AP® U.S. History - Semester 1

• Journal - Can History Be Objective? Compare two different depictions of the same historical figure and write about bias and objectivity in historical interpretation.
• Study - Periods and Themes in U.S. History: Describe historians' use of themes to understand U.S. history and identify the major periods used in AP U.S. History.
• Quiz - Periods and Themes in U.S. History: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Historical Thinking Skills: Periodization: Explain the application of the skill of periodization in chronological reasoning and historical interpretation.
• Quiz - Historical Thinking Skills: Periodization: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - Periodization and Your Life: Construct a timeline of your life events and describe how periodization and themes affect interpretation in historical narrative.

• Read - First Peoples of North America: Describe pre-contact societies of North America before the arrival of Europeans and the impact of the Columbian Exchange.
• Quiz - First Peoples of North America: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Journal - Perspective in Academic and Oral Histories: Respond in writing to the question "who is best qualified to tell the history of American Indians?"
• Study - First Peoples and the Environment: Explain how interactions with the natural environment shaped the institutions and values of various pre-Columbian groups living on the North American continent prior to and after contact with European settlers.
• Quiz - First Peoples and the Environment: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Making Arguments, Using Evidence: Describe different methods that historians use to construct arguments to study the past.
• Quiz - Making Arguments, Using Evidence: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - North America Before the Columbian Exchange: Write an argumentative essay based on evidence on how European settlers were able to dominate North America.

• Read - European Colonialism in North America: Describe how the Protestant Reformation and the growth of mercantilism in Europe led to intensified colonization of North America during the 17th century.
• Quiz - European Colonialism in North America: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Discuss - Status of Indigenous Peoples Today: Compare and discuss significant political, social, economic, and cultural long-term impacts of European colonization on the indigenous peoples of North America.
• Study - Migration and Settlement in Colonial America: Describe how European expansion and colonialism affected the people on both sides of the Atlantic.
• Quiz - Migration and Settlement in Colonial America: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Patterns of Colonization in North America: Explain demographic changes from colonization in North America during the 17th and 18th Centuries.
• Quiz - Patterns of Colonization in North America: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - Assessing Colonial Relations: Write an essay to explain patterns of Indian-settler relations in colonial North America.

• Read - Labor in British Colonial America: Identify and describe the labor systems used in the New England, Middle, Chesapeake, and Southern colonies.
• Quiz - Labor in British Colonial America: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Journal - Primary Sources and Colonial Labor: Analyze three primary sources and write about labor systems in three different American colonies.
• Study - Colonial American Economies: Identify and describe how colonial economies developed and integrated into the British-American slave economy.
• Quiz - Colonial American Economies: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Comparing Regional Labor Systems: Understand the factors that led to the use of slavery and other labor systems in the regional economies of the British colonies.
• Quiz - Comparing Regional Labor Systems: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - Economic Opportunity in Colonial America: Write two letters from the perspective of an indentured servant in 1700.

Read - Struggle for Power in North America: Describe how secular, religious, and British attempts to control North America influenced the evolution of the colonies.

Quiz - Struggle for Power in North America: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.

Explore - Events That Shaped the Atlantic World: Research the political, economic, cultural, and social changes that influenced the Atlantic World.

Study - Shaping the Culture of Colonial America: Examine how changing religious ideals, Enlightenment beliefs, and republican thought shaped the politics, culture, and society of the colonial era.

Quiz - The Atlantic World in Colonial America: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.

Study - Causation and the Rise of Self-Government: Explain how changing colonial religious ideals and Enlightenment beliefs shaped the rise of Self-Government in Colonial America.

Quiz - Causation and the Rise of Self-Government: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.

Practice - Document Based Questions: Answer a document-based essay question examining the connection between the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening and the emergence of republican ideals in the American colonies.

• Review - Transformation in North America: 1491 – 1754: Prepare for the unit test by reviewing key concepts and skills.
• Test (CS) - Transformation in North America: 1491 – 1754: Take a computer-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
• Test (TS) - Transformation in North America: 1491 – 1754: Take a teacher-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.

• Read - The Road to Independence: Identify how competing interpretations of American identity and democratic ideals shaped the Independence movement.
• Quiz - The Road to Independence: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Journal - The Causes of the French and Indian War: Write an analysis of the causes of the French and Indian War and how the war affected relations between Britain and its colonies.
• Study - American Identity Before 1776: Analyze how competing perceptions on the American identity and emerging democratic ideals shaped the movement for independence.
• Quiz - American Identity Before 1776: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Causes of the American Revolution: Evaluate the major causes of the American Revolution, analyzing which factors leading to the Revolutionary War were most significant.
• Quiz - Causes of the American Revolution: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - Competing Conceptions of Identity: Write an essay explaining the status of identity and unity before the start of the American Revolution.

• Read - Declaring and Winning Independence: Summarize the key events that led to victory and the birth of the new nation.
• Quiz - Declaring and Winning Independence: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Explore - Revolutionary War – Paths to Victory: Write a brief essay explaining the linkages between key events in the Revolutionary War, and identifying which factors were most significant in the Patriot victory.
• Study - Global Impact of the Declaration of Independence: Evaluate the political thoughts of Paine and Jefferson and to explain the global impact of the Declaration of Independence.
• Quiz - Global Impact of the Declaration of Independence: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Interpreting the Patriot Victory: Interpret the work of historians concerning the patriot victory in the American Revolution.
• Quiz - Interpreting the Patriot Victory: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Discuss - Myths of the Revolution: Analyze and evaluate a historian's interpretation of the reasons for the American victory in the war for independence.

• Read - Republican Governments: Describe the political challenges the United States faced in the years immediately following the American Revolution.
• Quiz - Republican Governments: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Journal - State Constitutions: Tempering Democracy: Evaluate John Adams's views and speculate about what he would think of our present-day government.
• Study - Making Republican Governments: Understand the development of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
• Quiz - Making Republican Governments: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Writing Historical Narratives: Study how to write an evidence-based essay that demonstrates your interpretation of a historical event.
• Quiz - Writing Historical Narratives: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - The Ideals of the American Revolution: Write an essay evaluating whether the Articles of Confederation or the Constitution "better fulfilled" the ideals of the American Revolution.

• Read - Political Debates in the Early Republic: Identify factors that led to the first major party system in the early Republic.
• Quiz - Political Debates in the Early Republic: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the reading material.
• Discuss - The Revolution and American Society: Discuss your view of the impact of the Revolutionary War on American society.
• Study - Political Crisis of the 1790s: Examine how arguments over the meaning and interpretation of the Constitution affected U.S. politics during the political crisis of the 1790s.
• Quiz - Political Crisis of the 1790s: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Anatomy of the Revolution: Historical Argument: Describe how historians use historical argumentation through the analysis of evidence to construct persuasive arguments about the past.
• Quiz - Anatomy of the Revolution: Historical Argument: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - Liberty versus Order in the 1790s: Write an essay comparing and contrasting the ratification debate to present-day political debates.

• Review - Birth of a New Nation: 1754 – 1800: Prepare for the unit test by reviewing key concepts and skills.
• Test (CS) - Birth of a New Nation: 1754 – 1800: Take a computer-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
• Test (TS) - Birth of a New Nation: 1754 – 1800: Take a teacher-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.

• Read - Defining Democracy: 1800 – 1848: Explain how the administrations of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson shaped political and cultural elements of American society.
• Quiz - Defining Democracy: 1800 – 1848: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Journal - Two Early Reactions to the Louisiana Purchase: Write a brief essay comparing American Indian leaders' responses to American expansion.
• Study - Jeffersonian Democracy: Explain how Jefferson's presidency affected U.S. expansionism and relations with foreign powers and American Indians.
• Quiz - Jeffersonian Democracy: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Jacksonian Democracy: Analyze the elections of 1824 and 1828 and the rise of the Jacksonian Democratic party.
• Quiz - Jacksonian Democracy: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - Major Decisions of the Marshall Court: Research a landmark court case from the mid-1800s and write a case brief summarizing the case.

• Read - The Early Industrial Revolution: Describe the most important factors that led to the early Industrial Revolution.
• Quiz - The Early Industrial Revolution: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Journal - Debating the Value of Industry: Analyze the impact of the Industrial Revolution by comparing demographic data from before and after industrialization hit the U.S.
• Study - Transforming the American Economy: Describe the social, political, and economic factors that led to the early industrial, market, and transportation revolutions.
• Quiz - Transforming the American Economy: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Documenting the Industrial Experience: Analyze personal accounts of the early industrial, market, and transportation revolutions.
• Quiz - Documenting the Industrial Experience: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - The Impact of the Early Industrial Revolution: Write a summary of one aspect of the social and economic effects of the early Industrial Revolution in the United States.

• Read - Creating a Republican Culture: Describe the changing characteristics of republic culture in the first half of the 19th century.
• Quiz - Creating a Republican Culture: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Explore - Republic, Republicanism, or Republican Party? Compare the characteristics of republican culture historically and today.
• Study - Republicanism and Early American Culture: Explain how emerging democratic ideals and changing conceptions of national and regional identity shaped value systems, gender roles, and cultural movements.
• Quiz - Republicanism and Early American Culture: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Contextualizing Republicanism: Compare and classify how geography and the transportation revolution affected migration, the economy, and the expansion of different regional identities.
• Quiz - Contextualizing Republicanism: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Discuss - Cultural Values of the Early Republic: Discuss if aristocratic republicanism limited development in the South.

• Read - Slavery and Southern Expansion: Describe the economic, political, social, and ethnic factors that shaped the emerging Southern identity.
• Quiz - Slavery and Southern Expansion: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Journal - Mapping the Missouri Compromise: Create a map illustrating the areas of expansion and compromise between free and slave states following the Missouri Compromise.
• Study - Slavery and Regional Identity: Analyze the development of African American group identity and resistance to the institution of slavery during the early 19th century.
• Quiz - Slavery and Regional Identity: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Patterns of Regional Identity: Describe patterns of regional and group identity that developed in the African American and southern communities.
• Quiz - Patterns of Regional Identity: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - African American Perspectives: Compare first person narrative of 19th century African American experiences in different regions of the United States.

• Read - Religion and Reform: Explain how 19th century reform movements challenged the dominant economic and social order.
• Quiz - Religion and Reform: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Discuss - Debating Reform: Compare and discuss reformer ideologies and reactions of the early 19th century.
• Study - Cultural and Religious Reform: Evaluate the impact 19th century reform movements had on people historically and today.
• Quiz - Cultural and Religious Reform: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Causes of Reform Movements: Evaluate the roles of the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism in causing key reform movements during the first half of the 19th century.
• Quiz - Causes of Reform Movements: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - American Reformers: Research and write a historical biography of a famous American reformer.

• Review - Growing Pains of the New Republic: 1800 – 1848: Prepare for the unit test by reviewing key concepts and skills.
• Test (CS) - Growing Pains of the New Republic: 1800 – 1848: Take a computer-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
• Test (TS) - Growing Pains of the New Republic: 1800 – 1848: Take a teacher-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.

• Read - Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion: Identify the social, political, economic, and cultural motives behind Manifest Destiny and westward migration.
• Quiz - Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Journal - Mapping Patterns of Settlement: Create two maps contrasting geographic and demographic differences between European settlement during the colonial era and westward expansion in the 1840s.
• Study - Trends in Westward Expansion: Explain the impact of western migration on political and social conflicts.
• Quiz - Trends in Westward Expansion: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Interpreting the Impact of Expansion and Immigration: Interpret the impacts of expansion and immigration on American Indians and migrant communities.
• Quiz - Interpreting the Impact of Expansion and Immigration: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Discuss - Ethics of The Mexican-American War: Evaluate whether the Mexican-American War was justified, and compare to wars of the present-day.

• Read - Sectional Crisis: Describe domestic debates over U.S. expansionism and how they shaped the formation of regional identities leading up to the Civil War.
• Quiz - Sectional Crisis: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Explore - Could the Sectional Crisis Have Been Avoided? Use historical evidence to respond to the question: "Could the sectional crisis have been avoided?"
• Study - Sectional Crisis North and South: Explain how emerging regional identities affected national debates over expansion and slavery.
• Quiz - Sectional Crisis North and South: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Causes of the Civil War: Describe the role that political, ideological, economic, social and environmental dynamics played in causing the Civil War.
• Quiz - Causes of the Civil War: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - The Constitutionality of Secession: Write a brief essay addressing the constitutionality of secession.

• Read - The Civil War: Describe the course of the war between North and South, identifying political, diplomatic, social and economic consequences.
• Quiz - The Civil War: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Explore - Comparing Advantages and Disadvantages: Write a brief essay comparing the advantages of both the North and the South at the start of the Civil War.
• Study - Events and Outcomes of the War: Describe the events of the war including the final outcome.
• Quiz - Events and Outcomes of the War: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Synthesizing Interpretations of the War: Evaluate multiple historians' interpretations of the long and short-term outcomes of the Civil War and make connections to other points in history.
• Quiz - Synthesizing Interpretations of the War: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Practice - Write Your Own Interpretation of the War: Write an argumentative essay evaluating the long and short-term outcomes of the Civil War.

• Read - Reconstruction and the New South: Identify how Reconstruction affected conceptions of national and regional identity.
• Quiz - Reconstruction and the New South: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Journal - Lincoln's Plans for Reconstruction: Write a journal response that hypothesizes how Lincoln's plans for Reconstruction might have played out.
• Study - Competing Models for Reconstruction: Examine how political debates on competing models for Reconstruction played out and summarize regional reactions to national policy changes.
• Quiz - Competing Models for Reconstruction: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Study - Evaluating Reconstruction: Evaluate the political, legal, and historical impact of Reconstruction.
• Quiz - Evaluating Reconstruction: Take a quiz to assess your understanding of the material.
• Discuss - Who Achieved Their Reconstruction Goals? Write a short response evaluating which side achieved its goals between 1850 and 1877.

• Review - Expansion, War, and Reconstruction: 1844 – 1877: Prepare for the unit test by reviewing key concepts and skills.
• Test (CS) - Expansion, War, and Reconstruction: 1844 – 1877: Take a computer-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.
• Test (TS) - Expansion, War, and Reconstruction: 1844 – 1877: Take a teacher-scored test to assess what you have learned in this unit.

• Review - AP U.S. History Semester 1 Review: Prepare for the semester exam by reviewing key concepts covered in this semester.
• Exam - AP U.S. History Semester 1 Exam: Take a computer-scored exam to demonstrate your mastery of concepts and skills covered in this semester.
• Final Exam - AP U.S. History Semester 1 Final Exam: Take a teacher-scored exam to demonstrate your mastery of concepts and skills covered in this semester.