AP US History flashcards
3 decks · 200 cards · built into Willys · free samples below
Written against: College Board AP US History Course and Exam Description (nine periods). Updated 2026-10-10.
What's in it
Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.
Learn · 2 decks · 140 cards
Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.
Practice · 1 deck · 60 questions
Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.
Study guide
Topics covered
The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.
- Period 1 4
- Contact and Conquest 4
- Period 2 16
- Colonial Society 16
- Period 3 26
- Founding the Republic 13
- Road to Revolution 13
- Period 4 27
- Early Republic 10
- Jacksonian Democracy 6
- Market Revolution and Reform 11
- Period 5 27
- Civil War 5
- Expansion and Sectional Crisis 13
- Reconstruction 9
- Period 6 19
- Immigration and the West 5
- Industry and Labor 7
- Populism and Jim Crow 7
- Period 7 45
- 1920s 6
- Depression and New Deal 10
- Imperialism 7
- Progressive Era 7
- World War I 7
- World War II 8
- Period 8 29
- Civil Rights Movement 10
- Early Cold War 9
- Great Society and Vietnam 6
- Nixon and the 1970s 4
- Period 9 7
- Reagan to 9/11 7
A study plan
- 8 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 5 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.
How to get these decks
- Install Willys on your iPhone, iPad or Mac — App Store. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
- In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
- Study. The exam comes in as its own collapsible folder, every card scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. Nothing you already have is changed.
Every deck is built into Willys
All 3 AP US History decks (200 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
In Willys, tap Exam Library at the top of your Decks (or Browse Exam Library… under the + button), find the exam on its shelf or by search, tick it and tap Add.
About these cards
Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- Topic outline follows the College Board AP U.S. History Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2026), Periods 1–5 (outline only; no course or exam text reproduced).
- OpenStax U.S. History, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
- Checked against the National Archives' Milestone Documents collection (public domain); reference only, no text copied.
- Dates and holdings cross-checked with Library of Congress primary-source guides, the Avalon Project (Yale Law School), the State Department's Office of the Historian, the National Park Service, the Federal Judicial Center, the Miller Center (University of Virginia), the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Statutes of the Realm and Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum (British History Online), the Journals of the Continental Congress, the U.S. Reports, the Founders' Constitution (University of Chicago), Project Gutenberg editions of Paine's Common Sense and Gray's Confessions of Nat Turner, the New Georgia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Virginia and Oyez case summaries; reference only.
- Topic outline follows the College Board AP U.S. History Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2026), Periods 6–9 (outline only; no course or exam text reproduced).
- Dates and holdings cross-checked with Library of Congress primary-source guides and Oyez case summaries; reference only.
- Also checked against the State Department Office of the Historian's Milestones, National Park Service pages and federal statutes on govinfo.gov (U.S. government works; public domain); reference only, no text copied.
- Topic outline follows the College Board AP U.S. History Course and Exam Description (effective Fall 2026), Periods 1–9 (outline only; no course or exam text reproduced).
- Facts follow this folder's two study decks, which were checked against the reference below and the National Archives' Milestone Documents collection (public domain); reference only, no text copied.
- Dates and holdings cross-checked with Library of Congress primary-source guides and Oyez case summaries; quoted stimuli are brief excerpts from public-domain documents, speeches and court opinions, and paraphrased stimuli are marked as such.
- Shays's Rebellion, Worcester v. Georgia, Fifteenth Amendment and Carnegie cards also checked against the Journals of the Continental Congress (October 1786), the Supreme Court's opinions in Worcester v. Georgia (1832) and Guinn v. United States (1915) as printed in the U.S. Reports (Library of Congress), and Carnegie's essay "Wealth" (North American Review, June 1889) (public domain; reference only).
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