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Advanced Placement

AP US History

Colonies · Revolution · Civil War · World wars · Civil rights

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3.3The Long Fuse

Unit 31754–1800

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  1. 3.1 + 3.2Set the World on Fire. The Seven Years' War, 1754–1763
  2. 3.3The Long Fuse. How Twelve Years of Taxes, Tea & Talking Back Became a Revolution
  3. 3.4Self-Evident. From Loyal Subjects to Independence, 1775–1776
  4. 3.5The Times That Try Men’s Souls. How the Underdogs Won the Revolutionary War, 1776–1783
  5. 3.6Born Free and Equal. Who Got the Revolution's Liberty, 1776–1804
  6. 3.7Not Worth a Continental. The Articles of Confederation, 1776–1787
  7. 3.8 + 3.9A Rising Sun. The Constitutional Convention and the Fight to Ratify, 1787–1791
  8. 3.10The Experiment. Washington, Adams, the First Parties and a Young Republic in a World at War, 1789–1800
  9. 3.11 + 3.12This New Man. Who Counted as an American, 1782–1800
  10. 3.13The World Turned Upside Down?. Period 3 in Review: Continuity and Change, 1754–1800

Unit 11491–1607Coming soon

  1. 1.1 + 1.2Already Home. North America's Peoples and Their Lands Before 1492, coming soon
  2. 1.3 + 1.4The Wrong Size of the World. Why Europe Sailed, and What Crossed the Ocean When It Did, coming soon
  3. 1.5Other People's Hands. Labor, Slavery, and Caste in Spain's American Empire, coming soon
  4. 1.6What They Made of Each Other. Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans in the First Century of Contact, coming soon
  5. 1.7What the Ships Started. Period 1 in Review: Causation, 1491–1607, coming soon

Unit 21607–1754Coming soon

  1. 2.1 + 2.2Turncoat. What Spain, France, the Dutch and England Wanted from North America, coming soon
  2. 2.3The Weed and the Word. The Regions of British America: Chesapeake, New England, the Middle Colonies, Carolina and the Caribbean, 1607–1732, coming soon
  3. 2.4The Collector. Mercantilism, Smugglers and the Atlantic Economy, 1651–1754, coming soon
  4. 2.5The Knotted Cord. Alliance, War and the Pueblo Revolt, 1607–1754, coming soon
  5. 2.6The Condition of the Mother. How Slavery Was Written into Law, and How Enslaved People Resisted, 1619–1754, coming soon
  6. 2.7The Preacher and the Printer. Faith, Reason and the Making of Colonial Minds, 1690–1754, coming soon
  7. 2.8One Summer. Comparing Colonial Societies: Period 2 in Review, coming soon

Unit 41800–1848Coming soon

  1. 4.1 + 4.2Mr. Jefferson's Bargain. How a Man Who Feared Federal Power Doubled the Country (1800–1806), coming soon
  2. 4.4The Dawn's Early Light. How a Weak Young Nation Got the World to Take It Seriously (1801–1823), coming soon
  3. 4.3A Fire Bell in the Night. Good Feelings, Hard Times and a Line Across the West (1815–1824), coming soon
  4. 4.5 + 4.6The Thread. Canals, Machines, Cotton and the People Who Made the Market Revolution (1807–1848), coming soon
  5. 4.7Open House. How America Let Nearly Every White Man Vote, and Who Got Shut Out (1800–1840), coming soon
  6. 4.8King Andrew. The Bank, the Tariff, the Cherokee Nation and a President Who Used Power His Own Way (1829–1840), coming soon
  7. 4.9Who Reads an American Book?. Writers, Painters and Thinkers Declared a Second Independence (1819–1848), coming soon
  8. 4.10 + 4.11The Burned-Over District. How a Religious Revival Became a Crusade to Remake America (1801–1848), coming soon
  9. 4.12Our Own Cause. African Americans Built Churches, Newspapers and Movements, and Rose Against Slavery (1800–1848), coming soon
  10. 4.13Cotton, Cotton, Cotton. How One Crop Built the South, Moved Slavery West and Shaped a Region (1800–1848), coming soon
  11. 4.14The Jubilee. Period 4 in Review: What Made the Americans One People, and What Split Them (1800–1848), coming soon

Unit 51844–1877Coming soon

  1. 5.1 + 5.2Overspread. Manifest Destiny and the Rush to the Pacific, 1844–1854, coming soon
  2. 5.3The Spot. The Mexican–American War, 1846–1848, coming soon
  3. 5.4A Higher Law. The Compromise of 1850, coming soon
  4. 5.5The Fifth of July. North, South and the New Americans, 1844–1860, coming soon
  5. 5.6A House Divided. The Failure of Compromise, 1854–1858, coming soon
  6. 5.7The Cornerstone. The Election of 1860 and Secession, 1859–1861, coming soon
  7. 5.8The Terrible Arithmetic. How the Union Won the Civil War, 1861–1865, coming soon
  8. 5.9Forever Free. Emancipation and the War's New Purpose, 1861–1865, coming soon
  9. 5.10The First Vote. Reconstruction and the New Amendments, 1865–1870, coming soon
  10. 5.11A Brief Moment in the Sun. The Failure of Reconstruction, 1865–1877, coming soon
  11. 5.12Freedom on the Dome. Period 5 in Review: What the Civil War Changed, coming soon

Unit 61865–1898Coming soon

  1. 6.1 + 6.2Free Land. Rails, Gold, Cattle, Wheat, and the Farmers Who Fought Back (1862–1890), coming soon
  2. 6.3Absolute and Undisturbed. Settlers, Soldiers, and the Promise of the Black Hills (1865–1890), coming soon
  3. 6.4Separate as the Fingers. The New South, Jim Crow, and the People Who Fought It (1877–1898), coming soon
  4. 6.5 + 6.6The Price of Light. Steel, Oil, Electricity, and the Men Who Owned Them (1865–1898), coming soon
  5. 6.7Eight Hours for What We Will. Workers, Bosses, and the Strikes That Shook the Gilded Age (1877–1895), coming soon
  6. 6.8 + 6.9Mother of Exiles. Who Came, Why They Came, and How America Answered (1865–1898), coming soon
  7. 6.10 + 6.11Looking Backward. The New Middle Class, the Gospel of Wealth, and the Reformers Who Wanted More (1870–1898), coming soon
  8. 6.12 + 6.13Cross of Gold. Bosses, Tariffs, Silver, and the Farmers' Revolt (1867–1896), coming soon
  9. 6.14The White City. Period 6 in Review: How Much Did Industrialization Change America? (1865–1898), coming soon

Unit 71890–1945Coming soon

  1. 7.1 + 7.2 + 7.3A Splendid Little War. The Frontier Closed, the Empire Opened · 1890–1904, coming soon
  2. 7.4The Other Half. Muckrakers, Suffragists, Trustbusters and the Fight over Hetch Hetchy, 1890–1920, coming soon
  3. 7.5He Kept Us Out of War. Wilson, the Great War and the Peace America Refused · 1914–1920, coming soon
  4. 7.6Safe for Democracy. The Home Front, the Great Migration and the Red Scare · 1917–1921, coming soon
  5. 7.7 + 7.8Static. Model Ts, Radio and the Fight Over Modern America · The 1920s, coming soon
  6. 7.9Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?. The Crash and the Great Depression · 1928–1933, coming soon
  7. 7.10Fear Itself. Relief, Recovery and Reform in Roosevelt's New Deal · 1933–1939, coming soon
  8. 7.11Outlawing War. Isolation, Aggression and the Road to Pearl Harbor · 1920–1941, coming soon
  9. 7.12Double V. The Home Front in World War II · 1941–1945, coming soon
  10. 7.13 + 7.14Trinity. How the Allies Won World War II and America Came Out on Top · 1942–1945, coming soon
  11. 7.15The American Century. Period 7 in Review · 1890–1945, coming soon

Unit 81945–1980Coming soon

  1. 8.1 + 8.2After the Handshake. How Allies Became Enemies, Containment Became Policy, and the Cold War Went to the Brink and Back, 1945–1980, coming soon
  2. 8.3Are You Now or Have You Ever Been…. The Second Red Scare, from Loyalty Boards to the Fall of Joe McCarthy, 1947–1954, coming soon
  3. 8.4 + 8.5The Crack in the Picture Window. The Postwar Boom, the Suburbs and the People Who Refused to Fit In, 1945–1960, coming soon
  4. 8.6All Deliberate Speed. Lawyers, Soldiers, Parents and Bus Riders Took On Jim Crow, 1944–1957, coming soon
  5. 8.7Any Price. Sputnik, the Arms Race and the Cold War in the Rest of the World, 1953–1979, coming soon
  6. 8.10How Long? Not Long. The African American Civil Rights Movement, 1960–1968, coming soon
  7. 8.9All the Way. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the War on Poverty and a New Door for Immigrants, 1962–1968, coming soon
  8. 8.8Dominoes. Vietnam, Containment and the Credibility Gap, 1945–1975, coming soon
  9. 8.12The Whole World Is Watching. Students, the New Left, the Antiwar Movement and the Counterculture, 1960–1971, coming soon
  10. 8.11By Right of Discovery. Women, Latinos, American Indians, Asian Americans and LGBTQ+ Americans Demanded Equality, 1963–1975, coming soon
  11. 8.13Earthrise. The Environmental Movement, the Oil Shocks and the First National Energy Policy, 1968–1980, coming soon
  12. 8.14Crisis of Confidence. Watergate, Stagflation, the Culture Wars and the Rise of the New Right, 1960–1980, coming soon
  13. 8.15The Time Capsule. Period 8 in Review: What Changed and What Didn't, 1945–1980, coming soon

Unit 91980–PresentComing soon

  1. 9.1 + 9.2Morning Again. Reagan, the New Right, and the Fight over What Government Is For, 1980–1996, coming soon
  2. 9.3Trust, but Verify. Reagan, Gorbachev, the Fall of the Wall, and a World with One Superpower, 1981–1999, coming soon
  3. 9.4 + 9.5Help Wanted. Computers, Closed Mills, New Neighbors, and a Country That Moved South and West, 1980–2010s, coming soon
  4. 9.698 to 1. September 11, the War on Terror, Oil, and the Superpower's New Century, 2001–2010s, coming soon
  5. 9.7Out of Many. Period 9 in Review: How the Changes After 1980 Remade Who Americans Think They Are, coming soon