APUSH Period One:
Topics: Native American life, Columbian Exchange, Treaty of Tordesilas, encomienda system, mestizo, Pueblo Revolt, Juan de Sepulveda, Bartolome de las Casas, mercantilism, etc.
APUSH Period Two:
Topics: Spanish Armada, Roanoke, Jamestown, Joint Stock Company, Royal colony, Chesapeake, Maryland, Indentured Servants, Headright System, House of Burgesses, Bacon’s Rebellion, Anglo-Powhatan Wars, Act of Toleration, Southern Carolina, Georgia, West Indies, New England colonies, Plymouth, Mayflower Compact, Mass. Bay Colony, John Winthrop, Town Hall Meeting, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchison, Pequot War, New England Confederation, King Philip’s War, New Amsterdam, New York, William Penn, Quakers, Navigation Acts, Dominion of New England, Glorious Revolution, Contrast Chesapeake vs. New England colonies, slavery, triangular trade, middle passage, Stono Uprising, Half Way Covenant, Salem Witch Trials, Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, New Lights, Mercantilism, Navigation Acts, Salutary Neglect, Dominion of New England, Glorious Revolution, colonial politics, Zenger Case, New France, Samuel de Champlain, King Williams War, Queen Anne’s War, King George’s War, salutary neglect, French & Indian War, George Washington, Albany Plan, Treaty of Paris, Pontiacs Rebellion, Proclamation of 1763, etc.
APUSH Period Three:
Topics: Seven Years War, King George III, George Grenville, Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Virginia Resolves, Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, Nonimportation Agreements, Declaratory Act, Townshend Act, Writ of Assistance, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Daughters of Liberty, Boston Massacre, Committee of Correspondence, Samuel Adams, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts/ Intolerable Acts, Suffolk Resolves, Quebec Act, 1st Continental Congress, Lexington & Concord,2nd Continental Congress, Bunker Hill, Oliver Branch Petition, Enlightenment, Thomas Paine, Republic, Declaration of Independence, John Locke, Loyalist, Patriots, Advantages / Disadvantages of the colonists, Battle of Saratoga, Franco-American Alliance, Battle of Trenton, Valley Forge, Battle of Yorktown, Treaty of Paris, Political & Social impact of the revolution, Abigail Adams, Republican Motherhood, Lord Dunmore, Pennsylvania Gradual Emancipation Law, State governments, separation of powers, Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom, republicanism, Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinances, Foreign Policy problems, Barbary Pirates, Shay’s Rebellion, Annapolis Convention, Constitutional Convention, Virginia Plan, New Jersey, Great Compromise, 3/5th Compromise, Slave Trade, Fugitive Slave Law, Federalist, Anti-Federalist, Federalist Papers, Bill of Rights, popular sovereignty, federalism, electoral college, Washington administration, Presidential cabinet, Secretary of Treasury Hamilton, Judiciary Act of 1789, Bill of Rights, Report on Public Credit, tariffs, excise taxes, National Bank, strict vs. loose interpretation, 1st Party System, Federalist vs. Jeffersonian Republicans, Whiskey Rebellion, Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality, French Revolution, Citizen Edmond Genet, Jay’s Treaty, Pinckney Treaty, Battle of Fallen Timbers, Treaty of Greenville, Washington’s Farewell Address, Election of 1796, John Adams Administration, XYZ Affair, Quasi War, Convention of 1800, Alien, Naturalization, & Sedition Acts, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, nullification, etc.
APUSH Period Four:
Topics: President Jefferson, Election of 1800, Judiciary Act of 1801, Midnight Judges, Marbury v. Madison, Judicial Review, John Marshall, Louisiana Purchase, Haitian Revolution, Lewis and Clark, Wild Aaron Burr, Napoleonic Wars, Orders in Council, Berlin Decree, Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, Embargo Act, President James Madison, Non-Intercourse Act, Macon’s Bill #2, War Hawks, Tecumseh and the Prophet, William Henry Harrison, Battle of Tippecanoe, Causes of War of 1812, War of 1812, Battle of New Orleans, Treaty of Ghent, Impact of War, Hartford Convention, Era of Good Feelings, sectionalism, Panic of 1819, James Monroe Administration, American System, Henry Clay, Tariff of 1816, 2nd Bank of the U.S., Transportation improvements, Erie Canal, Missouri Compromise, Tallmadge Amendment, Marshall Court, Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, Sec of State John Quincy Adams, Anglo-American Convention of 1818, Adams Onis Treaty, Monroe Doctrine, Election of 1824, Corrupt Bargain, President John Quincy Adams, Rush Bagot Treaty, Monroe Doctrine, End of Era of Good Feelings, Election of 1828, Age of Common Man, Jackson Presidency, Caucus System, Spoils System, Nullification Crisis, South Carolina Exposition & Protest, Olive Branch & Sword, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Worcester v. Georgia, Bank War, Pet Banks, Panic of 1837, Election of 1836, Martin Van Buren, Second Party System (Whigs vs. Democrats), Texas Independence, Lonestar Republic, Election of 1840, Economic specialization, German / Italian immigration, growth of cities, Tammany Hall, Nativism, Know Nothing Party, Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Samuel Morse, Lowell Mills, Commonwealth v. Hunt, Transportation Revolution, Erie Canal, Farming Inventions, Internal Slave trade, Western expansion, 2nd Great Awakening, Deism, Unitarianism, Charles Finney, Age of Reform, Mormons, Brigham Young, Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Restrictions on black education, Temperance Movement, American Temperance Society, Cult of Domesticity, Republican Motherhood, Seneca Falls Convention, Transcendentalism, Utopian Communities, Southern Society, Overview of Slavery (Bacon’s Rebellion, Constitution, etc.) Missouri Compromise, Cotton Gin, Market Revolution, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, King Cotton, Southern politics, Comparisons with the North, Life for AA in the South, Nat Turner Rebellion, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, African American culture, Resistance to Slavery, Black Codes, Stono Rebellion, Denmark Vesey, Underground Railroad, Abolitionist Movement, American Colonization Society, David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas, Liberty Party, Gag Resolution, George Fitzhugh, etc.
APUSH Period Five:
Topics: Election of 1840, John Tyler, Texas Annexation, Election of James K Polk, Manifest Destiny, Oregon Dispute, Sliddel Mission, Mexican American War, Slavery debate & Western Expansion, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Lincoln “Spot Resolution”, Wilmot Proviso, Free Soil Party, Debate over slavery, Election of 1848, Popular Sovereignty, CA Gold Rush, Compromise of 1850, Fire-eaters, Fugitive Slave Act, Underground Railroad, Personal Liberty Laws, Anthony Burns, Ostend Manifesto, “slaveocracy”, Gadsden Purchase, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Stephen Douglas,Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Growth of Abolitionist Movement, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Topeka, Lecompton. Bleeding Kansas, Republican Party, Sack of Lawrence, Pottawatomie Creek, Sumner Beating, Election of 1856, Know Nothing Party, Lecompton Constitution, Dred Scott case, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Freeport Doctrine, Harper’s Ferry, Election of 1860. Secession, Crittenden Compromise, Confederate States of America, Fort Sumter, Lincoln’s Inaugural, Border States, North vs. South resources, Conscription Act, 300 dollar men, NY Draft Riots, Radical Republicans, Confiscation Act, Battle of Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation, Frederick Douglas, Mass. 54th, Writ of habeas corpus, Federal power & civil liberties, Cotton Diplomacy, Cooperheads, War Democrats, Election of 1864, Impact of Civil War, Assassination of Lincoln, Anaconda Plan, Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Ulysses S. Grant, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Sherman’s March to the Sea, Appomattox, Death of Lincoln, Reconstruction issues, Freedmen’s Bureau, Wartime Reconstruction, Wade-Davis Plan, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Black Codes, Tenant farming, sharecropping, Congressional Reconstruction, Impeachment of Johnson, Tenure of Office Act, Radical Reconstruction, Hiram Revels, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, KKK, Force Acts, Civil Rights Act of 1875, Jim Crow laws, etc.
APUSH Period Six:
Topics: President Grant. Granitsm, Credit Mobilier Affair, Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed, Thomas Nast, Panic of 1873, Greenbacks, Election of 1876, Compromise of 1877, Civil Rights Act of 1875, Civil Rights Cases of 1883, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, New South, Sharecropping, Grandfather Clauses, Literacy Test, Redeemers, Chinese immigration, Chinese Exclusion Act, Gilded Age Presidents, laissez faire, Civil Service Reform, Half Breeds, Stalwarts, Tariff issue, Great Railroad strike, Pendleton Act, Interstate Commerce Act, Industrial Revolution, patents, Growth of railroad industry, Pacific Railroad Act, Railroad problems, laissez faire, Munn v. Illinois, Wabash Case, Interstate Commerce Act, Grange Movement, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, Horizontal Integration, Vertical integration, monopoly, Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, National Labor Union, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, Great Railroad Strike, Haymarket Bombing, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Urbanization, innovations, inventions, urban poverty, ethnic neighborhoods, Political Machines, Boss Tweed, New vs. Old Immigrants, push and pull factors, Ellis Island, Nativism, Chinese Exclusion Act, American Protective Association, Literacy Test, Quota Acts, Social Gospel Movement, Salvation Army, Settlement House Movement, Jane Addams, Horatio Alger, “Progress and Poverty”, “Looking Backward”, Booker T Washington, WEB Dubois, NAACP, Tuskege Institute, Role of federal government in western expansion, CA Gold Rush, Homestead Act, Pacific Railroad Act, Mining Industry, Cattle Industry, Boom & Bust economy, Myth vs. Reality of West, Chinese immigration, Women’s suffrage in west, Bison, Native American Wars, Sand Creek Massacre, Battle of Little Bighorn, Siting Bull, Nez Perce Retreat, Wounded Knee massacre, “A Century of Dishonor”. Carlisle Indian School, Dawes Severalty Act, Frederick Jackson Turner, Frontier Thesis, Grange Movement, Munn v. Illinois, Wabash case, Farmers Alliance, Populist Party, Coxey’s Army, Election of 1896, Cross of Gold Speech, Progressive Movement, Muckrakers, Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens, National Child Labor Committee, National Consumers League, Muller v. Oregon, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Settlement House movement, Robert La Follette, Wisconsin Idea, Direct primary, recall, initiative, referendum, 17th amendment, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Anti-Saloon League, 18th Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt, Square Deal, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Trust Busting, Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, “The Jungle”, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Sierra Club, Forest Reserve Act, Conservation vs Preservation, William Howard Taft, Dollar Diplomacy, etc.
APUSH Period Seven:
Topics: Frontier thesis, Motives of U.S. Expansion, Alfred T. Mahan, Josiah Strong, Hawaiian Annexation, Pearl Harbor, Queen Liliukalani, Spanish American War, Yellow Journalism, De Lome letter, Maine, Teller Amendment, Rough Riders, Treaty of Paris, Anti-Imperialist League, Guerilla War in Philippines, Platt Amendment, Foraker Act, Insular cases, Open Door policy, Boxer Rebellion, President Theodore Roosevelt, Panama Canal, Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corollary, Russo-Japanese War, Gentlemen’s Agreement, Great White Fleet, Progressive Movement, Muller v. Oregon, , Robert La Follette, Wisconsin Idea, Direct primary, recall, initiative, referendum, 17th amendment, Sierra Club, Forest Reserve Act, Conservation vs Preservation, William Howard Taft, Dollar Diplomacy, President Taft, Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy, Election of 1912, President Wilson, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Federal Reserve Act, 16th Amendment, Plessy v. Ferguson, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, WEB Dubois, Souls of Black Folk, Niagara Movement, NAACP, Ida B. Wells, Carrie Chapman Catt, NAWSA, Alice Paul, National Woman’s Party, 19th Amendment, Moral Diplomacy, Wilson in Mexico, Pancho Villa, World War I, Wilson’s Neutrality, Lusitania, Sussex, Election of 1916,Reasons for U.S. entry in WW1, Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, Selective Service Act, American Expeditionary Force, General Pershing, National War Labor Board, War Industries Board, U.S. Food Administration, 18th Amendment, Committee of Public Information, Espionage Act, Sedition Act, Schenck v U.S. , Great Migration, 14 Points, Race Riots, 19th Amendment, League of Nations, Treaty of Versailles, Henry Cabot Lodge, American isolationist, Bolshevik Revolution, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Quota Act of 1921, Quota Act 1924, Sacco and Vanzetti, Rise of KKK, urbanization, Margin buying, installment plan, advertising industry, consumerism, Frederick Taylor, Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, radio, mass media, flappers, Margaret Sanger, fundamentalist, Scopes Trial, Billy Sunday, Prohibition, Volstead Act, Al Capone, Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Marcus Garvey, UNIA, Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Warren G. Harding, Election of 1920, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Fordney-McCumber, Teapot Dome Scandal, 1920’s economy, Election of 1928, Alred Smith, Washington Naval Arms Conference, Kellogg Briand Pact, Dawes Plan, Causes of the Great Depression, hoovervilles, rugged individualism, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, “trickle down economics”, Bonus Army, Election of 1932, New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Brain Trust, Frances Perkins, 3 Rs, Fireside Chats, Alphabet Agencies, 100 Days, Bank Holiday, Emergency Banking Relief Act, Glass-Steagall Act, FDIC, Securities and Exchanges Commission, CCC, Public Works Administration, National Recovery Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Dust Bowl, Okies, Grapes of Wrath, Tennessee Valley Authority, Works Progress Administration, Resettlement Administration, Social Security Act, Wagner Act, John Maynard Keynes, Huey Long, Share Our Wealth, Dr. Frances Townsend, Court Packing plan, New Deal coalition, Recession in 1937, safety net, Good Neighbor policy, Reciprocal Trade Agreement, Rise of Totalitarian regimes, start of World War 2, Nye Commission, Neutrality Acts, Munich Conference, Panay Incident, Non-Aggression Pact, Cash and Carry, Conscription Law, Battle of Britain, Lend Lease Act, Committee to Defend America, America 1st Committee, Destroyers for Bases, Election of 1940, Operation of Barbarossa, Allied Convoy system, Atlantic Conference, Embargo against Japan, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor, War Productions Board, Office of Research and Development, Manhattan Project, 2nd Great Migration, Executive Order 8802, Double Victory, Congress of Racial Equality, Bracero Program, Zoot Suit Riots, Navajo Code Talkers, Rosie the Riveter, sunbelt, Executive Order 9066, Nisei, Korematsu v U.S., D-Day. Casablanca Conference, Tehran Conference, Yalta Conference, Island hoping campaign, Potsdam Conference, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc.
APUSH Period Eight & Nine:
Topics: Post WW2, Truman, Cold War Begins: 1945-1952 GI Bill of Rights, sunbelt, Taft Hartley Act, Election of 1948, Harry Truman, Dixicrats, Fair Deal, United Nations, IMF, World Bank, Cold War, Yalta Conference, buffer zones, puppet governments, “Iron Curtain” speech. George Kennan, Long Telegram, Containment, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Divided Germany, Berlin Airlift, NATO, NSC-68, Chinese Civil War, People’s Republic of China, “loss of China”, Smith Act, Federal Employee Loyalty Program, House of Un-American Activities Committee, Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Joseph McCarthy, Korean War,Dwight Eisenhower, Interstate Highway Act, Baby boom, Levittown, rise of television, Betty Friedan, Beatniks, de factor discrimination, Brown v. Board of Education, Southern Manifesto, Little Rock 9, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Sit-Ins, SNCC, brinkmanship, John Foster Dulles, New Look policy, Hungarian Revolution, Atoms for Peace, Spirit of Geneva, Khrushchev, détente, Sputnik, National Defense of Education Act, NASA, U-2 Spy plane incident, CIA, Operation Ajax, Suez Crisis, Eisenhower Doctrine, OPEC, CIA Guatemala, Cuban Revolution, Military Industrial Complex,Election of 1960, John F Kennedy, New Frontier, Man on the Moon, Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, détente, flexible response, Robert McNamara, Green Berets, JFK assassination, Lyndon B Johnson, Great Society, War on Poverty, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Immigration & Nationality Act of 1965, Election of 1964, Barry Goldwater, Rise of New Conservatives, Silent Spring, Freedom Rides, March on Washington, Freedom Summer, 24th Amendment, Black Power Movement, Malcolm X, Black Panthers, Watts Riots, Vietnam War, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Tet Offensive, Anti-War Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, New Left, National Organization for Women, Stonewall Riots,Election of 1968, Richard Nixon, Democratic Convention riots, George Wallace, “Peace with Honor”, My Lai Massacre , Nixon Doctrine, Vietnamization, Bombing of Cambodia, Kent State Massacre, Pentagon papers, War Powers Act, Paris Accords 1973, Nixon & Détente, China visit, SALT, CREEP, Watergate, Nixon Impeachment, Jimmy Carter, Soviets in Afghanistan, Yom Kippur War, Oil Emargo, Camp David Accords, Iranian Revolution, hostage crisis, Title IX, Roe v. Wade, Equal Rights Amendment, Phyllis Schlafly, American Indian movement, Warren Court decisions, and Reagan administration.