Content Updates - July 2019

We're always working to improve and expand Khan Academy, including by adding more concepts to learn!

AP Macroeconomics

We've updated this course to add:

• Two new lessons to fully align with the 2019 AP Macroeconomics course and exam description, with content tagged to the new standards:
  1. Public Policy and Economic Growth
  2. Real Interest Rates and International Capital Flows
• Seven new exercises on challenging topics to progress from foundational concepts to AP style questions:
  1. Public Policy and Economic Growth
  2. Real Interest Rates and International Capital Flows
  3. Required Reserves, Excess Reserves, and Bank Behavior
  4. The Money Market: Foundational Concepts
  5. Monetary Policy: Foundational Concepts
  6. Introduction to Fractional Reserve Banking
  7. The Market for Loanable Funds

AP Computer Science Principles

We've updated this course to add:

• One new unit on the Global Impact of Computing, to teach the ideas from the AP CSP Big Idea on Global Impact. This unit includes 4 lessons, 3 exercises, and 1 unit test:
  1. Communication, Collaboration, and Crowdsourcing (with exercise)
  2. Copyright, Licenses, and Digital Media (with exercise)
  3. Science, Computing, and the Internet (with exercise)

  4. Sensors and Smart Systems

AP US History

We’ve updated this course to:

• Enable mastery throughout the whole course!
• Add 41 new exercises to fully align with the 2019 AP US History course and exam description, with content tagged to the new standards:
• The new exercises span these units:
• Period 1: 1491-1607
• Period 2: 1607-1754
• Period 5: 1844-1877
• Period 6: 1865-1898
• Period 8: 1945-1980 
• Period 9: 1980-present
• And here’s a list of those 37 exercises:
• European exploration in Americas
• Cultural interactions between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans
• European Colonization
• The Regions of British Colonies
• Trans-Atlantic Trade
• Interactions between American Indians and Europeans
• Colonial Society and Culture
• Mexican-American War
• Compromise of 1850
• Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences
• Failure of Compromise
• Election of 1860 & Secession
• Military Conflict in the Civil War
• Government Policies During the Civil War
• Reconstruction
• Failure of Reconstruction
• Westward Expansion: Economic Development
• Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development
• The “New South”
• Technological Innovation
• The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
• Labor in the Gilded Age
• Immigration & migration in the Gilded Age
• Responses to immigration in the Gilded Age
• Development of the Middle Class
• Reform in the Gilded Age
• Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age
• Politics in the Gilded Age
• The Civil Rights Movement Expands
• Youth culture of the 1960s
• The Environment and Natural Resources 1968 to 1980.
• Society in Transition
• Reagan and Conservatism
• The End of the Cold War
• A Changing Economy
• Migration and Immigration in the 1990s and 2000s
• Challenges of the 21st century