United States
History (APUSH) Study Library.

Diversity of Native American societies before European contact · European exploration motivations and early voyages · Columbian Exchange (biological, cultural, economic) · Spanish conquest and colonial labor systems (encomienda, mita) · Cultural interactions and conflicts between Europeans and Native Americans · Portuguese and Spanish imperial models · Impact of disease on indigenous populations

British colonial settlement patterns (Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay) · Regional variation: New England, Middle Atlantic, and Southern colonies · Transatlantic trade and mercantilism · Origins and expansion of chattel slavery in British North America · Indentured servitude and labor system transitions · Native American relations and conflicts (Metacom's War, Bacon's Rebellion context) · Salutary neglect and colonial self-governance (House of Burgesses, town meetings) · Great Awakening and its social/political implications

French and Indian War and its imperial consequences · Parliamentary taxation disputes (Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Tea Act) · Revolutionary philosophy: Enlightenment (Locke), republicanism, natural rights · American Revolution: causes, conduct, and outcomes · Articles of Confederation: structure and weaknesses · Constitutional Convention and ratification debates · Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist arguments (Bill of Rights) · Hamilton vs. Jefferson policy debates (national bank, assumption, foreign policy) · Early republic foreign policy (Neutrality Proclamation, Jay's Treaty, XYZ Affair) · Challenges to federal authority (Whiskey Rebellion, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions)

Jeffersonian democracy and the Revolution of 1800 · Louisiana Purchase and westward expansion · War of 1812: causes, conduct, and nationalistic aftermath · Era of Good Feelings and rise of sectionalism · Market Revolution: transportation (canals, railroads), manufacturing, and regional specialization · Jacksonian democracy and expansion of white male suffrage · Indian Removal Act (1830) and Trail of Tears · Second Great Awakening and antebellum reform movements · Abolitionism: Garrison, Douglass, and the slavery debate · Early women's rights movement (Seneca Falls Convention, 1848) · Missouri Compromise (1820) and growing sectional tension

Manifest Destiny ideology and westward expansion · Mexican-American War: causes, conduct, and territorial outcomes (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) · Sectional crisis: Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, 'Bleeding Kansas' · Dred Scott decision and its constitutional implications · Lincoln-Douglas debates and Republican Party formation · Secession and Civil War causes · Civil War: military strategy, emancipation, and home-front mobilization · Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and its limitations and significance · 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments · Reconstruction: Presidential vs. Radical Reconstruction · Freedmen's Bureau, Black Codes, and Reconstruction Acts · Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction

Western expansion: Homestead Act, transcontinental railroad, Plains Wars · Destruction of the buffalo and Native American displacement (Dawes Act, 1887) · Industrialization and rise of big business (Carnegie, Rockefeller, vertical/horizontal integration) · Gilded Age capitalism: trusts, monopolies, and laissez-faire ideology · New immigration (Southern and Eastern Europe) vs. old immigration patterns · Urbanization and settlement houses (Jane Addams, Hull House) · Labor movement: Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor (Gompers) · Major labor conflicts (Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike) · Populist movement: Farmers' Alliance, People's Party, free silver debate · Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), and disenfranchisement · Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois debate on racial advancement

Progressive Era reforms: muckrakers, trust-busting, regulatory legislation (Sherman, Clayton Acts; FDA; Federal Reserve) · Progressive amendments (16th–19th): income tax, direct Senate election, Prohibition, women's suffrage · American imperialism: Spanish-American War (1898), Philippines, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary · World War I: U.S. neutrality, entry, mobilization (Espionage/Sedition Acts, War Industries Board) · Post-WWI reaction: Red Scare, Palmer Raids, immigration restriction (Emergency Quota Act 1921, National Origins Act 1924) · 1920s: consumer culture, automobile, radio, rise of mass media · Harlem Renaissance: literature, music, and Black cultural assertion · Prohibition and the rise of organized crime · Nativism, KKK revival, and anti-immigrant sentiment in the 1920s · Great Depression causes (overproduction, credit collapse, banking failures, Smoot-Hawley Tariff) · New Deal: First and Second New Deal programs, alphabet agencies, shift in federal role · WWII: isolationism to intervention (Lend-Lease, Pearl Harbor), home front (war production, women/minorities in workforce) · Japanese American internment (Executive Order 9066)

Cold War origins: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, containment policy · Korean War and limited war doctrine · Second Red Scare: HUAC, McCarthyism, Hollywood Ten · Postwar prosperity: GI Bill, suburbanization, baby boom, consumer culture · Civil Rights Movement: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Montgomery Bus Boycott, sit-ins, Freedom Rides, March on Washington · Civil Rights legislation: Civil Rights Act (1964), Voting Rights Act (1965) · Great Society: Medicare, Medicaid, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, War on Poverty · Vietnam War: escalation (Gulf of Tonkin), anti-war movement, Tet Offensive, Vietnamization · Counterculture: youth movement, feminist movement (NOW, Friedan's Feminine Mystique), environmental movement · Nixon: détente, opening China, Watergate and constitutional crisis · 1970s economic stagflation and energy crisis · Black Power, American Indian Movement, Chicano movement

Reagan Revolution: supply-side economics, deregulation, Cold War escalation · End of the Cold War: Gorbachev, fall of Berlin Wall, Soviet dissolution · Culture wars: religious right, Moral Majority, social conservatism · Clinton era: economic boom, NAFTA, welfare reform, impeachment · 9/11 and the War on Terror: Afghanistan, Iraq War, PATRIOT Act, homeland security · Globalization: outsourcing, immigration debates, economic inequality · Obama era: Affordable Care Act, economic recovery, demographic change · Digital revolution and its social and political implications