APUSH

Course Description

This course is designed to provide a college-level experience and preparation for the AP Exam on May 5, 2023. An emphasis is placed on interpreting documents, mastering a significant body of factual information, and writing critical essays. Topics include early inhabitants and first contact, life and thought in colonial America, revolutionary philosophy, constitutional debate and development, the success and failures of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, nineteenth-century reform movements, and antebellum south and Manifest Destiny. Other topics include the Civil War and Reconstruction, new and old immigration, industrialism and expansion of urban America, Populism, Progressivism, World War I, the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the post-Cold War era, and the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This course will fulfill the United States history graduation requirement.