AP U.S. Government

Five units, nine documents, fifteen cases

AP U.S. Government & Politics is the College Board's college-level survey of how American government actually works — the ideas of the founding, the machinery of the three branches and the bureaucracy, the tug-of-war between liberty and order in the Bill of Rights, the beliefs that shape public opinion, and the many ways citizens participate. This journey is built around the exam's own spine: the five units, the nine required foundational documents, and the fifteen required Supreme Court cases. Master those, learn to read a data table and write an argument essay, and the exam becomes a test of things you actually understand.