A.P. United States
History
Review Packet
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Time Period 1: 1491 – 1607
On a North American continent controlled by American
Indians, contact among the peoples of Europe, the
Americas, and West Africa created a new world.
Key Concept 1.1 Before the arrival of Europeans, native populations in
North America developed a wide variety of social, political, and economic
structures based in part on interactions with the environment and each other.
Key Concept 1.2: European overseas expansion resulted in the Columbian
Exchange, a series of interactions and adaptations among societies across the
Atlantic.
Key Concept 1.3: Contacts among American Indians, Africans, and
Europeans challenged the worldviews of each group.
Encomienda System
Asiento System
Land Bridge
Adena-Hopewell
Hohokam
Anasazi
Pueblos
Woodland Mound Builders
Lakota Sioux
Maya
Aztec
Inca
Conquistadores
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizzaro
Roanoke Island
Ferdinand and Isabella
Protestant Reformation
Henry the Navigator
Christopher Columbus
Treaty of Tordesillas
Slave Trade
Algonquian
Iroquois Confederacy
John Cabot
Samuel de Champlain
Henry Hudson
Bartoleme de Las Casas
Time Period 2: 1607 – 1754
Europeans and American Indians maneuvered and fought
for dominance, control, and security in North America, and
distinctive colonial and native societies emerged.
Key Concept 2.1: Differences in imperial goals, cultures, and the North
American environments that different empires confronted led Europeans to
develop diverse patterns of colonization.
Key Concept 2.2: European colonization efforts in North America
stimulated intercultural contact and intensified conflict between the various
groups of colonizers and native peoples.
Key Concept 2.3: The increasing political, economic, and cultural
exchanges within the “Atlantic World” had a profound impact on the
development of colonial societies in North America.
Act of Toleration
King Phillips War
Mayflower Compact
Virginia House of Burgesses
Bacon’s Rebellion
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
New England Confederation
Corporate Colonies
Royal Colonies
Proprietary Colonies
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
Dominion of New England
Benjamin West
John Copley
Benjamin Franklin
Professions in Colonial America:
Religion
Medicine
Law
Religious Toleration
Established Church
The Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Cotton Mather
Colonial Families in the North
Colonial Families in the South
Germans
Scots-Irish
Hugenots
Dutch
Swedes
Africans
Immigrants
Social Mobility
John Peter Zenger
Enlightenment
Colonial Governors
Colonial Legislatures
Town Meetings
Time Period 3: 1754 – 1800
British imperial attempts to reassert control over its
colonies and the colonial reaction to these attempts
produced a new American republic, along with struggles
over the new nation’s social, political, and economic
identity.
Key Concept 3.1: Britain’s victory over France in the imperial struggle for
North America led to new conflicts among the British government, the
North American colonists, and American Indians, culminating in the
creation of a new nation, the United States.
Key Concept 3.2: In the late 18th century, new experiments with
democratic ideas and republican forms of government, as well as other new
religious, economic, and cultural ideas, challenged traditional imperial
systems across the Atlantic World.
Key Concept 3.3: Migration within North America, cooperative interaction,
and competition for resources raised questions about boundaries and policies,
intensified conflicts among peoples and nations, and led to contests over the
creation of a multiethnic, multiracial national identity.
Stamp Act Congress
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Committees of Correspondence
Intolerable Acts
Salutary Neglect
Proclamation of 1763
Seven Years’ War
Albany Plan of Union
Tea Act
Coercive Acts
Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Articles of Confederation
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
The Federalist Papers
The Bill of Rights
Alien and Sedition Acts
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Slave Trade
National Bank
Tariffs
Excise Taxes
Treaty of Greenville
Public Land Act (1796)
Articles of Confederation
Annapolis Convention
Constitutional Convention
Virginia Plan (Large State)
New Jersey Plan (Small State)
Connecticut Plan (The Great Compromise)
Three-Fifths Compromise
Electoral College
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
Whiskey Rebellion
Federalist Era
Democratic-Republican Era
Two-Term Tradition
Proclamation of Neutrality
Jay Treaty
Pinckney’s Treaty
XYZ Affair
George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Time Period 4: 1800 – 1848
The new republic struggled to define and extend
democratic ideals in the face of rapid economic, territorial,
and demographic changes.
Key Concept 4.1: The United States developed the world’s first modern
mass democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans
sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and to reform its institutions
to match them.
Key Concept 4.2: Developments in technology, agriculture, and commerce
precipitated profound changes in U.S. settlement patterns, regional identities,
gender and family relations, political power, and distribution of consumer
goods.
Key Concept 4.3: U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade, expanding its
national borders, and isolating itself from European conflicts shaped the
nation’s foreign policy and spurred government and private initiatives.
Louisiana Purchase
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Strict Interpretation
John Marshall
Judicial Review
Marbury v. Madison
Neutrality
Impressment
Embargo Act of 1807
James Madison
Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810)
War of 1812
Andrew Jackson
Era of Good Feelings
Sectionalism
Protective Tariff
American System
Second Bank of The United States
Industrialization
Market Revolution
McCulloch v. Maryland
Implied Powers
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Nativists
Know Nothing Party
American Indian Removal
Urbanization
King Cotton
“Peculiar Institution”
Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
Slave Codes
Utopian Communities
New Harmony
Oneida Community
Horace Mann
American Temperance Society
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Dorothea Dix
Public School Movement
American Colonization Society
American Antislavery Society
Abolitionism
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
Liberty Party
Frederick Douglass
Hariet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Nat Turner
Antebellum Period
Romantic Movement
Transcendentalists
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Second Great Awakening
Revival Meetings
Church of Latter Day Saints
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Women’s Rights Movement
Cult of Domesticity
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention
Susan B. Anthony
Time Period 5: 1848 – 1877
As the nation expanded and its population grew, regional
tensions, especially over slavery, led to a civil war — the
course and aftermath of which transformed American
society.
Key Concept 5.1: The United States became more connected with the world
as it pursued an expansionist foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere and
emerged as the destination for many migrants from other countries.
Key Concept 5.2: Intensified by expansion and deepening regional
divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural, and political
issues led the nation into civil war.
Key Concept 5.3: The Union victory in the Civil War and the contested
Reconstruction of the South settled the issues of slavery and secession, but
left unresolved many questions about the power of the federal government
and citizenship rights.
Manifest Destiny
Railroads
Wilmot Proviso
Ostend Manifesto
Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
Free Soil Party
“Bleeding Kansas”
Compromise of 1850
Republican party
Secession
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Abraham Lincoln
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Impending Crisis of the South
Border States
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
Homestead Act (1862)
Fort Sumter
Anaconda Plan
Robert E. Lee
George McClellan
Ulysses S. Grant
Habeas Corpus
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
Copperheads
Civil Rights Act of 1866
14th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Patronage
Compromise of 1877
Presidential Reconstruction
Freedmen’s Bureau
Black Codes
Congressional Reconstruction
Ku Klux Klan
Time Period 6: 1865 – 1898
The transformation of the United States from an
agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized
society brought about significant economic, political,
diplomatic, social, environmental, and cultural changes.
Key Concept 6.1: The rise of big business in the United States encouraged
massive migrations and urbanization, sparked government and popular
efforts to reshape the U.S. economy and environment, and renewed debates
over U.S. national identity.
Key Concept 6.2: The emergence of an industrial culture in the United
States led to both greater opportunities for, and restrictions on, immigrants,
minorities, and women.
Key Concept 6.3: The “Gilded Age” witnessed new cultural and intellectual
movements in tandem with political debates over economic and social
policies.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Interlocking Directorates
Interstate Commerce Act of 1886
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Eugene Debs
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Homestead Act
Causes of the Indian Wars
Assimilationists
Dawes Act of 1887
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
Conservationists
Preservationists
“New South”
Sharecropping
White Supremacists
Civil Rights Cases of 1883
Plessy v. Ferguson
Jim Crow Laws
Crop Price Deflation
National Grange Movement
Granger Laws
Interstate Commerce Commission
Turner Thesis and the Census of 1890
Laissez-Faire Economics
Patronage
Corrupt Politicians
Hamiltonian Tradition
Jeffersonian Tradition
Social Reformers
Temperance
Former Confederacy
States’ Rights
Limited Government
Political Machines
Stalwarts
Half Breeds
Mugwumps
Pendleton Act of 1881
Civil Service Reform
McKinley Tariff of 1890
“Hard” Money
“Soft” Money
Greenback Party
Populist Party
Farmers Alliance
Omaha Platform
William Jennings Bryan
“Cross of Gold” Speech
Rise of Modern Urban-Industrial Society
Decline of Traditional Rural-Agricultural Society
Time Period 7: 1898 – 1945
An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound
domestic and global challenges, debated the proper degree
of government activism, and sought to define its
international role.
Key Concept 7.1: Governmental, political, and social organizations
struggled to address the effects of large-scale industrialization, economic
uncertainty, and related social changes such as urbanization and mass
migration.
Key Concept 7.2: A revolution in communications and transportation
technology helped to create a new mass culture and spread “modern” values
and ideas, even as cultural conflicts between groups increased under the
pressure of migration, world wars, and economic distress.
Key Concept 7.3: Global conflicts over resources, territories, and ideologies
renewed debates over the nation’s values and its role in the world, while
simultaneously propelling the United States into a dominant international
military, political, cultural, and economic position.
Expansionism
“Yellow Journalism”
Teller Amendment
Guam
Philippines
Annexation
Insular Cases
Platt Amendment
Spheres of Influence
Open Door Policy
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Jacob Riis
Robert LaFollette
Direct Election of Senators
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Lochner v. New York
Muller v. Oregon
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Trust Busting
Woodrow Wilson
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
NAACP
Carrie Chapman Catt
19th Amendment
Margaret Sanger
Taxes and Bonds to Pay for WWI
Committee on Public Information
Espionage Act (1917)
Sedition Act (1918)
Schenck v. U.S.
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Xenophobia
Race Riots
Impact of the Car
Lost Generation
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Back to Africa Movement
Marcus Garvey
Volstead Act
Quota Acts of 1921 and 1924
Sacco and Vanzetti
Disarmament
Reparations
Dawes Plan
How do Debt and High Tariffs Lead to Depression
Bank Failures
Unemployment
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
New Deal
FDIC
PWA
CCC
TVA
NRA
Schechter v. U.S.
WPA
National Labor Relations Act
Social Security Act
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Good Neighbor Policy
Recognition of the Soviet Union
Independence for the Philippines
Reciprocal Trade Agreements
Fascism
Benito Mussolini
Ethiopia
Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler
Spanish Civil War
Appeasement
Isolationism
Neutrality Acts
Cash and Carry
Destroyers – For – Bases
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Atlantic Charter
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
Manhattan Project
Wartime Migrations
Civil Rights
Bracero Program
Japanese Internment
Korematsu v. U.S.
Harry S. Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
D-Day
Island Hopping Campaign
Casablanca Conference
Tehran Conference
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
United Nations
Time Period 8: 1945 – 1980
After World War II, the United States grappled with
prosperity and unfamiliar international responsibilities,
while struggling to live up to its ideals.
Key Concept 8.1: The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable
postwar world by asserting and attempting to defend a position of global
leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences.
Key Concept 8.2: Liberalism, based on anticommunism abroad and a firm
belief in the efficacy of governmental and especially federal power to
achieve social goals at home, reached its apex in the mid-1960s and
generated a variety of political and cultural responses.
Key Concept 8.3: Postwar economic, demographic, and technological
changes had a far-reaching impact on American society, politics, and the
environment.
GI Bill
Suburban Growth
Sunbelt
Cold War
Security Council
Communist Satellites
Iron Curtain
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Korean War
House Un-American Activities Committee
Decolonization
CIA and Covert Action
Domino Theory
State of Israel and Middle East Politics
Arab Nationalism
Eisenhower Doctrine
Warsaw pact
Civil Rights Movement in the 1950’s
Desegregation
Brown v. Board of Education
Little Rock “9”
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Operation Wetback
Beatniks
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall
Great Society
Medicare
Medicaid
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
MLK Jr.
Black Muslims
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Black Panthers
Warren Court
Miranda v. Arizona
SDS
New Left
Counterculture
Betty Friedan
NOW
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
Henry Kissinger
Nixon Doctrine
Kent State
My Lai
Pentagon Papers
Détente
Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT)
OPEC
Oil Embargo
New Federalism
Stagflation
Southern Strategy
Title IX
Roe v. Wade
United States v. Nixon
War Powers Act
Nixon Impeachment
Nixon Resignation
Battle Over Inflation
Jimmy Carter
Human Rights
Panama Canal Treaty
Camp David Accords
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Cultural Pluralism
Impact of the 1965 Immigration Law
Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986)
Cesar Chavez
American Indian Movement
Gay Liberation Movement
Clean Air Act
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Water Act
Environmental Super - Fund
Endangered Species Act
Time Period 9: 1980 – Present
As the United States transitioned to a new century filled
with challenges and possibilities, it experienced renewed
ideological and cultural debates, sought to redefine its
foreign policy, and adapted to economic globalization and
revolutionary changes in science and technology.
Key Concept 9.1: A new conservatism grew to prominence in U.S. culture
and politics, defending traditional social values and rejecting liberal views
about the role of government.
Key Concept 9.2: The end of the Cold War and new challenges to U.S.
leadership in the world forced the nation to redefine its foreign policy and
global role.
Key Concept 9.3: Moving into the 21st century, the nation continued to
experience challenges stemming from social, economic, and demographic
changes.
Religious Fundamentalism
Moral Majority
Roe v. Wade
Supply-Side Economics
SDI
Sandinistas
Iran-Contra
START I and II
Persian Gulf War (1991)
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
Contract with America
Oklahoma City Bombing
Technology Boom
Immigration Act of 1986
Political Polarization
Gerrymandering
George W. Bush
Al Gore
Bush v. Gore
No Child Left Behind Act
Campaign Finance Reform
John Kerry
Hurricane Katrina
John Roberts
Samuel Alito
Islamic Roots of anti-Americanism
Al-Qaeda
Osama Bin Laden
Asymmetric Warfare
September 11th, 2001
Kyoto Accord
Bush Doctrine
Abu Gharib Prison
Securitization
Liquidity Crisis
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
Barack Obama
John McCain
2009 Stimulus Bill
Dodd-Frank Act
Affordable Care Act
Tea Party
Debt Ceiling
2013 Government Shut Down
Arab Spring
Citizens United Case
Skill 1: Historical Causation
Historical thinking involves the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate the relationships among
multiple historical causes and effects, distinguishing between those that are long- term and proximate,
and among coincidence, causation, and correlation.
Skill 2: Patterns of Continuity and Change over Time
Historical thinking involves the ability to recognize, analyze, and evaluate the dynamics of historical
continuity and change over periods of time of varying lengths, as well as the ability to relate these
patterns to larger historical processes or themes.
Skill 3: Periodization
Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, analyze, evaluate, and construct models that
historians use to organize history into discrete periods. To accomplish
this periodization of history,
historians identify turning points and recognize that the choice of specific dates gives a higher value to
one narrative, region, or group than to other narratives, regions, or groups. How a historian defines
historical periods depends on what the historian considers most significant — political, economic, social,
cultural, or environmental factors. Changing periodization can change a historical narrative. Moreover,
historical thinking involves being aware of how the circumstances and contexts of a historian’s work
might shape his or her choices about periodization.
Skill 4: Comparison
Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, compare, and evaluate multiple historical
developments within one society, one or more developments across or between different societies, and
in various chronological and geographical contexts. It also involves the ability to identify, compare, and
evaluate multiple perspectives on a given historical experience.
Skill 5: Contextualization
Historical thinking involves the ability to connect historical events and processes to specific
circumstances of time and place and to broader regional, national, or global processes.
Skill 6: Historical Argumentation
Historical thinking involves the ability to define and frame a question about the past and to address that
question through the construction of an argument. A plausible and persuasive argument requires a clear,
comprehensive, and analytical thesis, supported by relevant historical evidence — not simply evidence
that supports a preferred or preconceived position. In addition, argumentation involves the capacity to
describe, analyze, and evaluate the arguments of others in light of available evidence.
Skill 7: Appropriate Use of Relevant Historical Evidence
Historical thinking involves the ability to describe and evaluate evidence about the past from diverse
sources (including written documents, works of art, archaeological artifacts, oral traditions, and other
primary sources) and requires the students to pay attention
to the content, authorship, purpose, format,
and audience of such sources. It involves the capacity to extract useful information, make supportable
inferences, and draw appropriate conclusions from historical evidence, while also noting the context in
which the evidence was produced and used, recognizing its limitations and assessing the points of view
it reflects.
Skill 8: Interpretation
Historical thinking involves the ability to describe, analyze, evaluate, and construct diverse
interpretations of the past, and being aware of how particular circumstances and contexts in which
individual historians work and write also shape their interpretation of past events. Historical
interpretation requires analyzing evidence, reasoning, determining the context, and evaluating points of
view found in both primary and secondary sources.
Skill 9: Synthesis
Historical thinking involves the ability to develop meaningful and persuasive new understandings of the
past by applying all of the other historical thinking skills,
by drawing appropriately on ideas and
methods from different fields of inquiry or disciplines, and by creatively fusing disparate, relevant, and
sometimes contradictory evidence from primary sources and secondary works. Additionally, synthesis
may involve applying insights about the past to other historical contexts or circumstances, including the
present.