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AP®︎/College US History

Learn AP US History: key concepts, themes, and periods from the pre-contact era right up to the present, all designed for learners preparing for the AP US History exam. Expand your knowledge of the United States's rich history, and review your learning using our AP-aligned practice questions.

11 units 103 lessons 16 videos 6 on CDN
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Unit 2 Period 1: 1491-1607

1 Thinking like a historian Free 5 video(s) ● 2 Native American societies before contact | 1.2 Free 3 European exploration in the Americas | 1.3 Free 1 video(s) ● 5 Columbian Exchange, Spanish exploration, and conquest | 1.4 🔒 Pro 6 Labor, slavery, and caste in the Spanish colonial system | 1.5 🔒 Pro 8 Cultural interactions between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans | 1.6 🔒 Pro 9 Causation in Period 1 | 1.7 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 9 Period 9: 1980-present: Unit test 🔒 Pro

Unit 3 Period 2: 1607-1754

1 European colonization | 2.2 🔒 Pro 2 Regions of British colonies | 2.3 🔒 Pro 3 Transatlantic trade | 2.4 🔒 Pro 5 Interactions between American Indians and Europeans | 2.5 🔒 Pro 6 Slavery in the British colonies | 2.6 🔒 Pro 7 Colonial society and culture | 2.7 🔒 Pro 9 Comparison in Period 2 | 2.8 🔒 Pro

Unit 4 Period 3: 1754-1800

1 The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War) | 3.2 🔒 Pro 2 Taxation without representation | 3.3 🔒 Pro 3 Philosophical foundations of the American Revolution | 3.4 🔒 Pro 4 The American Revolution | 3.5 🔒 Pro 6 The influence of revolutionary ideals | 3.6 🔒 Pro 7 The Articles of Confederation | 3.7 🔒 Pro 8 The Constitutional Convention and debates over ratification | 3.8 🔒 Pro 9 The Constitution | 3.9 🔒 Pro 11 Shaping a new republic | 3.10 🔒 Pro 12 Developing an American identity | 3.11 🔒 Pro 13 Movement in the early republic | 3.12 🔒 Pro 14 Continuity and change in Period 3 | 3.13 🔒 Pro

Unit 5 Period 4: 1800-1848

1 The rise of political parties and the era of Jefferson | 4.2 🔒 Pro 2 Politics and regional interests | 4.3 🔒 Pro 3 America on the world stage | 4.4 🔒 Pro 5 Market Revolution: industrialization | 4.5 🔒 Pro 6 Market Revolution: society and culture | 4.6 🔒 Pro 7 Expanding democracy | 4.7 🔒 Pro 8 Jackson and federal power | 4.8 🔒 Pro 10 The development of an American culture | 4.9 🔒 Pro 11 The Second Great Awakening | 4.10 🔒 Pro 12 An age of reform | 4.11 🔒 Pro 14 African Americans in the early republic | 4.12 🔒 Pro 15 The society of the South in the early republic | 4.13 🔒 Pro 16 Causation in Period 4 | 4.14 🔒 Pro

Unit 6 Period 5: 1844-1877

1 Manifest Destiny | 5.2 🔒 Pro 2 The Mexican-American War | 5.3 🔒 Pro 3 The Compromise of 1850 | 5.4 🔒 Pro 5 Sectional conflict: regional differences | 5.5 🔒 Pro 6 Failure of compromise | 5.6 🔒 Pro 7 Election of 1860 and secession | 5.7 🔒 Pro 9 Military conflict in the Civil War | 5.8 🔒 Pro 10 Government policies during the Civil War | 5.9 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 11 Reconstruction | 5.10 🔒 Pro 12 Failure of Reconstruction | 5.11 🔒 Pro 14 Comparison in Period 5 | 5.12 🔒 Pro

Unit 7 Period 6: 1865-1898

1 Contextualizing Period 6 | 6.1 🔒 Pro 2 Westward expansion: economic development | 6.2 🔒 Pro 3 Westward expansion: social and cultural development | 6.3 🔒 Pro 4 The "New South" | 6.4 🔒 Pro 6 Technological innovation | 6.5 🔒 Pro 7 The rise of industrial capitalism | 6.6 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 8 Labor in the Gilded Age | 6.7 🔒 Pro 10 Immigration and migration in the Gilded Age | 6.8 🔒 Pro 11 Responses to immigration in the Gilded Age | 6.9 🔒 Pro 12 Development of the middle class | 6.10 🔒 Pro 14 Reform in the Gilded Age | 6.11 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 15 Controversies over the role of government in the Gilded Age | 6.12 🔒 Pro 16 Politics in the Gilded Age | 6.13 🔒 Pro 18 Continuity and change in Period 6 | 6.14 🔒 Pro

Unit 8 Period 7: 1890-1945

1 Contextualizing Period 7 | 7.1 🔒 Pro 2 Imperialism: debates | 7.2 🔒 Pro 3 The Spanish-American War | 7.3 🔒 Pro 5 The Progressives | 7.4 🔒 Pro 6 World War I: military and diplomacy | 7.5 🔒 Pro 7 World War I: home front | 7.6 🔒 Pro 9 1920s: innovations in communication and technology | 7.7 🔒 Pro 10 1920s: cultural and political controversies | 7.8 🔒 Pro 11 The Great Depression | 7.9 🔒 Pro 12 The New Deal | 7.10 🔒 Pro 14 Interwar foreign policy | 7.11 🔒 Pro 15 World War II: mobilization | 7.12 🔒 Pro 16 World War II: military | 7.13 🔒 Pro 17 Postwar diplomacy | 7.14 🔒 Pro 19 Comparison in Period 7 | 7.15 🔒 Pro

Unit 9 Period 8: 1945-1980

1 The Cold War from 1945 to 1980 | 8.2 🔒 Pro 2 The Red Scare | 8.3 🔒 Pro 3 Economy after 1945 | 8.4 🔒 Pro 4 Culture after 1945 | 8.5 🔒 Pro 6 Early steps in the civil rights movement, 1940s and 1950s | 8.6 🔒 Pro 7 America as a world power | 8.7 🔒 Pro 8 The Vietnam War | 8.8 🔒 Pro 10 The Great Society | 8.9 🔒 Pro 11 The African American Civil Rights Movement, 1960s | 8.10 🔒 Pro 12 The Civil Rights Movement expands | 8.11 🔒 Pro 13 Youth culture of the 1960s | 8.12 🔒 Pro 15 The environment and natural resources from 1968 to 1980 | 8.13 🔒 Pro 16 Society in transition | 8.14 🔒 Pro 17 Continuity and change in Period 8 | 8.15 🔒 Pro

Unit 10 Period 9: 1980-present

1 Reagan and conservatism | 9.2 🔒 Pro 2 The end of the Cold War | 9.3 🔒 Pro 4 A changing economy | 9.4 🔒 Pro 5 Migration and immigration in the 1990s and 2000s | 9.5 🔒 Pro 6 Challenges of the twenty-first century | 9.6 🔒 Pro 8 Causation in Period 9 | 9.7 🔒 Pro

Unit 11 AP®︎ U.S. History exam skills and strategies

1 Preparing for the AP® U.S. History exam 🔒 Pro 2 AP®︎ U.S. History worked examples 🔒 Pro 6 video(s)

Unit 12 AP®︎ U.S. History standards mappings

1 See how our course content aligns with AP®︎ US History standards 🔒 Pro