AP US History Exam
Friday, May 8th at 7:30 a.m. in
small gym
AP US History Exam
55 Multiple Choice Questions
4 Short Answer Questions
1 Document Based Question
1 Long Essay
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Review Schedule
Week 1: Periods 1, 2, & 3 (Chapters 1-6), 1491
to 1800
Week 2: Period 4 and part of Period 5 (Chapters
7-13), 1800 to 1861
Week 3: Part of Period 5 and Period 6 (Chapters
14-19), 1861-1898
Week 4: Period 7 (Chapters 20-25), 1898-1945
Week 5: Periods 8 & 9 (Chapters 26-31), 1945 to
the present
Week 6: Complete and review practice test in
back of AMSCO
Review Schedule
Pull out your Guided Readings for each week
Go through your APUSH binder and look at your
focuses and mnemonics
Review your quizzes and complete the m/c at the
end of each chapter (Mr. Patty/Mrs. Mitchell will
share answers with you if you demonstrate that
you did it)
Commit to learning the key vocab that we are
going over during tutorials
Stay positive and think about how much money you
are saving yourself
Review Schedule
Staying with a schedule requires discipline
This discipline is greatly strengthened if a study
group chooses a specific time and place to meet
and sets specific objectives for each meeting
Review Schedule
Period 1, 1491-1607
Chapter 1
The period from pre-Columbian Indian
cultures to the founding of Jamestown
covers the interaction of cultures and how
Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
created a “new” world.
Period 2, 1607-1754
Chapters 2-3
Various mixtures of American Indians,
Europeans, and African Americans created
colonies with distinctive cultures, economies,
and populations.
Period 3, 1754-1800
Chapters 4-6
Wars over empires provided the context for
the American Revolution and founding of the
United States, including the political
struggles to form a “more perfect union.”
3/5 Compromise
#44 Settled the issue over
representation and taxation of
free and enslaved persons
$400
In order to select a
president with a small
number of voters, this
system was created.
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What is the
Electoral
College?
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Among the several
authors of the
Constitution, this
Virginian is considered
the most important.
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Who is James
Madison?
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Articles of Confederation
#40 Document signed amongst
the thirteen original colonies
that established the United
States of America as a
confederation of sovereign
states and served as its first
constitution
Bill of Rights
43. First 10 amendments
to the Constitution
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This political faction’s most
common complaint about
the Constitution was that it
lacked Bill of Rights
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Who are the
Anti-Federalists?
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Capitalism
11. An economic system in
which trade, industry, and
the means of production
are largely or entirely
privately owned and
operated for profit.
Connecticut Compromise
51. Established the House
of Representatives based
upon population and the
Senate upon equal
representation- Roger
Sherman
Constitution
47. Rules and regulations
forming the US government
and guaranteeing rights to
citizens
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These anonymous
newspaper articles in New
York, later collected into a
single volume, helped the
ratification of the
Constitution.
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What are the
Federalist
Papers?
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These three authors
anonymously
published the
Federalist Papers.
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Who are
Madison,
Hamilton and
Jay?
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The Constitution
officially took effect
beginning in this
year.
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What is 1789?
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Declaration of
Independence
39. Document declaring the
13 colonies independent
from Britain and part of
the new Sovereign United
States of America
Federalism
41. A political concept in
which a group of members
are bound together by
covenant with a governing
representative head.
Feudalism
10. Legal and military
customs that structured
society around holding land
in exchange for service and
labor.
French and Indian War
32. 1754 –1763: North
American theater of the
worldwide Seven Years'
War.
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During the French and
Indian War, Benjamin
Franklin proposed this
idea for colonial unity.
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What is the
Albany Plan for
Union?
Round 1
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The name of the first
political cartoon in
North America
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The name of the first
political cartoon in
North America
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During this period—1713 to
1763—the colonies were
largely left alone to
develop their own
economic and political
institutions.
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What is Salutary
Neglect?
Round 1
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This tribe was a long-time
ally of France in the St.
Lawrence valley and helped
fight the British and
American colonists during the
French and Indian War.
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What is the
Huron?
Round 2
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This treaty, that ended
the French and Indian
War, removed France
entirely from North
America.
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What is the
Treaty of Paris
(1763)?
Round 2
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This officer began the
French and Indian War in
1754 with his attack on Ft.
Duquesne.
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Who is George
Washington?
Round 2
Huron Confederacy
18. Five Iroquoian-speaking
nations united to solve
group problems
Kentucky Resolution
48. Argued that the states
had the right and the duty
to declare unconstitutional
any acts of Congress that
were not authorized by the
Constitution
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Mr. Adams was the
leader of this
political party.
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What is the
Federalist
Party?
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This event created war
fever in America, after
three French agents
“dissed” American
diplomats in France.
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What is the XYZ
Affair?
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These two 1798 laws
were passed by
Federalists to silence
Jeffersonian opposition
to the Quasi-War.
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What are the
Alien and
Sedition Acts?
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Jefferson and Madison
expressed their
opposition to the Alien
and Sedition Acts with
these two “compact
theory” resolutions.
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What are the
Virginia and
Kentucky
Resolutions?
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Liberty
30. Social and political
freedoms guaranteed to all
citizens
Middle Colonies
20. New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, and
Delaware
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This Quaker
founded the
colony of
Pennsylvania.
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Who is
William
Penn?
Round 1
Molasses Act
17. British law that
imposed a tax on sugar and
rum imported from nonBritish foreign colonies into
the North-America colonies
Monarchy
36. A governmental system
in which there is a
hereditary head of state
New Jersey Plan
50. Representation should
be one per state- William
Paterson
Northern Colonies
19. Rhode Island, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,
and Connecticut
Ultimate Question
This Calvinist wrote, “We
shall build a city upon a
hill,” and became governor
of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony in 1630.
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Ultimate Question
Who is John
Winthrop?
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In 1635 he was banished from the
Massachusetts Bay Colony
because he said that the
government had no authority
over the personal opinions of
individuals. He founded Rhode
Island as a colony for religious
freedom
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Roger Williams
Early Discovery and Settlement
64
An attempt by New England
clergymen in 1662 to counteract
declining church membership by
allowing the children of church
members to join even though
they had not experienced
salvation
Half Way Covenant
65
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This Puritan leader was
perhaps the most
important in founding the
colony of Connecticut.
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Who is
Thomas
Hooker?
Round 2
Northwest Ordinance
37. Act of the Congress of
Confederation creating the
first organized territory
from lands beyond the
Appalachian Mountains
Parliament
45. An assembly of
representatives, usually of
an entire nation, that
makes laws
Proclamation of Neutrality
52. May 1793, declares
the US stance on the
issues between England and
France
Ratification
46. 9/13 states had to do
this for this to be enacted
Republic
31. Power resides in the
people, and the government
is ruled by elected leaders
run according to law
Separation of Powers
42. Powers and
responsibilities are divided
among the legislative,
executive, and judicial
branches of government
Southern Colonies
21. Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia
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This Catholic
gentleman founded
the colony of
Maryland.
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Who is Lord
Baltimore?
(Sir George Calvert)
Round 1
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In 1649, this became
the first law granting
a degree of religious
toleration in the
colonies.
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What is the
Maryland Act of
Toleration?
Round 1
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James Oglethorp
founded this colony
as a haven for
debtors.
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What is
Georgia?
Round 1
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This early figure in
Virginia led the
colony to survive
its “starving time.”
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Who is Captain
John Smith?
Round 1
This was used in Virginia to
encourage immigration by
giving 50 acres of land to
any settler who brought a
servant
Headright system
Early Discovery and Settlement
83
This Virgina settler married and
experiments with growing
tobacco in the colony
John Rolfe
Early Discovery and Settlement
84
Virginia Plan
49. Representation should
be population basedJames Madison
Abigail Adams
58. Their letters give eye
witness accounts of the
revolution and admonished
the government to
remember the women that
helped fight for
independence too
Adam Smith
53. Scottish social
philosopher and political
economist, author of The
Wealth of Nations
Alexander Hamilton
57. Wanted to establish a
Bank of the US, pay off
the war debt, and add
tariffs
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A compromise on this
Hamiltonian measure
gave the new
national capital to the
South.
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What is the
assumption of
state debts?
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This Hamiltonian
measure was responsible
for the largest share of
government revenues.
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What is the
tariff (customs
duties)?
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This aspect of
Hamilton’s plan
provoked the
Whiskey Rebellion.
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What are excise
taxes?
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Common people who
bought bonds during the
Revolution criticized
Hamilton for not informing
them of this new
government policy.
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What is funding
at par?
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British
62. Took over what is now
the Eastern Seaboard of
the US
Catholic
76. Excluded from most
colonies those of the
____________ branch of
Christianity were allowed in
Maryland
Dutch
63. Took over what is now
New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, and
Pennsylvania
French
61. Took over what is now
Canada and most of the
area west of the
Appalachian Mountains
George Washington
56. Their Farewell address
warned of political parties
and permanent military
alliances
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Washington led an army
part of the way in 1794
when this rebellion
broke out in western
Pennsylvania.
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What is the
Whiskey
Rebellion?
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Hunter-Gatherer
4. Nomadic tribes were
most or all of the food
obtained is from wild plants
and animals.
Indentured Servant
74. A labor system
whereby people paid for
their passage to the New
World by working for an
employer for a certain
number of years
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This 1676 rebellion in
Virginia contributed to
an increase in black
slavery and decrease
in white indentured
servitude.
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What is
Bacon’s
Rebellion?
Round 1
Jay’s Treaty
72. Between Britain and
the US that is credited
with averting war, resolving
issues remaining since
Revolutionary War, and
facilitated ten years of
peaceful trade
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
55. One of the most
influential philosophers
during the Enlightenment
and author of The Social
Contract
John Locke
69. English philosopher and
physician, one of the most
influential of Enlightenment
thinkers, known as the
"Father of Classical
Liberalism"
Mestizo
68. A person of combined
European and Native
American descent
Montesquieu
71. French lawyer, man of
letters, and political
philosopher who espoused
the separation of powers.
Paxton Boys
59. 1763, Scots-Irish
frontiersmen in central
Pennsylvania who formed a
vigilante group to retaliate
against Indians and
marched to Philadelphia to
present grievances
Pilgrim
66. Settlers who had fled
the volatile political
environment in England for
Holland then went to the
Americas, and maintained
that their congregations
needed to be separated from
the Church of England
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Although technically not a
constitution, this was a
landmark agreement
among Pilgrims and nonPilgrims for majority
rule.
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What is the
Mayflower
Compact?
Round 1
Pinckney’s Treaty
73. Established intentions of
friendship between the US
and Spain, defined the
boundaries of the US and
Spanish colonies and
guaranteed US navigation
rights on the Mississippi
Portuguese
64. Took over what is now
Brazil
Protestant
75. The majority of Colonial
settlers were of the
__________ branch of
Christianity
Puritan
65. A member of a group of
Protestants within the Church
of England, demanded the
simplification of doctrine and
worship, and greater
strictness in religious
discipline
Republican Motherhood
77. A concept that deals with
the role of women and their
duties to both family and
country at the time of the
American Revolution.
Shay
70. Led a group of rebels
against Massachusetts courts
and later the United States'
Federal Armory in an
unsuccessful attempt to seize
its weaponry and overthrow
the government.
Slave
67. A person held in
servitude as the chattel of
another
Spanish
60. Took over what is now
Central and most of South
America and the Southwest
US
Thomas Paine
54. English American writer
whose Common Sense
influenced the American
Revolution
Voltaire
78. French Enlightenment
writer, historian and
philosopher, believed in the
separation of church and
state.
Anglicization
25. Transplanting British
society onto new regions/
peoples
Atlantic Slave Trade
16. Slave trade from the
16th through to the 19th
centuries.
Atlantic World
35. Interactions among the
peoples/empires bordering the
Atlantic Ocean rim from the
1450s on
Cereal Crops
22. Primary crops from the
New England region
Columbian Exchange
5. Widespread transfer of
animals, plants, culture,
human populations,
communicable diseases,
technology and ideas between
the Americas and AfroEurasian hemispheres in the
15th and 16th centuries.
Common Sense
39. Document declaring the
13 colonies independent from
Britain and part of the new
Sovereign United States of
America
Conquistador
24. Spanish and Portuguese
explorers/ soldiers
Encomienda
9. Legal system used by the
Spanish crown during
colonization to regulate
Native-Americans and reward
Spaniards.
Enlightenment
28. Era from which cultural
and intellectual forces
emphasized reason, analysis
and individualism rather than
traditional lines of authority.
Great Basin
2. Area of little rain, few
trees, no large river, and few
game.
Great Plains
3. Flat land with prairie
grasses, trees along rivers,
elk, and bison.
Horses
7. Domesticated animal from
Europe
Joint-Stock Company
15. A business entity where
different stakes can be
bought and owned by
shareholders
Llama
8. Only domesticated pack
animal in the Americas
Maize
1. A Large grain plant
domesticated by indigenous
peoples in Mesoamerica in
prehistoric times.
Mercantilism
29. A nation should export
more than it imported and
accumulate bullion to make up
the difference. Exportation
of finished goods favored.
Northwest Territory
34. Set aside in 1763 for
Native Americas, organized
incorporated territory 17871803
Peach, pear, wheat, rice
13. Food from
Europe/Africa/Asia to the
Americas
Religious Toleration
27. Within the First
Amendment of the Bill of
Rights
Small Pox
6. Deadly communicable
disease from Europe.
Tobacco
23. Primary crop from the
Chesapeake region
Tomatoes, potatoes,
pumpkin, pineapple
14. Food from the Americas
to Europe/Africa/Asia
Triangular Trade
26. Trade among the
Americas, Europe, and Africa
White-Superiority
12. The belief that AngloSaxons are superior to people
of other racial backgrounds
and that therefore whites
should politically,
economically, and socially
dominate non-whites.