AP United States History

Welcome to the US History AP book. The main goal of this book is to function as a study guide for the 2012 Advanced Placement exam.

Table of Contents

European Exploration and New World Colonization

• New World Beginnings (33,000 BC - 1769 AD)
• The Planting of English America (1500–1733)
• Settling the Northern Colonies (1619–1700)
• American Life in the Seventeenth Century (1607–1692)

The Revolutionary War

• Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution (1700–1775)
• The Duel for North America (1608–1763)
• The Road to Revolution (1763–1775)
• America Secedes from the Empire (1775–1783)

Unit 3

• The Confederation and the Constitution (1776–1790)
• Launching the New Ship of State (1789–1800)
• The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic (1800–1812)

Unit 4

• The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism (1812–1824)
• The Rise of a Mass Democracy (1824–1840)
• Forging the National Economy (1790–1860)
• The Ferment of Reform and Culture (1790–1860)

Unit 5

• The South and the Slavery Controversy (1793–1860)
• Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy (1841–1848)
• Renewing the Sectional Struggle (1848–1854)

The Civil War

• Drifting Toward Disunion (1854–1861)
• Girding for War: The North and the South (1861–1865)
• The Furnace of Civil War (1861–1865)
• The Ordeal of Reconstruction (1865–1877)

Unit 7

• Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age (1869–1896)
• Industry Comes of Age (1865–1900)
• America Moves to the City (1865–1900)
• The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution (1865–1890)

Unit 8

• The Path of Empire (1890–1899)
• America on the World Stage (1899–1909)
• Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt (1901–1912)
• Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad (1912–1916)

Unit 9

• The War to End War (1917–1918)
• American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" (1919–1929)
• The Politics of Boom and Bust (1920–1932)
• The Great Depression and the New Deal (1933–1939)