AP U.S. History

Also covered in this plan

• Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans
• Slavery in the British Colonies
• Colonial Society and Culture
• Comparison in Period 2
• Exam: Period 2: 1607–1754
• The Seven Years’ War (The French and Indian War)
• Taxation Without Representation
• Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution
• The American Revolution
• The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals
• The Articles of Confederation
• The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification
• The Constitution
• Shaping a New Republic
• Developing an American Identity
• Movement in the Early Republic
• Continuity and Change in Period 3
• Exam: Period 3: 1754–1800
• The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson
• Politics and Regional Interests
• America on the World Stage
• Market Revolution: Industrialization
• Market Revolution: Society and Culture
• Expanding Democracy
• Jackson and Federal Power
• The Development of an American Culture
• The Second Great Awakening
• An Age of Reform
• African Americans in the Early Republic
• The Society of the South in the Early Republic
• Causation in Period 4
• Exam: Period 4: 1800–1848
• Manifest Destiny
• The Mexican–American War
• The Compromise of 1850
• Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences
• Failure of Compromise
• Election of 1860 and Secession
• Military Conflict in the Civil War
• Government Policies During the Civil War
• Reconstruction
• Failure of Reconstruction
• Comparison in Period 5
• Exam: Period 5: 1844–1877
• Contextualizing Period 6
• Westward Expansion: Economic Development
• Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development
• The “New South”
• Technological Innovation
• The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
• Labor in the Gilded Age
• Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age
• Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
• Development of the Middle Class
• Reform in the Gilded Age
• Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age
• Politics in the Gilded Age
• Continuity and Change Period 6
• Exam: Period 6: 1865–1898
• Contextualizing Period 7
• Imperialism: Debates
• The Spanish–American War
• The Progressives
• World War I: Military and Diplomacy
• World War I: Home Front
• 1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology
• 1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies
• The Great Depression
• The New Deal
• Interwar Foreign Policy
• World War II: Mobilization
• World War II: Military
• Postwar Diplomacy
• Comparison in Period 7
• Exam: Period 7: 1890–1945
• The Cold War from 1945 to 1980
• The Red Scare
• Economy after 1945
• Culture after 1945
• Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)
• America as a World Power
• The Vietnam War
• The Great Society
• The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)
• The Civil Rights Movement Expands
• Youth Culture of the 1960s
• The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980
• Society in Transition
• Continuity and Change in Period 8
• Exam: Period 8: 1945–1980
• Reagan and Conservatism
• The End of the Cold War
• A Changing Economy
• Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s
• Challenges of the 21st Century
• Causation in Period 9
• Exam: Period 9: 1980–Present