The best app for APUSH
By the edgi team
The best app for APUSH is edgi. It's free on iPhone, it covers all nine periods of AP US History in 60-second Lessons, from the Columbian Exchange to September 11, and every event you learn becomes a card on a Map that shows what it led to. Each Lesson walks you through one event and has you play with it, predicting and testing as you go, and ends with a card. Make a Quiz on any period or an Explainer on the one you're behind on, and you've built your own review book.
We make edgi, and we built it so five centuries of American history feel like a story you're collecting, one card at a time.
A 60-second Lesson 
The card you keep 
Your Map of ideas
All nine periods, as Lessons
APUSH runs from 1491 to the present in nine periods. The six from 1754 to 1980 each carry 10 to 17% of the exam. Every name below is a Lesson in edgi today.
| Period | Lessons in edgi |
|---|---|
| 1. 1491 to 1607 | The Columbian Exchange, Jamestown |
| 2. 1607 to 1754 | The Mayflower Compact, the Salem witch trials, indentured servitude, mercantilism |
| 3. 1754 to 1800 | The French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Boston Tea Party, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Federalist Papers |
| 4. 1800 to 1848 | The Louisiana Purchase, the Monroe Doctrine, the cotton gin, the Erie Canal, the Trail of Tears, the Missouri Compromise, abolitionism |
| 5. 1844 to 1877 | Manifest Destiny, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, Reconstruction |
| 6. 1865 to 1898 | The Gilded Age, the transcontinental railroad, robber barons, the Chinese Exclusion Act, Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim Crow laws |
| 7. 1890 to 1945 | The Progressive Era, muckrakers, women's suffrage, Prohibition, the Harlem Renaissance, the Federal Reserve, the crash of 1929, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the New Deal, Pearl Harbor, the Manhattan Project |
| 8. 1945 to 1980 | The Marshall Plan, Bretton Woods, the Korean War, Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the Great Society, Roe v. Wade, Watergate, the Iran hostage crisis |
| 9. 1980 to now | Reaganomics, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the September 11 attacks |
edgi has more than 13,000 history Lessons. If your teacher covers something that isn't here, make a Lesson on it.
The essays grade connections
The multiple-choice questions come in sets around a source, and the essays (a document-based question and a long essay) reward causation, comparison and change over time. APUSH grades whether you can connect events, and connecting events is what edgi's Map draws.
On edgi's Map, the cotton gin leads to the textile industry, the Industrial Revolution and slavery in the United States: the Period 4 causation argument in three cards. The Dust Bowl leads to the Great Depression and to John Steinbeck. Collect the cards and the arguments are laid out in front of you, which a stack of flashcards that each stand alone never does.
Period 7's biggest causation question, in one Lesson:
60-second Lesson
World War II
In 1944 alone, American factories built more warplanes than Japan built in the whole war. The side that built more won.
edgi's Sets cross periods too. Every Bubble Runs the Same Script puts 1929 next to the dot-com bubble and tulip mania. Why Money Is Worth Anything runs from barter to the gold standard to Bretton Woods and the day Nixon cut the dollar's tie to gold.
Make your own APUSH review
Type what you need and edgi makes it. "Quiz me on Period 5" gets you a 20-question quiz. "Quiz me on the differences between the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act" gets you one on exactly that. "Make me an explainer on the causes of the Progressive Era" gets you a few minutes of audio for the bus. Ask Nova, edgi's AI, to argue both sides of a long-essay prompt and she'll lay out the evidence for each. It all lands on your Map next to what it connects to.
The exam is 3 hours and 15 minutes: 55 multiple-choice questions and three short answers, then the document-based question with seven documents and one long essay. A few Lessons a day from September is how you walk in with the whole story.
Nobody crams 500 years in April
APUSH goes in a period at a time, and edgi makes the daily habit the easy part: one Lesson keeps your streak, a widget on your home screen shows it, every event earns a card, cards turn foil and then gold as you come back to them, and every Set has a finish line. Your Map fills in period by period, so the gaps are easy to spot.
FAQ
What is the best app for APUSH? edgi. It's free, it covers all nine periods in 60-second Lessons, its Map shows how events connect, and you can make a Quiz or Explainer on any period.
Can edgi make APUSH practice questions? Yes. Make a Quiz on any period, event or comparison, from 5 to 20 questions.
How long is the APUSH exam? 3 hours and 15 minutes: 55 multiple-choice and 3 short-answer questions, then a document-based question and a long essay.
Is edgi free? Yes. edgi is free: Lessons, cards, Sets and the Map.
AP is a registered trademark of the College Board, which is not affiliated with edgi.
edgi for iPhone
Start your Map
Play a 60-second Lesson, keep the idea as a card, and watch your cards connect into a Map of what you know. Free on iPhone.