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Fast Track to A 5 Preparing for the AP United States History: Test Preparation,9780618479399

Fast Track to A 5 Preparing for the AP United States History: Test Preparation

by KENNEDY

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13th

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9780618479399

ISBN10:

0618479392

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Pub. Date:

7/20/2005

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Houghton Mifflin College Div

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Table of Contents

About the Authors

ix

Preface

xi

Part I: Strategies for the AP Test

1

(62)

Preparing for the AP Exam

3

(3)

What's in This Book

3

(1)

Setting up a Review Schedule

4

(1)

Before the Exam

5

(1)

Taking the AP U.S. History Exam

6

(17)

Strategies for the Multiple-Choice Section

6

(1)

Types of Multiple-Choice Questions

7

(4)

Free-Response Questions

11

(1)

The Document-Based Question

12

(6)

A Free-Response Question and Three Sample Essays

18

(5)

A Diagnostic Test

23

(40)

Part II: A Review of AP U.S. History

63

(298)

European Colonization: 1492-1700

65

(10)

Spain Colonizes the New World

66

(1)

Dutch Settlements and a French Empire in North America

67

(1)

The British Empire in the New World

68

(3)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

71

(4)

Causes of the American Revolution: 1650--1774

75

(16)

European Colonies in the New World

76

(1)

Problems Inherited by Britain Following the War

77

(1)

Pre-Revolutionary War British Policy in the Colonies

78

(5)

The Boston ``Massacre''

83

(1)

The Tea Tax

84

(1)

The Boston Tea Party and the British Response

85

(1)

The First Continental Congress

86

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

87

(4)

The American Revolution: 1774--1783

91

(12)

The War Begins in Earnest: Bunker Hill

92

(1)

The Declaration of Independence

92

(1)

The Military Phase of the Revolutionary War

93

(2)

Major Military Events of the War

95

(1)

The Treaty of Paris

96

(1)

Two Revolutions?

97

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

98

(5)

Creation of the U.S. Constitution: 1781--1791

103

(16)

Creating the Nation's First Government: Issues and Concerns

104

(1)

The Major Features of the Articles of Confederation (AOC)

105

(1)

Achievements of the Articles of Confederation

106

(2)

The AOC Attempt to Confront Foreign Affairs Problems

108

(1)

The Constitutional Convention

109

(3)

The Ratification Debate: Federalists Versus Antifederalists

112

(1)

The Bill of Rights and Ratification of the United States Constitution

113

(2)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

115

(4)

The New Nation: 1789--1800

119

(16)

The Hamiltonian Vision Versus the Jeffersonian Vision

120

(2)

Foreign and Domestic Affairs

122

(3)

``The Revolution of 1800''

125

(2)

Key Events in Jefferson's Presidency

127

(2)

The Marshall Court

129

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

130

(5)

U.S. Foreign Affairs from 1812 to the 1850s

135

(14)

The Impulse for Expansion

135

(3)

The War of 1812

138

(2)

The Monroe Doctrine

140

(1)

The Trail of Tears: The Plight of the Cherokee

141

(1)

Texan Independence

142

(1)

President James K. Polk and Territorial Expansion

142

(1)

The Mexican-American War

143

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

144

(5)

Jacksonian Democracy and the Age of Reform: 1820s--1850s

149

(16)

Setting the Stage for Reform

150

(1)

The Era of Good Feelings, the Second Party System, and Emergence of Jackson

151

(5)

Jackson's Position on Federal Versus States' Rights

156

(1)

Grassroots Movements in the Age of Reform

157

(3)

Political and Economic Accomplishments in the Age of Reform

160

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

161

(4)

The American Civil War: 1860--1865

165

(18)

Regional Economic Differences

166

(2)

Tensions over Political Theories

168

(1)

Attitudes in the North and South

168

(2)

The Breakdown of Compromise

170

(2)

The Road to War

172

(2)

The War

174

(2)

Impact of the War

176

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

177

(6)

Reconstruction: 1863--1877

183

(16)

The War, the Expansion of the Federal Government, and the Impact on Reconstruction

184

(2)

The Economic and Political Foundations of Reconstruction Policies

186

(1)

Planning Reconstruction: Conflicting Methods

187

(1)

The Fourteenth Amendment

188

(1)

The Radical Republicans Ascendant

189

(1)

The Impeachment of President Johnson

190

(1)

Reactionaries and Racists Respond to Reconstruction

190

(1)

The End of Reconstruction: The Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877

191

(2)

The Legacy of Reconstruction

193

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

194

(5)

The Industrial Era: 1876--1900

199

(16)

The Rise and Development of Industrialism in America

200

(3)

The Era of Rapid Capital Accumulation

203

(2)

Labor Unions and Labor Strikes

205

(2)

The Supreme Court, Congress, and State Legislatures Weigh In

207

(1)

Maximizing Profits: The Rationale and Tactics of the Capitalist Class

208

(2)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

210

(5)

Postwar Politics and the Populists: 1870s--1896

215

(14)

Politics in the Gilded Age

215

(2)

The Tariff (Again) and the ``Billion-Dollar Congress''

217

(1)

Debate over Expanding the Money Supply

217

(2)

The Growth of Discontent: Farmers Organize

219

(3)

The Populist Party

222

(2)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

224

(5)

U.S. Foreign Affairs from 1860 to 1914

229

(16)

U.S. Policy Towards Native Americans Following the Civil War

230

(1)

The Purchase of Alaska

230

(1)

The New Imperialism: Theories

231

(1)

Methods Adopted by the United States to Achieve Its Imperialist Goals

231

(2)

Ideological Justifications for an American Imperialist Party

233

(1)

Opponents of American Imperialism

234

(1)

U.S. Foreign Relations in East Asia and the Pacific

234

(2)

The Spanish-American War (1898)

236

(3)

U.S. Foreign Relations in Latin America and the Caribbean

239

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

240

(5)

The Progressive Era: 1900--1920

245

(18)

Liberalism in the Twentieth Century: Historians' Perspective

246

(1)

The Early-Twentieth-Century Progressives

247

(2)

Reforming Local and State Political Systems

249

(1)

Reform under Republican Presidents

250

(2)

The Republican Party Splits

252

(2)

Reform under Woodrow Wilson

254

(1)

The Women's Rights Movement

255

(1)

The Socialist Challenge

256

(1)

Black Americans and the Progressive Movement

257

(1)

The End of the Progressive Era

258

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

259

(4)

World War I: 1914--1918

263

(14)

Causes of World War I

264

(1)

American Neutrality

265

(1)

U.S. Relations with Britain and France, Public Opinion, and War Propaganda

266

(1)

U.S. Intervention

266

(1)

World War I and Suppression of Civil Liberties and Dissent

267

(1)

The Economics of War

268

(1)

Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations

269

(1)

The Interwar Years

270

(1)

Economic Imperatives: Intervention, World War I Debts, and Reparations

271

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

272

(5)

Conservatism and Cultural Diversity in the 1920s

277

(12)

Political Developments

278

(1)

``Silent Cal'' Coolidge and ``Do-Nothing'' Herbert Hoover

279

(1)

Mass Consumerism

280

(1)

Divisions on the Domestic Scene

281

(2)

Nativist Anxiety

283

(2)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

285

(4)

The Great Depression and the New Deal: 1929--1941

289

(18)

Causes of the Great Depression

290

(2)

The Extent of the Collapse (1929--1933)

292

(1)

Hoover and the Collapse of the Economy

293

(2)

FDR

295

(1)

FDR's First Hundred Days to the First New Deal

295

(2)

The Second New Deal

297

(2)

Keynesian Economics

299

(1)

The Court-Packing Scheme

300

(1)

Black Americans, Women, FDR, and the New Deal

300

(2)

The Legacy of the New Deal

302

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

303

(4)

World War II: 1939-1945

307

(14)

German and Italian Militarism and Territorial Expansion

308

(2)

The Spanish Civil War

310

(1)

Japanese Imperialism

311

(1)

Roosevelt and the Allies

311

(2)

Deteriorating Relations with Japan

313

(1)

Japanese-American Internment

314

(1)

The Holocaust

314

(1)

Wartime Conferences and the Cold War

315

(1)

The War

316

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

317

(4)

U.S. Domestic Affairs from 1945 to the 1980s

321

(20)

The Economic ``Boom''

322

(1)

Demobilization and Economic Reconversion

323

(1)

The Baby Boom and Suburbanization

324

(1)

Domestic Developments during the Truman Administration (1945-1953)

325

(1)

Domestic Developments during the Eisenhower Administration (1953-1961)

326

(1)

Domestic Developments during the Kennedy Administration: ``The New Frontier'' (1961--1963)

327

(2)

Domestic Developments during the Johnson Administration: ``The Great Society'' (1963--1969)

329

(2)

The Presidency of Richard M. Nixon (1969--1974)

331

(1)

Ford and Carter (1974--1981)

332

(2)

The Reagan ``Revolution'' (1981--1989)

334

(1)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

335

(6)

U.S. Foreign Affairs from 1945 to the 1980s

341

(20)

Soviet and American Postwar Objectives and Priorities

342

(1)

The Cold War in Europe

343

(4)

Rollback, Brinksmanship, and Rising Tensions

347

(2)

The Containment Policy and Latin America: From Eisenhower to Reagan

349

(2)

U.S.-Asian Affairs: The Limitations of Containment

351

(3)

Foreign Affairs in the Post-Vietnam Era

354

(2)

Multiple-Choice and Free-Response Questions

356

(5)

Part III: Practice Tests

361

(2)

Practice Test 1

363

(34)

Practice Test 2

397

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