The American story,
told straight.
Nine periods, sixty-eight CED-aligned topics, seven themes, four exam skills, and an FRQ Lab that scores like the real thing — built for students who want to actually understand the country, not just memorize the test.
The whole CED, topic by topic.
Each period opens to a list of CollegeBoard topics — every one with a study guide, key terms, a video, and a five-question quiz. Period 1 ships at full depth; Periods 2–9 ship as overviews and gain topic depth over the year.
Worlds Collide
Pre-Columbian Americas, European arrival, Columbian Exchange.
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Colonies Take Root
Chesapeake, New England, Middle, and Southern colonies; the slave trade; the Great Awakening.
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Revolution & Republic
French and Indian War through Constitution and the early party system.
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Expansion & Reform
Jeffersonian democracy, Market Revolution, Jackson, manifest destiny, abolitionism.
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The Fight Over Slavery
Westward expansion, Civil War, and the unfinished revolution of Reconstruction.
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Industrial America
Railroads, robber barons, immigration, Jim Crow, the agrarian backlash.
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Empire, Progressivism, Total War
Spanish-American War, Progressive reform, Depression, the New Deal, WWII.
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Cold War, Civil Rights, Great Society
Postwar boom, McCarthyism, civil rights movement, Vietnam, the conservative turn.
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A New Conservative Consensus
Reagan, end of the Cold War, globalization, 9/11, polarization.
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The threads that run through it all.
CollegeBoard organizes APUSH around seven themes. Topic pages tag every claim to the relevant themes — useful when you’re studying for the LEQ.
American & National Identity
Who counts as American — and on what terms.
NAT
America in the World
The U.S. as colony, hemisphere power, and global hegemon.
WOR
Geography & the Environment
Land, climate, and resources as constraints and opportunities.
GEO
Migration & Settlement
Who came, who was forced, who left, and where they landed.
MIG
Politics & Power
How power was distributed, contested, and used.
PCE
Work, Exchange & Technology
Labor systems, markets, and the technologies that reshaped both.
WXT
Social Structures
Class, race, gender, religion — and the lines they drew.
SOC
