AP US History case studies
AP US History · Put your knowledge to work in context.
AP United States History is an introductory college-level U.S. history course offered through the College Board's Advanced Placement Program; the source describes its college course equivalent as a two-semester introductory college course in U.S. history and lists no recommended prerequisites. Students investigate U.S. The AP US History case studies are 5 cases and about 3,355 words.
1Three Sources, One Wall Label: First Contact in the Rio Grande
The county historical society must approve one 60-word wall label for a new exhibit on the ancestral Pueblo world and Spanish entry into the Rio Grande valley. Three items are available.
657 words, about 3 min2The Swing Delegate: Ratifying a Constitution in a Debt-Ridden County
You are a delegate to your state's ratification convention in June 1788. Your county's instruction is split, and you cast the deciding vote.
651 words, about 3 min3Sixty Barrels of Corn: A Freedmen's Bureau Allocation, October 1865
You are a Freedmen's Bureau sub-assistant commissioner for a coastal South Carolina district. Your quarterly allotment has arrived: 400 blankets, 60 barrels of corn, one contract surgeon, and no money for wages.
690 words, about 3 min4The Company That Cared: Reading Welfare Capitalism from Payroll Records, 1926
A state labor commission is evaluating a 1926 claim by the Granite Falls cotton mills that their welfare program improved workers' lives. The program includes a company hospital, a savings plan, a baseball league, a pension after 25 years, and an employee council; the company advertises a no-strike record.
653 words, about 3 min5After the Mill: A County Weighs a $6 Million Incentive, 2000
A Piedmont county of 88,000 has lost its manufacturing base. In 1990 it relied on a textile mill (2,900 jobs), a furniture plant (1,400), and a poultry-processing plant (2,100, increasingly staffed by Latino immigrants after 1995).
704 words, about 4 min