This is intended to be a guide for your exam review. A candidate needs to get about 60% of the 80 multiple choice questions correct to have a good chance to pass the AP Exam (plus 5/6 on each of the three essays). The questions are designed to test your understanding of different aspects of U.S. history: political/diplomatic, social/economic, cultural/ intellectual. It is not EASY! Prepare Well!
Exploration, Discovery, and Settlement
-Europe in the Sixteenth Century
-Significant Events Leading to the Age of Exploration -The Crusades and Their Impact -Renaissance and Reformation (Luther, Calvin, Henry VIII/Anglicanism) -Rise of Nation States -The Portuguese Background (Prince Henry, Da Gama) -Spanish …show more content…
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-Mercantilism
-Navigation Acts: Enumerated Goods, Bounties (Subsidies) -Salutary Neglect -Impact?
-Dominion of New England (1686) -NE + NY, NJ -James II and Gov. Andros -Leisler’s Rebellion -1688 - Glorious Revolution Killed It
-Colonial Society -Two Million by Mid-Century (from 250,000 in 1700) -Immigration: Germany, Ireland (and Africans) -High Birth Rates -Political Institutions (Some Degree of Self-Gov't) -Governor, Council, Assembly (Only RI and Conn Elected Gov) -Relaxed Voting Rights, Office Holding -Structure of Society -The …show more content…
Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas -Montgomery Bus Boycott -Little Rock Crisis -Women -Hispanics -Popular Culture -Conformity and Criticism -Television -The “Beats”
America in the 1960s
-Election of 1960
-Kennedy’s Foreign Policy -Flexible Response -Cuba (Bay of Pigs, Missile Crisis) -Vienna Summit -Berlin Wall -Arms Control (Test Ban Treaty) -Vietnam (Limited Partnership) -Green Berets -Counterinsurgency -Assassination of Diem
-Kennedy’s Domestic Policy -New Frontier -Economic Policy -Space Program -Civil Rights -Freedom Rides -James Meredith -Birmingham Campaign -March on Washington
-The Assassination
-All the Way with LBJ -War on Poverty -1964 Election -The Great Society -Accomplishments -Opposition -Judicial Activism (Warren Court) -Foreign Policy -Dominican Republic -Vietnam -Americanization -Tonkin Gulf Incident -Operation Rolling Thunder -Tet Offensive -Antiwar Protests -March 1968 Events -Civil Rights -Freedom Summer -Civil Rights Act of 1964 -Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims -24th Amendment -Selma Campaign -Voting Rights Act of