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AP United States History
Nine chronological periods from 1491 to the present with an interactive era timeline and DBQ trainer.
Scored lab investigations
Unit 1 · 4–6%
Period 1: 1491–1607
- Native Societies Before Contact13 min · 3 objectives
- European Expansion & the Columbian Exchange14 min · 3 objectives
- The Spanish Empire & Cultural Encounters12 min · 3 objectives
- Environment and Native Diversity: Reading the Map as an Argument14 min · 3 objectives
- The Columbian Exchange as a Two-Way Transfer15 min · 3 objectives
Unit 2 · 6–8%
Period 2: 1607–1754
- Distinct Colonial Regions14 min · 3 objectives
- Transatlantic Trade & the Growth of Slavery14 min · 3 objectives
- Colonial Society & the Roots of Self-Government13 min · 3 objectives
- Making Slavery Hereditary: Law, Labor, and Resistance15 min · 3 objectives
- Empires, Native Diplomacy, and the Limits of Control14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 3 · 10–17%
Period 3: 1754–1800
- From Empire to Revolution14 min · 3 objectives
- Winning Independence & the Articles of Confederation13 min · 3 objectives
- The Constitution & the New Republic14 min · 3 objectives
- Republicanism and Its Limits: Who the Revolution Was For15 min · 3 objectives
- The Ratification Fight: Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and the Bill of Rights14 min · 3 objectives
- The First Party System and the Foreign-Policy Crucible, 1789–180015 min · 3 objectives
Unit 4 · 10–17%
Period 4: 1800–1848
- The Jeffersonian Era & National Growth13 min · 3 objectives
- The Market Revolution14 min · 3 objectives
- Reform, Religion & Jacksonian Democracy14 min · 3 objectives
- The Era of Good Feelings and the Missouri Crisis14 min · 3 objectives
- The Cotton Kingdom: Slavery as an Economic System15 min · 3 objectives
- Nullification and the Second Party System14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 5 · 10–17%
Period 5: 1844–1877
- Manifest Destiny & the Sectional Crisis14 min · 3 objectives
- The Civil War14 min · 3 objectives
- Reconstruction & Its Collapse13 min · 3 objectives
- The Compromises Unravel, 1846–186115 min · 3 objectives
- Emancipation as a Process15 min · 3 objectives
- The Constitutional Revolution: The Reconstruction Amendments14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 6 · 10–17%
Period 6: 1865–1898
- Industrialization & the Rise of Big Business14 min · 3 objectives
- Labor, Immigration & the Growing City13 min · 3 objectives
- The West & Agrarian Revolt13 min · 3 objectives
- Justifying Inequality: Gospel of Wealth, Social Darwinism, and Their Critics14 min · 3 objectives
- Building Jim Crow: Disfranchisement, Segregation, and Black Responses15 min · 3 objectives
- Populism: A Program, Not Just a Protest14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 7 · 10–17%
Period 7: 1890–1945
- Progressivism & the Emergence of Empire14 min · 3 objectives
- World War I & the 1920s13 min · 3 objectives
- The New Deal & World War II15 min · 3 objectives
- Empire and the Debate Over It, 1890–191715 min · 3 objectives
- The Depression's Causes and the New Deal's Limits15 min · 3 objectives
- The Home Front: Mobilization, Internment, and the Double V15 min · 3 objectives
Unit 8 · 10–17%
Period 8: 1945–1980
- The Cold War Begins14 min · 3 objectives
- The Civil Rights Movement15 min · 3 objectives
- The Great Society, Vietnam & the 1970s14 min · 3 objectives
- Containment in Practice — and Its Cost at Home15 min · 3 objectives
- The Postwar Order: Suburbs, Affluence, and Who Was Excluded14 min · 3 objectives
- After 1965: Movements, Divergence, and Backlash14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 9 · 4–6%