AP U.S. History Pacing Guide
*Bold and underlined items are primary document readings
ONLINE TEXT Tindal and Shi Volume One PDF & Tindal and Shi Volume Two PDF
Week 1
Mon 8.25
Tue 8-26
Wed 8-27
Thurs 8-28
Fri 8-29
Course Introduction: Historical Thinking
Course Introduction: Critical Readers and Thinkers,
Use of Chronological Thinking: Narrative history and Interpret data from timelines
English Prompt Assignment Leroy Video
Use of Historical Comprehension: Reconstruct literal meaning, facts vs. opinions, maps
Articles of Salem Girls Assignment: Writers hyperbole, manipulation, etc. Ferguson,
MO
Use of Historical Analysis: historical debates, cause and effect, various perspectives
English Assignment Friday Night Lights
Use of Historical Research: Obtain data, supporting interpretations and arguments w/data
Friday Night Lights, Rhetorical Triangle
Week 2
Mon. 9-1
Tues 9-2 KC1:1
(IA,B & C)
Wed. 9-3 KC 1:2
I(A&B)
Thurs. 9-4 KC 1:2
I(C & D)
Fri. 9-5 KC 1:2
II (A,B & C)
Labor Day Columbus's Diary 1492 Voyage
America: pp. 6-12 AMSCO pp. 1-6 Native ESP, interaction w/ environment:
ENG Assignment Due, Independent Reading Selections
America: pp. 12-26 Arrival of Europeans, Voyages of Columbus
Writing Groups Euro-centrism
America ONLINE: pp. 35-38 Bartolome La Casas vs. Juan de Sepulveda Collision of
Cultures & Spanish Empire in America:
Writing groups revision exercise
Expansion causes ESPR competition Writing Groups
Week 3
Mon. 9-8 KC 1:3
I(A & B)
Tues. 9-9 KC 1:3
II (A & B)
Weds. 9-10
Thurs. 9-11
Fri. 9-12
Worldviews challenged by collide: Maroons & Spanish Missions Article
America: pp. 27-38 Natives and Africans strive to maintain power and culture:
America pp. 39-52 17th Century ESP diversity in the colonies
America pp. 53- 76 Goals of England in establishing colonies and the diversity among
the English Colonies
Goals of England in establishing colonies and the diversity among the English Colonies
Slave Resistance and Revolts Article
Week 4
Mon. 9-15 KC 2:1 I
(A,B, C, & D)
Tues. 9-16
Weds. 9-17
Thurs. 9-18
Fri. 9-19
Analyzing the British-American slave system and Africans means to resist.
America pp. 76 – 82 AMSCO pp. 46 - 50 Sinners in the hands of an angry God,
Jonathan Edwards
America pp. 83 – 90 Economics and the Dominion of England
AMSCO pp. 23 – 34 Mercantilism Article
Website Maintenance
Week 5
Mon. 9-22
Tues. 9-23
Weds. 9-24
Thurs. 9-25
Fri. 9-26
English Day
Exam Period One
America pp. 90-95& 97-105 AMSCO pp. 60-63 VA House of Burgesses
America pp.107-123 AMSCO pp. 64-69 & 74-76 (Documents) French and Indian War
and the beginnings of rebellion Movie 1776
America pp. 123-131 AMSCO pp. 77-80 Arguments for or against Independence
Patrick Henry’s Speech, John Dickinson, Speech against Independence
Week 6
Mon. 9-29
Tues. 9-30
Weds. 10-1
Thurs. 10-2
Fri. 10-3
America pp. 141-159 AMSCO pp. 80-83 The War for Independence: Thomas Paine’s
Common Sense, Abigail Adams Letters to John Adams
America pp. 159-168 AMSCO pp. 83-88 The Revolutions after the Revolution
America pp. 171-178 AMSCO pp. 96-97 Near death in infancy: Benjamin Lincoln
Recalls Shay’s Rebellion 1786
America pp. 178-188 AMSCO pp.97-101 Plans for continued tranquility: James
Madison’s Federalist Paper #10 & 51, Patrick Henry’s Speech to VA Convention
1788
America pp. 190-194 AMSCO pp. 101-102 A new nation: Constitution Point and
Counterpoint
Week 7
Mon. 10-6
Tues. 10-7
Weds. 10-8
Thurs. 10-9
Fri. 10-10
America pp. 195-201 AMSCO 102-104 & 116-117 (Documents A&B) Hamilton vs.
Jefferson Debate
America pp. 201-210 AMSCO 104-109 Washington’s Presidency
America pp. 211- 218 AMSCO 110-112 Judiciary Act 1801; Marbury v. Madison Still
Matters
Exam Period Two
Website Maintenance
Week 8
Mon. 10-13
Tues. 10-14
Weds. 10-15
Thurs. 10-16
Fri. 10-17
Washington’s Presidency
ENGLISH DAY
PSAT
Washington’s Presidency: Farewell Address, Hamilton and Jefferson’s View:
Washington’s Farewell Address
John Adams Presidency: Alien and Sedition Acts, Virginia and Kentucky Resolves:
Week 9
Mon. 10-20
Tues. 10-21
Weds. 10-22
Thurs. 10-23
Fri. 10-24
America pp. 221-229 XYZ, Political Climate, The Court: Fletcher vs. Peck
AMSCO pp. 121-124 Early Court Decisions, Judiciary Act 1801: Defining Treason
America pp. 230 – 234 Marbury v. Madison, Judicial Activism Impeachment of Samuel
Chase
AMSCO pp. 124-127 Thomas Jefferson’s Presidency; Jeffersonian Democracy:
Jeffersonian Democracy
Louisiana Purchase and Mapping the Geographical Growth of the U.S., Embargo Act
Week 10
Mon. 10-27
Tues. 10-28
Weds. 10-29
Thurs. 10-30
Fri. 10-31
PLANNING DAY
America pp. 235-236 AMSCO 127-130 James Monroe; Causes of the War of 1812: The
Monroe Doctrine
America pp. 237-243 AMSCO 130-132 The War of 1812 and Results: Madison’s War
Message
The Hartford Convention
Exam Period Three
Week 11
Mon. 11-3
Tues. 11-4
Weds. 11-5
Thurs. 11-6
Fri. 11-7
America 254-267 Nationalism and the Era of Good Feelings AMSCO 141-143: Alexis de
Tocqueville Democracy in America,
America 267-281 Jackson learns to play politics AMSCO 143-145: Peggy Eaton Affair
America 281 - 294 Jackson’ Indian Policy AMSCO 145-150 Jackson’s Indian Policy Dec
6, 1860, Jackson’s “As long as the Grass Grows” speech.
America 294 - 299 Van Buren and a New Parties in town AMSCO 184-193 Chief
Speckled Snakes Reply
America 302 - 313 Transportation Systems “King Cotton” AMSCO 150-152 John C
Calhoun’s Exposition and Protest 1828
Week 12
Mon. 11-10
Tues. 11-11
Weds. 11-12
Thurs. 11-13
Fri. 11-14
America 313 – 319 Industrial Revolution AMSCO 152 – 155
No School
America 320 – 333 Results of the Industrial Revolution AMSCO 166-170: Letters from a
Lowell Girl, Cult of Domesticity, Republican Motherhoood
America 335 – 341 The Second Great Awakening AMSCO 170-176; 202-204: Dorothea
Dix Call for Human Treatment NC General Assembly 1843
America 341 – 355 The Results of the Second Great Awakening AMSCO 204-212:
William Lloyd Garrison on Slavery 1831, David Walker
Week 13
Mon. 11-17
Tues. 11-18
Weds. 11-19
Thurs. 11-20
Fri. 11-21
America 358 – 370 Tyler and the Western Frontier AMSCO 221-223: Manifest Destiny
John O’ Sullivan
America 370 – 382 Texas, Polk and Mexico AMSCO 224-229: Abraham Lincoln’s Spot
Resolution
Discussion of Essay Writing and Mid-Term Paper
Review for Exam
Exam Period Four
Week 14
Mon. 11-24
Tues. 11-25
Weds. 11-26 -28
Website Maintenance
Website Maintenance
Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 15
Mon. 12-1
Tues. 12-2
Weds. 12-3
Thurs. 12-4
Fri. 12-5
English Day
English Day America: pp. Intro to Unit and 393-399 The Old South: The Staunton
Spectator, Slave letter “To my old master”
America: pp. 400-414 Slavery in America: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
America: pp. 417-426 AMSCO: pp. 240-242 Slavery in the New territories Fugitive Slave
Act
America: pp. 427-433 AMSCO: pp. 243-248 Compromise?: Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Week 16
Mon. 12-8
Tues. 12-9
Weds. 12-10
Thurs. 12-11
Fri. 12-12
America: pp. 433-445 AMSCO: pp. 248-253 Unraveled: John Browns’s Speech,
Thornton Stringfellow’s “A brief examination of Scripture on the institute of slavery”
America: pp. 447-452 AMSCO: pp. 265-268 Choosing Side: John Smith Advocates
Secession,
America; pp. 452-464 AMSCO: pp, 268-272 Early Phases of the Civil War
America: pp. 464-472 AMSCO: pp. 272-274 Emancipation: Emancipation
Proclamation, Jefferson Davis’ response to Emancipation Proclamation
America: pp. 472-485 AMSCO: pp. 274-280 Ending the Civil War: Gettysburg Address
Week 17
Mon. 12-15
Tues. 12-16
Weds. 12-17
Thurs. 12-18
Fri. 12-19
America: pp. 488-500 AMSCO: pp. 289-296 Reconstruction: Movie “Lincoln”
America: pp. 500-509 AMSCO: pp. 296-298 The South and Reconstruction: Fredrick
Douglas Atlantic Monthly 1866
America: pp. 509-519 AMSCO: pp. 298-302 Reconstruction Ends:
Review Movie “Gone with the Wind”
Exam Period Five Movie “Gone with the Wind”
Christmas Holiday 12-22 thru 1-2
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Week 18
Mon. 1-5
Tues. 1-6
Weds. 1-7
Thurs. 1-8
Fri. 1-9
Reconstruction Review
English Day
Introduction to the second half of the course Thomas Nast “the father of American
Caricature” political cartoons
Exam Review
Exam Review
Exam Week
Mon. 1-12
Tues. 1-13
Weds. 1-14
Thurs. 1-15
Fri. 1-16
America pp. 526 – 540 AMSCO pp. 317(btm)-321 Massacre at Hamburg S.C.; Stephen
Budiansky “The Bloody Shirt: Terror after Appomattox”, Plessy v. Ferguson opinions
America pp. 540 – 549 AMSCO pp. 310 – 317 A Century of Dishonor Helen Hunt
Jackson 1881
America pp. 349 – 555 AMSCO: pp. 321 – 324 Chief Joseph Speaks; Harpers Weekly on
Custer’s Massacre: Albert Bierstadt “The Last Buffalo”
Exams
Exams
Week 19
Mon. 1-19
Tues. 1-20
Weds. 1-21
Thurs. 1-22
Fri. 1-23
NO SCHOOL
NO SCHOOL
NO SCHOOL
America pp. 558 – 566 AMSCO pp. 333 – 337 Rockefeller Congressional Testimony on
Industrial Combinaitons: Interview with William Vanderbilt, Chicago Daily News
1882
America pp. 566 – 572 AMSCO pp. 337 – 343(top) Eugene Debs American Railway
Union, 1894; Andrew Carnegie ‘s The Gospel of Wealth
Week 20
Mon. 1-26
Tues. 1-27
Weds. 1-28
Thurs. 1-29
Fri. 1-30
America pp. 572 – 583 AMSCO pp. 343 – 347 August Spies Defends the 8-Hour
Movement, 1886 McCormick Riot; Terence Powderly on the Knights of Labor
DBQ Practice AMSCO 350 – 357 Robber Barons and Big Business
America pp. 585 – 596 AMSCO pp. 358 – 363 How the other half lives, Jacob Riis; The
New Colossus Emma Lazarus; Hull House and the Ward Boss
America pp. 596 (btm) – 604 AMSCO pp. 366 – 371 Ken Burns, BASEBALL; Images of
Working Class Leisure Report Cards
America pp. 604 – 614 Booker T. Washington , The Atlantic Exposition Address, 1895;
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Week 21
Mon. 2-2
Tues. 2-3
Weds. 2-4
Thurs. 2-5
Fri. 2-6
Exam Period Six DBQ Practice AMSCO pp. 375 – 379
America pp. 616 – 629 Lincoln Steffens on Urban Political Corruption, 1904
America pp. 629(btm) – 635 AMSCO pp. 386(btm) – 391 Populist Platform
America pp. 635(btm) – 641 AMSCO pp. 391-392
Website Maintenance
Week 22
Mon. 2-9
Tues. 2-10
Weds. 2-11
Thurs. 2-12
Fri. 2-13
Website Maintenance
America pp. 651 – 654 AMSCO pp. 400 – 403 Home Burdens of Uncle Sam; Carl
Schurz against American Imperialism. Progress Reports
America pp. 654 – 664 AMSCO pp. 403(btm) – 408 The Real White Man’s Burden,
Kipling; The Gospel of Force, Betrand Shadwell; Imperialism Point and
Counterpoint
America pp. 664 – 665 AMSCO 408 – 409 China Open Door Policy
America pp. 666 – 672 AMSCO 409 – 411 Albert J. Beveridge Calls for an American
Empire; PBS ‘The Roosevelt’s”
Week 23
Mon. 2-16
Tues. 2-17
Weds. 2-18
Thurs. 2-19
Fri. 2-20
America pp. 674 – 676 AMSCO pp. 424 – 426 Progress and Poverty, Henry George
1887; Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy, 1888
America pp. 677 – 680 AMSCO pp. 426(btm) – 431 Theodore Roosevelt Strenuous Life;
Roosevelt’s inaugural address
America pp. 680(btm) – 692 Pure Food and Drug Act; The Jungle
AMSCO pp. 430-435 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
America pp. 692 – 701 AMSCO pp. 436-438
Week 24
Mon. 2-23
Tues. 2-24
Weds. 2-25
Thurs. 2-26
Fri. 2-27
DBQ Practice AMSCO 443 – 446 Progressives
America pp. 703 – 706 Wilson’s Inaugural Address
America pp. 707 – 714 AMSCO pp. 447 – 453(top) The Espionage Act; Schenck v. U.S.
America pp. 714(btm) – 723 AMSCO pp. 453 – 456 Wilson’s War Message
Planning Day
Week 25
Mon. 3-2
Tues. 3-3
Weds. 3-4
Thurs. 3-5
Fri. 3-6
America pp. 723 – 729 AMSCO pp. 456 – 460 In Flanders Fields, John McCrae;
Tragedy on the Somme. Progress Reports
America pp. 729 – 732 AMSCO pp. 460 – 462 Wilson’s 14 Points; Hitler on Versailles
Exam Period Seven
Website Maintenance: Early Dismissal
Website Maintenance
Week 26
Mon. 3-9
Tues. 3-10
Weds. 3-11
Thurs. 3-12
Fri. 3-13
America pp. 735 – 740 AMSCO pp. 470 – 474 Harlem Renaissance images; Jazz
Music;
America pp. 740(btm) – 746 AMSCO pp. 474 – 481 Sacco and Vanzetti Case
America pp. 746 – 750 AMSCO pp. 483 – 485 Scopes Monkey Trial, images and experts
America pp. 752 – 759 AMSCO pp. 492 – 496(top) Marketing Images of the 20’s
America pp. 760 – 765 AMSCO pp. 498 Great Depression Point and Counterpoint
Week 27
Mon. 3-16
Tues. 3-17
Weds. 3-18
Thurs. 3-19
Fri. 3-20
America pp. 766 – 775 Brother can you spare a dime; Hoovers Programs 1932; ABC
Century Video; Depression images and accounts
America pp. 777 – 785 AMSCO pp. 498 – 499 (btm) FDR Fireside Chat, Banks; FDR
Fireside Chat New Deal; FDR, John Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath
America pp. 785 – 789 AMSCO pp. 499 – 502(top) Father Charles E. Coughlin “A
Third Party, 1936
America pp. 789 – 796 AMSCO pp. 502 – 503 & 508 – 511 The Forgotten Man
America pp. 796 – 807 (top) AMSCO 504 – 505 FDR 2nd Inaugural Address
Week 28
Mon. 3-23
Tues. 3-24
Weds. 3-25
Thurs. 3-26
Fri. 3-27
America pp. 807 – 809 New Deal Point Counterpoint
DBQ Practice AMSCO pp. 513 – 517 Songs of American Workers; Grant Wood,
American Gothic, 1930
Exam on Great Depression – New Deal Website Maintenance America pp. 810 – 818
AMSCO pp. 518 – 522 FDR, The Four Freedoms
America pp. 819 – 825 AMSCO pp. 522(btm) – 525 Charles Lindbergh Opposes
Intervention, 1941
Planning Day
Spring Break 3-27 through 4-10
Week 29
Mon. 4-13
Tues. 4-14
Weds. 4-15
Thurs. 4-16
Fri. 4-17
America pp. 825(btm) – 833 AMSCO pp. 525 – 529 Movie Pearl Harbor; Day that will
live in infamy, FDR’s war message to Congress
America pp. 833(btm) – 840 AMSCO pp. 529 – 532 Propaganda on the home front
images; Charles Kikuchi, Life in a Japenese Internment Camp Report Cards
America pp. 840(btm) – 852 AMSCO pp. 532 – 537 Movie Saving Private Ryan;
Infantrymen Bobby Slaughter, Remembers D-Day, 1944
America pp. 852(btm) – 861 DBQ Practice AMSCO pp. 540 – 544 Harry Truman on
Deciding to drop the Bomb
Exam Period Seven America pp. 872 – 881 AMSCO 545 – 549 George F. Kennan, The
long telegram; Walter Lipman, Questions about containment
Week 30
Mon. 4-20
Tues. 4-21
Weds. 4-22
Thurs. 4-23
Fri. 4-24
America pp. 881(btm) – 887(top) McCarthy Speech at Wheeling, WV 1950
America pp. 887 – 896 AMSCO pp. 549 – 554 Baby Boomer; ABC Century Video;
Advertisement Image
America pp. 898 – 915 AMSCO pp. 581 - 583 Rock N Roll; Beatnick Poems; Movie
Forrest Gump
America pp. 917 – 927 AMSCO pp. 570 – 579(top) Eisenhower Years, Dulles, Massive
Retaliation, 1954; The Domino Effect Progress Reports
America pp. 927(BTM) – 934 Castro and Cuba
Week 31
Mon. 4-27
Tues. 4-28
Weds. 4-29
Thurs. 4-30
Fri. 5-1
America pp. 934 – 939 & 946 -949 & 957(btm) - 960 AMSCO PP. 579 – 581 & 599 –
602(top) Brown v. Board of Education; Letters from a Birmingham Jail, MLK; I
have a dream speech
America pp. 941 – 945 & 949 - 952(btm) AMSCO 593 – 597 Cuban Missile Crisis;
JFK’s Inaugural Address; Zapruder Film
America pp. 952(btm) – 957 & 960 – 968 AMSCO pp. 597 - 599 Movie: Forrest Gump
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
America pp. 971 – 982 AMSCO pp. 603 – 605 CCR: Fortunate Son
America pp. 982 – 990 AMSCO pp. 620 – 624 Nixon and Vietnam
Week 32
Mon. 5-4
Tues. 5-5
Weds. 5-6
Thurs. 5-7
Fri. 5-8
America pp. 991 – 1000 AMSCO pp. 624(btm) – 635 (top) Movie: Forrest Gump
Watergate; Camp David Accords, 1978
America pp. 1003 – 1017(top) AMSCO pp. 643 – 650 Reagan’s Speech to the House of
Commons, 1982
America pp. 1017 – 1023 AMSCO pp. 650(btm) – 653 Strategic Defense Initiative,
Deborah Hart Storber, 1983
America pp. 1026 – 1039 AMSCO pp. 653(top) – 659 The New World Order, George
Bush, 1989, Georg Bush Announces Attack of Iraq 1991; CNN coverage operation
Desert Storm
America pp. 1039(btm) – 1045 AMSCO pp. 650(btm) – 661 Clinton’s Press Conference
on Open Door with China; Monika Lewinski Testimony before Senate
Week 33
Mon. 5-11
Tues. 5-12
Weds. 5-13
Thurs. 5-14
Fri. 5-15
America pp. 1045(btm) – 1054 PATRIOT ACT, George H. Bush, Address to nation
9/11
America pp. 1054 – 1064 CNN Documentary 911
Review EXAM Prep.
AP US EXAM
Reflection and prep for the last three weeks