AP US History

Course Overview

AP United States History, taught by MIA, has been audited and approved by College Board to provide students with college-level learning experience. In this course, students learn about the developments that have shaped United States history through the critical analysis of historical events and materials. California A-G approved.

This course includes:

• contextualizing Period 1 of the history of the United States
• Contextualization of Period 3. Next, they study the French and Indian War
• Understanding of federalists and anti-federalists.
• transportation revolution, manifest destiny, and the national market economy
• transformation of politics, evangelical protestant revivalism, and social reform
• Compromise of 1850 and its failure
• study the people of the West and compare the US with the Natives
• Study the origins of progressive reform, the agenda of progressives, progressive presidents, and women in relation to progressivism. Next, they turn to American imperialism and the imperialism debate.
• study the decade of the 1920s, including its innovations in communication and technology, as well as its cultural and political controversies
• Causes of the Great Depression
• Examine the rise of fascism
• Explore the origins of the Cold War
• Ponder the New Frontier and the Great Society
• The end of the Cold War and the changing economy