Reform Movements
Foreign Policy
Economic Trends
Supreme Court Cases
AP Writing Skills
100

 Movement focused on banning alcohol

Temperance Movement

100

Policy warns Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere

Monroe Doctrine

100

 An economic system based on private ownership and profit

Capitalism

100

 The case that established judicial review

Marbury v. Madison

100

 Type of question requiring short responses with evidence

 SAQ

200

 The movement that pushed for women’s voting rights

Women’s Suffrage Movement

200

 Policy aimed at equal trade access in China

Open Door Policy

200

 Economic downturn marked by high inflation and unemployment in the 1970s

Stagflation

200

 The case that upheld “separate but equal.”

Plessy v. Ferguson

200

 Essay using documents + outside knowledge

 DBQ

300

 The reform movement that addressed prison and mental health conditions

 Dorothea Dix / Prison & Asylum Reform

300

 U.S. strategy to stop the spread of communism

Containment

300

 The economic idea that cutting taxes boosts growth

Supply-Side Economics

300

 The case that overturned segregation in schools

Brown v. Board of Education

300

Essay requiring argument without documents

 LEQ

400

 Movement aimed at ending slavery

Abolition Movement

400

 The agreement that ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam

 Paris Peace Accords

400

 A 19th-century system where workers are paid low wages and face poor conditions

 Industrial capitalism/factory system

400

The case that protected students’ free speech in schools

Tinker v. Des Moines

400

An arguable statement answering the prompt

Thesis / Claim

500

 Movement that emphasized individualism and challenged traditional authority

Transcendentalism/American Idealism 

500

 Post–Cold War conflict, where the U.S. responded to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

Gulf War

500

 Economic shift from manufacturing to service industries

Post-industrial economy

500

A case that required the police to inform suspects of their rights

Miranda v. Arizona

500

 Skill where you explain the author’s purpose or bias

Sourcing

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