APUSH Review

Remember to work your way through each of the unit pages as well, as there are videos, primary sources, explanatory articles, and plenty of other things to help you with your review. Use the chapter-by-chapter familiarity survey that we did in class in late March for most of the course.

Review Schedule

I used to post a daily review schedule. You can see it all here: APUSH Review section.

Useful Tools

If you would like to start obsessing over what your scores need to be on the AP test to get a three or above, use this Albert.io AP Exam score calculator.

Cram Packet

This might be a good reference while you're studying. This was last updated in 1999, so it's missing some history, but it still is useful.

APUSH Cram Packet

Quizlets: Required Factual Content

You'll need to know the terms that are listed on each of these Quizlet activities. Thanks to Mr. Costa's website for this list (there's even more available there).

Other Resources

Must-Know Review Terms List

List of Factual Content for the APUSH Test (Revised 2017)

PERIOD 1 (1491-1607)

American Indian groups: Southwest, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northeast, Mississippi River Valley, Atlantic seaboard, Northwest, California
Spanish
Encomienda system
African slavery
Columbian Exchange
Joint Stock Companies

PERIOD 2 (1607-1754)

Spanish, French, Dutch, and British colonizers
New England, Middle, Chesapeake, N. Carolina, Southern colonies
British West Indies
Indentured servants
Puritans
Metacom/King Philip's War
Pueblo Revolt
Great Awakening
Enlightenment
Anglicization
Mercantilist

PERIOD 3 (1754-1800)

Seven Years War/French&Indian
Virtual representation
Republicanism
Benjamin Franklin
Patriot
Continental Army/George Washington
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
American Revolution
Declaration of Independence
"republican motherhood"
Articles of Confederation
Constitutional Convention
Constitution
Federalist/Anti-Federalist
Federalist Papers/Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
Bill of Rights
George Washington
John Adams
Federalist Party/A. Hamilton
Democratic Republicans/Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
Northwest Ordinance
Northwest Territory
Spanish mission settlements
French Revolution
Quasi War
George Washington's Farewell Address

PERIOD 4 (1800-1848)

Marshall Court
Democrats/Andrew Jackson
Whigs/Henry Clay
The American System
Market Revolution (Shark Tank)
Second Great Awakening
Romanticism
Abolition
Seneca Falls Convention
Louisiana Purchase
Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Compromise

PERIOD 5 (1844-1877)

Manifest Destiny
Mexican War
Nativism
Free soil
Abolitionists
States' rights
Mexican Cession
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott decision
Second Party Sys-RepubParty
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War
Union/Confederacy
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Sharecropping
Supreme Court decisions

Period 6 (1865-1898)

Industrial capitalism
Trusts (combinations)
Laissez-faire
Tenant farming
“New South”
People’s (Populist) Party
Americanization
Political Machines
Transcontinental railroad(s)
Indian Wars/reservations
Gilded Age
Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth, Social Gospel
Jane Addams/Settlement Houses
Progressives
Plessy v. Ferguson

PERIOD 7 (1890-1945)

Progressive Era
Amendments (#16, 17, 18, 19, 21)
Prohibition
Women's Suffrage
Preservationists/Conservationists
Imperialists/Anti-Imperialists
Isolationism
Spanish American War
Woodrow Wilson
World War I
American Expeditionary Force
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Red Scare
Immigration quotas/restrictions
Great Depression
Franklin Roosevelt
New Deal
World War II
Pearl Harbor
Fascism/Totalitarianism, Holocaust, Nazi concentration camps, Japanese atrocities
Japanese American Internment
D-Day invasion
"Island-hopping"
Atomic bombs