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Pre-Columbian America and Early European Contact (Before 1607)
Build a strong APUSH foundation by understanding the diversity of Indigenous societies before 1492 and the major consequences of European arrival, exploration, conquest, and exchange.
- Native societies in North America before European contact, including political organization, agriculture, trade, religion, and regional diversity
- Major cultural patterns in regions such as the Southwest, Great Plains, Mississippi River Valley, and Eastern Woodlands
- Motives for European exploration, including competition for wealth, religious expansion, and imperial rivalry
- Spanish, French, Dutch, and English approaches to colonization and early contact with Indigenous peoples
- The Columbian Exchange, including the movement of crops, animals, disease, labor systems, and ideas
- The encomienda system, population decline among Indigenous peoples, and early debates about conquest and empire
- Historical reasoning about causation and change over time in the early Atlantic world
Colonial America and British Settlement (1607 to 1754)
Examine how Britain established colonies in North America and how regional economies, labor systems, religious life, and political practices shaped distinct colonial societies.
- Founding and development of colonies such as Jamestown, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Pennsylvania, and the Carolinas
- Regional patterns across New England, Middle Colonies, Chesapeake, and the Southern Colonies
- Mercantilism, triangular trade, plantation agriculture, and the growth of slavery in British North America
- Puritanism, dissent, the Great Awakening, and the influence of religion on colonial life and identity
- Representative government, colonial assemblies, salutary neglect, and political self-rule
- Family life, class structure, gender expectations, and demographic growth in the colonies
- Conflict, cooperation, and diplomacy between colonists and Native American communities
American Revolution and the New Nation (1754 to 1800)
Study the imperial tensions that led to revolution and the debates that shaped the first national government, the Constitution, and the early republic.
- The French and Indian War and its consequences for British-colonial relations
- Taxation measures, protest movements, and ideological resistance to imperial authority
- Major events such as the Stamp Act crisis, Boston Tea Party, First Continental Congress, and the Declaration of Independence
- Military and diplomatic dimensions of the Revolutionary War and the reasons for American victory
- The Articles of Confederation, its limits, and the need for a stronger national framework
- The Constitutional Convention, ratification debates, Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and the Bill of Rights
- Washington, Adams, political parties, and the early struggle to define national power and republican government
Expansion, Nationalism, and Reform (1800 to 1848)
Explore territorial growth, the rise of a national market economy, changing democratic politics, and the reform movements that reshaped American life before the Civil War.
- Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras, including shifting interpretations of federal power and democracy
- The Louisiana Purchase, westward migration, Indian removal, and the ideology of Manifest Destiny
- The Market Revolution, transportation improvements, early industrialization, and commercialization
- Sectional differences in labor systems, regional economies, and political priorities
- The Second Great Awakening and reform campaigns in abolition, temperance, prisons, education, and women's rights
- Cultural developments including transcendentalism, reform literature, and religious experimentation
- The expansion of voting rights for white men alongside the exclusion of many other groups
Civil War and Reconstruction (1844 to 1877)
Trace the intensifying sectional conflict over slavery, the destruction of the Union in war, and the contested effort to rebuild the nation after emancipation.
- Territorial expansion, the Mexican-American War, and the debate over slavery in western territories
- The Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, and the collapse of political compromise
- The rise of the Republican Party, Lincoln's election, secession, and the outbreak of war
- Major turning points of the Civil War, wartime leadership, and the Emancipation Proclamation
- The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and the constitutional transformation of citizenship and rights
- Presidential Reconstruction, Radical Reconstruction, and Black political participation in the South
- Redemption, white supremacist resistance, and the limits and failures of Reconstruction
Industrialization and the Gilded Age (1865 to 1900)
Understand how rapid industrial growth, immigration, urbanization, and corporate expansion transformed the United States socially, economically, and politically after Reconstruction.
- Railroads, steel, oil, and the rise of large-scale corporations and national markets
- Industrial leaders such as Carnegie and Rockefeller, and debates over monopoly and competition
- New immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and the growth of ethnic urban neighborhoods
- Urbanization, machine politics, tenements, and public health or infrastructure challenges
- Labor unions, strikes, collective action, and conflicts between workers and management
- The closing of the frontier, western settlement, Native dispossession, and federal Indian policy
- Political corruption, reform efforts, and competing ideas about wealth, poverty, and social responsibility
Progressive Era and U.S. Expansion (1890 to 1920)
Review domestic reform movements and the growth of American power abroad as the United States responded to industrial capitalism, social inequality, and global competition.
- Progressive reform at the local, state, and national levels in politics, labor, health, and regulation
- Muckrakers, settlement houses, conservation, and the campaign against corruption and corporate abuse
- Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, including trust regulation and reform legislation
- Women's activism, suffrage, and the ratification of the 19th Amendment
- Imperial expansion through the Spanish-American War, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Caribbean interventions
- Debates over anti-imperialism, global markets, and the meaning of American power
- World War I, home front mobilization, civil liberties tensions, and the postwar settlement
The Great Depression and World War II (1920 to 1945)
Analyze the boom and crisis of the interwar years, the expansion of federal power under the New Deal, and the transformation of the nation during World War II.
- The 1920s, including consumer culture, mass media, nativism, modernism, and cultural conflict
- Causes of the Great Depression and its effects on workers, families, farmers, and financial institutions
- Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs, agencies, reform initiatives, and critics from left and right
- Shifts in the relationship between citizens and the federal government during the 1930s
- Causes of World War II, the road from neutrality to intervention, and major U.S. wartime strategies
- The home front, including war production, migration, women's work, Japanese American incarceration, and civil rights pressures
- The war's outcomes, the use of atomic weapons, and the rise of the United States as a global superpower
Cold War and Modern America (1945 to 1980)
Examine the global rivalry of the Cold War alongside the civil rights struggle, social protest, cultural change, and shifting political alignments at home.
- Containment, the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, and the logic of superpower rivalry
- Korea, Vietnam, the nuclear arms race, détente, and fears of communism in domestic politics
- Suburbanization, consumer prosperity, the baby boom, and postwar social transformation
- The modern Civil Rights Movement, including major leaders, court cases, protest strategies, and federal legislation
- The Great Society, War on Poverty, and debates about the role of government in social reform
- Feminism, Chicano activism, Native activism, gay rights, student protest, and antiwar movements
- Political realignment, conservative resurgence, and economic challenges of the 1970s
Contemporary United States (1980 to Present)
Interpret major political, economic, cultural, and foreign policy developments from the late twentieth century into the present while tracking continuity and change in modern U.S. history.
- The Reagan era, conservatism, deregulation, and the reshaping of political debate
- Globalization, deindustrialization, the service economy, and long-term economic restructuring
- Technological change, the information age, media transformation, and digital life
- Changing immigration patterns, demographic shifts, and debates over identity and citizenship
- The end of the Cold War, post-Cold War foreign policy, and new forms of conflict
- The September 11 attacks, the War on Terror, financial crisis, and major national policy responses
- Historical thinking about continuity, comparison, periodization, and interpretation in recent U.S. history
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