APUSH Curriculum:

In AP U.S. History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change. The course also provides eight themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures. Unit 1: Period 1: 1491–1607 4–6% Unit 2: Period 2: 1607–1754 6–8% Unit 3: Period 3: 1754–1800 10–17% Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848 10–17% Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877 10–17% Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898 10–17% Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945 10–17% Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980 10–17% Unit 9: Period 9: 1980–Present 4–6%