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HOW THIS AP STUDY GUIDE WORKS:

Below is a topic outline from apcentral.collegeboard.com. I have copied the outline and provided links for each outline topic. All links have been checked for accuracy, authority, and relevancy to the topic.

To search this site, you may scroll down through the complete outline and click on the accompanying links. To view a particular time period, look at the condensed outline and click on the section you wish to review.

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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Condensed Outline

1. Discovery and Settlement of the New World, 1492-1650
2. America and the British Empire, 1650-1754
3. Colonial society in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
4. Road to Revolution, 1754-1775
5. The American Revolution, 1775-1783
6. Constitution and New Republic, 1776-1800
7. The Age of Jefferson, 1800-1816
8. Nationalism and Economic Expansion
9. Sectionalism
10. Age of Jackson, 1828-1848
11. Territorial Expansion and Sectional Crisis
12. Creating an American Culture
13. The 1850s: Decade of Crisis
14. Civil War
15. Reconstruction to 1877
16. New South and the Last West
17. Industrialization and Corporate Consolidation
18. Urban Society
19. Intellectual and Cultural Movements
20. National Politics, 1877-1896: The Gilded Age
21. Foreign Policy, 1865-1914
22. Progressive Era
23. The First World War
24. New Era: The 1920s
25. Depression, 1929-1933
26. New Deal
27. Diplomacy in the 1930s
28. The Second World War
29. Truman and the Cold War
30. Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism
31. Kennedy's New Frontier; Johnson's Great Society
32. Nixon
33. The United States since 1974