Units

Every Unit in AP Classroom has each Section, starting with 1.1 is broken down into the following:
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1. Pdf Unit Outlines 
2. Daily Videos
3. Topic Free Response Questions (Mostly LEQs)
4. Multiple Choice Questions
​5. Progress Checks (Quizzes and Exams the teacher can create using a question bank)
5. Practice Exams (Past International Exams) 
6. Archive of all Free Response Questions (PDFs, SEQs, and LEQs), with scoring notes, 2015-2024
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AP DAILY VIDEOS
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Semester One  
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Period/Unit 1, 1491-1607.   AP Weight=4-6% (Reading Guide I)

Contextualizing Period. Video 1.1 
Native American Societies Before European Contact.  Video 1.2./Video 1.2b
European Exploration in the Americas. Video 1.3/Video 1.3b/Video 1.3c
Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration and Conquest. 1.4/1.4b/1.4c
Labor, Slavery, and Castle in the Spanish Colonial System.  Video 1.5
Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native-Americans, and Africans.  Video 1.6
Causation Period 1.  Video 1.7

Period/Unit 2, 1607-1754.  AP Weight=6-8%  (Reading Guides I&II)

Contextualizing Period 2.  Video 2.1
European Colonization.  Video 2.2 / Video 2.2b
The Regions of British Colonies.  Video 2.3
Transatlantic Trade.  Video 2.4/Video 2.4b  
Interactions Between Native-Americans and Europeans.  Video 2.5 / Video 2.5b
Slavery in the British Colonies.  Video 2.6/Video 2.6b/Video 2.6c
Colonial Society and Culture.  Video 2.7/Video 2.7b
Comparison in Period 2.  Video 2.8

Period/Unit 3, 1754-1800.  AP Weight=10-17% (Reading Guide II)

Contextualizing Period 3.  Video 3.1
Seven Years’ War (The French and Indian War).  Video 3.2 / Video 3.2b
Taxation Without Representation.  Video 3.3 / Video 3.3b / Video 3.3c
Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution.  3.4 / 3.4b / 3.4c
The American Revolution.  Video 3.5 / Video 3.5b
The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals.  Video 3.6 / Video 3.6b / Video 3.6c
Articles of Confederation.  Video 3.7 / Video 3.7b
The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification.  3.8 / 3.8b / 3.8c
Constitution.  Video 3.9 /Video 3.9b / Video 3.9c
Shaping a New Republic.  Video 3.10 /Video 3.10b / Video 3.10c
Developing an American Identity.  Video 3.11 / Video 3.11b
Movement in the Early Republic.  Video 3.12 / Video 3.12b /Video 3.12c
Continuity and Change in Period 3.  Video 3.13 / Video 3.13b / Video 3.13c

Period/Unit 4, 1800-1848.  AP Weight=10-17% (Rdg. Gds. III&IV)

Contextualizing Period 4.  Video 4.1
The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson.  4.2 / 4.2b / 4.2c
Politics and Regional Interests.  4.3 / 4.3b
America on the World Stage.  4.4 / 4.4b
Market Revolution-Industrialization. 4.5 / 4.5b / 4.5c
Market Revolution-Society and Culture.  4.6 /4.6b
Expanding Democracy. 4.7 / 4.7b
Jackson and Federal Power.  4.8 / 4.8b
The Development of American Culture.  4.9
Second Great Awakening. 4.10An Age of Reform. 4.11 / 4.11b
African Americans in the Early Republic. 4.12 / 4.12b 
The Society of the South in the Early Republic. 4.13 / 4.13b
Causation in Period 4. 4.14 /4.14b / 4.14c

Period/Unit 5, 1844-1877.  AP Weight=10-17% (Rdg. Gds. IV&V)

​Contextualization Period 5.  5.1
​Manifest Destiny.  5.2 /5.2
​Mexican-American War.  5.3
Compromise of 1850.  5.4
Sectional Conflict-Regional Differences.  5.5, 5.5b
Failure of Compromise.  5.6
Election of 1860 and Secession.  5.7
Military Conflict in the Civil War.  5.8
Government Policies in the Civil War.  5.9
Reconstruction.  5.10, 5.10b
Failure of Reconstruction.  5.11
Comparison in Period 5.  5.12
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Semester Two

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Period/Unit 6, 1865-1898.  AP Weight=10-17% (Rdg. Gd. VI)

Contextualizing Period 6. Video 6.1
Westward Expansion-Economic Development  Video 6.2  
Westward Expansion-Social and Cultural Development  Video 6.3
The New South  Video 6.4
Technological Innovation Video 6.5
The Rise of Industrial Capitalism Video 6.6
Labor in the Gilded Age. Video 6.7/Video 6.7b
Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age. 6.8/6.8b/6.8c
Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age. Video 6.9/Video 6.9b
Development of the Middle Class. Video 6.10 /Video 6.10b
Reform in Gilded Age. Video 6.11/Video 611b
Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age. 6.12 / 6.12b
Politics in the Gilded Age. Video 6.13/Video 6.13b
Continuity and Change Period 6.  Video 6.14

​Period/Unit 7, 1890-1945.  AP Weight=10-17% (Rdg. Gd. VII&VIII)

Contextualizing Period 7.  Video 7.1
Imperialism - Debates.  Video 7.2
Spanish–American War.  Video 7.3
The Progressives.  Video 7.4 / Video 7.4b
World War I - Military and Diplomacy. Video 7.5 / Video 7.5b
World War I - Home Front.  Video 7.6 / Video 7.6b
1920s - Innovations in Communication and Technology. Video 7.7
1920s - Cultural and Political Controversies.  Video 7.8 / Video 7.8b
Great Depression.  Video 7.9 / Video 7.9b
New Deal.  Video 7.10 / Video 7.10b / Video 7.10c
Interwar Foreign Policy.  Video 7.11
World War II - Mobilization.  Video 7.12 / Video 7.12b
World War II - Military.  Video 7.13 / Video 7.13b
Postwar Diplomacy.  Video 7.14
Comparison in Period 7.  Video 7.15

Period/Unit 8, 1945-1980.  AP Weight=10-17% (Rdg. Gd. IX)

Contextualizing Period 8.  Video 8.1
The Cold War From 1945 to 1980.  Video 8.2 / Video 8.2b
The Red Scare.  Video 8.3
Economy After 1945.  Video 8.4 / 8.4b
Culture After 1945.  Video 8.5
Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s).  Video 8.6
America as a World Power.  Video 8.7
Vietnam War.  Video 8.8 / 8.8b / 8.8c
Great Society.  Video 8.9 / 8.9b
The African-American Civil Rights Movement.  Video 8.10 / 8.10b
The Civil Rights Movement Expands.  Video 8.11 / 8.11b
Youth Culture of the 1960s.  Video 8.12
The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980.  Video 8.13
Society in Transition.  Video 8.14
Continuity and Change in Period 8.  Video 8.15
 
Period/Unit 9, 1980-Present.  AP Weight=4-6% (Rdg. Gd. X)

Causation in Period.  9.1
Reagan and Conservatism.  9.2
The End of the Cold War. 9.3
The Changing Economy.  9.4
Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s.  9.5
Challenges in the 21st Century. 9.6, 9.6b
Causation in Period. 9.7
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