
Tecumseh, 1811
War of 1812
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Star Spangled Banner
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
Battle of New Orleans
ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
1815-1824
ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS, RISING
NATIONALISM/SECTIONALISM
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Era of Good Feelings
James Monroe (1817-1825)
McCullough v. Maryland, 1819
Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824
Clay’s American System: BUS, Tariffs, Internal
Improvements
Adams-Onis Treaty
Panic of 1819
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Monroe Doctrine
Corrupt Bargain, 1824
JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
ANDREW JACKSON
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Election of 1828
Tariff of Abominations, 1828
Nullification Crisis, 1832
BUS veto, 1832
Pet Bank
Kitchen Cabinet
Spoils System
Indian Removal Act, 1830
Worcester v. Georgia, 1832
Trail of Tears (VanBuren)
Whig Party, 1834
Panic of 1837
AMERICAN SOCIETY
1790-1860
REFORM AND SOCIETY
• Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
• Steamboat
• Erie Canal
• Lowell System
• 2nd Great Awakening
• Unitarianism
• Revivalism
• Transcendentalism
• Ralph Waldo Emerson –
Self Reliance
• Henry David Thoreau –
Civil Disobedience
• Reform Movements:
Abolitionism,
Temperance, Women’s
Rights, Public Education
• Dorothea Dix, Reform
Asylums
• Stanton and Mott –
Seneca Falls
• Susan B. Anthony
• German and Irish
Immigration
• Nativism, Know Nothings
MANIFEST DESTINY
• Manifest Destiny
• President James K. Polk
• Texas Revolution
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Stephen Austin
Sam Houston
Santa Anna
Republic of Texas
Annexation of Texas, 1845
• Oregon Trail
• “54-40 or Fight!”
• Oregon Treaty, 1846
• Mexican American War,
1846-48
• Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, 1848
• Mexican Cession
• Gadsden Purchase
CIVIL WAR ERA
1848-1865
ANTEBELLUM ERA
• Missouri Compromise, 1820
• Abolitionism
• Liberator, William Lloyd
Garrison
• Nat Turner
• Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Underground RR, Harriet
Tubman
• Frederick Douglass
• Wilmot Provisio, 1848
• Popular Sovereignty
• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
Bleeding Kansas
Republican Party
Dred Scott Case, 1857
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
John Brown, Harper’s Ferry,
1859
• Election of 1860
• SC Secession
• Crittenden Compromise
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CIVIL WAR
Confederate States o0f America
Jefferson Davis
Ft. Sumter, 1861
Anaconda Plan
C.S.S. Alabama
Battle of Antietam, 1862
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
Republican Program: Pacific Railway Act, Morrill Tariff,
Homestead Act, Morrill Land Grant Act, National
Banking Act
• Civil Liberties: Suspension of Habeas Corpus, Martial
Law, Freedom of Press
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THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
1866-1877
• Lincoln’s 10% Plan
• President Andrew
Johnson
• 13th Amendment
• Freedman’s Bureau
• Black Codes
• Presidential
Reconstruction
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• Radical Republicans
• Scalawags and
Carpetbaggers
• KKK
• Sharecropping
• Compromise of 1877
THE GILDED AGE
LATE 1800S, EARLY 1900S
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Political machines
Boss Tweed
Thomas Nast
Transcontinental RR, 1869
Dawes Act, 1887
Wounded Knee, 1892
Skyscrapers
Jim Crow
Booker T. Washington
Plessy v. Ferguson
W.E.B. Du Bois
Urbanization
Social Gospel Movement
• Jane Addams, Settlement
houses
• “New Immigration” – S
and E Europe
• Nativism
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Women’s Christian
Temperance Union
• National American
Women’s Suffrage
Association
• Horatio Alger
• Laissez Faire
• Social Darwinism
• Andrew Carnegie, Gospel
of Wealth
• John D. Rockefeller, oil,
horizontal and vertical
integration
• J.P. Morgan
• Interstate Commerce Act,
1887
• Sherman Antitrust Act,
1890
• Knights of Labor
• American Federation of
Labor, Samuel Gompers
• The Great RR Strike
• Homestead Steel Strike
• Pullman Strike
• Haymarket Square Riot
• Populism
• William Jennings Bryan
IMPERIALISM
1870S TO 1914
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Yellow Journalism
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Venezuelan Border
Dispute
Russo Japanese War
Queen Liliuokalani
Spanish American War
General “Butcher” Weyler
USS Maine
Teller Amendment
George Dewey
Rough Riders
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Anti-Imperialist League
Foraker Act
Platt Amendment
Henry Cabot Lodge
Open Door Policy
Big Stick Policy
Roosevelt Corollary
Great White Fleet
Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy
Jones Act
Moral Diplomacy
PROGRESSIVISM
1890-1920
• Progressivism Goals
• Muckrakers
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half
Lives
• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
• Eugene V. Debs, Socialism
• NAACP
• 16th-19th amendments
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TEDDY ROOSEVELT
Meat Inspection Act, 1906
Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
Trust-busting
Hepburn Act of 1906
The Square Deal
Conservationism
TAFT
• Payne Aldrich Tariff
• Ballinger Pinchot Controversy
• Trustbuster
ELECTION OF 1912
• The Bull Moose Party
• New Nationalism
• New Freedom
Woodrow Wilson
• Underwood Tariff Bill, 1913
• Federal Reserve Act of 1913
• Federal Trade Commission Act
of 1914
• Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914
• Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916
• Child Labor Act
WORLD WAR 1
1914-1918
• Assassination of Franz
Ferdinand
• Causes for US Entry
• unrestricted submarine
warfare - Lusitania
• American Propaganda
• German Dictatorship and
Cultural Ties
• Zimmerman note
• War Industries Board
• Selective Service Act
• Espionage Act and
Sedition Act
• Wilson’s 14 Points
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League of Nations
Great Migration
Lodge Reservations
isolationism
Schenck v. U.S.
Debs v. U.S.
Abrams v. U.S.
“Red Scare,” 1919
Palmer Raids
1920S
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Nativism
Ku Klux Klan
Sacco & Vanzetti trial
Scopes Trial
Prohibition, rise of
organized crime
Frederick W. Taylor,
Scientific Management
Henry Ford’s assembly line
– mass production
Consumerism
radio
Flappers
Jazz
• “Lost Generation”
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest
Hemingway,
• Harlem Renaissance
• Langston Hughes, Claude
• Charles Lindbergh
• Washington Disarmament
Conference, 1921
• Dawes Plan, 1924
• Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
• Conservative policies of
Presidents Harding and
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• Teapot Dome scandal
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
HERBERT HOOVER
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Farm crisis
Stock market crash, 1929
Causes of the depression
“Hoovervilles”
Hawley-Smoot Tariff, 1930
Bonus Army
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
FDR
New Deal
“Hundred Days”
Fireside Chats
Banking Holiday,
Emergency Banking
Relief Act
• “First” New Deal
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Labor Standards Act
• Keynesian economics,
deficit spending
• Indian Reorganization
Act, 1934
• Butler v. U.S. (AAA)
• Schechter v. U.S. (NIRA)
• NRA, AAA, TVA, CCC, FERA, • Court packing
PWA, FDIC
• Critics of FDR: Father
• “Second” New Deal
Charles Coughlin, Huey
programs:
Long, Francis Townshend
WORLD WAR II ERA
1935-1945
• Good Neighbor Policy
• Isolationism in 1920s &
1930s
• Neutrality Acts, 1935-37
• Cash and Carry
• Quarantine Speech, 1937
• Neutrality Act, 1939
• Lend-Lease Act, 1941
• Atlantic Charter
• Pearl Harbor
• U.S.’s first strategy in WWII?
Get Hitler first
• Important WWII battles:
Midway, D-Day, Stalingrad
• Japanese internment
• Manhattan Project
• Reasons for U.S. dropping
atomic bombs
• Yalta Conference, 1945
• Potsdam Conference,
1945
• The Homefront
• rationing
• Rosie the Riveter
• Zoot Suit riots
• A. Philip Randolph, March
on Washington
Movement,
• Fair Employment Practices
Commission
POST WW2 AND EARLY COLD
WAR YEARS
1945-1960
TRUMAN
• Desegregation of
Armed Forces in 1947
• Fair Deal
• George Kennan’s
memo
• Containment
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Berlin Airlift
• NATO
• Soviet A-Bomb
• China becomes
communist
• Korean War
• Douglas MacArthur
EISENHOWER
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Alger Hiss
HUAC
Hollywood 10
Loyalty Review Board
McCarthyism
Rosenbergs
John Foster Dulles,
• “massive retaliation,”
• “brinksmanship”
• CIA overthrow of Iran, 1953
• CIA overthrow of
Guatemala, 1954
• Interstate Highway Act,
1956
• Sputnik
• NASA
• U-2 incident
• domino theory
• US economy since WWII:
growth of service
economy
1950S SOCIETY
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Conformity in the 1950s
Suburbia
“Baby Boom”
“Cult of Domesticity” returns
G.I. Bill
Consumerism
“Affluent Society”
non-conformity: Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, James
Dean, Beatniks
Rock n’ Roll – influence of black music
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
1954-1968
• Brown v. Board of
Education, 1954
• Emmitt Till
• Rosa Parks
• Montgomery Bus Boycott,
1955
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
• Little Rock crisis, 1957
• Civil Rights Act of 1957
• Greensboro sit-in, 1960
• Freedom Riders (CORE)
• James Meredith, University
of Mississippi
• March on Birmingham,
Alabama
• March on Washington, “I
have a dream” speech
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Malcolm X, Nation of
Islam
• Black Power, Stokely
Carmichael
• Black Panthers
• Defacto vs De Jure
Segregation
• Assassination of MLK
THE 1960S
KENNEDY
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1960 election: TV
Berlin Wall
New Frontier Program
Peace Corps
Alliance for Progress (“Marshall Plan of Latin
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NASA
Bay of Pigs invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Assassination of JFK, Warren Commission
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
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Medicare
Medicaid
Public Education Spending, PBS, NEH, NEA
• Immigration Act of 1965
1960S CULTURE
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Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
National Organization for Women (NOW)
gains for women
Roe v. Wade
Counterculture: sex, drugs & rock n’ roll
Andy Warhol, Pop Art
Warren Court: desegregation, rights of the accused,
voting reforms
VIETNAM
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Vietcong
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
Impact of LBJ’s Vietnam decision on 1968 reelection
“New Left,” free speech movement
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Anti-war protests
1968: “Year of Shocks”: Tet Offensive, assassinations
1968 Presidential Election
Vietnamization
bombing and invasion of Cambodia
Kent State protest
MODERN TOPICS
• Richard Nixon, Republican, “Southern
Strategy”
• George Wallace
• Détente; realpolitik
• SALT I
• New Federalism
• Nixon: revenue sharing
• Watergate scandal
• Energy crisis, OPEC
• Stagflation
• “Rust Belt” to “Sun Belt”
• President Jimmy Carter
• Humanitarian diplomacy
• Camp David Accords (peace between
Egypt and Israel)
• Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• deregulation
• Election of 1980
• President Ronald Reagan
• conservatism
• “Religious Right”
• “Reaganomics”
• supply-side economics, tax cuts
• Nicaraguan Contras
• “Evil Empire” speech, “Star Wars”
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• INF Treaty, 1987
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Iran/Contra Scandal, 1987
Fall of communism in Eastern Europe, 1989
Fall of Soviet Union, 1991
“Graying of America”
Economic transition to service economy in
late 20th century (no longer based on
industrialism)
President George H.W. Bush
Gulf War, “Operation Desert Storm,” 1991
1992 Election: Bush, Clinton, Perot
President Bill Clinton
gays in the military: “don’t ask, don’t tell”
NAFTA, 1994
“Contract with America,” 1994
Clinton impeachment, 1997
Bush v. Gore, 2000
9/11 Terrorist Attacks on New York City &
Washington, D.C., 2001
Invasion of Afghanistan, 2002
Invasion of Iraq & removal of Saddam
Hussein, 2003