AP U.S. History Review (Fall Semester) Part 1 of 2
European Colonization: 1492-1700
1) Spain Colonizes the New World
a) Treaty of Tordesillas
b) Politics, economics, religion
2) Dutch Settlements and a French Empire in North America
a) Politics, economics, religion
b) Treaty of Utrecht
3) The British Empire in the New World
a) Jamestown
b) Plymouth
c) Massachusetts Bay Colony
d) Rhode Island
e) Middle Colonies
f)
Southern Colonies
Causes of the American Revolution: 1650-1774
4) French and Indian War
5) Problems Inherited by Britain Following the War
6) Pre-Revolutionary War British Policy in the Colonies
a) The Navigation Laws
b) The Molasses Act (1733)
c) George Grenville
d) Discontent on the Frontier: Bacon’s Rebellion (1676), Paxton Boys (1763), Regulators (1771)
e) Sugar Act (1764)
f)
Currency Act (1764)
g) Quartering Act (1765)
h) Stamp Act (1765)
i)
Declaratory Act (1766)
7) The Boston “Massacre”
8) The Tea Tax
9) The Boston Tea Party and the British Response
10) The First Continental Congress
a) Radicals
b) Moderates
c) Conservatives
The American Revolution: 1774-1783
11) Declaration of Independence
12) Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
13) Revolutionary War
a) British Advantages
b) British Disadvantages
c) Colonial Advantages
d) Colonial Disadvantages
14) Battle of Saratoga (1777)
15) Treaty of Paris
16) Women and the Revolution
17) Blacks and the Revolution
18) Historical Viewpoints about the Revolution
Creation of the U.S. Constitution: 1781-1791
19) Creating the Nation’s First Government: Issues and Concerns
20) Major Features of the Articles of Confederation (AOC)
21) Elements of the Articles of Confederation
a) Land Ordinance of 1785
b) The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
22) AOC Attempt to Confront Foreign Affairs
23) The Constitutional Convention
24) Two Proposals for Representation
a) The Commerce Compromise
b) The Great Compromise
c) The Three-fifths Compromise
d) Powers of the legislative branch
e) Powers of the executive branch
f)
Powers of the judicial branch
25) The Ratification Debate: Federalists Versus Anti-Federalists
a) Federalists
b) Anti-Federalists
26) The Bill of Rights and Ratification of the United States Constitution
The New Nation: 1789-1800
27) The Hamiltonian Vision Versus the Jeffersonian Vision
a) The Tariff of 1789
b) Report on Public Credit
c) Report on Manufactures
d) Creation of a national bank (the Bank of the United States)
28) Foreign and Domestic Affairs
a) The Jay Treaty (1794)
b) The Pinckney Treaty (1795)
c) Washington’s Farewell Address
d) The Naturalization Act
e) The Alien (Friends) Act
f)
The Alien Enemies Act
g) The Sedition Act
29) The “Revolution of 1800”
a) Key Events in Jefferson’s Presidency
i)
Essex decision (1805)
ii) Leopard-Chesapeake Incident (1807)
iii) Embargo Act (1807)
iv) Non-Intercourse Act (1809)
v) Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810)
30) The Marshall Court
a) Marbury v. Madison (1803)
b) Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
c) Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1816)
d) Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
e) McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
f)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1821)
g) Cohens v. Virginia (1821)