AP U.S. History

AP U.S. History opens in 1491, with the Native American societies of a diverse continent, the European push into the Atlantic, and the collision that followed: the Columbian exchange, Spanish conquest and colonial labor systems, and the first century of cultural contact. From there the course will move period by period through the full national story, from the British colonies and the Revolution through the early republic, expansion and the Civil War, industrialization, the world wars and the Cold War, down to the present. Every reading stands on its own, quoting and framing its primary sources and naming the real disagreements among historians as they arise.

The questions carry their evidence with them: a passage, map, chart, or image sits on the problem itself, the way the exam presents it. Skill practice deals randomized problems until each idea holds, and after a graded attempt the solution walks through the reasoning step by step. Writing starts immediately, with thesis, contextualization, and short-answer craft trained as graded, auto-checked exercises, and each unit closes with a writing workshop and a unit test drawn from its own question pool.

This course follows the College Board's published AP U.S. History framework.