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High School AP US History

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Suggested Prerequisites

English 1, English 2

Description

AP United States History focuses on developing students’ abilities to think conceptually about U.S. history from approximately 1491 to the present and apply historical thinking skills as they learn about the past. Seven themes of equal importance —American and national identity; politics and power; work, exchange, and technology; culture and society; migration and settlement; geography and the environment; America in the World— provide areas of historical inquiry for investigation throughout the course. These require students to reason historically about continuity and change over time and make comparisons among various historical developments in different times and places.

Module One: Quest for the Americas

-1491-1754

-North, Central, South American native tribal peoples

-Columbus and start of Columbian Exchange

-Spanish and Portuguese colonization

-Influx of African slavery

-Spanish, Dutch, French, and British colonization in North America

-British slave system and indentured servants

-Comparing regions of British colonies

-Growing conflict between settlers and native populations

-“Atlantic World”—mercantilism, Anglicization, early Enlightenment spread

 

Module Two: Colonies at War

-1754-1800

-Native American conflicts with colonists

-Seven Years’ War

-American Revolution

-Articles of Confederation

-The Constitution

-Washington’s presidency

 

Module Three: A New Republic

-1800-1848

-Domestic policy

-International policy and trade

-Migration to United States as well as within

-Manifest Destiny

-Nullification and political issues, sectionalism

-Market Revolution

 

Module Four: American Civil War

-1844-1877

-Effects of manifest destiny

-Abolition movements

-Compromises—1850, Kansas-Nebraska, Dred Scott

-Election of 1860—sectionalism, secession

-Civil War

-Reconstruction—political and social effects


Module Five: A Growing Nation

-1865-1898

-Industrialization and big business

-Urbanization—early reform, political machine

-Western migration

-Native Americans

-Gilded Age—social and political effects

 

Module Six: Imperialism & Progressivism

-1890-1932

-Effects of industrialization

-The Progressives

-Imperialism

-World War I

-Post-war 1920s

 

Module Seven: The World at War

-1932-1945

-End of the boom and depression

-FDR and the New Deal

-End of neutrality

-World War II—domestic and foreign

-Effects of World War II

 

Module Eight: Cold War

-1945-1980

-Cold War origins

-Political and military involvement—Korea, Vietnam, Middle East, Latin America

-Great Society

-Civil Rights Movements

-Changing migration—Immigration Act of 1965

-Liberal and Conservative society and their effects on politics

 

Module Nine: A Brave New World

-1980-Present

-Failures of the 1970s led to change in 1980s—political, social, economic

-Reagan’s presidency and the fall of Communism

-Global marketplace

-War on Terror

-Social changes—internet, demographics