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APUSH Thematic Review Packet
African-American History
1619:
Africans first came to Virginia---why so few?
1787:
3/5ths Compromise
1808:
African slave trade outlawed---why does U.S. slave population continue to
increase?
Slavery:
Majority of white southerners owned no slaves---why?
Toussaint L’Ouverture, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American Colonization Society, Free Soil Party
Compromises over Slavery
1857:
Dred Scott v. Sandford
1863:
Emancipation Proclamation
1865-1877:
13, 14, 15 Amendments
Sharecropping
The Compromise of 1877
1877-1900:
Booker T. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise
Plessy v. Ferguson
Jim Crow Laws
Ida B. Wells
1900-1954:
W.E.B. DuBois and the Niagara Movement
NAACP
“Birth of a Nation” and the KKK
Harlem Renaissance
“Great Migration”
Marcus Garvey (The Back to Africa Movement)
WWI and WWII Homefront and Participation
Martin Luther King (non-violence)
SCLC
1957:
Little Rock, Arkansas
Civil Rights Act of 1957 (to investigate cases of discrimination)
1960s:
Freedom Riders
sit-ins (Greensboro, N.C.)
March on Washington (1963)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Riots of 1965-68
SNCC
Black Panthers
Books and Writings that changed the United States
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, The Federalist (1788)
Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon (1830)
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835-1840)
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government (1849)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (1890)
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)
Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (1904)
Compartmentalizing Art and Literature in U.S. History Prior to War of 1812
1820s
Civil War Era
Gilded Age/Progressive Era
1920s
Compromises & Rebellions
Compromises
Great Compromise of 1787
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Compromise of 1833
Compromise of 1850
Crittenden Compromise, 1860
Compromise of 1877
Rebellions
Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676
Daniel Shay’s Rebellion, 1786-1787
Whiskey Rebellion, 1794-1795
Economics and Tariffs
1791: revenue tariff (Hamilton’s Financial Plan)
1816: protective tariff (American System)
1828: Tariff of Abominations (led to nullification crisis)
1832-33: South Carolina nullification crisis and compromise
Civil War: revenue tariff
1890: McKinley Tariff
1909: Payne-Aldrich Tariff
1913: Underwood-Simmons Tariff
1922: Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Topics
Tariffs or Customs Duties (Revenue v. Protective)
Hard v. Soft Money
Inflation
Deflation
Gold Standard
Free Silver Movement
Panic, Recession, Depression (see notes and document for additional information)
Laissez-Faire
Supply/Demand
Environmental
Pre-colonial: Native American relationship with the land (very spiritual and respectful)
Colonial Period and expansionism in the 1800s: Justification for seizing N.A. land (not utilizing it to its full potential)
Late 1800s: exploitation of land (i.e. mining, factors related to rapid industrialization) but some push for preservation and/or improvement of the land (Carey Act, Desert Land Act, Forest Reserve Act)
Early 1900s: preservation of land (National Park System, New lands Act)
1930s: New Deal Programs (Civilian Conservation Corps)
1960-62: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring sounds environmental alarm and leads to banning of DDT
1963: Congress creates National Wilderness System, protecting 9 million acres
1966: Congress passes Endangered Species Act, Nuclear reactor in Detroit partially melts down
1970: Environmental Protection Agency is created, Congress passes the Clean Air Act
1974: Vanguard-Sebring introduces the electric CitiCar. By 1975, the company is the sixth-largest automaker in U.S.; it’s dissolved a few years later
1979: Nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island, PA. melts down, Crisis in oil supply leads to relaxing of restrictions on refining and pollution
1980: Activism over Love Canal (neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York built over a toxic landfill) leads to creation of “Superfund” for cleanup of such sites.
1984: Union Carbide (American company) pesticide plant releases 40 tons of chemical in Bhopal, India, killing between 15,000 and 20,000 people
1986: Nuclear power plant explosion at Chernobyl, U.S.S.R. exposes 9,000 to radiation, 336,000 people are evacuated and resettled
1989: Exxon Valdez spills 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound and Gulf of Alaska
1990-91: Thousands of oil wells burn during the Persian Gulf War
1994: Construction begins on China’s Three Gorges Dam. The project is blamed for the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin and displacement of 1.9 million people.
1997: U.S. declines to sign Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse emissions
2000: Ford introduces Excursion, largest and least fuel-efficient SUV to date
2003: National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) wins federal case against U.S. Navy, halting world-wide deployment of whale-killing sonar; Heat wave in Europe kills 35,000 people
2005: Record low level of sea ice in Antarctic is measured; NRDC staves off attempts by Bush Administration to drill for oil in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Immigration
Pre-1880: immigration primarily from northern and western Europe
Post-1880: immigration primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe (moved to big cities, provided cheap, unskilled labor to fuel industrial growth)---1880-1914
Government Intervention
1882: Chinese Exclusion Act (1st act clearly targeting a specific group)
1907: Gentleman’s Agreement
1920s: National Origins Acts (Emergency Quota Act of 1921, Immigration Quota Act of 1924)
1930s, 1940s: Bracero program (officially 1942)
1952: McCarran-Walter Act
1965: Immigration Act
1986: Immigration Reform and Control Act (illegal aliens)
Waves of Immigration (largest groups---not all inclusive) 1630s and 1640s: Great Migration of Puritans
1700s: Scots-Irish and Germans
1840s: Irish and Germans
1910s: Mexicans
1930s, 1940s: Europeans
Native American History
1763: Pontiac’s Rebellion, Proclamation of 1763
Early 1800s: Tecumseh and the Prophet, Battle of Tippecanoe, Seminole Wars
1830s: Indian Removal Act (1830), Trail of Tears (1837-38), Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
1865-1890: 14th and 15th Amendments, Indian Wars (due to further expansion west especially in the Plains)
1881: Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor, Ramona
1887: Dawes Severalty Act (“Kill the Indian, Save the Man”)
1890: Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
1924: Snyder Act
1934: Wheeler-Howard Act
Religion
Colonial America
Puritans (Predestination, Halfway covenant, Salem Witch Trials)
Roger Williams (Liberty of conscience)
Quakers (Inner Light)
Catholics (Maryland Act of Toleration)
Anglicans
Presbyterians
First Great Awakening (Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Old Lights vs. New Lights)
Late 1700s Deism
Early 1800s Charles Finney and the Second Great Awakening (1830s and 1840s)
Late 1800s Josiah Strong, Our Country (1885), Charles Sheldon, In his Steps (1896)
Early 1900s Social Gospel, Growth of fundamentalism, Scopes Trial (1925)
1930s: Charles Coughlin
Speeches
George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, 1801
Daniel Webster, Second Reply to Hayne, 1830
Abraham Lincoln, “House Divided” Speech, 1858
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1863
William Jennings Bryan, “Cross of Gold” Speech, 1896
Woodrow Willson, Call for Declaration of War against Germany, 1917
Franklin Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, 1933
Supreme Court Cases
1803: Marbury v. Madison
1819: McCulloch v. Maryland
1832: Worcester v. Georgia
1857: Dred Scott v. Sandford
1876: Munn v. Illinois, 1886: Wabash v. Illinois
1896: Plessy v. Ferguson
1919: Schenck v. United States
1935: Schecter v. United States
1944: Korematsu v. United States
1954: Brown v. Board of Education
1966: Miranda v. State of Arizona
Treaties
Jay’s Treaty (1794)
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
North Atlantic Treaty 1949
Women’s History
Late 1700s: Republican Mothers and Republican Motherhood
Early 1800s: Cult of Domesticity (role was to serve as wife and mother)
1848: Seneca Falls Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Post-Civil War: Susan B. Anthony, 15th Amendment, Wyoming
Early 1900s: World War I, 19th Amendment, Margaret Sanger, “Flappers”
WW II: “Rosie the Riveter”
Turning Points in History
Listed below are major turning points in American history. In each case, identify the
implied event, comment on its significance, and then list at least five movements, trends,
activities in literature, science, art, economics, etc within a five year period of the event.
This brainstorming activity will help you to develop the skills to put your free-response
essays in historical context.
1763
1945
1776
1954
1789
1960
1800
1964
1803
1968
1814
1973
1848
1989
1861
1994
1865
1877
1914
1919
1929
1941
Sample setup:
1980
Event: Mr. Householder is born
Significance: Successfully and enthusiastically tortures AP U.S. History students
for years
Related Events:
a. Three Mile Island incident (1979)
b. Iran Hostage Crisis (1980)
c. President Reagan elected (1980)
