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EXAM PREPARATION
APUSH
MRS. BAKER
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 minutes
Consists 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)
1492 - 1700
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
Anne Hutchinson
Captain John Smith
Quakers
Plymouth Colony
William Penn
Pilgrims
Mercantilism
Puritans
Navigation Acts
Mayflower Compact
MA Bay Colony
Triangle Trade
John Winthrop
Halfway Covenant
“City Upon a Hill”
First Great Awakening
VA House of Burgesses
Jonathon Edwards
Proprietorship
Salem Witch Trials
George Calvert
John Peter Zenger
Maryland Act of Toleration (1649)
French & Indian War (1756 – 1763)
Bacon’s Rebellion
Albany Plan of Union
Headright System
Treaty of Paris (1763)
Indentured Servitude
Salutary Neglect
Roger Williams
Important Dates: Foundations of America
Southern Colonies
Northern Colonies
1585 – Raleigh founds “Lost Colony” at Roanoke
1620 – Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay
1607 – Virginia Colony founded at Jamestown
1624 – Dutch found New Netherland
1612 – Rolfe perfects tobacco culture
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
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
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
1754 – 1763 – Seven Year’s War
Albany Congress
French and Indian War
1763 – Treaty of Paris
Pontiac’s uprising
Proclamation of 1763
Columbian Exchange
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
Intolerable [Coercive] Acts (1774)
Sugar Act (1764)
Quebec Act (1774)
Virtual representation
First Continental Congress (1774)
Stamp Act (1765)
Articles of Confederation
Quartering Act (1765)
Second Continental Congress (1775)
Virginia Resolves
Common Sense
Stamp Act Congress
Lexington & Concord
Sons of Liberty
Olive Branch Petition
Writs of assistance
Saratoga
French Alliance of 1778
Loyalists (Tories)
Yorktown (1781)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Declaratory Act (1766)
Townshend Acts (1767)
Sam Adams
Boston Massacre (1770)
Patrick Henry
John Dickinson
Committees of Correspondence
Boston Tea Party (1773)
Important Dates: Causes of the American Revolution
1650 – First Navigation Laws to control
colonial commerce
1763 – Seven Year’s War
1764 – Sugar Act
1768 – British troops occupy Boston
1770 – Boston Massacre
1772 – Committees of correspondence
formed
1773 – British East India Company
granted tea monopoly
1765 – Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
1766 – Declaratory Act
1767 – Townshend Acts
All Townshend Acts except tea tax
repealed
1774 – “Intolerable Acts”
Boston Tea Party
Quebec Act
First Continental Congress
1775 – Battle of Lexington and Concord
Important Dates: American Revolution
1775 – Battles of Lexington &
Concord
1778 – Formation of the French-
American alliance
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
Battle of Saratoga
1781 – French and Americans force
Cornwallis to surrender at
Yorktown
1783 – Treaty of Paris
British
American Colonies
1776 - 1800
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
Judiciary Act (1789)
Report on Public Credit (1790)
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Report on Manufactures (1791)
Philadelphia Convention (1787)
“Citizen” Genet
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Jay Treaty (1794)
Virginia Plan
Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut Plan
Washington’s “Farewell Address” (1796)
3/5s Compromise
Democratic-Republican Party
Federalists
XYZ Affair
Anti-Federalists
Strict constructionist
Alien & Sedition Acts (1798)
Loose constructionist
KY & VA Resolutions (1799)
Federalist Papers (esp. #10)
Revolution of 1800
1800 – 1824
THOMAS JEFFERSON
JAMES MADISON
JAMES 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
War of 1812
Lewis & Clark
Impressment
Judiciary Act (1801)
Hartford Convention (1814)
“Midnight Judges”
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Judicial review
Battle of New Orleans
John Marshall
“Era of Good Feeling”
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Tariff of 1816
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
Panic of 1819
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Aaron Burr
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Embargo Act (1807)
Erie Canal
Macon’s Bill #2 (1810)
Robert Fulton
War Hawks
Eli Whitney
John C. Calhoun (SC)
Lowell System
Henry Clay (KY)
Denmark Vessey (1822)
The Age of Jackson
1824 – 1840
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
ANDREW JACKSON
MARTIN VAN BUREN
Antebellum Reform
Westward Expansion &
Sectionalism
1830S – 1860
WILLIAM H. HARRISON
JOHN TYLER
JAMES K. POLK
ZACHARY TAYLOR
MILLARD FILLMORE
FRANKLIN PIERCE
JAMES BUCHANAN
The American Civil War &
Reconstruction
1860 – 1877
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ANDREW JOHNSON
ULYSSES S. GRANT
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
Closing the Frontier &
The New South
The Gilded Age
JAMES GARFIELD
CHESTER ARTHUR
GROVER CLEVELAND
BENJAMIN HARRISON
GROVER CLEVELAND
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
American Imperialism
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
WOODROW WILSON