AP U.S. History curriculum

Start with AP United States History and AP/College US History. Take notes until you can explain: Explain Indigenous societies before European contact.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Write a contextualization paragraph comparing Indigenous regions before sustained European colonization.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Analyze European exploration, the Columbian Exchange, labor systems, and cultural contact.

Start with AP United States History and AP/College US History. Take notes until you can explain: Compare Spanish, French, Dutch, and British colonial development.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Build a comparison chart for two colonial regions and turn it into a thesis.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Explain slavery, trade, regional economies, and imperial conflict.

Start with AP United States History and AP/College US History. Take notes until you can explain: Explain imperial crisis, revolution, founding documents, constitutional debate, and early republic politics.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Write a short-answer response using one stimulus source and one outside evidence point.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Use causation and sourcing with revolutionary-era documents.

Start with AP United States History and AP/College US History. Take notes until you can explain: Analyze political parties, federal power, market revolution, reform, expansion, and slavery.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Create a causation map for one antebellum reform movement and its limits.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Connect social change to regional conflict.

Start with AP United States History and AP/College US History. Take notes until you can explain: Explain Manifest Destiny, sectional crisis, Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Draft a DBQ thesis and two evidence paragraphs about Reconstruction's goals and outcomes.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Evaluate competing interpretations of Reconstruction.

Start with AP United States History and AP/College US History. Take notes until you can explain: Analyze industrial capitalism, immigration, labor, the West, the New South, and reform movements.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Write a continuity-and-change paragraph about labor or federal power in the Gilded Age.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Use continuity and change over time.

Start with AP United States History and AP/College US History. Take notes until you can explain: Explain Progressivism, imperialism, world wars, the 1920s, the Great Depression, and New Deal politics.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Answer a stimulus-based multiple-choice set and classify each miss by historical reasoning skill.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Connect domestic change to global power.

Start with AP United States History and AP/College US History. Take notes until you can explain: Analyze Cold War policy, civil rights, social movements, Vietnam, Great Society, and cultural change.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Write an LEQ outline comparing two postwar reform movements.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Use comparison across movements and administrations.

Start with AP United States History and AP/College US History. Take notes until you can explain: Explain conservatism, globalization, technology, migration, polarization, and post-Cold War change.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Complete a mixed APUSH review portfolio with an error log, one revised DBQ paragraph, and one final periodization map.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Practice DBQ, LEQ, SAQ, and historical reasoning under time limits.