AP United States History:
Document Analysis Bundle!

APUSH Primary Source Bundle contains MORE THAN 110 PRIMARY SOURCE ACTIVITIES that cover ALL UNITS (1.1-9.6)! Google Drive access! Activities provide practice for AP Historical Thinking Skills 1.A, 2.A, 2.B, 2.C, 3.A, 3.C, 5.A, 5.B, 6.B, and 6.C! These are the historical skill activities I use with my students to achieve passing rates of over 90%!

I have added 96 NEW primary source activities to my original 16 that provide differentiated perspectives across all learning objectives for APUSH.

The activities can be used as emergency sub print-and-go activities, in class for group or individual work, or assigned as homework for AP Test practice.

Bundle includes the following:

  • An overview on how to use the resources
  • Group and individual activity options!
  • Answer keys to function as discussion guides
  • Google Drive Access
  • Lifelong access to all future updates!
  • See the covered Unit Guide Learning Objectives for each below:

The 96 NEW Primary Source Activities

Period 1: 1491–1607

  • 1.1 Contextualizing Period 1
  • 1.2 Native American Societies Before European Contact
  • 1.3 European Exploration in the Americas
  • 1.4 Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
  • 1.5 Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
  • 1.6 Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans

Period 2: 1607–1754

  • 2.1 Contextualizing Period 2
  • 2.2 European Colonization
  • 2.3 The Regions of British Colonies
  • 2.4 Transatlantic Trade
  • 2.5 Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans
  • 2.6 Slavery in the British Colonies
  • 2.7 Colonial Society and Culture

Period 3: 1754–1800

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

Period 4: 1800–1848

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

Period 5: 1844–1877

  • 5.1 Contextualizing Period 5
  • 5.2 Manifest Destiny
  • 5.3 The Mexican–American War
  • 5.4 The Compromise of 1850
  • 5.5 Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences
  • 5.6 Failure of Compromise
  • 5.7 Election of 1860 and Secession
  • 5.8 Military Conflict in the Civil War
  • 5.9 Government Policies During the Civil War
  • 5.10 Reconstruction
  • 5.11 Failure of Reconstruction

Period 6: 1865–1898

  • 6.1 Contextualizing Period 6
  • 6.2 Westward Expansion: Economic Development
  • 6.3 Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development
  • 6.4 The “New South”
  • 6.5 Technological Innovation
  • 6.6 The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
  • 6.7 Labor in the Gilded Age
  • 6.8 Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age
  • 6.9 Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
  • 6.10 Development of the Middle Class
  • 6.11 Reform in the Gilded Age
  • 6.12 Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age
  • 6.13 Politics in the Gilded Age

Period 7: 1890–1945

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

Period 8: 1945–1980

  • 8.1 Contextualizing Period 8
  • 8.2 The Cold War from 1945 to 1980
  • 8.3 The Red Scare
  • 8.4 Economy after 1945
  • 8.5 Culture after 1945
  • 8.6 Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1950s)
  • 8.7 America as a World Power
  • 8.8 The Vietnam War
  • 8.9 The Great Society
  • 8.10 The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)
  • 8.11 The Civil Rights Movement Expands
  • 8.12 Youth Culture of the 1960s
  • 8.13 The Environment and Natural Resources from 1968 to 1980
  • 8.14 Society in Transition

Period 9: 1980–Present

  • 9.1 Contextualizing Period 9
  • 9.2 Reagan and Conservatism
  • 9.3 The End of the Cold War
  • 9.4 A Changing Economy
  • 9.5 Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s
  • 9.6 Challenges of the 21st Century

The Original 16 Activities

Period 1-3 (Units 1-3)

  • Unit Guide standard 1.6
  • Unit Guide standard 2.7
  • Unit Guide standard 3.6
  • Unit Guide standards 3.8-3.10

Period 4-5 (Units 4-5)

  • Unit Guide standards 4.5 & 4.6
  • Unit Guide standards 4.9 & 4.10
  • Unit Guide standards 5.3, 5.4, & 5.9
  • Unit Guide standards 5.6 & 5.7

Period 6-7 (Units 6-7)

  • Unit Guide standard 6.10
  • Unit Guide standard 6.12
  • Unit Guide standard 7.4
  • Unit Guide standard 7.6

Period 8-9 (Units 8-9)

  • Unit Guide standard 8.1
  • Unit Guide standard 8.2
  • Unit Guide standard 8.7
  • Unit Guide standards 9.3