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)