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AP US History
AP Exam Review Packet
Prepared by Mrs. DeLay
Bishop Montgomery High School
These materials have been prepared as a tool to help you to study for the upcoming AP Exam. This packet does not represent the only things that you should study,
nor does it represent all aspects of American History.
Good Luck, study hard, and remember – YOU CAN DO THIS!
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REVIEWING FOR THE AP UNITED STATES HISTORY EXAM
To help you as you begin to review for the AP Exam, it is best that you assemble all of your
assignments in one large binder. You do not want to spend all of your review time searching for
paperwork, lost work, or re-doing an assignment that you had previously completed. The key
here is to control your time and to use the time you set aside effectively.
1. Collect all of your terms lists, answers to objective questions (and the questions themselves if
you didn’t include them with your answers) and review packets (charts, graphs, readings,
etc).
2. Although you may arrange your review notebook any way you choose, here is one
suggestion: Try putting them in the following order:
(1) Chapter Terms
(2) Chapter Objectives
(3) Special Review Questions and Answers (available at After School Review Sessions
or for private review)
(4) Supplemental Readings, review packs, charts, graphs and any other assignments you
have.
3. Spend the first 1 to 2 weeks reviewing the terminology that will be necessary on the AP
Exam. You should also begin to review the chapter objectives and/or your notes to make sure
you remember the material that was covered in class.
4. In the review sessions and over the last 2 weeks begin answering the Special Review
questions. Actually write out the answers in paragraph form – and support your answers with
one or two relevant examples. This not only refreshes your memory but also provides
additional practice for the written portions.
5. Practice answering sample multiple choice and essay questions. Remember that it was
strongly recommended that you purchase an AP Exam review book. There are many different
ones available but all will have both multiple choice and essay questions. Do NOT look at
the answers until after you have attempted the questions. Once you have finished, grade
yourself as honestly and as critically as you can using the rubrics and samples provided.
Directed practice will be a part of the review sessions but this is also something you can do
on your own.
6. Set aside about 3 hours one day and take a full sample exam (use one from your review book
or request one). Start with the multiple-choice questions (in 55 minutes), take a 10-15 minute
break, and then write the answers to three essay questions (one DBQ and two standard) in
130 minutes. Set a timer so you do not go over the allowed time.
7. Remember, the more work you put into reviewing, the better you will do on the exam. It is
also vitally important that you do not wait until the last minute to start reviewing. Remember
that you’ve paid for this exam and you want to give yourself the best possible chance to do
well. Cramming the last day or two simply will not work.
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Eras in United States History
1. Age of Exploration – 1492-1620
2. Era of Colonization – 1630-1770
3. Revolutionary Period – 1770-1783
4. Jeffersonian Democracy – 1800-1809
5. War of 1812 – 1810-1816
6. Era of Good Feelings – 1816-1824
7. Jacksonian Democracy – 1824-1840
8. Expansion Period (Manifest Destiny) 1841-1848
9. Antebellum Period – 1848-1860
10. Civil War Era – 1861-1865
11. Reconstruction Era – 1865-1877
12. Gilded Age & Industrial Revolution – 1865-1900
13. Imperialism –1865-1900
14. Progressive Era – 1901-1916
15. WWI – 1914-1918
16. Roaring Twenties – 1919-1929
17. Depression Era – 1929-1938
18. New Deal – 1933-1940
19. WWII – 1941-1945
20. Cold War Era – 1945-1989
21. Stormy Sixties – 1960-1970
22. Return to Conservatism – 1980-1992 (2005?)
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U.S. Presidents with some events of their
Administrations
1. George Washington 1789-1797 no party-unofficially a Federalist.
Father of US -defined presidency
Whiskey rebellion
Neutrality Proclamation
Jay's Treaty
Bank of US
French Revolution
Bill of rights adopted.
Pickney's Treaty with Spain
2. John Adams 1797-1801 Federalist.
XYZ affair .
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
Midnight Judges
Convention of 1850 (peace with France)
3. Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 Democratic-Republican
Emergence of Supreme Court
Tripolitan War
Louisiana Purchase
Failed Embargo
Marbury v. Madison
Louis and Clark expedition
Tried to impeach Samuel Chase from the Supreme Court.
"revolution of 1800"
Barbary Pirates
4. James Madison 1809-1817 Democratic-Republican
Macon's Bill #2
War of 1812
Nationalism
Battle of Tippecanoe
Treaty of Ghent
Battle of New Orleans
War Hawks-Clay and Calhoun
Hartford Convention (end of Federalists)
5. James Monroe 1817-1825 Democratic-Republican
. Panic of 1819
. Missouri Compromise
. Oregon Treaty and Florida Purchase.
Monroe Doctrine
. Era of Good Feelings
. Treaty of 1818
. Goodwill tour of 1816
. Russo-American Treaty
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6. John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 Democratic-Republican.
Son of President John Adams
Adams-Clay Corrupt Bargain
Tariff of Abominations (1828)
completion of Erie Canal
industrial revolution
cotton gin textiles
7. Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 Democrat
Spoils System
Peggy Eaton Affair
Webster-Hayne Debate
Nullies in South Carolina
Bank Expires
Trail of Tears
Tariff of 1832
Force Bill
Jackson Democracy
Maysville Road
Texas Independence/Revolution.
Compromise Tariff of 1833
8. Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 Democrat.
Thought of independent Treasury bill.
Divorce Bill
Panic of 1837
hand-picked replacement of Jackson
9. William Harrison: 1841-1845 Whig
died 1841
died 4 weeks after in Office of pneumonia
gave longest speech ( 3 hours)
War hero from War of 1812-Tippecanoe (and Tyler too!)
10. John Tyler: 1841-1845 Whig (Actions of a Democrat).
Texas Annexed
Aroostook war
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Veto BUS
First accidental president
signed Independent Treasury Bill
Manifest Destiny starts
Problems with England
Caroline Incident
11. James K. Polk: 1844-1849 Democrat
Mexican War
Wilmot Proviso
Added more territory than any other president.
Bought California/southwest
Settled Oregon Dispute (49 parallel)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Texas and New Mexico
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12. Zachary Taylor: 1849-1850 Whig
Gold Rush in California
Hero of Buena Vista
Free-Soil party Organized
Underground R/R
Compromise of 1850
Died before he could veto Pro-North compromise of 1850.
36° 30’ line all the way to CA
Pro-South
13. Millard Fillmore: 1850-1852 Whig.
VP of Taylor
Passes Compromise of 1850
Second Era of Good Feelings
14. Franklin Pierce: 1853-1857 Democrat.
Ostend Manifesto
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Gadsden Purchase
Kansas Civil War
Kansas Nebraska Act
Sen. Sumner Beat up in Congress
Open trade with Japan
15. James Buchanan: 1857-1861. Democrat
Panic of 1857
Dred Scott Decision
Southern States Secede.
Homestead Act/Vetoed.
John Brown
16. Abraham Lincoln: 1861-1865 Republican (called National Union in 1864).
Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
Increase in production
10% Plan for Reconstruction
Gettysburg Address
Saved Union
Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
17. Andrew Johnson: 1865-1869 National Union (Democrat who stayed with Union; ran on National Union ticket)
Vetoes Freedman Bureau
Congress over veto
Reconstruction
Impeached by the House of Reps.
KKK
Black Codes
Wade-Davis Bill
13th
, 14th
Amendments
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18. Ulysses S. Grant: 1869-1877 Republican.
15th
Amendment
Credit Mobllier Scandal
End of Reconstruction
Whiskey Ring
19. Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881 Republican
Compromise of 1877
The problems with Chinese Immigrants & Kearneyites in California
20. James A Garfield 1881 Republican
Assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau four months after inauguration.
American Red Cross Founded
Dark horse Republican
Booker T. Washington becomes head of Tuskegee Institute
21. Chester Arthur 1882-1885 Republican
Pendleton Act of '1883
Was a Stalwart
became President in 1881 when Garfield died
22. Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 Democrat.
Depression of 1893
First Democrat since Buchanan
Mugwumps
Haymarket Riot-1886
Interstate Commerce Act
Wabash vs. Illinois
23. Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 Republican.
Grandson of President William Henry Harrison
Billion Dollar Congress
Pension Act of 1890
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
McKinley Tariff
24. Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 Democrat.
(same person as #22 above)
Depression of 1893
Pullman Strike
Wilson-Gorman Law
25. William McKinley 1897-1901 Republican
Spanish-American War
Annexation of Hawaii
Open Door Policy with China
Boxer Rebellion
Currency Act (Gold Standard for Currency).
Teller Amendment 1898
Platt Amendment
Insular Cases
made by Mark Hanna
McKinley Tariff Bill
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Maine explosion
Puerto Ricans get US citizenship
Aguinaldo launches rebellion against US.
assassinated in 1901
26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 Republican
took over McKinley's Presidency
Hay Pauncefote Treaty
Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty
Roosevelt Corollary
building of Panama Canal
US occupation of Cuba
Great White Fleet
Root Takahira agreement
commission system
muckraking begins
Newlands (Reclamation) Act
Department of Commerce & Labor formed 1903
Panama Revolution
Hepburn Act - regulated railroads
The Jungle
Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Act
Panic of 1907
"Gentleman's" Agreement with Japan
Russo-Japanese War
Elkins Act
National Conservation Commission
Big Stick Policy
Open Door Notes
27. William Taft 1909-1913 Republican
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
hand-picked by TR
Dollar Diplomacy
Panama Canal and Manchuria Railway monopoly.
Dissolution of Standard Oil Co.
beat Roosevelt for Rep. nomination in 1913
Mann-Elkins Act 1910
Postal Savings Bank Act
1912- Nicaraguan Civil War
28. Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 Democrat
Underwood Tariff of 1913
16th
, 17th
, 18th
, 19th
Amendments
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Troops to Nicaragua. Dominican Republic. Haiti. Virgin Islands. Mexico
The Lusitania
Fourteen Points/Treaty of Versailles
"New Freedom"
Progressivism
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Adamson Act
Keaten Owen Act
Lafollete Seaman's Act
Smith Lever Act
WWI
29. Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 Republican.
Teapot Dome Scandal
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Dies in office
Laissez-Faire
30. Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 Republican.
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Lindbergh flew over Atlantic 1927.
Sacco-Vanzetti executed
Dawes Plan
31. Herbert C. Hoover 1929-1933 Republican.
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Japan invades Manchuria
Hoover-Stimson Doctrine 1932
Good Neighbor Policy
Stock Market Crash
Great Depression
Bonus Army
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 Democrat
Distant cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt
New Deal-Alphabet Agencies
18th Amendment
Court Packing
Put in Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America.
Panay sunk
US Neutrality Acts
Pearl Harbor Bombing
WWII
GI Bill
33. Harry S Truman 1945-1953 Democrat.
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
NATO
WWII ends-atomic bomb dropped.
Taft-Hartley Act
"Fair Deal"
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961 Republican.
22nd Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
SEATO
Suez Crisis
Eisenhower Doctrine
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1st Hydrogen Bomb
McCarthy Hearings
Fired MacArthur
ends Korean War
35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961-1963 Democrat.
"New Frontier"
Alliance for Progress
Peace Corps
Nuclear Test Ban 1reaty
Assassinated November 22. 1963
36. Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969 Democrat
"Cold War"
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Anti-Poverty Act of 1964
"Great Society"
Voting Rights Act of 1965
24th Amendment ratified in January 1964
37. Richard Nixon 1969-1974 Republican
"Checker's" speech (prior to becoming president)
Imperial Presidency
First landing on the moon July 1969
Woodstock 1969
SALT 1972
28th Amendment
War Powers Act November 1973
Watergate Scandal
Secret Bombing of Cambodia in 1973
Kissinger- "Shuttle Diplomacy" 1973-1975.
Pentagon Papers August 1971
Resigned in 1973
38. Gerald R Ford 1974-1977 Republican
Launched WIN campaign
Pardoned Nixon for Crimes during Presidency
Vetoed Billion Dollar Spending Bills During the Recession
Inflation Dropped from 12% to 5% by 1976
July 1975- joined 34 nations in Helsinki. Finland to sign Historic Accords.
Urged congress to vote more weapons for Vietnam
Amnesty Program
39. Jimrny Carter 1977-1981 Democratic
National Women's Conference
Panama Canal1reaty
Retirement Age Bill
Egyptian-Israeli Camp David Agreement
SALT II agreement
Iranian Hostage Crisis
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40. Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 Republican
1981- Iran releases Ame1ican Hostages
1981- Trickle Down Economics Plan Passed
1981-1988 U.S. Money given to Latin America
1982- Recession Hits
1983- U.S./Soviet Arms Talks break off
1983- U.S. Invades Grenada
1983-Star Wars Program is introduced
1984- Reagan defeats Mondale
1985-U.S. /Soviet Arms Talks resume
1985-first Reagan/Gorbachev summit meeting in Geneva.
1986-U.S. Bombs Libya
1986- Iran/Contra scandal revealed
1987- 508 point Stock Market Crash
41. George H.W. Bush 1989-1993 Republican
Attacked Panama in 1989 to capture Manuela Noriega
Tienamman Square 1989
Gulf War 1990
Coup in Russia 1989
Oversaw the fall of Communism in Europe-1989
Berlin wall falls in December 1989
Appointed Clarence Thomas to Supreme Court
42. Bill Clinton 1993-2001 Democratic
Somalian Crisis
Haiti Incident
100 days Congress- All Republican – “Republican Revolution”
Appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Steven Breyer to Supreme Court.
Oklahoma City Federal building Bombing
Health Care Plan/NAFTA
Scandals – Whitewater, Monica Lewinsky
43. George W. Bush 2001-2009 Republican
Terrorist attacks at World Trade Center and Pentagon
Depose Taliban in Afghanistan
Second Gulf War/Depose Saddam Hussein
War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan
Established Dept. of Homeland Security as Cabinet level office
No Child Left Behind (Education Reform)
Prescription Drug benefits for Medicare (Medicare Reform)
Economic downturn/recession; bank and corporate bailout
44. Barack Hussein Obama 2009-? Democrat
War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)
Numerous acts for financial assistance during recession
Health care reform
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American War and the Leaders Spanish Armada – 1588 - England and Elizabeth I vs. Spain and King Phillip II
Sir Francis Drake and the “Sea Dogs”
French and Indian War (Seven Years War) – 1754-1763
William Pitt
George Washington
Revolutionary War – 1775-1783 - American Colonies vs. the British Empire
Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill
US – Washington, Arnold, Lafayette, Burgoyne, DeGrasse, G.R. Clark, Jones
UK – Cornwallis, Hood, Howe, St. Leger, Arnold (after the treason)
War of 1812 – 1810-1816 - US vs. UK
US – Harrison, Jackson, Perry, MacDonough
UK – Tecumseh, Brock
War with Mexico – 1846-1848 – US vs. Mexico
US – Taylor, Scott, Fremont
Mexico – Santa Anna
Civil War – 1861-1865 - North vs. South
North – Mead, Grant, Hooker, Lincoln
South – Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Pickett, Davis
Spanish-American War – 1898 - US vs. Spain (over Cuba, Philippines, etc.)
US – Dewey, T. Roosevelt, Wood
Spain – Weyler
World War I – 1914-1918
Allies – (US, Britain, France, etc) – Wilson, Pershing, Foch, Rickenbacker, York
Central Powers – (Germany, Austria-Hungary, etc) – Wilhelm