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APUSH - Q&A: Exam Prep & Study Strategies

apush - q&a: exam prep & study strategies

originally streamed in 2020 with Caleb LagerweyTeacher

Q&A session covering APUSH exam prep, party systems, key amendments, and major historical events. Get answers to common student questions about AP US History topics from the Federalists to the Cold War. This review session helps you understand party ...more

curriculum note

This video was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic (spring 2020) and describes a modified exam format (45-minute FRQ-only, no multiple choice) that applied only to the 2020 AP exam. The current AP US History exam format includes multiple choice questions and has different timing and structure.

covered in this stream

units

Unit 3 – Conflict and American Independence, 1754–1800 Unit 4 – American Expansion, 1800–1848 Unit 5 – Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848–1877 Unit 6 – Industrialization and the Gilded Age, 1865–1898 Unit 7 – Conflict in the Early 20th Century, 1890–1945

topics

3.8 The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification 3.10 Shaping a New Republic 3.11 Developing an American Identity 4.2 The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson 4.7 Expanding Democracy 4.8 Jackson and Federal Power 5.5 Sectional Conflict 5.6 Failure of Compromise 5.7 Election of 1860 and Secession 6.13 Politics in the Gilded Age 7.4 The Progressives 7.5 World War I 7.7 1920s 7.9 The Great Depression 7.10 The New Deal 7.12 World War II

timestamps

0:00
Q&A Session
0:38
Session Logistics
1:41
Upcoming Reviews
3:45
Answering Questions
5:17
Importance of Dates
7:54
Yalta Conference
8:56
Johnson's Great Society
11:31
Stalin's Mistrust
14:09
Exam Format Speculation
16:49
Federalists vs Anti-Federalists
19:24
First Party System
25:37
End of First System
26:09
Hartford Convention
28:44
Second Party System
33:56
Kansas-Nebraska Act
35:30
Third Party System
39:35
Fourth Party System
43:09
Fifth Party System
46:47
Political Rights
50:25
Amendments Mnemonic
53:00
Soviets' Visions
58:39
Period 7 Review
1:03:17
Next Session Plans
1:04:51
Dates Resources

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