AP United States History

CED topics 1.1 Contextualizing Period 1, 1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact. Covers diverse Native American societies (Pueblo, Mississippian, Iroquois, Great Plains, Pacific Northwest), and the context before 1491.

CED topic 1.3 European Exploration in the Americas and the Columbian Exchange. Covers Spanish, French, Dutch, and English exploration; the Columbian Exchange; labor systems including slavery; and cultural interactions between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans.

CED topics 2.1 Contextualizing Period 2, 2.2 European Colonization. Covers the founding and development of Spanish, French, Dutch, and English colonies, including Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay.

CED topics 2.3 The Regions of the British Colonies, 2.4 Transatlantic Trade. Covers the economic and social differences between New England, Middle, and Southern colonies, and the triangular trade network.

CED topics 2.5 Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans, 2.6 Slavery in the British Colonies. Covers conflicts and cooperation with Native Americans (King Philip's War, trade), and the development of chattel slavery and the plantation system.

CED topic 2.7 Colonial Society and Culture. Covers the Enlightenment, Great Awakening, colonial governments, social hierarchies, and emerging American identity.

CED topics 3.1 Contextualizing Period 3, 3.2 The Seven Years' War. Covers the French and Indian War, its effects on British-colonial relations, and the Proclamation of 1763.

CED topic 3.3 Taxation Without Representation. Covers the Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, and the development of colonial resistance.

CED topics 3.4 Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution, 3.5 The American Revolution. Covers Enlightenment ideas (Locke, Paine), the Declaration of Independence, key battles, and the role of various groups in the war.

CED topics 3.6 The Articles of Confederation, 3.7 The Creation and Ratification of the Constitution. Covers weaknesses of the Articles, the Constitutional Convention, Federalist vs Anti-Federalist debates, and the Bill of Rights.

CED topics 3.8 The Constitution, 3.9 The Early Republic. Covers Washington's presidency, Hamilton vs Jefferson, the first party system, foreign policy challenges, and the Adams administration.

CED topics 3.10 Developing an American Identity, 3.11 Migration Within North America. Covers the development of national identity, the Second Great Awakening, and westward migration including conflicts with Native Americans.

CED topics 4.1 Contextualizing Period 4, 4.2 The Rise of Political Parties. Covers Jefferson's presidency, the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, and the rise of the first and second party systems.

CED topics 4.3 American Foreign Policy, 4.4 Innovations in Technology, Agriculture, and Business. Covers the Monroe Doctrine, Marshall Court decisions, the Market Revolution, canals, railroads, and industrialization.

CED topics 4.5 Debates About Federal Power, 4.6 The Second Great Awakening. Covers the nullification crisis, Bank War, states' rights debates, the Second Great Awakening, and reform movements (temperance, education, prisons).

CED topics 4.7 Reform Movements, 4.8 African Americans in the Early Republic. Covers abolitionism, women's rights (Seneca Falls), utopian communities, and the experience of free and enslaved African Americans.

CED topics 5.1 Contextualizing Period 5, 5.2 Manifest Destiny. Covers the ideology of Manifest Destiny, westward expansion, the annexation of Texas, the Oregon Trail, and the Mexican-American War.

CED topics 5.3 The Mexican-American War, 5.4 The Compromise of 1850. Covers the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, and the election of 1860.

CED topics 5.5 The Civil War, 5.6 The Election of 1860 and Secession. Covers secession, key battles (Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg), the Emancipation Proclamation, the home front, and the role of African Americans in the war.

CED topics 5.7 Reconstruction, 5.8 Reconstruction Amendments. Covers Presidential vs Radical Reconstruction, the 13th/14th/15th Amendments, the Freedmen's Bureau, sharecropping, and the end of Reconstruction in 1877.

CED topics 6.1 Contextualizing Period 6, 6.2 The Rise of Industrial Capitalism. Covers the settlement of the West, the frontier thesis, Native American displacement (Dawes Act), and the New South.

CED topics 6.3 Industrial Capitalism, 6.4 Labor and Unions. Covers the rise of corporations, monopolies/trusts (Rockefeller, Carnegie), the Gilded Age, labor unions (Knights of Labor, AFL), and major strikes.

CED topics 6.5 Immigration and Migration, 6.6 Urbanization. Covers new immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, nativism, Chinese Exclusion Act, urban growth, political machines, and tenement life.

CED topics 6.7 Reform Movements, 6.8 Debates About Government Role. Covers Populism, the Grange, the Farmers' Alliance, bimetallism, and debates over laissez-faire vs government regulation.

CED topics 6.9 Social and Cultural Change, 6.10 Continuity and Change in Period 6. Covers the New Middle Class, consumer culture, education, women's clubs, and social Darwinism.

CED topics 7.1 Contextualizing Period 7, 7.2 Imperialism. Covers the closing of the frontier, overseas expansion, the Spanish-American War, the Philippines, and the debate over imperialism.

CED topic 7.3 The Progressive Movement. Covers muckrakers, political reforms (initiative, referendum, recall), trust-busting (TR), conservation, and social reform (settlement houses, temperance).

CED topics 7.4 World War I, 7.5 The Home Front During WWI. Covers causes of US entry, the war effort, the Committee on Public Information, Espionage and Sedition Acts, and the Treaty of Versailles debate.

CED topics 7.6 The 1920s, 7.7 The Great Depression. Covers the Roaring Twenties, consumerism, jazz, Harlem Renaissance, prohibition, nativism, the Scopes Trial, and the onset of the Great Depression.

CED topic 7.8 The New Deal. Covers FDR, the First and Second New Deal, Alphabet Agencies (WPA, CCC, SSA, TVA), critics of the New Deal, and its legacy.

CED topics 7.9 World War II, 7.10 The Home Front During WWII. Covers isolationism to intervention, key battles, the atomic bomb, Japanese internment, women in the workforce, and economic mobilization.

CED topics 7.11 Postwar Diplomacy, 7.12 African American Civil Rights, 7.13 Continuity and Change in Period 7. Covers the UN, the beginning of the Cold War, early civil rights efforts, and overall period review.

CED topics 8.1 Contextualizing Period 8, 8.2 The Cold War. Covers containment, the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO, the Korean War, and McCarthyism.

CED topics 8.3 Foreign Policy in the Cold War, 8.4 The Vietnam War. Covers Eisenhower/Dulles foreign policy, the Cuban Missile Crisis, détente, the Vietnam War, and the antiwar movement.

CED topic 8.5 The Great Society. Covers LBJ's domestic agenda, the War on Poverty, Medicare/Medicaid, civil rights legislation, and the expansion of the federal government.

CED topics 8.6 The African American Civil Rights Movement, 8.7 Expansion of Civil Rights. Covers Brown v. Board, Montgomery Bus Boycott, MLK, SNCC, Black Power, and the expansion of rights to other groups (women, Latinos, Native Americans, LGBTQ).

CED topics 8.8 Society and Culture in the 1960s, 8.9 Youth Culture of the 1960s. Covers the counterculture, hippies, the sexual revolution, environmentalism, and student activism.

CED topics 8.10 The Nixon Administration, 8.11 Continuity and Change in Period 8. Covers Nixon's domestic and foreign policy, Watergate, the energy crisis, stagflation, and period review.

CED topics 9.1 Contextualizing Period 9, 9.2 Reagan and Conservatism. Covers the rise of the New Right, Reaganomics, supply-side economics, deregulation, and the religious right.

CED topics 9.3 The End of the Cold War, 9.4 Shifts in the Economy. Covers Gorbachev, the fall of the Berlin Wall, collapse of the USSR, globalization, deindustrialization, and the tech boom.

CED topics 9.5 Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s, 9.6 Challenges of the 21st Century. Covers immigration debates, 9/11, the War on Terror, the Great Recession, Obama and Trump eras, and ongoing challenges.