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AP US HISTORY EXAM U.S. History Topic Outline1. Pre-Columbian SocietiesA. Early inhabitants of the AmericasB. American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi ValleyC. American Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contact2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492-1690A. First European contacts with Native AmericansB. Spains empire in North AmericaC. French colonization of CanadaD. English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the SouthE. From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake regionF. Religious diversity in the American coloniesG. Resistance to colonial authority: Bacons Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt3. Colonial North America, 1690-1754A. Population growth and immigrationB. Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaportsC. The eighteenth-century back countryD. Growth of plantation economies and slave societiesE. The Enlightenment and the Great AwakeningF. Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America4. The American Revolutionary Era, 1754-1789A. The French and Indian WarB. The Imperial Crisis and resistance to BritainC. The War for IndependenceD. State constitutions and the Articles of ConfederationE. The federal Constitution5. The Early Republic, 1789-1815A. Washington, Hamilton, and shaping of the national governmentB. Emergence of political parties: Federalists and RepublicansC. Republican Motherhood and education for womenD. Beginnings of the Second Great AwakeningE. Significance of Jeffersons presidencyF. Expansion into the trans-Appalachian West; American Indian resistanceG. Growth of slavery and free Black communitiesH. The War of 1812 and its consequences6. Transformation of the Economy and Society in Antebellum AmericaA. The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economyB. Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structuresC. Immigration and nativist reactionD. Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South7. The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum AmericaA. Emergence of the second party systemB. Federal authority and its opponents: judicial federalism, the Bank War, tariff controversy, and states rights debatesC. Jacksonian democracy and its successes and limitations8. Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in Antebellum AmericaA. Evangelical Protestant revivalismB. Social reformsC. Ideals of domesticityD. Transcendentalism and utopian communitiesE. American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions9. Territorial Expansion and Manifest DestinyA. Forced removal of American Indians to the trans-Mississippi WestB. Western migration and cultural interactionsC. Territorial acquisitionsD. Early U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War10. The Crisis of the UnionA. Pro- and antislavery arguments and conflictsB. Compromise of 1850 and popular sovereigntyC. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican PartyD. Abraham Lincoln, the election of 1860, and secession11. Civil WarA. Two societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissentB. Military strategies and foreign diplomacyC. Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the warD. Social, political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West12. ReconstructionA. Presidential and Radical ReconstructionB. Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failuresC. Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economyD. Compromise of 1877E. Impact of Reconstruction13. The Origins of the New SouthA. Reconfiguration of southern agriculture: sharecropping and crop lien systemB. Expansion of manufacturing and industrializationC. The politics of segregation: Jim Crow and disfranchisement14. Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth CenturyA. Expansion and development of western railroadsB. Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American IndiansC. Government policy toward American IndiansD. Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far WestE. Environmental impacts of western settlement15. Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth CenturyA. Corporate consolidation of industryB. Effects of technological development on the worker and workplaceC. Labor and unionsD. National politics and influence of corporate powerE. Migration and immigration: the changing face of the nationF. Proponents and opponents of the new order, e.g., Social Darwinism and Social Gospel16. Urban Society in the Late Nineteenth CenturyA. Urbanization and the lure of the cityB. City problems and machine politicsC. Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment17. Populism and ProgressivismA. Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth centuryB. Origins of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and nationalC. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive presidentsD. Womens roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reformE. Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives18. The Emergence of America as a World PowerA. American imperialism: political and economic expansionB. War in Europe and American neutralityC. The First World War at home and abroadD. Treaty of VersaillesE. Society and economy in the postwar years19. The New Era: 1920sA. The business of America and the consumer economyB. Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, HooverC. The culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainmentD. Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and ProhibitionE. The ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and women20. The Great Depression and the New DealA. Causes of the Great DepressionB. The Hoover administrations responseC. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New DealD. Labor and union recognitionE. The New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the LeftF. Surviving hard times: American society during the Great Depression21. The Second World WarA. The rise of fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy, and GermanyB. Prelude to war: policy of neutralityC. The attack on Pearl Harbor and United States declaration of warD. Fighting a multifront warE. Diplomacy, war aims, and wartime conferencesF. The United States as a global power in the Atomic Age22. The Home Front During the WarA. Wartime mobilization of the economyB. Urban migration and demographic changesC. Women, work, and family during the warD. Civil liberties and civil rights during wartimeE. War and regional developmentF. Expansion of government power23. The United States and the Early Cold WarA. Origins of the Cold WarB. Truman and containmentC. The Cold War in Asia: China, Korea, Vietnam, JapanD. Diplomatic strategies and policies of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrationsE. The Red Scare and McCarthyismF. Impact of the Cold War on American society24. The 1950sA. Emergence of the modern civil rights movementB. The affluent society and the other AmericaC. Consensus and conformity: suburbia and middle-class AmericaD. Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebelsE. Impact of changes in science, technology, and medicine25. The Turbulent 1960sA. From the New Frontier to the Great SocietyB. Expanding movements for civil rightsC. Cold War confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and EuropeD. Beginning of DtenteE. The antiwar movement and the counter