AP US History Study Guide

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The following topic outline is based on the tables of contents of a representative sample of textbooks used in AP U.S. History courses. The outline is intended as a guide for teachers structuring their courses and for students preparing to take the AP United States History Examination. The outline is not intended in any way to be prescriptive of what AP teachers must teach or AP students must study. It is illustrative only of topics that might appear in any one edition of the examination.
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Topic Outline

The AP U.S. History topic outline is based on the tables of contents of a representative sample of textbooks used in AP U.S. History courses. Click on the links below to access the topic outline. The topic outline is intended as a guide for students preparing to take the AP U.S History Exam. It is not intended in any way to be prescriptive of what AP students must study. It is illustrative only of topics that might appear in any one edition of the exam.
Topics 1-9

1. Pre-Columbian Societies
2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492-1690
3. Colonial North America, 1690-1754
4. The American Revolutionary Era, 1754-1789
5. The Early Republic, 1789-1815
6. Transformation of the Economy and Society in Antebellum America
7. The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum America
8. Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in Antebellum America
9. Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny

Topics 10-18

10. The Crisis of the Union
11. Civil War
12. Reconstruction
13. The Origins of the New South
14. Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century
15. Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth Century
16. Urban Society in the Late Nineteenth Century
17. Populism and Progressivism
18. The Emergence of America as a World Power

Topics 19-28

19. The New Era: 1920s
20. The Great Depression and the New Deal
21. The Second World War
22. The Home Front During the War
23. The United States and the Early Cold War
24. The 1950s
25. The Turbulent 1960s
26. Politics and Economics at the End of the Twentieth Century
27. Society and Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century
28. The United States in the Post-Cold War World