Changes to the AP® U.S. History course - Summer 2025
Updated
Mastery impact:
Even when considering the updates to the course, there is no impact on mastery percentage.
Course deletions/additions
The following additions/deletions were made to the AP® U.S. History course in the Summer of 2025:
Deletions
| Type | Lesson |
| Article | Labor, slavery, and caste in Spanish America |
| Article | Skill activity: Labor, slavery, and caste in Spanish America |
| Article | Cultural interactions between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans in early colonial America |
| Article | Interactions between American Indians and Europeans |
| Article | Philosophical foundations of the American Revolution |
| Article | The American Revolution |
| Article | Building a nation: American culture after the Revolution |
| Article | America on the world stage |
| Article | Immigration and nativism in mid-nineteenth-century America |
| Article | The transcontinental railroad |
| Article | The rise of industrial capitalism |
| Article | American society in the Gilded Age |
| Article | Immigration, Americanization, and identity in 1900 |
| Article | Effects of the Spanish-American War |
| Article | The battle for America's wilderness |
| Article | Immigration from Europe and the Great Migration from the South |
| Article | The new woman of the 1920s |
| Article | The Harlem Renaissance |
| Article | Legacy of the New Deal |
| Article | World War II and social change |
| Article | Emergence as a world power |
| Article | American intervention and decolonization |
| Article | The effects of the Vietnam War at home |
| Article | The Great Society |
| Article | The Civil Rights Movement for Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans |
| Article | The counterculture of the 1960s |
| Article | Conservative challenges in the 1960s and 1970s |
| Article | Policy debates |
| Article | Migration and immigration in the 1990s and 2000s |
| Article | Challenges of the twenty-first century |
| Article | The AP® U.S. History exam |
| Article | Multiple-choice questions on the AP® U.S. History exam |
| Article | Short-answer questions on the AP® U.S. History exam |
| Article | The document-based question on the AP® U.S. History exam |
| Article | How to write a DBQ essay |
| Article | The long essay question on the AP® U.S. History exam |
| Article | How to write an LEQ essay |
Additions
| Type | Lesson |
| Video | AP US History DBQ example 1 |
| Video | AP US History DBQ example 2 |
| Video | AP US History DBQ example 3 |
| Video | AP US History DBQ example 4 |
| Video | AP US History long essay example 1 |
| Video | AP US History long essay example 2 |
| Video | AP US History long essay example 3 |