APUSH – Exam Review Matching
Matching/Timeline Instructions
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Complete the matching section by putting the number of the descriptor that matches the
term in the blank.
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Terms are alphabetically listed to make it a bit easier. However, some terms may seem
out of alphabetical order, so look carefully (i.e. “Annexation of Texas” rather than Texas,
or Battles of Lexington/concord rather than Lexington/Concord.
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Pay attention to the descriptors. It is imperative that you know this information for the AP
Exam.
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Write out the term from the student term list on the date on the timeline where it belongs,
as shown in the example.
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When you write the term you should consider the meaning to the term, what caused it,
what resulted from it, and what broader trend it could serve as an example of.
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When you write the term you should think about additional historic terminology that you
can associate with it (i.e. Bank War {pet banks, removal of deposits, “The bank is trying
to kill me but I will kill it’, Nicholas Biddle, etc.).
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The purpose of this exercise is for you to develop a sense of chronological flow. That
requires that you actively think about what terms are and where they belong rather than
just passively listing them. Passively done this exercise is largely busy-work. Actively
done it can help prepare you for the AP exam.
Student Term List
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Act of Toleration
Adams-Onis Treaty
Andrew Jackson elected
Annexation of Texas
Army McCarthy Hearings
Bacon’s Rebellion
Battles of Lexington/Concord
Bay of Pigs
Boston Massacre
Brown v Board of education
Burke-Wadsworth Act
Camp David Accords
Century of Dishonor
Civil Rights Act/Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Civil War begins
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
Cuba goes communist
Dawes Act/ICC
D-Day
Declaration of Independence
Dominion of New England
Dred Scott case
Eighteenth amendment/Red Scare
Emancipation Proclamation
Embargo
End of Reconstruction/Munn v Illinois
Fair Labor Standards Act
Federal Trade Commission Act
Fifteenth amendment
First Open Door Notes
Founding of Jamestown
Fourteen Points
Fourteenth amendment
French Alliance
French and Indian War/Albany Plan
Fundamental Orders
Great Awakening
Gulf War
Halfway Covenant
Hamilton’s Economic Plan/Bill of Rights
Hartford Convention
Highway Act
Homestead Act/Pacific Railway Act
House of Burgesses
Indian Removal Act
Indian Reorganization Act
Iran-Contra Hearings
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Jay/Pinckney Treaties
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kennedy assassination
King Philip’s War
Korean War
Land Ordinance
Lend Lease/ U.S. entry into WW II
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Liberator/Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Major Panic
Marbury v Madison/Louisiana Purchase
Massachusetts Bay
Mayflower Compact
Mexican Cession
Midnight appointments
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Mr. Madison’s War
NAFTA
National Defense Education Act
NATO
New Deal begins
Nineteenth amendment
Nixon Resignation
Northern Securities case decided
Northwest Ordinance
Nullification Crisis/Worcester v Georgia
Oregon/Mexican-American War
Panama Canal begun by U.S.
Panama Canal Treaty
Pendleton Act
Polio Vaccine
Proclamation Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Ratification of Articles of Confederation
Ratification of the Constitution
Revolution of 1800
Salem Witch Trials
Salt I
Scopes Trial
SDI (Star Wars)
Shays’ Rebellion
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Sixteenth/Seventeenth amendments
South Carolina Secession
Spanish-American War
Sputnik
Stamp Act
Stock Market crash
Stono Rebellion
Tea Act/Boston Tea Party
Tet Offensive
Thirteenth amendment
Tougher Fugitive Slave Law/California a free state
Treaty of Paris (Am. Rev.)
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Truman Doctrine
U.S. Entry into WW I
VE/VJ Day
Voting Rights Act
Wabash Case
Wagner Act/Social Security Act
Washington Naval Conference
Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation
Watergate Crisis
Welfare Reform Act
Whiskey Rebellion
XYZ Affair/Alien and Sedition Act
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____Act of Toleration
____Adams-Onis Treaty
____Andrew Jackson elected
____Annexation of Texas
____Army McCarthy Hearings
____Bacon’s Rebellion
____Battles of Lexington/Concord
____Bay of Pigs
____Boston Massacre
____Brown v Board of education
____Burke-Wadsworth Act
____Camp David Accords
____Century of Dishonor
____Civil Rights Act/Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
____Civil War begins
____Coercive/Intolerable Acts
____Completion of Transcontinental Railroad
____Cuba goes communist
____Dawes Act/ICC
____D-Day
____Declaration of Independence
____Dominion of New England
____Dred Scott case
____Eighteenth amendment/Red Scare
____Emancipation Proclamation
____Embargo
____End of Reconstruction/Munn v Illinois
____Fair Labor Standards Act
____Federal Trade Commission Act
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____Fifteenth amendment
____First Open Door Notes
____Founding of Jamestown
____Fourteen Points
____Fourteenth amendment
____French Alliance/Battle of Saratoga
____French and Indian War/Albany Plan
____Fundamental Orders
____Great Awakening
____Gulf War
____Halfway Covenant
____Hamilton’s Economic Plan/Bill of Rights
____Hartford Convention
____Highway Act
____Homestead Act/Pacific Railway Act
____House of Burgesses
____Indian Removal Act
____Indian Reorganization Act
____Iran-Contra Hearings
____Iranian Hostage Crisis
____Jay/Pinckney Treaties
____Kansas-Nebraska Act
____Kennedy assassination
____King Philip’s War
____Korean War
____Land Ordinance
____Lend Lease/ U.S. entry into WW II
____Lewis and Clark Expedition
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banned settlement west of the Appalachians
brought about in part by The Jungle
resulted from the Chesapeake Affair
provided a degree of religious freedom in Maryland
gave control of a canal to rightful owner
gave U.S. southwestern quarter of today’s country
provided the means by which territories become states
radical abolitionist newspaper
enunciated Wilson’s goal of peace without victory
caused by the fall of Fort Sumter
where the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired
John Smith helped it survive hard times
opened up trade between North American countries
ultimately settled by maintaining 38th parallel
largely did away with the Dawes Act
reflective of squabbles in Massachusetts town
Maine enters as a free state as part of this deal
turned many Americans from hawks to doves
established as a “city on a hill”
divided old northwest into townships and sections
demonstrated Soviet technological superiority over U.S.
it’s suppression showed the gov’t would enforce its laws
early South Carolina slave uprising
granted “equal protection under the law”
fundamentalism v scientific modernism
atomic bomb brought it about
first peacetime draft in U.S. history
discover by Salk and Sabine
catalyst for the War on Terror
regulation of interstate commerce is an exclusive federal
right
designed to send Indians to the Great American Desert
Civil Service Act
failed attempt to overthrow Castro
altered the North’s moral cause in the Civil War
overcoming yellow fever helped complete it
this splendid little war
deaths led to useful colonial propaganda
brought into the U.S. by joint resolution
increased fear of freed indentured servants in Virgina
“John Marshall has made his decision……”
Republicans replace Federalists, peacefully
directly brought about by Lincoln’s election
established the principle of judicial review
“Star Wars”
War of 1812
first colonial constitution
Wilson regulatory agency of big business
scandal over dirty tricks, among other things
major Indian uprising in colonial New England
first representative assembly in the colonies
Polk promised all of it or none
designed to strengthen the power of the nat’l gov’t early
occasion of the “house divided” speech
led to the formation of the Sons of Liberty
part of the Compromise of 1850
gave U.S. land west to the Mississippi
resulted from a decline in visible saints
opposed by anti-Federalists
____Liberator/Nat Turner’s Rebellion
____Lincoln-Douglas debates
____Major Panic
____Marbury v Madison/Louisiana Purchase
____Massachusetts Bay
____Mayflower Compact
____Mexican Cession
____Midnight appointments
____Missouri Compromise
____Monroe Doctrine
____Mr. Madison’s War
____NAFTA
____National Defense Education Act
____NATO
____New Deal begins
____Nineteenth amendment
____Nixon resignation
____Northern Securities case decided
____Northwest Ordinance
____Nullification Crisis/Worcester v Georgia
____Oregon/Mexican-American War
____Panama Canal begun by U.S.
____Panama Canal Treaty
____Pendleton Act
____Polio Vaccine
____Proclamation Act
____Pure Food and Drug Act
____Ratification of Articles of Confederation
____Ratification of the Constitution
____Revolution of 1800
____Salem Witch Trials
____Salt I
____Scopes Trial
____SDI
____Shays’ Rebellion
____Sherman Anti-Trust Act
____Sixteenth/Seventeenth amendments
____South Carolina Secession
____Spanish-American War
____Sputnik
____Stamp Act
____Stock Market crash
____Stono Rebellion
____Tea Act/Boston Tea Party
____Tet Offensive
____Thirteenth amendment
____Tougher Fugitive Slave Law/CA free state
____Treaty of Paris (Am. Rev.)
____Triangle Shirtwaist fire
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____Truman Doctrine
____U.S. Entry into WW I
____VE/VJ Day
____Voting Rights Act
____Wabash Case
____Wagner Act/Social Security Act
____Washington Naval Conference
____Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation
____Watergate Crisis
____Welfare Reform Act
____Whiskey Rebellion
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early 20th century sign of unsafe working conditions
established the principle of majority rule
gave the U.S. Florida for $5 million
said congress could not regulate slavery in the territories
largely bluff, they improved U.S. position in China
attempt to break down tribal loyalty
brought about by the NAWSA and the congressional Union
created an interstate system for defense purposes
Operation Overlord
allowed the Federal gov’t to register blacks
“separate facilities are inherently unequal”
established peace between Egypt and Israel
occurred when Iraq invaded Kuwait
early attempt by Great Britain to end salutary neglect
explored the American far west in 19th century
the “noble experiment”
chronicled gov’t violations of treaties with Native Americans
caused by “overt act” and unrestricted submarine warfare
the CCC, TVA, and AAA were part of it
led to Lyndon Johnson becoming president
resulted from major Reagan scandal
Federalist restriction of civil liberties
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield were part of it
British over-reaction to the Boston Tea party
led to the death of the Federalist party
allowed popular sovereignty to determine slavery
Adams’ attempt to keep Federalists in power
begins the “Age of Old Hickory”
established a precedent of non-involvement in foreign wars
designed to encourage work rather than dole from gov’t
British troops out of NW/right of deposit
Western Hemisphere closed to European colonization
indication that Roosevelt would become a trust buster
granted black males suffrage
signaled the beginning of the Great Depression
Fidel Castro overthrows Batista
golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah
used more frequently against labor unions that big business
granted settlers 160 acres of land free
post-WW I attempt at disarmament
made slavery unconstitutional
Compromise of 1877
Homestead and Pullman strikes reflect its impact
income tax and direct election
established minimum wage, maximum hours
mutual defense alliance component of containment
Nixon era disarmament agreement
designed to make the U.S. the great arsenal of democracy
caused by Supreme Court ruling that tapes must be turned
over
attempt to contain communism in Greece and Turkey
helped Reagan win the election of 1980
incident used to escalate the war in Vietnam
cornerstone pieces of Second New Deal legislation
enacted because of fear caused by Sputnik
turning point of the American Revolution
early colonial attempt at colonial unity
fear from it led to constitutional convention
required that states give up western land claims
designed to lower the cost of British East India Company tea
”we hold these truths to be self-evident…”
communist witch hunt