Make your classroom more fun and engaging with this thrilling and competitive activity. This exciting game has students scramble to solve and decode clues in pairs using their knowledge of AP US History / APUSH to exit the Escape Room! The game is ready-to-go. Once you understand the game, you simply print the materials and go!

Includes ELEVEN DIFFERENT Escape Room Activities

NOTE: These activities are meant to be used AFTER students have learned the material.

Game includes all required materials:

• A set of instructions and keys for the teacher
• A student packet with instructions and materials
• Puzzles, scenarios, and terminology the students know and solve
• Depending on the class, the game can take anywhere from 25-45 minutes to complete–sometimes longer!

AP US History Units Covered

• Unit Guide Learning Objectives 1.3, 1.4, & 1.5
• Unit Guide Learning Objectives 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, & 3.6
• Unit Guide Learning Objectives 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, & 3.5
• Unit Guide Learning Objectives 5.8 & 5.9
• Unit Guide Learning Objectives 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, & 6.8
• Unit Guide Learning Objectives 7.10, 7.11, & 7.12
• Unit Guide Learning Objectives 8.2 & 8.8
• Unit Guide Learning Objectives 9.2 & 9.3

Topics Covered

The English Colonies

• Colonial Settlement & Funding
• Mercantilism
• Exploration & Commerce
• The Columbian Exchange
• Triangular Trade

The Age of Enlightenment

• Thomas Hobbes
• The Leviathan
• social contract theory
• John Locke
• natural rights
• consent of the governed
• Voltaire
• religious toleration
• Baron de Montesquieu
• separation of powers
• legislative branch
• executive branch
• judicial branch

The American Revolution

• Patriots and Loyalists
• The Boston Tea Party
• Olive Branch Petition
• Continental Congress
• George Washington
• The American Revolutionary War
• Battle of Saratoga
• Valley Forge
• Siege of Yorktown

The American Civil War

• Union / Confederacy
• writ of habeas corpus
• conscription
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Battle of Gettysburg and Vicksburg
• Meade, Grant, Davis, Lincoln, Lee, and Sherman
• Appomattox Court House

The Industrial Revolution

• First Industrial Revolution
• Second Industrial Revolution
• Communication Technology
• Industrial Society
• Working Class Organizations

World War I

• Western and Eastern Fronts
• Entente and Central Powers
• trench warfare
• machine guns
• mustard gas
• unrestricted submarine warfare
• barbed wire
• Battle of the Somme
• Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Versailles
• Wilson’s Fourteen Points

The Great Depression

• agricultural overproduction
• buying on margin
• stock market crash of 1929
• Black Tuesday
• John Keynes
• intervention
• Herbert Hoover
• laissez-faire
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• The New Deal
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Social Security Act

The Start of World War II

• appeasement
• blitzkrieg
• fascism
• conditions and events that led to war in Europe
• conditions and events that led to war in Asia

The Cold War

• Yalta Conference
• atomic bomb
• the Iron Curtain
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• NATO
• proxy wars
• the Berlin War
• the Space Race

The Vietnam War

• Bipolar Cold War
• communism & nationalism in Vietnam
• Vietnam War major events, figures, and groups
• guerrilla warfare

The End of the Cold War

• glasnost and perestroika
• Cold War and US/USSR
• Ronald Reagan / Mikhail Gorbachev
• arms race / rollback
• Poland / Revolutions of 1989