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Welcome to Honors U.S. 1 with Ms. Herthel Kubler!
AP Themes
AP Themes
Use at least two when you are writing a short or long answer question. If you are answering a DBQ, place the documents into these themes. They can help you organize your essay and completely answer the question. SPACEMEN
S- Social Structures (SOC) - Focuses on how and why systems of social organization develop and change as well as the impact that these systems have on the broader society.
P - Politics & Power (PCE) - Focuses on how different social and political groups have influenced society and government in the US as well as how political beliefs and institutions have changed over time.
A - America in the World (WOR) - Focuses on the interactions between nations that affected North American history in the colonial period and on the influence of the US on world affairs.
C - American and Regional Culture (ARC) - Focuses on the how and why national, regional, and group cultures developed and changed as well as how culture has shaped gov't policy & the economy.
E - Geography & Environment (GEO)- Focuses on the role of geography and both the natural and human-made environments in the social and political developments in what would become the US.
M - Migration & Settlement (MIG) - Focuses on why and how the various people who moved to and within the US both adapted to and transformed their new social and physical environments.
E - Work, Exchange, & Technology (WXT) - Focuses on the factors behind the development of systems, economic exchanges, particularly the role of technology, economic markets, and government.
N - American & National Identity (NAT) - Focuses on how and why definitions of American and national identity and values have developed among the diverse and changing population of North Americans well as on related topics, such as citizenship, constitutionalism, foreign policy, assimilation, and American Exceptionalism.
Charles Wilson Peale, The Artist in His Museum, 1822
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