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GUIDE FOR THE ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY TEST COVERAGE
1. Discovery, and Settlement of the New World, 1492-1650.
A. Europe in the sixteenth century
B. Spanish, English, and French Exploration
C. First English Settlements
1. Jamestown
2. Plymouth
D. Spanish and French
settlements and long term influence
E. American Indians
2. America and the
British Empire, 1650-1754
A. Chesapeake country
B. Growth of New England
C.
Restoration colonies
D. Mercantilism; the Dominion of New England
E. Origins of
Slavery
3. Colonial Society in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
A. Social Structure
1.
Family
2. Farm and Town life; the economy
B. Culture
1. Great Awakening
2. The
American mind
3. "Folkways"
C. New Immigrants
4. Road to the Revolution
A.
Anglo-French rivalries and the Seven Years' War
B. Imperial reorganization of
1763
1. Stamp Act
2. Declaratory Act
3. Townshend Acts
4. Boston Tea Party
C. Philosophy
of the American Revolution
5. The American Revolution
A. Continental
Congress
B. Declaration of Independence
C. The War
1. French Alliance
2. War and
society; Loyalists
3. War Economy
D. Articles of Confederation
E. Peace of Paris
F. Creating state governments
1. Political organization
2.
Social reform: women, slavery
6. Constitutions and New Republic, 1775-1783
A. Philadelphia Convention:
drafting the Constitution
B. Federalists versus Anti-Federalists
C. Bill of
Rights
D. Washington's Presidency
1. Hamilton's financial program
2. Foreign and
domestic difficulties
3. Beginnings of political parties
E. John Adams'
Presidency
1. Alien and Sedition Acts
2. XYZ Affair
3.
Election of 1800
7. The
Age of Jefferson, 1800-1816
A. Jefferson's Presidency
1. Louisiana Purchase
2.
Burr Conspiracy
3. The Supreme Court under John Marshall
4. Neutral rights,
impressment, embargo
B. Madison
C. War of 1812
1. Causes
2. Invasion of Canada
3. Hartford Convention
4. Conduct of the war
5. Treaty of Ghent
6.
New Orleans
8. Nationalism and Economic Expansion
A. James Monroe; Era of Good Feeling
B.
Panic of 1819
C. Settlement of the West
D. Missouri Compromise
E. Foreign
Affairs: Canada, Florida, the Monroe Doctrine
F. Election of 1824: End of
Virginia Dynasty
G. Economic Revolution
1. Early Railroads
2. Expansion of
business
a. Beginnings of factory system
b. Early Labor Movements; women
c.
Social Mobility; extremes of wealth
3. The Cotton Revolution on the South
4.
Commercial Agriculture
9. Sectionalism
A. The South
1. The Cotton Kingdom
2.
Southern Trade and industry
3. Southern society and culture
a. Graduation of
White Society
b. Nature of slavery: "peculiar institution"
c. The Mind of the
South
B. The North
1. Northeast Industry
a. Labor
b. Immigration
c. Urban slums
2. Northwest Agriculture
C. Westward Expansion
1. Advance of agricultural
frontier
2. Significance of the frontier
3. Life on the frontier; squatters
4.
Removal of American Indians
10. Age of Jackson, 1828-1848
A. Democracy and the
"common man"
1. Expansion and Suffrage
2. Rotation in Office
B. Second Party
System
1. Democratic Party
2. Whig Party
C. Internal improvements and states'
rights: the Maysville Road Veto
D. The Nullification Crisis
1. Tariff issue
2.
The Union: Calhoun and Jackson
E. The Bank War: Jackson and Biddle
F. Martin Van
Buren
1. Independent Treasury System
2
.Panic of 1837
11. Territorial Expansions
and Sectional Crisis
A. Manifest Destiny and mission
B. Texas annexation, the
Oregon boundary, and California
C. James K. Polk and the Mexican War, slavery
and the Wilmot Proviso
D. Later Expansionist Efforts
12. Creating an American
Culture
A. Cultural nationalism
B. Education reform/professionalism
C. Religion;
Revivalism
D. Utopian experiments: Mormons, Oneida Community
E.
Transcendentalists
F. National literature, art, architecture
G. Reform Crusades
1. Feminism; roles of women in the Nineteenth Century
2. Abolitionism
3.
Temperance
4.
Criminals and the insane
13. The 1850's: Decade of Crisis
A. The
Compromise of 1850
B. Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom's Cabin
C.
Kansas-Nebraska Act and realignment of parties
1. Demise of the Whig Party
2.
Emergence of the Republican Party
D. Dred Scott decision and LeCompton Crisis
E.
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
F. John Brown's raid
G. The
Election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln H. The secession crisis
14. Civil War
A. The Union
1.
Mobilization and finance
2. Civil Liberties
3. Election of 1864
B. The South
1.
Confederate Constitution
2. Mobilization and finance
3. States' Rights and the
Confederacy
C. Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy
D. Military Strategy, campaigns,
and battles
E. The Abolition of Slavery
1. Confiscation Acts
2. Emancipation
Proclamation
3. Freedmen's Bureau
4. Thirteenth Amendment
F. Effects of war on
society
1. Inflation and public debt
2. Role of women
3. Devastation of the
South
4.
Changing labor patterns
15. Reconstruction to 1877
A. Presidential
plans: Lincoln and Johnson
B. Radical (congressional) plans
1. Civil rights and
the Fourteenth Amendment
2. Military reconstruction
3. Impeachment of Johnson
4.
African-American suffrage: the Fifteenth Amendment
C. Southern state
governments: problems, achievements, weaknesses
D. Compromise of 1877 and the end
of Reconstruction
16. New South and the Last West
A. Politics in the New
South
1. The Redeemers
2. White and African Americans in the New South
3.
Subordination of freed slaves: Jim Crow
B. Southern economy; colonial status of
the South
1. Sharecropping
2. Industrial stirrings
C. Cattle kingdom
1.
Open-range ranching
2. Day of the cowboy
D. Building the Western railroad
E.
Subordination of American Indians: dispersal of tribes
F. Farming the plains;
problems in agriculture
G. Mining
bonanza
17. Industrialization and Corporate
Consolidation
A. Industrial growth: railroads, iron, coal, electricity, steel,
oil, banks
B. Laissez-faire conservatism
1. Gospel of Wealth
2. Myth of
"self-made man"
3. Social Darwinism; survival of the fittest
4. Social critics
and dissenters
C. Effects of technological development on worker/workplace
D.
Union movement
1. Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor
2.
Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman
18. Urban Society
A. Lure of the city
B.
Immigration
C. City problems
1. Slums
2. Machine politics
D. Awakening
conscience; reforms
1. Social legislation
2. Settlement houses: Jane Addams and
Lillian Wald
3.
Structural reforms in government
19. Intellectual and Cultural
Movements
A. Education
1. Colleges and universities
2. Scientific advances
B.
Professionalism and the social sciences
C. Realism in literature and art
D. Mass
culture
1. Use of leisure
2.
Publishing and journalism
20. National Politics,
1877-2896: The Gilded Age
A. Conservative presidency
B. Issues
1. Tariff
controversy
2. Railroad regulation
3. Trusts
C. Agrarian discontents
D. Crisis
of 1890s
1. Populism
2. Silver question
3.
Election of 1896: McKinley versus Bryan
21. Foreign Policy, 1865-1914
A. Seward and purchase of Alaska
B. The new
imperialism
1. Blaine and Latin America
2. International Darwinism:
missionaries, politicians, and naval expansionists
3. Spanish-American War
a.
Cuban independence
b. Debate on Philippines
C. The Far East: John Hay and the
Open Door
D. Theodore Roosevelt
1. The Panama Canal
2. Roosevelt Corollary
3.
Far East E. Taft and Dollar Diplomacy
F. Wilson and Moral Diplomacy
22.
Progressive Era
A. Origins of Progressivism
1. Progressive attitude and motives
2. Muckrakers
3. Social Gospel
B. Municipal, state, and national reforms
C.
Socialism: alternatives
D. Black America
1. Washington, Du Bois, and Garvey
2.
Urban migration
3. Civil rights organizations
E. Women's role: family, work,
education, unionization, and suffrage
F. Roosevelt's Square Deal
1. Managing the
trusts
2. Conservation
G. Taft
1. Pinchot-Ballinger controversy
2. Payne-Aldrich
Tariff
H. Wilson's New Freedom
1. Tariffs
2.
Banking reform
3.
Antitrust Act of 1914
23. The First World War
A. Problems of neutrality
1. Submarines
2. Economic
ties
3. Psychological and ethnic ties
B. Preparedness and pacifism
C.
Mobilization
1. Fighting the war
2. Financing the war
3. War boards
4.
Propaganda, public opinion, civil liberties
D. Wilson's Fourteen Points
1.
Treaty of Versailles
2. Ratification fight
E. Postwar demobilization
1. Red
Scare
2.
Labor strife
24. New Era: The 1920s
A. Republican governments
1.
Business creed
2. Harding scandals
B. Economic development
1. Prosperity and
wealth
2. Farm and labor problems
C. New culture
1. Consumerism: automobile,
radio, movies
2. Women, the family
3. Modern religion
4. Literature of
alienation
5. Jazz age
6. Harlem Renaissance
D. Conflicts of cultures
1.
Prohibition, bootlegging
2. Nativism
3. Ku Klux Klan
4. Religious fundamentalism
versus modernists
E. Myth of isolation
1. Replacing the League of Nations
2.
Business and diplomacy
25. Depression, 1929-1933:
A. Wall Street crash
B.
Depression economy
C. Moods of despair
1. Agrarian unrest
2. Veterans Bonus
March 1933
D.
Hoover-Stimson Diplomacy; Japan
26. New Deal:
A. Franklin D.
Roosevelt
1. Background, ideas
2. Philosophy of the New Deal
B. 100 Days:
"Alphabet agencies"
C. Second New Deal
D. Critics of FDR both left and right
E.
Rise of the C.I.O.
F. Supreme Court fight, court packing
G. Recession of 1938
H.
American people in the Depression
1. Social values, women, ethnic groups
2.
Indian Reorganization Act
3. Mexican-American deportations
4.
The racial issues
27. Diplomacy in the 1930's:
A. Good neighbor policy: Montevideo, Buenos Aires
B. London Economic Conference
C. Disarmament
D. Isolationism; neutrality acts
E.
Aggressors: Italy, Germany and Japan
F. Appeasement: Munich conference
G.
Rearmament; Blitzkrieg, Lend Lease, Fall of France
H. Atlantic Charter:
Roosevelt and Churchill
I. Pearl Harbor
28. The Second World War:
A. Organizing
for war
1.mobilizing production
2.propoganda
3.Internment of Japanese Americans
B. The war in Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean-D Day
C. The war in the
Pacific: Hiroshima, Nagasaki
D. Diplomacy
1. War goals
2. War time conferences:
Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam
E. Postwar atmosphere, The United
Nations
29. Truman and
the Cold War
A. Postwar domestic adjustments
B. The Taft-Hartley Act
C. Civil
rights and the election of 1948
D. Containment policy
1. Truman Doctrine
2.
Marshall Plan
3. Berlin Airlift
4. NATO
E. Revolution in China MaoTse Dung
F. United Nations
war in Korea
30. Eisenhower and the modern Republicans
A.
Domestic scare, McCarthyism
B. Civil Rights Movement:
1. The Warren Court and
Brown v. Topeka Board of Ed.
2. Montgomery bus boycott
3. Greensboro lunch
counter sit-ins
C. John Foster Dulles's Foreign Policy
1. Crisis in French
Indo-China
2. Massive retaliation
3. Nationalism in the third world
4.
Khrushchev and Berlin issue
D. The American people: homogenized society
1.
Prosperity: economic consolidation
2. Consumer culture
3. Consensus of values
E. Space
Race: Sputnik
31. Kennedy's New Frontier; Johnson's Great Society
A. New
domestic programs
1. Tax cut to spur economic growth
2. War on poverty
3.
Affirmative action
B. Civil rights renewed
1. African-Americans: political,
cultural, and economic roles
2. Martin Luther King Jr. The SLC
3. Resurgence of
feminism
4. The New Left and the counterculture
5. The emergence of the
Republican Party in the South
6. The Supreme Court
C. Foreign Policy
1. Bay of
Pigs
2. Cuban Missile Crisis
3.
Vietnam
32. Nixon
A. The Election of 1968
B.
Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy
1. Vietnam: escalation and pullout
2. China:
restoring relations
3. Soviet Union: Détente C. New Federalism
D. Supreme Court:
Roe v. Wade
E. Watergate and resignation
33. The United States since 1974
A. The
New Right and the Social agenda
B. Ford and Rockefeller
C. Carter
1.
Deregulation
2. Energy and inflation
3. Camp David accords
4. Iranian hostage
crisis
D. Ronald Reagan
1. The Kennedy tax cuts and budget deficits
2. Defense
buildup
3. New disarmament treaties
4. Foreign Crises: Persian Gulf and Central
America
E. Society
1. Old and new urban problems
2. Asian and Hispanic
immigrants
3. The Christian Coalition
4.
African Americans and local, state and national politics
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