AP U.S. HISTORY | Mr. Long
APUSH EXAM REVIEW
INSTRUCTIONS: For each terms, identify: Who or what?, Where?, When? Why is it significant? and/or How did it
change events or conditions?
 Related terms may be listed together separated by a comma or semi-colon; explain each term and their relationship
 Many terms contain additional prompts related to their significance. Be able to explain the prompt
I. COLONIAL ERA
THE THIRTEEN COLONIES AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1607-1750
1.
comparison of Spanish & French colonies vs. English colonization (economies, government, societies)
2.
role of joint-stock companies in English colonization
3.
Roanoke Island (1588)
4.
Regions: South, Chesapeake, Middle, New England – Compare/contrast reasons for settlement & types of settlers
5.
Who founded Virginia Colony and why
6.
Jamestown
7.
role of tobacco in Virginia; John Rolfe
8.
Bacon’s Rebellion
9.
indentured servitude
10.
Slavery: Why did it become established? Where did it legally exist by 1700?
11.
Lord Baltimore & Maryland
12.
Maryland Act of Toleration (1649)
13.
Separatist Puritans (Pilgrims)
14.
Mayflower Compact
15.
Puritans; Reasons for emigration, Massachusetts Bay Colony
16.
Great Migration
17.
Roger Williams, Rhode Island
18.
Anne Hutchinson
19.
Half-way Covenant
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Old Deluder (Satan) Act
21.
Metacom; King Phillip’s War
22.
Why the Dutch settled New Netherland; New York
23.
Quakers (Society of Friends)
24.
William Penn & Pennsylvania as a “holy experiment”
25.
Rice and indigo
26.
Georgia; James Oglethorpe
27.
mercantilism
28.
Navigation Acts
29.
colonial response to the Dominion of New England – and reaction of Great Britain
30.
“triangular trade”
31.
middle passage
32.
Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)
COLONIAL SOCIETY IN THE 18TH CENTURY
33.
Immigrant groups: Why, when & where they settled (English, Germans, Scots-Irish, Africans)
34.
extent of social mobility
35.
colonial family life (compare New England vs. Chesapeake)
36.
Colonial governments: corporate, royal, proprietary (explain each, which colonies?)
37.
colonial economies: variations by region/topography (New England, middle, Chesapeake & South)
38.
salutary neglect
39.
main religions by region/colony
40.
religious toleration: reasons for, extent
41.
(First) Great Awakening
42.
Jonathon Edwards & George Whitefield
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New Lights vs. Old Lights
44.
deism
45.
Enlightenment thought – main ideas
46.
Benjamin Franklin
47.
education in the colonies (sectarian/non-sectarian)
48.
John Peter Zenger
49.
Colonial governors and legislatures (reasons for colonial autonomy)
50.
town meetings
51.
Stono Rebellion
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II. REVOLUTIONARY ERA
THE COMING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1754-1775
52.
French and Indian War (1754-63)
53.
Albany Plan of Union (1754); significance as to colonial unity
54.
Peace of Paris (1763)
55.
Impact of the French & Indian War on the colonies
56.
George III
57.
Pontiac’s Rebellion
58.
Proclamation of 1763
59.
Sugar Act (1764)
60.
Quartering Act (1765)
61.
Stamp Act (1765)
62.
Stamp Act Congress
63.
Sons/Daughters of Liberty
64.
Declaratory Act (1766)
65.
Townshend Duties (1767)
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Writs of Assistance
67.
Boston Massacre (1770)
68.
Committees of Correspondence
69.
Tea Act (1773)
70.
Boston Tea Party (1773)
71.
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts (1774)
72.
Quebec Act (1774)
73.
Enlightenment political ideals
74.
John Locke
75.
virtual representation/actual representation
AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE CONFEDERATION, 1776-1787
76.
First Continental Congress (1774)
77.
Samuel Adams & John Adams
78.
Lexington and Concord
79.
Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
80.
Second Continental Congress (1775)
81.
Olive Branch Petition
82.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, The Crisis
83.
Declaration of Independence
84.
Patriots and Loyalists
85.
George Washington; Continental Army
86.
Reasons for discontent among soldiers in the Continental Army
87.
Battle of Saratoga – where, when, significance
88.
Battle of Yorktown – where, when, significance
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Treaty of Paris (1783); main provisions
90.
Reasons for the American victory in the Revolution
91.
effect of the revolution on slavery
92.
republican motherhood
93.
Articles of Confederation; structure of government set up; strengths and weaknesees
94.
Land Ordinance of 1785
95.
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
96.
Shay’s Rebellion
5
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE FEDERAL PERIOD, 1787-1800
97.
Constitutional Convention
98.
Socioeconomic status of Framers; James Madison, Alexander Hamilton
99.
Virginia Plan vs. New Jersey Plan
100.
Connecticut Plan (Great Compromise)
101.
separation of powers; checks and balances
102.
Limits on power of the people: electoral college, senate, Supreme Court
103.
Three-fifths Compromise; slave trade compromise
104.
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
105.
Federalist Papers
106.
Bill of Rights; Reasons for its addition to the Constitution
107.
Executive departments formed: War, Treasury, State; the Cabinet system
108.
Judiciary Act (1789)
109.
Hamilton’s Financial Plan (Report on Public Credit, Report on Manufactures) - national debt, state debts, Bank
110.
impact of the French Revolution on American politics in the 1790s
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Neutrality Proclamation (1793)
112.
Citizen Genet
113.
Pinckney’s Treaty (1795)
114.
Jay’s Treaty (1794) (Unresolved issues with Britain: British Forts and Loyalist Property)
115.
Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
116.
Treaty of Greenville
117.
formation of political parties: Democratic-Republicans and Federalists
118.
John Adams
119.
XYZ Affair
120.
Alien and Sedition Acts
121.
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
122.
Undeclared war with France – how war was averted
III. EARLY REPUBLIC
THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN ERA 1800-1824
123.
“Revolution of 1800”
124.
Jefferson’s actions with respect to the national government and the presidency
125.
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
126.
Lewis and Clark
127.
John Marshall
128.
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
129.
strict vs. broad construction of the constitution
130.
response of slaveholders to the Haitian Revolution
131.
American position during the Napolianic wars
132.
impressments, Orders in Council, and the Continental system
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Chesapeake Incident
134.
Embargo Act (1807)
135.
James Madison
136.
Non-intercourse Act (1808)
137.
Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810)
138.
Tecumseh and the Prophet
139.
Battle of Tippecanoe and William Henry Harrison
140.
War Hawks
141.
Battle of New Orleans
142.
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
143.
Hartford Convention; effect on the Federalist Party
144.
“Era of Good Feelings”
145.
American culture: Washington Irving, James Fennimore Cooper
146.
increase in nationalism after the War of 1812 (cultural, economic, diplomatic, judicial)
147.
James Monroe
148.
“American System”
149.
Second Bank of the United States
150.
Panic of 1819
151.
McCullough v. Maryland
152.
implied powers (loose construction)
153.
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
154.
Gibbons v. Ogden
155.
Missouri Compromise (1820)
156.
Adams-Onis (Transcontinental) Treaty (1819), Florida
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Monroe Doctrine (1823); why it was issued
A DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION, 1824-1840
158.
universal male suffrage – when, why, how
159.
John Quincy Adams
160.
Henry Clay
161.
“corrupt bargain”; effects on Democratic-Republican party
162.
Tariff of Abominations
163.
Andrew Jackson; programs he supported as President
164.
Party nominating conventions emerge; death of “King Caucus”
165.
spoils system
166.
Jacksonian democracy (??) – belief in the common man
167.
Second Party System
168.
Democratic Party: when and why formed, major beliefs and goals
169.
Whig Party: when and why formed, major beliefs and goals
170.
Indian Removal Act (1830)
171.
Worchester v. Georgia (1832)
172.
“Trail of tears”
173.
states’ rights
174.
Nullification crisis
175.
John C. Calhoun, South Carolina Exposition and Protest
176.
“Bank War”
177.
Nicholas Biddle (Czar Biddle)
178.
“pet banks”
179.
Specie Circular
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Panic of 1837
181.
Martin Van Buren
182.
183.
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“Log cabin and hard cider” campaign - popular campaigning
Hudson River School of art
IV. ANTEBELLUM ECONOMIC & SOCIAL TRANFORMATIONS
ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, 1815-1860
184.
turnpikes; National (Cumberland) Road
185.
impact of steamboats; Robert Fulton
186.
impact of the Erie Canal on (1) transportation and (2) economic and social development of the U.S.
187.
earliest railroad in U.S.; characteristics of early railroads (pre-1850)
188.
Eli Whitney, interchangeable parts, cotton gin
189.
Market Revolution (and/or transportation revolution??); relationship to the Industrial Revolution
190.
Samuel Slater and the factory system
191.
role of the Lowell mills in early industrialization; characteristics of Massachusetts textile workers in the 1830s, who
replaced them?
192.
early unions – legality, who joined, how effective
193.
characteristics of 1840s Irish immigrants (Potato Famine)
194.
characteristics of German “48ers”
195.
Old Northwest & agriculture
196.
nativists
197.
American Party
198.
role of “King Cotton” in the South, when it developed, where, effect on the Southern economy and society
199.
Southern concept of the “peculiar institution”
200.
basic structure of Southern society (planters, yeoman farmers, poor whites, hill people)
201.
extent of slave ownership in the South; why slaveholders held disproportionate power
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status of free blacks in the South and in the North
203.
Denmark Vesey; Nat Turner
RELIGION AND REFORM, 1820-1860
204.
transcendentalism
205.
Ralph Waldo Emerson; ideas
206.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “Civil Disobedience”
207.
utopian communities – what were they? Examples?
208.
Oneida Community
209.
Mormons (LDS Church)
210.
Second Great Awakening
211.
temperance movement
212.
asylum reform: Dorothea Dix
213.
penitentiaries; Auburn System (prison reform)
214.
public school movement – goals and impact; Horace Mann
215.
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
216.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott
217.
Susan B. Anthony
218.
separate spheres
219.
cult of domesticity
220.
American Colonization Society; What was its goal?
221.
abolitionism
222.
William Lloyd Garrison
223.
Frederick Douglass; The North Star
224.
gag rule
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V. EXPANSION AND SECTIONAL STRIFE
WESTWARD EXPANSION, 1830-1848
225.
Stephen F. Austin
226.
Texas Revolution – causes, results
227.
Alamo, San Jacinto, Sam Houston
228.
Lone Star Republic; why Jackson rejected its annexation request
229.
Great American Desert, Far West
230.
overland trails; Oregon Trail
231.
“manifest destiny”
232.
“54° 40’ or Fight!”; Oregon Treaty
233.
James K. Polk
234.
Rio Grande/Nueces River
235.
Mexican War (1846-1847)
236.
opposition to the Mexican War
237.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
238.
Mexican Cession
THE CRISIS OF THE UNION, 1848-1860
239.
Wilmot Proviso
240.
California Gold Rush; 49ers
241.
free soil movement; Free Soil Party
242.
“fireeaters”
243.
Compromise of 1850 – reasons for, provisions
244.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
245.
popular sovereignty
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Stephen Douglas
247.
personal liberty laws
248.
Underground Railroad
249.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
250.
Ostend Manifesto (1852)
251.
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
252.
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
253.
Republican Party; position on slavery
254.
“Bleeding Kansas”
255.
John Brown; Potawatomie Massacre
256.
Sumner-Brooks Incident
257.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
258.
Abraham Lincoln
259.
Lincoln-Douglass Debates; “House-Divided” Speech
260.
Freeport Doctrine
261.
John Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry – purpose, impact
262.
Election of 1860; split in parties
263.
secession; Confederate States of America
264.
Crittenden Compromise
265.
Fort Sumter
THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865
266.
causes of the Civil War
267.
border states
268.
First Battle of Bull Run
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Jefferson Davis and Alexander P. Stephens
270.
Robert E. Lee
271.
Antietam
272.
Ulysses S. Grant
273.
Lincoln’s use of wartime powers: habeus corpus, conscription, taxes, military courts
274.
New York City draft riots
275.
greenbacks
276.
Homestead Act (1862)
277.
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
278.
Pacific Railway Acts (1862 & 1864)
279.
Emancipation Proclamation (1863); immediate effect
280.
Gettysburg (1863)
281.
Vicksburg (1863)
282.
Appomattox Court House
283.
Lincoln’s assassination; John Wilkes Booth
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RECONSTRUCTION, 1863-1877
284.
Andrew Johnson
285.
black codes
286.
Freedman’s Bureau
287.
Radical Republicans; leaders, objectives
288.
14th Amendment
289.
Congressional Reconstruction
290.
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
291.
Impeachment of Johnson
292.
15th Amendment
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“scalawags”
294.
“carpetbaggers”
295.
status of freedmen 1865-1875 (Sharecropping; crop-lien system)
296.
Ku Klux Klan
297.
Election of 1876 (Hayes-Tilden)
298.
Compromise of 1877
VI. THE GILDED AGE
THE GILDED AGE: INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1865-1900
299.
transcontinental railroad; Union Pacific and Central Pacific
300.
Federal land grants to railroads
301.
Bessemer Process
302.
Andrew Carnegie
303.
vertical integration vs. horizontal integration
304.
United States Steel Co.
305.
John D. Rockefeller
306.
Standard Oil Trust
307.
Frederick Winslow Taylor, “Taylorism”
308.
Alexander Graham Bell
309.
Thomas Edison
310.
Stock-watering, pools, rebates, trusts
311.
J.P. Morgan
312.
Laissez-faire capitalism (?)
313.
Social Darwinism
314.
Gospel of Wealth
315.
Russell Conwell, “Acres of Diamonds”
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Horatio Alger
317.
White collar workers
318.
Women in workforce
319.
Scab, lockout, blacklist, yellow-dog contract; injunction
320.
National Labor Union
321.
Knights of Labor
322.
American Federation of Labor; goals, tactics
323.
Samuel Gompers
324.
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
325.
Haymarket Bombing (1886)
326.
Homestead Strike (1892)
327.
Pullman Strike (1894)
328.
Eugene Debs
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GILDED AGE: URBANIZATION & URBAN CULTURE 1865-1900
329.
“new” immigrants vs. “old” immigrants
330.
Ellis Island
331.
American Protective Association
332.
characteristics of American cities from 1890-1920
333.
reasons for declining death rates in late 19th century cities
334.
skyscrapers (Louis Sullivan)
335.
tenements, dumbbell tenements
336.
Streetcars, mass transportation
337.
suburbs
338.
political machines, city bosses (political corruption, voter fraud)
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Tammany Hall, William Marcy Tweed
340.
Social Gospel
341.
Settlement houses
342.
Jane Addams
343.
Entertainment: sports, Barnum-Bailey, Wild West shows
344.
Mark Twain
345.
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
THE GILDED AGE: THE FAR WEST AND NEW SOUTH, 1868-1900
346.
Three frontiers: mining, cattle, farming
347.
Comstock Lode
348.
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
349.
cattle drives
350.
homesteaders
351.
barbed wire, Joseph Glidden
352.
Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”
353.
reservations
354.
Indian Wars
355.
Sand Creek Massacre
356.
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse
357.
George Armstrong Custer and Little Big Horn
358.
Wounded Knee
359.
assimilationists
360.
Dawes Severalty Act (1887); Indian policy from 1890 until the New Deal
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A Century of Dishonor – Helen Hunt Jackson
362.
John Muir, John Wesley Powell
363.
New South
364.
sharecropping, crop lien system
365.
Jim Crow
366.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
367.
disenfranchisement: poll tax, literacy tests, grandfather clause
368.
Ida B. Wells
369.
lynching
370.
Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute
371.
Atlanta Compromise (1895)
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THE GILDED AGE: NATIONAL POLITICS 1865-1900
372.
Ulysses S. Grant
373.
Credit Mobilier
374.
Stalwarts vs. Halfbreeds
375.
Role of Presidents during Gilded Age
376.
Sources of government revenue in late 1800s
377.
Pendleton Act
378.
Granger Movement, Granger Laws
379.
Farmers Alliances
380.
Munn v. Illinois; Wabash v. Illinois
381.
Interstate Commerce Act (1886)
382.
“Crime of ‘73”
383.
McKinley Tariff (1890)
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
385.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
386.
United States v. E.C. Knight
387.
Populist (People’s) Party
388.
Omaha Platform – What were the main goals of the Populist Party?
389.
Panic of 1893
390.
Coxey’s Army
391.
free silver
392.
William Jennings Bryan
393.
“Cross of Gold” Speech
394.
“Gold Bugs”
395.
William McKinley
396.
Chinese Exclusion Act
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM, 1865-1914
397.
Alaska Purchase (1867)
398.
“new imperialism” – when, where, why
399.
Cuban Rebellion
400.
yellow journalism (Hearst & Pulitzer)
401.
Spanish-American War; causes
402.
De Lôme Letter
403.
Maine Explosion
404.
Teller Amendment
405.
Theodore Roosevelt
406.
Rough Riders
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Hawaii, Liliuokalani
408.
Treaty of Paris, 1899
409.
Phillipine Annexation and Rebellion
410.
Anti-Imperialist League
411.
Platt Amendment (1901)
412.
Open Door Policy
413.
Boxer Rebellion
414.
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”
415.
Panama Canal; how the U.S. secured rights to build the canal
416.
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Santo Domingo
417.
Gentlemen’s Agreement
418.
dollar diplomacy
419.
Mexican Expeditionary Force, John J. Pershing
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VII. PROGRESSIVISM & THE GREAT WAR
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1901-1918
420.
Progressivism; characteristics of Progressive leaders
421.
muckrakers
422.
Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives
423.
Lincoln Steffens – The Shame of the Cities
424.
Ida Tarbell – A History of the Standard Oil Company
425.
(Australian) secret ballot
426.
direct primary
427.
Robert LaFollette, The Wisconsin Idea
428.
17th Amendment – Direct election of senators
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Initiative, referendum, recall
430.
social welfare
431.
municipal reform
432.
Square Deal
433.
Anthracite coal strike (1902)
434.
Northern Securities case
435.
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
436.
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
437.
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
438.
Gifford Pinchot
439.
William Howard Taft
440.
Pinchot-Ballinger affair
441.
preservationism v. conservationism
442.
Federal income tax – 16th Amendment
443.
Socialist Party, Eugene Debs
444.
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
445.
Bull Moose Party
446.
New Nationalism v. New Freedom
447.
Underwood Tariff (1913)
448.
Federal Reserve Act (1914)
449.
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
450.
Federal Trade Commission
451.
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
452.
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
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453.
18 Amendment; causes
454.
W.E.B. DuBois; philosophy for race relations
455.
NAACP
456.
National American Women Suffrage Association, Carrie Chatman Catt
457.
National Women’s Party, Alice Paul
458.
19th Amendment
WORLD WAR I, 1914-1918
459.
Allied Powers v. Central Powers
460.
American position during intial years of WWI
461.
unrestricted submarine warfare
462.
Lusitania
463.
Sussex Pledge
464.
Zimmerman Telegram
465.
Reasons the U.S. entered WWI
466.
George Creel, Committee on Public Information, its goals
467.
War agencies: War Production Board, War Industries Board
468.
Espionage Act (1917) and Sedition Act (1918)
469.
Schenck v. U.S (1919)
470.
Great Migration
471.
American Expeditionary Force; Military impact of U.S. involvement in WWI
472.
Fourteen Points
473.
Treaty of Versailles
474.
League of Nations
475.
Reservationists and Irreconcilables
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476.
Henry Cabot Lodge
477.
Red Scare
478.
Palmer Raids
479.
Red Summer (race riots, Chicago)
VIII. PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION
THE 1920s
480.
Warren G. Harding
481.
Teapot Dome Scandal
482.
Calvin Coolidge
483.
Herbert Hoover
484.
economic policies of the federal government in the 20s (Andrew Mellon)
485.
business prosperity
486.
open shop
487.
welfare capitalism
488.
results of Ford’s assembly line
489.
Consumerism: autos, radio, movies, advertising
490.
radio, KDKA
491.
Charles Lindbergh
492.
Margaret Sanger and birth control
493.
Lost Generation – characteristics, important writers
494.
Harlem Renaissance, important writers
495.
Jazz; Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington
496.
flappers
497.
modernism vs. fundamentalism
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Scopes Trial
499.
Prohibition and Volstead Act (1919)
500.
organized crime
501.
Al Capone
502.
immigration quotas, National Origins Act (1924)
503.
Ku Klux Klan (of the 20s); Birth of a Nation
504.
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL, 1929-1941
505.
Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929)
506.
underlying causes of the Great Depression (e.g. income distribution)
507.
Buying on margin, stock speculation
508.
Herbert Hoover
509.
Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930)
510.
Hoover’s responses to the Great Depression
511.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
512.
Bonus Army (1932) – objective, results
513.
FDR
514.
Hundred Days; concerns addressed
515.
Three R’s (relief, recovery, reform)
516.
Bank Holiday
517.
Glass-Steagall Act, FDIC
518.
Repeal of Prohibition, 21st Amendment
519.
Fireside chats
520.
Public Works Administration
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521.
Civilian Conservation Corps
522.
Tennessee Valley Authority
523.
National Recovery Administration
524.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
525.
Schechter v. United States (sick chicken case)
526.
Securities and Exchange Commission
527.
Second New Deal
528.
Works Progress Administration, Harry Hopkins
529.
Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act) (1935)
530.
Social Security Act (1935)
531.
Fr. Charles Coughlin, Francis Townshend
532.
Huey Long, “Share Our Wealth”
533.
Court-packing Plan
534.
Congress of Industrial Organizations, John J. Lewis
535.
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
536.
Keynesian economics
537.
Dust Bowl, Okies
538.
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
IX. WORLD CRISES
DIPLOMACY AND WORLD WAR II, 1929-1945
539.
Washington Conference (1921)
540.
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
541.
Dawes Plan (1924)
542.
Manchuria (Manchukuo) and U.S. response (Stimson Doctrine)
543.
Good Neighbor Policy
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544.
Axis Powers
545.
Isolationism; Nye Committee
546.
Neutrality Acts
547.
America First Committee
548.
Ethiopia, Rhineland, Anschluss, Sudetenland
549.
Appeasement, Munich Conference
550.
Poland, blitzkrieg
551.
cash-and-carry
552.
preparedness: Selective Service Act (1940)
553.
Destroyers for Bases Deal
554.
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
555.
Atlantic Charter
556.
Pearl Harbor
557.
economic effects of military spending during WWII
558.
Office of Price Adminstration
559.
rationing
560.
“Rosie the Riveter” (?)
561.
Japanese Internment (Exec. Order 8066)
562.
Korematsu v. US (1944)
563.
A. Phillip Randolph, Fair Employment Practices Comm.
564.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
565.
D-Day
566.
Holocaust
567.
Battle of Midway
568.
Yalta Conference (Feb. 1945)
25
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569.
Harry S Truman
570.
Potsdam Confence (July 1945)
571.
Manhattan Project; J. Robert Oppenheimer
572.
Atomic bomb
573.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
574.
United Nations; San Francisco Conference
TRUMAN AND THE COLD WAR, 1945-1952
575.
GI Bill (1944)
576.
baby boom
577.
reasons for growth of suburbia
578.
sunbelt
579.
22nd Amendment (two-term limit for pres)
580.
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
581.
Dixiecrats in 1948; Strom Thurmond
582.
Fair Deal
583.
Cold War
584.
Iron Curtain, communist satellites
585.
containment policy; George Kennan
586.
Truman Doctrine
587.
Marshall Plan
588.
Berlin Airlift
589.
East Germany, West Germany
590.
NATO; Warsaw Pact
591.
NSC-68, Arms race
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592.
“loss” of China
593.
Korean War; UN police action
594.
HUAC
595.
Alger Hiss
596.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case
597.
Joseph McCarthy; McCarthyism
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X. AFFLUENCE AND TURMOIL
THE EISENHOWER YEARS, 1952-1960
598.
Dwight D. Eisenhower; “Modern Republicanism”
599.
Federal Highway Act (1956)
600.
John Foster Dulles, brinksmanship
601.
massive retaliation
602.
Dienbienphu; Geneva Accords
603.
Ho Chi Minh
604.
domino theory
605.
Hungarian Revolt (1956)
606.
Sputnik
607.
NASA
608.
Open-skies crisis, U2 incident
609.
Fidel Castro
610.
military-industrial complex (Eisenhower’s farewell address)
611.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS (1954), Earl Warren
612.
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr.
613.
Little Rock crisis
614.
Civil Rights Act of 1957, Civil Rights Commission
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615.
beatniks
616.
Michael Harrington, The Other America
617.
David Riesman
618.
John Kenneth Galbraith
PROMISES AND TURMOIL: THE 1960S
619.
Election of 1960 (Kennedy vs. Nixon)
620.
New Frontier
621.
Peace Corps
622.
Bay of Pigs
623.
Berlin Wall
624.
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
625.
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
626.
Assassination of Kennedy (1963); Warren Commission
627.
Lyndon Johnson; Great Society
628.
War on Poverty
629.
Medicare, Medicaid
630.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965)
631.
Immigration Act of 1965
632.
SCLC, SNCC, non-violent protest
633.
Greenboro sit-ins
634.
March on Washington, 1963, “I have a dream…”
635.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
636.
Freedom Summer, 1964
637.
24th Amendment
638.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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639.
Malcolm X
640.
Stokeley Carmichael (SNCC), Black Power!
641.
Black Panthers
642.
Watts Riots, 1965
643.
“long hot summers”, Kerner Commission
644.
Warren Court: Rights Revolution, Miranda v. Arizona
645.
New Left
646.
Students for a Democratic Society; Port Huron Statement
647.
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
648.
counterculture
649.
Woodstock (and Altamont)
650.
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
651.
National Organization for Women (NOW)
652.
ERA
653.
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
654.
Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed
655.
Vietnam War
656.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
657.
Tet Offensive
658.
Hawks and doves
659.
Robert Kennedy, impact of assassination
660.
moon landing (1969)
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XI. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
AMERICA, 1969-1980
661.
Richard Nixon; reasons for “comeback” win in 1968 (“Southern strategy”)
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662.
George Wallace; support for him in 1968 presidential campaign
663.
Henry Kissinger
664.
Vietnamization
665.
Nixon Doctrine
666.
Kent State shootings
667.
My Lai Massacre
668.
Pentagon Papers
669.
détente with USSR
670.
Paris Peace Accords, 1973
671.
Nixon’s China visit, 1972
672.
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks (SALT)
673.
stagflation (stagnation + inflation)
674.
reasons for high inflation in the late 1960s and early 1970s
675.
Watergate
676.
United States v. Nixon.
677.
War Powers Act, 1973
678.
Middle East War, 1973
679.
OPEC oil embargo
680.
Roe v. Wade
681.
Jimmy Carter; characteristics of the economy during his term
682.
Panama Canal Treaty (1978)
683.
Camp David Accords; Anwar Sadat
684.
Iran Hostage Crisis; Ayatollah Khomeini
685.
Mexican Americans, Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers
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686.
American Indian Movement (AIM)
687.
Indian Self-Determination Act (1975)
688.
Gay-rights movemental; Stonewall Inn raid 1969; 1993 “don’t ask, don’t tell”
689.
Nuclear accidents: Three Mile Island (‘79), Chernobyl (’86)
690.
Clean Air Act (1970)
691.
Clean Water Act (1972)
692.
EPA
693.
Ronald Reagan; “Reaganomics” and its results
694.
Iran-contra scandal
695.
Sandanistas and contras
696.
Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
697.
Berlin Wall's fall
698.
Gulf War; Operation Desert Storm
699.
Whitewater; Monica Lewinsky
700.
welfare reform
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Sources: “Mother of All Review Sheets,” Mr. Pecot, Cleveland St. Edwards H.S.; Mr. Greg Feldmeth, Ploytechnic School, Pasadena, California “Year-end Review”; APUSH released exams
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