Teaching Resources

AP U.S. History Resources from CFR Education

Free resources that align with your AP U.S. History curriculum

CFR Education offers a range of free resources that can supplement your AP U.S. History curriculum. Browse articles, timelines, videos, and simulations covering developments that have shaped the United States from c. 1491 to the present.

Skills students learn with CFR Education U.S. History Resources:

  • putting historical developments into context 
  • making connections between and among historical processes
  • developing arguments through historical simulations
  • evaluating and analyzing primary and secondary sources

Try out these free-response questions that draw on CFR Education resources.


 

Unit 1: Period 1

1491-1607

Regions of the World

Unit 4: Period 4

1800-1848

Contemporary History

Regions of the World

Simulations

Unit 5: Period 5

1844-1877

Contemporary History

Regions of the World

Simulations

Unit 8: Period 8

1945-1980

Contemporary History 






 

Tools of Foreign Policy

 


 

Global Governance

 

 

Development

 

Migration

 

Nuclear Proliferation

 

 

Terrorism

 

 

 

     

Regions of the World

Simulations

 

Unit 9: Period 9

1980-present

Contemporary History




 

 

 

Global Era Issues






 

 

Foreign Policy


 

Conflict

 

   

Regions of the World

Simulations

 

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