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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 and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change. The course also provides eight themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures.
Content Area: Social Studies
Grades(s): 10-12
Course Number: 2128
Duration: Yearlong
Course Type: Required/Elective
NCAA Approval: Yes
Course Attachments
Course Attachments
Unit 1: Period 1: 1491-1607
Unit 1: Period 1: 1491-1607
On a North American continent controlled by American Indians, contact among the peoples of Europe, the Americas, and West Africa created a new world.
Unit 1 Overview.pdfUnit 1 Overview
Unit 1 Overview
Unit 1 Topics
Unit 1 Topics
1.1.pdf1.1 Contextualizing Period 1
1.2.pdf1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact
1.3.pdf1.3 European Exploration in the Americas
1.4.pdf1.4 Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
1.5.pdf1.5 Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
1.6.pdf1.7 Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
1.7.pdf1.7 Causation in Period 1
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Unit 2: Period 2: 1607-1754
Unit 2: Period 2: 1607-1754
Europeans and American Indians maneuvered and fought for dominance, control, and security in North America, and distinctive colonial and native societies emerged.
Unit 2 Overview.pdfUnit 2 Overview
Unit 2 Overview
Unit 2 Topics
Unit 2 Topics
2.1.pdf2.1 Contextualizing Period 2
2.2.pdf2.2 European Colonization
2.3.pdf2.3 The Regions of British Colonies
2.4.pdf2.4 Transatlantic Trade
2.5.pdf2.5 Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans
2.6.pdf2.6 Slavery in the British Colonies
2.7.pdf2.7 Colonial Society and Culture
2.8.pdf2.8 Comparison in Period 2
Unit 3: Period 3: 1754-1800
Unit 3: Period 3: 1754-1800
British imperial attempts to reassert control over its colonies and the colonial reaction to these attempts produced a new American republic, along with struggles over the new nation’s social, political, and economic identity.
Unit 3 Overview.pdfUnit 3 Overview
Unit 3 Overview
Unit 3 Topics
Unit 3 Topics
3.1.pdf3.1 Contextualizing Period 3
3.2.pdf3.2 The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War)
3.3.pdf3.3 Taxation with Representation
3.4.pdf3.4 Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution
3.5.pdf3.5 The American Revolution
3.6.pdf3.6 The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals
3.7.pdf3.7 The Articles of Confederation
3.8.pdf3.8 The Constitutional Convention and Debates Over Ratification
3.9.pdf3.9 The Constitution
3.10.pdf3.10 Shaping a New Republic
3.11.pdf3.11 Developing an American Identity
3.12.pdf3.12 Movement in the Early Republic
3.13.pdf3.13 Continuity and Change in Period 3
Unit 4: Period 4: 1800-1848
Unit 4: Period 4: 1800-1848
The new republic struggled to define and extend democratic ideals in the face of rapid economic, territorial, and demographic changes.
Unit 4 Overview.pdfUnit 4 Overview
Unit 4 Overview
Unit 4 Topics
Unit 4 Topics
4.1.pdf4.1 Contextualizing Period 4
4.2.pdf4.2 The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson
4.3.pdf4.3 Politics and Regional Interests
4.4.pdf4.4 America on the World Stage
4.5.pdf4.5 Market Revolution: Industrialization
4.6.pdf4.6 Market Revolution: Society and Culture
4.7.pdf4.7 Expanding Democracy
4.8.pdf4.8 Jackson and Federal Power
4.9.pdf4.9 The Development of an American Culture
4.10.pdf4.10 The Second Great Awakening
4.11.pdf4.11 An Age of Reform
4.12.pdf4.12 African Americans in the Early Republic
4.13.pdf4.13 The Society of the South in the Early Republic
4.14.pdf4.14 Causation in Period 4
Unit 5: Period 5: 1844-1877
Unit 5: Period 5: 1844-1877
As the nation expanded and its population grew, regional tensions, especially over slavery, led to a civil war — the course and aftermath of which transformed American society.
Unit 5 Overview.pdfUnit 5 Overview
Unit 5 Overview
Unit 5 Topics
Unit 5 Topics
5.1.pdf5.1 Contextualizing Period 5
5.2.pdf5.2 Manifest Destiny
5.3.pdf5.3 The Mexican-American War
5.4.pdfThe Compromise of 1850
5.5.pdf5.5 Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences
5.6.pdf5.6 Failure of Compromise
5.7.pdf5.7 Election of 1860 and Secession
5.8.pdf5.8 Military Conflict in the Civil War
5.9.pdf5.9 Government Policies During the Civil War
5.10.pdf5.10 Reconstruction
5.11.pdf5.11 Failure of Reconstruction
5.12.pdf5.12 Comparison in Period 5
Unit 6: Period 6: 1865-1898
Unit 6: Period 6: 1865-1898
The transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society brought about significant economic, political, diplomatic, social, environmental, and cultural changes.
Unit 6 Overview.pdfUnit 6 Overview
Unit 6 Overview
Unit 6 Topics
Unit 6 Topics
6.1.pdf6.1 Contextualizing Period 6
6.2.pdf6.2 Westward Expansion: Economic Development
6.3.pdf6.3 Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development
6.4.pdf6.4 The "New South"
6.5.pdf6.5 Technological Innovation
6.6.pdf6.6 The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
6.7.pdf6.7 Labor in the Gilded Age
6.8.pdf6.8 Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age
6.9.pdf6.9 Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
6.10.pdf6.10 The Development of the Middle Class
6.11.pdf6.11 Reform in the Gilded Age
6.12.pdf6.12 Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age
6.13.pdf6.13 Politics in the Gilded Age
6.14.pdf6.14 Continuity and Change Period 6
Unit 7: Period 7: 1890-1945
Unit 7: Period 7: 1890-1945
An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound domestic and global challenges, debated the proper degree of government activism, and sought to define its international role.
Unit 7 Overview.pdfUnit 7 Overview
Unit 7 Overview
Unit 7 Topics
Unit 7 Topics
7.1.pdf7.1 Contextualizing Period 7
7.2.pdf7.2 Imperialism: Debates
7.3.pdf7.3 The Spanish-American War
7.4.pdf7.4 The Progressives
7.5.pdf7.5 World War I: Military and Diplomacy
7.6.pdf7.6 World War I: Home Front
7.7.pdf7.7 1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology
7.8.pdf7.8 1020s: Cultural and Political Controversies
7.9.pdf7.9 The Great Depression
7.10.pdf7.10 The New Deal
7.11.pdf7.11 Interwar Foreign Policy
7.12.pdf7.12 World War II: Mobilization
7.13.pdf7.13 World War II: Military
7.14.pdf7.14 Postwar Diplomacy
7.15.pdf7.15 Comparison in Period 7
Unit 8: Period 8: 1945-1980
Unit 8: Period 8: 1945-1980
After World War II, the United States grappled with prosperity and unfamiliar international responsibilities, while struggling to live up to its ideals.
Unit 8 Overview.pdfUnit 8 Overview
Unit 8 Overview
Unit 8 Topics
Unit 8 Topics
8.1.pdf8.1 Contextualizing Period 8
8.2.pdf8.2 The Cold War from 1945 to 1980
8.3.pdf8.3 The Red Scare
8.4.pdf8.4 Economy After 1945
8.5.pdf8.5 Culture After 1945
8.6.pdf8.6 Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)
8.7.pdf8.7 America as a World Power
8.8.pdf8.8 The Vietnam War
8.9.pdf8.9 The Great Society
8.10.pdf8.10 The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)
8.11.pdf8.11 The Civil Rights Movement Expands
8.12.pdf8.12 Youth Culture of the 1960s
8.13.pdf8.13 The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980
8.14.pdf8.14 Society in Transition
8.15.pdf8.15 Continuity and Change in Period 8
Unit 9: Period 9: 1980-Present
Unit 9: Period 9: 1980-Present
As the United States transitioned to a new century filled with challenges and possibilities, it experienced renewed ideological and cultural debates, sought to redefine its foreign policy, and adapted to economic globalization and revolutionary changes in science and technology.
Unit 9 Overview.pdfUnit 9 Overview
Unit 9 Overview
Unit 9 Topics
Unit 9 Topics
9.1.pdf9.1 Contextualizing Period 9
9.2.pdf9.2 Reagan and Conservatism
9.3.pdf9.3 The End of the Cold War
9.4.pdf9.4 A Changing Economy
9.5.pdf9.5 Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s
9.6.pdf9.6 Challenges of the 21st Century
9.7.pdf9.7 Causation in Period 9
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