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AP Exams are given each year in May. Students who earn a qualifying score on an AP Exam are typically eligible, in college, to receive credit, placement into advanced courses, or both. Every aspect of AP course and exam development is the result of collaboration between AP teachers and college faculty. They work together to develop AP courses and exams, set scoring standards, and score the exams. College faculty review every AP teacher’s course syllabus.  \nThe AP Program offers three history courses: AP European History, AP United States History, and AP World History: Modern. All three history courses focus on the development of historical thinking while learning required course content. Themes foster deep analysis by making connections and comparisons across different topics within the course. Each AP History course corresponds to a typical introductory college history course.  \nIn AP U.S. History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change. The course also provides eight themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures.  \nRECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES  \nThere are no prerequisites for AP U.S. History. Students should be able to read a college-level textbook and write grammatically correct, complete sentences.  \n􀂃 The course content is organized into commonly taught units of study that provide a suggested sequence for the course. These units comprise the content and conceptual understandings that colleges and universities typically expect students to master to qualify for college credit and/or placement. This content is grounded in themes, which are cross-cutting concepts that build conceptual understanding and spiral throughout the course:  \n􀂃 Unit 1: Period 1: 1491–1607  \n􀂃 Unit 2: Period 2: 1607–1754  \n􀂃 Unit 3: Period 3: 1754–1800  \n􀂃 Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848  \n􀂃 Unit 5: Period 5: 1844–1877  \n􀂃 Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898  \n􀂃 Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945  \n􀂃 Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980  \n􀂃 Unit 9: Period 9: 1980–Present  \nThe AP historical thinking skills describe what students should be able to do while exploring course concepts. 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