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High school history / AP US History readiness

History curriculum

A history course centered on chronology, causation, primary-source analysis, historical argument, and U.S. history depth.

Pacing
8 units, 24-32 weeks self-paced
Units
8 unit sequence
Practice
640 checked answers
Support
Self-paced or tutor-guided
Outcomes
  • Build historical arguments from evidence instead of memorized timelines.
  • Analyze primary and secondary sources for context, audience, purpose, and limits.
  • Explain continuity and change across major periods.

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Unit sequence

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  1. 01

    Historical thinking

    • Use sourcing, context, corroboration, causation, and periodization.
    • Separate claim, evidence, and interpretation.

    Practice: Analyze two primary sources with author, audience, purpose, and historical situation.

  2. 02

    Colonial worlds and early America

    • Explain Indigenous societies, colonization, slavery, and imperial conflict.
    • Trace regional differences.

    Practice: Compare two colonial regions using economy, labor, and culture.

  3. 03

    Revolution and Constitution

    • Analyze causes and consequences of revolution.
    • Explain constitutional debates and early republic politics.

    Practice: Write a thesis about whether the Revolution was radical.

  4. 04

    Expansion, reform, and sectional conflict

    • Explain market revolution, reform movements, expansion, and slavery.
    • Connect ideology to conflict.

    Practice: Build a causation map for the Civil War.

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