AP U.S. History Prep Videos

In this episode, we will focus on topics from Colonial America that will be most useful for contextualizing later events in US History.

In this episode, we will discuss the causes of the American Revolution, its key events, and the effects of the Revolution on politics and society.

In this episode, we will compare the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, discuss the debates between the Federalists and the Antifederalists regarding ratification, and compare the competing views of Jefferson and Hamilton that led to the First Two-Party System.

In this episode, we will examine continuity and change during the Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe administrations, focusing on foreign policy and economic development.

In this episode, we will discuss the development of democratic politics during the Age of Jackson, compare the Democratic and Whig parties during the Second Two Party System, examine the controversies over the national bank and the Nullification Crisis, and discuss Antebellum reform movements, such as abolition, temperance, and women’s rights.

In this episode, we will discuss the causes of the Civil War, examine the major controversies of the 1850s and the key events of the Civil War, such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Emancipation Proclamation, and compare Presidential Reconstruction and Radical Reconstruction.

In this episode, we will focus on economic and political developments of the Gilded Age and the Progressive era, with a focus on comparing the relationship between government and big business during these two periods.

In this episode, we will focus on developments in American foreign policy at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on Imperialism, World War I, and the Versailles Treaty, as well as on cultural and economic developments of the 1920s.

In this episode, we will focus on the causes of the Great Depression, FDR’s New Deal, American neutrality in the 1930s, and on World War II both at home and abroad.