5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. History 2021
1st Edition
Published on 2. October 2020
632 pages
978-1-260-46727-7 (ISBN)
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: 5-Step Program
- STEP 1 Set Up Your Study Program
- 1 What You Need to Know About the AP U.S. History Exam
- Advanced Placement Program
- AP U.S. History Exam
- Taking the AP U.S. History Exam
- 2 Preparing for the AP U.S. History Exam
- Getting Started
- Three Plans for Test Preparation
- STEP 2 Determine Your Test Readiness
- 3 Take a Diagnostic Exam
- How to Use the Diagnostic Exam
- When to Use the Diagnostic Exam
- Conclusion (After the Exam)
- AP U.S. History Diagnostic Exam
- Answers to the Diagnostic Exam
- STEP 3 Develop Strategies for Success
- 4 Mastering Skills and Understanding Themes for the Exam
- The AP U.S. History Exam
- Historical Practices, Historical Analytical Skills, Historical Themes, and Exam Questions
- 5 Strategies for Approaching Each Question Type
- Multiple-Choice Questions
- Short-Answer Questions
- Document-Based Question (DBQ)
- Long Essay Question
- Using Primary Source Documents
- STEP 4 Review the Knowledge You Need to Score High
- 6 Settling of the Western Hemisphere (1491-1607)
- Native America
- The Europeans Arrive
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 7 Colonial America (1607-1650)
- New France
- English Interest in America
- Effects of European Settlement
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 8 British Empire in America: Growth and Conflict (1650-1750)
- Part of an Empire
- Growth of Slavery
- Political Unrest in the Colonies
- Salem Witch Trials
- Imperial Wars
- American Self-Government
- Salutary Neglect
- First Great American Religious Revival
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 9 Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution (1750-1775)
- War in the West
- Defeat of New France
- The British Need Money
- Stamp Act Crisis
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- Boston Tea Party
- Intolerable Acts
- First Continental Congress
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 10 American Revolution and the New Nation (1775-1787)
- Lexington and Concord
- Second Continental Congress
- Thomas Paine's Common Sense
- Declaration of Independence
- Reactions to Independence
- Balance of Forces
- The War in the North
- The Saratoga Campaign
- The War in the South
- The Treaty of Paris
- New State Constitutions and the Articles of Confederation
- Financial Problems
- Northwest Ordinances
- Shays' Rebellion
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 11 Establishment of New Political Systems (1787-1800)
- The Constitutional Convention
- The Ratification Battle
- The Bill of Rights
- The Birth of the Party System
- Hamilton's Economic Program
- Effects of the French Revolution
- Washington's Foreign Policy
- The Presidency of John Adams
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 12 Jeffersonian Revolution (1800-1820)
- Election of 1800
- An Assertive Supreme Court
- A New Frontier
- The Louisiana Purchase
- Burr's Conspiracy
- Renewal of War in Europe
- The War of 1812
- The End of the War
- A Federalist Debacle and the Era of Good Feelings
- Henry Clay and the American System
- Missouri Compromise
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 13 Rise of Manufacturing and the Age of Jackson (1820-1845)
- The Rise of Manufacturing
- The Monroe Doctrine
- Native American Removal
- The Transportation Revolution and Religious Revival
- An Age of Reform
- Jacksonian Democracy
- The Nullification Controversy
- The Bank War
- The Whig Party and the Second Party System
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 14 Union Expanded and Challenged (1835-1860)
- Manifest Destiny
- The Alamo and Texas Independence
- Expansion and the Election of 1844
- The Mexican War
- Political Consequences of the Mexican War
- The Political Crisis of 1850
- Aftermath of the Compromise of 1850
- Franklin Pierce in the White House
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act
- "Bleeding Kansas"
- The Dred Scott Decision
- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- John Brown and Harpers Ferry
- The Election of 1860
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 15 Union Divided: The Civil War (1861-1865)
- North and South on the Brink of War
- Searching for Compromise
- Gunfire at Fort Sumter
- Opening Strategies
- The Loss of Illusions
- Union Victories in the West
- The Home Fronts
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- The Turn of the Tide
- War Weariness
- The End of the War
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 16 Era of Reconstruction (1865-1877)
- Lincoln and Reconstruction
- Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
- Efforts to Help the Freedmen
- Radical Reconstruction
- The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Final Phase of Radical Reconstruction
- The End of Reconstruction
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 17 Western Expansion and Its Impact on the American Character (1860-1895)
- Government Encouragement of Western Settlement
- Challenges for Western Farmers
- Agricultural Innovation
- Women and Minorities on the Agricultural Frontier
- The Mining and Lumbering Frontier
- The Ranching Frontier
- The End of Native American Independence
- Agrarian Anger and Populism
- The Gold Standard
- The Grange and Farmers' Alliances
- The Populist Revolt
- Populism and the Election of 1896
- The Idea of the West
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 18 America Transformed into the Industrial Giant of the World (1870-1910)
- An Industrial Revolution
- Changes in American Industry
- A Changing Workplace
- Big Business
- The Emergence of Labor Unions
- Uneven Affluence
- The New Immigration
- The Rise of the Modern American City
- Gilded Age Politics
- Social Criticism in the Gilded Age
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 19 Rise of American Imperialism (1890-1913)
- Postwar Diplomacy
- Acquiring Hawaii
- The New Imperialism
- The Spanish-American War
- Combat in the Philippines and Cuba
- The Cuban Conundrum
- The Debate over Empire
- The Panama Canal
- The Roosevelt Corollary
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 20 Progressive Era (1895-1914)
- Roots of Progressivism
- Progressive Objectives
- Urban Progressivism
- State-Level Progressivism
- Progressivism and Women
- Workplace Reform
- Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal
- Taft and Progressivism
- The Election of 1912
- Wilson and Progressivism
- Assessing Progressivism
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 21 United States and World War I (1914-1921)
- War and American Neutrality
- Growing Ties to the Allies
- The Breakdown of German-American Relations
- America in the War
- The American Expeditionary Force in France
- The Home Front
- Regulating Thought
- Social Change
- Wilson and the Peace
- Woodrow Wilson's Defeat
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 22 Beginning of Modern America: The 1920s
- The Prosperous Twenties
- The Republican "New Era"
- Warren G. Harding as President
- President Calvin Coolidge
- The Election of 1928
- The City Versus the Country in the 1920s
- Popular Culture in the 1920s
- Jazz Age Experimentation and Rebellion
- The Growth of the Mass Media
- A Lost Generation?
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 23 Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1939)
- Harbingers of Crisis: Economic Weaknesses of the 1920s
- Black Tuesday and the End of the Bull Market
- The Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression
- The Great Depression and American Society
- President Hoover and the Depression
- The Election of 1932
- The Hundred Days
- The Second New Deal
- The Election of 1936
- Critics of the New Deal
- Twilight of the New Deal
- Impact of the New Deal
- American Culture During the New Deal
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 24 World War II (1933-1945)
- American Isolationism in the 1930s
- The United States, the Middle East, and Anti-Semitism
- The Election of 1940 and the End of Isolationism
- The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
- The War Against Germany
- The Middle East in World War II
- The War Against Japan
- The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
- The Home Front
- Civil Rights During the War
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 25 Origins of the Cold War (1945-1960)
- The Beginnings of the Cold War
- Europe and the Cold War
- Communist Victories
- The Middle East and the Cold War
- The Cold War at Home
- The Korean War
- Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism
- President Eisenhower and the Cold War
- Tensions with the Soviet Union
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 26 Prosperity and Anxiety: The 1950s
- The Return of Prosperity
- Politics in the Postwar Era
- The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
- Life in Suburbia
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 27 America in an Era of Turmoil (1960-1975)
- The 1960 Election
- The Liberal Hour of the 1960s
- The Civil Right Movement in the 1960s: From Integration to Black Power
- The Expansion of Rights Movements
- Cold War Crisis
- The Vietnam War
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 28 Decline and Rebirth (1968-1988)
- The Presidency of Richard Nixon
- The Ford Administration
- The Carter Administration
- The Election of 1980
- The Reagan Administration
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 29 Prosperity and a New World Order (1988-2000)
- The Election of 1988
- The Presidency of George H. W. Bush
- The Election of 1992
- The Presidency of Bill Clinton
- The Election of 2000
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- 30 Threat of Terrorism, Increase of Presidential Power, and Economic Crisis (2001-2019)
- The Presidency of George W. Bush
- The Obama Presidency
- President Obama's Second Term
- The Election of 2016
- The Trump Presidency
- Chapter Review
- Review Questions
- Answers and Explanations
- STEP 5 Build Your Test-Taking Confidence
- AP U.S. History Practice Exam 1
- Answers to Practice Exam 1
- AP U.S. History Practice Exam 2
- Answers to Practice Exam 2
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Websites
