AP U.S. History

This course covers all of the material outlined by the College Board as necessary to prepare you to pass the AP U.S. History exam. Students will:

This course meets College Board guidelines for AP U.S. History.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: Two semesters or block

Textbooks: The American Pageant (ISBN: 061810349X )

Course Cost: $350/student per semester + required materials

Course Outline

SEMESTER I

Unit 1: Exploration and Colonial America 
Unit 2: Colonial Society 
Unit 3: The Shot Heard Round the World 
Unit 4: The New Nation Forms 
Unit 5: America's Growing Pains 
Unit 6: The Concurrent Rise of Nationalism and Sectionalism 
Unit 7: The Era of Andrew Jackson 
Unit 8: Emergence of America's Literary, Philosophic, and Religious Movements 
Unit 9: The Coming of the Civil War 
Unit 10: The Only Recourse: War 
Unit 11: Picking up the Pieces 

 

SEMESTER II

Unit 12: The New South and the New West 
Unit 13: Industrial Ascendancy 
Unit 14: Urbanization: A Changing America 
Unit 15: Agrarian Discontent and Progressivism 
Unit 16: Isolationist to World Power 
Unit 17: Wilson and the World 
Unit 18: Boom to Bust 
Unit 19: The U.S. at War 
Unit 20: The Cold War 
Unit 21: Turbulent Decades 
Unit 22: Toward a New Century

 


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