Frequently Asked Concepts on the APUSH Exam

1. puritan motive(build a city on a hill, i.e. provide a model)


2. motive of those settling Virginia(seek Profit)


3. 1st great awakening(Ivy league colleges founded by New Lights)


4. deism


5. albany congress, 1754(Franklin, first attempt to unite colonies-failed)


6. legal rights of woen (colonial era)


7. stamp act/stamp congress


8. slavery in prpe-independence times


9. indentured servants (all the rage prior to slavery)


10. proclamation of 1763


11. articles of confederation


12. bill of rights (1st 10 amendments to constitution, protecting individual liberties, and giving states the powers not directl given to the feds)


13. attitude of founding fathers towards political parties (jeff "we are all feds, we are all reps)


14. hamilton's economic plans


15. shay's rebellion


16. XYZ affair


17. marbury v. madison


18. LO purchase-why? control mouth of mississippi


19. hartford convention (federal law null and void??)


20. eli whitney (interchangeable parts to rifle, cotton gin)


21. henry clay's American System (high tariffs , BUS, federal fnding of internal improvements)


22. monroe doctrine


23. andrew jackson(indian removal, veto congress,opposes nullification, oppose BUS, supports westward expansion)


24. trail of tears


25. nullification, John C. Calhoun, Tariff of abominations (1828)


26. transcendentalists


27. ralph waldo emerson(stressed individuality, self-reliance)


28. Harriet Tubman--Underground RR


29. Dred Scott v. Sanford


30. Popular Sovereignty


31. Kansas-Nebraska Act


32. Douglas's Freeport Doctrine (popular sov. can exclude slavery anywhere)


33. Primary cause of Civil War (maintain the union)


34. Emancipation Proclamation, 1863


35. Radical Reconstruction


36. Compromise of 1877


37. Knights of Labor


38. Dawes Act, 1887 (kill the Indian, save the man)


39. Social Gospel


40. Populists


41. Yellow Press/Journalism


42. New Immigration--from SE Europe, after Civil War


43. Open Door Policy


44. DuBois and Booker T. Washington


45. Muckrakers (Sinclair Lewis/Mother Jones)


46. Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare


47. Wilson's 14 points


48. Bonus Army, 1932


49. First 100 Days, New Deal


50. Civilian Conservation Corps


51. Cuban Missile Crisis


52. Brown v. Board of Education


53. Sputnik, 1957


54. Sit-ins, 1960 Greensboro


55. Civil rights acts, 1960 & 1964


56. Malcolm X


57. Gulf of Tonkin Incident


58. Watergate


59. Tet Offensive


60. Camp David Accords

Good luck!