AP US History Study Guide: 212 Flashcards from the Columbian Exchange to the Iran Hostage Crisis
Study AP US History with 212 Q&A flashcards in chronological order: colonial America, Revolution, Jackson, Civil War, Gilded Age, New Deal, Cold War, Vietnam.
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The AP US History exam rewards students who can name the policy, the date and the consequence in the same breath: not "Jackson fought South Carolina" but "the 1832 Nullification Crisis, resolved by a compromise tariff after Jackson threatened force". The AP US History deck on Flip It (deck code KO9313) packs 212 question-and-answer cards in chronological order, from the Columbian Exchange to the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1981.
Study this deck: AP US History
1 / 10What was the Columbian Exchange?
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
What the cards look like
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was salutary neglect? | British policy of loose enforcement of colonial trade regulations (pre-1763), allowing colonies self-governance |
| What was the Proclamation of 1763? | British ban on colonial settlement west of the Appalachians to avoid conflict with Native Americans; angered colonists |
| What was the Three-Fifths Compromise? | Constitutional agreement counting enslaved people as 3/5 of a person for representation and taxation |
| What was Marbury v. Madison (1803)? | Supreme Court case establishing judicial review: power to declare laws unconstitutional |
| What was the Hartford Convention (1814)? | Federalist meeting on War of 1812 grievances; appeared unpatriotic and contributed to the party's demise |
| What was the Compromise of 1877? | Hayes became president; federal troops withdrawn from the South, ending Reconstruction |
| What was the Dawes Act (1887)? | Divided tribal lands into individual allotments to assimilate Native Americans; resulted in loss of tribal lands |
| What was the Roosevelt Corollary (1904)? | Addition to the Monroe Doctrine: U.S. right to intervene in Latin America; justified Big Stick diplomacy |
| What was NSC-68 (1950)? | National Security Council document calling for a massive military buildup to contain communism globally |
| What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)? | Gave Johnson authority to escalate the Vietnam War without a formal declaration; based on a disputed naval incident |
The 212 cards, period by period
- Colonial America and the Revolution: Columbian Exchange, encomienda, Jamestown, headright system, Mayflower Compact, Bacon's Rebellion, triangular trade, Great Awakening, French and Indian War, Sugar, Stamp and Intolerable Acts, Sons of Liberty, Boston Massacre and Tea Party, Common Sense, Saratoga, Articles of Confederation, Shays' Rebellion
- Early Republic: Great Compromise, Federalist Papers, Hamilton's economic plan, Whiskey Rebellion, Alien and Sedition Acts, Election of 1800, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, War of 1812, Treaty of Ghent, Monroe Doctrine, American System, Missouri Compromise
- Jackson to the Civil War: spoils system, Bank War, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Manifest Destiny, Alamo, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Second Great Awakening, Seneca Falls, Underground Railroad, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's Raid
- Civil War and Reconstruction: Union and Confederate advantages, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, 13th-15th Amendments, Radical Reconstruction, Black Codes, Freedmen's Bureau, Johnson's impeachment, sharecropping
- Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Homestead Act, Transcontinental Railroad, Plessy v. Ferguson, vertical and horizontal integration, Social Darwinism, Sherman Antitrust Act, Haymarket, Homestead and Pullman strikes, Ellis Island, Chinese Exclusion Act, Populists, Cross of Gold, muckrakers, Square Deal, 16th-19th Amendments, Federal Reserve Act
- Imperialism to World War II: Spanish-American War, Open Door Policy, Panama Canal, Dollar Diplomacy, Fourteen Points, Treaty of Versailles, Red Scare, Harlem Renaissance, Scopes Trial, Great Migration, Crash of 1929, Bonus Army, First and Second New Deal, court-packing plan, Japanese internment, D-Day, atomic bombings
- Cold War to 1981: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Berlin Airlift, Korean War, McCarthyism, Brown v. Board, Little Rock Nine, Space Race, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Freedom Rides, Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, Great Society, Tet Offensive, Pentagon Papers, Roe v. Wade, Watergate, détente, stagflation
Study tactics that fit this deck
Answer every card in three parts: what, when, so what. The answers are already written that way (the Compromise of 1877 card gives the event, then the withdrawal of troops, then the end of Reconstruction). Force yourself to say the consequence before flipping; that is the part free-response graders look for.
Chain the compromises and the crises. Missouri Compromise (1820), Nullification Crisis (1832), Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Compromise of 1877: review these five cards as one sequence and you have the backbone of Periods 4 to 6 in the AP framework.
Pacing
At 212 cards, take one period per day for seven days (about 30 new cards each), then run mixed reviews across all periods for the final week before the exam. Log in at https://www.flip-it.app/ and look for AP US History (deck code KO9313) in the library.
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