APUSH History Review

1. APUSH History Review Exam Preparation APUSH Mrs. Baker

2. The Exam…

3. 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.

4. 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)

5. 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%

6. 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)

7. Reviewing for the Exam

8. Exploration, Discovery, and Settlement 1492 - 1700

9. 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

10. Terms to Know Jamestown Captain John Smith Plymouth Colony Pilgrims Puritans Mayflower Compact MA Bay Colony John Winthrop “City Upon a Hill” VA House of Burgesses Proprietorship George Calvert Maryland Act of Toleration (1649) Bacon’s Rebellion Headright System Indentured Servitude Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Quakers William Penn Mercantilism Navigation Acts Triangle Trade Halfway Covenant First Great Awakening Jonathon Edwards Salem Witch Trials John Peter Zenger French & Indian War (1756 – 1763) Albany Plan of Union Treaty of Paris (1763) Salutary Neglect

11. Important Dates: Foundations of America Southern Colonies Northern Colonies • 1585 – Raleigh founds “Lost Colony” at Roanoke • 1607 – Virginia Colony founded at Jamestown • 1612 – Rolfe perfects tobacco culture • 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 1620 – Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay 1624 – Dutch found New Netherland 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

12. 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

13. 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 • Albany Congress • 1754 – 1763 – Seven Year’s War • French and Indian War • 1763 – Treaty of Paris • Pontiac’s uprising • Proclamation of 1763

14. Pre-Columbian America

15. Columbian Exchange

16. European Settlements

19. English Colonies

20. New England Colonies

21. Middle Colonies

22. Chesapeake/ Virginia Colonies

23. Lower South Colonies

24. Compare and Contrast England Colonies

25. Triangular Trade

26. Problems on the Frontier

27. Albany Plan of Union

28. Results of War

29. Results of War

39. Revolutionary America 1763 - 1783

40. 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?

41. Terms to Know Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Act (1764) Virtual representation Stamp Act (1765) Quartering Act (1765) Virginia Resolves Stamp Act Congress Sons of Liberty Writs of assistance Declaratory Act (1766) Townshend Acts (1767) Sam Adams Boston Massacre (1770) Patrick Henry John Dickinson Committees of Correspondence Boston Tea Party (1773) Intolerable [Coercive] Acts (1774) Quebec Act (1774) First Continental Congress (1774) Articles of Confederation Second Continental Congress (1775) Common Sense Lexington & Concord Olive Branch Petition Saratoga French Alliance of 1778 Loyalists (Tories) Yorktown (1781) Treaty of Paris (1783)

42. Important Dates: Causes of the American Revolution • 1650 – First Navigation Laws to control colonial commerce • 1763 – Seven Year’s War • 1764 – Sugar Act • 1765 – Quartering Act • Stamp Act • Stamp Act Congress • 1766 – Declaratory Act • 1767 – Townshend Acts • 1768 – British troops occupy Boston • 1770 – Boston Massacre • All Townshend Acts except tea tax repealed • 1772 – Committees of correspondence formed • 1773 – British East India Company granted tea monopoly • Boston Tea Party • 1774 – “Intolerable Acts” • Quebec Act • First Continental Congress • 1775 – Battle of Lexington and Concord

43. Important Dates: American Revolution • 1775 – Battles of Lexington & Concord • 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 • 1778 – Formation of the French-American alliance • Battle of Saratoga • 1781 – French and Americans force Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown • 1783 – Treaty of Paris

44. Action – Reaction Relationship:Events Leading to the Revolution British American Colonies

45. Battle of Lexington and Concord

46. Common Sense

47. Declaration of Independence

50. The Constitution & The New Republic 1776 - 1800