AP US History

Advice from Former Students

Reading Schedule

Chapter Notes

Essays

Short-Answer Questions

• • SAQ Guidelines

  • Sample SAQ and Commentary

  • Quarter 1 SAQ Options

  • Quarter2 SAQ Options

  • Quarter 3 SAQ Options

Key ID's

• • Lisa's Quizlets for the Key ID's

Writer's Notebooks

Essay Practice Extra Credit

Review Materials

US History on the Web

• • OpenStax Digital Textbook

  • US History 1 Podcasts

  • US History 2 Podcasts

  • USHistory.org

  • Digital History (Select an era. Then click Textbook.)

  • Miller Center on the Presidency

Documents

French and Indian War

John Marshall Cases

• • Marbury v. Madison

  • McCulloch v. Maryland

  • Gibbons v. Ogden

Trail of Tears Take-home WN

Market Revolution Take-home WN

Bio Boards

• • Social Reform Take-home WN

Story Boards

Civil War: Causes, Conflicts, and Results

Lincoln Impeachment

Civil War Options

• • Preparing the Armies

  • The Federal Navy

  • Training the Soldiers

  • Weapons and Cavalry

  • Everyday Life (Life in Camp, Food & Shelter, Disease & Death, Battle, Prisoners of War, Sherman's March)

Progressives SAQ

Woodrow Wilson Video

Maslow

1920's Websites

The Internet Guide to Jazz-Age Slang

The New Deal

World War II Options

• • Manhattan Project

  • WWII Battles

  • WWII Conferences

  • Life on the Homefront

  • Race Relations Nationally and in Oregon During WWII

  • Japanese Internment: Overview and Oral History

McCarthy

• • Article

  • Study Questions

Watergate

The Nixon Presidency

Reaganomics

Iran-Contra Affair

• • Iran-Contra Study Questions

  • Oxford Companion to US Military History

  • PBS

  • Walsh Report (optional)

Gulf War

• • Gulf War Site 1

  • Gulf War Site 2

  • Gulf War Site 3

Reviewing for the AP Exam

• • Study Suggestions for the AP Exam

  • 121 Review Terms Extra Credit

    • 121 Review Terms Quizlet (Thanks to Eitan Wolf for creating this.)

  • New-Format Multiple-Choice Questions

    • Questions with Answers

  • Gilder Lehrman AP US History Study Guide

  • DBQ's

    • Women 1770 - 1860

    • DuBois and Washington

    • Roaring Twenties

      • Background for Doc. I

  • 20 Presidents

  • Art and Architecture

AP Test Score Calculator (no guarantees that this is accurate)

Which Colleges Award Credit for the AP Exam?

Letters of Recommendation

The Presidency

The Nomination Process