AP US History

Overview: Focuses on pre-Columbian Native American societies, the Columbian Exchange, and Spanish colonization.

Key Terms (SHEs): Encomienda System, Bartolomé de las Casas, Middle Passage, Joint-Stock Company

Overview: Examines Colonial America with the development of British colonies, differences between regions (New England, Chesapeake), transatlantic trade, and slavery.

Key Terms (SHEs): Headright System, House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact (1620), City upon a Hill, Bacon’s Rebellion (1676), First Great Awakening (1730s-40s)

Overview: Covers the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation, and the creation of the Constitution.

Key Terms (SHEs): French and Indian War (1754-1763), Stamp Act (1765), Common Sense, Declaration of Independence (1776), Articles of Confederation (1781), Northwest Ordinance (1787), Great Compromise (1787), Bill of Rights (1791)

Overview: Focuses on Jeffersonian democracy, the Market Revolution, Jacksonian democracy, territorial expansion, and the rise of abolition.

Key Terms (SHEs): Market Revolution, Marbury v. Madison (1803), Second Great Awakening, Monroe Doctrine (1823), Nullification Crisis (1832-1833), Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

Overview: Covers the acceleration of westward expansion, the intensification of sectional tensions and the slavery debate, the Civil War, and Reconstruction

Key Terms (SHEs): Compromise of 1850, Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), 13th-15th Amendments (1860-1870), Sharecropping

Overview: Focuses on the Gilded Age, industrialization, urbanization, and the closing of the frontier.

Key Terms (SHEs): Transcontinental Railroad, Andrew Carnegie, Horizontal & Vertical Integration, Social Darwinism, Knights of Labor, Dawes Act (1887), Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Overview: Covers the Progressive Era, imperialism, the World Wars, and the Great Depression.

Key Terms (SHEs): Spanish-American War (1898), Muckrakers, Yellow Journalism, Progressive amendments (16th-19th), Roosevelt Corollary (1904), Great Migration (1910s-1930s), Fourteen Points (1918), League of Nations, Red Scares, Harlem Renaissance, Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930), The New Deal (1933-1939), Social Security Act (1935), Double V Campaign, Neutrality Acts (1935-1937)

Overview: Explores the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, and major social changes.

Key Terms (SHEs): Containment, Truman Doctrine (1947), Marshall Plan (1948), Executive Order 9981 (1948), NATO, Korean War (1950-1953), McCarthyism, Taft-Hartley Act (1947), Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Vietnam War (1955-1975), Civil Rights Act of 1964, Great Society (1964–1968)

Overview: Focuses on the rise of conservatism, the end of the Cold War, technological changes, globalization, and modern foreign policy.

Key Terms (SHEs): Stagflation, Reaganomics, Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), Persian Gulf War (1990-1991), NAFTA (1993), Sun Belt, 9/11 Terrorist Attacks (2001), Patriot Act (2001), The Affordable Care Act (2010)