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AP U.S. History study notes
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Study AP U.S. History free in APrepUnit 1: Period 1 · 1491–1607
- 1.1Contextualizing Period 1
- 1.2Native American Societies Before European Contact
- 1.3European Exploration in the Americas
- 1.4Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
- 1.5Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
- 1.6Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
- 1.7Causation in Period 1
Unit 2: Period 2 · 1607–1754
Unit 3: Period 3 · 1754–1800
- 3.1Contextualizing Period 3
- 3.2The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War)
- 3.3Taxation Without Representation
- 3.4Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution
- 3.5The American Revolution
- 3.6The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals
- 3.7The Articles of Confederation
- 3.8The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification
- 3.9The Constitution
- 3.10Shaping a New Republic
- 3.11Developing an American Identity
- 3.12Movement in the Early Republic
- 3.13Continuity and Change in Period 3
Unit 4: Period 4 · 1800–1848
- 4.1Contextualizing Period 4
- 4.2The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson
- 4.3Politics and Regional Interests
- 4.4America on the World Stage
- 4.5Market Revolution: Industrialization
- 4.6Market Revolution: Society and Culture
- 4.7Expanding Democracy
- 4.8Jackson and Federal Power
- 4.9The Development of an American Culture
- 4.10The Second Great Awakening
- 4.11An Age of Reform
- 4.12African Americans in the Early Republic
- 4.13The Society of the South in the Early Republic
- 4.14Comparison in Period 4
- 4.15Continuity and Change in Period 4
Unit 5: Period 5 · 1844–1877
- 5.1Contextualizing Period 5
- 5.2Manifest Destiny
- 5.3The Mexican-American War
- 5.4The Compromise of 1850
- 5.5Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences
- 5.6Failure of Compromise
- 5.7Election of 1860 and Secession
- 5.8Military Conflict in the Civil War
- 5.9Government Policies during the Civil War
- 5.10Reconstruction
- 5.11Failure of Reconstruction
- 5.12Comparison in Period 5
- 5.13Continuity and Change in Period 5
Unit 6: Period 6 · 1865–1898
- 6.1Contextualizing Period 6
- 6.2Westward Expansion
- 6.3The 'New South'
- 6.4Technological Innovation
- 6.5The Rise of Industrialization
- 6.6Responses to Industrialization
- 6.7Labor in the Gilded Age
- 6.8Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age
- 6.9Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
- 6.10Development of the Middle Class
- 6.11Reform in the Gilded Age
- 6.12Controversies over the Role of Government
- 6.13Comparison in the Gilded Age
- 6.14Continuity and Change in the Gilded Age
Unit 7: Period 7 · 1890–1945
- 7.1Contextualizing Period 7
- 7.2The Progressives
- 7.3World War I: Military and Diplomacy
- 7.4The Roaring Twenties
- 7.5The Great Depression
- 7.6The New Deal
- 7.7Interwar Foreign Policy
- 7.8World War II: Mobilization
- 7.9World War II: Military
- 7.10Postwar Diplomacy
- 7.11Comparison in Period 7
- 7.12Continuity and Change in Period 7
Unit 8: Period 8 · 1945–1980
- 8.1Postwar Foreign Policy
- 8.2The Cold War
- 8.3The Red Scare
- 8.4Economy after 1945
- 8.5Culture after 1945
- 8.6Postwar Civil Rights
- 8.7America as a World Power
- 8.8The Vietnam War
- 8.9The Great Society
- 8.10The African American Civil Rights Movement
- 8.11The Civil Rights Movement Expands
- 8.12Youth Culture of the 1960s
- 8.13The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980
- 8.14Society in Transition
- 8.15Continuity and Change from 1945 to 1980