Fabric of a Nation: A Brief History with Skills and Sources, For the AP Course

by Stacy, Jason; Ellington, Matthew J.

• ISBN13: 9781319178178
• ISBN10: 1319178170
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781319234157
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-02-03
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

In 2014, College Board rolled out a new AP® U.S. History course, which centered less on memorizing content and more on developing skills. Since then, the course has been modified here and there, but very little has changed in AP® textbooks—content is still king. Until now. Fabric of a Nation is the first book to truly embrace this dramatic shift in the AP® course and in how history is taught.

Built from the ground up by long-time AP® leaders Jason Stacy and Matthew Ellington, this book offers a new approach to AP® US History by seamlessly integrating:

• A brief historical narrative
• AP® skills practice
• Primary source documents
• Exact alignment to the AP® course

Now, that’s revolutionary!

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