AP US HISTORY REVIEW

COLONIZATION – NATIVE AMERICANS

• Natives in South America: Don’t need 2014• Natives in Central America: Don’t need 2014• Natives in North America:• Iroquois, Pueblo, Southeast (Creek, Cherokee), Great

Plains (Sioux)• Important Crops: Maize (corn), beans, squash

COLONIZATION

• Royal Colonies, Proprietary Colonies, Charter Colonies

• Chesapeake:• Roanoke, Jamestown, VA Company, John Rolfe, Tobacco,

House of Burgesses, Headright System, Indentured Servitude, Bacon’s Rebellion, Lord Baltimore, Act of Toleration (1739)

COLONIZATION

• New England:• Pilgrims (Separatists), Plymouth, Mayflower Compact,

Puritans (Non-Separatists), Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, Model of Christian Charity, City on a Hill, Calvinism, Townhall Meetings, Salem Witch Trials, Ann Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Thomas Hooker, Fundamental Orders (1649)

COLONIZATION

• Mid-Atlantic:• William Penn, Quakers, New Amsterdam, Dutch East India

Co.

• Southern Colonies:• James Oglethorp• SC: Founded by 8 Wealthy Proprietors• NC: Founded by squatters, outcasts• Georgia: haven for debtors, buffer against Spain• Black Slavery• Middle Passage• Stono Rebellion• Black Codes

ROAD TO REVOLUTIONARY WAR

• Navigation Laws• Mercantilism• Triangular Trade• First Great Awakening• Jonathan Edwards• George Whitefield

• Enlightenment• Salutary Neglect

• New France• Ohio Valley• French and Indian War• William Pitt• Albany Plan (Ben

Franklin)• Treaty of Paris of 1763• Pontiac’s Rebellion

ROAD TO REVOLUTIONARY WAR

• Proclamation of 1763• Sugar Act, 1764• Quartering Act, 1765• Stamp Act, 1765• Stamp Act Congress• Townshend Acts, 1767• Boston Massacre, 1770• Tea Act, 1773• Boston Tea Party• Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts), 1774• First Continental Congress

REVOLUTIONARY WAR

• Lexington and Concord, 1775• Second Continental Congress• Olive Branch Petition

• Bunker Hill, 1775• Common Sense• Declaration of Independence• Natural Rights

• Patriots vs. Loyalists• Battle of Trenton, 1776• Battle of Saratoga, 1777• Franco-American Alliance• GW and Continental Army• Abigail Adams• Battle of Yorktown, 1781• Treaty of Paris, 1783

FORMING THE CONSTITUTION

• Articles of Confederation• Strengths and Weaknesses

• Land Ordinance of 1785• Northwest Ordinance, 1787• Shay’s Rebellion• Constitutional Convention, 1787• Great Compromise• 3/5th Compromise• Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances• Federalist Papers• Antifederalists• Republican Motherhood• Bill of Rights

THE FEDERALIST ERA1788-1801

GEORGE WASHINGTON

• First Cabinet – treasury, war, state, attorney general• Judiciary Act 1789• First Bank of the US• NY Stock Exchange, 1792• First Fugitive Slave Law, 1793• Neutrality Proclamation, 1793• Cotton Gin patented, 1794• Whiskey Rebellion, 1794• Jay’s Treaty, 1795• Pinckney’s Treaty, 1795• Hamilton (Federalists) vs. Jefferson (Democratic Republicans)• Hamilton’s Financial Plan• Farewell Address, 1796

JOHN ADAMS

• XYZ Affair, 1797• Quasi-War, 1798-1800• Alien and Sedition Act, 1798• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 1798• Midnight Judges

JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY

THOMAS JEFFERSON (1801-1809)

• Revolution of 1800• Marbury vs. Madison, 1803• John Marshall, Judicial Review• Louisiana Purchase• Lewis and Clark Expedition• Aaron Burr• 12th Amendment• National Road (Cumberland Road)• Impressment (1806-1812)• Embargo Act, 1807• Prohibition of Slave Trade into US, 1808

JAMES MADISON (1809-1817)

• Non-Intercourse Act, 1809• Macon’s Bill – 1810• Chesapeake-Leopard Incident• War Hawks• Tecumseh, 1811• War of 1812• Star Spangled Banner• Treaty of Ghent• Hartford Convention• Battle of New Orleans

ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS1815-1824

ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS, RISING NATIONALISM/SECTIONALISM

• Era of Good Feelings• James Monroe (1817-1825)• McCullough v. Maryland, 1819• Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824• Clay’s American System: BUS, Tariffs, Internal

Improvements• Adams-Onis Treaty• Panic of 1819• Missouri Compromise of 1820• Monroe Doctrine• Corrupt Bargain, 1824

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY

ANDREW JACKSON

• Election of 1828• Tariff of Abominations, 1828• Nullification Crisis, 1832• BUS veto, 1832• Pet Bank• Kitchen Cabinet• Spoils System• Indian Removal Act, 1830• Worcester v. Georgia, 1832• Trail of Tears (VanBuren)• Whig Party, 1834• Panic of 1837

AMERICAN SOCIETY 1790-1860

REFORM AND SOCIETY

• Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

• Steamboat• Erie Canal• Lowell System• 2nd Great Awakening• Unitarianism• Revivalism• Transcendentalism• Ralph Waldo Emerson –

Self Reliance• Henry David Thoreau –

Civil Disobedience

• Reform Movements: Abolitionism, Temperance, Women’s Rights, Public Education

• Dorothea Dix, Reform Asylums

• Stanton and Mott – Seneca Falls

• Susan B. Anthony• German and Irish

Immigration• Nativism, Know

Nothings

MANIFEST DESTINY

• Manifest Destiny• President James K. Polk• Texas Revolution• Stephen Austin• Sam Houston• Santa Anna• Republic of Texas• Annexation of Texas, 1845

• Oregon Trail• “54-40 or Fight!”• Oregon Treaty, 1846

• Mexican American War, 1846-48• Treaty of Guadalupe

Hidalgo, 1848• Mexican Cession• Gadsden Purchase

CIVIL WAR ERA1848-1865

ANTEBELLUM ERA

• Missouri Compromise, 1820• Abolitionism• Liberator, William Lloyd

Garrison• Nat Turner• Harriet Beecher Stowe,

Uncle Tom’s Cabin• Underground RR, Harriet

Tubman• Frederick Douglass• Wilmot Provisio, 1848• Popular Sovereignty• Compromise of 1850• Fugitive Slave Law

• Kansas-Nebraska Act• Stephen Douglas• Bleeding Kansas• Republican Party• Dred Scott Case, 1857• Lincoln-Douglas Debates• John Brown, Harper’s Ferry,

1859• Election of 1860• SC Secession• Crittenden Compromise

CIVIL WAR

• Confederate States o0f America• Jefferson Davis• Ft. Sumter, 1861• Anaconda Plan• C.S.S. Alabama• Battle of Antietam, 1862• Emancipation Proclamation• Battle of Gettysburg, 1863• Republican Program: Pacific Railway Act, Morrill Tariff,

Homestead Act, Morrill Land Grant Act, National Banking Act• Civil Liberties: Suspension of Habeas Corpus, Martial Law,

Freedom of Press

THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA1866-1877

• Lincoln’s 10% Plan• President Andrew

Johnson• 13th Amendment• Freedman’s Bureau• Black Codes• Presidential

Reconstruction• 14th Amendment• 15th Amendment• Radical Republicans• Scalawags and

Carpetbaggers

• KKK• Sharecropping• Compromise of 1877

THE GILDED AGELATE 1800S, EARLY 1900S

• Political machines• Boss Tweed• Thomas Nast• Transcontinental RR,

1869• Dawes Act, 1887• Wounded Knee, 1892• Skyscrapers• Jim Crow• Booker T. Washington• Plessy v. Ferguson• W.E.B. Du Bois• Urbanization• Social Gospel Movement

• Jane Addams, Settlement houses• “New Immigration” – S

and E Europe• Nativism• Chinese Exclusion Act• Women’s Christian

Temperance Union• National American

Women’s Suffrage Association• Horatio Alger

• Laissez Faire• Social Darwinism• Andrew Carnegie, Gospel

of Wealth• John D. Rockefeller, oil,

horizontal and vertical integration• J.P. Morgan• Interstate Commerce

Act, 1887• Sherman Antitrust Act,

1890

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers• The Great RR Strike• Homestead Steel Strike• Pullman Strike• Haymarket Square Riot• Populism• William Jennings Bryan

IMPERIALISM1870S TO 1914

• Yellow Journalism• Joseph Pulitzer• William Randolph Hearst• Alfred Thayer Mahan• Venezuelan Border

Dispute• Russo Japanese War• Queen Liliuokalani• Spanish American War• General “Butcher”

Weyler• USS Maine• Teller Amendment• George Dewey

• Rough Riders• Anti-Imperialist League• Foraker Act• Platt Amendment• Henry Cabot Lodge• Open Door Policy• Big Stick Policy• Roosevelt Corollary• Great White Fleet• Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy• Jones Act• Moral Diplomacy

PROGRESSIVISM1890-1920

• Progressivism Goals• Muckrakers• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half

Lives• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle• Eugene V. Debs, Socialism• NAACP• 16th-19th amendments

• TEDDY ROOSEVELT• Meat Inspection Act, 1906• Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906• Trust-busting• Hepburn Act of 1906• The Square Deal • Conservationism

TAFT• Payne Aldrich Tariff• Ballinger Pinchot Controversy• Trustbuster

ELECTION OF 1912• The Bull Moose Party• New Nationalism• New Freedom

Woodrow Wilson• Underwood Tariff Bill, 1913• Federal Reserve Act of 1913• Federal Trade Commission Act of

1914• Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914• Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916• Child Labor Act

WORLD WAR 11914-1918

• Assassination of Franz Ferdinand• Causes for US Entry• unrestricted submarine

warfare - Lusitania • American Propaganda• German Dictatorship and

Cultural Ties• Zimmerman note

• War Industries Board • Selective Service Act• Espionage Act and

Sedition Act • Wilson’s 14 Points

• League of Nations • Great Migration• Lodge Reservations • isolationism • Schenck v. U.S. • Debs v. U.S.• Abrams v. U.S.• “Red Scare,” 1919 • Palmer Raids

1920S

• Nativism • Ku Klux Klan • Sacco & Vanzetti trial • Scopes Trial • Prohibition, rise of

organized crime • Frederick W. Taylor,

Scientific Management • Henry Ford’s assembly

line – mass production • Consumerism• radio • Flappers • Jazz • “Lost Generation”

• F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, • Harlem Renaissance • Langston Hughes, Claude

• Charles Lindbergh • Washington

Disarmament Conference, 1921 • Dawes Plan, 1924 • Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928• Conservative policies of

Presidents Harding and • Coolidge • Teapot Dome scandal

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

HERBERT HOOVER

• Farm crisis • Stock market crash, 1929 • Causes of the depression • “Hoovervilles” • Hawley-Smoot Tariff, 1930 • Bonus Army • Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

FDR

• New Deal • “Hundred Days” • Fireside Chats• Banking Holiday,

Emergency Banking Relief Act • “First” New Deal

programs:• NRA, AAA, TVA, CCC, FERA,

PWA, FDIC

• “Second” New Deal programs:

• SSA, WPA, Wagner Act, Fair Labor Standards Act

• Keynesian economics, deficit spending

• Indian Reorganization Act, 1934

• Butler v. U.S. (AAA)• Schechter v. U.S. (NIRA)• Court packing • Critics of FDR: Father

Charles Coughlin, Huey Long, Francis Townshend

WORLD WAR II ERA1935-1945

• Good Neighbor Policy • Isolationism in 1920s &

1930s • Neutrality Acts, 1935-37 • Cash and Carry• Quarantine Speech, 1937 • Neutrality Act, 1939 • Lend-Lease Act, 1941 • Atlantic Charter• Pearl Harbor • U.S.’s first strategy in

WWII? Get Hitler first • Important WWII battles:

Midway, D-Day, Stalingrad • Japanese internment

• Manhattan Project• Reasons for U.S. dropping

atomic bombs • Yalta Conference, 1945 • Potsdam Conference,

1945 • The Homefront • rationing • Rosie the Riveter • Zoot Suit riots • A. Philip Randolph, March

on Washington Movement,

• Fair Employment Practices Commission

POST WW2 AND EARLY COLD WAR YEARS

1945-1960

TRUMAN

• Desegregation of Armed Forces in 1947 • Fair Deal • George Kennan’s

memo • Containment • Truman Doctrine • Marshall Plan • Berlin Airlift • NATO

• Soviet A-Bomb • China becomes

communist • Korean War • Douglas MacArthur

EISENHOWER

• Alger Hiss • HUAC • Hollywood 10• Loyalty Review Board• McCarthyism • Rosenbergs • John Foster Dulles,• “massive retaliation,”• “brinksmanship”

• CIA overthrow of Iran, 1953

• CIA overthrow of Guatemala, 1954

• Interstate Highway Act, 1956

• Sputnik • NASA • U-2 incident • domino theory • US economy since WWII:

growth of service economy

1950S SOCIETY

• Conformity in the 1950s • Suburbia • “Baby Boom” • “Cult of Domesticity” returns • G.I. Bill • Consumerism • “Affluent Society” • non-conformity: Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe,

James • Dean, Beatniks • Rock n’ Roll – influence of black music

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT1954-1968

• Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 • Emmitt Till• Rosa Parks • Montgomery Bus

Boycott, 1955 • Martin Luther King, Jr.• Southern Christian

Leadership Conference • Little Rock crisis, 1957 • Civil Rights Act of 1957 • Greensboro sit-in, 1960• Freedom Riders (CORE) • James Meredith,

University of Mississippi

• March on Birmingham, Alabama • March on Washington, “I

have a dream” speech • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Malcolm X, Nation of

Islam • Black Power, Stokely

Carmichael • Black Panthers • Defacto vs De Jure

Segregation• Assassination of MLK

THE 1960S

KENNEDY

• 1960 election: TV • Berlin Wall • New Frontier Program• Peace Corps • Alliance for Progress (“Marshall Plan of Latin

America”) • NASA• Bay of Pigs invasion • Cuban Missile Crisis • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty• Assassination of JFK, Warren Commission

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

• Great Society: • War on Poverty• Medicare• Medicaid• Public Education Spending, PBS, NEH, NEA

• Immigration Act of 1965

1960S CULTURE

• Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique • National Organization for Women (NOW) • gains for women • Roe v. Wade • Counterculture: sex, drugs & rock n’ roll • Andy Warhol, Pop Art • Warren Court: desegregation, rights of the

accused, voting reforms

VIETNAM

• Ngo Dinh Diem • Ho Chi Minh • Vietcong • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Tet Offensive • Impact of LBJ’s Vietnam decision on 1968 reelection • “New Left,” free speech movement • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) • Anti-war protests • 1968: “Year of Shocks”: Tet Offensive, assassinations• 1968 Presidential Election• Vietnamization • bombing and invasion of Cambodia • Kent State protest

MODERN TOPICS

• Richard Nixon, Republican, “Southern Strategy”

• George Wallace• Détente; realpolitik • SALT I • New Federalism • Nixon: revenue sharing • Watergate scandal • Energy crisis, OPEC • Stagflation • “Rust Belt” to “Sun Belt” • President Jimmy Carter • Humanitarian diplomacy • Camp David Accords (peace between

Egypt and Israel) • Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979 • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan • deregulation • Election of 1980 • President Ronald Reagan • conservatism • “Religious Right” • “Reaganomics” • supply-side economics, tax cuts • Nicaraguan Contras

• “Evil Empire” speech, “Star Wars” • Mikhail Gorbachev • INF Treaty, 1987 • Iran/Contra Scandal, 1987 • Fall of communism in Eastern Europe,

1989 • Fall of Soviet Union, 1991 • “Graying of America” • Economic transition to service economy in

late 20th century (no longer based on industrialism)

• President George H.W. Bush • Gulf War, “Operation Desert Storm,” 1991 • 1992 Election: Bush, Clinton, Perot • President Bill Clinton • gays in the military: “don’t ask, don’t tell” • NAFTA, 1994 • “Contract with America,” 1994 • Clinton impeachment, 1997 • Bush v. Gore, 2000 • 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on New York City & • Washington, D.C., 2001 • Invasion of Afghanistan, 2002 • Invasion of Iraq & removal of Saddam

Hussein, 2003