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Period 1: 1491-1607

Content	Standards
☰ Thinking like a historian
📺 Meet Kim, one of the creators of Khan Academy's AP US History lessons
📺 Thinking like a historian
📺 How to read a document: source identification
📺 How to read a document: analyzing a historical text
📺 Avoiding common mistakes in historical essays
☰ Before contact	, , , , ,
📺 Native American societies before contact	, , ,
📝 Native American culture of the West	, ,
📝 Native American culture of the Southwest	, ,
📝 Native American culture of the Northeast	, ,
📝 Native American culture of the Southeast	, ,
📝 Native American culture of the Plains	, ,
✅ Pre-contact native societies	, , , , ,
📝 Pre-colonization European society	,
📝 African societies and the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade	, ,
☰ Old and new worlds collide	, , , , , , ,
📝 Motivation for European conquest of the New World	, ,
📺 Origins of European exploration in the Americas	, ,
📺 Christopher Columbus	, ,
📺 Consequences of Columbus's voyage on the Tainos and Europe	, ,
📺 The Columbian Exchange	, ,
📝 The Columbian Exchange	, ,
📝 Environmental and health effects of European contact with the New World	, ,
📝 Lesson summary: The Columbian Exchange	, ,
✅ The Columbian Exchange	, , , ,
☰ Spanish colonization	, , , , , , , ,
📺 Spanish colonization	, ,
📝 The Spanish conquistadores and colonial empire	, ,
📝 Pueblo uprising of 1680	, ,
📺 Comparing European and Native American cultures	, ,
📝 Lesson summary: The Spanish empire	, , , , , , , , , , ,
✅ The Spanish empire	, , , , ,

Period 2: 1607-1754

Content	Standards
☰ Early colonization projects	, , ,
📺 French and Dutch colonization	, ,
📝 French and Dutch exploration in the New World	, ,
📝 Lesson summary: French and Dutch colonization	, ,
✅ French and Dutch colonization	, ,
📺 England in the Age of Exploration	, ,
📺 Motivations for English colonization	, ,
📺 The Lost Colony of Roanoke - background and first attempts	, ,
📺 The Lost Colony of Roanoke - settlement and disappearance	, ,
✅ Early colonization projects	, , ,
☰ Chesapeake and Southern colonies	, , , , , , ,
📺 Early English settlements - Jamestown	, ,
📺 Jamestown - John Smith and Pocahontas	, ,
📺 Jamestown - the impact of tobacco	, ,
📺 Jamestown - life and labor in the Chesapeake	, ,
📺 Jamestown - Bacon's Rebellion	, ,
✅ Jamestown	, , , ,
📺 The West Indies and the Southern colonies	, ,
📝 Lesson summary: Chesapeake and Southern colonies	, , ,
✅ Chesapeake and Southern colonies	, , ,
📺 Slavery in the British colonies	, ,
📝 Slavery in the British colonies	, ,
📝 Lesson summary: Slavery in the British colonies	, , , ,
✅ Slavery in the British colonies	, , , ,
☰ Colonial North America	, , , , , , , , , , ,
📺 Society and religion in the New England colonies	, ,
📺 Politics and native relations in the New England colonies	, ,
📝 Puritan New England: Plymouth	, ,
📝 Puritan New England: Massachusetts Bay	, ,
📺 The Middle colonies	, ,
📝 Lesson summary: New England and Middle colonies	, , ,
✅ New England and Middle colonies	, , ,
📝 The Navigation Acts	, ,
📝 The Enlightenment	, ,
📝 The Great Awakening	, ,
📝 The consumer revolution	,
📺 Developing an American colonial identity	, , ,

Period 3: 1754-1800

Content	Standards
☰ Seven Years' War (the French and Indian War)	, , , ,
📺 The Seven Years' War: background and combatants	, ,
📺 The Seven Years' War: battles and legacy	, , ,
📝 Pontiac's uprising	, ,
📝 Seven Years' War: lesson overview	, , , ,
✅ Seven Years' War	, , , ,
☰ Taxation without representation	, , , , ,
📝 The Townshend Acts and the committees of correspondence	, ,
📝 Uproar over the Stamp Act	, ,
📝 The Boston Massacre	, ,
📝 The Boston Tea Party	, ,
📝 The Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress	, ,
📝 Taxation without representation: lesson overview	, , , , ,
✅ Taxation without representation	, , , , ,
☰ Philosophical foundations of the American Revolution	, , ,
📝 The Second Continental Congress	, ,
📺 The Declaration of Independence	, ,
✅ Philosophical foundations of the American Revolution	, , ,
☰ The American Revolution	, ,
📝 Lexington and Concord	, ,
📝 The American Revolution: lesson overview	, ,
✅ The American Revolution	, ,
☰ Social consequences of revolutionary ideals	, , , , , ,
📝 Women in the American Revolution	, ,
📺 Social consequences of revolutionary ideals	, , ,
📺 Latin American independence movements	, ,
✅ Social consequences of revolutionary ideals	, , , , , ,
☰ Articles of Confederation	, , , ,
📺 The Articles of Confederation	, ,
📝 Shays's Rebellion	, ,
📝 Challenges of the Articles of Confederation	, ,
✅ Articles of Confederation	, , , ,
☰ The Constitutional Convention and debates over ratification	, , , ,
📺 The Constitutional Convention	, ,
📝 The Constitutional Convention	, ,
📺 Constitutional compromises: The Electoral College	, ,
📺 Constitutional compromises: The Three-Fifths Compromise	, ,
📝 The Federalist Papers	, ,
📝 The Bill of Rights	, ,
✅ The Constitutional Convention and debates over ratification	, , , ,
☰ Constitution	, ,
📺 The US Constitution	, ,
✅ Constitution	, ,
☰ Shaping a new republic	, , , , , , , , , ,
📝 The presidency of George Washington	, , ,
📝 The presidency of John Adams	, , ,
📝 Shaping a new republic: lesson overview	, , , , , , , , , ,
✅ Shaping a new republic	, , , , , , , , , ,
☰ Developing an American identity	, , ,
📝 John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence	, ,
📝 Jefferson, Monticello	, ,
✅ Developing an American identity	, , ,
☰ Movement in the early republic	, , , , , ,
📺 Regional attitudes about slavery, 1754-1800	, ,
✅ Movement in the early republic	, , , , ,

Period 4: 1800-1848

Content	Standards
☰ The rise of political parties and the era of Jefferson	, , , ,
📝 Jefferson's presidency and the turn of the nineteenth century	, ,
📝 The election of 1800	, ,
📝 The War of 1812	, ,
📝 The Louisiana Purchase and its exploration	, ,
✅ The rise of political parties and the era of Jefferson	, , , ,
☰ Politics and regional interests	, , , ,
📝 The presidency of John Quincy Adams	, ,
📝 Indian Removal	, ,
✅ Politics and regional interests	, , , ,
☰ America on the world stage	, , ,
📺 The Monroe Doctrine	, ,
✅ America on the world stage	, , ,
☰ Market Revolution: industrialization	, , , , ,
📺 The Market Revolution - textile mills and the cotton gin	, ,
📺 The Market Revolution - communication and transportation	, ,
✅ Market Revolution: industrialization	, , , , ,
☰ Market Revolution: society and culture	, , , , ,
📺 The Market Revolution - impact and significance	, ,
📝 Irish and German immigration	, ,
📝 Women's labor	, ,
✅ Market Revolution: society and culture	, , , , ,
☰ Expanding democracy	, ,
✅ Expanding democracy	, ,
☰ Jackson and federal power	, , ,
📺 Jacksonian Democracy - background and introduction	, ,
📺 Jacksonian Democracy - the "corrupt bargain" and the election of 1824	, ,
📺 Jacksonian Democracy - mudslinging and the election of 1828	, ,
📺 Jacksonian Democracy - spoils system, Bank War, and Trail of Tears	, ,
📝 The presidency of Andrew Jackson	, ,
📝 The Nullification crisis	, ,
✅ Jackson and federal power	, , ,
☰ The development of an American culture	, , ,
📝 Transcendentalism	, ,
✅ The development of an American culture	, , ,
☰ Second Great Awakening	, ,
📺 The Second Great Awakening - origins and major ideas	, ,
📺 The Second Great Awakening - influence of the Market Revolution	, ,
📺 The Second Great Awakening - reform and religious movements	, ,
✅ Second Great Awakening	, ,
☰ An age of reform	, , , , , ,
📺 The early temperance movement - origins	, ,
📺 The early temperance movement - spread and temporary decline	, ,
📝 Women's rights and the Seneca Falls Convention	, ,
✅ An age of reform	, , , , , ,
☰ African Americans in the early republic	, , ,
✅ African Americans in the early republic	, , ,
☰ The society of the South in the early republic	, , , ,
✅ The society of the South in the early republic	, , , ,
☰ Causation in the period from 1800 to 1848	, , , , , , , , , , ,
📺 Developing an American identity, 1800-1848	, , , ,

Period 5: 1844-1877

Content	Standards
☰ Manifest Destiny	, , , , ,
📺 Manifest Destiny: causes and effects of westward expansion	, , , ,
📝 Manifest Destiny	, ,
✅ Manifest Destiny	, , , , ,
☰ Mexican-American War	, , ,
📝 Annexing Texas	, ,
☰ Compromise of 1850	, , ,
📺 Slavery and the Missouri Compromise	, ,
📺 Increasing political battles over slavery in the mid-1800s	, ,
📝 The Compromise of 1850	, ,
☰ Sectional conflict: regional differences	, , , , , , , ,
📝 The slave economy	, ,
📝 Life for enslaved men and women	, ,
📝 Early abolition	,
📺 Uncle Tom's Cabin - influence of the Fugitive Slave Act	, ,
📺 Uncle Tom's Cabin - plot and analysis	, ,
📺 Uncle Tom's Cabin - reception and significance	, ,
📺 Sectional conflict: Regional differences	, , ,
☰ Failure of compromise	, , ,
📝 The Kansas-Nebraska Act and party realignment	, ,
📺 Dred Scott v. Sandford	, ,
☰ Election of 1860 and secession	, ,
📺 Start of the Civil War - secession and Fort Sumter	, ,
☰ Military conflict in the Civil War	, , ,
📺 Strategy of the Civil War	, ,
📺 Early phases of Civil War and Antietam	, ,
📺 Significance of the battle of Antietam	, ,
📺 The battle of Gettysburg	, ,
📺 Later stages of the Civil War - 1863	, ,
📺 Later stages of the Civil War - the election of 1864 and Sherman's March	, ,
📺 Later stages of the Civil War - Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination	, ,
☰ Government policies during the Civil War	, , ,
📝 The Emancipation Proclamation	, ,
📺 The Emancipation Proclamation	, ,
📺 The Gettysburg Address - setting and context	, ,
📺 The Gettysburg Address - full text and analysis	, ,
☰ Reconstruction	, , , , ,
📝 Black Codes	, ,
📝 The First KKK	, ,
📝 The Freedmen's Bureau	, ,
📺 An overview and the 13th Amendment	, ,
📺 The 14th Amendment	, ,
📺 The 15th Amendment	, ,
📝 The Compromise of 1877	, ,
☰ Failure of Reconstruction	, , ,
📝 Life after slavery for African Americans	, ,
📺 Plessy v. Ferguson	, ,
☰ Comparison in the period from 1844 to 1877	, , , , , , , , ,
📺 Big takeaways from the Civil War	, ,
📺 Comparing the effects of the Civil War on American national identity	, , ,

Period 6: 1865-1898

Content	Standards
☰ Contextualizing Period 6	, , , , , , , , ,
📝 The Gold Rush	,
☰ Westward expansion: economic development	, , , , ,
📝 Westward expansion: economic development	, , , , ,
☰ Westward expansion: social and cultural development	, , , , ,
📝 The Homestead Act and the exodusters	, ,
📺 Westward expansion: social and cultural development	, , , , ,
📝 Chinese immigrants and Mexican Americans in the age of westward expansion	, ,
📝 The reservation system	, ,
📝 The Dawes Act	, ,
📝 The Indian Wars and the Battle of the Little Bighorn	, ,
📝 The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee	, , ,
☰ The "New South"	, , ,
📝 The Compromise of 1877	, ,
📝 Life after slavery for African Americans	, ,
📝 The New South	, ,
📺 The origins of Jim Crow - introduction	, ,
📺 Origins of Jim Crow - the Black Codes and Reconstruction	, ,
📺 Origins of Jim Crow - the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments	, ,
📺 Origins of Jim Crow - Compromise of 1877 and Plessy v. Ferguson	, ,
📺 Plessy v. Ferguson	, ,
📝 Jim Crow	, ,
☰ Technological innovation	, ,
📺 Introduction to the Gilded Age	, ,
📺 The Gilded Age and the Second Industrial Revolution	, ,
☰ Labor in the Gilded Age	, , , ,
📝 Labor battles in the Gilded Age	, ,
📝 The Knights of Labor	, ,
☰ Immigration and migration in the Gilded Age	, , , ,
📝 America moves to the city	, ,
📺 Immigration and migration in the Gilded Age	, , , ,
☰ Responses to immigration in the Gilded Age	, , , ,
📝 Social Darwinism in the Gilded Age	, ,
📺 Misunderstanding evolution: a historian's perspective on Social Darwinism	, ,
📺 Misunderstanding evolution: a biologist's perspective on Social Darwinism	, ,
☰ Development of the middle class	, , ,
📝 Development of the middle class	, , ,
☰ Politics in the Gilded Age	, , , ,
📝 The Populists	, ,
☰ Continuity and change in Period 6	, , , , , , , ,
📺 Continuity and change in the Gilded Age	, , , , , ,

Period 7: 1890-1945

Content	Standards
☰ Old and new frontiers: setting the stage	, , , , , , , , , , ,
📝 Introduction to the age of empire	,
☰ Imperialism: debates	, , ,
📺 The age of empire	, ,
✅ Imperialism: debates	, , ,
☰ Spanish-American War	, ,
📝 The Spanish-American War	, ,
✅ Spanish-American War	, ,
☰ The Progressives	, , , , , , ,
📺 The Progressives	, , , ,
📝 The Progressive Era	, ,
📝 Muckrakers	, ,
📝 The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt	, ,
📝 The Nineteenth Amendment	, ,
✅ The Progressives	, , , , , , ,
☰ World War I: military and diplomacy	, , , ,
📝 The presidency of Woodrow Wilson	, ,
📺 Blockades, u-boats and sinking of the Lusitania	, ,
📺 Zimmermann Telegram	, ,
📺 United States enters World War I	, ,
📺 Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points	, ,
📺 Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles	, ,
📺 More detail on the Treaty of Versailles and Germany	, ,
📝 The Treaty of Versailles	, ,
📝 The League of Nations	, ,
✅ World War I: military & diplomacy	, , , ,
☰ World War I: homefront	, , , , ,
📝 The United States in World War I	, ,
📺 World War I: Homefront	, , , , ,
✅ World War I: Homefront	, , , , ,
☰ 1920s: innovations in communication and technology	, , ,
📝 1920s consumption	, ,
📝 American culture in the 1920s	, ,
✅ 1920s: innovations in communication and technology	, , ,
☰ 1920s: cultural and political controversies	, , , ,
📺 1920s urbanization and immigration	, , ,
📝 The reemergence of the KKK	, ,
📝 Prohibition	, ,
📝 Republican ascendancy: politics in the 1920s	, ,
📝 The presidency of Calvin Coolidge	, ,
✅ 1920s: cultural and political controversies	, , , , , , ,
☰ The Great Depression	, , , ,
📝 The presidency of Herbert Hoover	, ,
📝 The Great Depression	, ,
✅ Great Depression	, , , ,
☰ The New Deal	, , , , ,
📝 FDR and the Great Depression	, ,
📝 The New Deal	, ,
✅ The New Deal	, , , , ,
☰ Interwar foreign policy	, , ,
📺 Beginning of World War II	, ,
📺 1940 - Axis gains momentum in World War II	, ,
📺 1941 Axis momentum accelerates in WW2	, ,
📝 Pearl Harbor	, ,
✅ Interwar foreign policy	, , ,
☰ World War II: mobilization	, , , ,
📝 FDR and World War II	, ,
📝 Japanese internment	, ,
📝 American women and World War II	, ,
✅ World War II: mobilization	, , , ,
☰ World War II: military	, , , ,
📺 1942 Tide turning in World War II in Europe	, ,
📺 World War II in the Pacific in 1942	, ,
📺 1943 Axis losing in Europe	, ,
📺 American progress in the Pacific in 1944	, ,
📺 1944 - Allies advance further in Europe	, ,
📺 1945 - End of World War II	, ,
📝 The Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb	, ,
✅ World War II: military	, , , ,
☰ Postwar diplomacy	, ,
📝 The United Nations	, ,
✅ Postwar diplomacy	, ,
☰ Comparison in the period from 1890 to 1945	, , , , , , , , , , ,
📺 Shaping American national identity from 1890 to 1945	, , , , , , ,

Period 8: 1945-1980

Content	Standards
☰ The Cold War, 1945-1980	, , , , ,
📺 Origins of the Cold War	, ,
📺 Communism
📝 Start of the Cold War - The Yalta Conference and containment	, ,
📝 Start of the Cold War - The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan	, ,
📝 Start of the Cold War - The Berlin airlift and the creation of NATO	, ,
📺 Korean War overview	, ,
📝 The Korean War	, ,
✅ The Cold War (1945-1980)	, , , , ,
☰ The Red Scare	, ,
📝 Anticommunism in the 1950s	, ,
✅ The Red Scare	, ,
☰ Economy from 1945 to 1960	, , , , ,
📝 The GI Bill	, ,
📝 African Americans, women, and the GI Bill	, ,
📝 The baby boom	, ,
📝 The growth of suburbia	, ,
📝 The dark side of suburbia	, ,
✅ Economy from 1945 to 1960	, , , , ,
☰ Culture from 1945 to 1960	, ,
📝 The Eisenhower era	, ,
📝 Popular culture and mass media in the 1950s	, ,
📝 Women in the 1950s	, ,
✅ Culture from 1945 to 1960	, ,
☰ Early steps in the civil rights movement, 1940s and 1950s	, , ,
📝 Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement	, , ,
📝 African American veterans and the Civil Rights Movement	, ,
📝 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka	, ,
📝 Emmett Till	, ,
📝 The Montgomery Bus Boycott	, ,
📝 "Massive Resistance" and the Little Rock Nine	, ,
✅ Early steps in the civil rights movement, 1940s and 1950s	, , ,
☰ America as a world power	, , , ,
📝 Atomic fears and the arms race	, ,
📝 The start of the Space Race	, ,
📺 Bay of Pigs Invasion	, ,
📺 Cuban Missile Crisis	, ,
📝 The Cuban Missile Crisis	, ,
✅ America as a world power	, , , ,
☰ Vietnam War	, , , ,
📺 Vietnam War	, ,
📝 The Vietnam War	, ,
✅ Vietnam War	, , , ,
☰ The Great Society	, , , , , , ,
📝 John F. Kennedy as president	, ,
📝 Lyndon Johnson as president	, ,
✅ The Great Society	, , , , , ,
☰ The African American Civil Rights Movement, 1960s	, , , , , , ,
📝 The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom	, ,
📝 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965	, ,
📝 SNCC and CORE	, ,
📝 Black Power	, ,
✅ The African American Civil Rights Movement, 1960s	, , , , , , ,
☰ The Civil Rights Movement expands	, , , ,
📝 Second-wave feminism	, ,
📝 Liberation movements of the 1970s	, , ,
☰ Youth culture of the 1960s	, , , ,
📝 The student movement and the antiwar movement	, ,
📝 The election of 1968	, ,
☰ The environment and natural resources, 1968 to 1980	, , ,
📝 Stagflation and the oil crisis	, ,
☰ Society in transition	, , , , , , ,
📝 Richard Nixon as president	, ,
📝 Watergate	, ,
📝 The presidency of Jimmy Carter	, ,
☰ Continuity and change over time in the period from 1945 to 1980	, , , , , , , , ,
📺 Continuity and change in the postwar era	, , , , , , ,

Period 9: 1980-present

Content	Standards
☰ Reagan and conservatism	, , , , , ,
📝 Ronald Reagan: Election and domestic policies	, , ,
📝 Emergence of the AIDS crisis	, ,
☰ The end of the Cold War	, , , ,
📝 Ronald Reagan: Foreign policy	, ,
📝 The Iran-Contra affair	, ,
📝 The Gulf War	, ,
☰ A changing economy	, , , , ,
📝 Globalization	, ,
☰ Migration and immigration in the 1990s and 2000s	, , ,
📝 The presidency of Bill Clinton	, ,
☰ Challenges of the 21st century	, , , , ,
📝 The election of 2000	, ,
📝 The presidency of George W. Bush	, , ,
📝 September 11th	, ,
📝 The Great Recession	, ,
📝 The presidency of Barack Obama	, ,

AP®︎ US History exam skills and strategies

Content	Standards
☰ AP®︎ US History worked examples
📝 AP US History periods and themes
📺 AP US History multiple choice example 1
📺 AP US History multiple choice example 2
📺 AP US History short answer example 1
📺 AP US History short answer example 2
📺 AP US History DBQ example 1
📺 AP US History DBQ example 2
📺 AP US History DBQ example 3
📺 AP US History DBQ example 4
📺 AP US History long essay example 1
📺 AP US History long essay example 2
📺 AP US History long essay example 3
📺 Preparing for the AP US History Exam (5/4/2016)
📺 AP US History Exam Prep Session (5/1/2017)

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