AP Chapter 1 Review



AP Chapter 1 Review (You can start on page 10)

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Columbus

When Worlds Collide

Treaty of Tordesillas

Conquistadores

Magellan

Francisco Pizarro

Encomienda

Bartolome de Las Casas

Cortes

Moctezuma

Spread of Spanish America

Pueblo Revolt

“Black Legend”

II. Key Questions

1. What important changes took place in Europe in the years before European exploration of the “New” World?

2. What were the principal effects of Spain’s explorations in the “New” World?

AP Chapter 2 Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Roanoke

Spanish Armada

Enclosure

Primogeniture

Joint stock companies

Jamestown

John Smith

Pocahontas

Starving Time

Powhatan’s Confederacy

The Indians’ New World

Tobacco

Lord Baltimore

Act of Toleration

West Indies

Sugar

Restoration

The Carolinas

Georgia

II. Key Questions

1. What important changes took place in England in the years before its exploration of the “New” World?

2. In what ways did the colonization of Jamestown affect the Native Americans who lived there?

3. In what ways were the “plantation colonies” (Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia) similar to and different from each other?

AP Chapter 3 Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Martin Luther

Reformation

John Calvin

Puritans

Pilgrims

Mayflower Compact

William Bradford

John Winthrop

“City Upon a Hill”

Congregational Church

“Protestant ethic”

Anne Hutchinson

Roger Williams

Rhode Island

Fundamental Orders

Pequot War

Praying towns

King Philip’s War

Benign neglect

Navigation Laws

New Netherland & Peter Stuyvesant

Quakers & William Penn

II. Key Questions

1. What were the religious beliefs of the Puritans?

2. Describe the impact religion had on life in colonial New England.

3. Was the relationship between Puritans and Native Americans a good or bad one? Why?

4. In what ways were the Quakers different from the Puritans?

AP Chapter 4 Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

The Unhealthy Chesapeake

Indentured servants

Headright system

Bacon’s Rebellion

Colonial slavery/Africans in America

Stono Rebellion

Social classes in the southern colonies

House of Burgesses

The New England family

The New England town

Harvard college

Half-way covenant

Salem Witch Trials

Key Questions

1. Explain why Bacon’s Rebellion was an important turning point in Virginian & American history.

2. Describe the important differences between life in New England and life in

the Chesapeake.

AP Chapter 5 Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Population boom

German immigration

Scots-Irish immigration

Crevecoeur

Structure of Colonial Society

Clerics, Physicians, Jurists

Workaday America

Triangular trade

Horsepower and Sailpower

Dominant denominations

Anglican church

Great Awakening

Jonathan Edwards

George Whitefield

Old lights v. new lights

Schools and colleges

Ben Franklin

John Peter Zenger

The Great Game of Politics

Colonial folkways

II. Key Questions

1. In what ways did the colonial population change between the 1600s and the 1700s?

2. What where the important effects of the Great Awakening?

AP Chapter 6 Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

New France

The Clash of Empires

George Washington

Fort Necessity

French and Indian War (Seven Years War)

Albany Congress

General Braddock

Fort Duquesne

William Pitt

Battle of Quebec

Restless Colonists

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Proclamation of 1763

II. Key Questions

1. In what ways was New France different from English colonies in North America?

2. What were the most important effects of the French and Indian War for France, England, and the colonists?

AP Chapter 7 Review

I. Key Terms

Republicanism

Mercantilism

Navigation Law

Sugar Act

Quartering Act

Stamp Act

Virtual representation

Stamp Act Congress

Nonimportation agreements

Sons of Liberty

Townshend Acts

Boston Massacre

Committees of Correspondence

British East India Company

Boston Tea Party

Intolerable Acts

1st Continental Congress

The Association

Lexington and Concord

Imperial Strength and Weakness

American Pluses and Minuses

Valley Forge

Lord Dunmore’s Decree

II. Key Questions

1. Which laws and taxes England created in the 1760s and 1770s were reasonable? Which were unreasonable? Why?

2. What tactics did the American colonists use to try to force England to change its laws and remove its taxes?

3. What advantages and disadvantages did each side have once the war actually began?

Chapter 8 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

2nd Continental Congress

George Washington

Battle of Bunker Hill

Olive Branch Petition

Hessians

Common Sense

Republicanism

Declaration of Independence

Loyalists

Battle of Long Island

Trenton and Princeton

Battle of Saratoga

Ben Franklin

A Colonial War Becomes a Wider War

Benedict Arnold

Charleston

General Cornwallis

Yorktown

Treaty of Paris

II. Key Questions

1. What were the major turning points in the Revolutionary War that enabled the American colonists to win?

2. To what extent were colonists united in their opposition to British rule during the Revolutionary War?

Chapter 9 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

The Pursuit of Equality

Constitution Making in the States

Economic Crosscurrents

Articles of Confederation

Land Ordinance of 1785

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

The World’s Ugly Duckling

Shays’s Rebellion

Annapolis Convention Philadelphia Convention

Patriots in Philadelphia

Great Compromise

3/5 Compromise

Safeguards for Conservatism

Federalists

Antifederalists

The Great Debate in the States

Federalist Papers

A Conservative Triumph

II. Key Questions

1. In what ways did the colonists’ victory in the American Revolution change American society and economy?

2. Why did the our nation’s first constitution – the Articles of Confederation – fail?

3. In what ways was the Constitution different from the Articles of Confederation?

4. Describe the difficulties the founders faced in writing the Constitution and explain how they overcame these difficulties.

Chapter 10 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Growing Pains

Washington for President

Bill of Rights

Alexander Hamilton

Funding the Debt

Assuming the Debt

Tariffs

National bank

Strict construction

Whiskey Rebellion

Emergence of Political Parties

Impact of the French Revolution

Neutrality Proclamation

Embroilments with Britain

Jay’s Treaty

Pinckney’s Treaty

Washington Farewell Address

John Adams Becomes President

X, Y, Z Affair

Alien and Sedition Acts

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Federalists

Jeffersonian-Republicans

II. Key Questions

1. What were the most serious problems the United States faced during the 1790s?

2. What did Federalists and Jeffersonian-Republicans disagree about?

Chapter 11 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Sally Hemings

Revolution of 1800

Responsibility Breeds Moderation

Jeffersonian Restraint

Judiciary Act of 1801

Marbury v. Madison

The Louisiana Godsend

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Aaron Burr Conspiracies

Impressment

The Chesapeake

Embargo Act of 1807

Non-Intercourse Act

Macon’s Bill No. 2

War hawks

Tecumseh

Mr. Madison’s War

II. Key Questions

1. Why is the election of 1800 sometimes referred to as a “revolution”?

2. What were the principal causes of the War of 1812?

Chapter 12 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

On to Canada

Washington Burned

Battle of New Orleans

Treaty of Ghent

Hartford Convention

The Second War for American Independence

The American System & Henry Clay

Era of Good Feelings

James Monroe

Panic of 1819

Slavery and Sectional Balance

The Uneasy Missouri Compromise

John Marshall & Judicial Nationalism

Dartmouth College v. Woodward

Sharing Oregon and Acquiring Florida

The Menace of Monarchy in America

Monroe Doctrine

II. Key Questions

1. What were the major turning points in the War of 1812?

2. The 1810s have sometimes been called the Era of Good Feelings. To what extent and in what ways was that decade actually an era of good feelings?

Chapter 13 AP Review (Skip p275-280)

I. Key Terms and Concepts

The “Corrupt Bargain” of 1824

A Yankee Misfit in the White House

Election of 1828

“Old Hickory” as President

The Spoils System

The “Tariff of Abominations”

John C. Calhoun

Nullification

Compromise Tariff of 1833

Force Bill

The Trail of Tears

Indian Removal Act

The Bank War

Election of 1832

Burying Biddle’s Bank

Whig Party

Election of 1836

Martin Van Buren

Panic of 1837

Log Cabins and Hard Cider of 1840

The Two Party System

II. Key Questions

1. Andrew Jackson was one of our nation’s most controversial presidents. What decisions did he make that were applauded by some Americans and hated by others?

2. In what ways did American politics change between 1830 and 1840?

Chapter 14 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

The Westward Movement

The March of the Millions

The Emerald Isle Moves West

The German 48ers

Flare-ups of Antiforeignism

Creeping Mechanization

Eli Whitney

Marvels in Manufacturing

Interchangeable Parts

Workers and “Wage Slaves”

Women and the Economy

Cult of Domesticity

Western Farmers Reap a Revolution in the Fields

Highways and Steamboats

Erie Canal

The Iron Horse

Cables, Clippers, and Pony Riders

Transport Web Binds the Union

The Market Revolution

II. Key Questions

1. Describe the opportunities and dangers that immigrants faced when they arrived in the United States in the first half of the 19th century.

2. What new technologies were invented in the first half of the 19th century?

3. In what ways did improvements in technology and transportation affect Americans’ everyday lives?

Chapter 15 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Second Great Awakening

Charles Grandison Finney

Denominational Diversity

Mormons

Joseph Smith

Free Schools for a Free People

Horace Mann

Noah Webster

Higher Goals for Higher Learning

An Age of Reform

Temperance

Women in Revolt

Cult of Domesticity

Declaration of Sentiments

Wilderness Utopias

The Dawn of Scientific Achievement

Artistic Achievements

The Blossoming of a National Literature

Trumpeters of Transcendentalism

Literary Individualists and Dissenters

Portrayers of the Past

II. Key Questions

1. In what ways did the 2nd Great Awakening affect the lives of ordinary Americans?

2. What were the principal reform movements of the antebellum era?

Chapter 16 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Cotton Is King

The Planter Aristocracy

The White Majority

Free Blacks: Slaves Without Masters

Plantation Slavery

Life under the Lash

The Burdens of Bondage

Early Abolitionism

American Colonization Society

William Lloyd Garrison

David Walker’s Appeal

Frederick Douglass

The South Lashes Back

The Gag Resolution

The Abolitionist Impact in the North

II. Key Questions

1. Today when Americans think of slavery, they often assume that all blacks were slaves, and that all whites were slaveowners. Is this an accurate image of slavery in the antebellum era? Why/why not?

2. To what extent and in what ways were slaves able to overcome their status as slaves to create rich, meaningful lives for themselves?

3. In what ways did the antislavery movement change during the 1830s and 1840s?

Chapter 17 AP Review (Skip p371-374, Add p275-280 in Chapter 13)

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Gone to Texas

The Lone Star Rebellion

The Lone Star of Texas Shines Alone

The Belated Texas Nuptials

The Annexation of Texas

Oregon Fever Populates Oregon

Election of 1844

Manifest Destiny

54’ 40” or Fight

Misunderstandings with Mexico

American Blood on American (?) Soil

The Mastering of Mexico

Fighting Mexico for Peace

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Profit and Loss in Mexico

Wilmot Proviso

II. Key Question

1. What were the principal causes of the Mexican-American War?

2. What were the main effects of the United States’ victory in the Mexican-American War?

Chapter 18 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Popular Sovereignty

Free Soilers

Californy Gold

Sectional Balance and the Underground Railroad

The Twilight of the Senatorial Giants

The Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

Personal Liberty Laws

Expansionist Stirrings South of the Border

Ostend Manifesto

The Allure of Asia

Pacific Railroad Promoters and the Gadsden Purchase

Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Scheme

Congress Legislates a Civil War

II. Key Questions

1. Why was the idea of “popular sovereignty” so controversial?

2. Was the Compromise of 1850 a good compromise? Why or why not?

3. Why was Stephen Douglass’ Kansas-Nebraska proposal so controversial?

Chapter 19 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Stowe and Helper: Literary Incendiaries

The North-South Contest for Kansas

John Brown

Lecompton Constitution

The Caning of Charles Sumner

The Election of 1856

The Dred Scott Bombshell

An Illinois Rail-Splitter Emerges

The Great Debate: Lincoln Versus Douglas

John Brown: Murderer or Martyr?

Election of 1860

The Secessionist Exodus

The Collapse of Compromise

Farewell to Compromise

II. Key Questions

1. What were the key events in the 1850s that increased the tension between the North and South?

2. For 70+ years after the United States was founded, the North and South were able to work out their disagreements regarding slavery without resorting to violence. Why were the North and South able to make successful compromises from the 1780s to the 1840s, but not in the 1850s?

3. Why did South Carolina and other states secede? What did they fear? Were these fears reasonable?

Chapter 20 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

The Menace of Secession

South Carolina Assails Fort Sumter

Brothers’ Blood and Border Blood

The Balance of Forces

Dethroning King Cotton

The Decisiveness of Diplomacy

President Davis v. President Lincoln

Limitations on Wartime Liberties

Volunteers and Draftees: North and South

Economic Stresses of War

The North’s Economic Boom

Clara Barton

A Crushed Cotton Kingdom

II. Key Questions

1. What advantages and disadvantages did the Confederacy have during the Civil War?

2. How did the war affect the economies of the North and South?

Chapter 21 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Bull Run Ends the “Ninety Day War”

“Tardy George” McClellan and the Peninsula Campaign

Robert E. Lee

Union Strategy

The War at Sea

The Pivotal Point: Antietam

A Proclamation Without Emancipation

Blacks Battle Bondage

Lee’s Last Lunge at Gettysburg

The War in the West

Vicksburg

Sherman Scorches Georgia

The Election of 1864

Grant Outlasts Lee

Appomattox

The Martyrdom of Lincoln

The Aftermath of the Nightmare

II. Key Questions

1. How successful were the first years of the war (1861 and 1862) for the North? Why?

2. How fairly did the Union treat African-Americans during the Civil War?

3. What were the key turning points in the Civil War that enabled the North to win?

III. Your Question(s)

Chapter 22 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

The Problems of Peace

Freedmen Define Freedom

Freedman’s Bureau

Johnson: The Tailor President

10 Percent Plan

Wade-Davis Bill

Johnson’s Reconstruction

The Baleful Black Codes

Congressional Reconstruction

Johnson Clashes with Congress

Republican Principles and Programs

Reconstruction by the Sword

No Women Voters

The Realities of Radical Reconstruction in the South

Scalwags and Carpetbaggers

The Klu Klux Klan

The Force Acts

Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

The Heritage of Reconstruction

II. Key Questions

1. What did ex-slaves do in the weeks and months after they won their freedom?

2. What were the principal differences between Andrew Johnson and Congress’ Reconstruction plans?

3. To what extent was Reconstruction successful in protecting the rights of former slaves?

Reconstruction Reading #2 (Chapter 23 p510-513)

I. Key Terms

The Hayes-Tilden Standoff

The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction

The Birth of Jim Crow in the Post-Reconstruction South

Plessy v. Ferguson

II. Key Questions

1. How did Reconstruction end?

2. How well were African-Americans treated in the decades after the end of Reconstruction?

Native Americans and the West Reading (Chapter 26 p594-612)

I. Key Terms

The Clash of Cultures on the Plains

Custer’s Last Stand

Bellowing Heards of Bison

Battle of Wounded Knee

Dawes Act

Mining: From Dishpan to Ore Breaker

Beef Bonanzas and the Long Drive

Homestead Act

Dry farming

The Far West Comes of Age

Frederick Jackson Turner & The “Closing” of the Frontier

II. Key Questions

1. How did white Americans force Native Americans onto reservations?

2. Was the Dawes Act a reasonable attempt to improve the lives of Native Americans or a cruel way to destroy Native American culture? Why?

3. Why did more and more white Americans move West in the late 1800s?

Farmers and the West (Chapter 26 p612-624)

I. Key Terms

The Farm Becomes a Factory

Deflation Dooms the Debtor

Unhappy Farmers

Grangers

Prelude to Populism

Golden McKinley and Silver Bryan

Cross of Gold Speech

Class Conflict: Plowholders Versus Bondholders

Republican Stand-patism Enthroned

II. Key Questions

1. What problems did farmers face in the late 1800s?

2. What solutions did farmers propose to solve the problems they faced?

3. How would “free silver” have helped farmers?

4. Why did farmers fail to achieve most of their demands?

Industrialization (Chapter 24 p530-547)

I. Key Terms

The Iron Colt Becomes an Iron Horse

Spanning the Continent with Rails

Binding the Country with Railroad Ties

Railroad Consolidation and Mechanization

Revolution by Railways

Wrongdoing in Railroading

Government Bridles the Iron Horse

Miracles of Mechanization

Vertical and Horizontal Organization

The Supremacy of Steel

Carnegie and Other Sultans of Steel

Rockefeller Grows an American Beauty Rose

The Gospel of Wealth

Social Darwinism

Government Tackles the Trust Evil

The South in the Age of Industry

II. Key Questions

1. In what ways did the development of railroads influence American life in the late 1800s?

2. What tactics did wealthy businessmen such as Carnegie and Rockefeller use to earn their millions?

3. How much did the government limit and regulate businesses in the late 1800s?

The Impact of Industrialization on Workers

(Chapter 24 p547-556 & Chapter 26 p617-618)

I. Key Terms

The Impact of the New Industrial Revolution on America

In Unions There is Strength

The Knights of Labor

Haymarket Square Episode

The American Federation of Labor (AFL)

The Pullman Strike

Key Questions

1. What were some of the complaints workers had about their jobs in the late 1800s?

2. In what ways was the Knights of Labor different from the American Federation of Labor?

3. In the late 1800s, workers and unions often failed in their attempts to improve their working conditions. What were some of the reasons for these failures?

The Impact of Industrialization on Immigration (Chapter 25 p558-572)

I. Key Terms

The Urban Frontier

The New Immigration

Southern Europe Uprooted

Reactions to the New Immigration

Narrowing the Welcome Mat

II. Key Questions

1. What was “new” about the “New Immigrants” of the late 1800s?

2. How well were immigrants treated when they came to the United States in the late 1800s?

Cities & Culture in the Late 1800s (Chapter 25 p572-592)

I. Key Terms

Churches Confront the Urban Challenge

The Lust for Learning

Booker T. Washington and Education for Black People

W. E. B. DuBois

The Hallowed Halls of Ivy

The Appeal of the Press

Horatio Alger, Mark Twain & Stephen Crane

The Comstock Law

Families and Women in the City

Ida Wells

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

The Business of Amusement

II. Key Questions

1. What were the different ways that organizations and individuals tried to make sure that cities were safe, moral places in the late 1800s?

2. In what ways did education and reading change in the late 1800s?

Politics in the Late 1800s (Chapter 23 p504-518)

I. Key Terms

The “Bloody Shirt” Elects Grant

Boss Tweed & Thomas Nast

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Pallid Politics in the Gilded Age

Class Conflicts and Ethnic Clashes

Pendleton Act

II. Key Questions

1. What were the key political issues that Republicans and Democrats debated in the late 1800s?

2. Overall, was the late 1800s a period of effective, honest government? Why or why not?

The Progressive Era Reading #1 (Part of Chapter 28)

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Progressive Roots

Laissez faire

Jacob Riis

Muckrakers

Lincoln Stephens

Ida Tarbell

Political Progressivism

Referendum

Australian ballot

17th amendment

Robert La Follette

Progressive Women

Muller v. Oregon

Lochner v. New York

Triangle Shirtwaist Company

A Square Deal for Labor

Anthracite coal miners strike

TR Corrals the Corporations

Elkins Act

Hepburn Act

Upton Sinclair

Pure Food and Drug Act

Earth Control

II. Key Questions

• Describe the principal causes and consequences of progressive reform.

• To what extent and in what ways did progressive reforms affect the lives of ordinary Americans?

III. Your Question(s)

The Progressive Era Reading #2 (Part of Chapter 28 & 29)

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Election of 1908

William Howard Taft

Dollar Diplomacy

Taft Splits the Republican Party

The Taft-Roosevelt Rupture

Election of 1912

Woodrow Wilson

Underwood Tariff

17th Amendment

Federal Reserve Act

Clayton Act

Wilsonian Progressivism at High Tide

New Directions in Foreign Policy

Moralistic Diplomacy in Mexico

Pancho Villa

II. Key Question

• Describe the principal similarities and differences between the personalities and presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

III. Your Question(s)

The Roaring 20s (Chapter 31)

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Bolshevik Revolution

Red Scare

Palmer raids

Sacco and Vanzetti

KKK

Immigration Act of 1924

Prohibition

18th Amendment

Al Capone

Scopes-Darwin Trial

Clarence Darrow

The Mass Consumption Economy

Babe Ruth

Henry Ford

Frederick Taylor

The Advent of the Gasoline Age

Orville Wright

Charles Lindbergh

The Radio Revolution

Birth of a Nation

Margaret Sanger

Flappers

Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes

Marcus Garvey

H. L. Mencken

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Frank Lloyd Wright

Wall Street’s Big Bull Market

II. Key Questions

• How did the invention and dissemination of new technologies in the 1920s affect ordinary Americans?

• America in the 1920s has sometimes been described as a society in conflict. Describe the principal conflicts in America during the 1920s.

• What were the principal characteristics of art and literature in the 1920s?

III. Your Question(s)

The Coming of the Great Depression (Chapter 32)

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Warren Harding

The Aftermath of War

America Seeks Benefits Without Burdens

Hiking the Tariff Higher

Teapot Dome Scandal

Calvin Coolidge

Frustrated Farmers

Foreign Policy Flounderings

Unraveling the Debt Knot

Herbert Hoover

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

The Great Crash

Black Tuesday

Causes of the Great Depression

Rugged Times for Rugged Individualists

Hoover Battles the Great Depression

The Bonus Army

Japanese Militarists Attack China

The Good Neighbor Policy

II. Key Questions

• To what extent and in what ways were Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge successful as presidents?

• How did Herbert Hoover respond to the Great Depression? To what extent was his response successful in addressing the Great Depression?

III. Your Question(s)

The Great Depression (Chapter 33)

I. Key Terms and Concepts

FDR

Election of 1932

FDR’s Inaugural Address

The Hundred Days

Emergency Banking Relief Act

Glass-Steagall Act

CCC

HOLC

CWA

Father Coughlin

Huey Long

Dr. Robert Townsend

Frances Perkins

NRA

21st Amendment

AAA

Dust Bowls and Black Blizzards

Okies

John Steinbeck

TVA

FHA

Social Security Act

Wagner Act

CIO

Flint Sit Down Strike

Election of 1936

Court Packing Plan

Keynesianism

New Deal or Raw Deal?

FDR’s Balance Sheet

II. Key Questions

• Describe the programs created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Hundred Days.

• To what extent was the New Deal successful in improving the lives of ordinary Americans living through the Great Depression?

• What criticisms were made of the New Deal? Do you agree with those criticisms?

III. Your Question(s)

The United States Becomes an Imperial Power (Chapter 27)

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Yellow press

William Randolph Hearst

Josiah Strong

Alfred Mahan

Hawaii

U.S.S. Maine

Teller Amendment

Philippines

Invasion of Cuba

Rough Riders

An American Empire

Puerto Rico

Platt Amendment

The Open Door in China

Election of 1900

Teddy Roosevelt

Panama Canal

Roosevelt Corollary

Japanese Laborers in California

II. Key Question

• Describe the causes and consequences of American expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

III. Your Question(s)

World War I (Chapter 29 & 30)

A Precarious Neutrality

America earns blood money

u-boats

Lusitania

Sussex pledge

Election of 1916

Zimmerman note

Wilsonian idealism

Fourteen Points

George Creel

Espionage Act of 1917

Sedition Act of 1918

Workers in Wartime

Alice Paul

19th Amendment

Forging a War Economy

Creating an Army

Americans Fight in WWI

Paris Peace Conference

League of Nations

Treaty of Versailles

Election of 1920

Calvin Coolidge

The Betrayal of Great Expectations

II. Key Questions

• Why did the United States declare its neutrality at the outset of World War I but eventually join the war on the side of England and France?

• To what extent and in what ways did World War I affect ordinary Americans?

• Why was Woodrow Wilson unable to secure international and domestic support for his Fourteen Points?

III. Your Question(s)

The Coming of World War II (Chapter 34)

I. Key Terms and Concepts

FDR’s Good Neighbor Policy

Storm-Cellar Isolationism

Hitler

Mussolini

Neutrality Acts

Spanish Civil War

Appeasement

Nazi-Soviet Pact

The Fall of France

Bolstering Britain with the Destroyer Deal

Election of 1940

Lend-Lease

Atlantic Charter

Pearl Harbor

II. Key Question

-- Describe the principal causes of World War II.

-- Summarize the United States’ growing preparations for World War II.

III. Your Question(s)

World War II (Chapter 35)

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Japanese internment camps

Building the War Machine

Manpower and Womanpower

Bracero program

Wartime migrations

Double V campaign

Holding the Home Front

Japanese Successes

The Battle of Midway

American Leapfrogging Toward Tokyo

The Allied Halting of Hitler

From North Africa to Rome

Teheran Conference

D-Day

Election of 1944

The Last Days of Hitler

The Atomic Bombs

Potsdam Conference

The Manhattan Project

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

The Allies Triumphant

II. Key Questions

In what ways did World War II affect ordinary Americans?

How did the Allies defeat the Axis Powers in World War II?

Was the United States justified in dropping two atomic bombs on Japan?

III. Your Question(s)

Chapter 36 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Postwar Economic Anxieties

Taft-Hartley Act

GI Bill

The Long Economic Boom

The Roots of Postwar Prosperity

The Smiling Sunbelt

Dr. Benjamin Spock

The Rush to the Suburbs

Levittown

The Baby Boom

Harry Truman

Yalta Conference

The United States and the Soviet Union

The United Nations

The Problem of Germany

Nuremberg Trials

George F. Kennan

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Creation of Israel

NATO

Reconstruction and Revolution in Asia

Robert Oppenheimer

HUAC

Alger Hiss

Joseph McCarthy

The Rosenbergs

Election of 1848

Korean War

NSC-68

General MacArthur

II. Key Questions

• Describe the causes and consequences of America’s postwar economic success.

• What were the principal causes of the Cold War? Who was to blame for the Cold War?

• Why was the Cold War actually called the Cold War? To what extent was it actually “cold”?

• Describe the causes and consequences of McCarthyism.

III. Your Question(s)

Chapter 37 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Affluence and its Anxieties Pink Collar Jobs

Betty Friedan Consumer Culture in the Fifties

TV John Kenneth Galbraith

Election of 1952 Dwight Eisenhower

Korean War Joseph McCarthy

Desegregating American Society Emmett Till

Gunnar Myrdal Thurgood Marshall

Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott

Seeds of the Civil Rights Revolution Brown v. Board

Little Rock Central High School SCLC

“sit in” movement

SNCC

Interstate Highway Act

The Vietnam Nightmare

Ho Chi Minh

Dienbienphu

Geneva Accords

Ngo Dinh Diem

Cold War Crises in Europe and the Middle East

Eisenhower Doctrine

Sputnik

Cuba’s Castroism Spells Communism

Election of 1960

John F. Kennedy

Arthur Miller

Richard Wright

James Baldwin

J. D. Salinger

II. Key Questions

• How successful was Eisenhower in containing communism and protecting American interests abroad?

• In 1958 economist John Kenneth Galbraith described the United States in the 1950s as an affluent. To what extent and in what ways was the United States in the 1950s actually an affluent society?

• 1950s America has sometimes been portrayed as an era of conservatism and conformity. To what extent and in what ways did America in the 1950s actually reflect this portrayal?

III. Your Question(s)

Chapter 38 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Kennedy’s New Frontier Peace Corps

Berlin Wall Stepping into the Vietnam Quagmire

Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis

Freedom Rides J. Edgar Hoover

Medgar Evers The Kennedy Assassination

Lyndon Johnson Civil Rights Act of 1964

War on Poverty 1964 Election

The Great Society Medicare

Medicaid Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Head Start

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Watts

Malcolm X

Black Panthers

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Combating Communism in Two Hemispheres

Operation Rolling Thunder

Vietnam Vexations

Tet Offensive

1968 Election

1968 Democratic Convention

Richard Nixon

The Cultural Upheaval of the 1960s

Beat poets

Rebel without a Cause

Free Speech Movement

Sexual Revolution

Stonewall

SDS

II. Key Questions

• President Kennedy is now perceived by many Americans to be among the greatest of American presidents. Does Kennedy’s record during his presidency warrant such a perception?

• Describe President Johnson’s Great Society and its effects upon ordinary Americans.

• To what extent was the civil rights movement successful in the 1960s?

• Historians consider 1968 one of the most important years in the history of American politics. Why?

III. Your Question(s)

Chapter 39 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Sources of Stagnation

Vietnamization

Cambodianizing the Vietnam War

Détente

Henry Kissinger

SALT

Earl Warren

Miranda

Nixon on the Homefront

EPA

1972 Election

War Powers Act

Arab Oil Embargo

OPEC

Watergate

Gerald Ford

Defeat in Vietnam

Feminist Victories and Defeats

Title IX

Roe v. Wade

ERA

Alan Bakke

Jimmy Carter

Carter’s Humanitarian Diplomacy

Economic and Energy Woes

Iranian Hostage Crisis

II. Key Questions

• To what extent and in what ways was Nixon’s foreign policy a success?

• Watergate aside, to what extent and in what ways was Nixon’s domestic policy a success?

• To what extent was the women’s movement successful in the 1960s and 1970s?

III. Your Question(s)

Chapter 40 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Election of 1980

Ronald Reagan

The Reagan Revolution

Supply-side economics

Reagan Renews the Cold War

Star Wars (SDI)

Troubles Abroad

Iran-Contra Affair

Reagan’s Economic Legacy

The Religious Right

George H. W. Bush

The End of the Cold War

Mikhail Gorbachev

Perestroika

Glasnost

Persian Gulf Crisis

Saddam Hussein

Operation Desert Storm

Clarence Thomas

II. Key Questions

• Why was Ronald Reagan a much more popular president than Jimmy Carter?

• Describe the successes and failures of Reagan’s foreign and domestic policies.

• Describe the causes of the Cold War’s end and explain how the Cold War’s end influenced American foreign policy To what extent and in what ways was Nixon’s foreign policy a success?

III. Your Question(s)

Chapter 41 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Election of 1992

Bill Clinton

A False Start for Reform

Contract with America

Election of 1996

NAFTA

Problems Abroad

Impeachment

Clinton’s Legacy

Election of 2000

Bush Begins

September 11, 2001

Patriot Act

War in Iraq

A Country in Conflict

Election of 2004

II. Key Questions

• President Clinton was often criticized by Democrats for abandoning the party’s agenda. Was this criticism warranted?

• Describe the foreign policy struggles and successes that Bill Clinton faced during his second term in office.

• Describe the potential problems that the United States may face as it enters the 21st century.

III. Your Question(s)

Chapter 42 AP Review

I. Key Terms and Concepts

Economic Revolutions

Affluence and Inequality

The Feminist Revolution

New Families and Old

The Aging of America

The New Immigration

Beyond the Melting Pot

Cities and Suburbs

Minority America

Toni Morrison

Jackson Pollock

Andy Warhol

The American Environment

II. Key Question

• Describe the potential problems that the United States may face as it enters the 21st century.

III. Your Question(s)

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