AP United States History
AP U.S. History presents a unique challenge to students due to its extensive curriculum spanning several centuries of complex historical events, themes, and figures. The depth and breadth of content require innovative teaching tools to facilitate effective learning and engagement.
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The AP U.S. History course offers students an in-depth exploration of significant events, individuals, developments, and processes across nine historical periods, from approximately 1491 to the present.
Using historians' methodologies, students analyze primary and secondary sources, craft historical arguments, and make connections across different times and places through eight thematic lenses.
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7 Topics, Over 700 Questions
1.1 Contextualizing Period 1
1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact
1.3 European Exploration in the Americas
1.4 Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, & Conquest
1.5 Labor, Slavery, & Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
1.6 Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, & Africans
1.7 Causation in Period 1
8 Topics, Over 800 questions
2.1 Contextualizing Period 2
2.2 European Colonization
2.3 The Regions of British Colonies
2.4 Transatlantic Trade
2.5 Interactions Between American Indians & Europeans
2.6 Slavery in the British Colonies
2.7 Colonial Society and Culture
2.8 Comparison in Period 2
13 Topics, Over 1,300 Questions
3.1 Contextualizing Period 3
3.2 The Seven Years’ War (The French and Indian War)
3.3 Taxation Without Representation
3.4 Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution
3.5 The American Revolution
3.6 The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals
3.7 The Articles of Confederation
3.8 The Constitutional Convention & Debates Over Ratification
3.9 The Constitution
3.10 Shaping a New Republic
3.11 Developing an American Identity
3.12 Movement in the Early Republic
3.13 Continuity and Change in Period 3
8 Topics, 800 Questions
4.1 Contextualizing Period
4.2 The Rise of Political Parties & the Era of Jefferson
4.3 Politics & Regional Interests
4.4 America on the World Stage
4.5 Market Revolution: Industrialization
4.6 Market Revolution: Society and Culture
4.7 Expanding Democracy
4.8 Jackson * Federal Power
4.9 The Development of an American Culture
4.10 The Second Great Awakening
4.11 An Age of Reform
4.12 African Americans in the Early Republic
4.13 The Society of the South in the Early Republic
4.14 Causation in Period 4
12 Topics, Over 1,200 Questions
5.1 Contextualizing Period 5
5.2 Manifest Destiny
5.3 The Mexican–American War
5.4 The Compromise of 1850
5.5 Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences
5.6 Failure of Compromise
5.7 Election of 1860 to & Secession
5.8 Military Conflict in the Civil War
5.9 Government Policies During the Civil War
5.10 Reconstruction
5.11 Failure of Reconstruction
5.12 Comparison in Period 5
14 Topics, Over 1,400 Questions
6.1 Contextualizing Period 6
6.2 Westward Expansion: Economic Development
6.3 Westward Expansion: Social & Cultural Development
6.4 The “New South”
6.5 Technological Innovation
6.6 The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
6.7 Labor in the Gilded Age
6.8 Immigration & Migration in the Gilded Age
6.9 Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
6.10 Development of the Middle Class SOC 2 6.11 Reform in the Gilded Age
6.12 Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age
6.13 Politics in the Gilded Age
6.14 Continuity and Change in Period 6
15 Topics, 1,500 Questions
7.1 Contextualizing Period 7
7.2 Imperialism: Debates
7.3 The Spanish–American War
7.4 The Progressives
7.5 World War I: Military and Diplomacy
7.6 World War I: Home Front
7.7 1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology
7.8 1920s: Cultural & Political Controversies
7.9 The Great Depression
7.10 The New Deal
7.11 Interwar Foreign Policy
7.12 World War II: Mobilization
7.13 World War II: Military
7.14 Postwar Diplomacy
7.15 Comparison in Period 7
15 Topics, 1,500 Questions
8.1 Contextualizing Period 8
8.2 The Cold War from 1945 to 1980
8.3 The Red Scare
8.4 Economy after 1945
8.5 Culture after 1945
8.6 Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)
8.7 America as a World Power
8.8 The Vietnam War
8.9 The Great Society
8.10 The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)
8.11 The Civil Rights Movement Expands
8.12 Youth Culture of the 1960s
8.13 The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980
8.14 Society in Transition
8.15 Continuity and Change in Period 8
7 Topics, Over 700 Questions
9.1 Contextualizing Period 9
9.2 Reagan and Conservatism
9.3 The End of the Cold War
9.4 A Changing Economy
9.5 Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s
9.6 Challenges of the 21st Century
9.7 Causation in Period 9
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