Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement United States History Class
AP US Exam Review
- Mrs. Ruland's APUS Unit Notes
- These pages contain resources and notes for each of the units. Review of these pages would serve as good preparation for the exam.
- American History 102 Student Web Notes
- Professor Stanley K. Schultz, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison created this collection of lecture notes for his class. You should also check out the other areas of his course webpage.
- APStudent.com: US History for AP Students
- Collection of 1603 review cards. Could be useful if you like flash cards, but you would have to take the text and create the cards.
- AP US History Handouts
- Very nice timelines and synopsis of American political party development.
- AP US History Study Guides
- Full text of study guides available on Google Books. These are not the current edition, but they are still useful for review. Do not use them for information on the current essay requirements.
- Digital History: HyperHistory Titles
- Wonderful collection of Guided Readings. Individual segments are short, but the totality is large, thorough, and very impressive.
- Giant AHAP Review Sheet
- by Susanna Heinz (class of '04, Horace Greeley H. S., Chappaqua, NY) — covers 1600-1950s!
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Modules on Major Topics
- The modules provide a succint overview of 20 different topics covering American history from the Revolution to 9/11, as well as primary source material, visuals, timelines and quizzes.
- Google Books
- You can asccess many of the most popular review books. Most are earlier editions, but they still have good review of the historical information. Please remember that your teacher has the most current information about the exam and how to write the essays.
- Ms. Pojer, Horace Greeley HS, Chappaqua, NY Excellent site!!
- USQuizMainPage This page is a wonderful resource for exam preparation!! Contains 82 multiple choice quizzes and 33 fact-recall quizzes on 43 different topics as well as 8 fact-recall quizzes on the presidents.
- AHAP Exam Final Review This page contains Ms. Pojer's review materials including power points and review sheets.
- An Outline of American History
- This is a wonderful resource. The original text is from a US Information Agency publication distributed overseas. A professor and his students from the Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands created this online resource that is fully annotated. In addition there are outlines on American Economy, Government, and Literature. All the outlines are augmented with hypertext-links to relevant documents, original essays, other Internet sites.
- Outline of U.S. History
- This outline is a product of the U.S. Department of State, International Information Programs.
- Quizlet
- A new site that allows you to make quizzes, flashcards, etc. It also allows you to share them with others (ie practicing for a test). It already has some questions up for history and government.
- Teaching American History for Students
- These modules a more involved and probably would be best used for topics in which a student needs more than a review.
Podcasts
- AP US History Podcast, Mr. Shocket
- AP US History @ MA
- APUSH Podcasts
- apusreader's Podcast - Elyse Friedman - Reading of The American Pageant
- CCHS APUSH - Lecture podcasts
- Chapman IB APUSH
- History Hints
- Mark Klopfenstein's AP US History podcast
Last updated July 20, 2010
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