The visual guide to
AP® United States History
9 units, 147 topics. Each topic is explained in writing, drawn as a lesson you can watch, and checked with practice questions.
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Unit 1Period 1: 1491-1607
Unit 2Period 2: 1607-1754
- Spanish, French, and Dutch Colonies
- Why the English Came
- The Chesapeake and Tobacco
- New England Towns and the Puritan Errand
- The Middle Colonies
- The Lower South and the West Indies
- Transatlantic Trade and Mercantilism
- Alliance and War with American Indians
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage
- How Slavery Became Racial and Hereditary
- Resistance and Culture Under Slavery
- The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment
- Colonial Self-Government
- Three Colonial Regions Side by Side
Unit 3Period 3: 1754-1800
- The Seven Years' War
- The Proclamation Line and the War Debt
- Taxation Without Representation
- From the Boston Massacre to Lexington
- Locke, Republicanism, and Common Sense
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Campaigns of the Revolutionary War
- Why the Continental Army Won
- Revolutionary Ideals at Home and Abroad
- The Articles of Confederation
- The Constitutional Convention
- Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and Ratification
- How the Constitution Splits Power
- Hamilton's Program Against Jefferson's
- Washington, Adams, and the First Party System
- Moving West After the Revolution
- From Thirteen Colonies to One Constitution
Unit 4Period 4: 1800-1848
- Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
- The Marshall Court and Judicial Review
- The War of 1812
- The Monroe Doctrine
- The Missouri Compromise
- Clay's American System
- Canals, Steamboats, and Railroads
- The Factory System and Lowell
- The Cotton Gin and the Cotton Kingdom
- Cities, Wage Work, and Immigration
- Expanding Democracy
- Jackson, the Bank War, and Nullification
- Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears
- The Hudson River School and an American Culture
- The Second Great Awakening
- Temperance, Asylums, and Utopias
- Abolition and Seneca Falls
- Free and Enslaved African Americans
- The Society of the Cotton South
- What the Market Revolution Set in Motion
Unit 5Period 5: 1844-1877
- Manifest Destiny
- Texas, Annexation, and the Election of 1844
- The Mexican-American War
- The Wilmot Proviso and Free Soil
- The Compromise of 1850
- The Fugitive Slave Act
- The North and the South by the Numbers
- Immigration and the Know-Nothings
- Kansas-Nebraska and Bleeding Kansas
- Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, and John Brown
- The Election of 1860 and Secession
- The War in the East
- The West, the Blockade, and Total War
- Emancipation and Black Soldiers
- Government and Economy During the War
- Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction
- The Reconstruction Amendments
- Freedpeople, Land, and Sharecropping
- The Failure of Reconstruction
- The Union of 1844 Against the Union of 1877
Unit 6Period 6: 1865-1898
- Railroads, Homesteads, and the Cattle Frontier
- The Plains Wars and the Buffalo
- The Dawes Act and Forced Assimilation
- The New South and Jim Crow
- Steel, Electricity, and the Telephone
- Trusts, Integration, and Consolidation
- Labor and the Great Strikes
- The New Immigration
- Cities, Tenements, and Streetcars
- Nativism and Exclusion
- The New Middle Class and Consumer Culture
- Settlement Houses and the Social Gospel
- Laissez-Faire and the First Regulation
- Machine Politics and the Populist Revolt
- What Industrialization Left Behind
Unit 7Period 7: 1890-1945
- The Closed Frontier and the Case for Sea Power
- The Spanish-American War
- The Canal, the Open Door, and the Big Stick
- The Progressives
- Four Amendments and the Vote for Women
- Conservation and the National Parks
- Entering the First World War
- Wilson, Versailles, and the League Fight
- The First World War at Home
- The Great Migration
- Cars, Radio, and the Consumer Economy
- Prohibition, Scopes, and the Quotas
- The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro
- What Actually Caused the Great Depression
- The Dust Bowl and the Numbers of the Depression
- The New Deal
- Opposition, the Court Fight, and the Legacy
- Isolation, Neutrality, and Lend-Lease
- Mobilizing for the Second World War
- The War in Europe and North Africa
- The War in the Pacific
- Yalta, Potsdam, and the Postwar Order
- America in 1890 Against America in 1945
Unit 8Period 8: 1945-1980
- Origins of the Cold War and Containment
- Berlin, NATO, and the Two Blocs
- The Korean War
- The Arms Race and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- The Second Red Scare
- The Postwar Boom
- Levittown, the Interstate, and White Flight
- The Sun Belt Shift
- Television, Rock and Roll, and the Critics
- Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement
- Covert Action and the Third World
- The Vietnam War
- Vietnam at Home
- The Great Society
- The 1965 Immigration Act
- The Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
- Black Power and the Northern Cities
- The Movements Expand
- The Environment and the Energy Crisis
- Watergate, Stagflation, and the 1970s
- America in 1945 Against America in 1980
Unit 9Period 9: 1980-Present