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AP United States History (APUSH)

Spanning from pre-Columbian societies to contemporary America, this survey course investigates major political, economic, social, and cultural movements. Students master historical reasoning skills, causality analysis, and source evaluation.

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Study guides

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Historical Arguments and Cumulative Review

A structured guide to analyzing historical evidence, building defensible arguments, comparing interpretations, and connecting major patterns across United States history.
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The 1920s, the Great Depression, and the New Deal

A chronological guide to economic change, mass culture, inequality, the Great Depression, and the New Deal’s transformation of the federal government from the 1920s through the 1930s.
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Expansion, Reform, and Sectionalism

A chronological guide to how economic transformation, democratic expansion, territorial growth, reform movements, slavery, and sectional conflict reshaped the United States from 1815 to 1861.
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World War II and the Early Cold War

A chronological guide to how World War II reshaped the United States and the international system, and how wartime cooperation developed into the early Cold War.
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Crisis, Conservatism, and Globalization

A chronological guide to how economic crisis, conservative politics, globalization, deindustrialization, the end of the Cold War, political realignment, and digital technology reshaped the United States from the 1970s through the early twenty-first century.
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04: Colonial Society and the American Revolution

A chronological and thematic guide to how colonial societies, economies, political institutions, inequality, and post-1763 imperial conflicts shaped the American Revolution from the seventeenth century through 1776.
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Civil War and Reconstruction

A chronological and thematic guide to the causes, wartime transformation, constitutional changes, and unfinished promises of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Revolution, Constitution, and the Early Republic

A chronological guide to the American Revolution, the creation of the constitutional system, and the unresolved struggles over liberty, citizenship, and national power in the early republic.
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Progressivism, Imperialism, Migration, and World War I

A chronological guide to reform, migration, imperial expansion, World War I, and the struggle to reconcile democratic ideals with unequal practices in the United States from the 1890s through 1918.
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Contact, Colonization, and the Atlantic World

A chronological and comparative guide to European expansion, Indigenous societies, African enslavement, ecological change, and the formation of the Atlantic world after 1492.
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Postwar America and the Social Movements

A chronological guide to postwar prosperity, inequality, major social movements, the Vietnam War, and the lasting transformation of American law, culture, and political debate.
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Contemporary America, 1990s–Early Twenty-First Century

A chronological and thematic guide to how globalization, technology, war, demographic change, economic crisis, social movements, and political conflict transformed the United States from the 1990s through the early twenty-first century.
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02. Indigenous North America Before European Contact

A structured guide to the diverse societies, environments, economies, political systems, belief systems, achievements, and historical evidence of Indigenous North America before sustained European colonization.
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08: Industrialization and the Gilded Age

A chronological and thematic guide to how industrial growth transformed the United States during the Gilded Age, while generating inequality, labor conflict, urban problems, western conquest, and reform.
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Historical Reasoning and Source Analysis

Learn how historians organize time, explain causes, evaluate evidence, and construct precise arguments about the past.
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Quizzes

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Revolution, Constitution, and the Early Republic

A 14-question quiz on the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the early republic. Questions progress from foundational interpretation to comparative and historical reasoning tasks.
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Crisis, Conservatism, and Globalization

A medium-difficulty quiz on the economic, political, international, and technological transformations of the United States from the 1970s through the early twenty-first century. Questions progress from identifying key concepts to applying historical reasoning about causes and consequences.
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Historical Arguments and Cumulative Review

A 14-question review of historical reasoning, source analysis, causation, comparison, continuity and change, and evidence-based arguments in United States history. The questions emphasize applying analytical frameworks rather than recalling isolated facts.
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Civil War and Reconstruction

A medium-difficulty quiz on the causes, military development, emancipation, Reconstruction, constitutional change, freedom, citizenship, and historical interpretation of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Questions require learners to connect evidence, distinguish related developments, and apply concepts rather than recall isolated details.
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Progressivism, Imperialism, Migration, and World War I

A medium-difficulty quiz on Progressive reform, women’s suffrage, African American activism, imperialism, immigration, World War I, and the era’s tension between democratic ideals and unequal practices.
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Expansion, Reform, and Sectionalism

A medium-difficulty quiz on economic change, political participation, territorial expansion, reform, slavery, sectional conflict, and historical evidence in the United States from 1815 to 1861.
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World War II and the Early Cold War

A medium-difficulty quiz on World War II, its effects on American society and the international order, and the origins of the early Cold War. Questions emphasize causation, comparison, historical significance, and application of concepts.
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The 1920s, the Great Depression, and the New Deal

A medium-difficulty quiz on economic change, mass culture, conflict, the Great Depression, and the New Deal from 1920 to 1940. Questions emphasize connections, causes, consequences, and historical interpretation.
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Contact, Colonization, and the Atlantic World

A 14-question quiz on the causes, consequences, institutions, and competing colonial systems that shaped the Atlantic world after 1492. Questions progress from foundational understanding to comparative and causal historical reasoning.
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Colonial Society and the American Revolution

A medium-difficulty quiz on colonial society, imperial relations, and the causes and consequences of the American Revolution. The questions progress from identifying patterns to applying historical reasoning about political authority, social systems, and revolutionary change.
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Contemporary America, 1990s–Early Twenty-First Century

A medium-difficulty quiz on contemporary American history from the 1990s through the early twenty-first century, emphasizing connections among globalization, national security, demographic change, economic crisis, political polarization, social movements, and public-health challenges.
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Postwar America and the Social Movements

A medium-difficulty quiz on postwar prosperity, inequality, social movements, federal reform, cultural transformation, and historical reasoning in the United States after World War II.
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Indigenous North America Before European Contact

A 14-question quiz on the regional diversity, economies, political systems, belief systems, achievements, and historical reasoning associated with Indigenous North America before sustained European colonization.
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Industrialization and the Gilded Age

A medium-difficulty quiz on the causes, institutions, conflicts, and consequences of U.S. industrialization and the Gilded Age, emphasizing historical relationships and application of evidence.
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Historical Reasoning and Source Analysis

A medium-difficulty quiz on historical reasoning, analytical frameworks, source evaluation, and evidence-based argumentation. Questions progress from foundational application to more integrated historical analysis.
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Flashcards

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08: Industrialization and the Gilded Age

A focused review of how industrial growth reshaped the economy, labor, cities, western settlement, politics, and society during the Gilded Age.
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Expansion, Reform, and Sectionalism

A focused review of how economic change, political democratization, reform, westward expansion, slavery, and sectional conflict reshaped the United States from 1815 to 1861.
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Contemporary America, 1990s–Early Twenty-First Century

This flashcard set reviews major political, economic, demographic, technological, military, social, and public-health transformations in the United States from the 1990s through the early twenty-first century.
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World War II and the Early Cold War

Study key events, policies, institutions, contradictions, and historical reasoning from World War II through the early Cold War.
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Civil War and Reconstruction

Study the causes, military transformation, emancipation, constitutional changes, Reconstruction policies, and limits of freedom and citizenship after the Civil War.
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Colonial Society and the American Revolution

Study the regional development of British North American colonies, colonial society and inequality, imperial tensions after 1763, and the escalation from protest to American independence.
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10: The 1920s, the Great Depression, and the New Deal

A focused review of how 1920s prosperity, inequality, cultural conflict, the Great Depression, and the New Deal transformed American society and federal power.
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02. Indigenous North America Before European Contact

This activity surveys the regional diversity, economies, political systems, beliefs, achievements, and historical interpretation of Indigenous North America before sustained European colonization.
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12: Postwar America and the Social Movements

A focused review of postwar prosperity, inequality, social movements, federal reforms, cultural change, and historical tensions in the United States after World War II.
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09: Progressivism, Imperialism, Migration, and World War I

A focused review of how Progressive reform, migration, imperialism, activism, and World War I reshaped American government, society, and democratic debate from the 1890s through 1918.
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Historical Arguments and Cumulative Review

Builds a cumulative review of United States history through source analysis, contextualization, evidence-based argument, comparison, causation, continuity, change, and recurring themes of power and citizenship.
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Crisis, Conservatism, and Globalization

A focused review of how economic crisis, conservative politics, deindustrialization, globalization, the Cold War’s end, party realignment, and digital technology reshaped contemporary America.
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03 Contact, Colonization, and the Atlantic World

A focused review of how European expansion created the Atlantic world through conquest, exchange, Indigenous agency, colonial systems, and coerced labor.
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05: Revolution, Constitution, and the Early Republic

Review how the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the early republic reshaped government, liberty, citizenship, and national power.
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Historical Reasoning and Source Analysis

A focused set of flashcards on the concepts and methods historians use to organize evidence, evaluate sources, explain change, and construct historical arguments.
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