AP U.S. History
Citation of class texts:
Paul S. Boyer, Clifford E. Clark, Joseph F. Kett, The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People 5th Edition, (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
Stephen Armstrong, 5 Steps To A 5: AP U.S. History 2014 Edition, (McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)
Content Outline (Semester One)
Chapter 1 - Native Peoples of America (to 1500)
Chapter 2 - The Rise of the Atlantic World (1400-1625)
Chapter 3 - Expansion and Diversity: The Rise of Colonial America (1625-1700)
Chapter 4 - The Bonds of Empire (1660-1750)
Chapter 5 - Roads to Revolution (1750-1776)
Chapter 6 - Securing Independence, Defining Nationhood (1776-1788)
Chapter 7 - Launching the New Republic (1789-1800)
Chapter 8 - Jeffersonianism and the Era of Good Feelings (1801-1824)
Chapter 9 - The Transformation of American Society (1815-1840)
Chapter 10 - Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform (1824-1840)
Chapter 11 - Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life (1824-1840)
Chapter 12 - The Old South and Slavery (1830-1860)
Chapter 13 - Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict (1840-1848)
Chapter 14 - From Compromise to Secession (1850-1861)
Chapter 15 - Crucible of Freedom: Civil War (1861-1865)
Chapter 16 - The Crises of Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Chapter 17 - The Transformation of the Trans-Mississippi West (1860-1900)
Content Outline (Semester Two)
Chapter 18 - The Rise of Industrial America (1865-1900)
Chapter 19 - Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life (1860-1900)
Chapter 20 - Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age (1877-1900)
Chapter 21 - The Progressive Era (1900-1917)
Chapter 22 - Global Involvements and World War I (1902-1920)
Chapter 23 - The 1920s: Coping with Change (1920-1929)
Chapter 24 - The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1939)
Chapter 25 - Americans and a World in Crisis (1933-1945)
Chapter 26 - The Cold War Abroad and at Home (1945-1952)
Chapter 27 - America at Midcentury (1952-1960)
Chapter 28 - The Liberal Era (1960-1968)
Chapter 29 - A Time of Upheaval (1968-1974)
Chapter 30 - Society, Politics, and World Events from Ford to Reagan (1974-1989)
Chapter 31 - Beyond the Cold War: Charting a New Course (1988-1995)
Chapter 32 - New Century, New Challenges (1996 to the Present)