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AP US History Exam Preparation Guide

[Music] hey everyone it's John from Marco learning Welcome to our session for apus history I hope that you are all doing well tonight let me know in this chat where are you coming from and is this your first AP exam that you have ever taken in your life for some of you this is this is going to be quite an adventure um so what I want to do real quick is we're going to start off by going to one of the best resources you have for when you are cramming for the apus History exam and that is our apus history study guide this is completely free on our website I have pinned this to the chat section it's also in the description of this video if you're watching the recording you can go ahead and downloaded there what we did for you all is a little Christmas present in the middle of May on the Cinco Deo for the apus History exam which is that we've got the entire exam broken down into little onepage guides for each um of these different units so we've got unit one here call calling period one that breaks down all of period one in just a page we've got period two all the way through so we're going to be referencing this throughout the stream and I just want to encourage you let us know in the chat that the topics that we can help you with in just a minute we're going to be bringing on Tom Richie in just a minute we're going to be bringing on Marco the dog so I'm John from Marco learning Marco our mascot is here he is actually going to sleep because he says it's not worth it to cram at the last second but um maybe what we'll do is let's start with the man the myth the legend Tom Richie um who can join us and kind of guide us through some of the best ways to get ready for this exam at the last minute um so Tom whenever you're ready you can hop in I'm also going to bring up Marco how's it going Tom can you hear me all right John hey there John and hey there students and uh yeah that's great it sounds like we're gonna be seeing Marco the dog at some point during this so uh you know we just had a nice session over on my channel and uh coming over here to uh you know to Marco learning which of course uh you know if students aren't familiar with Marco learning Marco learning is supporting not only APUSH and you know not only you know the handful of subjects I support uh you know APUSH and AP Euro and government um so as far as that uh as that goes um you know supporting a lot of other things as well so make sure y'all are looking around at Marco learning.com and seeing some information about that and so let's think about okay so there are folks here and juandale is Off the Grid grid grid grid he's got his Kanye going on here but I think uh you know having some good uh some good Kanye dragon energy I think that's one thing you know if we're thinking about Kanye and we want to learn from Kanye um for um you know the actually I think I was looking at the wrong chat but still I mean we can learn something from Kanye um thinking about like he's always confident about things okay so I mean Kanye is you know yeah I think that's that's the thing Kanye is like I'm I'm gonna go get that tape you know and he just goes and gets it and uh you know so Kanye um you know bring that confidence in there and so with that let's see what we've got here um you know we see something about the um the Gilded Age okay so as far as uh as far as that goes somebody wants the Gilded Age Now one thing that I think is very important here is thinking about um you know is thinking about like you know the Gilded Age represents now one of the critiques a lot of times that I have of the Gilded AG um is that um you know that people call it l Fair okay so when we think about this like how La Fair was the guilded age and I think the reason why people use this term is they compare it to what came after it rather than what came before it so when you think about it it's like when you look at it from the point of view of the progressives where they're thinking in terms of government regulation of business um and then the Gilded Age which I would not say was L fair in the sense that there's a lot that the government actually is doing um you know let me actually let me actually put something in the chat um you know that's go that's a you know a little handout that I was working on during a session one time um so let me just go ahead and do that how was fair was the guilded age and actually as Tom is doing that real quick keep posting those topics that you guys want to cover in our session this is going to be a dynamic session we're going to respond to some of the things that you want to cover I'm going to let Tom share his screen I'm going to join the chat and then later I'll come back here with Marco and uh we'll get we'll get moving into some of the some of the reviews that we have in our study guides so the thing is like you know some people they refer to the guilded age as L fair so I was thinking in terms of what if we frame this as an leq prompt evaluate the extent to which L Fair economics influence the policies of the United States government from the period from 18 in the period from 1865 to 1900 that we you know typically will call the so-called Gilded Age okay so step one we have to think of defining terms so if you think of something like law a fair part of the uh thing here is we've got to Define law a fair what is law a fair what are we saying when we say la a fair and I'm going to Define it as a very limited government intervention the economy hands off literally in French Let It Be La Fair okay which my French sucks but but I'm going to try right um it's a written test but with that let it be okay just lazy you know just the government just kind of let it be now one thing that you know about L fair is L Fair does say that the government should punish fraud so that's something to kind of think about as well so again depending on how you define it so if somebody's looking at La Fair I mean you have unprecedented government interventions in the economy if you were to take the Gilded Age and put it up against the Jacksonian period the government is much more active in the economy like this is Henry Clay's dream you know Henry Clay struggled to get parts of the American system implemented During the annabellum period but during the Gilded Age a lot of this stuff uh you know a lot of this stuff comes true and so when we think about like you know the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Interstate Commerce Act these are unprecedented regulations of business now on the other hand compared to the Progressive Era there is very little regulation of large corporations but again more regulation than existed previously now again railroad subsidies the land grants by governments to private by the government to private corporations nothing was a fair about the government saying here private corporations here's money to build railroads uh you know in a l Fair economy truly L Fair these railroad companies would have been fully responsible for the risk of building the Transcontinental railroads and in fact some railroads such as James J Hills Great Northern Railroad um which was partly the subject of Teddy Roosevelt's Northern Securities case later on he built it without any government subsidies at all just taking in investors from the United States and Germany and so then think about the strikes that when there was a strike like the great Railroad Strike or the Pullman Strike the federal government they used the Commerce Clause they said these railroad strikes they are inhibiting interstate commerce and so it's time to send in troops it's time to arrest people it's time to break that strike you know when Teddy Roosevelt during the Progressive Era said y'all come to the White House and let's talk it was like what the government's not going to take the side of the business um and so with that because Teddy Roosevelts no I've got a square deal and so the strikebreaking policies that uh you know this is not L Fair now on one hand we could say on the L Fair side that there was no income tax okay that's something that you know there was an attempt in 1894 to have an income tax but that was struck down by the Supreme Court so then but on one hand there was no income tax but on the other hand protective tariffs there is nothing La Fair about a protective tariff and that's where when we think about the uh about the populist movement okay so we think about the populist movement that is uh something that um is a uh you know the populist movement is basically response to government policies like the protective tariff and the gold standard things that were hurting the farm economy at the time now there's nothing inherently wrong with the gold standard but the amount of currency because the government was uh limiting the amount of silver that it put into circulation um that there was a shortage of currency and so the economies like you know the farmers like we need more currency to circulate so but the other thing you know remember that um you know William Jennings Brian said in his cross of gold speech um if uh if protection has killed its thousands if the protective tariff has killed its thousands the gold standard has killed its tens of thousands okay and that's one thing that we think of there that you know the gold standard that is the money supply um you know that the government is you know making sure that there's uh you know that they're controlling the supply of money and that's actually something you can think of too when you think about the gold standard the populist wanted basically the the free coinage of silver like 16 to1 they wanted more silver going so this is basically the government regulation of the currency okay so with that and to a certain extent government regulation of the currency can be good we're dealing with inflation right now and we're like hey the Federal Reserve needs to do something to slow this down and so these are things I mean the gold standard is not L fair this is something that you know this isn't Banks issuing their own currencies this is United States currency now also we'll note some things like social Darwinism and the gospel of wealth okay these are things that basically discouraged government sponsored social welfare programs the government should not step in and do things um to give direct relief to poor people so that's something that somebody could make an argument for La Fair now another thing though and I would put this in the antiw fair column the Toleration of corruption because this is something now you could decide what you're going to do here with that but I would put that in anti- Fair because there's not supposed to be corruption in this kind of uh you know in this situation even a l Fair economy if there is corruption then it's something that you know is supposed to be prosecuted so did La Fair economics influence Economic Policy during the Gilded Age to a great extent or to a limited extent we have to make that call okay so when we think about this let's think about the kind of thesis statements that we could write here so simple thesis a l Fair economics had a significant effect on economic policy during the Gilded Age that is my claim a thesis must first have a claim because there was limited regulation of business and there were not any policies in place to help people who were struggling so you see here that I've got a claim and I've got my because which means I'm going to go into how Andor why so and I've got two points which each of these is going to be the basis of a body paragraph so simple thesis a and then simple thesis B law a fair economics had a very limited impact on government econom on economic policy during the Gilded Age because the government repeatedly intervened in order to break strikes and passed laws that helped big businesses so strike breaking like when we're thinking about strike breaking um this is some with the great Railroad Strike and the Pullman Strike I could use these as specific evidence to support this claim to support this line of reasoning that the government intervened in order to break strikes and then laws that helped business railroad subsidies and the protective tariff so I would use these kind of things to go into uh you know so railroad you know subsidies um for the Transcontinental Railroad right so all right and so a complex thesis okay if we're trying to write a complex full credit essay I could say something like this La a fair economics had a very limited impact on economic policy during the guilded age because the government repeatedly intervened in order to break strikes and passed laws that helped big business however social darwinist philosophies did have some influence in limiting the government's involvement so what we'll see here is that we've got strike breaking and laws that helped business on one side I'm saying that okay this was not L fair and then I'm going to say here social Darwinism I'm going to say okay that is something that is L fair so I've got two arguments on one side and then I've got one argument that uh is on the other side now while I'm here um you know let's talk briefly about like captains of industry versus Rober Barons people ask me these this question like which one is it now this is a question you have to answer this okay different historians are going to make uh you know different claims so for example if you were reading like Howard's 's of people's History of the United States it's probably going to go into Rober Barons but Rober Barons presupposes that people like Rockefeller and Carnegie they have stolen money from the American public whereas captains of industry uh you know Rockefeller and Carnegie have legitimately profit profited from their efforts to modernize the United States economy that Rockefeller and Carnegie they are rich because we're all better off you know they didn't force us to buy you know nobody's like you know forcing people to buy steel or forcing people to buy oil when we think about oil before Rockefeller two things it was expensive and it might blow up okay where oil after Rockefeller much cheaper and it's not going to blow up you can trust it standard oil this branding Rockefellers like this is quality oil and it is better and cheaper than the oil you were buying before I came along you're welcome now also remember when you're thinking about philanthropy during the Gilded Age which uh you know I follow uh follow a teacher if anybody's watching from Miss Worthy's classes uh you know she um is a you know an alumni of Spellman College uh in Atlanta which is named for John D rockefeller's wife John D Rockefeller married into a family that had been prominent abolitionist and so they gave this money to start this college uh you know so Spelman College is a historically black college for women and so black women weren't really getting a lot of government funds that time the government's not like oh we need to provide good educations for black women well that's where the Rockefellers come in so the gospel of wealth let's not dismiss it as something that's just like oh they're making an excuse for this or that um that Carnegie and Rockefeller they're doing things that are you know having very real impacts okay and of course you know you can't argue that they're doing some of these things to you know for the sake of their image and stuff like that but at the same time you know when Carnegie is making all of these libraries you know this is something that uh this this is something that's that's helping people um and so as far as uh as far as that goes I think that's an important thing to uh an important thing to note and so from there um you know and remember there are some free study guides available at mark learning.com and make sure y'all are following Marco learning on uh you know on the on the internet right on on on Instagram I was about to just say on the internet what am I what am I saying here you know it's the night before the exam I've been broadcasting all week um and so as far as uh you know as far as that goes um you know let's go ahead I'm going to be turning this over to uh I'm going to be turning this over to John um shortly okay John and Marco now do I get to see do I get to see Marco um or not um y'all let let me know because John I'm going to be running over to the euro review pretty soon so I just want to make sure that uh I'm able to say hey to Marco I'm very much much hoping for that so uh we'll we'll see and let's see what uh what people are saying now um blowing up the chat stay focused please nod says okay that guy's about to make a that's some five energy right there um oh okay might blow up as in literally jvv pass might blow up in literally now um as far as that goes blowing up figuratively now y'all are going to blow up the chat because here he is hey Marco hey Marco all right how you doing buddy hanging he's this this man is gave up he's been sleeping this whole review you talked about Gilded Age he didn't care he wanted a treat and he was done we're gonna bring him back at the end of all this Tom tell us I am I am very glad that I got to uh that I got to see this uh this is incred I'm just always you know that Marco energy and uh hopefully y'all will do better on the exam tomorrow than when Marco takes it okay because I don't think that's going to go very well having actually met Marco um he's he's such a cute dog but he's not that smart no that's Tom Richie immediately graded his DBQ as a zero as soon as he saw him he was like no thesis no Contex no evidence definitely no complexity no complex understanding for sure so Tom real quick I want to talk about your channel and why this playlist you have parked at the top of your page is going to be so helpful for all our crammers especially our West Coast people what are the videos we should be watching from this playlist as we're watching some things tonight that you think are going one thing that I'll note John is my aush offerings are a lot uh a lot more plentiful in the earlier part of the course and that tends to be a lot of times what people are needing when they're coming into this I find that you know when I'm giving last minute sessions to tutoring clients a lot of times they're wanting to start from the beginning they're like let's just take it from the beginning and usually they'll want me to go through reconstruction or something like that because they're like I've done the rest of it pretty recently so I think that you know looking through some of these things and thinking about uh you know I always tell people think about something that is high interest it's something you want to study and something that you're like hey I kind of forget about that so when you're scrolling through you know don't focus on things that you think are boring um unless now you know what if it gets to be about like 11:30 and you're still not sleepy um then maybe kind of think about like oh let me start reading about like um you know organized labor in the 1880s or something like that or you know family structures and whatever time or you know like let me let me read about like you know urban planning and you know I mean you can there are things that you can start reading about you're going to be like and you'll get that SLE sleep you've been needing but other than that I would say that it's it's important to think in terms of what uh you know of of what you're interested in doing so it's like you know what I haven't seen that one in a while and I wanna I want to focus on that that would be my advice uh for that but I want to uh wish everybody a uh you know just a great time now remember Mar you know Marco and I will be uh there for AP Government if you're taking that next year also some people take AP European History and of course job uh you know is uh you know here with Marco and Marco is serving so many subjects and and even subjects that you know seniors normally take also I'm leaving you in good hands here John has like you know years and years um of test prep and so this guy like I mean there are people he's not going to tell you this but there are people who've like put him on a plane and flown him across oceans to like prepare their kids for test um nobody's ever done that for me like sometimes people get me on like the zoom or something you know like we'll get on a hangout we'll do online tutoring but think people have physically like said John we need you to get on a plane to prepare our kid for a test on another continent so with that ladies and gentlemen I am leaving y'all in the best of hands John it's always a pleasure and I'll see you I guess around nine for the AP Euro uh little AP Euro action that's right thank you Tom everyone let's say we love Tom Richie in the chat as he heads out the door and best of luck Tom with your helping students on your channel and on your crowdcast um have a great night here's what we're going to do everyone I want to share my screen and guide you all through I'm going to close out some of this I've got my my YouTube stream over here and I'll close that out as well and I'm taking you to a study guide pack that we have available for free on our website um that actually it's right here on the free study guides page I'm going to pop this in the chat again um and it's pinned to the top of the chat so you can get it so here's what we did we took the entire apus history course and we put it into nine pages so guess what I'm going to do live on YouTube right now for all of you we're going to go through all nine pages real quick and redo the entire course so if you've been asking about a particular time time period it is here for you let's go to period one which is unit one from 1491 just before Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 to 16007 which is when we see those first Puritan colonies come together this period is only about 5% of the exam and it will not appear on the DBQ so look at this image and you think about the big story this is not something you need to obsess with we're going to move pretty quickly through this so we know again 5% of the exam one idea they used to call these key Concepts now they have the different topics but this is kind of useful for really simplifying the unit key concept 1.1 as native populations the indigenous peoples of the Americas migrated and settled across the vast expans of North America over time they developed distinct and increasingly complex societies so you need to know that Native American societies were different from one another the poblo peoples and the hopy peoples of the Southwest were different from the LPE in New Jersey where I am from right they were complex society some of them were nomadic some of them were sedentary nomadic means you pack up your tent or your TP on your horse or animal and you you move across the country um or across large terrain sedentary means you have irrigation or farming or animals that kind of Park you in one place that's some of the complexity we see they adapted to and transformed their diverse environment so we look at maze cultivation in the American southwest we look at hunting buffalo in the Great Plains these are the things that the native peoples accomplished in America on the eve of the European conquest or the the Europe rival of Europeans or what they're calling here contact the contact among Europeans Native Americans and Africans resulted in What's called the Colombian Exchange so if you need to know one key term from this time period it's definitely the Colombian Exchange not for the nation of Colombia and not for the District of Colombia but for Christopher Columbus whose name is the origin of all of those the Colombian Exchange is the movement of people and goods and diseases and animals up and down across borders in fact we put on here this is super zoomed in right but here is what that Colombian Exchange looks like so we see that things like yams and potatoes and peppers and pineapples move from the Americas over to Europe in Africa and we see that things that move from here include lemons and onions and olives and cow and wheat and bees and of course this symbol over here on the right which are the diseases that killed approximately 90% of the indal indigenous peoples of the Americas so the Colombian Exchange is a story of of fruits and vegetables and animals and disease uh it's a story of the movement of people so we see some of these these features down here there's this key these key terms maze cultivated um in the American southwest and uh we see the Colombian Exchange had significant cultural social cultur and political changes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean now let me warn you about something it says social cultural and political changes that's a phrase that gets people trapped right because they think that they've got to um you know list this in their thesis or use this in their DBQ or leq avoid these overly General phrases social and cultural and political is really referring to everything now we included a little timeline here some basic things like Spain establishing the encomenda system in 1512 and when you look at encomenda this is something that is now kind of notorious and Infamous it's a forced labor system in which the um the American uh Indians the N the indigenous peoples were brought into subject labor by the Spanish the abuse of indigenous peoples by the Spanish becomes an important theme if you ever read Bart deas kasas or any of these sources now there's a lot more to say we actually summarize it all here you're thinking I can't keep up with this guy like what is going on I'm G to pop this link back in the chat um well I'm G to say link to guides that's also here I'll also remind you as I'm just looking at this if you like this video press that like button subscribe to our Channel we've opened up the chat for subscribers only to make sure that we keep the chat very focused so um period one not the most most important unit on the AP US History course one that covers really simple ideas but stuff you did a while ago um stuff that you did for example the encomenda system or This Acronym God gold and Glory what motivated the people who who came from Europe to take over the Americas they were motivated by the desire to convert people to Christian the Christian faith or Catholic faith the gold which was the desire literally to get gold and silver in the new world and glory for people to make a name for themselves by con BR the new world so the first unit is there let's go to the second unit things start to get a little more interesting also not part of what you're going to see on the DBQ so this is really significant as we think of the exam just being a few hours away this is not where the exam is focused its attention it's also America before America it's hard for us to wrap our head around this but the United States of America was basically three different countries and I'm just going to zoom in and get a nice kind of shape here and you can see the three different countries that were the United States of America I'm going to annotate on my screen for just a minute here right here's the part that I live in I live over right over here in central New Jersey um where Only the Strong Survive as we say this is the English part of the Americas this part up in blue is the French part and this part down in green is the Spanish part the United States is really the Confluence of three nations England France and Spain who all kind of crashed into each other now the English language ended up kind of winning out it was this expansion Westward let me know in the chat what was the thing that basically took New France this territory in blue and you can see it's basically the same shape what happened in 1803 that made all of this part of English-speaking America this is something you should definitely know for the exam it's one of those critical turning points America as America is inconceivable today without this incredible moment of France becoming part of America so we look at these different colonies they had different motives different ways of of kind of entering into the American landscape so let's take a look at these key Concepts and we see key concept 2.1 here which says Europeans developed a variety of colonization and migration patterns influenced by different Imperial that's Empire goals cultures and very North American environment so it depended on where you settled if you settled l in Mexico in the American southwest you ended up in a different climate a different topography with different indigenous peoples than the peoples who lived in the nice cold parts of Indiana and Michigan shout out to all my Michigan and Indian I lived in I went to grad school for history at in the University of notredame I was cold for like four months a year um but it's a very special territory and the University of no notredame is notak the Our Lady of the Lake it was founded by French Catholics so you see this long this Legacy of a kind of a New France in this this part of America so um they uh competed with each other and American Indians for resources so especially New France and New England were fighting each other for access to fur trading access to waterways access to goods and they were fighting with indigenous people which is why we have a name like the French and Indian War so pretty straightforward with this sort of main concept of of unit two of AP US History which is that the European peoples came to different regions with different motives and had different relationships okay another one here key concept 2.2 the British colonies participated in political social cultural and economic exchanges with Great Britain that encourag both stronger bonds with Britain and resistance to British control so we're obsessed with the British because it's the British englishspeaking domain that ends up becoming America as we know it even though we know this story is complex and this period of time let me zoom out a little bit for a second here this period of time from 16007 to 1754 is a time period in which you know we're seeing the um we're seeing the formation of both robust British colonies and people who are starting to defy and resist and develop their own culture and their autonomy so um great and I'm looking really quickly at the chat some great commentary and feedback again if you like this video press that like button and if you want to get access to these free study guys just press on the link that's pinned at the top of the chat so we see the timeline here the first 16007 is the first English colony that was founded at Jamestown um which is in modern day Virginia we have pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact so this is a good thing like a nice little detail if you're setting up some contextualization for your DBQ it's a little bit early because the earliest the DBQ could appear is 1754 but maybe by 1620 you're seeing something earlier we see an Hutchinson is banished for organizing religious meetings for women an Hutchinson and Roger Williams we see the witch um trials the Salem Witch Trials we're seeing religion become more complicated remember the Puritans came as religious refugees they became as Ardent Believers in reformed Protestant Christianity what happens we're going to see by the end of this period is something we call the first grade awakening I was getting some questions about this the best way to think about the first grade awakening is that in the 1740s two people Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield spelled George Whitefield but George Whitfield began a Revival of Puritan the Puritan colonies and they felt that people had lost their way people got distracted people lost their their their commitment to traditional Protestant Christianity and so this was this incredible Revival movement that comes to Define part part of the reason why America is more religious as the United States of America is more religious than many other industrialized and developed Nations one of those legacies is that first Great Awakening in the 1740s so you see what I'm doing everyone you notice I'm like a little I'm like a little wikpedia article machine here right I'm spitting out two to three sentences because I'm showing you as I'm talking what contextualization looks like in contextualization you give like one or two sentences that really break down what you know laid the foundation for other things in US history and you know get specific I mentioned Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield that's specific I mentioned the 1740s I mentioned Protestant Christianity I mentioned um this sense of of losing one's way and a desire to revive and recover it that is a specific robust description of the first Great Awakening so um good and I'm seeing this is overall really guys are doing great in the chat thank you for being amazing we can turn slow mode onto a longer period if we need to um because we got just about 700 people in here um and again if you um the chat is for our subscribers don't forget we have a gigantic playlist on our YouTube channel for apus history in fact I'm going to show that to you real quick um which is over here in our channel so if you look on the main page of Marco learning um and I'm going to go right here um okay I'm going to share my screen real quick for US history so you see on our Channel here's where we are this US History Channel this is me breaking down all these key Concepts here's Tom Richie doing unit one all the way through the entire course including things that break down the DBQ um and that cover a lot of material that I think could be really uh helpful for you so okay I'm going to reshare these study guides and bring us back into period to an important period but not nearly as important as about what we're going to get to right um so and here by the way we see the first grade awakening again the encomenda system one thing that people always are grateful they know is mercantilism or sometimes pronounced mercantilism and this is basically the economic system that the British believed in where countries are trying to basically get a favorable trade balance export more stuff send more stuff out make more money from what you sell than from what you buy more money that you're selling from from what you're buying it's a simple idea but grabbing colonies around the world helps you do this and that's the system that governed how the British did things so go to this study guide highlight you can this is a PDF you can mark it all up mercantilism is one of those words you definitely want to know cash crops is a pretty straightforward idea right you make a you you you cultivate a lot of tobacco in order to sorry I have a dog stuck underneath me um maybe we should do a dog break in a minute um cash crops are like tobacco and cotton you're not selling them to feed your family you're selling them in bulk to make a lot of money and that's how a lot of the Virginia colonies were originally established so this is all of what we're going to get in Period two um that breaks down some of these core ideas but what I want you to remember from Period 2 is this the colonies that make up America are forming they are New England New France and New Spain and eventually through the weird mathematics of the next 150 years they're going to combine into this incredible country that is the United States of America now let's enter into the DBQ period now we're in the territory the territory of what could appear on the DBQ tomorrow my friend Emily glankler over at antisocial studies she's going live on Tik Tok in a few minutes she talked about she's speculating that the DBQ could involve this period this is when the United States of America became a its own country and just straight up broke away from Great Britain so let's go into these key Concepts together I'm going to zoom in nice and big so if you're watching on mobile or somewhere else you can see it British attempts to assert tighter control over its North American colonies and the colonial resolve to pursue self-government led to a colonial independence movement and the Revolutionary War British attempts to assert tighter this is such an awkwardly written thing which is written by the college board but basically the British wanted to control colonies and the colonists wanted to run their own show and that's what caused the Revolutionary War so one thing that could absolutely show up on this exam tomorrow that you could cite is the Revolutionary War that created the the nation of the United States of America was caused both by the colonists really wanting to make their own country and the British government cracking down on them like no you can't do anything it's terrible it's awful it's gly and they crack the whip and they tax the Americans and Americans resisted more and that's what the 1760s and 1770s are the Americans want to break away and the British with their tea and their teeth and their accents came in and tried to control everything with the Stamp Act the Molasses Act and the Sugar Act and all these things and it did not work and that don't quote me on that in the DBQ tomorrow it's not going to help you um don't quote any of that Sugar Act and Tea Act and not picking on British people um key concept 3.2 the American revolution's Democratic and Republican ideals and exp inspired new experiment with different new experiments with different forms of government so this is something that's really incredible all these people begin to take over the um government that is the American colonies and then they decide all of a sudden to begin experimenting they make the Articles of Confederation they make uh the Constitution of the United States they add the Bill of Rights all of these things are fig in out um a new kind of government can you imagine what that must have been like the founding fathers of the United States of America are like we don't have a king we don't have the parliament we don't have any of this stuff what are we gonna do so actually what they did true story is they kind of made a part-time King so let's talk about this for a second the current government of the United States is basically like a modified British government instead of King George III you got George Washington who had rules for two terms as an executive instead of the House of Commons and the House of Lords you get the House of Representatives and the Senate okay that's super different and then you have instead of all the courts you have the Supreme Court and the courts underneath it you have three branches of government the executive the judicial and the legislative each taking their own kind of power and each reflecting something from like the British mindset from which the founding fathers came so those experiments in government specifically involved the three branches of government the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution if you're talking about those things that is really what's going to help you get specific don't feel like you have to make stuff up when you're talking about this talk about the Constitution talk about the articles of con Federation and if you're not sure kind of what those are remember we've got some definitions here down here that explain the difference between the Articles the Constitution the Federalist paper and the Bill of Rights so I'm going to defer to this study guide pack again I'll pop this in the chat for you all it's right here on our website um and yeah by the way there's a bunch of new people who've just joined us I'm John from Marco learning we are walking through all of these materials we just had Tom Richie on the air just had my dog Marco here Tom is going to be live on his channel again and live on this one for AP Euro so definitely check us out for those resources as well now this Articles of Confederation was the first attempt to make a government it was not very um effective and so it got placed and here we get the preamble to the Constitution the Bill of Rights and all of this so so a one question I just got in the chat that's a good one here from Rohan is what Supreme Court cases do you recommend that we memorize there's only a few that you really need to know we're going to get get to them as we go through this one would be Marberry V Madison which we'll get to in a minute and then all the way up to maybe Brown versus the Board of Education you have to memorize 15 Supreme Court cases for the apus government course you don't for AP US hist history so it's not this is not a trivia test this is not a test of all the things that you should know about the Supreme Court or what happened in article three of the Constitution like nobody cares but you should be feel very comfortable with these documents broadly for the apus history DBQ which could very well if antisocial studies is Right could end up being um on period three period four is my least favorite period of American History can we talk about boring this period is I mean look at this painting it's very pretty but like I'm already bored right I would rather have my phone out I feel like want to check my notifications in fact somebody who is this um somebody just texted me um this yeah okay um so good actually oh there's one other question I just got from um so I'm ignoring that one uh from Hannah which was um what presidents do I definit need to memorize so true story one of the reasons why I was such a nerd in the fourth grade was that I memorized all the presidents of the United States and can recite them in like 25 seconds which I might do as like a party trick at the end of this if you guys demand it but that helped me kind of sort out like where everything is in American history you definitely don't need to do that you can't do it tonight and memorization is not your goal it's 8:12 PM Eastern Standard Time you do not want to be like focusing on cramming stuff in your head you want to f focus on reminding yourself about what's really important so let's take stock of where we are the United States at the beginning of unit 4 is a brand new country it's very weak financially and otherwise in 1812 it's about to get reinvaded by England right like this is not a strong country so this is this is a period where period 3 1754 to 1800 is how the basic government is forming this is all kind of preamer America that we just covered so these study guides are bringing us through a story of an emerging Nation we know the end of the story we know the United States is going to be a very powerful very wealthy dominant Force the United States of America is the wealthiest and most powerful nation that has ever existed by far and it invented like YouTube and Marco learning study guides right so it's like all which are equivalently powerful technologies that came out of this incredible nation in 1800 to 1848 it wasn't obvious it is going to end up there this is by the way this is a gorgeous painting I'm going to zoom in so we can just like take it in for a second this is what we call the Hudson River School it's a great little um kind of beautiful name that helps you uh or beautiful kind of art that helps you see America a uniquely American style emerge um I did get a question in the chat about kind of how long our stream is going to be I think we're officially scheduled to end at 8:30 but I'm going to finish when I finish this definitely in the next 45 minutes I got to finish because I got AP European History coming on this this Channel at 9:00 p.m so um a few key Concepts that happened in fact I'm going to walk us through here on the timeline so earlier I asked you all what was the thing that doubled the size of the United States and brought New France into New England that was the Federal Government finalizing the the Louisiana Purchase Louisiana from France Louie it was purchased from Napoleon I think it was something like $15 million it's the best real estate deal in human history the French were desperate they sold the land it's probably halfway illegal but whatever we have all of like Middle America as a result of that deal in 1803 in 187 the Congress voted to end the international slave trade this is the beginning of moving the chess pieces in place to end the slave trade in this country rather to end slavery in this country but it would take another 60 years for that to happen officially in 1812 the US declares war against B uh Britain that was the War of 1812 so just incredibly I want you to imagine in the years is 1812 everyone is there's like five people in America it's not there's no California and the United States has just declared war against Britain which it just broke away from and British troops like burned down the White House part part of it um so an incredible moment and it shows the Frailty and the weakness um of the United States of America in these early years so when you're thinking of period four or unit four think of weakness think of a country finding its identity an identity defined by the Hudson River School and an identity defined by this new territory so the United States is moving Westward this yellow territory it acquires Louisiana it explodes in growth like one day in 1803 people woke up to their newspapers with their pipe in their mouth and we're like wait what that our country just doubled and then what we see in green is that Spanish territory so moving through we see the Louisiana Purchase the ending of the international slave trade the US declaration of war against Britain in the War of 1812 1820 one of the first things that happened where the chess pieces are moving into place for these compromises what I want you to think about the causes of the Civil War here's what I want you to think about the northern States became largely free states the Southern States became entirely slave states and then this awkward Balancing Act every time we add a free state in the north we got to add a Slave state in the South or every time we add a slave state in the South we have to add a free state in the north to create a natural stalemate and they did this from 1820 to 1860 when it exploded into violence with the election of Abraham Lincoln the country was plunged into war and 600,000 troops died Americans killing other Americans over the issue of slavery because for 40 years the nation held its breath the first moment of this you're going to see right here in this study guide as the Missouri Compromise right the first attempt to try to Le get this right and keep people happy this is a lesson of history for all of us when you avoid the difficult subject when you just postpone it just like the founding fathers did with slavery you end up with this with this stalled thing and you can actually make something like Civil War a lot worse we know the 1823 that James Monroe the fifth president of the United States declared the Monroe Doctrine that's another one of those things you don't have to memorize but just remind yourself of let me know in the chat do have you heard of the Monroe Doctrine have you never heard there's Marco getting up um have you never heard of the of the Monroe Doctrine do you know it very well so because this is one of these things where Marco come over here come over here Marco all right we're gonna take a Marco break real quick while he's here come on come on Marco Marco do people want to see you oh so we interrupt this AP US History review with with um all sorts of meaningful things about the Monroe Doctrine to bring you Marco our founder who's Marco stop looking captive smile wow all right tell me what you think of Marco in the chat if you love him give him a little um love Emoji or sheep Emoji or something there he is say hi to your people okay I'm going to let him down [Music] now okay M BR he's he's actually like 350 pounds people it's fur [Music] it's lamb meat um so anyway um Monroe says Hey Western countries you got to stay European countries you got to stay out of the Western Hemisphere you got to let America be America let the americaas Simon Bolivar the Latin American countries do their own thing this would also be a step in that direction of America going from a weak country to one of the most powerful countries in the world 1830 Andrew Jackson the first Super aggressive president of the United States a president who liked vetos who like to be the strongman who like to defy the Supreme Court this President is guilty of the the Trail of Tears and the destruction of Native American life in the 1830s um and it was always be a sort of a stain on his legacy even though his legacy also entails the the strength of the executive emerging for the first time um which could be a good thing or a bad thing The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas an abolitionist and a former slave whose story many of us have read I've read it and taught it it's an incredibly powerful text it's the rise of abolitionism abolition is and I think I do we have abolition here no we have some of these other terms but abolition is the movement to end slavery which is starting to lay its foundations here and then we have a key moment up in senca in New York State up by the fingerlakes this the women's convention that demanded rights for women so we're starting to see the seeds of a lot of these things the Second Great Awakening is much less important than the first um and it's an important thing to keep in mind that um a religious revivals and religious Independence so to speak is part of the American way European countries are tied to their the in England it's the head of the Church of England who is the monarch Queen Elizabeth II or the Pope in Rome the United States has Catholics Protestants evangelicals anabaptists Mormons it has Muslims and Hindus and Jews and Buddhists all kinds of people under this big umbrella and religious revivalism religious diversity is part of the story you need to know about one other one I mentioned Upstate New York if you live in Upstate New York if you've ever been there you can see signs of the Erie Canal of the infrastructure that was built in the 1820s under the direction of Senator Henry Clay whose American system was about internal improvements and building up America to have kind of a great uh infrastructure to really Thrive so we're seeing a country laying the foundation for rights for black people and for women we're seeing the laying the foundations for the civil war with these compromises we're seeing laying the foundations for America as a superpower with the Monroe Doctrine we're seeing laying the foundation of modern American religious Independence and energy in the Second Great Awakening that is now oh and the Louisiana Purchase which doubled the country here's an image that is very famous it's the image of manifest destiny she is bringing in her billowing garments all of the peoples of America Westward with her light um and this is the story of American expansion Westward um during this time period so here I'm going to actually do this with the key Concepts again um and I'm looking real quick at the chat lots of people are joining us thank you for joining us here at Marco learning if you like this video press that like button and um if you want to join the chat press the Subscribe button we have a gigantic playlist for apus history and in fact I'm going to real quick just bring that up onto the screen to show you what you're going to do when this is over and you're saying what do we do when this is over I break down with Tom my friend Tom Richie um all of these different um topics within the apus history curriculum and in fact in our AP US History playlist you can see this is right at the top of our Channel not just every single topic in the entire course but when we write and grade dbqs and leqs all through the entire curriculum so I want to take us back to period five this is the period from 1844 to 1877 so it says key concept 5.1 the United States became more connected with the World okay was something we talked about with the Monroe Doctrine pursued an expansionist foreign policy so it's a foreign policy that saying how do we grow in the Western Hemisphere and emerg as the destination for many migrants from other countries so this is when Irish immigrants uh and Irish Catholics fleeing the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s or German Catholics be came in to the United States so there's many people in America who are descended in one way or another from the Irish and German and uh especially Catholic immigrants who came in during that time period That's the emergence besides the colony of Maryland of Catholicism as a major religion in America key concept 5.2 intensified by expansion expansion and deepening Regional divisions debates over slavery and other economic cultural and political issues led the nation into Civil War so basically like what caused the Civil War everything right it was debates over slavery plus EC ecomic factors plus cultural factors plus plus political differences the north was much more urban it was much more politically and religiously liberal the the north uh was much more diverse its economy was different it also began to despise what the institution of slavery stood for and Southerners began to entrench themselves in what slavery stood for and that led to a cultural political economic divide that was fundamental to to this causing the Civil War many things caused the Civil War the primary cause was slavery and the debates over it but there was all the things around it that mattered too key concept 5.3 the Union victory in the Civil War so the north is the union and the south is the Confederacy the union um in the Civil War and the contested reconstruction of the South settled the issues of slavery and secession slavery being can one human own another no as of the 13th Amendment and secession can one state just up and break away when it feels like it no obviously something we had to sort out with the war but left unresolved many questions about the power of the federal government and citizenship rights the thing about a democracy that you need to keep in mind and this is something you can talk about in your essays is that the tension between protecting the majority the Democracy that's at the heart of our idea of what we are as a government from the tyranny of the majority what happened when the majority of people want to vote to segregate schools what happens when the majority of people are wrong how do we protect individual citizens from the power of the majority democracy is never perfect right because people are never perfect and so the founding fathers saw this and they wanted to restrain the people go to the chat right now and tell me about specific ways that the founding fathers of the United States tried to restrain the power of democracy unfettered that that basically they put back barriers between individual Americans who step into a voting booth and vote and the expression of what they voted for so let me know in the chat I'm going to give it a minute real quick and I see a bunch of really great on-topic comments overall thank you very much um and again if you're joining our video uh just now press that like button subscribe if you want to join the chat we have a gigantic playlist for you of everything in apus history and of free study guides that we pinned to this chat so um so yeah something like checks and balances is one of those things um we look at things like the Electoral College Joy you've got that exactly right the Electoral College is saying you shouldn't directly vote for the president we're going to put this check in place to prevent you from from doing this um the three branches of government a lot of people are picking the Electoral College basically um and property requirements right we don't want democ no actually nobody really believes in pure pure democracy first of all as a voter I'll tell you right now I don't want to read like 9,000 million pages of laws like I can't I'm I'm already I'm only halfway through this study guy it's taking me an hour how do you think I'm gonna be able to see especially I'll be like looking for 10-second Tik toks that summarize what's actually happening about the law so um that's an important thing to keep in mind is that voters don't want to be like lawmakers full-time and when they are they can also get distracted or not know know what they need to do regarding infrastructure or very nuanced things or they might really want slavery or segregation or something that a court or other people might might say is a is is a bad thing so you guys are giving some really great examples of some of those limits on true Freedom so we're seeing this emerge in this period um this is the period of the Civil War you do not need to know the battles of who what Stonewall Jackson did on Christmas day or whatever in Rome o or i don't even know Gettysburg happen something none of that matters this this course is focused on the causes of the Civil War the effects of it and reconstruction so don't feel crowded with all this information right I'm not trying to bombard you with Statistics I'm trying to bombard you with good ideas that link parts of the course together that make things make sense one thing that makes sense is manifest destiny an idea that is at the heart of America that we are called to take over the whole continent so we look at the map of the United States we were just looking at one a minute ago right the idea and this is so weird to us now it's hard to Envision but that these people who the English peoples who expanded Westward into the United States then in 1803 awkwardly doubled themselves up overnight and made this big old blob that is America in 1803 eventually feel called to move Westward let me know in the chat do I have people who live in this Arrow territory story in Texas Arizona uh Nevada Oregon Washington Idaho Utah all the places that that that Americans as migrants crossed over the frontier to inhabit um and that's a very uh interesting I think idea and and way of kind of conceiving of what this country is it wasn't inevitable right but I think it became inevitable As Americans began to believe in this idea that they were inexorably being pulled to the West so um here's what I want to do zooming out in period five we're halfway through the a push course people I gotta get live on AP Euro in 30 minutes so we got to get moving um and I want to take here by the way reconstruction is the period after the Civil War um let's get into this period this sort of immediately after the Civil War America is America today because it got Industrial ized again the first Industrial Revolution was about those looms and Mills and turning away from farming and turning into factories period six we see the rise of skyscrapers and cities and train stations and the kind of infrastructure that makes the modern world so we see I'm gonna actually go do this one through key Concepts as well which was again this is the old way that aush was set up was a really great way to cram the night before um and after this is all over I'm going to help you um uh uh you know get through all of this real quick um and I'm just seeing okay great thank you in the chat there key concept 6.1 technological advances large scale production methods and the opening of new markets markets encourage the rise of industrial capitalism in the United States so industrial capitalism is a term you want to know capitalism is a system where you largely let businesses run themselves you have some regulation but not too much industrial means you have the power of of the Second Industrial Revolution those steam engines and besser processed steel and all the stuff that's fueling this that creates the robber barons and super powerful uh companies key concept so we have all these things led to the growth of the Second Industrial Revolution key concept 6.1 is saying there were several factors that led to the Second Industrial Revolution key concept 6.2 the migrations that accompanied industrialization so people started moving jobs started happening in cities so people leave their Farms they leave places and they move to the cities it transformed urban areas lots more people in cities cities are growing fast there's actually public sanitation issues there's crime issues there's so much going on you got to get right and Rural issues began to not in the 18 late 1800s but eventually begin to experience the decline that defines those regions America is not a farming Society anymore um and this is the beginning of that long long journey um and that caused dramatic social and cultural change so key concept 6.3 the Gilded Age this is what Tom Richie started with when we were at the beginning of all of this It produced new cultural and intellectual movements public reform efforts and political debates over economic and social policies as income inequality seems to get so much worse in the late 19th century people begin to look for reforms ways of improving all this so a lot to discuss in Period six a critical period I think a more exciting period than maybe what we were looking up here all this boring part of America five people painting Rivers um to a much more robust Dynamic energetic Nation um we see um the yeah the rise of uh basically the the the creation of reservations among Native American peoples we see this term the robber barons a kind of a very judg mental term against the Business Leaders who like Rockefeller and Carnegie and Morgan and people who began to make so much money what felt like it was at the expense of ordinary workers um that's what leads to labor reforms in these movements here's just a picture of an America that the founding fathers couldn't have conceived of at this level um a robust bustling City made out of steel growing filled with immigrants from all over the world uh rather especially from Southern Europe so in that period from around 1880 to 1920 waves of immigrants coming from Poland Russia Greece Italy um other parts of Europe like Germany as well we're seeing more Catholics Jews diverse groups entering into the United States so I come my family uh my My Father's Side comes from Italy they came through Ellis Island in New York City right at this moment they were Italian Catholics they were very poor um and they came from the southern parts of Italy on kind of a dream to the United States so that was the the moment at which um very many Americans especially in the east coast can trace um part of their legacy let's take a look at um some of the key Concepts from this period this is an absolutely gigantic period it's got two World Wars the immigrants I just mentioned this the Progressive Era the Great Depression The Roaring 20s it's so crazy we're not going to cover it all but I just want to briefly point out growth expanded opportunity while econ iic instability led to new efforts to reform us society and its economic system so the US is becoming a superpower and these new efforts to reform us Society are happening um and this is creating this tension it's like we're growing really quickly but now we have new problems and we see this in things like the Progressive Era and everything else Innovations and Communications and Technology contributed to the growth of mass culture what does that mean it means everyone's reading the same stuff everyone is wearing the same kinds of clothes which we're now an extreme version of right you talk to someone and you're like did you see that viral video like we all saw it the algorithm is all sending us to the same place looks like by the way um I got the algorithm sent you all here I got almost a thousand people in here so again if you like this video press that like button definitely take um a minute to subscribe you can join the chat you can also check out the entire gigantic playlist that we have sitting here on this channel for when the stream is over and you're all like stay longer no watch these videos they're all here for you um and later tonight we're going to be going live for AP US History and or AP European History also point out if you have not yet um uh checked out our Tik Tok Channel I don't know if any of you follow us on Tik Tok but we have about 65,000 followers there we're going to be going live on that channel as well um as we go through um this whole AP season so the final thing on key concept 7.3 is the uh two world Wars participation in a series of global conflicts I.E the Spanish-American war of 1898 World War I from 197 is when we entered to 1919 when uh the treaty is signed um to the World War II which is from we entered 1941 to 1945 propelled the United States into a position of international power while renewing domestic debates over the nation's proper role in the world so this is interesting at the beginning beginning of this period the United States was not the world's leading superpower at the end of this period it probably wasn't either but it really took a Quantum Leap from like okay a country that's trying to establish all of these different um uh you know a country that's trying to establish itself on the global scene to a country that had had fully established itself um a couple of key terms again we saw the Second Industrial Revolution this is a movement in manufacturing ing that drove America's cities we had steel we had industry we had all of these um goals Progressive now Progressive lowercase PR Progressive means sometimes basically um liberal right um or not conservative or not Republican capital P Progressive is the movement about a hundred years ago of people who wanted to reform cities um who wanted to reform uh rights for women who wanted to readjust Society so um the Progressive Movement achieved things like the direct election of US senators the women's right to vote um the reform the creation of the Food and Drug Administration the Progressive Movement took uh basically America from kind of an unregulated space to something that most of us even today if you if you're not lowercase p Progressive are enthusiastic about for example child labor laws so all you um children who are here in the chat with me can get jobs starting at the age of 14 why don't you get jobs in a factory when you're at the age of six or eight you're not allowed to do that according to US law because of what the Progressive Era achieved and when you crack open an egg or you drink a glass of milk or you eat some salad those foods are being regulated by the Food and Drug Administration quick um check in the chat what is the famous novel that was written not novel but a book that was written in the early 20th century that depicted the abuses of the meat packing industry it was so disgusting the meat packing industry of Chicago and all over the United States that um like Vermin rats would get ground up into sausages and into like meats that people would consume and that galvanized the movement to like no ground beef and raw eggs and raw milk need to be regulated really effectively and a lot of you are getting this this is Upton Sinclair's the jungle um and the it's a very important um uh idea I think or sort of you know moment that did this now somebody did mention up uh Uncle Tom's Cabin which is the book that actually launched a lot of abolitionists this is Harry beer Stow in the 1850s that's setting up um uh that that Reform movement so Americans are persuaded by books here's another one here's another quick trivia one what is the book that helped launch the modern environmentalist movement um that involved basically the effects of pesticides destroying animal life and therefore make killing off all the squirrels and birds that we would hear every Springtime it's a clue in the title there um this next period period 8 is the final domain in which you can be you can see something from the DBQ which is um the period of what we know is the Cold War and this image this is the world I knew when I was growing up as a kid was the Soviet Union the Communists versus the righteous capitalists of the United States and yes I'm seeing Rachel Carson's Silent Spring which was a novel that helped really La not novel but a book that launched the modern environmentalist movement um so again these study guides if you're not sure of they're pinned at the chat but I'm going to pop this into the chat for you all go ahead and download these These are free you can study them right after this especially on my California and my Pacific Coast people it's only 541 you have plenty of time to benefit from this on our site I will point out we also have a score predictor that shows you how to predict your your score based on your practice test results we have a free practice test um and and other resources that are all just available for you so and I was also pointing out like this we're GNA go live on our YouTube on our Tik Tok Channel later and I think I did one here on aush resources for you all so this period is the Cold War um and basically let's go through these three key Concepts over here um actually let's go through the timeline so World War II ends in 1945 in 1947 the president announces the Truman Doctrine to help contain the spread of Communism the focus of the US federal government became we need to stop the spread of Communism and other countries which is going to define the next 40 years in Korea the United States got involved in the Korean war in the early 1950s in the 1960s and 70s the United States got involved in Vietnam in the 19 uh 60s and 70s and 80s the United States intervened in almost 60 countries the CIA would take out a world leader the United States sold arms the United States intervened in Afghanistan behind the scenes it intervened in Iraq in the 1970s and 80s in Grenada and Nicaragua um and all through southeast Asia it intervened through the Marshall Plan in the 1940s pumping money into Western Europe to prevent communism so um an incredibly transformative moment of American history in which the US government as a superpower is actively getting involved in all these things around the world so we see the United States conducting its first hydrogen bomb test the United States in famously dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima Nagasaki in 1945 to help end the uh and to help end World War II it begins expanding its nuclear arms and experimenting with hydrogen bombs this period 1954 people were asking about famous Supreme Court decisions this is the one you want to know 1954 th Good Marshall from the NAACP the National Association for the advancement of colored people be Advocates on behalf of four different lawsuits that were brought to End School segregation and they argued that why should you allow um two different unequal systems in which white students get access to the best schools and the best teachers and the most money and the best buses and black students are left with lesser re resources separate by separating the two groups you create a fundamental inequality that was the idea that Brown versus the Board of Education embraced and what Supreme Court decision this is a good trivia question for our chat let me know what Supreme Court decision was overruled by Brown versus the Board of Education when it said you cannot have separate but equal segregation is always bad it's always racist it's always at the diminishment of One race the service of another um and so let me know yeah I'm hearing it right now some people getting pie v Ferguson from 1896 which tried to up which did uphold segregation is now was now replaced with brown V board which ended segregation once and for all the Cold War almost turns hot in the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s this is an example of American intervention abroad we see you're seeing what's happening in Period 8 everyone this is the challenge of this this time period you have both a cold war and a civil rights movement going on at once so United States Society transformed so much after World War II that the United States was a global superpower and it had it had to or decided to deal with all of these different conflicts around the world Korea Vietnam the Cuban Missile Crisis and the other ones I mentioned and there's this upheaval of throwing off 1950s uh kind of suburban whatever culture and embracing civil rights sexual Revolution a transformation of American society um that really is probably the most rapid social change in American Life maybe uh only rivaled by what we've experienced in the last 10 or 15 years with social media and everything else so the this period I'm going to come back to it period eight is two separate Stories the story of the Cold War and the story of civil rights if you feel overwhelmed by these if you got behind them in your class that's okay I think to night given how late this is you're going to want to make sure that you're that you're focusing on what you can get out of this time period might be more beneficial um in to to to just grab one of these two domains for period a so the last thing I want to point to is period nine that's the period that we're in right now the most transformative moment in a world history maybe nobody knows and um one of the things that kind of kicks this off is the rise of well actually this moment here the 198 election in which Ronald Reagan the governor of California and a former movie star um destroyed um James Carter Jimmy Carter from the state of Georgia and basically had a landslide election this is the rise of modern conservatism as we know it um so the um and let me just see real quick yeah thank you by the way most for the most part this has been an amazing chat an amazing group of people um and except for some people who are going to be kicked out so go we will go ahead and make sure that we get rid of um any of this this sort of behavior but again if you're liking this video press that like button subscribe to our Channel um and make sure that you um you check out the playlist what I'm going to send you all to after this that breaks down every single one of these topics um so here's what I want to do real quick the um the this time period that we're in it's not fair game for the DBQ there's very little you're going to see it's basically 5% of the course so you're going to see the new conservative movement that that um appears in this period who's really defined by Ronald Reagan you're gonna see um the major demographic and technological changes the rise of the internet the rise of computer technology the rise of the very thing like right now I'm on zoom into YouTube talking to all of you and half of you are on um on a mobile device or I don't know who who's on a let me know in the chat are you on a mobile device right now or are you on a desktop computer um because it used to be just desktop computers phones were kind of pretty primitive devices and now they're pretty sophisticated so um that's one of those Transformations you want to see as well and then basically 9.3 is all about September 11th on September 11th the uh terrorist group alqaeda smashed planes into the World Trade Center into the Pentagon and attempted to do it into the White House that um basically shattered the kind of post Cold War America as we knew it there's a lot more to say about the Cold War Ronald Reagan and this and the terrorist attacks of September 11th this of course is the beautiful Memorial they setup of Lights where the two towers had once stood um and so here's what I want to say to all of you it's the night before the AP US History exam 20 something years ago I took the apus History exam I was really nervous remember this you don't need to get 100% on this exam in fact I want you to type in the chat right now I will not get 100% on this exam and that is okay because getting 100% is not actually that great when all you need is 81% or 78% or whatever it is to get a five right if you your goal is to get a three you might need only something in the 60s or low 70s right to to get that score if you're going into the DBQ oh no I didn't get the complexity point I didn't get the sourcing point I didn't get this who cares right you don't need to be perfect on the DBQ to do well in this exam you don't need to be perfect you need to be your best self tomorrow and that is what's going to Define your experience you're going to have an amazing day tomorrow and in fact I want you to type that in the chat I'm going to have an amazing day tomorrow you're going to do that because instead of setting the bar so high you can't reach it you're going to set it right for the goal that you can it's what we call Game Theory right people like try to get the gold medal you actually had a shot at the bronze get the bronze right get that bronze medal tomorrow and that's better than taking 11th place with a broken ankle um okay that a weird analogy you're welcome um okay so what I want to do again is remind you we have this um we have this playlist here and I'm realizing actually you know one of the coolest videos we have on our channel is missing on this playlist so we're going to add it in um if you go to our um if you go to our Channel you will see that we also have a DBQ walkthrough video which we put at the top this actually breaks down everything about the DBQ rubric there's also a video of um if I did APUSH DBQ let's see where it shows up right here's M man heimler beard and all great Channel this is me looking bad but this is actually me walking through writing a DBQ live so as you look at this video it's going to show you the best way or a way that I'm actually sitting at a table going through a DBQ writing it in like with the papers out and I didn't really prep this I actually sat there and then wrote it live so all of this is here for you as a tool to help you through this of course you got Tom Richie's Channel you have Steve heimler's Channel with tons of resources at your disposal instead of focusing on everything focus on on the things that you can control so as we go through the study guide pack again this study guide is in the chat I'm going to push this right here um and it sounds like yeah people are feeling good um um I guess we also want the dog back I don't know give me some if you guys give me 12 million sheep Emoji in the chat I'll bring the dog back on before I get on the the live for AP Euro um these study guides are available on our website I've pinned them to the top of the chat um and they really break down the entire course so if you're overwhelmed what do I do this guy showed me 53 things go here grab this free study guide pack it will help you get ready for the test and bring this um thing so um and Marco Marco I don't know I don't see very many of those fluffy emojis the other thing um I wanted to point out again check out our um AP resources here on Tik Tok um because I'm going to be going live there later as well okay there's enough sheep coming in let's let's bring them in let's okay here we go so one more time everyone brace yourself oh Mar a thousand people on YouTube literally want to see you right now come on buddy give him a smile see this is the face everyone of a procrastinator somebody who sleeps too much who is an underachiever he doesn't know what the guild ages he doesn't know what a DBQ is this man will not get the contextualization point but he's going to do his best tomorrow at 8 am so that's Marco I'm John I hope that this has been helpful for you I want to encourage you stick around on this YouTube channel called Marco learning we've got these breakdowns of everything that here's me actually writing a DBQ on the Reconstruction you've got tons of resources available so I hope you all have a wonderful night thank you for liking this video for subscribing to our Channel and best of luck to you tomorrow come back to this video in the comments and let us know how it went let me know on our Tik Tok or Instagram accounts at Marco learning we've got tens of thousands of of of other AP students are here so