AP U.S. History Course Word List Summary

Colonization

  • Reasons: Crusades, Renaissance, Protestant Reformation
  • Key Figures: Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, John Cabot, Queen Elizabeth, Walter Raleigh
  • Settlements: Jamestown (VA), St. Augustine (FL), Plymouth (MA), Massachusetts Bay Colony, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Georgia
  • Documents/Agreements: Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Maryland Toleration Act

French and Indian War (1754-1763)

  • Causes: Ohio River Valley dispute, Albany Congress
  • Key Events: George Washington's involvement, Ft. Necessity
  • Treaty of Paris (1763): Stipulations and consequences
  • Conflicts: Chief Pontiac's War, Proclamation of 1763

Road to Revolution

  • Acts: Navigation Acts, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Act, Intolerable/Coercive Acts, Quebec Act
  • Key Concepts: No Taxation without Representation, Virtual Representation
  • Groups/Figures: Samuel Adams, Sons of Liberty, Committees of Correspondence
  • Events: Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party

American Revolution

  • Congresses: First and Second Continental Congress
  • Battles: Lexington/Concord, Saratoga, Yorktown
  • Documents: Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson), Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
  • Key People: Patrick Henry, John Paul Jones, General Cornwallis
  • Treaty: Treaty of Paris 1783

Articles of Confederation

  • Northwest Ordinance of 1785: Townships, 16th Section Land

Federalist Period

  • Constitutional Convention: Role of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton
  • Plans: Virginia Plan vs. New Jersey Plan, Connecticut Compromise/ Great Compromise
  • Clauses: Three-Fifths Clause
  • Concepts: Republican Motherhood
  • Groups: Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
  • Documents: Federalist Papers, Bill of Rights
  • Acts: Judiciary Act of 1789
  • Terms: Electoral College, National Debt
  • Interpretations: Strict vs. Loose Construction, Implied Powers/Elastic Clause
  • Events: Whiskey Rebellion
  • Policies: Neutrality Proclamation (1793), Washington's Policy of Isolation
  • Treaties: Jay's Treaty, Pinckney's Treaty
  • Events: XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Age of Jefferson

  • Events: Burr/Hamilton Feud, Marbury v. Madison (1803)/Judicial Review, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Fletcher V. Peck (1810), Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), Gibbons v. Ogdens (1824)
  • Conflicts: Barbary Pirates, Chesapeake-Leopard Incident
  • Acts: Embargo Act of 1807, Non-Intercourse Act of 1809, Macon's Bill #2
  • Figures: Tecumseh, William Henry Harrison
  • War of 1812: U.S.S. Constitution, Fort McHenry, Treaty of Ghent
  • Convention: Hartford Convention

Era of Good Feelings

  • Events: Battle of New Orleans, Election of 1816, Adam-Onis Treaty, Monroe Doctrine
  • Policies: Tariff of 1816, Missouri Compromise
  • Developments: Erie Canal, Cotton Gin, Interchangeable Parts
  • Plans: American Plan/Henry Clay

Age of Jackson

  • Elections: Election of 1824
  • Concepts: Spoils System, Rotation System, Doctrine of Nullification
  • Events: Webster-Hayne Debate 1830
  • Legislation: Indian Relocation Act of 1830, Oklahoma Territory, Trail of Tears, Worchester v. Georgia (1832), Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia,
  • Figures: Martin Van Buren
  • Wars: Petticoat Wars (Eaton Malaria)
  • Actions: Bank Veto, Specie Circular
  • Party: Whig Party
  • Crisis: Panic of 1837

Manifest Destiny

  • Events: Alamo, Battle of San Jacinto River
  • Republic: Republic of Texas (Lone Star Republic) 1836
    -Treaty: Annexation of Texas, Webster Ashburton Treaty 1842
  • Events: election of 1844, James K. Polk, Mexican American War 1846-1848
    -Concepts: 54 40 or Fight!, 49th Parallel
  • Treaties: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848, 49ers, Wilmot Proviso

Reform and Culture

  • Movements: The Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, Temperance Movement
  • Figures: Charles Finney, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Thoreau, Elizabeth Stanton
  • Events: Seneca Falls Convention, NY 1848
  • Concepts: Cult of Domesticity

The Civil War

  • Legislation: Compromise of 1850, Kansas and Nebraska Act 1853
  • Terms: Popular Sovereignty, Freeport Doctrine
  • Supreme Court Case: Dred Scott V. Sandford (1857), Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)
  • Events: Election of 1860
  • Compromise: Crittendon Compromise
  • Confederacy: Confederate State of America, Jefferson Davis
  • Battles: Fort Sumter, First Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Antietam 1862, Gettysburg 1863, Appomattox Court House (65)
  • Proclamations: Emancipation Proclamation 1863
  • Amendments: 13th Amendment (1865), 14TH Amendment, 15th Amendment
  • Plans: Andrew Johnson and his reconstruction plan, Lincoln's 10% Plan
  • Restrictions: Black Codes/ Jim Crow Laws

The Gilded Age

  • Principles: Laissez Faire
  • Scandals: Credit Mobilier Scandal, Whiskey Ring Rebellion, Fisk/Gould Scandal
  • Amendments: Pendleton Act
  • Restrictions: Chinese Exclusion Act

The Railroad and the West

  • Railroads: Union Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad
  • Events: Promontory Point, Utah (1869)
  • Laws: Granger Laws
  • Court Cases: Munn V. Illinois (1877)

Native Americans and the Passing of the Frontier

  • Events: Sand Creek Massacre 1864, Little Big Horn (Custer's Last Stand), Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)
  • Legislation: Homestead Act (1862), Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
  • Declarations: Nez Perce, \"I will fight no more forever\"
  • Publication: A Century of Dishonor (1881)
  • Concepts: Frontier Closed

Urbanization

  • Movements: Social Gospel Movement
  • Figures: Jane Addams