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AP U.S. History

Beginnings and Colonial America through the Revolution

  1. Pre-Columbian America
  2. The Spanish in the New World
  3. The French in the New World
  4. The English in the New World
  5. The impact of European Encounter
  6. The Columbian Exchange
  7. The Pueblo Revolt (Popé’s Rebellion)
  8. Jamestown 1607
  9. Effects of Indentured servitude
  10. The “Middle Passage”
  11. Slave labor in the colonies
  12. Winthrop’s “City on a Hill”
  13. Halfway Covenant
  14. Extent of religious liberty in colonies
  15. First Great Awakening
  16. Characteristics of colonial cities and regions
  17. Bacon’s Rebellion
  18. Stono Rebellion
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  1. Results of the French & Indian War
  2. Proclamation of 1763
  3. Mercantilism and its results
  4. Virtual vs. Actual Representation
  5. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
  6. Stamp Act
  7. Boston Massacre 1770, Boston Tea Party 1773
  8. Intolerable Acts
  9. First vs. Second Continental Congress
  10. Olive Branch Petition
  11. The Declaration of Independence 1775
  12. Battle of Saratoga
  13. France’s aid in Revolutionary War
  14. Republicanism (Revolutionary era)
  15. Republican Motherhood
  16. Battle of Yorktown
  17. Terms of Treaty of Paris (1783) & follow-through

The New Nation; 1783-1860

The Articles of Confederation 1781
  1. Reasoning for and Weaknesses
  2. Ordinances of 1785 & 1787
  3. Shays’ Rebellion
The Constitution Convention 1787
  1. Compromises in the Constitution
  2. Checks and Balances
  3. Federalists vs. Antifederalists
  4. The Bill of Rights
  5. Beliefs of Hamilton vs. Jefferson
  6. Whiskey Rebellion
  7. Washington’s Farewell Address
  8. Qualifications for early voters
  9. Jay’s Treaty
  10. XYZ Affair
  11. Quasi War w/ France
  12. Alien and Sedition Acts
  13. KentuckyVirginia Resolutions
  14. Election of 1800
  15. Deism
  16. Embargo Act of 1807
  17. Louisiana Purchase/Lewis and Clark
  18. *De Toqueville’s Democracy in America
  19. Marbury v. Madison/Judicial review
  20. Judicial Nationalism/Marshall Court Cases
  21. Growth of Canals vs. Railroads
  22. Importance of Erie Canal
  23. Tecumseh
  24. The Causes of the War of 1812
  25. The Hartford Convention
  26. Impact of the War of 1812
  27. Era of Good Feelings
  28. Adams-Onís Treaty
  29. Monroe Doctrine
  30. Impact of Whitney’s cotton gin
  31. Patterns of Slaveholding
  32. Henry Clay’s American System
  33. Election of 1824/Corrupt Bargain
  34. Jacksonian Democracy 1829–1837
  35. Protective tariffs (1816-1828)
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  1. Nullification and states’ rights/South Carolina Exposition & Protest
  2. Bank War
  3. Wildcat currency & pet banks
  4. Results of Jackson’s economic policies
  5. Whigs vs. Jacksonian Democrats (1830’s-40’s)
  6. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
  7. The Trail of Tears 1838
  8. Early Industry/Lowell, MA
  9. Cult of domesticity
  10. Early American Literature ie: Emerson/Thoreau/Hawthorne/Melville/Poe
  11. Hudson RiverSchool
  12. 2nd Great Awakening
The Reform Movements
  1. Immediatism – Garrison and Douglass
  2. Education Reform 1800-1860
  3. Mental Health/Prison Reform
  4. Utopianism (Oneida, Brook Farm)
  5. Seneca Falls Convention
Manifest Destiny/The Mexican War 1846–1848
  1. Americans into Texas/Mexican policy toward Texas
  2. Texan Independence
  3. The Whig Platform
  4. The Wilmot Proviso
  5. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Slavery in the territories
  1. The Missouri Compromise 1820
  2. Ostend Manifesto
  3. Popular Sovereignty
  4. The Compromise of 1850
  5. Gadsden Purchase
  6. The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
  7. “Bleeding Kansas”
  8. Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852
  9. The Dred Scott case 1857
  10. LincolnDouglas Debates
  11. John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry 1859
  12. Republican Party Platform in 1860
  13. The Election of 1860/Secession of the South

The Civil War and Reconstruction; 1861-1877

  1. Lincoln’s goals
  2. Problems facing the Union (1861-3)
  3. Advantages/Disadvantages of both sides
  4. Foreign relations in Civil War
  5. The Gettysburg Address 1863
  6. The Emancipation Proclamation 1863
  7. The Confederate surrender
  8. Freedmen’s Bureau
  9. Radical Republicans in Reconstruction (Charles Sumner/Thaddeus Stevens)
  10. Reconstruction Acts of 1867
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  1. Thirteenth Amendment 1865
  2. Fourteenth Amendment 1868
  3. Fifteenth Amendment 1870
  4. Johnson Impeachment
  5. Origins of the Ku Klux Klan
  6. Economic Impact of Civil War
  7. Sharecropping/crop lien laws
  8. Black Codes
  9. Limits to voting rights (poll taxes, etc.)
  10. End of Reconstruction (1877)

The Second Industrial Revolution; 1865-1900

  1. Factors contributing to industrialization
  2. The “New South”
  3. Resulting social changes
  4. Gospel of Wealth
  5. Social Darwinism
  6. The “robber barons”/“captains of industry”
  7. Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
  8. Vertical/Horizontal Integration
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  1. Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
The Rise of Organized Labor
  1. New labor unions (IWW, Knights of Labor)
  2. Strikes (Haymarket Square, Great Strike of 1877, Ludlow)
Inventions and Technological Developments
  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Edwin Drake
  3. Christopher Sholes

Immigration and Urbanization; 1840-1900

  1. Reasons for immigration
  2. The “old immigrants” and the “new immigrants”
  3. Irish and German Immigrant Settlement Patterns
  4. Ellis Island and AngelIsland
  5. Nativism/Know Nothing Party
  6. Jane Addams and the settlement house movement
  7. Political machines
  8. Tammany Hall/Boss Tweed
Technological innovations
  1. BrooklynBridge 1883
  2. Kodak camera
  3. The airplane
/ Printing and a mass media
  1. William Randolph Hearst
  2. Joseph Pulitzer
  3. Mark Twain
Entertainment in the cities
  1. Circus, vaudeville, and amusement parks
  2. Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith
African Americans during the Gilded Age
  1. Booker T. Washington
  2. W. E. B. Du Bois/NAACP
  3. Jim Crow laws
  4. Plessy v. Ferguson1896
  5. Lynchings – Ida B. Wells

The Settlement of the West; 1865-1900

Settlement of the Great Plains
  1. Reasons
  2. The Homestead Act 1862
  3. Exoduster
  4. Cyrus McCormick’s Reaper
  5. Transcontinental Railroad 1869
  6. Indian Assimilation /The Dawes Severalty Act
  7. Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis
  8. Causes of farmers’ discontent (1875-1900)
  9. Bimetallism
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  1. The rise of the Populist Party
  2. The Omaha Platform
  3. The “Cross of Gold” speech
  4. Election of 1896
  5. Fall of Populist Party (reasons)
Defeat of the Indians
  1. Little Bighorn/Second Sioux War
  2. The Ghost Dance
  3. The Battle of Wounded Knee

The Progressive Movement; 1900-1917

  1. Origins of Progressivism
Supporters
  1. The muckrakers
  2. Lincoln Steffens
  3. Ida Tarbell
  4. Jacob Riis
  5. “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair/Meat Inspection Act/Pure Food and Drug Act
Political reforms
  1. Initiative and referendum
  2. Australian Ballot
  3. Women’s suffrage (19th Amendment)
/ Social reforms
  1. Prohibition (18th Amendment)
  2. Failures of Progressivism
The Progressive Presidents
  1. Theodore Roosevelt
  2. William Howard Taft
  3. Woodrow Wilson
  4. The Anthracite Coal Miner’s Strike
  5. The “Bull Moose” Party and the election of 1912
  6. New Nationalism vs. New Freedom

American Imperialism and World War I; 1865-1919

  1. Definitions of imperialism
  2. Reasons for imperialism
  3. Early acquisitions: Alaska, Hawaii, Samoa, etc.
The Spanish-American War 1898
  1. Causes
  2. Americas New Empire
  3. Platt Amendment in Cuba
  4. Insular Cases
  5. China and the Open Door policy (John Hay)
  6. The Panama Canal
/ World War I 1914–1918
  1. Neutrality and the drift toward war
Reasons for U.S. entry
  1. Economic interests
  2. Submarine warfare
  3. Zimmerman Note
  4. The Committee on Public Information
  5. Food Administration
The Treaty of Versailles 1919
  1. Wilson and the Fourteen Points
  2. The League Nations
  3. Resistance to the Treaty in the U.S. (Henry Cabot Lodge)

The Roaring Twenties; 1920-1929

Political ideologies
  1. Anarchism
  2. Communism
  3. Socialism
  4. Liberalism
  5. Conservatism
  6. Fascism
  7. Reactionism
  8. The “Red Scare” 1920
  9. A. Mitchell Palmer
  10. Sacco and Vanzetti 1921
Immigration restrictions
  1. The National Origins Act 1924
  2. The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920’s
  3. The “Great Migration”
  4. Prohibition/18th Amendment/Volstead Act
  5. Speakeasies & Bootleggers
  6. The Scopes trial 1925
/ Technological innovations
  1. Henry Ford and the assembly line
  2. The impact of the automobile
Radio and the movies
  1. The Jazz Singer 1927
  2. Charlie Chaplin
  3. Installment buying
Changing roles for women
  1. Flappers
Heroes of the 20s
  1. Gertrude Ederle
  2. Babe Ruth
  3. Charles Lindbergh
  4. Writers of the “Lost Generation”
Music of the 20s
  1. George Gershwin
The Harlem Renaissance
  1. Langston Hughes
  2. Duke Ellington
  3. Stock Market Crash 1929

The Great Depression and the New Deal; 1929-1940

Causes of the Great Depression
  1. Stock Market crash—“Black Tuesday” 1929
  2. Depression in agriculture
  3. Easy credit
  4. Bank failures
  5. Overproduction and underemployment
  6. 25% unemployment by 1932
  7. Tariff barriers
  8. Worldwide depression
Effects of Depression
  1. Hunger—Soup kitchens and bread lines
  2. Homelessness—Hoovervilles
  3. The Dust Bowl—Okies
Herbert Hoover’s efforts to help 1929–1933
  1. Voluntary cooperation
  2. Public works program 1930
  3. Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1932
  4. The Bonus Army 1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal 1933–1939
  1. “Three Rs” of New Deal
/ Aid for banking/economy
  1. Emergency Banking Act
  2. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  3. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Aid for agriculture
  1. Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
  2. TennesseeValley Authority (TVA)
Aid for industry
  1. National Industrial Recovery Administration (NRA)
  2. Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Aid for the “forgotten man”
  1. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
  2. Public Works Administration (PWA)
  3. Social Security Administration
Society and culture during the Great Depression
  1. Radio/“fireside chats”
  2. John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath
Legacy of the New Deal
  1. Boosted rights of workers and aided farmers
  2. Shift from laissez-faire to government regulation
  3. New Deal Democratic Party Coalition

The Road to War: 1931-1939

  1. Resentment over Treaty of Versailles
  2. Communism in Soviet Union under Stalin
  3. Fascism/totalitarianism in Italy - Germany
  4. Attacks on Jews—Kristallnacht
  5. Lebensraum—living space
  6. “Final solution”/death camps
  7. Fascist Japanese Aggression in Asia (1931-1937)
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  1. Spanish Civil War 1936
  2. Austria 1938
  3. Sudetenland 1938
  4. Appeasement policy in Munich Pact fails
  5. Czechoslovakia 1939
  6. Poland 1939—World War II begins

World War Two; 1939-1945

Road to U.S. involvement
  1. Lend-Lease Act 1941
  2. Atlantic Charter 1941
  3. Pearl Harbor attack
  4. Size of American military
  5. Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAACs)
  6. Women work in war industries
  7. Rationing
  8. Japanese Americans interned
  9. Race riots in Detroit and Los Angeles
  10. “March on Washington” movement 1941—
  11. Philip Randolph
  12. ABC-1 Agreement
  13. Battle of Atlantic—convoys and radar
  14. Stalingrad 1942–1943
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  1. North Africa 1943
  2. Sicily/Mussolini overthrown
  3. D-Day invasion at Normandy—June 1944
  4. Liberation of Paris/Battle of the Bulge 1944
  5. March on Berlin 1945—Soviets enter from east
  6. FDR’s death/Hitler’s suicide—April 1945
  7. German surrender—May 8, 1945
  8. “Island-hopping” strategy
  9. Coral Sea and Midway
  10. Iwo Jima and Okinawa 1945
  11. Manhattan Project
  12. Atomic Attacks on Japan
  13. Japan surrenders—August 1945
  14. United Nations organized 1945

The Cold War/Foreign Policy; 1945-1989

  1. Definition of “cold war”
  2. Satellite nations/“iron curtain”
  3. U.S. containment policy
  4. Truman Doctrine 1947
  5. Marshall Plan 1948
  6. Berlin crisis and airlift 1948
  7. NATO 1949
Communism abroad
  1. China 1949—Mao Zedong
  2. Korean Conflict 1950–1953
  3. Douglas MacArthur leads UN forces
  4. Nation divided at 38th parallel
  5. Warsaw Pact
  6. Hungarian revolt 1956
Communism at home
  1. McCarthyism
  2. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
  3. Hollywood Ten
  4. Alger Hiss/Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Eisenhower’s foreign policy
  1. Massive retaliation and brinksmanship
  2. Hydrogen bomb detonated 1952
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  1. Khrushchev to power in Soviet Union 1956
  2. Sputnik I 1957/NASA established 1958
  3. U-2 incident 1960/summit talks canceled
Kennedy’s foreign policy
  1. Flexible response
Cuba
  1. Bay of Pigs 1961
  2. Cuban missile crisis 1962
  3. Berlin Wall erected 1961
  4. Hot lines/Limited Test Ban Treaty
Vietnam
  1. Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution
  2. Tet offensive
  3. My Lai
  4. KentState
  5. Vietnamization
Post Vietnam Foreign Policy
  1. Nixon and China
  2. OPEC Energy Crisis
  3. Iran Hostage Crisis
  4. SDI/Star Wars
  5. Iran Contra Scandal
  6. Glasnost/Perestroika

The Postwar Boom; 1945-1960

  1. Harry Truman’s Fair Deal 1945–1953
  2. GI Bill of Rights 1944
  3. Growth of suburbs/Levittown 1947
  4. Baby boom
  5. “Dixiecrats”
  6. Taft-Hartley Act
  7. Interstate highway system
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  1. TV as main vehicle of popular culture
  2. Beat writers—Ginsberg and Kerouac
  3. Rock ‘n’ roll—Elvis Presley
Race relations
  1. White flight from cities to suburbs
  2. Urban renewal
  3. Betty Friedan/Feminism

The New Frontier, The Great Society, and the Modern Civil Rights Movement; 1960-1970

Taking on segregation
  1. Brown v. Board of Education 1954
  2. Thurgood Marshall and NAACP
  3. “Little Rock Nine”/CentralHigh School
  4. Montgomery bus boycott/Rosa Parks 1955
  5. Martin Luther King, Jr. and SCLC
  6. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  7. Lunch counter sit-ins
Civil rights successes
  1. Freedom Riders 1961
  2. March on Washington 1963
  3. Civil Rights Act 1964
  4. Freedom Summer 1964–1965
  5. Voting Rights Act 1965
  6. Black power/Stokely Carmichael (SNCC)
  7. Malcolm X
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  1. Black Panther Party
  2. King assassination 1968
Kennedy’s domestic policy—The New Frontier
  1. Kennedy-Nixon televised debates 1960
  2. Peace Corps
  3. Pledge to put man on the moon
  4. JFK assassination
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society 1963–1969
  1. War on Poverty
  2. Economic Opportunity Act 1964
  3. Medicare/Medicaid
  4. Warren Court/Miranda rights
  5. Rachel Carson/Environmentalism
  6. Democratic Convention of 1968
  7. Presidential Election of 1968/Candidates

Recent Events in Domestic policy, 1970-1990

  1. Equal Rights Amendment
  2. Gloria Steinem/Phyllis Schlafly
  3. Watergate Scandal/Nixon resignation
  4. Carter Presidency/stagflation
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  1. Cesar Chavez
  2. Roe v. Wade
  3. The rise of the Moral Majority
  4. Reaganomics

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