Advanced Placement U.S. History
Review #1
Turning Points:
Listed below are major turning points in U.S. history. In each case, identify the implied event, comment on its
significance, and then list at least 3 contemporaneous (any event within a five-year period of the event) movements,
trends, or activities in literature, science, art or economics
1763
Event:
Significance:
Related Events
a.
b.
c.
1776
Event:
Significance:
Related Events
a.
b.
c.
1789
Event:
Significance:
Related Events
a.
b.
c.
1800
Event:
Significance:
Related Events
a.
b.
c.
Presidential Promises and Quotable Quotations:
Presidential Administrations:
Identify the president associated with each designation, key policies of his administration associated with the motto, and
the motto’s importance in conveying a major theme of our history at the time.
1. Square Deal
2. Dollar Diplomacy
3. Modern Republicanism
Quotable Quotations:
Identify the source of the quotation, when and it what context it was used, it’s larger significance in expressing a theme
of American history.
1. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
2. “The power to tax involves the power to destroy”
3. “It is at the bottom of life we must begin, not at the top.”
The Power of the Printed Word:
Write the main idea and significance of each of the following books, pamphlets, or documents that had important
consequence for American development.
1. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852
2. Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776
3. Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, 1890
4. Thomas Paine, “Common Sense” 1776
Points of Conflict:
Review the following conflicts that set the tone for the ages by identifying the main characters and the conflict, time,
issues, and impact.
1.
Woodrow Wilson v. Henry Cabot Lodge
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
2.
Alexander Hamilton v. Thomas Jefferson
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
Advanced Placement U.S. History
Review #2
Turning Points:
Listed below are major turning points in U.S. history. In each case, identify the implied event, comment on its
significance, and then list at least 3 contemporaneous (any event within a five-year period of the event) movements,
trends, or activities in literature, science, art or economics
1803
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
1814
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c
1848
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
Presidential Promises and Quotable Quotations:
Presidential Administrations:
Identify the president associated with each designation, key policies of his administration associated with the motto, and
the motto’s importance in conveying a major theme of our history at the time.
1. New Freedom
2. New Deal
3. Manifest Destiny
Quotable Quotations:
Identify the source of the quotation, when and it what context it was used, it’s larger significance in expressing a theme
of American history.
1. “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
2. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
3. “A war to end all wars.”
The Power of the Printed Word:
Write the main idea and significance of each of the following books, pamphlets, or documents that had important
consequence for American development.
1. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906.
2. Alexander Hamilton, “The Report on Manufactures.” 1791.
3. Fredrick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History.” 1893.
4. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963.
Points of Conflict:
Review the following conflicts that set the tone for the ages by identifying the main characters and the conflict, time,
issues, and impact.
1.
Richard Nixon v. Supreme Court
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
2.
Franklin Roosevelt v. Supreme Court
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
Advanced Placement U.S. History
Review #3
Turning Points:
Listed below are major turning points in U.S. history. In each case, identify the implied event, comment on its
significance, and then list at least 3 contemporaneous (any event within a five-year period of the event) movements,
trends, or activities in literature, science, art or economics
1861
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
1865
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
1877
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
Presidential Promises and Quotable Quotations:
Presidential Administrations:
Identify the president associated with each designation, key policies of his administration associated with the motto, and
the motto’s importance in conveying a major theme of our history at the time.
1. Rugged Individualism
2. Great Society
3. Fair Deal
4. New Frontier
Quotable Quotations:
Identify the source of the quotation, when and it what context it was used, it’s larger significance in expressing a theme
of American history.
1. “All we ask is to be left alone.”
2. “December 7, 1941-a date that will live in infamy.”
3. “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their
skin but by the content of their character.”
The Power of the Printed Word:
Write the main idea and significance of each of the following books, pamphlets, or documents that had important
consequence for American development.
1. William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, 1831.
2. Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor, 1881.
3. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, 1787.
4. Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth,” 1889.
Points of Conflict:
Review the following conflicts that set the tone for the ages by identifying the main characters and the conflict, time,
issues, and impact.
1.
Rutherford B. Hayes v. Samuel Tilden
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
2.
Gloria Steinem v. Phyllis Schlafly
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
Advanced Placement U.S. History
Review #4
Turning Points:
Listed below are major turning points in U.S. history. In each case, identify the implied event, comment on its
significance, and then list at least 3 contemporaneous (any event within a five-year period of the event) movements,
trends, or activities in literature, science, art or economics
1914
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
1919
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
1929
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
Quotable Quotations:
Identify the source of the quotation, when and it what context it was used, it’s larger significance in expressing a theme
of American history.
1. “A law repugnant to the Constitution is void.”
2. “To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.”
3. “We… covenant and combine ourselves into a civil body politic.”
The Power of the Printed Word:
Write the main idea and significance of each of the following books, pamphlets, or documents that had important
consequence for American development.
1. Henry David Thoreau, “On Civil Disobedience.” 1849.
2. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939.
3. Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities, 1904.
Points of Conflict:
Review the following conflicts that set the tone for the ages by identifying the main characters and the conflict, time,
issues, and impact.
1.
Harry S. Truman v. Douglas MacArthur
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
2.
William Jennings Bryan v. William McKinley
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
Advanced Placement U.S. History
Review #5
Turning Points:
Listed below are major turning points in U.S. history. In each case, identify the implied event, comment on its
significance, and then list at least 3 contemporaneous (any event within a five-year period of the event) movements,
trends, or activities in literature, science, art or economics
1941
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
1945
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
1954
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
Quotable Quotations:
Identify the source of the quotation, when and it what context it was used, it’s larger significance in expressing a theme
of American history.
1. “Fifty-four forty or fight.”
2. “Free trade and sailors’ rights.”
3. “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
The Power of the Printed Word:
Write the main idea and significance of each of the following books, pamphlets, or documents that had important
consequence for American development.
1. Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1961.
2. Booker T. Washington, “The Atlanta Compromise” 1895.
3. Herbert Croly, The Promises of American Life, 1909.
4. Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879.
Points of Conflict:
Review the following conflicts that set the tone for the ages by identifying the main characters and the conflict, time,
issues, and impact.
1.
Abraham Lincoln v. Stephen Douglas
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
2.
Tories v. Patriots
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
Advanced Placement U.S. History
Review #6
Turning Points:
Listed below are major turning points in U.S. history. In each case, identify the implied event, comment on its
significance, and then list at least 3 contemporaneous (any event within a five-year period of the event) movements,
trends, or activities in literature, science, art or economics
1960
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
1964
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
1968
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
Quotable Quotations:
Identify the source of the quotation, when and it what context it was used, it’s larger significance in expressing a theme
of American history.
1. “God made us neighbors. Let justice make us friends.”
2. “And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”
3. “We must be the great arsenal of democracy.”
The Power of the Printed Word:
Write the main idea and significance of each of the following books, pamphlets, or documents that had important
consequence for American development.
1. Alain Locke, The New Negro, 1925.
2. Adam Smith, A Wealth of Nations, 1776.
3. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 1888.
4. Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House, 1910.
Points of Conflict:
Review the following conflicts that set the tone for the ages by identifying the main characters and the conflict, time,
issues, and impact.
1.
Federalists v. Anti-Federalists
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
2.
Andrew Jackson v. Nicholas Biddle
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
Advanced Placement U.S. History
Review #7
Turning Points:
Listed below are major turning points in U.S. history. In each case, identify the implied event, comment on its
significance, and then list at least 3 contemporaneous (any event within a five-year period of the event) movements,
trends, or activities in literature, science, art or economics
1973
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
1989
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
1994
Event:
Significance:
Related Events:
a.
b.
c.
Quotable Quotations:
Identify the source of the quotation, when and it what context it was used, it’s larger significance in expressing a theme
of American history.
1. “With malice toward none, with charity for all…”
2. “It is our policy to stay clear of all permanent alliances.”
3. “John Marshall has made his decision; not let him enforce it.”
The Power of the Printed Word:
Write the main idea and significance of each of the following books, pamphlets, or documents that had important
consequence for American development.
1. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1961.
2. Frederick Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management, 1911.
3. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men, 1974.
4. W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903.
Points of Conflict:
Review the following conflicts that set the tone for the ages by identifying the main characters and the conflict, time,
issues, and impact.
1.
Herbert Hoover v. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
2.
Martin Luther King, Jr. v. Malcolm X
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
3.
Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. DuBois
Characters
Conflict
Time
Issues
Impact
Advanced Placement U.S. History
Review #8
Quotable Quotations:
Identify the source of the quotation, when and it what context it was used, it’s larger significance in expressing a theme
of American history.
1. “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”
2. “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.”
3. “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union.”
4. “Peace without victory.”
5. “Remember the Alamo.”
6. “Remember the Maine.”
7. “Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.”
8. “The ideals and traditions of our nations demanded that we come to the aid of Greece and Turkey and that we put the
world on notice that it would be our policy to support the cause of freedom wherever it was threatened…”
9. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
10. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights.”
11. “The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are
henceforth not to be considered as subject for future colonization by any European powers.”
12. “And, by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves
within these said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free.”
13. “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union…”
14. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
15. “Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good in the
community.”
16. “The advance of the frontier has meant a steady movement away from influence of Europe, a steady growth of
independence on American lines. And to study this advance… is to study the really American part of our
history.”
17. “What hath God wrought!”
18. “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”
19. “Women of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaner.”
The Power of the Printed Word:
Write the main idea and significance of each of the following books, pamphlets, or documents that had important
consequence for American development.
1. Daniel Ellsberg, The Pentagon Papers, 1971.
2. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” 1963.
3. Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890.
Advanced Placement U.S. History
Review #9
Quotable Quotations:
Identify the source of the quotation, when and it what context it was used, it’s larger significance in expressing a theme
of American history.
1. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
2. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights.”
3. “The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are
henceforth not to be considered as subject for future colonization by any European powers.”
4. “And, by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves
within these said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free.”
5. “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union…”
6. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
7. “Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good in the
community.”
8. “The advance of the frontier has meant a steady movement away from influence of Europe, a steady growth of
independence on American lines. And to study this advance… is to study the really American part of our
history.”
9. “What hath God wrought!”
10. “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”
11. “Women of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your vacuum cleaner.”