APUSH 2014 versus ALABAMA COURSE OF STUDY
PART I
Elements of the Alabama Standards for US History NOT specifically mentioned in the College
Board’s AP US History Framework:
GRADE 10:
STANDARD 1:
1.
The influence of the Crusades, Renaissance, and Reformation on
European exploration.
2.
Explaining triangular trade
STANDARD 2:
3.
Explaining the role of essential documents in the establishment of
colonial governments, including the Magna Carta, the English Bill of
Rights, and the Mayflower Compact.
4.
Explaining the significance of the House of Burgesses and New
England town meetings in colonial politics.
STANDARD 3:
5.
Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre
6.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
7.
The role of key revolutionary leaders including George Washington,
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Paul Revere, Crispus
Attucks, Gilbert du Motier, and Marquis de Lafayette.
8.
The significance of revolutionary battles including Bunker Hill,
Trenton, Saratoga, and Yorktown.
9.
The theories of Charles de Montesquieu and Jean –Jacques
Rousseau.
10. The Treaty of Paris of 1783
STANDARD 4:
11. Interpreting the Preamble to the Constitution
12. Elastic clause
13. Distinguishing personalities at the Constitutional Convention
14. The significance of the Election of 1800
STANDARD 5:
15. Marbury v. Madison
16. Loose interpretation of the Constitution
17. Strict interpretation of the Constitution
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STANDARD 6:
18. The XYZ Affair
19. Impressment
STANDARD 7:
20. Treaty of Paris of 1783
21. Trail of Tears
22. Western Trails
STANDARD 8:
24. Compare major events in Alabama from 1781 to 1823, including statehood
as part of the expanding nation, acquisition of land, settlement, and the
Creek War, to those of the developing nation.
STANDARD 9:
25. Henry Clay
26. American System
STANDARD 10:
25. Jacksonian Democracy
26. Common man ideal
27. Spoils system
STANDARD 11:
28. Uniquely American writers including James Fenimore Cooper, Henry
David Thoreau, and Edgar Allen Poe
29. Dorothea Dix
STANDARD 12:
30. Describe the founding of the first abolitionist societies by Benjamin
Rush and Benjamin Franklin.
31. Describe the role played by later critics of slavery, including William
Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Anglelina and Sarah Grime, Henry
David Thoreau, and Charles Sumner.
32. Describe the rise of religious movements in opposition to slavery,
including objections of the Quakers.
33. Describe the rise of the Underground Railroad.
34. Describe the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
on the abolitionist movement.
STANDARD 13:
35. Fugitive Slave Acts
36. Describe Alabama’s role in the developing sectionalism of the United
States from 1819 to 1861, including participation in slavery, secession, the
Indian War, and reliance on cotton.
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STANDARD 14:
37. The Anaconda Plan
38. Bull Run
39. Antietam
40. Vicksburg
41. Identify key Northern and Southern Civil War personalities including
Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall”
Jackson, and William Tecumseh Sherman.
42. Explain the reasons border states remained in the Union during the Civil War.
43. Morrill Act
44. Northern draft riots
45. Gettysburg Address
46. Role of women in American society during the Civil War, including
efforts made by Elizabeth Blackwell and Clara Barton.
47. Tracing Alabama’s involvement in the Civil War.
STANDARD 15:
48. The effectiveness of the Freedman’s Bureau
49. The role of carpetbaggers and scalawags
50. Black Codes
51. Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
52. Compromise of 1877
53. Explain the causes for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
54. Analyze the political and social motives that shaped the Constitution of
Alabama of 1901 to determine their long-term effect on politics and
economics in Alabama.
STANDARD 16:
55. Agrarian rebellion over currency
GRADE 11
STANDARD 1:
56.
Congress of Industrial Organizations
57.
Industrial Workers of the World
58.
Pullman Strike
59.
Haymarket Square Riot
60.
Impact of Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Gompers, A. Philip Randolph,
and Thomas Alva Edison
STANDARD 2:
61.
Assess the impact of the muckrakers on public opinion during the
Progressive movement.
62.
Impact of Upton Sinclair, Jacob A. Riis, and Ida M. Tarbell
63.
Sherman Antitrust Act
64.
Niagara Movement
65.
W.E.B. DuBois
66.
Marcus Garvey
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67.
68.
69.
Carter G. Woodson
Assess the significance of the public education movement initiated by
Horace Mann.
Compare the presidential leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, William
Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson in obtaining passage of measures
regarding trust-busting, the Hepburn Act and the Pure Food and
Drug Act.
STANDARD 3:
70.
Yellow journalism
71.
Sinking of the Battleship U.S.S. Maine
72.
The Rough Riders
73.
The iconic status of Theodore Roosevelt
74.
Appraise Alabama’s contributions to the United States between
Reconstruction and World War I, including those of William Crawford
Gorgas, Joseph Wheeler, and John Tyler Morgan.
75.
Evaluate the role of the Open Door policy
76.
Evaluate the role of the Roosevelt Corollary
77.
Big Stick Diplomacy
STANDARD 4:
78.
Identify the role of militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism
in causing World War I.
79.
Explain how the Treaty of Versailles led to worsening economic and
political conditions in Europe, including greater opportunities for the
rise of fascist states in Germany, Italy, and Spain.
80.
Comparing short-and-long term effects of changing boundaries in
pre-and post-World War I in Europe and the Middle East, leading to the
creation of new countries.
STANDARD 5:
81.
Scopes Trial
82.
Ku Klux Klan activities
83.
W.C. Handy
84.
Zelda Fitzgerald
85.
Analyze the words of major American artists and writers, including
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and H. L. Mencken to
characterize the era of the 1920s.
STANDARD 6:
86.
Assess the impact of overproduction, stock market speculation, and
restrictive monetary policies on the pending economic crisis.
87.
Describe the impact of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act on the
global economy and the resulting worldwide depression.
88.
Identify notable authors of the 1930s including John Steinbeck, William
Faulkner, and Zora Neale Hurston.
89.
Dorothea Lange
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STANDARD 7:
90.
Works Progress Administration
91.
Civilian Conservation Corps
92.
Dust Bowl
STANDARD 8:
93.
Summarize events leading to World War II including the militarization
of the Rhineland, Germany’s seizure of Austria and Czechoslovakia,
Japan’s invasion of China, and the Rape of Nanjing.
94.
Analyze the impact of fascism, Nazism, and communism on growing
conflicts in Europe.
95.
Identify the roles of significant World War II leaders including Dwight
Eisenhower, George S. Pattton, Sir Winston Churchill, Bernard
Montgomery, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito,
Erwin Rommel, and Adolf Hitler.
96.
Evaluate the impact of the Munich Pact and the failed British policy
of appeasement.
STANDARD 9:
97.
Describe the significance of major battles, events, and consequences of
World War II campaigns, including North Africa, Midway, Normandy,
Okinawa, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, and the Yalta and Potsdam
Conferences.
98.
Locate on a map the major battles of World War II
99.
Explain the reasons for and results of dropping atomic bombs on Japan.
100. Explain the events and consequences of war crimes committed during
World War II including the Holocaust, the Bataan Death March, the
Nuremberg Trials, the post-war Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, and the Genocide Convention.
STANDARD 10:
101. G.I. Bill of Rights
102. Describe Alabama’s participation in World War II
103. Tuskegee Airmen
STANDARD 11:
104. Truman Doctrine
105. Marshall Plan
106. Berlin Blockade
107. Domino Theory
108. McCarthyism
109. Alger Hiss Case
110. Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
STANDARD 12:
111. Major initiatives of the Kennedy administration
112. Space race
113. Alabama’s role in the space program
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114.
115.
116.
Construction of the Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
STANDARD 13:
117. Battle of Dien Bien Phu
118. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
119. Tet Offensive
120. Destabilization of Laos
121. Secret bombing of Cambodia
122. Fall of Saigon
123. Locating on a map or globe the divisions of Vietnam, the Ho Chi
Minh Trail, and major battle sites
124. Describe the creation of North and South Vietnam
STANDARD 14:
125. Montgomery Bus Boycott
126. Desegregation of Little Rock Central High School
127. March on Washington
128. Freedom Rides
129. Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing
130. Selma-to-Montgomery March
131. Contributions of Dr. King, James Meredith, Medgar Evers,
SCLC, SNCC, CORE, NAACP, and the civil rights foot soldiers.
132. Describe the development of the Black Power movement.
133. Appraise the contributions of persons and events in Alabama that
influenced the modern Civil Rights Movement including Rosa Parks,
Autherine Lucy, John Patterson, George C. Wallace, Vivian Malone
Jones, Fred Shuttlesworth, the Children’s March, and key local
persons and events.
134. Describe the economic impact of African-American entrepreneurs
on the modern Civil Rights Movement, including S.B. Fuller and
A.G. Gaston.
PART II
Elements of the College Board Framework that are NOT part of the Alabama Standards for U.S.
History. It is important to remember that the Framework
elements are not optional. According to the Framework, “every AP Exam question will be rooted
in these specific learning objectives.” (page 1)
PERIOD 1: 1491 - 1607
The College Board Framework calls for teachers to devote 5 percent of
their classroom time or 9 lessons to the period from 1491 to 1607. Like
most states, the Alabama Standards begin with the European settlements
along the Atlantic coast during the 17th Century.
The College Board’s decision to devote 5 percent of the course to the
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period from 1491 to 1607 did not happen by accident. The unelected
College Board curriculum writers use this time period to establish their
theme that “Many Europeans developed a belief in white superiority
to justify their subjugation of Africans and American Indians, using
several different rationales.” The theme of “white superiority” and
the “subjugation of Africans and American Indians” plays a key role
in the College Board Framework.
PERIOD 2: 1607 - 1754
1.
The development of “a rigid racial hierarchy” in the English colonies.
(page 27)
2.
The “strong belief in British racial and cultural superiority” (page 28).
3.
Spanish colonizing efforts in North America, particularly the Pueblo
Revolt. (page 30)
4.
“Atlantic World commercial, religious, philosophical, and political
interactions among Europeans, Africans, and American native peoples.”
(page 30)
5.
The “emergence of a trans-Atlantic print culture” was one of several
factors that promoted Anglicization in the British colonies. (page 30)
PERIOD 3: 1754 - 1800
6.
“Throughout the second half of the 18th Century, various American
Indian groups repeatedly evaluated and adjusted their alliances with
Europeans, other tribes, and the new United States government.”
(page 32)
7.
Chief Little Turtle and the Western Confederacy (page 32)
8.
“The American Revolution and the ideals set forth in the Declaration
of Independence had reverberations in France, Haiti, and Latin
America, inspiring future rebellions.” (page 35)
9.
March of the Paxton Boys (page 36)
10. Corridos (page 36)
11. Architecture of Spanish missions (page 36)
12. “The Constitution’s failure to precisely define the relationship between
American Indian tribes and the national government…” (page 37)
13. Republican motherhood (page 37)
PERIOD 4: 1800 - 1848
14. “Many white Americans in the South asserted their regional identity
through pride in the institution of slavery…” (page 38)
15. Charles G. Finney (page 39)
16. Hudson River School (page 39)
17. John James Audubon (page 39)
18. Slave music (page 40)
19. “The market revolution helped to widen the gap between rich and poor,
shaped emerging middle and working classes, and caused an increasing
separation between home and workplace, which led to dramatic
transformations in gender and in family roles and expectations.” (page 41)
20. Cult of domesticity (page 41)
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PERIOD 5: 1844 – 1877
21. “The idea of Manifest Destiny, which asserted U.S. power in the
Western Hemisphere and supported U.S. expansion westward, was
built on a belief in white racial superiority and a sense of American
cultural superiority, and helped to shape the era’s political debates.”
(page 44)
22. Know-Nothings (page 46)
23. Mormons (page 46)
24. Sand Creek Massacre (page 46)
25. “States’ rights, nullification, and racist stereotyping provided the
foundation for the Southern defense of slavery as a positive good.”
(page 46)
26. Minstrel shows
27. Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce (page 48)
PERIOD 6: 1865 – 1898
28. Mother Jones (page 50)
29. “Business interests battled conservationists as the latter sought to protect
sections of unspoiled wilderness through the establishment of national
parks and other conservationist and preservationist measures.” (page 51)
30. “As transcontinental railroads were completed, bringing more settlers
west, U.S. military actions, the destruction of the buffalo, the confinement
of American Indians to reservations, and assimilationist policies reduced
the number of American Indians and threatened native culture and
identity.” (page 52)
31. Henry George (page 53)
32. Gospel of Wealth (page 53)
PERIOD 7: 1890 – 1945
33. Clayton Antitrust Act (page 55)
34. “World War I created a repressive atmosphere for civil liberties,
resulting in official restrictions on freedom of speech.” (page 56)
35. Yiddish theater (page 56))
36. Edward Hopper (page 56)
37. Bracero program (page 57)
38. “Although the American Expeditionary Force played a relatively
limited role in the war…” (page 58)
39. “Wartime experiences, such as the internment of Japanese Americans,
challenges to civil liberties, debates over race and segregation, and the
decision to drop the atomic bomb raised questions about American
values.” (page 59)
PERIOD 8: 1945 – 1980
40. “Postwar decolonization and the emergence of powerful nationalist
movements in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East led both sides in
the Cold War to seek allies among new nations, many of which
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remained nonaligned.” (page 60)
41. Military-industrial complex (page 61)
42. John Lewis (page 61)
PERIOD 8: 1945-1980 CONT:
43. Fannie Lou Hammer (page 61)
44. “Activists began to question society’s assumptions about gender and to
call for social and economic equality for women and for gays and
lesbians.” (page 62)
45. “Liberalism reached its zenith with Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society…”
(page 62)
46. Griswold v. Connecticut (page 63)
47. Students for a Democratic Society (page 63)
48. Phyllis Schlafly (page 64)
PERIOD 9: 1980 – PRESENT
49. “President Ronald Reagan, who initially rejected détente with increased
defense spending, military action and bellicose rhetoric, later developed
a friendly relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, leading
to significant arms reductions by both countries.” (page 66)
50. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell debate” (page 68)
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