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Vocabulary and item
review for AP examination; May 2008
You should know everything you can remember about all of the
following topics:
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Religious toleration in Puritan New
England
Acts of Toleration—1649
Quakers in Colonial
America—philosophy: political, social,
and religious. Leaders
French and Indian War: Catalyst, world-wide scope, long and short
term effects.
Reasons for American
Revolution; declarations in the Declaration of Independence
American
Revolution: comparison of strengths and
weaknesses of US and Britain;
strategies of the Americans and British, role of African-Americans, role of
Women, role of Native Americans. Affect of French assistance; Von Steuben,
American Leaders: Washington, Greene,
Lafayette, Clark; British Leaders:
Cornwallis, Clinton, Howe;
Franklin as diplomat. Treaty of Paris 1783
Articles of
Confederation, Strengths and Weaknesses
Land ordinances of 1785 and 1787,
provisions and accomplishments
Federalist
Papers: Nature of republics, affects
of factions on them
Jefferson vs. Hamilton: political
and economic philosophy; Hamilton’s
financial plans, excise and tariffs in early republic
Kentucky
and Virginia
Resolutions
Marshall Court;
primary decisions: Marbury, Dartmouth,
Gibbons, McCullough, Cherokee Nation, Worchester, Fletcher
Importance of
National Bank in early republic; Bank Charter/Bank war
Jeffersonianism: Louisiana Purchase,
Embargo of 1807, Quids
Madison
presidency, Macon’s
Bill, Non-Intercourse Act, War of 1812, Hartford Convention—demise of
Federalists, Missouri Compromise/Dred
Scott.
“American System”
American
manufacturing revolution: Lowell System
Monroe Doctrine/Roosevelt Corollary/Truman
Doctrine
Jacksonianism: elections of 1824, 1828, and 1832, Indian
Removal, Bank: Taney/Biddle, Clay,
Tariff of Abominations/Calhoun, Specie Circular, Van Buren
Growth of the
Two-Party system in the 1830s.--Whigs, Anti-Masonic party, Nativist Groups,
Know-Nothing Party, Republicans, Free-Soil vs. popular sovereignty
Utopianism: Brooke Farm, Millerites, Mormons, Oneida Community,
Antebellum Social
movements: temperance, abolition,
asylum, lyceum, women’s issues
Polk: as dark-horse, as president; Oregon Question;
Mexican War, Lincoln’s
Spot Resolutions
Manifest
Destiny: Ostend Manifesto/Buchanan, Filibustering,
Clayton-Bowler Treaty, 1850.
Sectionalism: Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, industry/agriculture, Congressional power, Crittenden
Compromise,
Civil War: Strategies, military leaders, foreign
involvement, financing, Lincoln’s opponents, Lincoln’s foreign policy,
weaponry, strengths and weaknesses of each side; court cases: Mulligan,
Milligan, civil war amendments
Reconstruction: various plans, actual execution, end of
Reconstruction—election of 1876.
Grant’s
presidency: scandals, Gilded Age, Fisk
and Gould/Panic of 1873, Tammany
The West: Indian Wars, affect of technology on
farming/Native Americans, three empires of the West—mining, ranching, farming,
Railroads, Bison, Century of Dishonor/Dawes
Act, Munn vs. Illinois,
U.S. economic and foreign policy at
the end of the 19th century:
Industrialism, invention, government regulation of trusts, ICC and
Sherman Anti-trust Act, imperialism/jingoism:
Spanish American War/Cuba/Philippines; reasons: Industry/trade, Murder, coaling stations, religion,
status
Populism and
progressivism—government reform at local and national level, factory reform,
changes in regulations, Coxey’s Army, Plessey
Muckrakers: How the
Other Half Lives, The Jungle, A History of Standard Oil, McClure’s
Theodore
Roosevelt foreign—Great White Fleet/Big Stick/Corollary/Panama Canal--and
domestic policies—regulation of trusts, of food and drugs
Booker T.
Washington/Atlanta Compromise and W.E.B. Dubois/Niagara Movement/NAACP
Wilson’s Progressivism
World War I: W.J. Bryan, H. Cabot Lodge, Charles E.
Hughes, reasons for U.S.
entering, results, Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations.
1920s: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover presidencies, Red Scare/Mitchell
Palmer/Sacco and Vanzetti/Emma Goldman, foreign policy/banana republics,
literature—lost generation
Depression: reasons:
over-production, farm crisis, imbalance of foreign trade, speculation,
overuse of credit; Stock Market crash, bank crisis, unemployment, dust bowl,
Hayes commission.
Franklin
Roosevelt: 1st and 2nd
New Deals, detractors: Long, Coughlin,
Townsend, packing the Court, Soviet Union, Japanese relations, Neutrality Acts,
World War II/Conferences: Atlantic Charter, Casablanca,
Yalta, Potsdam,
United Nations
Truman: The Bomb, Cold War, Long Telegram, Berlin Airlift, Truman Doctrine, China
1950s: Korean
War/Red Scare/HUAC/Alger Hiss/Nixon/McCarthyism/Edward R. Murrow/Rosenbergs; myth of the American housewife, Suez Crisis,
Dien Bien Phu, Sputnik, CIA/Iran, Domino Theory, Vietnam, Cuban Revolution,
Eisenhower/military-industrial complex, “Beat Generation”, interstate highways,
television, Orville Faubus, Brown v.
Board, Kitchen Debates, fins
Kennedy: “New Frontier”, Robert, Bay
of Pigs, Missile Crisis/Blockade, Pierre Salinger,
Vietnam, Berlin War (Jelly
Doughnut?), Health-care,
1960s: Civil Rights:
Great Society, Civil Rights Act of 1964/1965, MLK, Carmichael,
Brown—panthers, Malcolm X, Vietnam—Tonkin
Resolutions, draft, Environment—Silent
Spring, Earth Day (1970), George Wallace, Richard Nixon—China policy/Nixon doctrine [take this money;
now save yourself!], secret plan in Vietnam [I said save yourself!],
Watergate, Stonewall Riots
Ford—The Pardon, WIN,
SALT--and Carter presidencies: Panama Canal, Afghanistan/Olympics, Iran Hostage crisis,
inflation, Camp David Accords
Reagan
Presidency: Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act,
Iran-Contra, Noriega/Panama, Bork, Supply-Side (trickle down) economics
(Reagan, Bush, and Hoover)
Bush presidency—Panama,
Gulf War |
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