My APUSH / AP US History full year curriculum is a living bundle that includes Google Drive access with the download, and any other updates I may add in the future!

This complete class curriculum is intended to best-prepare you and your students for passing the AP Test with the exact same model and approach I use. It weaves in content with specific AP skill building and has helped my students consistently achieve 90%+ passing rates. I hope it can help some of you–especially those new to teaching AP!

Full curriculum for A.P. U.S. History includes ALL of the following:

OVERVIEW (See INDIVIDUAL UNITS section for all the specifics)

• Works with any textbook
• Access to all curriculum updates for life
• Access to the Classroom Economy Game!
• Paced curriculum folder for both regular and block schedules
• The Cards Against History: APUSH Game
• 20 Classroom Gallery Walk Activities
• 35 Crash Course History Question Sheets
• 5 SCAVENGER HUNT Games
• 4 RIDDLE RACE Games
• 10 ESCAPE ROOM Classroom Activities!
• 112 PRIMARY SOURCE document analysis questions with keys!
• 20 SECONDARY SOURCES excerpt analysis & skill-building activities!
• 5 Newspaper Article Projects
• 23 group research and social media projects utilizing TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram, with full instruction sets, materials, and rubrics
• 15 fun, topic-specific competition games, including survival games, film projects, skits, etc.
• Men Who Built America, Episode 4: Blood is Spilled – Question Sheet
• 4 classroom debates, with full instruction sets, materials, and rubrics
• An End of Year/Post-AP Test Project
• 51 Personally-crafted PowerPoint Lectures + Lecture Notes
• EDITABLE PowerPoints to fulfill all of the College Board learning objectives
• Explanations of ALL lecture information & learning objectives for teachers
• Complete list and explanation of every topic for Periods 1-9
• Detailed video tutorials on how to use the bundle
• Student SAQ and LEQ models

Assessments

• Editable quizzes + keys
• 4 EDITABLE stimulus-based multiple-choice tests (covering all 9 Period/Units) + keys
• 9 SAQs (2 knowledge-based, 4 stimulus-based, 3 historiography) + keys
• 4 LEQs (one for each historical skill + one bonus!) + keys
• 4 DBQs + keys
• Simplified LEQ and DBQ rubrics

Review

• Thematic Review Timelines (7 different themes for all 9 periods)
• Personalized Review Games
• Complete College Board learning objectives and terms assignment
• PDF on how I teach writing, content, grade, structure the class, and review

INDIVIDUAL UNITS

Units 1-3 Materials

• 7 Crash Course History Question Sheets
• Gallery Walk: Motivations for Settlement of the English Colonies
• Colonial Survival Game
• Escape Room 1: Colonialism and Commerce
• Twitter Group Activity: The English Colonies
• Group Research Project: French and Indian War
• Gallery Walk: Causes of the American Revolution
• TikTok Group Activity: Revolutionary Ideals
• Escape Room 2: American Revolution
• Riddle Race Game: The U.S. Constitution
• Matching Game: The Early Republic
• Unit Guide Assignment: Units 1-3
• 29 Primary Sources + Question Sheets and key
• 2 Secondary Sources + Question Sheets and key
• 14 PowerPoint Presentations
• 3 quizzes + keys
• 3 short-answer questions + keys
• 1 MCQ Stimulus-Based Test + key
• 1 LEQ + key
• 1 DBQ + key

Units 4-5 Materials

• 9 Crash Course History Question Sheets
• Gallery Walk: Motivations for American Expansion and Settlement
• Matching Game: Westward Expansion
• Newspaper Project: American Expansionism and Treaties
• Instagram Group Activity: 19th-Century Social Change and Sectionalism
• Gallery Walk: Impact of the Market Revolution
• Western Settler Survival Game
• Scavenger Hunt Activity: Sectionalism (1820-1860)
• Gallery Walk: Causes of the American Civil War
• Escape Room 3: American Civil War
• Classroom Debate: Causes of the Civil War
• Gallery Walk: Reconstruction Policies
• Matching Game: Reconstruction
• Newspaper Project: Reconstruction Policies and Events
• Riddle Race Game: Reconstruction Figures and Policies
• Group Research Project: Reconstruction
• Scavenger Hunt Activity: American Indian Policies (1865-1890)
• Twitter Group Activity: American Indian Policy
• Unit Guide Assignment: Units 4-5
• 25 Primary Sources + Question Sheets and key
• 3 Secondary Sources + Question Sheets and key
• Unit Guide Assignment: Units 4-5
• 12 PowerPoint Presentations
• 3 quizzes + keys
• 3 short-answer questions + keys
• 1 MCQ Stimulus-Based Test + key
• 1 LEQ + key
• 1 DBQ + key

Units 6-7 Materials

• 12 Crash Course History Question Sheets
• Gallery Walk: Impact of the Industrial Revolution
• Escape Room 4: Industrial Revolution
• Men Who Built America, Episode 4: Blood is Spilled – Question Sheet
• Classroom Debate: Pros and Cons of Industrialization
• Gallery Walk: Instances of American Imperialism
• Gallery Walk: Progressive Era Policies
• Newspaper Project: Progressive Era Figures, Policies, and Events
• Instagram Group Activity: The Progressive Era
• Political Cartoon: The Progressive Era
• Gallery Walk: Causes of World War I
• TikTok Group Activity: World War I
• Escape Room 5: World War I
• Group Film Activity: World War I (propaganda)
• Gallery Walk: Impact of the Roaring Twenties
• Scavenger Hunt Activity: Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, Scopes Trial
• Instagram Group Activity: Roaring Twenties
• Classroom Skit: 1920s Culture
• Gallery Walk: Causes of the Great Depression
• Escape Room 6: The Great Depression
• Riddle Race Game: The Great Depression Figures and Policies
• Newspaper Project: Great Depression Events, Figures, and Policies
• Twitter Group Activity: The New Deal
• Gallery Walk: Causes of World War II
• Group Research Project: Key Battles of WWII
• Escape Room 7: World War II
• Gallery Walk: Impact of World War II
• Scavenger Hunt Activity: Impact of WWII
• Classroom Debate: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
• 25 Primary Sources + Question Sheets and key
• 3 Secondary Sources + Question Sheets and key
• Unit Guide Assignment: Units 6-7
• 15 PowerPoint Presentations
• 4 quizzes + keys
• 4 short-answer questions + keys
• 1 MCQ Stimulus-Based Test + key
• 1 LEQ + key
• 1 DBQ + key

Units 8-9 Materials

• 7 Crash Course History Question Sheets
• Gallery Walk: Preliminary Events of the Cold War
• Escape Room 8: The Cold War
• TikTok Group Activity: The Cold War
• Classroom Skit: 1950s Culture
• Gallery Walk: Events of the Vietnam War
• Escape Room 9: The Vietnam War
• Twitter Group Activity: The Civil Rights Movement
• Newspaper Project: Civil Rights Events, Figures, and Policies
• TikTok Group Activity: The New Left
• Riddle Race Game: The New Left Figures, Movements, and Programs
• Gallery Walk: Causes of the 1970s Oil Crises (1973 and 1979)
• Matching Game: Events of the 1960s and 1970s
• Group Film Project: New Left Counterculture
• Gallery Walk: Events that led to the End of the Cold War
• Instagram Group Activity: Events of the End of the Cold War
• Escape Room 10: End of the Cold War
• Scavenger Hunt Activity: Policies of Clinton, Bush, and Obama
• Gallery Walk: The War on Terror
• Classroom Debate: The War on Terror
• Digital Age Survival Game
• Group Research Project: The Digital Age
• Gallery Walk: Assessing Globalization
• End of Year Project: Historical Era Reflections
• 20 Primary Sources + Question Sheets and key
• 2 Secondary Sources + Question Sheets and key
• Unit Guide Assignment: Units 8-9
• 9 PowerPoint Presentations
• 2 quizzes + keys
• 3 short-answer questions + keys
• 1 MCQ Stimulus-Based Test + key
• 1 LEQ + key
• 1 DBQ + key