AP U.S. History
3rd 6wks – Course Reader
DHS 1 APUSH
APUSH - Third Six Weeks
Date
Day
Topic / Content
For Class
Assessment
Homework
Nov. 7
Monday
Test Review
Test Review
Nov. 8
Tuesday
UNIT 7 TEST
UNIT 7 TEST
TEST
Essay/Pass Back Test
Quiz & Review, Note
Cards, Ch. Questions
Class Discussion
ESSAY TOPIC:
Manifest Destiny
Read: Ch. 19
Nov. 9
Wednesday
Review Test
Nov. 10
Thursday
Drifting Towards Disunion
Nov. 11
Friday
Drifting Towards Disunion
QUIZ
Nov. 14
Monday
Secession
Nov. 15
Tuesday
Girding for War
Seminar
Quiz & Review, Notes
Check, Ch. Questions
Nov. 16
Wednesday
EARLY
RELEASE
UNIT 8 ESSAY TEST
UNIT 8 ESSAY TEST
Nov. 17
Thursday
Girding for War
Class Discussion/Review
for Test
Nov. 18
Friday
UNIT 8 TEST
UNIT 8 TEST
Nov. 21
Nov. 22
Nov. 23
Nov. 24
Nov. 25
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Nov. 28
Monday
The Furnace of War
Nov. 29
Nov. 30
Tuesday
Wednesday
The Furnace of War
Emancipation Proclamation
Dec. 1
Thursday
The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Dec. 2
Friday
The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Quiz & Review, Notes
Check, Ch. Questions
Discussion
Seminar
Quiz & Review, Notes
Check, Ch. Questions
Class Discussion
Dec. 5
Monday
Ch. 21/22 Review Packet
Review Packet
Dec. 6
Tuesday
UNIT 9 TEST
UNIT 9 TEST
Dec. 7
Dec. 8
Dec. 9
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Review Test/ DBQ
Wonderful World of DBQ
Exam Review
Introduce DBQ
DBQ
Dec. 12
Dec. 13
Dec. 14
Dec. 15
Dec. 16
End of 1st
Semester
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Exam Review
EXAM WEEK
EXAM WEEK
EXAM WEEK
Friday
EXAM WEEK
Jan. 2
Monday
Staff In-service
NO STUDENTS
Jan. 3
Beginning
of 2nd
Semester
Tuesday
Political Paralysis in the Gilded
Age
Discussion
Jan. 4
Wednesday
Industry Comes of Age
Discussion
Jan. 5
Thursday
Urbanization
Discussion
Jan. 6
Friday
The Great West and Agricultural
Revolution
Discussion
OpV 31 A & B
Read: Ch. 20
QUIZ
ESSAY
TEST
Read: Ch. 21
QUIZ
Read: OpV 33 A & B
Read: Ch. 22
QUIZ
Bring Books to Class
TEST
Read: Ch. 23-26
Complete Study Guides
DHS 2 APUSH
Ch 23 Study
Guide
Ch 24 Study
Guide
Ch 25 Study
Guide
Ch 26 Study
Guide
Read: OpV 11A/B
Washington/Dubois
Chapter 19
Hinton R. Helper
John Brown
Charles Sumner
John C. Fremont
Dred Scott
Roger Taney
Jefferson Davis
The Impending crisis of the South
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lecompton Constitution
Bleeding Kansas
American party
Lincoln‐Douglas Debates
Freeport Doctrine
Harper's Ferry raid
Crittenden Compromise
Chapter 21
John Wilkes Booth
Robert E. Lee
Thomas J. Jackson
Ulysses S. Gran
Grantt
George McClellan
David Farragut
George Pickett
Merrimack
Monitor
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
Copperheads
Battle of Antietam
Gettysburg
Peninsula Campaign
March to the Sea
Unit 8
Chapter 20
Napoleon III
Maximilian
Clara Barton
William Seward
Morrill Tarriff Act
Trent affair
Alabama
Draft riots
King Cotton
Edwin M. Stanton
National Banking Act
Unit 9
Chapter 22
Andrew Johnson
William Seward
Freedmen's Bureau
10% Plan
Wade‐Davis Bill
Black Codes
sharecropping
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Ex parte Milligan
scalawags
carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
Seward' Folly
DHS 3 APUSH
DHS 4 APUSH
DHS 5 APUSH
DHS 6 APUSH
DHS 7 APUSH
DHS 8 APUSH
DHS 9 APUSH
DHS 10 APUSH
DHS 11 APUSH
DHS 12 APUSH
DHS 13 APUSH
DHS 14 APUSH
CHAPTER 23: POLITICAL PARALYSIS IN THE GILDED AGE
The "Bloody Shirt" Elects Grant
1.
Was General Grant good presidential material? Why did he win?
The Era of Good Stealings
2.
"The Man in the Moon...had to hold his nose when passing over America." Explain.
A Carnival of Corruption
3.
Describe two major scandals that directly involved the Grant administration.
The Liberal Republican Revolt of 1872
4.
Why did Liberal Republicans nominate Horace Greeley for the presidency in 1872? Why was he a less
than ideal candidate?
Depression and Demands for Inflation
5.
Why did some people want greenbacks and silver dollars? Why did others oppose these kinds of
currency?
Pallid Politics in the Gilded Age
6.
Why was there such fierce competition between Democrats and Republicans in the Gilded Age if the
parties agreed on most economic issues?
The Hayes-Tilden Standoff, 1876
7.
Why were the results of the 1876 election in doubt?
DHS 15 APUSH
The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
8.
How did the end of Reconstruction affect African-Americans?
The Birth of Jim Crow in the Post-Reconstruction South
9.
Analyze the data in the lynching chart on page 513.
Class Conflicts and Ethnic Clashes
10.
What was the significance of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
Garfield and Arthur
11.
What new type of corruption resulted from the Pendleton Act?
Makers of America: The Chinese
12.
Why did most Chinese immigrants come to America?
The Blaine-Cleveland Mudslingers of 1884
Romanism and Rebellion
13.
Explain how character played a part in the presidential election of 1884.
“Old Grover" Takes Over
14.
Assess the following statement: "As president, Grover Cleveland governed as his previous record as
governor indicated he would."
Cleveland Battles for a Lower Tariff
15.
What were the reasons behind Cleveland's stance in favor of lower tariffs?
DHS 16 APUSH
The Billion Dollar Congress
16.
Explain why the tariff was detrimental to American farmers.
The Drumbeat of Discontent
17.
What was the most revolutionary aspect of the Populist platform? Defend your answer with evidence.
Cleveland and Depression
18.
What could Cleveland have done to lessen the impact of the financial turmoil?
Cleveland Breeds a Backlash
19.
Is the characterization of the Gilded Age presidents as the “forgettable presidents” a fair one? Explain.
Identify:
1. Ulysses S. Grant
2.
Boss Tweed
3.
Graft
4.
Credit Mobilier
5.
Whiskey Ring
6.
Gilded age
7.
Stalwarts
8.
Halfbreeds
DHS 17 APUSH
9.
Compromise of 1877
10. Plessy v. Ferguson
11. Chinese Exclusion Act
12. Jim Crow Laws
13. Mugwumps
14. James Garfield
15. Chester Arthur
16. Pendleton Act
17. Grover Cleveland
18. Sherman Silver Purchase Act
19. populists
DHS 18 APUSH
CHAPTER 24: INDUSTRY COMES OF AGE
The Iron Colt Becomes an Iron Horse
1.
What were the advantages and disadvantages of government subsidies for the railroads?
Spanning the Continent with Rails
2.
Describe how the first transcontinental railroad was built.
Binding the Country with Railroad Ties
3.
Explain how the railroads could help or hurt Americans.
Railroad Consolidation and Mechanization
4.
What technological improvements helped railroads?
Revolution by Railways
5.
What effects did the railroads have on America as a whole?
Wrongdoing in Railroading
6.
What wrongdoing were railroads guilty of?
Government Bridles the Iron Horse
7.
Was the Interstate Commerce Act an important piece of legislation?
Miracles of Mechanization
8.
What factors made industrial expansion possible?
The Trust Titan Emerges
9.
How did businesses organize to try to maximize profits?
DHS 19 APUSH
The Supremacy of Steel
10.
Why was steel so important for industrialization?
Carnegie and Other Sultans of Steel
11.
Briefly describe the careers of Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan.
Rockefeller Grows an American Beauty Rose
12.
How was John D. Rockefeller able to become so wealthy?
The Gospel of Wealth
13.
How did the wealthy justify their wealth?
Government Tackles the Trust Evil
14.
What two methods were tried by those who opposed the trusts?
The South in the Age of Industry
15.
How successful were Southerners at industrializing?
The Impact of the New Industrial Revolution on America
16.
Describe the positive and negative effects of the industrial revolution on working Americans.
In Unions There is Strength
17.
What conditions existed in America that led Jay Gould to say, "I can hire one half of the working class
to kill the other half"?
Labor Limps Along
18.
Explain the similarities and differences between the National Labor Union and the Knights of Labor.
DHS 20 APUSH
Unhorsing the Knights of Labor
19.
What factors led to the decline of the Knights of Labor?
The AF of L to the Fore
20.
How was the AFL different from previous unions?
Makers of America: The Knights of Labor
21.
Were the Knights conservative or revolutionary in their ideas?
Identify:
1. Cornelius Vanderbilt
2. Alexander Graham Bell
3. Andrew Carnegie
4. John D. Rockefeller
5. Samuel Gompers
6. Land grant
7. Plutocracy
8. Vertical integration
9. Horizontal integration
10. Grange
11. Bessemer Process
12. Haymarket Riot
13. Trust
DHS 21 APUSH
CHAPTER 25: AMERICA MOVES TO THE CITY
The Urban Frontier
1.
What factors led to the growth of cities in the second half of the 1800's?
The New Immigration
2.
How were the new immigrants different from the old immigrants?
Southern Europe Uprooted
3.
Why did the new immigrants come to America in such large numbers?
Makers of America: The Italians
4.
How did Italian immigrants live their lives in America?
Reactions to the New Immigration
5.
How did political bosses help immigrants?
Narrowing the Welcome Mat
6.
In 1886, what was ironic about the words inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty?
Churches Confront the Urban Challenge
7.
What role did religion play in helping the urban poor?
Darwin Disrupts the Churches
8.
What effect did the theory of evolution have on Christian churches?
The Lust for Learning
9.
What advances took place in education in the years following the Civil War?
DHS 22 APUSH
Booker T. Washington and Education for Black People
10.
Explain the differences in belief between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.
The Hallowed Halls of Ivy
11.
What factors allowed the number of college students to dramatically increase?
The March of the Mind
12.
Describe some of the intellectual achievements of the late 1800’s.
The Appeal of the Press
13.
How did the ability to produce newspapers inexpensively change their content?
Apostles of Reform
14.
How did writers in the 1870's and 1880's try to address the problems of their time?
Postwar Writing
15.
Did the trends in writing after the Civil War make it a good period for literature? Explain.
Literary Landmarks
16.
What did many writers in the late 1800's have in common?
The New Morality
17.
What evidence demonstrated a battle raging over sexual morality?
Families and Women in the City
18.
What changes were occurring in the women's rights movement?
Prohibition of Alcohol and Social Progress
19.
What social causes were women (and many men) involved in the late 1800's?
DHS 23 APUSH
Artistic Triumphs
20.
Why is this section titled "artistic triumphs?"
The Business of Amusement
21.
What forms of recreation became popular from 1870 to 1900?
Identify
1. Jane Addams
2. Charles Darwin
3. Booker T. Washington
4. W.E.B. DuBois
5. Horatio Alger
6. Mark Twain
7. Carrie Chatman Catt
8. Florence Kelley
9. Settlement house
10. Pragmatism
11. Yellow journalism
12. Social gospel
13. Hull House
14. Morrill Act
15. Women’s Christian Temperance Movement
16. 18th Amendment
DHS 24 APUSH
CHAPTER 26: THE GREAT WEST AND THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
The Clash of Cultures on the Plain
1. Describe the effect of westward expansion on Native Americans.
Receding Native Americans
2.
How was the West "won?"
Bellowing Herds of Bison
3.
How were the Buffalo reduced from 15 million to less than a thousand?
The End of the Trail
4.
What did the government do to try to assimilate Native Americans?
Mining: From Dishpan to Ore Breaker
5.
How did the discovery of precious metals affect the American West?
Beef Bonanzas and the Long Drive
7.
Why was cattle ranching so profitable in the 1870's?
The Farmers’ Frontier
8.
Did the Homestead Act live up to its purpose of giving small farmers a descent life on the plains?
The Far West Comes of Age
9.
What were some milestones in the “closing” of the West?
DHS 25 APUSH
The Fading Frontier
10.
What effects has the frontier had on the development of the United States?
The Farm Becomes a Factory
11.
Explain the statement, "The amazing mechanization of agriculture in the postwar years was almost as
striking as the mechanization of industry."
Deflation Dooms the Debtor
th
12.
What problems faced farmers in the closing decades of the 19 century?
Unhappy Farmers
13.
How did nature, government, and business all harm farmers?
The Farmers Take Their Stand
14.
How did the Grange attempt to help farmers?
Prelude to Populism
15.
What steps did the Farmers’ Alliance believe would help farmers?
Coxey’s Army and the Pullman Strike
16.
Why did President Cleveland send in federal troops during the Pullman Strike?
Golden McKinley and Sliver Bryan
Know: Mark Hannah, William McKinley, William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold speech
17.
Was William McKinley a strong presidential candidate? Explain.
Class Conflict: Plowholders versus Bondholders
18.
“The free-silver election of 1896 was probably the most significant since Lincoln’s victories in 1860 and
1864.” Explain.
DHS 26 APUSH
Republican Standpattism Enthroned
19.
Did McKinley possess the characteristics necessary to be an effective president?
Identify
1. Sitting Bull
2. George Custer
3. Eugene V. Debs
4. William McKinley
5. William Jennings Bryan
6. Battle of Wounded Knee
7. Dawes Severalty Act
8. Buffalo Soldiers
9. Homestead Act
10. Granger laws
11. Populist Party
12. Pullman Strike
13. Cross of Gold speech
14. Dingley Tariff bill
15. Gold Standard Act
DHS 27 APUSH