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Exam prep · AP US History

AP US History flashcards by period

APUSH essays are built from evidence, and evidence is names, dates, acts and cases you can recall under time pressure. Flashcards by period give you that bank. Start with the decks below and card your own outlines for the later periods.

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AP US History at a glance

Format: Section I: 55 multiple-choice questions (55 minutes, 40%) and 3 short-answer questions (40 minutes, 20%). Section II: a document-based question (60 minutes, 25%) and a long essay (40 minutes, 15%).
Length: 3 hours 15 minutes.
Scoring: 1 to 5.
Date: Early May each year.

What the AP US History tests

Periods 1 and 2: 1491 to 1754. 4 to 6%. Contact, colonization, colonial societies.
Period 3: 1754 to 1800. 10 to 17%. Revolution, Constitution, early republic.
Period 4: 1800 to 1848. 10 to 17%. Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras, market revolution, reform.
Period 5: 1844 to 1877. 10 to 17%. Expansion, sectionalism, Civil War, Reconstruction.
Period 6: 1865 to 1898. 10 to 17%. Industrialization, immigration, the Gilded Age, the West.
Period 7: 1890 to 1945. 10 to 17%. Progressivism, imperialism, the world wars, the Depression.
Period 8: 1945 to 1980. 10 to 17%. Cold War, civil rights, liberalism and its critics.
Period 9: 1980 to present. 4 to 6%. Conservatism, globalization, recent history.

Free AP US History flashcard decks

Missing a topic? Upload the chapter from your prep book and Quizcard builds the deck for you, grouped by topic, with figures kept from PDFs. How it works.

Test yourself: free AP US History practice quizzes

US History: Colonial Era to the Civil War quiz19 multiple-choice questions with explanations · no account needed

Each quiz scores you at the end and explains every answer. Redo it any time; the questions reshuffle.

Sample cards from “US History: Colonial Era to the Civil War”

What did Washington's Farewell Address warn against?

Answer: Permanent foreign alliances and political parties (factions).

Explanation

Shaped US foreign policy for over a century.

How did the Civil War end?

Answer: Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.

Explanation

Lincoln was assassinated days later.

Why was Gettysburg (1863) a turning point?

Answer: The Union victory stopped Lee's invasion of the North and the Confederacy never recovered the initiative.

Explanation

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address followed in November.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) do?

Answer: Declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territory free and made ending slavery a war aim.

Explanation

Did not apply to border states; the 13th Amendment ended slavery in 1865.

Where did the Civil War begin?

Answer: Fort Sumter, South Carolina, in April 1861.

Explanation

Confederate forces fired on the Union fort.

Why did Southern states secede after the 1860 election?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln won without Southern support, and they feared he would end slavery.

Explanation

South Carolina seceded first in December 1860.

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A flashcard study plan for the AP US History

Through the year: card each period as it is taught: events, people, acts, court cases, with the date and one line on why it mattered.
8 weeks out: one period a week from the decks and your outlines. One timed short-answer set a week.
4 weeks out: a DBQ and an LEQ every weekend, timed. Card the rubric points: thesis, contextualization, evidence, analysis, complexity.
2 weeks out: full practice exam, then only the missed deck and the “why it mattered” cards.

How to write AP US History cards that work

Every card needs a “so what”: the event on the front, the date plus its significance on the back. Significance is what essays are made of.
Card court cases as “issue, decision, effect” and acts as “who, what, reaction”.
Make comparison cards across periods: “Reconstruction versus the civil rights movement: goals and outcomes.”
Upload your period outlines or the textbook chapter and generate a deck, then cut it to the terms you cannot already explain.

Questions

Do the decks cover all nine periods?

The public decks cover the colonial era through the Civil War and the world wars. Build the remaining periods from your outlines; it takes a few minutes per chapter.

Can flashcards help with the DBQ?

Yes, for outside evidence and contextualization. The writing itself needs timed practice.

Is there a world history hub?

The world wars deck sits in this hub; the AP World and AP European History hubs are planned.

Other exams

Official information: College Board: AP US History. Formats and weights change; check the official page before test day.

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