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'''US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events''' | '''US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events''' | ||
(note: see Talk page for to do list and suggestions) | |||
For MCQ | '''This page may be used as an all-round study guide for the AP Exam.''' | ||
'''Primary goals of this study guide:''' | |||
# Knowledge of periods | |||
# Knowledge of terms, people and places | |||
# Knowledge of dates | |||
* See here for map review of US History | |||
For Multiple Choice section ('''MCQ)''', students are to: | |||
* identify document source, date, historical context | * identify document source, date, historical context | ||
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* idenify other errors in wrong possible answers | * idenify other errors in wrong possible answers | ||
For Free Response | For '''Free Response''' sections ('''FRQ, DBQ'''), students are to: | ||
* demonstrate historical factual knowledge | * demonstrate historical factual knowledge | ||
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*** as in math, "show your work" -- i.e., explain everything | *** as in math, "show your work" -- i.e., explain everything | ||
* contextualize through cause and effect | * contextualize through cause and effect | ||
* compare/contrast to other periods | * compare/contrast to other periods, persons, and events | ||
* conceptualize facts into large ideas | * conceptualize facts into large ideas | ||
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==== Intolerable Acts to Colonial Organization ==== | ==== Intolerable Acts to Colonial Organization ==== | ||
{{#mermaid:flowchart LR | {{#mermaid:flowchart LR | ||
CO[Colonial Organization]--Sons of Liberty<br>Committee on Correspondence-->CP[Colonial Protests | IA-->CO | ||
CO[Colonial Organization]--Sons of Liberty<br>Committee on Correspondence-->CP[Colonial Protests & Boycotts] | |||
IA[Intolerable Acts, or Coersive Acts, 1774]-->CP | IA[Intolerable Acts, or Coersive Acts, 1774]-->CP | ||
CP-->BR[British retaliation]-->CP | CP-->BR[British retaliation]-->CP | ||
}} | }} | ||
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==== War ==== | ==== War ==== | ||
{{#mermaid:flowchart LR | {{#mermaid:flowchart LR | ||
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* Appomattox | * Appomattox | ||
* Confederacy | * Confederacy | ||
* Copperheads | |||
* Emancipation Proclamation | * Emancipation Proclamation | ||
* Ft. Sumter | * Ft. Sumter | ||
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* 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments | * 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments | ||
* black codes | * black codes | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:"bloody shirt"|from the apocryphal (likely but not true) story of Rep. Benj. Butler in 1871 holding up a blood-stained shirt on the floor of the House of Representatives, which was supposedly from a carpetbagger who had been whipped by the KKK; Butler's speech was condemned by southerners who mocked the speech for having "waved the bloodys shirt" in a pathetic appeal; the term was used subsequently to accuse Republicans of trying to gain sympathy for their stances on the Civil War and Reconstruction, as well as later policies}}</ul></li> | |||
* Compromise of 1877 | * Compromise of 1877 | ||
* 40 acres and a mule | * 40 acres and a mule | ||
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=== Economic & Political === | === Economic & Political === | ||
* Andrew Carnegie | * Andrew Carnegie | ||
* bimetallism | * | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:bimetallism|the policy of fixing the value of silver and gold so taht if one went up or down, the relative value of the other would stay the same; in the late 19th century, bimetallism was used politically to oppose the gold standard, especially by Wm. Jennings Bryan, who more largely argued for "free silver" but used bimetallism as a supposed compromise between gold and silver, although it would essential tie Gold to the decreasing value of silver, which was Bryan[s purpose}}</ul></li> | |||
* economies of scale | * economies of scale | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Coinage Act of 1873|created the "gold standard" by prohibiting owners of silver "bullion" (raw silver) to be allowed to convert it into silver dollars (while allowing god buillion to be converted into gold dollars); the Act effectively ended Civil War paper money currency, which was inflationary}}</ul></li> | |||
* "free silver" | |||
* Grange, the | * Grange, the | ||
* hard money | * hard money | ||
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=== Progressive Era === | === Progressive Era === | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:"Square Deal”|Teddy Roosevelt's slogan to represent his agenda in support of the "common man" as against elites, called "plutocracy," i.e. industrialists, bankers, and politicians beholden (corruptly) to them; Roosevelt said that the rules of society were against common people, and he wanted them to have instead a "square deal"}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments|students should be familiar with the "progressive" amendments: Income Tax (16th), Direct Election of Senators (17th), Prohibition (18th), Suffrage for Women (19th)}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Bull Moose Party|nickname for Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Party campaign; comes from his statement after losing the Republican Party nomination in June, 1912 that he felt "strong as a bull moose"}}</ul></li> | |||
* Elkins Act (1903) | * Elkins Act (1903) | ||
* Eugene V. Debs | * Eugene V. Debs | ||