AP US History Exam

Friday, May 8th at 7:30 a.m. in small gym

AP US History Exam

55 Multiple Choice Questions 55 minutes 40%4 Short Answer Questions 50 minutes 20%1 Document Based Question 55 minutes 25%1 Long Essay 35 minutes 15%

Review Schedule

Week 1: Periods 1, 2, & 3 (Chapters 1-6), 1491 to 1800Week 2: Period 4 and part of Period 5 (Chapters 7-13), 1800 to 1861Week 3: Part of Period 5 and Period 6 (Chapters 14-19), 1861-1898Week 4: Period 7 (Chapters 20-25), 1898-1945Week 5: Periods 8 & 9 (Chapters 26-31), 1945 to the presentWeek 6: Complete and review practice test in back of AMSCO

Review Schedule

Pull out your Guided Readings for each weekGo through your APUSH binder and look at your focuses and mnemonicsReview your quizzes and complete the m/c at the end of each chapter (Mr. Patty/Mrs. Mitchell will share answers with you if you demonstrate that you did it)Commit to learning the key vocab that we are going over during tutorialsStay positive and think about how much money you are saving yourself

Review Schedule

Staying with a schedule requires disciplineThis discipline is greatly strengthened if a study group chooses a specific time and place to meet and sets specific objectives for each meeting

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Period 1, 1491-1607Chapter 1

The period from pre-Columbian Indian cultures to the founding of Jamestown covers the interaction of cultures and how Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans created a “new” world.

Period 2, 1607-1754Chapters 2-3

Various mixtures of American Indians, Europeans, and African Americans created colonies with distinctive cultures, economies, and populations.

Period 3, 1754-1800Chapters 4-6

Wars over empires provided the context for the American Revolution and founding of the United States, including the political struggles to form a “more perfect union.”

3/5 Compromise

#44 Settled the issue over representation and taxation

of free and enslaved persons

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In order to select a president with a small

number of voters, this system was

created.

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What is the Electoral College?

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Among the several authors of the

Constitution, this Virginian is

considered the most important.

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Who is James Madison?

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Articles of Confederation

#40 Document signed amongst the thirteen original colonies that

established the United States of America as a

confederation of sovereign states and served as its first

constitution

Bill of Rights

43. First 10 amendments to the

Constitution

This political faction’s most common complaint about the Constitution

was that it lacked Bill of Rights

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Who are the Anti-

Federalists?

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Capitalism

11. An economic system in which trade,

industry, and the means of production are largely or entirely privately owned and

operated for profit.

Connecticut Compromise

51. Established the House of

Representatives based upon population and

the Senate upon equal representation- Roger

Sherman

Constitution

47. Rules and regulations forming the

US government and guaranteeing rights to

citizens

These anonymous newspaper articles in

New York, later collected into a single

volume, helped the ratification of the

Constitution.

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What are the Federalist Papers?

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These three authors anonymously published the

Federalist Papers.

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Who are Madison,

Hamilton and Jay?

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The Constitution officially took

effect beginning in this year.

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What is 1789?

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Declaration of Independence

39. Document declaring the 13 colonies

independent from Britain and part of the new Sovereign United States of America

Federalism

41. A political concept in which a group of members are bound

together by covenant with a governing

representative head.

Feudalism10. Legal and military

customs that structured society

around holding land in exchange for service

and labor.

French and Indian War

32. 1754 –1763: North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years'

War.

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During the French and Indian War, Benjamin

Franklin proposed this idea for colonial unity.

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What is the Albany Plan for Union?

Round 1

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The name of the first political cartoon in

North America

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The name of the first political cartoon in

North America

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During this period—1713 to 1763—the colonies

were largely left alone to develop their own

economic and political institutions.

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What is Salutary Neglect?

Round 1

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This tribe was a long-time ally of France in the St.

Lawrence valley and helped fight the British and American colonists during the French and

Indian War.

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What is the Huron?

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This treaty, that ended the French and Indian War, removed France entirely from

North America.

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Round 2

What is the Treaty of Paris

(1763)?

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This officer began the French and Indian War in 1754 with his attack

on Ft. Duquesne.

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Round 2

Who is George Washington?

Huron Confederacy

18. Five Iroquoian-speaking nations

united to solve group problems

Kentucky Resolution

48. Argued that the states had the right

and the duty to declare unconstitutional any acts of Congress that

were not authorized by the Constitution

Mr. Adams was the leader of this

political party.

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What is the Federalist

Party?

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This event created war fever in America,

after three French agents “dissed”

American diplomats in France.

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What is the XYZ Affair?

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These two 1798 laws were passed by

Federalists to silence Jeffersonian

opposition to the Quasi-War.

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What are the Alien and

Sedition Acts?

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$800Jefferson and Madison

expressed their opposition to the Alien and Sedition

Acts with these two “compact theory”

resolutions.Scoreboard Answer

What are the Virginia and

Kentucky Resolutions?

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Liberty

30. Social and political freedoms guaranteed to all citizens

Middle Colonies

20. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,

and Delaware

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This Quaker founded the

colony of Pennsylvania.

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Who is William Penn?

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Molasses Act

17. British law that imposed a tax on sugar and rum imported from

non-British foreign colonies into the North-America colonies

Monarchy

36. A governmental system in which there is a hereditary head of

state

New Jersey Plan

50. Representation should be one per

state- William Paterson

Northern Colonies

19. Rhode Island, New Hampshire,

Massachusetts, and Connecticut

This Calvinist wrote, “We shall build a city

upon a hill,” and became governor of the

Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.

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Ultimate Question

Answer

Who is John Winthrop?

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Ultimate Question

Back to Ultimate Question

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In 1635 he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because he

said that the government had no authority over the

personal opinions of individuals. He founded Rhode Island as a colony

for religious freedom• Roger Williams

Early Discovery and Settlement

65

An attempt by New England clergymen in 1662 to

counteract declining church membership by allowing the children of church members to join even though they had not

experienced salvation Half Way Covenant

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This Puritan leader was perhaps the most important in founding

the colony of Connecticut.

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Who is Thomas Hooker?

Northwest Ordinance

37. Act of the Congress of Confederation creating the first

organized territory from lands beyond the

Appalachian Mountains

Parliament

45. An assembly of representatives,

usually of an entire nation, that makes laws

Proclamation of Neutrality

52. May 1793, declares the US stance on the

issues between England and France

Ratification

46. 9/13 states had to do this for this to be enacted

Republic

31. Power resides in the people, and the

government is ruled by elected leaders run

according to law

Separation of Powers42. Powers and

responsibilities are divided among the

legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government

Southern Colonies

21. Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

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This Catholic gentleman

founded the colony of Maryland.

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Who is Lord Baltimore?

(Sir George Calvert)

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In 1649, this became the first law

granting a degree of religious toleration

in the colonies.

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What is the Maryland Act of

Toleration?

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James Oglethorp founded this colony

as a haven for debtors.

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What is Georgia?

Round 1

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This early figure in Virginia led the

colony to survive its “starving

time.”Scoreboard Answer

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Who is Captain John Smith?

Round 1

83

This was used in Virginia to encourage immigration by giving 50 acres of land to any settler who brought a

servant

Headright system

Early Discovery and Settlement

84

This Virgina settler married and experiments with growing tobacco in the

colony

John Rolfe

Early Discovery and Settlement

Virginia Plan

49. Representation should be population

based- James Madison

Abigail Adams58. Their letters give

eye witness accounts of the revolution and admonished the government to

remember the women that helped fight for

independence too

Adam Smith

53. Scottish social philosopher and

political economist, author of The Wealth of

Nations

Alexander Hamilton

57. Wanted to establish a Bank of the US, pay off the war debt, and

add tariffs

A compromise on this Hamiltonian

measure gave the new national capital to the

South.

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What is the assumption of state debts?

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This Hamiltonian measure was

responsible for the largest share of

government revenues.

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What is the tariff (customs

duties)?

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This aspect of Hamilton’s plan

provoked the Whiskey

Rebellion.Scoreboard Answer

What are excise taxes?

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$1000Common people who bought bonds during

the Revolution criticized Hamilton for not informing them of this new government

policy. Scoreboard Answer

What is funding at

par?

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British

62. Took over what is now the Eastern

Seaboard of the US

Catholic

76. Excluded from most colonies those of the ____________ branch of

Christianity were allowed in Maryland

Dutch63. Took over what is now New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,

and Pennsylvania

French

61. Took over what is now Canada and most of the area west of the Appalachian Mountains

George Washington

56. Their Farewell address warned of

political parties and permanent military

alliances

Washington led an army part of the way

in 1794 when this rebellion broke out in

western Pennsylvania.

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What is the Whiskey

Rebellion?

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Hunter-Gatherer

4. Nomadic tribes were most or all of the food obtained is from wild

plants and animals.

Indentured Servant

74. A labor system whereby people paid

for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a

certain number of years

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This 1676 rebellion in Virginia contributed to

an increase in black slavery and decrease in

white indentured servitude.

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What is Bacon’s

Rebellion?Round 1

Jay’s Treaty72. Between Britain and the US that is

credited with averting war, resolving issues

remaining since Revolutionary War, and facilitated ten years of peaceful trade

Jean-Jacques Rousseau55. One of the most

influential philosophers during the

Enlightenment and author of The Social

Contract

John Locke69. English philosopher and physician, one of the most influential of

Enlightenment thinkers, known as the

"Father of Classical Liberalism"

Mestizo

68. A person of combined European and Native American

descent

Montesquieu

71. French lawyer, man of letters, and political

philosopher who espoused the

separation of powers.

Paxton Boys59. 1763, Scots-Irish

frontiersmen in central Pennsylvania who formed a vigilante group to retaliate

against Indians and marched to

Philadelphia to present grievances

Pilgrim66. Settlers who had fled

the volatile political environment in England for Holland then went to

the Americas, and maintained that their

congregations needed to be separated from the

Church of England

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Although technically not a constitution, this was a landmark agreement

among Pilgrims and non-Pilgrims for

majority rule.Scoreboard Answer

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What is the Mayflower Compact?

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Pinckney’s Treaty73. Established intentions of friendship between the US and Spain, defined the boundaries of the US and

Spanish colonies and guaranteed US navigation rights on the Mississippi

Portuguese64. Took over what is now Brazil

Protestant

75. The majority of Colonial settlers were of the __________ branch of

Christianity

Puritan 65. A member of a group of Protestants within the

Church of England, demanded the

simplification of doctrine and worship, and greater

strictness in religious discipline

Republican Motherhood

77. A concept that deals with the role of women and their duties to both

family and country at the time of the American

Revolution.

Shay70. Led a group of rebels against Massachusetts

courts and later the United States' Federal

Armory in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and

overthrow the government.

Slave

67. A person held in servitude as the chattel

of another

Spanish

60. Took over what is now Central and most of

South America and the Southwest US

Thomas Paine

54. English American writer whose Common Sense influenced the

American Revolution

Voltaire

78. French Enlightenment writer, historian and

philosopher, believed in the separation of church

and state.

Anglicization

25. Transplanting British society onto new regions/ peoples

Atlantic Slave Trade

16. Slave trade from the 16th through to the 19th centuries.

Atlantic World

35. Interactions among the peoples/empires

bordering the Atlantic Ocean rim from the 1450s on

Cereal Crops

22. Primary crops from the New England region

Columbian Exchange5. Widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture,

human populations, communicable diseases,

technology and ideas between the Americas

and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th

and 16th centuries.

Common Sense39. Document declaring

the 13 colonies independent from Britain

and part of the new Sovereign United States

of America

Conquistador

24. Spanish and Portuguese explorers/

soldiers

Encomienda

9. Legal system used by the Spanish crown during colonization to regulate Native-Americans and

reward Spaniards.

Enlightenment

28. Era from which cultural and intellectual

forces emphasized reason, analysis and

individualism rather than traditional lines of

authority.

Great Basin

2. Area of little rain, few trees, no large river, and

few game.

Great Plains

3. Flat land with prairie grasses, trees along

rivers, elk, and bison.

Horses

7. Domesticated animal from Europe

Joint-Stock Company

15. A business entity where different stakes

can be bought and owned by shareholders

Llama

8. Only domesticated pack animal in the

Americas

Maize

1. A Large grain plant domesticated by

indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in

prehistoric times.

Mercantilism

29. A nation should export more than it

imported and accumulate bullion to make up the

difference. Exportation of finished goods favored.

Northwest Territory

34. Set aside in 1763 for Native Americas,

organized incorporated territory 1787-1803

Peach, pear, wheat, rice

13. Food from Europe/Africa/Asia to the Americas

Religious Toleration

27. Within the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights

Small Pox

6. Deadly communicable disease from Europe.

Tobacco

23. Primary crop from the Chesapeake region

Tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkin, pineapple

14. Food from the Americas to

Europe/Africa/Asia

Triangular Trade

26. Trade among the Americas, Europe, and

Africa

White-Superiority

12. The belief that Anglo-Saxons are superior to people of other racial backgrounds and that

therefore whites should politically, economically,

and socially dominate non-whites.