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AP®︎ US History Study Guides

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Unit 1: Period 1 (1491–1607)

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Topic 1.1
Contextualizing Period 1

Topic 1.2
Native American Societies Before European Contact

Topic 1.3
European Exploration in the Americas

Topic 1.4
Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest

Topic 1.5
Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System

Topic 1.6
Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans

Topic 1.7
Causation in Period 1

Unit 2: Period 2 (1607–1754)

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Topic 2.1
Contextualizing Period 2

Topic 2.2
European Colonization

Topic 2.3
The Regions of British Colonies

Topic 2.4
Transatlantic Trade

Topic 2.5
Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans

Topic 2.6
Slavery in the British Colonies

Topic 2.7
Colonial Society and Culture

Topic 2.8
Comparison in Period 2

Unit 3: Period 3 (1754–1800)

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Topic 3.1
Contextualizing Period 3

Topic 3.2
The Seven Years’ War (The French and Indian War)

Topic 3.3
Taxation Without Representation

Topic 3.4
Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution

Topic 3.5
The American Revolution

Topic 3.6
The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals

Topic 3.7
The Articles of Confederation

Topic 3.8
The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification

Topic 3.9
The Constitution

Topic 3.10
Shaping a New Republic

Topic 3.11
Developing an American Identity

Topic 3.12
Movement in the Early Republic

Topic 3.13
Continuity and Change in Period 3

Unit 4: Period 4 (1800–1848)

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Topic 4.1
Contextualizing Period 4

Topic 4.2
The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson

Topic 4.3
Politics and Regional Interests

Topic 4.4
America on the World Stage

Topic 4.5
Market Revolution: Industrialization

Topic 4.6
Market Revolution: Society and Culture

Topic 4.7
Expanding Democracy

Topic 4.8
Jackson and Federal Power

Topic 4.9
The Development of an American Culture

Topic 4.10
The Second Great Awakening

Topic 4.11
An Age of Reform

Topic 4.12
African Americans in the Early Republic

Topic 4.13
The Society of the South in the Early Republic

Topic 4.14
Causation in Period 4

Unit 5: Period 5 (1844–1877)

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Topic 5.1
Contextualizing Period 5

Topic 5.2
Manifest Destiny

Topic 5.3
The Mexican–American War

Topic 5.4
The Compromise of 1850

Topic 5.5
Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences

Topic 5.6
Failure of Compromise

Topic 5.7
Election of 1860 and Secession

Topic 5.8
Military Conflict in the Civil War

Topic 5.9
Government Policies During the Civil War

Topic 5.10
Reconstruction

Topic 5.11
Failure of Reconstruction

Topic 5.12
Comparison in Period 5

Unit 6: Period 6 (1865–1898)

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Topic 6.1
Contextualizing Period 6

Topic 6.2
Westward Expansion: Economic Development

Topic 6.3
Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development

Topic 6.4
The “New South”

Topic 6.5
Technological Innovation

Topic 6.6
The Rise of Industrial Capitalism

Topic 6.7
Labor in the Gilded Age

Topic 6.8
Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age

Topic 6.9
Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age

Topic 6.10
Development of the Middle Class

Topic 6.11
Reform in the Gilded Age

Topic 6.12
Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age

Topic 6.13
Politics in the Gilded Age

Topic 6.14
Continuity and Change in Period 6

Unit 7: Period 7 (1890–1945)

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Topic 7.1
Contextualizing Period 7

Topic 7.2
Imperialism: Debates

Topic 7.3
The Spanish–American War

Topic 7.4
The Progressives

Topic 7.5
World War I: Military and Diplomacy

Topic 7.6
World War I: Home Front

Topic 7.7
1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology

Topic 7.8
1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies

Topic 7.9
The Great Depression

Topic 7.10
The New Deal

Topic 7.11
Interwar Foreign Policy

Topic 7.12
World War II: Mobilization

Topic 7.13
World War II: Military

Topic 7.14
Postwar Diplomacy

Topic 7.15
Comparison in Period 7

Unit 8: Period 8 (1945–1980)

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Topic 8.1
Contextualizing Period 8

Topic 8.2
The Cold War from 1945 to 1980

Topic 8.3
The Red Scare

Topic 8.4
Economy After 1945

Topic 8.5
Culture after 1945

Topic 8.6
Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)

Topic 8.7
America as a World Power

Topic 8.8
The Vietnam War

Topic 8.9
The Great Society

Topic 8.10
The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)

Topic 8.11
The Civil Rights Movement Expands

Topic 8.12
Youth Culture of the 1960s

Topic 8.13
The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980

Topic 8.14
Society in Transition

Topic 8.15
Continuity and Change in Period 8

Unit 9: Period 9 (1980–Present)

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Topic 9.1
Contextualizing Period 9

Topic 9.2
Reagan and Conservatism

Topic 9.3
The End of the Cold War

Topic 9.4
A Changing Economy

Topic 9.5
Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s

Topic 9.6
Challenges of the 21st Century

Topic 9.7
Causation in Period 9

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