AP United States History
A college-level United States history course organized around APUSH periods, historical thinking skills, document analysis, and AP exam writing.
6 units and 24 lessons, for Grade 10 to Grade 12. Free on Slate.
Unit 1: Periods 1-2: 1491-1754
Study precontact societies, European colonization, colonial regions, and early Atlantic systems.
- Native Societies Before European Contact (10 min)
- European Colonization and Exchange (10 min)
- British Colonial Regions (10 min)
- Slavery and the Atlantic World (10 min)
Unit 2: Period 3: 1754-1800
Analyze revolution, independence, constitution-making, and early national politics.
- Imperial Crisis (10 min)
- American Revolution (10 min)
- Confederation and Constitution (10 min)
- Early Republic Politics (10 min)
Unit 3: Periods 4-5: 1800-1877
Trace democracy, expansion, reform, sectional crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction.
- Jacksonian Democracy and Market Revolution (10 min)
- Reform and Expansion (10 min)
- Slavery, Sectionalism, and Civil War (10 min)
- Reconstruction (10 min)
Unit 4: Periods 6-7: 1865-1945
Study industrial capitalism, reform, imperialism, world wars, depression, and the New Deal.
- Gilded Age Industrialization (10 min)
- Progressivism and Imperialism (10 min)
- World War I and the 1920s (10 min)
- Great Depression, New Deal, and World War II (10 min)
Unit 5: Periods 8-9: 1945-Present
Analyze Cold War politics, rights movements, conservatism, globalization, and contemporary America.
- Cold War Consensus and Conflict (10 min)
- Civil Rights and Social Movements (10 min)
- Conservatism and Globalization (10 min)
- APUSH Periodization Review (10 min)
Unit 6: APUSH Writing and Exam Skills
Practice APUSH-specific document analysis, thesis writing, LEQ, DBQ, SAQ, and multiple choice.
- APUSH Multiple Choice (10 min)
- Short-Answer Questions (10 min)
- Document-Based Question (10 min)
- Long Essay Question (10 min)