🇺🇸 AP U.S. History
9 units · 91 topics
Unit 1: Period 1: 1491–1607
- 1.1 Contextualizing Period 1
- 1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact
- 1.3 European Exploration in the Americas
- 1.4 The Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
- 1.5 Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
- 1.6 Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
Unit 2: Period 2: 1607–1754
Unit 3: Period 3: 1754–1800
- 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 and 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
Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848
- 4.1 Contextualizing Period 4
- 4.2 The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson
- 4.3 Politics and Regional Interests
- 4.4 America on the World Stage
- 4.5 The Market Revolution: Industrialization
- 4.6 The Market Revolution: Society and Culture
- 4.7 Expanding Democracy
- 4.8 Jackson and 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
Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877
- 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 The Election of 1860 and 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
Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
- 6.0 The Gilded Age
- 6.1 Contextualizing Period 6
- 6.2 Westward Expansion: Economic and Social
- 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 and Urbanization
- 6.9 Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
- 6.10 Development of the Middle Class
- 6.11 Responses to Industrialization
- 6.12 Controversies over the Role of Government
- 6.13 Politics in the Gilded Age
Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945
- 7.1 Contextualizing Period 7
- 7.2 American Imperialism
- 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 The 1920s: Culture and Conflict
- 7.10 The Great Depression and the New Deal
- 7.11 Interwar Foreign Policy
- 7.12 World War II: Mobilization and Victory
- 7.14 Postwar Diplomacy
Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980
- 8.1 Contextualizing Period 8
- 8.2 The Cold War
- 8.3 The Red Scare
- 8.5 Postwar Society and Culture
- 8.7 America as a World Power
- 8.8 The Vietnam War
- 8.9 The Great Society
- 8.10 The Civil Rights Movement
- 8.12 Youth Culture and Social Movements
- 8.13 The Environment and Natural Resources, 1968–1980
- 8.14 Society in Transition