Resources for Teaching Women in AP U.S. History
Note: the periods & units below were created by the College Board. Bullet points are suggested content to add to these pre-established topics.
Period 1: 1491-1607
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1.1: Contextualizing Period 1
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Woman as creator
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Lilith
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Two spirit
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1.2: Native American Societies before European Contact
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Haudenosanee
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Matrilineal societies
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Longhouses
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Pueblo women
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1.3: European Exploration in the Americas
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Doctrine of Discovery
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1.4: Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
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1.5: Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
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1.6: Cultural Interactions among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
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Herbal healers (Curanderas)
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Midwives
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Reading Guide
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Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)
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Period 3: 1754-1800
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3.2: Seven Years' War
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3.3: Taxation without Representation
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3.4: Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution
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3.5: The American Revolution
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Public Universal Friend
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3.6: Influence of Revolutionary Ideals
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3.7: Articles of Confederation
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3.8: Constitutional Convention
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3.9: The Constitution
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3.10: Shaping a New Republic
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3.11: Developing an American Identity
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3.12: Movement in the Early Republic
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Reading Guide
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Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)
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Period 5: 1844-1877
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5.2: Manifest Destiny
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5.3: Mexican-American War
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5.4: Compromise of 1850
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5.5: Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences
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5.6: Failure of Compromise
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5.7: Election of 1860 & Secession
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5.8: Military Conflict in the Civil War
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5.9: Government Policies during the Civil War
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5.10: Reconstruction
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5.11: Failure of Reconstruction
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Reading Guide
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Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)
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Period 7: 1890-1945
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7.2: Imperialism: Debates
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Imperial suffragism
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Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani
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7.3: Spanish-American War
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7.4: Progressives
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Feminism as an ideology
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Inez Milholland
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Ida B. Wells
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Suffragists
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Nora Stanton Blatch Blarney
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Zitkala-Sa
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Adelina Otero-Warren
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Gail Laughlin
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Tye Leung Schulze
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Phyllis Terrell
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Alice Paul
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Lucy Burns
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Women radicals
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IWW (Wobblies)
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Emma Goldman
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Heterodoxy Club
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7.5: World War I: Military & Diplomacy
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7.6: World War I: The Home Front
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7.7: 1920s: Innovations in Communications & Technology
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7.8: 1920s: Cultural & Political Controversies
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7.9: Great Depression
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7.10: New Deal
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7.11: Interwar Foreign Policy
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7.12: World War II: Mobilization
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7.13: World War II: Diplomacy
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7.14: Postwar Diplomacy
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Visual Timeline
Period 9: 1980-Present
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9.2: Reagan & Conservatism
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9.3: End of the Cold War
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9.4: A Changing Economy
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9.5: Migration & Immigration in the 1990s & 2000s
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9.6: Challenges of the 21st Century
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Reading Guides
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Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)
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Visual Timeline
Period 2: 1607-1754
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2.1: Contextualizing Period 2
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2.2: European Colonization
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Antinomianism, Anne Hutchinson & American individualism
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Coverture & English common law
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2.3: Regions of British Colonies
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2.4: Transatlantic Trade
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2.5: Interactions between American Indians and Europeans
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La Malinche
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2.6: Slavery in the British Colonies
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Women in West Africa
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Racializing slavery
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2.7: Colonial Society and Culture
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Gender & Sexuality in the pre-revolutionary era
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Seduction Suits
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Women in the Great Awakening
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White women’s religious fervor
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African American religious practices
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Anne Hutchinson
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Thomas(ine) Hall
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New Jersey experiments with suffrage
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Reading Guide
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Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)
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Period 4: 1800-1848
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4.1: Contextualizing Period 4
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4.2: Political & Economic Transformations
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4.3: Politics & Regional Interests
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Petitions by women
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Interracial organizing
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4.4: America on the World Stage
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4.5: Market Revolution: Industrialization
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4.6: Market Revolution: Society & Culture
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4.7: Expanding Democracy
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4.8: Jackson & Federal Power
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Gender politics in the early White House
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The Peggy Eaton affair
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4.9: Development of an American Culture
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4.10: Second Great Awakening
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Shakers & Quakers
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4.11: Age of Reform
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Abolitionism
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4.12: African Americans in the Early Republic
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4.13: Society of the South in the Early Republic
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White supremacist women
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Patriarchy on the plantation
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Reading Guide
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Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)de
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Period 6: 1865-1898
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6.2: Westward Expansion: Economic Development
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6.3: Westward Expansion: Social & Cultural Developments
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6.4: "New South"
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6.5: Technological Innovation
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6.6: Rise of Industrial Capitalism
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6.7: Labor in the Gilded Age
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6.8: Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age
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6.9: Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
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6.10: Development of the Middle Class
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6.11: Reform in the Gilded Age
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Indigenous women
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Sarah Winnemucca
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Spiritualism
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Victoria Woodhull
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Ida Craddock
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Temperance
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union
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Muscular Christianity
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Women's Suffrage
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Sojourner Truth
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Victoria Woodhull
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Harriet Tubman
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Lucy Stone & Henry Blackwell
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Mary Edwards Walker
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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National American Woman’s Suffrage Association
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National Woman's Suffrage Association
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American Woman’s Suffrage Association
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Mormon suffragists
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Emmeline B. Wells
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6.12: Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age
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Minor v. Happersett
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6.13: Politics in the Gilded Age
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Populism
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Women in the Populist Party
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Lutie A. Lytle
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Clara Barton
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Carry Nation
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Ida Tarbell
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Madame Restell
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Susette La Flesche Tibbles “Bright Eyes”
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Emma Goldman
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Anna Julia Cooper
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Nellie Bly
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Belva Lockwood
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Reading Guides
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Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)
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Visual Timeline
Period 8: 1945-1980
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8.2: Cold War
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Helen Gahagan Douglas & the election of 1950 in California
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Women in the Lavender Scare
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Daughters of Bilitis
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Phyllis Lyon & Del Martin
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Ernestine Eckstein
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8.3: Red Scare
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8.4: Economy after 1945
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8.5: Culture after 1945
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8.6: Early Steps in Civil Rights Movement (1940s/50s)
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8.7: America as a World Power
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8.8: Vietnam War
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8.9: Great Society
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8.10: African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)
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8.11: Civil Rights Movement Expands
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NOW
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NARAL
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Shirley Chisholm
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Andrea Dworkin
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Catherine MacKinnon
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Republican feminists
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Jill Ruckelshaus
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Mary Louise Smith
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8.12: Youth Culture of the 1960s
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8.13: Environment & Natural Resources from 1968-1980
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8.14: Society in Transition
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Pauli Murray
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Margaret Sanger
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Jovita Idar
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Rose Schneiderman
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Margaret Chase Smith
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Bessie Colman
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Francis Perkins
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Rosa Parks
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Mourning Dove
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Grace Murray Hopper
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Amelia Earhart
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Women in the conservative movement
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STOP ERA campaign
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Eagle Forum
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John Birch Society
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Phyllis Schlafly
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Beverly LaHaye
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Reading Guides
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Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)
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