OER Resources
Additional resources correlated by topic to support AMSCO® AP® United States History coursebook.
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Unit 1
Period 1: 1491–1607
- Topic 1.1: Contextualizing Period
- Topic 1.2: Native American Societies Before European Contact
- Topic 1.3: European Exploration in the Americas
- Topic 1.4: Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
- Topic 1.5: Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
- Topic 1.6: Cultural Interactions in the Americas
- Topic 1.7: Causation in Period 1
- Unit 1 Review
Unit 2
Period 2: 1607–1754
- Topic 2.1: Contextualizing Period 2
- Topic 2.2: European Colonization in North America
- Topic 2.3: The Regions of British Colonies
- Topic 2.4: Translantic Trade
- Topic 2.5: Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans
- Topic 2.6: Slavery in the British Colonies
- Topic 2.7: Colonial Society and Culture
- Topic 2.8: Comparisons in Period 2
- Unit 2 Review
Unit 3
Period 3: 1754–1800
- Topic 3.1: Contextualizing Period 3
- Topic 3.2: The Seven Years' War
- Topic 3.3: Taxation Without Representation
- Topic 3.4: Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution
- Topic 3.5: The American Revolution
- Topic 3.6: The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals
- Topic 3.7: The Articles of Confederation
- Topic 3.8: The Constitutional Convention and Debates Over Ratification
- Topic 3.9: The Constitution
- Topic 3.10: Shaping a New Republic
- Topic 3.11: Developing an American Identity
- Topic 3.12: Movement in the Early Republic
- Topic 3.13: Continuity and Change in Period 3
- Unit 3 Review
Unit 4
Period 4: 1800–1848
- Topic 4.1: Contextualizing Period 4
- Topic 4.2: The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson
- Topic 4.3: Politics and Regional Interests
- Topic 4.4: American on the World Stage
- Topic 4.5: Market Revolution
- Topic 4.6: Effects of the Market Revolution on Society and Culture
- Topic 4.7: Expanding Democracy
- Topic 4.8: Jackson and Federal Power
- Topic 4.9: The Development of an American Culture
- Topic 4.10: The Second Great Awakening
- Topic 4.11: An Age of Reform
- Topic 4.12: African Americans in the Early Republic
- Topic 4.13: Southern Society in the Early Republic
- Topic 4.14: Causation in Period 4
- Unit 4 Review
Unit 5
Period 5: 1884–1877
- Topic 5.1: Contextualizing Period 5 (1844–1877)
- Topic 5.2: The Idea of Manifest Destiny
- Topic 5.3: Manifest Destiny and the Mexican–American War
- Topic 5.4: The Compromise of 1850
- Topic 5.5: Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences
- Topic 5.6: Failure of Compromise
- Topic 5.7: Election of 1860 and Secession
- Topic 5.8: Military Conflict in the Civil War
- Topic 5.9: Government Policies During the Civil War
- Topic 5.10: Reconstruction
- Topic 5.11: Failure of Reconstruction
- Topic 5.12: Comparison in Period 5
Unit 6
Period 6: 1865–1898
- Topic 6.1: Contextualizing Period 6
- Topic 6.2: Westward Expansion: Economic Development
- Topic 6.3: Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development
- Topic 6.4: The “New South”
- Topic 6.5: Technological Innovation
- Topic 6.6: The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
- Topic 6.7: Labor in the Gilded Age
- Topic 6.8: Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age
- Topic 6.9: Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
- Topic 6.10: Development of the Middle Class
- Topic 6.11: Reform in the Gilded Age
- Topic 6.12: Role of Government in the Gilded Age
- Topic 6.13: Politics in the Gilded Age
- Topic 6.14: Continuity and Change Period 6
Unit 7
Period 7: 1890–1945
- Topic 7.1: Contextualizing Period 7 (1890–1945)
- Topic 7.2: Imperialism: Debates
- Topic 7.3: The Spanish-American War and U.S. Foreign Policy to 1917
- Topic 7.4: The Progressives
- Topic 7.5: World War I: Military and Diplomacy
- Topic 7.6: World War I: Home Front
- Topic 7.7: 1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology
- Topic 7.8: 1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies
- Topic 7.9: The Great Depression
- Topic 7.10: The New Deal
- Topic 7.11: Interwar Foreign Policy
- Topic 7.12: World War II Mobilization
- Topic 7.13: World War II: Military
- Topic 7.14: World War II and Postwar Diplomacy
- Topic 7.15: Comparison in Period 7
Unit 8
Period 8: 1945–1980
- Topic 8.1: Contextualizing Period 8 (1945–1980)
- Topic 8.2: The Cold War from 1945 to 1980
- Topic 8.3: The Red Scare
- Topic 8.4: Economy after 1945
- Topic 8.5: Culture after 1945
- Topic 8.6: Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1960
- Topic 8.7: America as a World Power
- Topic 8.8: The Vietnam War
- Topic 8.9: The Great Society
- Topic 8.10: The African American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s
- Topic 8.11: The Civil Rights Movement Expands
- Topic 8.12: Youth Culture of the 1960s
- Topic 8.13: The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980
- Topic 8.14: Society in Transition
- Topic 8.15: Continuity and Change in Period 8
Unit 9
Period 9: 1980–Present