Syllabus for A.P. U.S. History
Course Outline
Mr. Cooper
2014-15
Text Book is Alan Brinkley’s American History
(n) denotes primary source readings in class.
1Sept:
Exploration and Meeting of Cultures
Chapter 1 Meeting of Cultures p 3-37
Chapter 2 English transplantations p 37-75
Letter of Columbus to Luis de Santangel(n)
2Sept.:
Colonization/British
Transplantation
Chapter 2 p 37-75
States game
Jamestown investigation
Chapter 3 Society and Culture in Provincial America p 75-117
3Sept:
Chapter 3, p 75-117
Enlightenment notes
Sinners in the hands of an angry god(n)
Test 1 M/C #1
4Sept :
DBQ Essay #1
Empire Under Strain
Chapter 4 Empire Under Strain p 117-151
From a Farmer in Penn(n)
5Oct:
The American Revolution
Chapter 5 The American Revolution p 151-193
Declaration and Resolves(n)
The Constitution and the New Republic
Chapter 6 The Constitution and the New Republic p 193-221
6Oct:
Chapter 6
M/C Test #2
DBQ Essay #2
7Oct:
Jeffersonian Era
Chapter 7 Jeffersonian Era p 221-265
Indians reading assignment
Chapter 8 Varieties of American Nationalism p 265-291
8Oct:
Jacksonian America
Chapter 8
Monroe Doctrine(n)
Chapter 9 Jacksonian America p 291-325
9Oct-Nov :
Chapter 9
M/C Test # 3
10Nov:
Essay Test # 3
America’s Economic Revolution
Chapter 10 America’s Economic Revolution p 325-371
11Nov:
Chapter 10
Group work
Chapter 11 Cotton Slavery and the old south
Daniel Webster pleads for Union(n)
Senator Robert Hayne advocates Nullification(n)
12Nov:
Chapter 11
Group Work
Chapter 12 Ante bellum Culture and Reform p 399-429
Declaration of Sentiments(n)
Zinn Ch 9 reading
13Nov-Dec : Chapter 12
Group Work
George Fitzhugh, The Blessings of Slavery(n)
William Lloyd Garrison from the Liberator(n)
14Dec:
Impending Crisis
Chapter 13: Impending Crisis
M/C test #4
DBQ Essay Test # 4
15Dec:
Civil War
Chapter 14 Civil War p 467-507
Lincolns 2nd inaugural address(n)
Incidents of the riot(n)
Chapter 15 Reconstruction and the New South p 507-555
Exam
The West
Chapter 16 The Conquest of the Far West p 555-595
Red Cloud’s Washington Speech 1870(n)
16Dec:
Chapter 14, 15, 16
A Century of Dishonor(n)
17Jan:
Chapter 14, 15, 16
M/C Test #5
Essay Test # 5
18Jan:
Industrial Supremacy
Chapter 17 Industrial Supremacy p 595-625
Andrew Carnegie from the Gospel of Wealth(n)
Chapter 18 Age of the City p 625-663
Significance of the Frontier in American History(n)
Jan:
Final Semester Exams
19Jan:
Chapter 18
Atlanta Exposition Address(n)
Response to BTW, by W.E.B.DuBois(n)
M/C Test #6
No Essay
20Jan-Feb:
Populism
Chapter 19 From Stalemate to Crisis p 663-691
Imperial Republic
Chapter 20 Imperial Republic p 691-717
The Rise of Progressivism
Chapter 21 The Rise of Progressivism p 717-749
Plessy v. Ferguson(n)
21Feb:
Chapter 21
Chapter 22 The Battle for National Reform
The New Nationalism(n)
22Feb:
p 749-775
M/C Test #7
DBQ Essay test #7
Presidents Test
Group Work
23Feb March: America and the Great War
Chapter 23 America and the Great War p 775-809
Zimmermann Telegram(n)
The New Era
Chapter 24 The New Era p 809-841
24March:
Chapter 24
Presidents test
M/C Test #8
Essay Test # 8
Group Work
25March :
The Great Depression
Chapter 25 The Great Depression p 841-875
FDR’s 1st Inaugural Address(n) audio
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstinaugural.html
Chapter 26 The New Deal p 875-907
26March :
The New Deal
Chapter 26 The New Deal p 875-907
Chapter 27 The Global Crisis p 907-931
M/C Test #9
World War Two
Chapter 28 America in a World War p 931-963
The Cold War and the 1950’s
Chapter 29 The Cold War p 963-993
The Truman Doctrine (n) audio
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/harrystrumantrumandoctrine.h
tml
Marshall Plan(n)
Joseph R. McCarthy in Wheeling West Virginia(n)
Truman response in interview from Key West(n)
Chapter 29
Chapter 30 The Affluent society 993-1031
The Ordeal of Liberalism 1960’s
Chapter 31 The ordeal of Liberalism p 1031-1067
JFK Inaugural Speech(n) Audio
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/johnfkennedyinaugural.htm
27March:
28April:
29April:
30April:
31 May - May:
Chapter 31 The ordeal of Liberalism
Sharon Statement(n)
Port Huron Statement(n)
p 1031-1067
The Crisis of Authority- 1970’s
Chapter 32 The Crisis of Authority p 1067-1105
Tonkin Gulf Crisis(n)
Impeachment Resolution 1974(n)
The Age of limits 1980’s to the present
Chapter 33 The Age of limits p 1105-1127
1982 Speech to the House of Commons(n)
Practice Test
Chapter 34 Modern Times p 1127- 1159
Review, Practice Test
AP Test May
Final Assessment Projects Due June