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Fabric of a Nation

First  Edition©2020  Jason Stacy; Matthew J. Ellington

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This new approach to AP® U.S. History seamlessly integrates a brief historical narrative with AP® skills practice, primary source documents, and alignment to the AP® course. This text scaffolds thinking and writing skills and offers abundant AP® practice. This text is available in print and digital formats.

Table of Contents

Period 1 • till 1607 : Europeans Make Claims in the Americas
Module 1-1 • Diverse American Indian Societies Module
Module 1-2 • Portugal and Spain Expand Their Reach Module
Module 1-3 • The Columbian Exchange Module
Module 1-4 • Spanish Colonial Society
Period 1 Review • till 1607
AP® Exam Practice • through 1607

Period 2 • 1607-1754 : Colonial America amid Global Change
Module 2-1 • European Challengers to Spanish North America
Module 2-2 • Early British Colonies in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina
Module 2-3 • Religious Dissent, and Colonial Conflicts in New England
Module 2-4 • The British West Indies and South Atlantic Colonies
Module 2-5 • The Middle Colonies
Module 2-6 • The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Economy
Module 2-7 • Slavery Takes Hold in the South
Module 2-8 • Imperial Contests in Trade and War
Module 2-9 • Religious and Political Awakenings
Period 2 Review • 1607-1754
AP® Exam Practice • through 1754

Period 3 • 1754-1800 : A Revolutionary Era
Module 3-1 • International Conflicts Cause Colonial Tensions
Module 3-2 • Resistance to Britain Intensifies
Module 3-3 • The American Revolution Begins
Module 3-4 • Winning the War for Independence
Module 3-5 • Governing in Revolutionary Times, 1776-1787
Module 3-6 • Reframing the American Government
Module 3-7 • Legacies of the American Revolution
Module 3-8 • George Washington Unites a Nation
Module 3-9 • Political Parties in Years of Crisis
Period 3 Review • 1754-1800
AP® Exam Practice • through 1800

Period 4 • 1800-1848 : Democracy, Industrialization, and Reform
Module 4-1 • Political and Economic Transformations
Module 4-2 • Defending and Redefining the Nation
Module 4-3 • Transportation and Market Revolutions Change America
Module 4-4 • The Second American Party System
Module 4-5 • Conflicts of the Jacksonian Era
Module 4-6 • Slavery and Southern Society
Module 4-7 • Social Reform Movements
Module 4-8 • Abolitionism and Sectionalism
Period 4 Review • 1800-1848
AP® Exam Practice • through 1848

Period 5 • 1844-1877 : Expansion, Division, and Civil War
Module 5-1 • Manifest Destiny
Module 5-2 • Compromise and Conflict
Module 5-3 • From Sectional Crisis to Southern Secession
Module 5-4 • Disunion and War
Module 5-5 • Victory for the North
Module 5-6 • Reconstruction Begins
Module 5-7 • Reform and Resistance
Module 5-8 • Reconstruction Undone
Period 5 Review • 1844-1877
AP® Exam Practice • through 1877

Period 6 • 1865-1898 : A Gilded Age
Module 6-1 • Westward Expansion and American Indian Resistance
Module 6-2 • Industry in the West
Module 6-3 • The New South
Module 6-4 • American Industrializes
Module 6-5 • Working People Organize
Module 6-6 • A New Wave of Immigrants
Module 6-7 • Becoming an Urban Nation
Module 6-8 • Society and Culture in the Gilded Age
Module 6-9 • Gilded Age Ideologies
Module 6-10 • Politics and Protest
Period 6 Review • 1865-1898
AP® Exam Practice • through 1898

Period 7 • 1890-1945 : New Imperialism and Global Conflicts
Module 7-1 • Progressivism
Module 7-2 • Social and Political Reform
Module 7-3 • Foundations of U.S. Imperialism
Module 7-4 • Foreign Policy and World War I
Module 7-5 • Life in the Aftermath of World War I
Module 7-6 • The Transitional 1920s
Module 7-7 • Economic Instability and Depression
Module 7-8 • The New Deal
Module 7-9 • America Enters World War II
Module 7-10 • The Homefront
Module 7-11 • Victory in World War II
Period 7 Review • 1890-1945
AP® Exam Practice • through 1945

Period 8 • 1945-1980 : Cold War America
Module 8-1 • The Early Cold War
Module 8-2 • The Second Red Scare
Module 8-3 • The Post-World War II Economy
Module 8-4 • Cultural Shifts of the 1950s
Module 8-5 • Civil Rights in an Era of Conformity
Module 8-6 • The Cold War Continues Abroad and at Home
Module 8-7 • The Vietnam War
Module 8-8 • The New Frontier and Great Society
Module 8-9 • The Civil Rights Movement
Module 8-10 • Politics of the 1970s
Module 8-11 • Society and Culture of the 1970s
Period 8 Review • 1945-1980
AP® Exam Practice • through 1980

Period 9 • 1980 to the Present
Module 9-1 • Conservative Governance
Module 9-2 • The End of the Cold War
Module 9-3 • Toward the Twenty-First Century
Module 9-4 • The Global War on Terror and Political Conflict at Home
Period 9 Review • 1980 to the Present
AP® Exam Practice • through the Present

Practice AP® Exam
Glossary / Glosario

 

Jason Stacy

Jason Stacy is Professor of U. S. History and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Before joining the history department at SIU-Edwardsville, Stacy taught AP® U.S. History for eight years at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Stacy has served as an AP® U.S. History Reader, Table Leader, Exam Leader, Consultant, Senior Auditor, and question author for the AP® U.S. History exam. Author of multiple books on Walt Whitman, his research has appeared in Social Education, the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and American Educational History. Stacy is also a contributing editor for the Walt Whitman Archive, where he edits Whitman’s journalism. In 2014, Stacy served as president of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies.

Matthew J. Ellington

Matthew J. Ellington teaches AP® U.S. History at Ruben S. Ayala High School in Chino Hills, CA, where he is the Social Science Department Chairperson and an Instructional Coach. Matthew has taught APUSH® since 1994 and participated in the AP® Reading since 2000. He is an active, endorsed College Board workshop consultant for AP® U.S. History who has trained more than a thousand teachers since 2001. Matthew has been a College Board AP® Mentor and served on the College Board’s Consultant Advisory Panel. He is a contributor to America’s History for the AP® Course, Ninth Edition, co-author of The Survival Guide for AP® U.S. History, and featured in Teaching Ideas for AP® History: A Video Resource.