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AP US HISTORY Textbook Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, Thomas A. Bailey. The American Pageant: A History of the Republic 13th ed. Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company, 2006. Additional Course Materials: Ellis, Joseph. Founding Brothers. New York: Vintage Books 2002. Mladineo, Mike, Liu, Edward and Liu, Michael. Discover America: Student-Created Materials to Help You Pass the AP U.S. History Examination. 2nd Edition. Kennedy, David M. and Thomas Bailey. The American Spirit, Volumes 1 and 2. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 2006. American Studies Album. Scott Foresman: Glenview, IL, 1995. Grading Procedure Charts Dialectical Journals Mini-Museum Daily Activities (SOAPS, YES/BUT, etc.) Top Ten Lists Essay/DBQ Test (1 per unit) Unit Multiple Choice Test Course Outline In addition to learning the facts and major themes of US History, the students will learn the different interpretations of US History and how those have changed over time. US History can be viewed as a series of chain reactions, and the action that causes an event will be reinterpreted several times in light of new understandings of events and actions. Historians are constantly reevaluating the motives for the actions and effects of the events. UNIT ONE Exploration First European Contact with the Native Americans Spanish Empire in America and French Colonization in America Required Readings American Pageant, Chapter 1 The American Spirit: Bartolome de Las Casas Defends the Indians Francisco Coronado Explores the American Southwest ESSAYS/CHARTS: French and Spanish interaction with Native Americans Religion UNIT TWO Colonial America English Settlement of America New England Middle Atlantic South The Chesapeake vs. New England Servitude and Slavery in America Religious Diversity in America Mercantilism Resistance Bacon’s Rebellion The Glorious Revolution Pueblo Revolt Immigration to America The Great Awakening Rural vs. City life Colonial government and Imperial Policy Required Readings: American Pageant Chapters 2-5 The American Spirit: The Starving Time The Intolerant Act of Toleration John Winthrop’s Concept of Liberty Slavery is Justified Jonathan Edwards Paints the Horrors of Hell DBQ: New England and the Chesapeake Region UNIT THREE Revolutionary War Era The French and Indian War 1763 to 1775 Stamp Act Declaratory Act Townshend Acts Boston Tea Party Continental Congress The Declaration of Independence The War for Independence French Alliance Loyalists and Homefront War Economy The Articles of Confederation and State Constitutions Treaty of Paris Social Reform: Women and Slavery The Critical Period Required Readings: American Pageant, Chapters 6-9 The American Spirit The Proclamation of 1763 Patrick Henry Demands Boldness Thomas Paine Talks Common Sense Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence DBQ: French and Indian War ESSAYS/CHART: The Road to the American Revolution The Articles of Confederation The Critical Period UNIT FOUR The Early Republic The US Constitution The drafting of the Constitution Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists Bill of Rights Washington and Hamilton in shaping the National Government Economic Policy Foreign Policy Domestic Problems Political Parties Federalists Republicans Republican Motherhood Required Readings American Pageant, Chapters 9-10 Founding Brothers, Chapters The American Spirit George Washington Expresses Alarm A Delegate Fears for the Little People James Madison Defends the New Constitution Jefferson Versus Hamilton on the Bank DBQ: American Society, 1775-1800 UNIT FIVE Age of Jefferson John Adams Alien and Sedition Acts XYZ Affair Election of 1800 Jeffersonian Presidency Louisiana Purchase Lewis and Clark Burr Conspiracy Neutral Rights, Impressment and Embargo American Indian Resistance to westward expansion The War of 1812 Causes Canada Hartford Convention Treaty of Ghent New Orleans James Monroe Era of Good Feelings American System Panic of 1819 Missouri Compromise Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine John Marshall and the Supreme Court Required Readings: American Pageant, Chapters 11-12 Founding Brothers, Chapters The American Spirit Causes of War Disloyalty in New England James Monroe Warns the European Powers John Marshall and the Supreme Court ESSAYS/CHART: Revolution of 1800 Foreign Policies of Washington, Adams and Jefferson UNIT SIX Jacksonian Democracy Jacksonian Democracy The Bank War Tariff Controversy States Rights Internal Improvements Successes and Limitations Two Party Political System Democrats Whigs Martin Van Buren Independent Treasury System Panic of 1837 National Economy Transportation Revolution 1st Industrial Revolution (TRIC) Immigration and Nativism Northeast Industry Labor Immigration Lowell System 1st Great Awakening Protestant revivalism Social reforms Education Temperance Prison Reform Cult of Domesticity Transcendentalism Utopian communities Literary and Artistic expressions (Hudson River) Trail of Tears Required Readings: American Pageant, Chapters 13-15 The American Spirit The Nullification Crisis The War on the Bank Wage Slavery in New England Railroads Link East and West The Changing Role of Women Emersonisms and Thoreauisms DBQ: Jacksonian Democrats ESSAYS/CHART: American Reform Movements TRIC UNIT SEVEN Road to the Civil War Peculiar Society Planters Yeoman Farmers Slaves Cotton Slave culture Manifest Destiny Westward Migration (Trails) Territorial Acquisitions (COIL) The Mexican War Abolitionism Compromise of 1850 and Popular Sovereignty The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party Dred Scott Lincoln-Douglas Debates John Brown’s Raid The election of 1860 Secession Required Readings American Pageant, Chapters 16-19 The American Spirit A Former Slave Exposes Slavery Comparing Slave Labor and Wage Labor The Wilmot Proviso Issue Mrs. Stowe Inflames the Southern Imagination DBQ: 1850’s ESSAYS/CHART: Political Compromises: 1820 to 1861 Supreme Court: 1803 to 1866 Units 1-7 will be taught in the Sophomore US Studies Class. Units 8-16 will be taught in the Junior AP US History Class. UNIT EIGHT (CIVIL WAR) The Home-front Mobilization Resources Internal dissent Emancipation and the African Americans Confiscation Acts Emancipation Proclamation African Americans in the war 13th Amendment Civil Liberties or the Darkside of Lincoln Foreign Affairs during the Civil War Social, Political and Economic effects of the War North South West Required Readings American Pageant, Chapters The American Spirit Lincoln and the Secession Crisis Abraham Lincoln Defines the Purposes of the War Lincoln Defends His Decision The Hell of Andersonville Prison UNIT SIX (Reconstruction and the Old West) Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction Ten Percent Plan Johnson’s Plan 14th Amendment Military Reconstruction Impeachment of Johnson Southern State Governments (1865-1877) Goals Achievements Failures African American 15th Amendment Politics Education Economy Compromise of 1877 and the Impact of Reconstruction Southern Agriculture Sharecropping Crop Lien system The Redeemers and the KKK Southern Industry (Textiles and Iron) Jim Crow and disenfranchisement Western Railroads The Old West Frontiers Mining Cattle Farmers The American Indian Social Aspects of the West Environmental impacts of western settlement Required Readings American Pageant The American Spirit Southern Blacks Ask for Help The Controversy over the Fifteenth Amendment W. E. B. Du Bois Justifies Black Legislators Booker T. Washington Reflects Carl Schurz Proposes to “Civilize” the Indians Sodbusters in Kansas DBQ: 1860 to 1877, Was it a revolution? ESSAYS/CHART: SPRITE the Reconstruction Era Frederick Jackson Turner UNIT SEVEN (The Gilded Age) 2nd Industrial Revolution (ROSE) Technology and the worker Labor and unions Knights of Labor American Federation of Labor Strikes and Riots Laissez Faire Gospel of Wealth Self-Made Man Social Darwinism Migration and Immigration Lure of the City City problems Party Bosses Cultural movements Entertainment Social Gospel Jane Addams and the Hull House US Grant The Forgettable Presidents Tariff Controversy Railroad Regulations Trusts Agrarian Discontent Required Readings: The American Pageant The American Spirit Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth Life in a Southern Mill The Life of a Sweatshop Girl Samuel Gompers Condemns the Knights Jacob Riis Goes Slumming Four Views of the Statue of Liberty An Italian Immigrant Woman Faces Life Alone in the Big City DBQ: Labor Unions ESSAYS/CHART: Industrial Worker Gilded Age Politics Economic Developments UNIT EIGHT (Populism to Progressivism) Crisis of 1890s Populism Silver Election of 1896 or Wizard of Oz Origins of Progressive Reform Municipal State National Muckrakers Social Gospel Progressive Presidents Theodore Roosevelt (3 Cs) William Howard Taft (Controversy) Woodrow Wilson (New Freedom) Women’s Movement Family Workplace Education Politics and Suffrage Reform Black America Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois Urban migration NAACP American Imperialism Alaska James G. Blaine International Darwinism Spanish-American War The Open Door Notes Big Stick Diplomacy The Panama Canal Roosevelt Corollary Far East Dollar Diplomacy Moral Diplomacy Required Readings: American Pageant The American Spirit William Jennings Bryan’s Cross of Gold The Heyday of Muckraking The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire Claims 146 Lives Images of the Suffrage Campaign DBQ: Progressive Era Reformers ESSAYS/CHART: Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois UNIT NINE World War I Neutrality Mobilization Propaganda Civil Liberties Treaty of Versailles 14 Points Ratification Crisis Postwar Problems Red Scare Labor Strife Republican Politics Harding Coolidge Hoover Business Conservative Changes Consumerism Automobile Radio Movies Roaring Twenties Science Arts Entertainment Women Fundamentalism Nativism Prohibition KKK Harlem Renaissance Jazz Age African Americans The Great Depression Farm Problems Causes Wall Street Crash Depression Economy Bonus March Foreign Policy of the Twenties League of Nations Isolationism Hoover-Stimson Diplomacy Required Readings: American Pageant The American Spirit Woodrow Wilson Versus Theodore Roosevelt on the Fourteen Points A “Doughboy” Describes the Fighting Front The Text of Article X An Appraisal of Hoover DBQ: Women (2) ESSAYS/CHART: American entrance into WW I Immigration Cities: 1880-1930 UNIT TEN (New Deal and World War II) Franklin D. Roosevelt Philosophy Alphabet Agencies RRR Critics of FDR Father Coughlin Dr. Francis Townsend Huey P. Long Supreme Court vs. FDR Labor and Unions Society under the New Deal Women African Americans Indian Reorganization Act Mexican-Americans (1914-1945) Foreign Policy under FDR Good Neighbor Policy London Economic Conference Isolationism and the Neutrality Acts Rise of the Aggressors Italy Germany Japan Appeasement Poland Atlantic Charter Pearl Harbor Organizing for War Mobilization Propaganda Japanese Internment Homefront Urban migration Regional Development Civil Liberties Expansion of Government power Women Rosie the Riveter Family Multi-front War North Africa Europe D-Day Pacific Hiroshima and Nagasaki Wartime Conferences Goals Teheran Yalta Potsdam The United Nations Required Readings: American Pageant The American Spirit Voices of Protest Assessing the New Deal Two Views of Isolationism A Black American Ponders the War’s Meaning Harry Truman Justifies the Bombing DBQ: FDR and the Great Depression ESSAYS/CHART: The New Deal Foreign Policy: 1920 to 1941 UNIT ELEVEN (1945-1960) The Cold War and Truman Origins Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Berlin Crisis NATO China and Korea The Cold War and Eisenhower John Foster Dulles SE Asia and the Middle East Massive Retaliation Khrushchev and Berlin The Taft and Hartley Act The Red Scare and Joseph McCarthy Civil Rights Election of 1948 Jackie Robinson Military Brown v. Board of Education Montgomery bus boycott Little Rock Nine Greensboro sit-in The Affluent Society vs. “the other America” Conformity and suburbia Rebels and nonconformists Life in the 50s Space Race Required Readings: American Pageant The American Spirit Senator Joseph McCarthy Blasts “Traitors” NSC-68 Offers a Blueprint for the Cold War The Soviets “Develop” American Spies The Court Rejects Segregation A Black Newspaper Praises Courage John Kenneth Galbraith Criticizes the Affluent Society Women’s Career Prospects Eisenhower Farewell Address DBQ: Eisenhower and the Cold War ESSAYS/CHART: American-Soviet Relations Women: 1941- 1962 UNIT TWELVE (1960-1988) John F. Kennedy Election of 1960 New Frontier Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Lyndon B. Johnson The Great Society War on Poverty Affirmative Action Vietnam Civil Rights Movement and Civil Liberties Martin Luther King, Jr. Feminism Chicanos Antiwar and Counterculture movements Conservative South The Supreme Court Richard M. Nixon Election of 1968 and the Silent Majority Nixon-Kissinger Foreign Policy Vietnam: Escalation and Pullout Soviet Union: Détente China: Ping Pong New Federalism The Supreme Court Watergate Ford and Carter The New Right Deregulation Energy and Inflation Camp David Accords Iranian Hostage Crisis Ronald Reagan Supply Side Economics Defense buildup Disarmament Treaties Central America and the Middle East End of the Cold War Domestic Issues Sunbelt Immigration post 1965 Environmentalism Terrorism Required Readings: American Pageant The American Spirit Michael Harrington Discovers Another America Martin Luther King, Jr., Writes from a Birmingham Jail President Johnson Asserts His War Aims The Dilemma of Vietnam Nixon Incriminates Himself The Revitalization of the Feminist Movement James T. Patterson Weighs the Reagan Record DBQ: African Americans and the 1960s ESSAYS/CHART: The Presidents Cold War Social and Political Equality
