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Advanced Placement

AP US History

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Unit 1 1491–1607

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

Unit 2 1607–1754

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

Unit 3 1754–1800

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

Unit 4 1800–1848Coming soon

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

Unit 5 1844–1877Coming soon

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

Unit 6 1865–1898Coming soon

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

Unit 7 1890–1945Coming soon

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

Unit 8 1945–1980Coming soon

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

Unit 9 1980–PresentComing soon

  1. 9.1 + 9.2 Morning Again. Reagan, the New Right, and the Fight over What Government Is For, 1980–1996, coming soon
  2. 9.3 Trust, but Verify. Reagan, Gorbachev, the Fall of the Wall, and a World with One Superpower, 1981–1999, coming soon
  3. 9.4 + 9.5 Help Wanted. Computers, Closed Mills, New Neighbors, and a Country That Moved South and West, 1980–2010s, coming soon
  4. 9.6 98 to 1. September 11, the War on Terror, Oil, and the Superpower's New Century, 2001–2010s, coming soon
  5. 9.7 Out of Many. Period 9 in Review: How the Changes After 1980 Remade Who Americans Think They Are, coming soon