APUSH Handouts
Updated 2025
Updated 2025
General Handouts
1. A.P. U.S. History Summer Assignment (PDF)
3. A.P. U.S. History Course Outline
4. A.P. U.S. History Terms List
5. Student Information for the AP Exam (PDF)
Lecture Notes – Noontime (These sessions start in April)
1. Korean War
3. Culture of Protest in the 1960s - Counterculture, Its Growth and Demise
5. Vietnam War
Essay Writing and Rubrics
Unit One – Colonial Society to Constitution
1. Legacy of Colonial America – DBQ Essay
2. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (PDF)
3. The Road to the American Revolution: Growing Call and Ideology
4. Colonial Wethersfield DBQ and Assignment
6. How Revolutionary Was the American Revolution?
7. "The Rule of the Topsy Turvies"
8. The Ratification Battle – U.S. Constitution
Unit Two – The New Republic and Stability
1. Hamilton vs. Jefferson – Issues in the Early Republic
3. Growth of American Nationalism
4. The Presidency of John Quincy Adams
Unit Three – The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy
1. Andrew Jackson and the Issue of the National Bank
2. Age of Reform Investigation (Shortened) (PDF)
Unit Four – Expansionism and The Road to the Civil War
1. Slavery, the Mexican American War and the Road to the American Civil War
2. Road to Civil War Part II (1857-1861)
Unit Five – The Civil War and Reconstruction
1. The Civil War and National Unity – Investigation (PDF)
2. Reconstruction Readings and Questions
Unit Six – The American West
1. The West – A Geography of Hope?
Unit Seven – The Rise of Industrialism
Unit Eight – The United States at the Turn of the Century – Politics, Imperialism and Progressivism
2. Immigration to the United States: Push and Pull Factors/Difficulties Facing Immigrants
3. Culture in the Gilded Age: Victorian Values and Women
6. The Progressive Online Summary Assignment
7. The Limits of Progressivism
Unit Nine – World War One and its Effects
2. World War One: Propaganda and Its Effects
3. The Battle Over The Treaty of Versailles (PDF)
Unit Ten – The Roaring 20s?
1. Warring or Roaring: An Investigation in the decade of the 1920s
Unit Eleven – The Depression and the New Deal
1. Causes of the Great Depression: Using "The Enduring Vision" (PDF)
2. Case Study: The AAA and the Depression (PDF)
3. From 1st to 2nd New Deal (PDF)
4. The New Deal: Online Assignment (PDF)
Unit Twelve – World War Two
1. World War Two – Prelude, Homefront and the War Questions (PDF)
2. World War Two Online PPT (Dr. Seuss Cartoons are at the end)
3. Minorities Fighting in WWII (Tuskegee Airmen, Navajo Code Talkers, 442nd Regiment)
4. Japanese Relocation - the government produced video (1943) that you need in order to complete the first couple of questions in the Japanese Internment section.
5. Haruko Niwa Reading (Diary Selection) and Tule Lake Internment (PDF) - you need this in order to complete questions in the Japanese Internment section.
6. Wartime Conference Documents - Use this link to the American Spirit Google Book. Find the following readings and answer in your WWII question packet. Stalin Resents Delay (pg. 398), Sherwood Defends FDR (pg. 403), Hull Opposes Unconditional Surrender (pg. 404)
7. Wartime Conferences and Implications PPT "Quiz" - you can work together to add the answers from these 13 slides to your Wartime Conference and Implications HW. You will need to check "Wartime Conferences of WWII - A Summary" (see #8 below) to answer the questions.
8. Wartime Conferences of WWII – A Summary (PDF)
9. The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Documents (PDF)
Final Stretch Information
This page is intended to give you a "map" for the month of April and early May. Please notify me of any mistakes or issues.
Unit Thirteen – Post World War II United States
1. The Civil Rights Movement (PDF)
2. View From the Nation and View From the Trenches Reading (PDF)
3. The United States – 1960-1988 (PDF)
Practice APUSH Multiple Choice
1. 2015 AP Exam Practice Test (PDF) - this is the one you want to do and turn into class.
a. Answers Key for all 55 Questions
2. Gilder Lehrman Practice Exam Online
2. 2013 AP Exam Practice Test (PDF Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
3. 2001 AP Exam Practice Test (PDF) (here is a list of most missed questions to review from this practice test)