These are my class and reading notes for AP US History. Note that there may be discrepancies between what is taught between different classes. Feel free to use these notes however you want... but I do not guarantee accuracy. The terms are simple - use at your own risk.
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| File Name | File Size | File Type | Date Added |
| Founding Brothers Notes | 645 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 20, 2011 |
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| File Name | File Size | File Type | Date Added |
| All Reading Notes (Ch 1-20) | 15.8 MB | OneNote Notebook (*.one) | June 14, 2011 |
| All Reading Notes (Ch 21-35, 37-39, 42-43) | 9.8 MB | OneNote Notebook (*.one) | June 14, 2011 |
| Chapter 1: New World Beginnings | 540 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 2: The Planting of English America | 551 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies | 616 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century | 487 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution | 652 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 6: The Duel for North America | 698 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution | 554 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire | 725 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution | 704 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State | 539 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy | 499 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism | 550 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 13: The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy | 592 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 14: Jacksonian Democracy at Flood Tide | 530 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 15: Forging the National Economy | 522 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 16: The Ferment of Reform and Culture | 522 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 17: The South and the Slavery Controversy | 481 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 18: Manifest Destiny and its Legacy | 538 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 19: Renewing the Sectional Struggle | 586 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 20: Drifting Toward Disunion | 508 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 21: Girding for War - The North and the South | 548 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 22: The Furnace of Civil War | 750 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 23: The Ordeal of Reconstruction | 506 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 24: Politics in the Gilded Age | 530 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 25: Industry Comes of Age | 505 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 26: America Moves to the City | 555 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 27: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution | 510 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 28: The Revolt of the Debtor | 555 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 29: The Path of Empire | 563 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 30: America on the World Stage | 778 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 31: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt | 512 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 32: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad | 592 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 33: The War to End War | 511 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 34: American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" | 529 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 35: The Politics of Boom and Bust | 615 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 37: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War | 430 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 38: America in World War II | 584 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 39: The Cold War Begins | 542 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 42: The Stalemated Seventies | 587 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Chapter 43: The Resurgence of Conservatism | 553 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
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| File Name | File Size | File Type | Date Added |
| All Lecture Notes | 1.5 MB | OneNote Notebook (*.one) | June 14, 2011 |
| Important Revolutionary War Battles | 515 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Fighting the Revolutionary War | 468 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| The Era of Not So Good Feelings | 464 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Reforming American Society | 512 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Religious Reform Movements | 400 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Causes of Civil War | 374 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Wartime Politics (and Major Civil War Battles) | 428 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Postwar Economics, 1945-1988 | 510 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| The Cold War - Truman Years | 516 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| The Cold War - Eisenhower Years | 480 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Civil Rights Movement | 488 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
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Note: these notes are incomplete since my old computer crashed before my notes were backed up.
| File Name | File Size | File Type | Date Added |
| All Review Session Notes (Incomplete) | 19 kB | OneNote Notebook (*.one) | June 14, 2011 |
| U. S. Foreign Policy | 817 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Reform Movements | 612 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
| Sectionalism in 19th Century America | 647 kB | Adobe Acrobat File (*.pdf) | June 2, 2011 |
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Last Updated: August 30, 2011 at 12:50am PST
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