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.

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)