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AP®︎/College US History

Learn AP US History: key concepts, themes, and periods from the pre-contact era right up to the present, all designed for learners preparing for the AP US History exam. Expand your knowledge of the United States's rich history, and review your learning using our AP-aligned practice questions.

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Unit 1: Period 1: 1491-1607

Thinking like a historian

Native American societies before contact | 1.2

European exploration in the Americas | 1.3

Columbian Exchange, Spanish exploration, and conquest | 1.4

Labor, slavery, and caste in the Spanish colonial system | 1.5

Cultural interactions between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans | 1.6

Causation in Period 1 | 1.7

Unit 2: Period 2: 1607-1754

European colonization | 2.2

Regions of British colonies | 2.3

Interactions between American Indians and Europeans | 2.5

Slavery in the British colonies | 2.6

Comparison in Period 2 | 2.8

Unit 3: Period 3: 1754-1800

The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War) | 3.2

Philosophical foundations of the American Revolution | 3.4

The influence of revolutionary ideals | 3.6

The Articles of Confederation | 3.7

The Constitutional Convention and debates over ratification | 3.8

The Constitution | 3.9

Movement in the early republic | 3.12

Continuity and change in Period 3 | 3.13

Unit 4: Period 4: 1800-1848

America on the world stage | 4.4

Market Revolution: industrialization | 4.5

Market Revolution: society and culture | 4.6

Jackson and federal power | 4.8

The development of an American culture | 4.9

The Second Great Awakening | 4.10

An age of reform | 4.11

Causation in Period 4 | 4.14

Unit 5: Period 5: 1844-1877

Manifest Destiny | 5.2

The Mexican-American War | 5.3

The Compromise of 1850 | 5.4

Sectional conflict: regional differences | 5.5

Failure of compromise | 5.6

Election of 1860 and secession | 5.7

Military conflict in the Civil War | 5.8

Government policies during the Civil War | 5.9

Reconstruction | 5.10

Failure of Reconstruction | 5.11

Comparison in Period 5 | 5.12

Unit 6: Period 6: 1865-1898

Westward expansion: social and cultural development | 6.3

The "New South" | 6.4

Technological innovation | 6.5

The rise of industrial capitalism | 6.6

Immigration and migration in the Gilded Age | 6.8

Responses to immigration in the Gilded Age | 6.9

Reform in the Gilded Age | 6.11

Continuity and change in Period 6 | 6.14

Unit 7: Period 7: 1890-1945

Imperialism: debates | 7.2

The Progressives | 7.4

World War I: military and diplomacy | 7.5

World War I: home front | 7.6

1920s: cultural and political controversies | 7.8

Interwar foreign policy | 7.11

World War II: military | 7.13

Comparison in Period 7 | 7.15

Unit 8: Period 8: 1945-1980

The Cold War from 1945 to 1980 | 8.2

America as a world power | 8.7

The Vietnam War | 8.8

Continuity and change in Period 8 | 8.15

Unit 9: Period 9: 1980-present

Causation in Period 9 | 9.7

Unit 10: AP®︎ U.S. History exam skills and strategies

AP®︎ U.S. History worked examples

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