Advanced Placement
US History
Test Review
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What About the Test?
 Three Parts – 3 hours and 5 minutes
 Part I – 80 Multiple Choice in 55 minutes
 50 % of the score
 Part II – DBQ
 15 minute mandatory reading time
 45 minutes to write
 Part III – Essays
 4 essays in two categories
 Choose 1 out of each category
 35 minutes each
 Part II and III together comprise 50% of your
score.
Colonial America / Early Republic
Colonial America
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ROANOKE
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JAMESTOWN
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THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT
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THE PILGRIMS AND PLYMOUTH
COLONY
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THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY
COLONY
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SALEM WITCH TRIALS
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KING PHILIP'S WAR
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NATIVE AMERICANS
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BACON'S REBELLION
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FIRST GREAT AWAKENING
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THE MARYLAND TOLERATION ACT
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THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
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PONTIAC'S REBELLION
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PROCLAMATION OF 1763
THE EARLY REPUBLIC, 1775-1820
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
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SHAY'S REBELLION
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THE FEDERALIST PAPERS
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION OF 1787
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THE WHISKEY REBELLION
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THE BURR CONSPIRACY
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LEWIS & CLARK
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TECUMSEH
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The War of 1812
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Report and Resolutions of the
Hartford Convention
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Francis Scott Key
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Era of Good Feelings
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Henry Clay - John C. Calhoun
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THE MARSHALL SUPREME COURT
CASES
Expansion and Reform /
Women and Social Reform
EXPANSION AND REFORM, 18201860
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THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE,
1820
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The Monroe Doctrine
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The Erie Canal
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Jacksonian Democracy
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Trail of Tears
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The Texas Revolution
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MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE FUR
TRADE
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Oregon-Trail
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Manifest Destiny
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Daniel Webster - Webster-Hayne
Debate
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The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848
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The Second Great Awakening
WOMEN AND SOCIAL REFORM,
1820-1940
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United States Utopian
Communities
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The American Immigration
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Hudson River School of Art
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The Industrial Revolution
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DOROTHEA DIX
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Seneca Falls Convention
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Early Nineteenth Century
American Literature
Slavery and Abolitionism /
Union in Peril
SLAVERY AND
ABOLITIONISM
 Slave Revolts
 The Underground
Railroad
 The Slave Trade
 Abolitionist Movement
 William Lloyd Garrison
 "Bleeding Kansas"
 Dred Scott Decision
 HARRIET BEECHER
STOWE
 Uncle Tom's Cabin
THE UNION IN PERIL,
1820-1860
 THE KANSASNEBRASKA ACT
 POLITICS AND
SECTIONALISM IN THE
1850s
 THE COMPROMISE OF
1850 and the
FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT
 THE FREE SOIL PARTY
 JOHN BROWN
Civil War and Reconstruction/
Rise of Industrial America
CIVIL WAR AND
RECONSTRUCTION, 18611877
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CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
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THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE
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SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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CIVIL WAR AND
RECONSTRUCTION, 1861-1877
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THE TRANSCONTINENTAL
RAILROAD
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AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
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HAYES VS. TILDEN: THE 1876
ELECTORAL CONTROVERSY
THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL
AMERICA
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THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST
FACTORY FIRE
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CHILD LABOR IN THE EARLY
1900s
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TEMPERANCE AND PROHIBITION
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THE GILDED AGE AND THE
PROGRESSIVE ERA
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HULL HOUSE
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THE 1886 HAYMARKET SQUARE
RIOT
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SAMUEL GOMPERS
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THOMAS ALVA EDISON
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SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
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ANTI-IMPERIALISM IN THE
UNITED STATES , 1898-1935
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THE HISTORY OF JIM CROW
PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION AND WAR /
America Since 1945
PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION AND
WAR, 1920-1945
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RED SCARE
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CHARLES LINDBERGH
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THE SACCO-VANZETTI CASE
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THE 1929 STOCK MARKET CRASH
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THE SAD TALE OF THE BONUS
MARCHERS
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FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S
FIRESIDE CHATS
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FDR AND THE DEPRESSION - A
NEW DEAL
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WORLD WAR II - THE YALTA
CONFERENCE
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ATOMIC BOMB: DECISION
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NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES
TRIALS
AMERICA SINCE 1945
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COLD WAR
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BAY OF PIGS INVASION
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THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND
ITS AFTERMATH
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THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT,
1955-1965
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GREENSBORO SIT INS: LAUNCH
OF A CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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THE ROSA PARKS
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VIETNAM WAR
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JFK / THE KENNEDY
ASSASSINATION
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UNITED STATES FOREIGN
POLICY FOR THE 1970s
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WATERGATE: THE SCANDAL THAT
DESTROYED PRESIDENT NIXON
AP U.S. History Exam Review
Frequently Asked MCQs
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MCQs on the following topics frequently appear on the “real” exam. Be sure to understand the
concepts behind the terms.
1. Puritan motive (build a city on a hill, i.e. provide a model)
2. Motive of those settling Virginia (seek profit)
3. 1st Great Awakening (Ivy League colleges founded by New Lights)
4. Deism
5. Albany Congress, 1754 (Franklin, first attempt to unite colonies – failed)
6. Stamp Act / Stamp Congress
8. Slavery in pre-independence times / Indentured servants (all the rage prior to slavery)
10. Proclamation of 1763
11. Articles of Confederation
12. Bill of Rights (1st 10 Amendments to Constitution, protecting individual liberties, and giving states
the powers not directly given to the feds)
12. Attitude of founding fathers towards political parties (Jeff “We’re all feds, we’re all reps)
13. Hamilton’s economic plans
14. Shay’s Rebellion
15. XYZ Affair
16. Marbury .v. Madison
17. Louisiana Purchase – why ? control mouth of Mississippi
18. Hartford Convention (federal law null & void ??) / Nullification, John C. Calhoun, Tariff of
Abominations (1828)
19. Eli Whitney (interchangeable parts to rifle, cotton gin)
20. Henry Clay’s “American System” (high tariffs, BUS, federal funding of internal improvements)
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21. Monroe Doctrine
22. Andrew Jackson (Indian removal / Trail of Tears, veto Congress, opposes nullification, opposes BUS, supports Westward
expansion)
23. Transcendentalists
26. Ralph Waldo Emerson (stressed individuality, self-reliance)
27. Wm Lloyd Garrison, “The Liberator” – abolitionist
28. Harriet Tubman – Underground Railway
29. Dred Scott .v. Sanford, 1857 (slave is not a citizen, slave is property, Missouri Compromise is dead)
30. Popular Sovereignty
31. Kansas-Nebraska Act
32. Douglas’s Freeport Doctrine (popular sovereignty can exclude slavery anywhere)
33. Primary cause of Civil War (maintain the union)
34. Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 – gave North the moral high ground, calculated to win support of Britain & France)
35. Radical Reconstruction
36. Compromise of 1877 (ends Reconstruction in South)
37. Knights of Labor
38. Dawes Act, 1887 (assimilate Indians into mainstream America = kill tribal identity)
39. Social Gospel
40. Populists – farmers’ party, wanted “free silver”
41. Yellow Press (Hearst, Pulitzer – called for war with Spain. “Remember the ‘Maine’”)
42. “New Immigration” – from SE Europe, after Civil War (Gilded Age)
43. Open Door Policy (open access to China for Am investment)
44. Du Bois & Booker T. Washington
45. Muckrakers (Sinclair Lewis, Mother Jones)
46. Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare (main reason for US joining WWI)
47. Wilson’s 14 Points (Article X). Wilson lost vote in Senate ‘cos he wouldn’t compromise on wording. Senate didn’t want US
totally tied to L of N charter)
48. Bonus Army, 1932 (give us our bonus, now)
49. 100 Day Congress, New Deal / Civilian Conservation Corps
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51. Cuban Missile Crisis
52. Brown .v. Board of Education (overturned old Plessy .v.
Ferguson)
53. Sputnik, 1957 ~ arms & space race, & education
receives greater emphasis in US
54. Sit-Ins, 1960, Greensboro, NC (seeking integration of
public facilities)
55. Civil Rights Acts 1960, 1964
56. Malcolm “X”
57. Gulf of Tonkin Incident (& Resolution – gave LBJ a free
hand to escalate Vietnam War)
58. Watergate
59. Tet Offensive, 1968
60. Camp David Accords (Carter, Begin & Sadat, peace in
Middle East)
ERAS
Early Republic
1789 - 1829
George
Washington
John Adams
Thomas
Jefferson
James
Madison
James
Monroe
John Quincy
Adams
Jacksonian
Democracy
1829 - 1853
Andrew
Jackson
Martin Van
Buren
William
Henry
Harrison
John Tyler
James Polk
Zachary
Taylor
Sectional
Conflict
1853 - 1881
Franklin
Pierce
James
Buchanan
Abraham
Lincoln
Andrew
Johnson
Ulysses
Grant
Rutherford
Hayes
Gilded Age
1881 - 1897
James
Garfield
Chester
Arthur
Grover
Cleveland
Benjamin
Harrison
Grover
Cleveland
Progressive
Era
1897 - 1921
William
McKinley
Theodore
Roosevelt
William
Taft
Woodrow
Wilson
Depression
& World
Conflict
1921-1961
Warren
Harding
Calvin
Coolidge
Herbert
Hoover
Franklin
Roosevelt
Harry
Truman
Dwight
Eisenhower
Social
Change&
Soviet
Relations
1961 - 1989
John
Kennedy
Lyndon
Johnson
Richard
Nixon
Gerald
Ford
Jimmy
Carter
Ronald
Reagan
Globalization
1989 -
George H.
W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Barack
Bush
Obama
Millard
Fillmore
Presidential Review
The Young Republic, 1788-1815
1. George Washington, 1789-1797
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VP – John Adams
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Secretary of State – Thomas Jefferson
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Secretary of Treasury – Alexander Hamilton
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Major Items: Judiciary Act, 1789
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Tariff of 1789
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Whiskey Rebellion, 1799
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French Revolution – Citizen Genét, 1793
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Jay Treaty with England, 1795
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Pinckney Treaty with Spain, 1795
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Farewell Address, 1796
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First Bank of United States , 1791-1811
2. John Adams, 1797-1801 Federalist
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VP – Thomas Jefferson
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Major Items: XYZ Affair, 1797
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Alien Act, Sedition Act, 1798
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Naturalization Act
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"Midnight Judges," 1801
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Kentucky (Jefferson) & Virginia (Madison) Resolutions, 1798
3. Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809 Republican
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VP – Aaron Burr, George Clinton
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Secretary of State – James Madison
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Major Items: Marbury v. Madison, 1803
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Louisiana Purchase, 1803
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Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1804-1805
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12th Amendment, 1804
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Embargo Act, 1807
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Non-Intercourse Act, 1809
4. James Madison, 1809-1817
Republican
VP – George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry
Secretary of State – James Monroe
Major Items: Macon Act, 1810
Berlin & Milan Decrees
Orders in Council
"War Hawks," 1811-1812 - War of 1812
Hartford Convention, 1814
First Protective Tariff, 1816
Era of Good Feelings & the Common
Man, 1815-1840