General Review Tips
• Prioritize - Focus on topics/areas of weakness first
• Avoid trying to memorize too much Review “big picture” concepts first, specific terms/name/events later
• Look at old materials - Review in-class and reading notes, past essays
& tests, study materials from Fall final
• Try different approaches There is no “best” way to review
(alone/group, on-line/book/flash cards, practice tests/packets – it depends on your learning style – try mixing it up).
• Find a “middle ground” - Some review better than no review. Too much review is counterproductive.
• Be positive – You have learned a lot this year & the AP exam is graded on a major curve.

AP Exam Multiple Choice Information
• 55 minutes for 80 questions
• Each question has 5 possible answers
• Multiple Choice counts for ½ of total score
• No points lost for wrong or skipped questions.
• Questions get progressively more challenging.
• BIG curve on multiple choice Score over 40 likely earns a 3 (passing score) – over 50 likely earns a 4 and over 60 a 5.
• Chronology of Questions:
– 16 (20%) pre 1790; 36 (45%) 1790-1914; 28 (35%) 1915 – 1990
• Topic of Questions:
– 28 (35%) Politics; 28 (35%) Social/Cultural; 12 (15%) Foreign
Policy; 8 (10%) Economics; 4 (5%) Cultural/Intellectual

AP Exam Essay Information
• There is 1 DBQ essay you must write on and 4 FRQ prompts of which you must write on 2. You will be required to write one FRQ on a topic prior to 1880 and one FRQ on a topic after that date.
• The 5 total essay prompts will range in their topics chronologically and thematically.
AP Essay Writing Tips
• READ prompts multiple times
• Brainstorm & make a quick “plan of attack”
• Introduction needs some brief background on “big picture” followed by an on-topic thesis
• Body paragraphs need to BLEND details with analysis.
(Facts & explanations).
• Grading is “holistic” – no points “taken away”, just earned. If in doubt, make a guess.

A few AP US Exam review websites:
Time lines: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineO.cfm
http://chaos1.hypermart.net/fullsize/US1750fs.gif
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0902416.html
Terms grouped by “era” http://www.mredmoody.com/ush-ap-preperation.html
http://www.salemwitchtrials.com/history/index.htm
General review websites: http://highschoolsurvivalguide.com/APUSH.html
http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/ http://www.historyteacher.net/AHAP/AHAPCourseMainPage.htm

Brainstorm significant people, events, themes, trends and/or ideas from 1606-1800

Key concepts to consider
• Political: Regional differences, government structure,
Enlightenment values, Articles of Confederation,
Constitution, Fed vs. Anti Fed, French & Indian War, clashes with Native Americans, various rebellions against authority
• Social: Regional differences, Role of women, impact of religion & First Great Awakening, Deism, free black communities, reasons for immigration
• Economic: Regional differences, slavery vs. indentured servants, mercantilism, salutary neglect,
Columbian exchange

• Analyze the contribute of TWO of the following in helping establish a stable government after adoption of the
Constitution:
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington

“The United States Constitution represented an economic and ideological victory for the traditional political elite.” Assess the validity of that statement for the period
1781 to 1789.

• Analyze the impact of the American
Revolution on both slavery and the status of women in the period from 1775-1800.

Compare the ways in which religion shaped the development of colonial society (before 1750) in TWO of the following regions:
New England
Chesapeake
Middle Atlantic

• How did economic growth, geographic, and social factors encourage the growth of slavery as an important part of the economy of the southern colonies between 1607 and 1775?