AP Exam Review

Question 1

1492

Answer 1

• Columbus discovers America
• Spanish colonization begins
• Columbian Exchange

Question 2

1607

Answer 2

First Permanent English Colony Jamestown

Question 3

1619

Answer 3

House Of Burgesses established

Question 4

1620

Answer 4

• Plymouth founded
• Puritans in New England

Question 5

1676

Answer 5

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 6

1754

Answer 6

French and Indian War begins

Question 7

1763

Answer 7

Treaty of Paris - French and Indian War ends

Question 8

1765

Answer 8

• Acts enacted by Great Britain in full force
• No taxation without representation!

Question 9

1775

Answer 9

American Revolution begins

Question 10

1776

Answer 10

• Thomas Pained Common Sense
• Declaration of Independence

Question 11

1783

Answer 11

• Treaty of Paris - End of American Revolution
• Beginning of U.S. under articles of confederation

Question 12

1787

Answer 12

• Northwest Ordinance

Question 13

1789

Answer 13

Constitution ratified

Question 14

1791

Answer 14

Bill of Rights added to Constitution

Question 15

1790s

Answer 15

First two party system (Hamilton vs. Jefferson)

Question 16

1800

Answer 16

Revolution of 1800 (election of Thomas Jefferson)

Question 17

1803

Answer 17

• Louisiana Purchase
• Marbury vs Madison (judicial review)

Question 18

1808

Answer 18

Save importation ends (compromise of 1789)

Question 19

1812

Answer 19

War of 1812 began

Question 20

1815

Answer 20

• End of federalist party and War of 1812
• Beginning of Era of Good Feelings

Question 21

1820

Answer 21

Missouri Compromise

Question 22

1823

Answer 22

Monroe Doctrine (warning European power not to interfere with western affairs)

Question 23

1824

Answer 23

• Beginning of Democratic Party (pro-Jackson movement)

Question 24

1828

Answer 24

• Andrew Jackson elected
• Era of Common Man

Question 25

1820s-1830s

Answer 25

2nd two party system (Jackson vs Clay)

Question 26

1844

Answer 26

• Election of Polk
• Manifest Destiny

Question 27

1846

Answer 27

Mexican-American War begins

Question 28

1848

Answer 28

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago
• Mexican Cession
• End of Mexican American War

Question 29

1850

Answer 29

• Compromise of 1850 (California a free state)
• Popular Sovereignty

Question 30

1854

Answer 30

Kansas Nebraska Act (popular sovereignty in territories, bleeding Kansas)
- Repub party replaces Whigs which split over slavery

Question 31

1857

Answer 31

• Dred Scott vs Sanford (African American’s were enslaved or free are not citizens, therefore couldn’t sue in court)

Question 32

1860

Answer 32

Election of Abe Lincoln (secession begins)

Question 33

1861

Answer 33

Beginning of Civil War (battle of Fort Sumter

Question 34

1863

Answer 34

• Battle of Gettysburg
• Gettysburg Address
• Emancipation Proclamation

Question 35

1865

Answer 35

End of Civil War

Question 36

1877

Answer 36

End of Reconstruction
Jim Crow

Question 37

1890

Answer 37

Frontier closed

Question 38

1892

Answer 38

Populists Party starts

Question 39

1896

Answer 39

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 40

1898

Answer 40

Spanish American War