The AP US History Exam Review



The AP US History Exam Review

Exam Structure:

Multiple Choice – 80 multiple choice questions, 55 minutes, 50% of total exam

Five minute break between multiple choice and free response

Free Response Section – 15 minute mandatory reading period

Document Based Question – 45 minute suggested writing time, 22.5% of total exam

Standard Essay Questions – Answer one question from two groups of two questions, 35 minute suggested writing time for each essay, each essay 13.75% of total exam, generally the first group of questions will be pre-1865, generally the second group of questions will be post-1865

Exam Schedule:

May 2nd – Review at Panera Bread at 6pm

May 3rd – Review at Panera Bread at 6pm

May 4th – Review at Panera Bread at 6pm

May 6th – Morning AP US History Exam

Terms from Multiple Choice Exams:

1607-1763

Indentured Servants

Trade and Navigation Acts

Mayflower Compact

Roger Williams

Great Puritan Migration

New England Confederation

Freedom of Consciences

Jonathan Edwards

Halfway Covenant

Salem Witch Trials

City on a Hill

William Penn

Proprietary, Royal, Charter colonies

Peter Zenger trial

King Phillip’s War

George Whitefield

Great Awakening

Thomas Hobbes

Mercantilism

Bacon’s Rebellion

Harvard College

Middle Passage

Phyllis Wheatly

Puritans

Pilgrims/Separatists

House of Burgesses

Anne Hutchinson

William Bradford

French and Indian War

John Locke

Iroquios Confederacy

Headright System

Salutary Neglect

Albany Plan

James Oglethorpe

1763-1775

Proclamation of 1763

Thomas Paine and Common Sense

Crisis Papers

Stamp Act Congress

Olive Branch Petition

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Quartering Act

Townshend Acts

Boston Tea Party

Coercive or Intolerable Acts

Loyalists and Tories

Sons of Liberty

First and Second Continental Congress

Boston Massacre

Paxton Boys

Tea Act

Battle of Saratoga

No Taxation Without Representation

Stamp Act

Non-importation Agreements

Virtual Representation

Gaspee Affair

Sugar Act of 1764

1775-1825

Monroe Doctrine

Embargo Act 1807

Louisiana Purchase

Tecumseh

Jay Treaty and Pinckney Treaty

Whiskey Rebellion

Gabriel Prosser’s Rebellion

Annapolis Convention

Orders in Council

Hartford Convention

American Colonization Society

Republicanism and Democracy

Interchangeable Parts

Henry Clay

Washington’s Farewell Address

Connecticut or Great Compromise

Barbary Pirates

Undeclared Naval War

Treaty of Alliance 1778

Treaty of Paris 1783

Republican Motherhood

Corrupt Bargain

Loose and Strict Constructionism

Lewis and Clark

Gibbons v. Ogden

Treaty of Ghent

Land Ordinance of 1785

Critical Period

XYZ Affair

War Hawks

Cotton Gin and Eli Whitney

Articles of Confederation

Three-fifths Compromise

Deism

Revolution of 1800

Full Funding and Assumption

Virginia and New Jersey Plans

Samuel Slater

Federalist and First American Party System

Benjamin Banneker

Haitian Rebellion

Marbury v. Madison

Bank of the US

Yeomen Farmers and Squatters

Virginia-Kentucky Resolutions

Shay’s Rebellion

Northwest Ordinance

Lowell Girls

Erie Canal

Impressment

Declaration of Independence

Missouri Compromise

Adams-Onis Treaty

American System

Bill of Rights

Judicial Review

Era of Good Feelings

Citizen Genet

Alien and Sedition Acts

National Republicans

1825-1865

Seneca Falls Convention

Dorothea Dix

John C. Calhoun

Oregon Territory

Stephen Douglas

Wilmot Proviso

John Deere

Maine Laws

Trail of Tears

Emancipation Proclamation

Hinton Helper and Impending Crisis

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Bank war

Mexican Cession

Cyrus McCormick

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Compromise of 1850

Nullification

William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator

Spoils System

Popular Sovereignty

Gadsden Purchase

American Anti-slavery Society

Irish Immigration

Mexican American War

Abolitionists

Bleeding Kansas

Horace Mann

Commonwealth v. Hunt

Transcendentalism

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Whigs and 2nd party system

Freeport Doctrine

James K. Polk

Apologist’s view of slavery

Force Act

Homestead Act

Lucretia Mott

Independent Treasury

Nashville Convention

Morrill Land Grant Act

Compact Theory

Frederick Douglass

John Slidell

Free Soilers

Second Great Awakening

Worcester v. Georgia

Charles River Bridge case

Cult of Domesticity and Womanhood

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

Gag Rule

DeTocqueville and Democracy in America

William Seward

Fugitive Slave Law

Removal of Deposits

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Brigham Young

Specie Circular

Crittenden Compromise

Lecompton Constitution

Perpetual Union

Trent Affair

Know-Nothing or American Party

Mormons

Prigg v. Pennsylvania

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Manifest Destiny

Republican Party

Lincoln-Douglass Debates

Tariff of Abominations

Ostend Manifesto

Antebellum

Battle of Antietam

Neal Dow

Sumner-Brooks Affair

Underground Railroad

National Banking Act

Nature of the Union

1865-1900

New Immigrants

Black Codes

Populist Party

Molly McGuires

American Federation of Labor

Sharecropping

Booker T. Washington

Dawes Act

Sherman Anti-trust Act

Settlement House Movement

William Jennings Bryan

Battle of Little Bighorn

Turner Thesis

Pragmatism and William James

Tenure of Office Act

William Randolph Hearst

Granger Laws

Henry George and Progress and Poverty

John Dewey

Edwin Stanton

Old Immigrants

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

Bread and Butter Unionism

Spanish-American War

National Labor Union

Helen Hunt Jackson

Social Gospel

Jingoism

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Horizontal Integration

Freedman’s Bureau

Sioux Wars

Gilded Age

Haymarket Incident

Scalawags

Compromise of 1877

Atlanta Compromise

“Waving the Bloody Shirt”

Thomas Nast

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

Radical Reconstruction

Plessy v. Ferguson

Joseph Pulitzer

Knights of Labor

Crop Lien System

A Century of Dishonor

Gospel of Wealth

Yellow Journalism

Social Darwinism

Vertical Integration

Boxer Rebellion

Samuel Gompers

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Farmer’s Alliances

Jim Crow Laws

Redemption and Redeemers

Seward’s Folly

Edward Bellamy

The Grange

YMCA

Open Range

Pullman Strike

Frederick Olmsted

Injunction

“Crime of ‘73”

Horatio Alger

Platt Amendment

John D. Rockefeller

Pullman Strike

WCTU

Pendleton Act

Salvation Army

Munn v. Illinois

Interstate Commerce Act

Louis Sullivan

Long Drives

John Peter Altgeld

J.P. Morgan

Chief Joseph

Cross of Gold Speech

Ida Wells

Boss Tweed

Chataugua movement

“Forty Acres and a Mule”

Coxey’s Army

Chinese Exclusion Act

Andrew Carnegie

Credit Moblier Scandal

Teller Amendment

Wounded Knee

Anti-Saloon League

Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Lives

1900-1918

Treaty of Versailles

League of Nations

CPI

Muckrakers

Russo-Japanese War

Henry Cabot Lodge

Open Door Policy

Fourteen Points

16th and 17th Amendments

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

Volstead Act

Mann-Elkins Act

Sussex/Arabic Pledges

Charles and Mary Beard

Anthracite Coal Strike

Zimmerman Note

Eugene V. Debs

Samuel “Golden Rule” Jones

Underwood-Simmons Tariff

Bull Moose Party

Panama Canal

Federal Trade Commission

Creel Committee

IWW

Federal Reserve System

Irreconcilables

Dollar Diplomacy

W.E.B. Du Bois and Niagara Movement

Theodore Roosevelt

Gentleman’s Agreement

Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith

Good and Bad Trusts

Emilio Aguinaldo

“Black Jack” John Pershing

Lusitania

Muller v. Oregon

Triple Wall of Privilege

Insurgent’s Revolt

Robert LaFollette

Hay-Buneau-Varilla Treaty

Woodrow Wilson

Progressive Movement

Wobblies

Article X

Reservationists

Spheres of Influence

Ballinger-Pinchot Affair

Big Stick Policy

Roosevelt Corollary

Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

Food Administration

Insular Cases

New Nationalism

Pure Food and Drug Act

Northern Securities Case

Lochner v. New York

Clayton Antitrust Act

New Freedom

Great White Fleet

1918-1941

Harlem Renaissance

National Origins Act

Cultural Isolation

18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Amendments

Andrew Mellon

Albert Fall

John L. Lewis

Hoovervilles

“Back to Africa” Movement

“Spirit of St. Louis”

Palmer Raids

“Lost Generation”

Keynesian Economics

Warren G. Harding

F. Scott Fitzgerald

National Labor Relations Act

National Industrial Recovery Act

Huey Long

Georgia O’Keefe

John Steinbeck and Grapes of Wrath

Lend-Lease Act

Court Packing Scheme

Indian Reorganization Act

Works Progress Administration

Flappers

Neutrality Acts

AAA

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Langston Hughes

Quota System

NAACP

Bonus March

Schenck v. US

Sacco and Vanzetti

TVA

Henry Ford

Universal Negro Improvement Assoc.

America First Committee

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Hundred Days

New Deal

Calvin Coolidge

Social Security Act

Fair Labor Standards Act

FDIC

“Share the Wealth”

Thomas Hart Benton

H.L. Menken

Normalcy

Cash and Carry

Congress of Industrial Organization

Francis Townsend

Phony War

Washington Naval Conference

Ku Klux Klan

Scottsboro Boys

Scopes Trial

Schechter v. US

Herbert Hoover

Dole

Marcus Garvey

Charles Lindbergh

Elijah Mohammad

Stimson Doctrine

Brain Trust

Franklin Roosevelt

Sinclair Lewis

Wagner Act

Sit-down Strike

Frank Lloyd Wright

Teapot Dome and Elk Hills Scandals

Edward Hopper

Ernest Hemingway

Destroyer Deal

Bank Holiday

National Recovery Administration

Securities and Exchange Commission

Margaret Sanger

Prohibition

1941-1960

Japanese Internment

Greensboro Sit-ins

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

U-2 Incident

Marshall Plan

Korematsu v. US

Montgomery Bus Boycott

McCarthyism

Harry Truman

Truman Doctrine

Federal Highway Act

Employment Act of 1946

Brown v. Board of Education

Fair Deal

Containment

Casablanca Conference

Dumbarton Oaks Conference

Alger Hiss

“long hot summers”

Henry Wallace

Baby Boomers

Jack Kerouac “On the Road”

Little Rock Nine

GI Bill of Rights

Jackie Robinson

David Riesman

NASA

Tehran Conference

San Francisco Conference

NSC 68

Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer

Douglas MacArthur

Sputnik

Beat Generation

Eisenhower Doctrine

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act

New Frontier

Dixiecrats

Yalta Conference

UN

Berlin Airlift

George Kennan

Korean War

NATO

Taft-Hartley Act

National Defense Education Act

Ralph Bunche

Dynamic Conservatism

Civil Rights Commission

1960-present

Miranda v. Arizona

Huey Newton (Black Panthers)

Jimmy Carter

Washington Outsiders

Bay of Pigs

Economic Opportunity Act

Malcolm X

SALT I Treaty

Mayaguez incident

Gerald Ford

Reaganomics

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Rachel Carson and Silent Spring

War Powers Act

SCLC

OPEC

Tet Offensive

Cuban Missile Crisis

Stokely Carmichael (Black Power)

Vietnamization (Nixon Doctrine)

George Wallace

Roe v. Wade

War on Poverty

Warren Commission

Hippies

Bakke v. Board of Regents

Michael Harrington (The Other America)

Stagflation

Barry Goldwater

Ralph Nader (Unsafe at any Speed)

Equal Rights Amendment

Helsinki Accords

SNCC

John F. Kennedy

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Ronald Reagan

Martin Luther King

Gideon v. Wainwright

Great Society

Lee Harvey Oswald

Camp David Accords

Affirmative Action

Supply-side Economics

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Lyndon Johnson

Kent State

Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique)

Peace Corps

Black Panthers

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