Advanced Placement United States History
AP U.S. History is meant to serve as the equivalent of a Freshmen Advanced college course in
which you may earn college credit. You do this by passing the APUSH test given on Friday, May
4, 2012. BEGIN PREPARATION NOW!!! Solid reading and writing skills, along with a
willingness to devote considerable time to homework and studying are necessary items for
success. Emphasis will be placed on critical thinking skills, essay writing, interpretation of
primary source documents, and basic hard work.
Much is expected of you in this college survey course. You will read the entire textbook and
supplemental material, as well as numerous additional handouts throughout the year. You will
learn to analyze, reach conclusions and to support those conclusions both orally and in writing.
You will be expected to do more than memorize names, dates, and facts (although that will be
important); you will use factual information to construct a meaningful “larger picture” approach
to our country’s history. This course will follow the path chronologically, but some topics will
bridge and overlap other periods, through both economic and social perspectives. We will also
examine the trends and cycles that have occurred and recurred through our nation’s past.
Major Course Objectives:
 Master a broad amount of information
 Demonstrate an astute understanding of historical chronology through
completion of study guides, quizzes, tests, and historical writings.
 Use historical data to accurately support an argument or position
 Interpret and apply data from original documents, including:
Political Cartoons, Graphs, Letters, etc……
 Develop and effectively use analytical skills of evaluation, Cause & Effect, and
Compare and Contrast
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PASS THE AP U.S. HISTORY TEST ON FRIDAY, MAY TH, 2012.
Textbooks:
Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas Bailey, The American Pageant. 12th ed.
Boston, Mass. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002
Kennedy, David M., and Thomas Bailey, The American Spirit, Volumes I and II. 10th ed. Boston,
Mass. Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002.
Madaras, Larry, and James M. SoRelle, Taking Sides: Clashing Views in United States History,
Volumes I and II, 11th Edition, McGraw Hill Publishing, 2004.
Course Outline:
The readings listed below should be completed prior to the week/class period we are discussing them. In addition,
the study guides should be ready to be turned in upon the completion of each chapter. We will take a quiz on each
chapter and a larger test over each unit. Each unit we study will incorporate discussions of historical events as well
as writings about related historical topics. We will analyze and interpret how events have changed over time and
how those events continue to play a role in affairs of today. The following outline is a tentative guideline for the
course.
Week of September 6-9.
American Pageant: Chapter 1, New World Beginnings
American Spirit: Chapter 1, Part A. The Native Americans, Part B. The Spanish in America.
Part C., #3, A Young African Boy is Taken into Slavery.
 Native Americans before Columbus, early exploration of North America, Spain’s
new world empire
Assignment: Completion of explorer’s chart outlining those who charted N. Am.
American Pageant: Chapter 2, The Planting of English America
American Spirit: Chapter 2, Part A: Precarious Beginnings in Virginia, Part C: Religious
Strife in Maryland
 Colonization of the Chesapeake area and the Southern Colonies, Growth of
British mercantilism in North America.
Week of September 12-16
American Pageant: Chapter 3, Settling the Northern Colonies
American Spirit: Chapter 3, Part A: Framing the Mayflower Compact, Part B:
Anne Hutchinson is Banished, John Winthrop’s Concept of Liberty, Part C: The
Blue Laws of Connecticut, Part D: Plymouth Officials Justify the War, and Part
E: Early Settlers in Pennsylvania.
 Settlement of New England, the Puritans, Indian conflicts, settlement of the
middle colonies, religious dissent and persecution, seeds of conflict with British
rule.
Primary doc: City Upon a Hill by John Winthrop.
Completion of DBQ on Chesapeake and New England colonies (due Sept. 14).
Week of September 19-23
American Pageant: Chapter 4, American Life in the Seventeenth Century
American Spirit: Chapter 4, part A: Indentured Servants in the Chesapeake Region
(all), Part B: Bacon’s Rebellion and its Aftermath (all), Part C: The Stono River
Rebellion in South Carolina, Part D: Life Among New England’s Puritans (all).
 Indentured servitude in the tobacco and rice colonies, Bacon’s Rebellion, the
spread of slavery and the expansion of African American culture, contrasts
between growth in southern states vs. Puritan lifestyles, Salem Witch Trials.
Library Activity: research on the Salem Witch Trials
American Pageant: Chapter 5, Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
American Spirit: Part A: The Growth of the Colonial Population, Part B: The Great
Awakening (All), Part D: The Epochal Zenger Trial.
 Growth of the American population in the 18th century (examination of ScotsIrish), the First Great Awakening, Expansion of education/political structure in
the colonies.
Week of September 26-30
American Pageant: Chapter 6, The Duel for North America.
American Spirit: Chapter 6, Part B: The French and Indian War (all), Part C: Pontiac’s
Rebellion, etc. (all, inc. the Proclamation of 1763).
 Rivalries between English/French, French and Indian War, Pontiac’s Rebellion,
the Proclamation of 1763.
American Pageant: Chapter 7, The Road to Revolution (1763-1775)
American Spirit: Part B: The Tempest Over Taxation (all), Part D: Loyalists vs. Patriots
(all),
Primary source documents: Common Sense by Thomas Paine, Eyewitness accounts of the
Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party, The Declaration of Independence.
 The Acts (Stamp, Townshend, Intolerable), and how they led to revolt,
foundations of the American Revolution, beginnings @ Lexington/Concord.
Week of October 3-7
American Pageant: Chapter 8, America Secedes From the Empire
American Spirit: Part A: General Washington in Command (all).
Assignment: American Revolution Timeline
 Examination of the battles of the Revolution, life on the homefront, women’s role
in the Revolution, impact on the economy of different colony groups (esp.
Southern).
Unit Test #1: Chapters 1 through 8. 80 multiple choice questions to be completed in
class. Take home: DBQ on the American Revolution. Due October 8.
Week of October 10-14
American Pageant: Chapter 9, The Confederation and the Constitution.
American Spirit: Chapter 9, Part A: The Shock of Shay’s Rebellion (all), Part B:
Clashes in the Philadelphia Convention, Part C: First Reactions to the Constitution
(all).
Taking Sides: ISSUE 7: Were the Founding Fathers Democratic Reformers?
Primary source: Federalist Paper #10
 Economic troubles of the new nation, comparison of The Articles of
Confederation vs. The Constitution, The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Shay’s
Rebellion, The Constitutional Convention and ratification.
American Pageant: Chapter 10, Launching the New Ship of State
American Spirit: Chapter 10, Part A: Conflict in the Infant Republic (all), Part B: State
Debts and the National Bank (all), Part E: The Controversial Jay Treaty, Part F:
President Washington’s Farewell Address, Part G: The Alien/Sedition Hysteria.
Primary Source: The Bill of Rights
 Creation of the Presidency, Creation of the new government, Alexander Hamilton
and his financial policies, political parties, Whiskey Rebellion, Importance of
Washington’s Farewell Address, Jay’s Treaty, Alien and Sedition Acts, Federalists
vs. Anti-federalists, Adams as president. Impact of the French Revolution in the
United States.
Week of October 17-21
American Pageant: Chapter 11, Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic.
American Spirit: Chapter 11, Part A: John Marshall and the Supreme Court, Part B:
#2: Jefferson Stretches the Constitution to Buy Louisiana.
Primary Sources: Maps of Lewis and Clark expedition as well as journals.
 Jefferson’s presidency, the Marshall court and judicial review, Louisiana
Purchase, seeds of the War of 1812, the Barbary Pirates, Burr vs. Hamilton, Nonintercourse Act of 1809.
American Pageant: Chapter 12, 2nd War for Independence/Upsurge of Nationalism
American Spirit: Chapter 12, Part A: The Cauldron of War (all), Part C: The Missouri
Statehood Controversy (all), Part D: Launching the Monroe Doctrine (all)
 The War of 1812 (land and sea), Treaty of Ghent 1814, James Monroe and the Era
of Good Feeling, The American System, Westward Expansion, The Missouri
Compromise, Monroe Doctrine, Kentucky/Virginia Resolutions.
(Take Home)Free Response Essay: Explain the importance of John Marshall’s
contributions to our judicial system.
Week of October 24-28
American Pageant: Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy
American Spirit: Chapter 13: Part C: The Debate on Internal Improvements (all),
Part D: The Nullification Crisis (all), Part E, The War on the Bank (all).
Primary Sources: Analyze excerpts from the journals of Alexis de Tocqueville.
 Corrupt bargain of 1824, Jacksonian Democracy and the spoils system, Tariff of
Abominations, Nullification Crisis, Removal of the Indians, Jackson’s Bank War,
Whigs and the era of the common man, expansion into Texas, development of
sectionalism/slavery issues.
American Pageant: Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy
American Spirit: Chapter 14: Part A: #3, The “Utopian” Lowell Looms, Part B: #2, The
Coming of the Irish, Part C: #5, Regulations at the Lowell Mills, Part D: #2, The Impact
of the Erie Canal.
 Rise of the Market Economy, Focus on the Germans/Irish immigration
movement, Women entering the workplace, Westward expansion with the
revolution of transportation.
Week of October 31-November 4
American Pageant: Chapter 15, The Ferment of Reform and Culture
American Spirit: Chapter 15, Part A: #2, Joseph Smith Has a Vision, Part B: #2,
Dorothea Dix Succors the Insane, Part C: #1: The Seneca Falls Manifesto, Part D:
Transcendentalism and Earthly Utopias (all).
Primary Sources: Excerpts from Emerson and Thoreau.
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, 1848
2nd Great Awakening, educational reform, temperance movement, Utopian
experiments, growth of national literature.
Unit Test #2: Chapters 9-15. 80 multiple choice questions in class with take home DBQ
on the “Era of Good Feelings” from 2002 AP Test.
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Week of November 7-11
American Pageant: Chapter 16, the South and the Slavery Controversy
American Spirit: Chapter 16: Part A: The Face of Slavery (all), Part C, #1, Garrison
Launches the Liberator, #4, Slavery and the Family, Part E: Hinton Helper’s
Banned Book.
Primary Sources: Garrison’s inaugural editorial from “The Liberator, 1831”.
 Economics of Slavery in the South (esp. plantation system), the realities of the
“peculiar institution” from personal accounts, Northern abolitionists.
American Pageant: Chapter 17, Manifest Destiny and its Legacy.
American Spirit: Chapter 17, Part B: #2, Polk Justifies the Texas Coup, #4, The President
Blames Mexico. #5, British View of Mexican War, Part D: Peace with Mexico (all).
Taking Sides: Issue 12. Was the Mexican War an Exercise in American Imperialism?
Song Lyrics: James K. Polk, “Napoleon of the Stump” by They Might Be Giants
 Polk as President, Oregon struggle (54’ 40 or fight), War with Mexico.
Weeks of November 14-18
American Pageant: Chapter 18, Renewing the Sectional Struggle
American Spirit: Chapter 18, Part A: The Wilmot Proviso Issue (all), Part B: The
Compromise Debates of 1850 (all).
 Ending the Mexican War, Popular sovereignty, The Compromise of 1850,
Fugitive Slave Law, Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854,
American Pageant: Chapter 19, Drifting Toward Disunion
American Spirit: Chapter 19, Part A: The Impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (all), Part B:
Bleeding Kansas and “Bully” Brooks (all), Part C: Dred Scott Decision (all), Part E: #3,
Horace Greely Hails a Martyr (J. Brown), Part E: The Presidential Campaign of 1860
(all).
Primary Sources: Election Maps of 1856, 1860 presidential elections.
Library Assignment: Create a Chart, “The Causes of the Civil War.”
 Dred Scott Decision, Uncle Tom’s Cabin impact, Bleeding Kansas, James
Buchanan as president, Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown’s raid on Harper’s
Ferry, rise of the Republican party, Lincoln’s victory and the subsequent
secession of the South.
Week of November 21-25 (Thanksgiving week)
American Pageant: Chapter 20: Girding for War, The North and the South
 Border States decisions, European intervention in the Civil War, Lincoln’s role in
the war, Women in the war, civil liberties during wartime.
American Pageant: Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War
American Spirit: Part B: Lincoln and His Generals (all), Part E: #1, A Report from
Antietam, #3, General Sherman Dooms Atlanta, Part F, #2, Davis Deplores Lincoln’s
Murder.
Primary Sources: Emancipation Proclamation, Grant’s description of the Battle of
Vicksburg, Lee on Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address.
 Peninsula Campaign, Anaconda Strategy, “Tardy” George McClellan, Robert E.
Lee, Sherman’s March to the Sea, Grant @ Vicksburg, Robert E. Lee, political
ramifications of the war, surrender at Appomattox, the legacy of the war for the
United States and the world. Lincoln’s Assassination.
Take Home Assignment: Free Response Essay: (AP Test 2000)
Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of
slavery in the context of two of the following:
Missouri Compromise
Mexican War Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Week of November 28-December 2
American Pageant: Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
American Spirit: Chapter 22: Part B: The Debate on Reconstruction Policy (all),
Part C: Impeaching the President (all), Part D: “Black Reconstruction”, #3, DuBois
Justifies Black Legislators, Part E: The KKK’s Reign of Terror (all), Part F, #2,
Frederick Douglas Complains, #3, Booker T. Washington Reflects.
Article: The importance of Edmund G. Ross by Nathan Bierma (America Series).
 3 Plans for Reconstruction, new life for freed slaves, Black Reconstruction and
the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the
legacy of Reconstruction.
Unit 3 Test: 80 Multiple Choice Questions in class
Take Home DBQ: 2005 AP Test Form B: Discuss the compromises from 1820-1860.
Week of December 5-9
American Pageant: Chapter 23, Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
American Spirit: Chapter 23, Part B: Race Divides the South (all), Part D: The
Spread of Segregation (all), Part E: Cleveland and the Tariff (all).
Primary Source: Analyze the cartoons of Thomas Nast.
 Grant as President (including scandals), age of corruption and push for reforms,
Compromise of 1877/end of Reconstruction, Civil-service reforms for the masses,
political machines and immigrant involvement. Beginning of financial reforms
(populists).
American Pageant: Chapter 24, Industry Comes of Age.
American Spirit: Chapter 24, Part A: #3, General Weaver Deplores Stock Watering, Part B:
The Trust and Monopoly (all), Part C: #1, Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth”, Part E: Labor
in Industrial America (all).
Primary Sources: Excerpts from “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair
Rules for entry into the Knights of Labor
Film: The Gospel of Wealth
 Growth of the industrial economy, robber barons, growth of unions and life of the
industrial workers, beginnings of government regulation.
Week of December 12-16
American Pageant: Chapter 25, America Moves to the City
American Spirit: Part A: #3, Cleaning up New York, #4, Jacob Riis Goes Slumming,
Part E: The Changing Role of Women (inc. Victoria Woodhull, and Jane Addams).
Primary Source: The photographs of Jacob Riis.
“Chicago” by Carl Sandburg
 Growth of the cities, the “new” immigrants, women in the early factories as well
as the “new morality”, emergence of black leaders, Booker T. Washington and
W.E.B. DuBois.
Christmas Vacation: December 19th-January 2nd.
Take Home DBQ from 2000 AP Exam (Due Jan. 4th): How successful was organized labor in
improving the position of workers in the period from 1875-1900? Analyze the factors that
contributed to the level of success achieved.
Week of January 2-6, 2012
American Pageant: Chapter 26, The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
American Spirit: Chapter 26, Part A: The Plight of the Indian (all), Part C: #2, A
Pioneer Woman Describes the Overland Trail, #4: Sodbusters in Kansas, Part D:
The Farmers’ Protest Movement (all), Part E: The Pullman Strike (all), Part F: #2,
Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech, Map of 1896 Presidential Election.
Article: Henry Littlefield on The Wizard of Oz, a parable on populism.
Film: The Wizard of Oz
Writing Assignment: 2-3 page research paper assessing Littlefield’s claim.
 Indian conquest in the West, Little Big Horn, Wounded Knee, life of miners and
cattle barons in the West, farmers and the Populist movement, Pullman Strike,
emergence of William McKinley and the gold standard.
Week of January 9-13
American Pageant: Chapter 27: The Path of Empire
American Spirit: Part A: Yellow Journalism in Flower (all), Part C: The Sordid Little War
(all), Part D: The Siren Song of Imperialism (all).
 Sources of American expansionism, annexation of Hawaii, growth of imperialism,
Spanish-American War, questions for the United States heading into the 20th
Century.
Unit 4 Test: 80 multiple choice questions.
In-Class Free Response portion of AP test: completion of 2 essays in 70 minutes.
Week of January 16-20
American Pageant: Chapter 28, America on the World Stage
American Spirit: Part B: The Panama Revolution (all), Part C: The Monroe Doctrine In the
Caribbean (all), Part D: #3, The Gentlemen’s Agreement (TR and Japan).
 Dealing with the Philippines, Open Door in China, The Panama Canal, Teddy
Roosevelt as president, Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
Week of January 23-27
American Pageant: Chapter 29, Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
American Spirit: Chapter 29, Part A: The Heyday of Muckraking (all), Part B: #1,
Steffens Bares Philadelphia Bossism, Part C: The Plight of Labor (all), Part D: #1,
Roosevelt Defends the Forests, Part E: The Crusade for Women’s Suffrage (all).
Primary Source: Muller v. Oregon (1908).
 Muckrakers, Progressive Era politics of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, Roosevelt’s
Square Deal, government regulation of the trusts, the conservation movement,
Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy program, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
American Pageant: Chapter 30, Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad.
American Spirit: Chapter 30, Part A: The Election of 1912 (all).
 Policies of Wilson’s New Freedom vs. Roosevelt’s New Nationalism, Election of
1912 and its importance, Economic reform, Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy (Mexico),
beginnings of WWI and America’s neutrality.
Week of January 30-February 3
American Pageant: Chapter 31: The War to End War, 1917-18.
American Spirit: Part C: The Propaganda Front (all), Part D: The Face of War (all),
Part E: The Struggle over the Peace Treaty (all).
Primary Sources: examples of U.S./German propaganda posters, The Zimmerman
Note, Wilson’s speech on the sinking of the Lusitania.
 Entrance of U.S. into WWI, propaganda and battle for immigrant loyalties,
Problems with peace and Wilson’s fourteen points.
Activity: World War I Simulation
Week of February 6-10
American Pageant: Chapter 32: American Life in the Roaring Twenties
American Spirit: Chapter 32: Part A: #3: W. Lippman Pleads for Sacco and
Vanzetti, Part B: The Reconstituted Ku Klux Klan (all), Part D: New Goals for
Women (all, including Margaret Sanger).
Primary Sources: The Volstead Act, “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents” by Ellen Welles Page
from Outlook magazine, Marcus Garvey, “Return to Africa”.
Article subjects: The Scopes Trial, Al Capone and the Rise of Bootlegging, Women’s
Suffrage, Economic Changes in the 1920’s, the Red Scare
Film: Demon Rum (The American Experience, PBS)
 The Red Scare and immigration restriction, prohibition, Scopes Trial, Lifestyle
changes in the 20’s, cultural items including: jazz and the Harlem Renaissance,
radio, movies, music, literature, etc., economic boom.
Week of February 13-17
American Pageant: Chapter 33: The Politics of Boom and Bust
American Spirit: Part A: #1: Pres. Harding Hates His Job, Part B: The Depression
Descends (all), Part D: An Appraisal of Hoover (all).
 Scandals of President Harding, Coolidge’s laissez-faire presidency, The Great
Crash (1929), Herbert Hoover’s reaction to the Great Depression, The Bonus
Army fiasco, “Rugged Individualism”.
Week of February 20-24
American Pageant: Chapter 34: The Great Depression and the New Deal.
American Spirit: Part A: The Faces of the Great Depression (all), Part C: Voices of
Protest (all), Part D: Conservation in the New Deal (all), Part E: #4, Assessing the
New Deal.
Primary Sources: Long’s Share the Wealth speech, Townsend’s Old Age Pension Plan
Pamphlet, photos of the Great Depression.
Songs: “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”, “Happy Days are Here Again”.
 F.D.R. as president, first hundred days, New Deal programs, Social Security,
growth of organized labor unions, Roosevelt Coalition, 3 major critics of the New
Deal, F.D.R.’s attempt to pack the Supreme Court, Dust Bowl.
Take Home DBQ (2003 AP Test): Analyze the responses of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
administration to the problems of the Great Depression. How effective were these responses?
How did they change the role of the federal government?
Week of February 27-March 2
American Pageant: Chapter 35, F.D.R. and the Shadow of War.
American Spirit: Chapter 35, Part A: #1, Two Views of Isolationism, Part B: The
Lend-Lease Controversy (all), Part C: War in the Atlantic (all), Part E: The Blame
for Pearl Harbor (all).
Primary Sources: Atlantic Charter, Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor Attack,
F.D.R.’s 4 Freedoms speech, F.D.R’s “day that will live in infamy” speech.
 U.S./European responses to Japanese/German aggressions in the 30’s: attempts at
diplomacy and how economic policy led to aggression, Lend-Lease Act, Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor and the U.S. response.
American Pageant: Chapter 36, American in World War II
American Spirit: Chapter 36, Part A: War and American Society (includes economy,
Japanese-American, Blacks, and Women’s perspectives) (all), Part B: The Second Front
Controversy (all), Part D: Dropping the Atomic Bomb (all).
Primary Sources: WWII Political Cartoons, Battle of Midway eyewitness account, U.S.
propaganda posters, A Personal Record of Hiroshima A-Bomb Survival.
 War in the Pacific, War in Europe, Mobilization of the American economy,
women in wartime(Rosie the Riveter), WWII’s effect on minorities in the U.S.,
Winning the war, Dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, 1945.
Week of March 5-9
Unit Test #5: 80 Multiple Choice Questions in class on Chapters 28-36.
Take Home Essay (free response AP 2001), Describe and Account for the rise of nativism
in American society from 1900-1930.
Week of March 12-16
American Pageant: Chapter 37, The Cold War Begins
American Spirit: Chapter 37, Part A: The New Shape of Postwar Society (all), Part C: The
Truman Doctrine (all), Part D: The Marshall Plan (all), Part F: The Korean
Crisis and the NSC-68 (all), Part G: The Sacking of Gen. Douglas MacArthur (all).
 Policy of containment, dealing with communism diplomatically and
economically, the Baby Boomers and postwar prosperity, Growth of the IMF, the
World Bank, and the UN, expansion of foreign policy (Truman Doctrine,
Marshall Plan, NATO), Korean War.
American Pageant: Chapter 38, The Eisenhower Era
American Spirit: Chapter 38, Part A: #1, Dulles Warns of Massive Retaliation, Part B:
The McCarthy Hysteria, Part C: The Supreme Court and the Black Revolution (all), Part
D: #2, J.K. Galbreith criticizes the Affluent Society, #3, N. Minow criticizes “vast
wasteland” of television, Part E: Eisenhower Says Farewell.
Primary Sources: Nixon’s “Checkers” Speech, photos of American Civil Rights
Movement and its leaders, James W. May and William Gordon, “What I Tell My Child
About Color,” Look, 18 October 1955, 38–39.
Film: Segments from documentary series, “Eyes on the Prize”.
 McCarthyism, Brown v. Board of Education, Montgomery Bus Boycott,
Levittowns and growth of the suburbs, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. emerging as
civil rights leader, Space Race/international competition w/ U.S.S.R., increase of
postwar literature and culture (life in the 50’s). Kennedy defeats Nixon, 1960.
Take Home DBQ (AP Test, 2001): What were the Cold War fears of the American people in the
aftermath of the Second World War? How successfully did the administration of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower address these fears?
Week of March 19-23
American Pageant: Chapter 39: The Stormy Sixties (1960-68)
American Spirit: Chapter 39: Part A: The Cuban Missile Crisis (all), Part B:
President Johnson’s Great Society (all), Part C: The Black Revolution Erupts (all),
Part D: Vietnam Troubles (all), The Politics of Protest in the 1960’s (all), Part E:
The Politics of Protest in the 1960’s (all).
Primary Sources: Chart of U.S. Troop Levels in Vietnam, “I Have a Dream” speech,
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Kennedy assassination photos
Films: Eyes on the Prize, Kennedy assassination video.
 Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Civil Right Movement continues with equal
rights for African-Americans, Women’s movement/feminism grows, expansion of
the war in Vietnam, LBJ and the Great Society, the counter-culture takes hold
(hippies), Kennedy’s assassination, major cultural upheavals in the sixties
involving the Baby Boomers coming of age.
Library research: What event from the sixties had the greatest impact on today? Why?
Week of March 26-30 (Begin Spring Break)
American Pageant: Chapter 40, The Stalemated Seventies
American Spirit: Chapter 41, Part A: Nixon’s Cambodian Coup (all), Part B: Winding
Down the Vietnam War (all), Part D: The Move to Impeach Nixon (all), The
Revitalization of the Feminist Movement
Primary Sources: Washington Post articles and political cartoons on Watergate.
 American troops pull out of Vietnam, Nixon enters China, Nixon falls through
Watergate, the American economy takes a downturn, dependency on oil(study of
increasing inflation rates), Ford as president (examine his pardon of Nixon and
the public reaction), Carter as president, Carter’s humanitarian successes,
failures in diplomacy with hostages in Iran, culture of the 70’s, the increasing
feminist movement (Roe v. Wade)
Week of April 9-13
American Pageant: Chapter 41, The Resurgence of Conservatism
American Spirit: Chapter 41, Part A: The Reagan Revolution in Economic Policy (all), Part
B: Reagan’s Foreign Policies (all), Part E: Assessing the Reagan Presidency (all).
Primary Sources: Presidential Election Maps from: 1980, 84, 88, 92, 96, 00., Reagan’s
Speech at Brandenburg Gate.
Film: The Fall of Communism (excerpts from ABC news footage).
 The Reagan Revolution, supply-side economics, the end of the Cold War,
Reaganomics, Iran-Contra scandal, G.H.W. Bush as President, The Gulf War and
U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East, recession of ’91, election of Clinton in ’92 (3rd
party candidates), post cold-war diplomacy, Clinton’s impeachment trial, the
contested election of 2000 and subsequent decision of the Supreme Court in Bush
v. Gore.
American Pageant: Chapter 42, The American People Face a New Century
American Spirit: Part A: An Unequal Society? (all), Part B: #1, Analysis of the “Glass
Ceiling”., Part D: Social Security and Looming War Between the Generations (all)
 Changes in demographics among different groups in the U.S., economic
indicators heading into the 21st century, dealing with immigration issues, dealing
with new global issues of terrorism, World Trade Center attacks, 2001 and the
U.S. response in the Middle East/Afghanistan.
Week of April 16-20
American Pageant: Chapter 42 (complete)
Unit 6 Test: 80 multiple choice questions taken in class.
Begin Review Process for APUSH Exam on May 7.
Weeks of April 23-27, April 30-May 4: Review, review, review.
May 4, 2012: AP United States History Exam