APUSH Exam Review

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Review Book

​*If you're looking to purchase something in addition to a review book, check out the Barron's AP US History Flash Cards, 3rd Edition
I am RECOMMENDING you purchase  The Princeton Review: Cracking the AP US History Exam review book. This is the review book that we will be working in during our after school review sessions and I will be giving OPTIONAL review assignments from. 

Another book that folks seem to like is AP US History Crash Course.  It gets right to the point!

APUSH review book reviews
Online study aid reviews

Review Calendar

apush_review_calendar_2023.pdf
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8 Week Review Plan

Vocabulary Review

Tons and Tons of Flash Cards!
APUSH Note Cards 1-250
APUSH Note Cards 251-500
​Period 1
Period 2
Period 3
Period 4
Period 5
Period 6
Period 7
Period 8
Period 9
Supreme Court Cases
Muckrakers
​Words we don't know- terms you often see on the test that aren't vocabulary
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Other Places to go for Review

Albert.io - A resource for practice multiple choice and other review.  There is a free and paid version.
Apprend.io- This is an APUSH website that has a ton of great information, including timelines and essay help
APUSH Explained - Beyond having review videos for each unit (and notes to go along with them, he also has videos for skills such as essay writing and SAQ's.  You might want to also check out his YouTube videos for shorter videos including: Quick APUSH Final Exam Review: 1491-1877 and ​Quick APUSH Final Exam Review: Periods 6-9
APUSH Review - Also includes videos and PowerPoints for each time period----New for 2016- Free Courses
Fight Fiercely  APUSH- This is the person where your reading guides came from (you should be thanking her).  This page contains reviews for each of the BAGPIPE themes and then some.  It is insanely AMAZING!!! 
Fiveable- There's a lot of free stuff here or you can pay for a variety of tutorials.  Great info. 
Get a Five.com - Includes a "study room" with video lessons, review quizzes and practice tests and a diagnostic exam to see where you're at.
Gilder Lehrman - Timelines, documents, videos, and essays for each of the 9 APUSH periods 
Heimler's History- check out his website here or even better yet, subscribe to him on YouTube.  Seriously- he's the best!
Khan Academy- Includes a brief study guide and videos on how to approach the various parts of the exam

Video Review 

Here are playlists I curated to help you to review for the exam:

Presidential Review

Evolution of Political Parties
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Man Crushes & Women Crushes

Database of MCM's and WCW's organized by APUSH time period

Review Documents

APUSH Key Concepts (basically what drives the course) with a table of contents
Rubrics for DBQ and LEQ and Historical Thinking Skills from the College Board :)
​Ultimate Guide to APUSH
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how_to_write_an_apush_thesis.pdf
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contextualization.pdf
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ap_us_history_multiple_choice_questions_strategies_and_tips.pdf
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how_to_saq-_with_examples.pdf
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apushexamreviewpacket.pdf
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the_official_apush_cram_packet.pdf
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Multiple Choice Review

How to do APUSH MC- video from Khan Academy, includes some sample MC 
​​History Teacher.net: Quiz Page - Practice multiple choice questions (old style---but still help with content) 
Albert.io - A resource for practice multiple choice and other review.  There is a free and paid version.
Khan Academy- For period by period videos and practice MC
​High School Test Prep- MC questions from each time period
  • Buy a review book and practice the multiple choice questions!
  • Don't forget to review multiple choice questions from your AMSCO book, reading quizzes, and tests from throughout the school year
  • Check out the document posted above "AP US History Multiple Choice Questions Strategies and Tips"

Apps

Romulus App- Ok, it's $4.99 but it contains over 800 multiple choice questions for you to review for the exam.  Pick the topic you feel you need to work on and go to town!​
iScore5 AP US History- This one is also $4.99, it includes vocabulary and 3 levels of mc questions to practice.
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Spring Break Review Plan

Overall Review Ideas: 
  • If you haven't started working through your review book yet, get going!  Take a practice test! Look at a period that you are especially unfamiliar with.
  • Go to AP Classroom--All of the Progress Checks for Periods 1-9 are open!
  • Outline some essays! From the woman who created our Guided Reading packets---MAJOR essay and thematic review.  Choose a theme, she lists previous essay prompts and then goes on to ask questions and provide charts and other information to help you to answer potential essay questions.  Other places to go- review book, AP Classroom, Albert.io for DBQs, LEQs, and SAQs.
  • Practice some multiple choice! You can go through your review book, AP Classroom, AMSCO, Albert.io, or check out Khan Academy for period by period videos and practice MC.
  • Review flash cards- Check out the links below.  They will help with all parts of the exam---good for specific factual information!
  • Review specific facts and whatnot- Official APUSH Cram Packet (laws, cases, people, foreign policy and more), Supreme Court (scroll down to the Supreme Court section.  You can check out quizlet and videos that I made for regular US to get you started on the most important cases you need to know).  A more complete quizlet for APUSH is here.  
  • A good site to check out is Apprend.io  - it has nifty timelines and essay advice.
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For Audio/Visual Learners:
  • Watch some videos! Check out the 8 week review plan (full 9 periods of videos here), Jocz review videos, Thematic Reviews, and Gilder Lehrman period reviews Here is a period 9 specific video.
  • Binge watch some documentaries!  On HBO Max/CNN: The Sixties, Seventies and The Eighties, The Nineties, and The 2000's; On Netflix: Ken Burns documentaries: The Roosevelts, Prohibition, The West.  On Amazon Prime: Ken Burns Documentaries- The Dust Bowl (this is the one with the jackrabbits), The Roosevelts, The West, Prohibition; American Experience episodes: Panama Canal, Triangle Fire, Stonewall Uprising, Freedom Riders, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Dolley Madison, Earth Days, My Lai, Into the Deep (episodes are from different seasons); PBS The Abolitionists, American Experience: We Shall Remain, American Experience: The Presidents (All of these can also be found on the PBS website) 
  • Listen to some podcasts! If you want to review a specific topic and listening is more your jam---try out a podcast.  Here are three that I recommend: Backstory- This is a podcast that "brings historical perspective to the events happening around us today".   Stuff You Missed in History Class- This podcast delves in detail into specific topics in history. Presidential- Gives great information about each president; it's one of my favs.