A.P. Reading Handout, U.S. History, Norfolk Academy

A.P. Readings Handout
Dr. Rezelman

The following is a collection of general survey articles which students might find helpful when reviewing for the Advanced Placement U.S. History exam. See also the individual "A.P. readings" listed for each section on each specific reading handout. (There are links to the other reading handouts at the bottom of this page.) There is also at the bottom of this page a list of links to other review web sites that you might find helpful.

A.P. Readings

If You Only Read . . .
Post-1965
Political History
1. Domestic Politics
2. Foreign Policy
Social History

V. Finally, Some Lists of Things You
Just Really Should Know

Assassinations and Duels
Court Cases

Definitions, Doctrines, Ideas, Pronouncements, &tc.
First Ladies Who Mattered
(or at Least are Remembered)
Laws
Miscellaneous People
Organizations
Political Parties
1. Political Parties: Major
2. Political Parties: Third
  Parties and Candidates
Presidential Domestic Programs
Presidential Elections
Presidential Losers
Presidents
Scandals
Trials
Vice-Presidents Who Mattered
(or at Least Achieved Notoriety)

If You Only Read 2 Articles, Read . . .

DAH: "Women's Rights Movement" (10 pages)

please read sections on BOTH the 19th AND the 20th centuries

MEMORIZE THIS ARTICLE!

DAH: "Labor" (8 pages)

(EBO: "United States: History" would also be a good choice

it's only 286 pages . . .)
If You Only Read 7 More Articles, Read . . .
1. EBO: "Presidency of the United States of America" (16 pages)
2. American History: "Religion in the United States" (7 pages)
3. American History: "African Americans in U.S. History" (4 pages)
4. DAH: "Civil Rights Movement" (7 pages)
5. DAH: "Suffrage" (11 pages)
6. DAH: "Strikes" (6 pages)
7. DAH: "Discrimination" (15 pages)
If You Only Read 11 More Articles, Read . . .
1. DAH: "Race Relations" (7 pages)
2. DAH: "Civil Rights and Liberties" (3 pages)
3. DAH: "Antislavery" (6 pages)
4. American History: "Nativism" (4 pages)
5. DAH: "Welfare System" (6 pages)
6. DAH: "Gender and Gender Roles" (6 pages)
7. DAH: "Women in Public Life, Business, and Professions" (3 pages)
8. American History: "Two-Party System" (4 pages)
9. DAH: "Elections, Presidential" (33 pages)
10. American History: "Industrial Revolution" (4 pages)
11. American History: "Immigration" (4 pages)
If You Only Read 25 More Articles, Read . . .
1. DAH: "Arms Race and Disarmament" (5 pages)
  
  (sorry!)
Post-1965: For a Quick Summary
1. very high priority
  1. (unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
  2. EBO: "United States: History: The United States"
    1. (start at link and read forward, i.e. read p. 255-269 of the "United States: History" article)
  3. American History: "Feminist Movement" (1 page)
  4. American History: "Women's Liberation Movement" (2 pages)
  5. American History: "Watergate Scandal" (2 pages)
  6. American History: "Iran-Contra Scandal" (half a page)
  7. American History: "Election of 2000" (2 pages)
2. high priority
  1. American History: "Cold War" (6 pages)
  2. the presidents
    1. American History: "Lyndon B. Johnson" (2 pages)
    2. American History: "Richard M. Nixon" (4 pages)
    3. American History: "Gerald R. Ford" (2 pages)
    4. American History: "Jimmy Carter" (4 pages)
    5. American History: "Ronald Reagan" (4 pages)
    6. American History: "George Bush" (3 pages)
    7. American History: "Bill Clinton" (3 pages)
    8. American History: "George W. Bush" (2 pages)
  3. American History: "Civil Rights Movement" (2 pages)
  4. DAH: "War on Poverty" (3 pages)
  5. American History: "Women in Government" (5 pages)
  6. American History: "Women in the Workplace" (4 pages)
3. medium priority
  1. American History: "Persian Gulf War" (5 pages)
  2. American History: "World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks" (3 pages
  3. American History: "Iraq War" (2 pages)
Post-1965: Political History
1. very high priority
  1. (see also the list of "Presidential Domestic Programs")
  2. the presidents
    1. (unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
    2. (see also the lists below of especially important "Presidents," "Vice Presidents," and "First Ladies")
    3. 1963-1969: "Lyndon B. Johnson" (2 pages)
    4. 1969-1974: "Richard M. Nixon" (4 pages)
    5. 1974-1977: "Gerald R. Ford" (2 pages)
    6. 1977-1981: "Jimmy Carter" (4 pages)
    7. 1981-1989: "Ronald Reagan" (4 pages)
    8. 1989-1993: "George Bush" (3 pages)
    9. 1993-2001: "Bill Clinton" (3 pages)
    10. 2001-present: "George W. Bush" (2 pages)
  3. 1972-1974: "Watergate Scandal" (2 pages)
  4. 1985-1986: "Iran-Contra Scandal" (half a page)
  5. 2000: "Election of 2000" (2 pages)
2. high priority
  1. EBO: "United States: History: The United States since 1945"
    (loads of stuff)
Post-1965: Social, Cultural, and Economic History
1. very high priority
  1. American History: "Affirmative Action" (4 pages)
    1. see also DAH: "Affirmative Action" (2 pages)
  2. American History: "Black Power Movement" (1 page)
  3. American History: "Chicano Movement" (2 pages)
  4. American History: "Civil Rights Movement" (2 pages)
  5. American History: "Computer Revolution" (6 pages)
  6. American History: "Equal Rights Amendment" (3 pages)
  7. American History: "Feminist Movement" (1 page)
  8. American History: "Minorities in Government" (4 pages)
  9. American History: "Native American Rights Movement"
    (2 pages)
  10. American History: "Sex Discrimination" (3 pages)
  11. American History: "School Desegregation" (5 pages)
  12. American History: "Television" (5 pages)
  13. DAH: "War on Poverty" (3 pages)
  14. American History: "Women in Government" (5 pages)
  15. American History: "Women in the Workplace" (4 pages)
  16. American History: "Women's Liberation Movement" (2 pages)
2. high priority
  1. American History: "Feminization of Poverty" (3 pages)
  2. American History: "Fundamentalism" (4 pages)
  3. American History: "Homelessness" (5 pages)
  4. American History: "Internet" (5 pages)
  5. American History: "Herbert Marcuse" (2 pages)
  6. American History: "Motown" (1 paragraph)
  7. American History: "Official-English Movement" (2 pages)
  8. DAH: "Political Correctness" (half a page)
  9. American History: "Rock and Roll" (3 pages)
  10. DAH: "Stagflation" (2 page)
  11. American History: "Welfare Reform" (3 pages)
  12. American History: "Women in the Military" (4 pages)
3. medium priority
  1. American History: "Anti-Immigration Movement" (2 pages)
  2. EBO: "United States: History: The United States since 1945"
    (loads of stuff)
Post-1965: The Cold War, Terrorism, and Other Unpleasantness
1. very high priority
  1. 1945-1989: American History: "Cold War" (6 pages)
    1. see also DAH: "Cold War" (5 pages)
    2. see also DAH: "Russia, Relations with" (5 pages)
  2. 1945-present: American History: "Nuclear Weapons"
    (3 pages)
    1. see also DAH: "Nuclear Weapons" (2 pages)
  3. 1945-present: DAH: "Arms Race and Disarmament" (4 pages)
  4. ca. 1965-1973: American History: "Vietnam War" (8 pages)
  5. 1979: World History: "Afghanistan Invasion" (1 page)
  6. 1989:                 EBO: "International Relations: The End of the
                               Cold War: 1989: Annus Mirabilis: Liberalization
                              and Struggle in Communist Countries" (5 pages)
  7. 1990-1991: American History: "Persian Gulf War"
    (5 pages)
  8. 2001: American History: "World Trade Center and
    Pentagon Attacks" (3 pages)
  9. 2003-present: American History: "Iraq War" (2 pages)
2. high priority
  1. 20th-century: World History: "Decolonization" (4 pages)
  2. 1950-present: American History: "United Nations" (2 pages)
  3. 1947-present: American History: "National Security Council
    (1 page)
  4. 1992-1993: American History: "U.S. Intervention in
    Somalia" (2 pages)
  5. 1993: American History: "World Trade Center
    Bombing" (2 pages)
  6. 1995: American History: "Oklahoma City Bombing"
    (1 page)
  7. 1998: American History: "U.S. Embassy Bombings"
    (2 pages)
  8. 2000: American History: "U.S.S. Cole Bombing"
    (1 page)
3. medium priority
  1. EBO: "United States: History: The United States since 1945"
    (loads of stuff)
Political History: Domestic Politics
1. very high priority
  1. DAH: "Civil Rights and Liberties" (3 pages)
  2. DAH: "Conservatism" (3 pages)
  3. DAH: "Elections, Contested" (half a page)
  4. American History: "Gun Control Movement" (2 pages)
  5. American History: "Judicial Activism and Restraint" (5 pages)
  6. DAH: "Liberalism" (3 pages)
  7. American History: "New Left Movement" (2 pages)
  8. American History: "Presidential Elections" (3 pages)
  9. American History: "Presidential Scandals" (5 pages)
  10. American History: "Presidents of the United States,
    1789 to Present" (table)
  11. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution: "States' Rights"
    (2 pages)
  12. American History: "Two-Party System" (4 pages)
  13. DAH: "Supreme Court" (4 pages)
  14. American History: "U.S. Supreme Court" (2 pages)
  15. American History: "Voting Rights" (3 pages)
2. high priority
  1. American History: "Antifederalist Movement" (1 page)
  2. American History: "Bosses and Machines" (4 pages)
  3. DAH: "Constitution of the United States" (6 pages)
  4. American History: "Drug Policy" (5 pages)
  5. DAH: "Elections, Presidential" (33 pages)
  6. American History: "Federal Budget Deficit" (4 pages)
  7. American History: "Militia Movement" (2 pages)
  8. EBO: "Presidency of the United States of America" (16 pages)
  9. American History: "Two-Party System" (4 pages)
  10. EBO: "United States: History" (286 pages)
  11. American History: "Urban Renewal" (3 pages)
3. medium priority
  1. American History: "City Efficient Movement" (1 page)
  2. American History: "Populist Movement" (2 pages)
  3. American History: "Presidents: Personal Backgrounds" (table)
  4. American History: "Vice Presidents of the United States,
    1789 to Present" (table)
Political History: Foreign Policy
1. very high priority
  1. American History: "Antiwar Movement" (1 page)
  2. DAH: "Arms Race and Disarmament" (5 pages)
  3. American History: "Creation of the U.S. Empire" (4 pages)
  4. American History: "Dissent in American Wars" (4 pages)
  5. American History: "Nuclear Freeze Movement" (1 page)
  6. American History: "Peace Movement" (2 pages)
  7. American History: "United Nations" (2 pages)
2. high priority
  1. American History: "Global Economy" (6 pages)
  2. American History: "International Monetary Fund" (3 pages)
  3. American History: "International Peacekeeping" (5 pages)
  4. American History: "North American Free Trade Agreement: Preamble and Objectives (1993)" (opening paragraph only)
  5. EBO: "United States: History" (loads of stuff)
  6. American History: "Westward Expansion" (5 pages)
  7. American History: "World Bank" (2 pages)
3. medium priority
  1. American History: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947, as Amended Through 1966)" (opening paragraph only)
Social History: Class and Economics
1. very high priority
  1. American History: "Crime" (3 pages)
  2. American History: "Homelessness" (5 pages)
  3. American History: "Industrial Revolution" (4 pages)
  4. DAH: "Labor" (8 pages)
  5. DAH: "Labor Legislation and Administration" (3 pages)
  6. American History: "Labor Movement" (2 pages)
  7. American History: "Socialism" (4 pages)
  8. DAH: "Stagflation" (2 page)
  9. DAH: "Strikes" (6 pages)
  10. DAH: "Wages and Hours of Labor, Regulation of" (2 pages)
  11. DAH: "Welfare System" (6 pages)
  12. DAH: "Work" (5 pages)
2. high priority
  1. DAH: "Collective Bargaining" (3 pages)
  2. DAH: "Closed Shop" (2 pages)
  3. DAH: "Retirement" (5 pages)
  4. American History: "Settlement House Movement" (1 page)
  5. American History: "Social Gospel Movement" (1 page)
  6. DAH: "Social Security" (8 pages)
  7. EBO: "United States: History" (loads of stuff)
  8. American History: "Welfare Reform" (3 pages)
3. medium priority
  1. American History: "Philanthropy" (3 pages)
Social History: Culture
1. very high priority
  1. American History: "American Art" (5 pages)
  2. American History: "American Literature" (6 pages)
  3. American History: "American Music" (5 pages)
  4. American History: "Science in America" (5 pages)
  5. American History: "Television" (5 pages)
2. high priority
  1. American History: "Advertising" (4 pages)
  2. American History: "Architecture" (4 pages)
  3. American History: "Computer Revolution" (6 pages)
  4. American History: "Internet" (5 pages)
  5. DAH: "Political Correctness" (half a page)
  6. American History: "Rock and Roll" (3 pages)
  7. American History: "Sports" (5 pages)
  8. EBO: "United States: History" (loads of stuff)
3. medium priority
  1. American History: "Motown" (1 paragraph)
Social History: Gender, Sexuality, and Family
1. very high priority
  1. DAH: "Child Labor" (2 pages)
  2. DAH: "Equal Rights Amendment" (1 page)
  3. American History: "Feminist Movement" (1 page)
  4. American History: "Feminization of Poverty" (3 pages)
  5. DAH: "Gender and Gender Roles" (6 pages)
  6. DAH: "Seneca Falls Convention" (2 pages)
  7. American History: "Sex Discrimination" (3 pages)
  8. DAH: "Sexuality" (5 pages)
  9. American History: "Temperance Movement" (2 pages)
  10. American History: "Woman Suffrage Movement" (2 pages)
  11. DAH: "Women in Churches" (3 pages)
  12. American History: "Women in Government" (5 pages)
  13. American History: "Women in the Military" (4 pages)
  14. DAH: "Women in Military Service" (3 pages)
  15. DAH: "Women in Public Life, Business, and Professions"
    (3 pages)
  16. American History: "Women in the Workplace" (4 pages)
  17. American History: "Women's Liberation Movement" (2 pages)
  18. DAH: "Women's Rights Movement" (10 pages)
    1. (memorize this article!!)
2. high priority
  1. American History: "Abortion" (4 pages)
  2. DAH: "Abortion" (6 pages)
  3. DAH: "Birth Control Movement" (4 pages)
  4. American History: "Child Labor" (3 pages)
  5. American History: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy" (1 paragraph)
  6. American History: "Equal Rights Amendment" (3 pages)
  7. DAH: "Gay and Lesbian Movement" (2 pages)
  8. American History: "Gay Rights Movement" (1 page)
  9. American History: "Gay Rights" (4 pages)
  10. DAH: "League of Women Voters" (1 page)
  11. DAH: "Magazines, Women's" (2 pages)
  12. American History: "Marriage" (4 pages)
  13. DAH: "National Organization for Women" (NOW) (2 pages)
  14. American History: "Pro-Choice Movement" (2 pages)
  15. DAH: "Prostitution" (2 pages)
  16. American History: "Right-to-Life Movement" (1 page)
  17. EBO: "United States: History" (loads of stuff)
  18. Encyclopedia of the American Constitution: "Woman Suffrage Movement" (2 pages)
  19. DAH: "Women, President's Commission on the Status of"
    (half a page)
  20. DAH: "Women's Clubs" (3 pages)
  21. DAH: "Women's Health" (2 pages)
3. medium priority
  1. DAH: "Children's Rights" (3 pages)
  2. American History: "Free Love Movement" (2 pages)
  3. DAH: "Women's Studies" (3 pages)
Social History: Race, Religion, and Ethnicity
1. very high priority
  1. American History: "Abolition Movement" (2 pages)
  2. American History: "Affirmative Action" (4 pages)
  3. DAH: "Affirmative Action" (2 pages)
  4. American History: "African Americans in U.S. History"
    (4 pages)
  5. American History: "Anti-Immigration Movement" (2 pages)
  6. DAH: "Antislavery" (6 pages)
  7. American History: "Asian Americans in U.S. History" (4 pages)
  8. American History: "Black Power Movement" (1 page)
  9. American History: "Chicano Movement" (2 pages)
  10. DAH: "Civil Rights and Liberties" (3 pages)
  11. American History: "Civil Rights Movement" (2 pages)
  12. DAH: "Civil Rights Movement" (7 pages)
  13. DAH: "Desegregation" (3 pages)
  14. American History: "Fundamentalism" (4 pages)
  15. American History: "Great Migration" (1 page)
  16. American History: "Immigration" (4 pages)
  17. DAH: "Integration" (2 pages)
  18. American History: "Jim Crow Movement" (1 page)
  19. American History: "Latinos in American History" (4 pages)
  20. American History: "Minorities in Government" (4 pages)
  21. American History: "Native American Rights Movement"
    (2 pages)
  22. American History: "Native Americans in U.S. History" (8 pages)
  23. American History: "Nativism" (4 pages)
  24. American History: "Niagara Movement" (1 page)
  25. DAH: "Race Relations" (7 pages)
  26. American History: "Religion in the United States" (7 pages)
  27. American History: "School Desegregation" (5 pages)
  28. DAH: "Segregation" (3 pages)
  29. American History: "Slavery" (5 pages)
  30. DAH: "Slavery" (10 pages)
  31. American History: "Society of Friends" (i.e. Quakers) (2 pages)
2. high priority
  1. American History: "Antilynching Movement" (1 page)
  2. American History: "Mormon Church" (2 pages)
  3. American History: "Regulator Movement" (1 page)
  4. EBO: "United States: History" (loads of stuff)
3. medium priority
  1. American History: "Branch Davidians" (1 page)
  2. American History: "Eugenics" (4 pages)
  3. American History: "Native American Spiritualist Movement"
    (2 pages)
  4. American History: "Official-English Movement" (2 pages)
  5. American History: "Sanitation Movement" (2 pages)
Social History: Other
1. very high priority
  1. American History: "Civil Rights" (5 pages)
  2. American History: "Conservation Movement" (3 pages)
  3. American History: "Disability Rights Movement" (1 page)
  4. DAH: "Discrimination" (15 pages)
  5. American History: "Education" (5 pages)
  6. American History: "Environment" (3 pages)
  7. American History: "Environmental Movement" (2 pages)
  8. American History: "Suburbanization" (4 pages)
  9. DAH: "Suffrage" (11 pages)
  10. American History: "Urbanization" (4 pages)
2. high priority
  1. American History: "ACT UP Movement" (1 page)
  2. American History: "Antebellum Reform Movement" (1 page)
  3. American History: "Freedom of Speech" (4 pages)
  4. American History: "Herbert Marcuse" (2 pages)
  5. American History: "Muckraker Movement" (2 pages)
  6. American History: "Progressive Movement" (1 page)
  7. American History: "Public Transportation" (5 pages)
  8. American History: "Public Health" (3 pages)
  9. EBO: "United States: History" (loads of stuff)
  10. American History: "Utopian Societies" (4 pages)
  11. American History: "Wilderness" (5 pages)
3. medium priority
  1. American History: "Animal Rights Movement" (2 pages)
  2. American History: "Audubon Movement" (1 page)
  3. American History: "City Beautiful Movement" (1 page)
  4. American History: "Free Speech Movement" (2 pages)
  5. American History: "Health Care Reform" (3 pages)
  6. American History: "Modern School Movement" (1 page)
  7. American History: "Policing" (4 pages)
  8. American History: "Privacy" (2 pages)
  9. American History: "Wise-Use Movement" (2 pages)
Assassinations and Duels
1. (unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
2. (see also "Presidential Assassinations" (4 pages),
  DAH: "Assassinations, Presidential" (6 pages),
  DAH: "Assassinations and Political Violence, Other (2 pages),
  and DAH: "Dueling" (1 page))
3. 1804 (Hamilton): DAH: "Burr-Hamilton Duel" (half a page)
4. 1865 (Lincoln): "Abraham Lincoln: Assassination" (1 page)
5. 1881 (Garfield): "James Garfield: Assassination" (1 page)
6. 1901 (McKinley): "William McKinley: Assassination" (1 page)
7. 1963 (Kennedy): "John F. Kennedy: Assassination" (1 page)
8. 1965: (Malcolm X): "Malcolm X" (2 pages)
9. 1968 (King): DAH: "King, Martin Luther, Assassination"
  (3 pages)
10. 1968 (Kennedy): "Robert F. Kennedy: Assassination" (1 pg)

Court Cases

1803: EBO: "Marbury v. Madison" (half a page)
1. see also DAH: "Marbury v. Madison 1 Cranch 137 (1803)"
  (3 pages)
1819: EBO: "Dartmouth College Case" (half a page)
1819: EBO: "McCulloch v. Maryland" (one paragraph)
1824: EBO: "Gibbons v. Ogden" (half a page)
1857: DAH: "Dred Scott Case" (2 pages)
1. see also DAH: "Freeport Doctrine" (1 paragraph)
1896: DAH: "Plessy v. Ferguson" (one page)
1935: DAH: "Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States"
(half a page)
1944: American History: "Korematsu v. United States"
(opening paragraph only)
1954: DAH: "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka"
(half a page)
1973: EBO: "Roe v. Wade" (half a page)
1974: American History: "United States v. Nixon"
(opening paragraph only)
1978: American History: "Regents of the University of
California v. Bakke" (opening paragraph only)
2000: DAH: "Bush v. Gore" (2 pages)

Definitions, Doctrines, Ideas, Pronouncements, &tc.

American History: "Acculturation" (1 paragraph)
American History: "Antebellum" (1 sentence)
American History: "Assimilation" (1 paragraph)
DAH: "Civil Disobedience" (1 page)
American History: "Eminent Domain" (1 paragraph)
American History: "Equal Protection Clause" (1 paragraph)
American History: "Gentrification" (1 paragraph)
American History: "Habeas Corpus" (1 paragraph)
DAH: "Manifest Destiny" (3 pages)
American History: "McCarthyism" (3 pages)
American History: "Melting Pot" (3 pages)
American History: "Miscegenation" (1 paragraph)
DAH: "Monroe Doctrine" (2 pages)
DAH: "Popular Sovereignty" (1 page)
DAH: "Roosevelt Corollary" (1 paragraph)
American History: "Separate-But-Equal Doctrine"
(1 paragraph)
American History: "Sovereignty" (1 paragraph)
DAH: "Stagflation" (2 page)
DAH: "Wilmot Proviso" (1 page)

First Ladies Who Mattered (or at Least are Remembered)

(unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
1797-1801: "Abigail Adams" (3 pages)
1809-1817: "Dolley Madison" (2 pages)
1915-1921: "Edith Wilson" (2 pages)
1933-1945: "Eleanor Roosevelt" (2 pages)
1961-1963: "Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" (2 pages)
1974-1977: "Betty Ford" (2 pages)
1981-1989: "Nancy Reagan" (2 pages)
1989-1993: "Barbara Bush" (2 pages)
1993-2001: "Hillary Rodham Clinton" (3 pages)

Laws

(unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
1787: "Northwest Ordinance" (opening paragraph only)
1798: "Alien and Sedition Acts" (opening paragraph only)
1850: "Fugitive Slave Act" (opening paragraph only)
1854: "Kansas-Nebraska Act" (opening paragraph only)
1862: "Homestead Act" (opening paragraph only)
1887: "Dawes Act" (opening paragraph only)
1882: "Chinese Exclusion Act" (opening paragraph only)
1924: "Immigration Act" (opening paragraph only)
1964: "Civil Rights Act" (opening paragraph only)
1965: "Voting Rights Act" (opening paragraph only)

Miscellaneous People

(unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
"Jane Addams" (2 pages)
"Ralph Waldo Emerson" (3 pages)
"Emma Goldman" (2 pages)
"Francis Lowell" (1 page)
"Thurgood Marshall" (1 page)
"William Holmes McGuffey" (2 pages)
"Ralph Nader" (2 pages)
"Reinhold Niebuhr" (2 pages)
"Ross Perot" (2 pages)
"Eleanor Roosevelt" (2 pages)
"Robert Taft" (2 pages)
"Henry David Thoreau" (2 pages)
"Upton Sinclair" (2 pages)
"James Watt" (2 pages)
"John Winthrop" (2 pages)

Organizations

American History: "American Civil Liberties Union" (ACLU)
(2 pages)
American History: "Black Panthers" (2 pages)
American History: "B'nai Brith" (2 pages)
American History: "Greenpeace" (2 pages)
American History: "John Birch Society" (1 page)
American History: "Ku Klux Klan" (KKK) (2 pages)
American History: "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People" (NAACP) (2 pages)
American History: "Southern Poverty Law Center" (1 page)
American History: "Students for a Democratic Society" (SDS)
(1 page)
American History: "Symbionese Liberation Army" (1 page)
American History: "Weathermen" (1 page)

Political Parties

Political Parties: Major
1. (unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
2. (see also "Two-Party System" (4 pages))
3. 1790s-1810s: "Federalist Party (2 pages)
4. 1790s-1820s: "Democratic-Republican Party" (2 pages)
5. 1820s-present: "Democratic Party" (3 pages)
6. 1830s-1850s: "Whig Party" (3 pages)
7. 1850s-present: "Republican Party" (2 pages)
Political Parties: Third Parties and Candidates
1. (unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
2. 1850s: "Know-Nothing Party" (1 page)
3. 1890s: "Populist Party" (2 pages)
4. 1900-1912,
  1920: "Debs, Eugene V." (3 pages)
5. 1912: "Theodore Roosevelt" (3 pages) for "Progressive
  Party" (a.k.a. "Bull Moose Party) (1 page)
6. 1948: "Strom Thurmond" (1 page) for "Dixiecrat"
  (1 paragraph)
7. 1968: "George Wallace" (2 pages)
8. 1992-1996: "Ross Perot" (2 pages)
9. 1996-2004: "Ralph Nader" (2 pages)
  1. for "Green Party USA" (half a page) in 1996 and 2000

Presidential Domestic Programs

Theodore Roosevelt: DAH: "Square Deal" (2 pages) AND
DAH: "New Nationalism" (1 page)
Woodrow Wilson: DAH: "New Freedom" (1 page)
Franklin D. Roosevelt: American History: "New Deal" (5 pages)
Harry S. Truman: DAH: "Fair Deal" (1 page)
John F. Kennedy: DAH: "New Frontier" (1 page)
Lyndon B. Johnson: Oxford Companion to United States
History: "Great Society" (4 pages)

Presidential Elections

(unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
(see also "Presidential Elections" (3 pages),
DAH: "Elections, Contested" (half a page), and
DAH: "Elections, Presidential" (33 pages)
1800: "Election of 1800" (half a page)
1824: EBO: "Adams, John Quincy: Presidency and Feud with
Jackson" (2 pages)
1828: "Election of 1828" (half a page)
1860: "Election of 1860" (1 page)
1876: "Election of 1876" (1 page)
1896: "Election of 1896" (1 page)
1912: EBO: "United States: History: Imperialism, the
            Progressive Era, and the Rise to World Power,
            1896-1920: The Progressive Era: Republican Troubles
            Under William Howard Taft: The 1912 Election" (1 page)
1932: "Election of 1932" (1 page)
1960: "Election of 1960" (2 pages)
2000: "Election of 2000" (2 pages)

Presidential Losers

(unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
"Samuel J. Tilden" (1 page)
"William Jennings Bryan" (2 pages)
"Thomas E. Dewey" (2 page)

Presidents

Presidents Who Were Really Big Deals (for Good or Ill)
1. (unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
2. (see also, for what it's worth, Arthur Schlesinger's famous
  presidential rankings list (scroll to the bottom of the article))
3. 1789-1797: "George Washington" (5 pages)
4. 1801-1809: "Thomas Jefferson" (4 pages)
5. 1829-1837: "Andrew Jackson" (4 pages)
6. 1845-1849: "James K. Polk" (2 pages)
7. 1861-1865: "Abraham Lincoln" (4 pages)
8. 1901-1909: "Theodore Roosevelt" (3 pages)
9. 1913-1921: "Woodrow Wilson" (4 pages)
10. 1933-1945: "Franklin D. Roosevelt" (4 pages)
11. 1945-1953: "Harry S. Truman" (4 pages)
12. 1981-1989: "Ronald Reagan" (4 pages)
Presidents Who Also Mattered a Lot (for Good or Ill)
1. (unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
2. (see also, for what it's worth, Arthur Schlesinger's famous
  presidential rankings list (scroll to the bottom of the article))
3. 1797-1801: "John Adams" (3 pages)
4. 1817-1825: "James Monroe" (3 pages)
5. 1825-1829: "John Quincy Adams" (3 pages)
6. 1897-1901: "William McKinley" (3 pages)
7. 1909-1913: "William Howard Taft" (2 pages)
8. . . . and every other president since 1945 (except maybe Ford)
Presidents Who Were Just Awful
1. (unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
2. (see also, for what it's worth, Arthur Schlesinger's famous
  presidential rankings list (scroll to the bottom of the article))
3. 1853-1857: "Franklin Pierce" (2 pages)
4. 1857-1861: "James Buchanan" (2 pages)
5. 1865-1869: "Andrew Johnson" (3 pages)
6. 1869-1877: "Ulysses S. Grant" (3 pages) -- some deny badness! --
7. 1921-1923: "Warren Harding" (2 pages)
8. 1929-1933: "Herbert Hoover" (3 pages) -- some deny badness! --
9. 1969-1974: "Richard Nixon" (4 pages) -- some deny badness! --

Scandals

(unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
(see also "Presidential Scandals" (5 pages))
1870s: "Whiskey Ring Scandal" (1 page)
1920s: "Black Sox Scandal" (half a page)
1920s: "Teapot Dome Scandal" (1 page)
1970s: "Watergate Scandal" (2 pages)
1980s: "Iran-Contra Scandal" (half a page)
1990s: "Tailhook Scandal" (2 pages)

Trials

(unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
1690s: "Salem Witchcraft Trials" (1 page)
1850s: "Brown Trial" (1 page)
1870s: "Johnson Impeachment Trial" (2 pages)
1890s: "Borden Trial" (2 pages)
1920s: "Leopold and Loeb Trials" (2 pages)
1920s: "Sacco and Vanzetti Trial" (1 page)
1920s: "Scopes Trial" (1 page)
1930s: "Hauptmann Trial" (Lindbergh's baby) (2 pages)
1950s: "Hiss Trials" (2 pages)
1950s: "Rosenberg Trial" (1 page)
1970s: "Hearst Trial" (1 page)
1990s: "Rodney King Case" (1 page)
1990s: "Simpson Trials" (2 pages)
1990s: "Clinton Impeachment Trial" (2 pages)

Vice-Presidents Who Mattered (or at Least Achieved Notoriety)

(unless otherwise noted, everything is from American History)
1940-1944: "Henry A. Wallace" (2 pages)
1969-1973: "Spiro Agnew" (1 page)
1989-1993: "Dan Quayle" (1 page)
1993-2001: "Al Gore" (2 pages)
2001-present: "Dick Cheney" (2 pages)

Finally -- Five Things That Rezelman is So Sure Will be Somewhere on the Test that He'll Eat (Part of) His Shoe if They Aren't

American History: "Jacksonian Democracy" (4 pages)
1. see also DAH: "Jacksonian Democracy" (3 pages)
DAH: "Manifest Destiny" (3 pages)
1. see also EBO: "Manifest Destiny" (half a page)
American History: [Spotlight on...] "Japanese Americans in World War II" (4 pages)
1. see also DAH: "Japanese Americans" (5 pages)
Oxford Companion to United States History: "Containment"
(2 pages)
1. see also American History: "George F. Kennan" (2 pages)
American History: "McCarthyism" (3 pages)
1. DAH: "McCarthyism" (2 pages)

Additional Review Web Sites

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