AP U.S. History

AP U.S. History is a college-level course that examines the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the United States from pre-Columbian times to the present. Students explore key events, movements, and turning points in American history while analyzing primary sources and constructing historical arguments. The course emphasizes critical thinking, historical reasoning skills, and the ability to connect themes across time periods. Topics include colonization, revolution, civil war, industrialization, civil rights, and America's role in global affairs.

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1.1: Contextualizing

1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact

1.3: European Exploration in the Americas

1.4: Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest

1.5: Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System

1.6: Cultural Interactions in the Americas

1.7: Causation in Period 1

2.1: Contextualizing Period 2

2.2: European Colonization in North America

2.3: The Regions of British Colonies

2.4: Transatlantic Trade

2.5: Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans

2.6: Slavery in the British Colonies

2.7: Colonial Society and Culture

2.8: Comparisons in Period 2

3.1: Contextualizing Period 3

3.2: The Seven Years’ War (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 and the Bill of Rights

3.10: Shaping a New Republic

3.11: Developing an American Identity

3.12: Movement in the Early Republic

3.13: Continuity and Change

4.1: Contextualizing Period 4

4.2: The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Good Feelings

4.3: The Role of the Federal Government in the Early Republic

4.4: America’s Economic Revolution

4.5: Market Revolution

4.6: The Second Great Awakening and Reform Movements

4.7: Jacksonian Democracy

4.8: Cultural Movements and American Identity

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: Southern Society in the Early Republic

4.14: Causation in Period 4

5.1 Contextualizing Period 5

5.2 The Idea of Manifest Destiny

5.3 Manifest Destiny and 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 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

5.12 Comparison in Period 5

6.1: Contextualizing Period 6

6.2: Westward Expansion: Economic Development

6.3: Westward Expansion: Social and 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 and Migration in the Gilded Age

6.9: Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age

6.10: Development of the Middle Class

6.11: Reform in the Gilded Age

6.12: Role of Government in the Gilded Age

6.13: Politics in the Gilded Age

6.14: Continuity and Change in Period 6

7.1: Contextualizing Period 7

7.2: Imperialism: Debates

7.3: The Spanish-American War and U.S. Foreign Policy to 1917

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 and Political Controversies

7.9: The Great Depression

7.10: The New Deal

7.11: Interwar Foreign Policy

7.12: World War II: Mobilization