Women's History in APUSH

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.

1.1: Contextualizing Period 1
- Woman as creator
- Lilith
- Two spirit
1.2: Native American Societies before European Contact
- Haudenosanee
- Matrilineal societies
- Longhouses
- Pueblo women
1.3: European Exploration in the Americas
- Doctrine of Discovery
1.4: Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
1.5: Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System
1.6: Cultural Interactions among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
- Herbal healers (Curanderas)
- Midwives
Reading Guide
- Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)
Visual Timeline
Video: Unveiling the Hidden Half (periods 1-3)

7.2: Imperialism: Debates
- Imperial suffragism
- Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani
7.3: Spanish-American War
7.4: Progressives
- Feminism as an ideology
  - Inez Milholland
  - Ida B. Wells
- Suffragists
  - Nora Stanton Blatch Blarney
  - Zitkala-Sa
  - Adelina Otero-Warren
  - Gail Laughlin
  - Tye Leung Schulze
  - Phyllis Terrell
  - Alice Paul
  - Lucy Burns
- Women radicals
  - IWW (Wobblies)
  - Emma Goldman
  - Heterodoxy Club
7.5: World War I: Military & Diplomacy
7.6: World War I: The Home Front
7.7: 1920s: Innovations in Communications & Technology
7.8: 1920s: Cultural & Political Controversies
7.9: Great Depression
7.10: New Deal
7.11: Interwar Foreign Policy
7.12: World War II: Mobilization
7.13: World War II: Diplomacy
7.14: Postwar Diplomacy
Visual Timeline

2.1: Contextualizing Period 2
2.2: European Colonization
- Antinomianism, Anne Hutchinson & American individualism
- Coverture & English common law
2.3: Regions of British Colonies
2.4: Transatlantic Trade
2.5: Interactions between American Indians and Europeans
- La Malinche
2.6: Slavery in the British Colonies
- Women in West Africa
- Racializing slavery
2.7: Colonial Society and Culture
- Gender & Sexuality in the pre-revolutionary era
- Seduction Suits
- Women in the Great Awakening
- White women’s religious fervor
- African American religious practices
- Anne Hutchinson
- Thomas(ine) Hall
- New Jersey experiments with suffrage
Reading Guide
- Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)
Visual Timeline
Video: Unveiling the Hidden Half (periods 1-3)

4.1: Contextualizing Period 4
4.2: Political & Economic Transformations
4.3: Politics & Regional Interests
- Petitions by women
- Interracial organizing
4.4: America on the World Stage
4.5: Market Revolution: Industrialization
4.6: Market Revolution: Society & Culture
4.7: Expanding Democracy
4.8: Jackson & Federal Power
- Gender politics in the early White House
  - The Peggy Eaton affair
4.9: Development of an American Culture
- Judith Sargent Murray & Mercy Otis Warren debate
4.10: Second Great Awakening
- Shakers & Quakers
4.11: Age of Reform
- Abolitionism
4.12: African Americans in the Early Republic
4.13: Society of the South in the Early Republic
- White supremacist women
- Patriarchy on the plantation
Reading Guide
- Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)de
Visual Timeline

6.2: Westward Expansion: Economic Development
6.3: Westward Expansion: Social & Cultural Developments
6.4: "New South"
6.5: Technological Innovation
6.6: Rise of Industrial Capitalism
6.7: Labor in the Gilded Age
6.8: Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age
6.9: Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
6.10: Development of the Middle Class
6.11: Reform in the Gilded Age
- Indigenous women
  - Sarah Winnemucca
- Spiritualism
  - Victoria Woodhull
  - Ida Craddock
- Temperance
  - Women’s Christian Temperance Union
  - Muscular Christianity
- Women's Suffrage
  - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  - Sojourner Truth
  - Victoria Woodhull
  - Harriet Tubman
  - Lucy Stone & Henry Blackwell
  - Mary Edwards Walker
  - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  - National American Woman’s Suffrage Association
  - National Woman's Suffrage Association
  - American Woman’s Suffrage Association
  - Mormon suffragists
    - Emmeline B. Wells
6.12: Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age
- Minor v. Happersett
6.13: Politics in the Gilded Age
- Populism
  - Women in the Populist Party
  - Lutie A. Lytle
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Clara Barton
- Carry Nation
- Ida Tarbell
- Madame Restell
- Susette La Flesche Tibbles “Bright Eyes”
- Emma Goldman
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Nellie Bly
- Belva Lockwood
Reading Guides
- Fabric of a Nation Reading Guide (2nd edition)
Visual Timeline