EXAM PREPARATIONAPUSH

MRS. BAKER

APUSH History Review

The Exam…

Overview of the Exam

Designed to evaluate the knowledge, understanding, and thinking and writing skills that would be demonstrated in a year-long introductory-level college course in U.S. History.

Combination of factual knowledge and ability to analyze historical questions in a critical manner is the major key to success of the exam.

The Exam

3 hours and 5 minutesConsists of 2 sections –

Multiple Choice – (50%) 80 questions 55 minutes

Free Response –(50%) Part A: 1 DBQ – (22.5%)

60 minutes Part B: 2 Standard essay questions – (22.5%)

70 minutes (35 each essay)

Section 1: Multiple Choice

Breakdown of questions: Pre-Columbian to 1789 – 20% 1790 to 1914 – 45% 1915 to present – 35%

Expect only a few questions from the period after the early 1980s.

And even fewer from the past 10 years.

Theme breakdown: Political institutions, behavior, and public policy – 35% Social change, cultural and intellectual developments – 40% Diplomacy and international relations – 15% Economic developments – 10%

Section 2: The Essays (3)

Total section time – 130 minutes DBQ time breakdown

Read the document-based questions – 15 min. (mandatory) Written response – 45 min. (advised)

FRQ time breakdown Part B – to 1865

Plan essay 1 – 5 min. (advised) Written response – 30 min. (advised)

Part C – after 1865 Plan essay 1 – 5 min. (advised) Written response – 30 min. (advised)

Reviewing for the Exam

1492 - 1700

Exploration, Discovery, and Settlement

Major Themes

The differences between the Southern, New England, and Middle colonies

Characteristics of the Puritan experience “City Upon a Hill”

Origins of Slavery

Indentured servitude and its role in the colonial economy

The slow evolution from separate colonies to unify by 1763

Economic and political relations between Great Britain and the colonies to 1763

Impact of the colonial wars on the colonies on their relationship with Britain

Mercantilism and the colonies

Terms to Know

Jamestown

Captain John Smith

Plymouth Colony

Pilgrims

Puritans

Mayflower Compact

MA Bay Colony

John Winthrop

“City Upon a Hill”

VA House of Burgesses

Proprietorship

George Calvert

Maryland Act of Toleration (1649)

Bacon’s Rebellion

Headright System

Indentured Servitude

Roger Williams

Anne Hutchinson

Quakers

William Penn

Mercantilism

Navigation Acts

Triangle Trade

Halfway Covenant

First Great Awakening

Jonathon Edwards

Salem Witch Trials

John Peter Zenger

French & Indian War (1756 – 1763)

Albany Plan of Union

Treaty of Paris (1763)

Salutary Neglect

Southern Colonies Northern Colonies

1585 – Raleigh founds “Lost Colony” at Roanoke

1607 – Virginia Colony founded at Jamestown

1612 – Rolfe perfects tobacco culture

1619 – First Africans arrive in Jamestown Virginia House of Burgesses established

1624 – Virginia becomes royal colony

1634 – Maryland founded

1670 – Carolina colony created

1712 – North Carolina formally separates from South Carolina

1733 – Georgia colony founded

1620 – Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay

1624 – Dutch found New Netherland

1630 – Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

1635 – 1636 – Roger Williams convicted of heresy and found Rhode Island colony

1635 – 1638 – Connecticut and New Haven colonies founded

1638 – Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts colony

1639 – Connecticut Fundamental Orders drafted

1664 - England seizes New Netherland from Dutch

1681 – William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony

Important Dates: Foundations of America

Important Dates: Social Changes

1693 – College of William and Mary founded

1701 – Yale College founded

1734 – Jonathon Edwards begins Great Awakening

1734 – 1735 – Zenger free-press trial in New York

1738 – George Whitefield spreads Great Awakening

1746 – Princeton College founded

Important Dates: French and English Colonies Collide

1608 – Champlain colonizes Quebec for France

1682 – La Salle explores the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico

1689 – 1697 – King William’s War

1702 – 1713 – Queen Anne’s War

1718 – French found New Orleans

1744 – 1748 – King George’s War

1754 – Washington battles French on frontier Albany Congress

1754 – 1763 – Seven Year’s War French and Indian War

1763 – Treaty of Paris Pontiac’s uprising Proclamation of 1763

Pre-ColumbianAmerica

Columbian Exchange

European Settlements

English Colonies

New England Colonies

MiddleColonies

Chesapeake/VirginiaColonies

Lower SouthColonies

Compare and Contrast England Colonies

Triangular Trade

Problems on the Frontier

Albany Plan of Union

Results of War

Results of War

Revolutionary America

1763 - 1783

Major Themes

The short- and long-term causes of the American Revolution

Colonial assemblies as leaders against Great Britain

The Revolution was formed by changes in British colonial policy in the 1763-1776 period

The Revolution was brought on by tight economic controls and loose political controls.

The ideas/ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

Several different interpretations by historians on the causes of the American Revolution.

Was the Treaty of Paris (1783) a victory for the U. S.?

How had the 13 separate colonies become similar by the time of the Revolution?

The American Revolution as a democratic revolution turned into an aristocratic government by the Constitution.

The American Revolution as a question of home rule and who should rule at home.

The American Revolution as a revolutionary event --> consider the economic and social changes associated with the Revolution.

Was the Revolution avoidable?

Terms to Know

Proclamation of 1763

Sugar Act (1764)

Virtual representation

Stamp Act (1765)

Quartering Act (1765)

Virginia Resolves

Stamp Act Congress

Sons of Liberty

Writs of assistance

Declaratory Act (1766)

Townshend Acts (1767)

Sam Adams

Boston Massacre (1770)

Patrick Henry

John Dickinson

Committees of Correspondence

Boston Tea Party (1773)

Intolerable [Coercive] Acts (1774)

Quebec Act (1774)

First Continental Congress (1774)

Articles of Confederation

Second Continental Congress (1775)

Common Sense

Lexington & Concord

Olive Branch Petition

Saratoga

French Alliance of 1778

Loyalists (Tories)

Yorktown (1781)

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Important Dates: Causes of the American Revolution

1650 – First Navigation Laws to control colonial commerce

1763 – Seven Year’s War

1764 – Sugar Act

1765 – Quartering Act Stamp Act Stamp Act Congress

1766 – Declaratory Act

1767 – Townshend Acts

1768 – British troops occupy Boston

1770 – Boston Massacre All Townshend Acts except tea tax

repealed

1772 – Committees of correspondence formed

1773 – British East India Company granted tea monopoly Boston Tea Party

1774 – “Intolerable Acts” Quebec Act First Continental Congress

1775 – Battle of Lexington and Concord

Important Dates: American Revolution 1775 – Battles of Lexington & Concord

Second Continental Congress

Battle of Bunker Hill

King George III formally proclaims colonies in rebellion

Failed invasion of Canada

1776 – Paine’s Common Sense

Declaration of Independence

Battle of Trenton

1777 – Battle of Saratoga

1778 – Formation of the French-American alliance Battle of Saratoga

1781 – French and

Americans force Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown

1783 – Treaty of Paris

British American Colonies

Action – Reaction Relationship:Events Leading to the Revolution

Battle of Lexington and Concord

Common Sense

Declaration of Independence

1776 - 1800

The Constitution & The New Republic

Major Themes

Enlightenment concepts and the Constitution.

How critical was the “Critical Period”?

Compare and contrast the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution.

Origins of the ideas of separation of powers, written constitutions, and federalism.

Areas of agreement at the Constitutional Convention.

Bill of Rights: provisions and meanings.

Slavery and the Constitution.

Failures of the Constitution led to the evolution of political parties.

Liberty versus law and order in the 1790s.

Hamilton’s economic program.

Thomas Jefferson versus Alexander Hamilton.

Differences between the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists.

Compare 1763-1776 with 1783-1800 in regard to the relationship between the central government and the colonies or states.

Significance of these election years: 1796 & 1800.

The “Revolution” of 1800.

Loose versus strict construction as a matter of sectional or political interest.

The significance of George Washington’s “Farewell Address”.

Key Terms

Articles of Confederation

Shay’s Rebellion

Annapolis Convention

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Philadelphia Convention (1787)

James Madison

Alexander Hamilton

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Connecticut Plan

3/5s Compromise

Federalists

Anti-Federalists

Strict constructionist

Loose constructionist

Federalist Papers (esp. #10)

Judiciary Act (1789)

Report on Public Credit (1790)

Report on Manufactures (1791)

“Citizen” Genet

Jay Treaty (1794)

Whiskey Rebellion (1794)

Washington’s “Farewell Address”

(1796)

Democratic-Republican Party

XYZ Affair

Alien & Sedition Acts (1798)

KY & VA Resolutions (1799)

Revolution of 1800

The Age of Jefferson

1800 – 1824THOMAS JEFFERSON

JAMES MADISONJAMES MONROE

Major Themes Decline and death of the Federalist Party.

“Era of Good Feeling”.

Marshall and his Supreme Court decisions.

What caused Jeffersonian Democracy to develop?

Compare the Second Party System with the First.

Rise and development of political parties --> economic, social, and geographical characteristics and leaders.

Hamilton’s economic program created the political issues for the next 50 years.

The positions, rationale, issues, and spokesmen for the sections on the following political topics: tariff, banking, internal improvements, expansion, and slavery.

The significance of the 1824 election.

The War of 1812 as a second War for Independence.

Foreign policy united and divided Americans between 1800 and 1824.

The interests of the West were satisfied by neither the Jeffersonian nor the Federalists between 1789 and 1815.

Provisions and impact of the Monroe Doctrine.

Clay’s “American System”.

Key Terms Louisiana Purchase

Lewis & Clark

Judiciary Act (1801)

“Midnight Judges”

Judicial review

John Marshall

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Fletcher v. Peck (1810)

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)

Cohens v. Virginia (1821)

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Aaron Burr

Embargo Act (1807)

Macon’s Bill #2 (1810)

War Hawks

John C. Calhoun (SC)

Henry Clay (KY)

War of 1812

Impressment

Hartford Convention (1814)

Treaty of Ghent (1814)

Battle of New Orleans

“Era of Good Feeling”

Tariff of 1816

Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)

Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)

Panic of 1819

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Monroe Doctrine (1823)

Erie Canal

Robert Fulton

Eli Whitney

Lowell System

Denmark Vessey (1822)

The Age of Jackson

1824 – 1840JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

ANDREW JACKSONMARTIN VAN BUREN

Antebellum Reform

Westward Expansion & Sectionalism

1 8 3 0 S – 1 8 6 0W I L L I A M H . H A R R I S O N

J O H N T Y L E RJ A M E S K . P O L K

Z A C H A R Y TAY L O RM I L L A R D F I L L M O R EF R A N K L I N P I E R C EJ A M E S B U C H A N A N

The American Civil War & Reconstruction

1860 – 1877ABRAHAM LINCOLNANDREW JOHNSONULYSSES S. GRANT

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

Closing the Frontier & The New South

The Gilded Age

JAMES GARFIELDCHESTER ARTHUR

GROVER CLEVELANDBENJAMIN HARRISONGROVER CLEVELANDWILLIAM MCKINLEY

American Imperialism

WILLIAM MCKINLEYTHEODORE ROOSEVELTWILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

WOODROW WILSON