AP U.S. History is designed to be the equivalent of a TWO-SEMESTER introductory college or university U.S. History course. In AP U.S. History students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; making historical comparisons; utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity and change over time; and developing historical arguments. The course also provides seven themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; migration and settlement; politics and power; work, exchange, and technology; America in the world; geography and the environment; and culture and society.

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Units of study include:

• Founding the New Nation

• Building the New Nation

• Testing the New Nation

• Forging an Industrial Society

• Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad

• Making Modern America

Note: This TWO-SEMESTER college course is completed in ONE high school semester, resulting in a heavy workload for this course.

Note: A summer assignment is assigned at the end of the prior school year and is expected to be completed by the first day of class. It is the student’s responsibility to listen for announcements about this assignment and to secure the necessary materials before the end of the prior school year.