AP U.S. HISTORY - CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
“A YEAR AT A GLANCE”
Saigon South International School
TERM
UNITS
MONTH
QUARTER 1
AUG
SEPT
OCT
QUARTER 2
NOV
QUARTER 3
DEC
JAN
FEB
COLONIAL
BEGINNINGS
BUILDING THE
NEW NATION
SLAVERY AND
DISUNION
FORGING AN
INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE
(1491 - 1783)
(1776 - 1860)
(1820 – 1877)
(1865 – 1909)
Native America Civilization
and Culture Before the
Arrival of Columbus
The Spanish Empire in the
New World
British Colonization in
North America
TOPICS
SEMESTER 1
Compare and Contrast
Settlement Patterns and
Culture in the New
England, Middle, and
Southern Colonies
European Contact and
Conflict with Native
Americans
The Roots of American
Identity and the Declaration
of Independence
The Revolutionary War
The Formation of
Political Parties
Westward Expansion,
the Louisiana Purchase,
and the Monroe
Doctrine
The War of 1812
The Missouri
Compromise and the
South Carolina
Nullification Crisis
Andrew Jackson and the
Trail of Tears
Transcendentalism and
Social Reform
Movements
MAR
APR
STRUGGLING FOR
JUSTICE AT HOME AND
ABROAD
(1901 – 1945)
The South and the
Slavery Controversy
Manifest Destiny and
War with Mexico
Northern
Abolitionism and the
Southern Defense of
Slavery
Key Events of the
1850s Heralding War
QUARTER 4
MAY
JUNE
A SUPERPOWER IN THE
MODERN WORLD
(1945 – 2010)
The Cold War and the
Politics of Containing
Communism at Home
and Abroad
The End of Reconstruction /
Emergence of Jim Crow
Forging a Constitution
Early Challenges to the
Young Government
SEMESTER 2
The Rise of Mass Production,
the Lords of Industry, and the
Gospel of Wealth
Progressive Reform Movements:
Suffragettes, Temperance, and
Labor Unions
The Korean War, the
Vietnam War, and the
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Working Poor and Rise
of Labor Unions
The United States Enters WWI
The Civil Rights
Movement
Immigration and Urbanization
The Conquest of the Western
Indians and the Last of the
Continental Frontier
The Civil War
The United States Becomes
an Empire
The End of Slavery
The Spanish American War
Reconstructing the
Defeated South
Theodore Roosevelt and the
New Twentieth Century
American Society in the Jazz
Age: Consumerism,
Automobiles, and Mass Media
The Great Depression and
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New
Deal
The United States in WWII
Cultural Upheaval in the
1960s; Economic Malaise
in the 1970s; and the
Resurgence of
Conservatism in the
1980s
Political Polarization in
American Politics:
Republicans vs.
Democrats and the 2000
Presidential Election
America Post 9/11
Curriculum Overview Revised 9/5/2014