All The Topics to Know for the APUSH Exam (as told by my APUSH teacher)
Revolutionary War/Constitution/Articles of Confederation
The First Party System: Federalists and Republicans
Jacksonian Democracy (1824-1840)
Antebellum reform movements and the Second Great Awakening
Causes of the Civil War and sectional differences
political parties (Democrats vs. New Republicans)
Reconstruction (1863-1877)
connections to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s
Industrialization and Big Business/The Gilded Age (1860-1910)
vertical and horizontal integration
steel, oil, and railroads
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan
changes in politics and political machines
The Populist Movement and agrarian discontent
The Progressive Era (1890-1920)
an effort to deal with the adverse effects of industrial capitalism
the Progressive Presidents
The Indian Plains Wars (through 1890)
Spanish-American War (1898)
IMPERIALISM: Philippines, Hawaii, Panama, Cuba, etc.
sources of conflict (economic, political, and social)
effects on women, African Americans, and immigrants
The 1930s, the Great Depression, and the New Deal
economic, social, and political reforms
effects on women, African Americans, Native Americans (Navajo codetalkers, etc), Japanese Americans, and Mexican Americans
conformity, suburbs, Baby Boom, domestication of women, challenges to conformity, expanding economy, consumer culture
similarities to the 1920s
civil rights movement (who, what, when, where, why, successes and failures)
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society (1963-1968)
domestic and foreign issues
Richard Nixon (1968-1973)
foreign and domestic policies
the Southern Strategy and Watergate
Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
foreign and domestic policies
shrinking of the government
George H.W. Bush and the end of the Cold War
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
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gracieabrams
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