Syllabus: AP United States History Syllabus
General Course Information: AP U.S. History is a college level introductory course on United States History,
designed for 11th grade students. This course will focus on the colonial America, revolutionary ideology,
constitutional development, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, nineteenth-century reform movements, and
Manifest Destiny. Other topics include the Civil War and the Reconstruction, immigration, industrialism, Populism,
Progressivism, World War I, the Great Depression, and New Deal, World War II, the cold War, the post-Cold War
era, and the United States at the beginning of the twentieth-first century. This course will fulfill the United States
history requirements. Course material will be taught through a variety of means including: lecture and note taking,
class discussion, intensive reading, group and individual projects, and current events.
Themes emphasize throughout the year have been determined by the College Board as a comprehensive study of
United States history. Themes listed will include a variety of class discussions on American Diversity, American
Identity, Culture, Demographic Changes, Economic Transformations, Environment, Globalization, Politics and
Citizenship, Reform, Religion, Slavery and Its Legacies in North America, War and Diplomacy. The course is
designed to trace these themes throughout the year in order to make connections in how they help improve changes
in our society. Students will be able to understand the importance of participation in their community as they
interconnect the ways history shape our nation.
Course Outcome: These are the general goals:
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Prepare students for the responsibilities of social contract including voting and positive participation in the
local community
Prepare students for the AP U.S. History exam
Analyze the history and interpretations of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Examine the roles, powers, and relationships between formal and informal institutions in the United States
Recognize typical patterns of political processes and behavior and their consequences
Know important facts, concepts, and theories pertaining to U.S. history.
Textbooks
Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas Bailey. The American Pageant. 14 th ed. Boston, Mass.: Houghton
Miffin Co., 2010
Thomas A. Bailey, David M. Kennedy. The American Spirit 9 th ed. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Miffin Co., 1998
Grading: Tests 30%, historical essays/power point presentations 25%, Final 20%, class projects 10%, homework
10%, and class binder 5%. Essays must be type, double spaced or written in ink. Essay grading will depend on the
length and topic, use supporting resources, grammar, spelling, and critical thinking.
Grading: Grades are determined by the percentage of total course points earned by the student.
90-100%
A
80-89%
B
70-79%
C
60-69%
D
Below 60% F
Fall Semester
Calendar by
weekly
1
Makers of
America:
The Spanish
Conquistadores
Class Objectives
Homework Assignment
Unit One: Founding the New Nation33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1783
Key Term and People to Know
Chapter 1: New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.E. – 1769 C.E.
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The geology of the New World
Native Americans before Columbus
Europeans and Africans
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Columbus and the early explores
The ecological consequences of Columbus’s discovery
The conquest of Mexico
Spain builds a New World empire
Reading Assignment:
Bernal Diaz del Castillo; The
Conquest of New
Spain(Penguin Classics)1963
Chapter 1 Test: 30 multiple Choice Questions and answer two out of
three free response questions.
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Chapter 2: The Planting of English America 150 0 -1733
Makers of
America:
The Iroquois
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England’s Imperial Stirrings
Elizabeth Energizes England
England on the Eve of Empire
England Plants the Jamestown Seeding
Cultural Clash in the Chesapeake
The Indian’s New World
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Virginia: Child of Tobacco
Maryland: Catholic Haven
The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America
Colonizing the Carolinas
The Emergence of North Carolina
Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony
The Plantation Colonies
Key Term and People to Know
AP Review Questions for
Chapter 2 (pages 45A – 45B)
Reading Assignment: Love and
Hate in Jamestown: John
Smith, Pocahontas, and the
Start of a New Nation.
Class Reading: The Iroquois
Chapter 2 Test: 30 multiple Choice Questions and answer two out of
three free response questions.
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies 1619 – 1700
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The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism
The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth
The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth
Building the Bay Colony
Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth
The Rhode Island “Sewer”
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New England Spreads Out
Puritans Versus Indians
Class Reading: The English
Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence
Andros Promotes the First American Revolution
Old Netherlanders at New Netherland
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Friction with English and Swedish Neighbors
Dutch Residues in New York
Key Term and People to Know
Reading Assignment
Planting an Empire: the Early
Chesapeake in British North
America (1 -13)
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Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania
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Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors
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The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies
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Chapter 3 Test: 30 multiple Choice Questions and answer two out of
three free response questions.
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607-1692
The Atlantic
Slave Trade,
1500-1860
From African to
African American
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The Unhealthy Chesapeake
The Tobacco Economy
Frustrated Freemen and Bacon’s Rebellion
Colonial Slavery
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African in America
Sothern Society
The New England Family
Life in the New England Towns
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The Half-way Covenant and the Salem Witch Trials
The New England Way of Life
The Early Settlers’ Days and Ways
Key Term and People to Know
Reading Assignment
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel
Hawthorne:
Read Chapter 1 and 2
Chapter 4 Test: 30 multiple Choice Questions and answer two out of
three free response questions.
5-6
Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700-1775
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Conquest by the Cradle
A Mingling of the Races
The Structure of Colonial Society
Clerics, Physicians, and Jurists
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Workaday America
Horsepower and Sailpower
Dominant Denominations
The Great Awakening
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Schools and Colleges
A Provincial Culture
Pioneer Presses
The Great Game of Politics
Colonial Folkways
Key Term and People to Know
Reading Assignment
Poor Richard’s Almanack
(1747)by Benjamin Franklin
Document or any reading on
Education in the Thirteen
colonies.
Chapter 5 Test: 30 multiple Choice Questions and answer two out of
three free response questions.
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Chapter 6: The Duel for North America 1608-1763
Makers of
America:
The French
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France Finds a Foothold in Canada
New France Fans Out
The Clash of Empires c
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George Washington Inaugurates War with France
Global War and Colonial Disunity
Braddock’s Blundering and Its Aftermath
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Makers of America: The French –13th Ed
Restless Colonists
War’s Fateful Aftermath
Chapter 6 Test: 30 multiple Choice Questions and answer two out of
three free response questions.
Key Term and People to Know
Reading Assignment
Richard White;
The Middle Ground: Indians,
Empires, and Republics in the
Great Lakes Region, 16501815.
Read Introduction, Chapter
one, and the Epilogue
9-10
Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution 1763-1775
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The Deep Roots of Revolution
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Mercantilism and colonial Grievances
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The Merits and Menace of Mercantilism
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The Stamp Tax Uproar
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Forced Repeal of the Stamp Act
The Townshend Tea tax and the Boston “Massacre”
The Seditious Committees of Correspondence
The Brewing in Boston
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Parliament Passes the “Intolerable Acts”
Bloodshed
Imperial Strength and Weakness
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American Pluses and Minuses
A Thin Line of Heroes
Chronology
Key Term and People to Know
Reading Assignment:
Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams Political careers.
The American Revolution;
before, during and after.
Chapter 7 Test
11-12
Makers of
America:
The Loyalists
Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire 1775-1783
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Congress Drafts George Washington
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Bunker hill and Hessian Hirelings
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The Abortive conquest of Canada
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Thomas Paine Preaches Common Sense
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Paine and the Idea of “Republicanism”
Jefferson’s “Explanation” of Independence
Patriots and Loyalists
The loyalist Exodus
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General Washington at Bay
Burgoyne’s Blundering Invasion
Revolution in Diplomacy?
The Colonial War Becomes a Wilder War
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Blow and Counterblow
The Land Frontier and the Sea Frontier
Yorktown and the Final Curtain
Peace at Paris
A New Nation Legitimized
Key Term and People to Know
Current Event
Read the Declaration of
Independence
And George Washington’s
autobiography.
John Jay: Founding Fathers by
Walter Stahr
First Class Project:
The 27 Amendments of the
U.S. Constitution
Power point/Poster/Essay
Chapter 8 Test
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution 1776-1790
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The Pursuit of Equality
Constitution Making in
the States
Economic
Crosscurrents
A Shaky Start Toward
Union
Creating a Constitution
The Articles of
confederation:
America’s First
Constitution
Landmarks in land
Laws
The World’s Ugly
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The Horrid Specter of
Anarchy
A convention of
“Demigods”
Patriots in Philadelphia
Hammering Out a
Bundle of
Compromises
Safeguards for
Conservatism
The Clash of
Federalists and
Antifederalists
The Great Debate in
the States
Key Term and People to Know
Reading Assignment:
The Federalist No. 10
And
Washington Farewell Address
1796
Duckling
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The Four Laggard
States
A Conservative
Triumph
Chapter 10: Launching the new Ship of State 1789-1800
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Growing Pains
Washington for
President
The Bill of Rights
Hamilton Revives the
Corpse of Public Credit
Customs Duties and
Excise Taxes
Hamilton Battles
Jefferson for a Bank
Mutinous Moonshiners
in Pennsylvania
The Emergence of
Political Parties
The Impact of the
French Revolution
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Washington’s
Neutrality
Proclamation
Embroilments with
Britain
Jay’s Treaty and
Washington’s Farewell
John Adams Becomes
President
Unofficial Fighting
with France
Adams Puts Patriotism
Above Party
The Federalist Witch
Hunt
The Virginia
(Madison) and
Kentucky (Jefferson)
Resolutions
Federalists Versus
DemocraticRepublicans
15-16
Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic
1800-1812
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Federalist and
Republicans
Mudslingers
The Jeffersonian
“Revolution 1800”
Responsibility Breeds
Moderation
Jeffersonian Restraint
The “Dead Clutch” of
the Judiciary
Jefferson, a Reluctant
Warrior
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The Louisiana
Godsend
Louisiana Long View
The Aaron Burr
Conspiracies
A Precarious Neutrality
The Hated Embargo
Madison’s Gamble
Tecumseh and the
Prophet
Mr. Madison’s War
Key Term and People to Know
Reading Assignments:
1. “Kentucky and
Virginia
Resolutions”
2. Marbury V.
Madison.
Second Class Project: U.S.
Presidents
Power point/Poster/Essay
Chapters 11 and 12 Test
Chapter 12: The Second war for independence and the Upsurge of
Nationalism 1812-1824
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Makers of
America:
Settlers of the Old
Northwest
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17-18
The Irish
The Germans
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Growing Pains of the
west
Slavery and Sectional
Balance
The Uneasy Missouri
Compromise
John Marshall and
Judicial Nationalism
Judicial Dikes Against
Democratic Excesses
Sharing Oregon and
Acquiring Florida
The Menace of
Monarchy in America
Monroe and His
Doctrine
Monroe’s Doctrine
Appraised
Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824-1840
The “Corrupt Bargain”
of 1824
2. A Yankee Misfit in the
White House
3. Going “Whole Hog”
for Jackson in 1828
4. “Old Hickory” as
President
5. The Spoils System
6. The Tricky “Tariff of
Abominations”
7. “Nullies” in South
Carolina
8. The Trail of Tears
9. The Bank War
10. “Old Hickory” Wallops
Clay in 1832
1.
Maker of
America:
Mexican and
Texican
On to Canada over
Land and Lakes
Washington Burned
and New Orleans
Defended
The Treaty of Ghent
Federalist Grievances
and the Hartford
Convention
The Second War for
American
Independence
Nascent Nationalism
“The American
System”
The So-Called Era of
Good Feelings
The Panic of 1819 and
the Curse of hard
Times
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Burying Biddle’s Bank
The Birth of the Whigs
The Election of 1836
Big Woes for the
“Little Magician”
Depression Doldrums
and the and the
Independent Treasury
Gone to Texas
The Lone Star
Rebellion
Log Cabins and Hard
Cider of 1840
Politics for the People
The Two Party System
Key Term and People to Know
Reading Assignment:
Veto of the Bank Renewal Bill
And
The Monroe Doctrine
Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy 1790-1860
1. The Westward
11. Women and the
Movement
Economy
2. Shaping the Western
12. Western Farmers Reap
Landscape
a Revolution in the
3. The March of the
Fields
Millions
13. Highways and
4. The Emerald Isle
Steamboats
Moves West
14. “Clinton’s Big Ditch”
5. The German Fortyin New York
Eighters
15. The Iron Horse
6. Frare-Ups of
16. Cables, Clippers and
Antiforeignism
Pony Riders
7. Creeping
17. The Transport Web
Merchanization
Binds the Union
8. Whitney Ends the Fiber
18. The Market Revolution
Famine
9. Marvels in
Manufactoring
10. Workers and “Wage
Slaves”
Chapters 13 and 14 Test: 40 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two
out of three free response questions.
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Makers of
America: The
Oneida
Community
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790-1860
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Reviving Religion
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Denominational Diversity
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A Desert Zion in Utah
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Free Schools for a Free People
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Higher Goals for Higher Learning
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An Age of Reform
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Demon Rum-The “Old Deluder”
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Women in Revolt
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Wilderness Utopias
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The Dawn of Scientific Achievement
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Artistic Achievements
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The Blossoming of a National Literature
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Trumpeters of Transcendentalism
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Growing Literature Lights
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Literary Individualists and Dissenters
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Portrayers of the Past
Practice AP Exam
Finals
Key Term and People to Know
Reading Assignment:
“Whiteness ,”Reform, and
Slavery
Melville’s Moby Dick
Unit Two Exam: 60 Multiple Choice Questions
And Answer two out of three free response questions
AP U.S. History Winter Break Homework Assignment
Spring Semester
1
Unit Three: Testing The New Nation 1820-1877
Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy 1793-1860
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“Cotton is King”
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Life Under the Lash
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The Planter
“Aristocracy”
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The Burdens of
Bondage
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Slaves of the Slave
System
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Early Abolitionism
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Radical Abolitionism
The White Majority
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The South Lashes Back
Free Blacks: Slaves
Without Masters
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The Abolitionist
Impact in the North
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Plantation Slavery
Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841-1848
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The Accession of
“Tyler Too”
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A Mandate (?) for
Manifest Destiny
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John Tyler: A
President Without a
Party
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Polk the Purposeful
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Misunderstandings with
Mexico
A War of Words with
Britain
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American Blood on
American (?) Soil
Manipulating the
Maine Maps
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The Mastering of
Mexico
The Lone Star of
Texas Shines Alone
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Fighting Mexico for
Peace
The Belated Texas
Nuptials
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Profit and Loss in
Mexico
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The Californios
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Key Term and People to
Know
Oregon Fever
Populates Oregon
Chapters 16 and 17 Test: 40 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two
out of three free response questions.
Reading Assignment:
1. Narrative of the
life of Frederick
Douglas
2. And Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
3. The Treaty of
Guadalupe
Hidalgo
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848-1854
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The Popular
Sovereignty Panacea
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Balancing the
Compromise Scales
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Political Triumphs for
General Taylor
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Defeat and Doom for
the Whigs
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“Californy Gold”
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Expansionist Stirrings
South of the Border
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Sectional Balance and
the Underground
Railroad
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The Allure of Asia
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Pacific Railroad
Promoters and the
Gadsden Purchase
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Twilight of the
Senatorial Giants
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Deadlock and Danger
on Capitol Hill
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Douglas’s KansasNebraska Scheme
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Breaking the
Congressional Logjam
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Congress Legislate a
Civil War
Key Term and People to
Know
Reading Assignment:
Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion 1854-1861
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Stowe and Helper:
Literary Incendiaries
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An Illinois Rail-Splitter
Emerges
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The North-South
Contest for Kansas
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The Great Debate:
Lincoln Versus
Douglas
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Kansas in Convulsion
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“Bully” Brooks and
His Bludgeon
John Brown: Murderer
or Martyr?
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“Old Buck” Versus
“The Pathfinder”
The Disruption of the
Democrats
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The Electoral Fruits of
1856
A Rail-Splitter Splits
the Union
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The Dred Scott
Bombshell
The Electoral Upheaval
of 1860
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The Financial Crash of
1857
The Secessionist
Exodus
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The Collapse of
Compromise
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Farewell to Union
Chapters 18 and 19 Test: 40 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two
out of three free response questions.
John C. Calhoun: The
Slavery Question
And
William Grayson, “The
Hireling and the Slave”
Dred Scott V. Sanford
Court Case
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the South 1861-1865
Makers of
America:
Billy Yank and
Johnny Reb
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The Menace of
Secession
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President Davis Versus
President Lincoln
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South Carolina Assails
Fort Sumter
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Limitations on
Wartime Liberties
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Brothers’ Blood and
Border Blood
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Volunteers and
Draftees: North and
South
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The Balance of Forces
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Dethroning King
Cotton
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The Decisiveness of
Diplomacy
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The Economic Stresses
of War
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The North’s Economic
Boom
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A Crushed Cotton
Kingdom
Key Term and People to
Know
Reading Assignment:
1. Abraham
Lincoln’s First
Inaugural Address
2. The Emancipation
Proclamation
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War 1861-1865
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Bull Run Ends the
“Ninety-Day War”
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Lee’s Last Lunge at
Gettysburg
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“Tardy George”
McClellan and the
Peninsula Campaign
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The War in the West
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Sherman Scorches
Georgia
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The Politics of War
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The Election of 1864
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Grant Outlasts Lee
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The Martyrdom of
Lincoln
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The Aftermath of the
Nightmare
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The War at Sea
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The Pivotal Point:
Antietam
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A Proclamation
Without Emancipation
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Blacks Battle Bondage
Chapters 20 and 21 Test: 40 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two
out of three free response questions.
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3. Abraham
Lincoln’s
Gettysburg
Address
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865-1877
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The Problems of Peace
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Republican Principles
and Programs
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Freedmen Define
Freedom
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Reconstruction by the
Sword
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No Women Voters
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The Realities of
Radical Reconstruction
in the South
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The Freemen’s Bureau
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Johnson: The Tailor
President
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Presidential
Reconstruction
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The Ku Klux Klan
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The Baleful Black
Code
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Johnson Walks the
Impeachment Plank
Congressional
Reconstruction
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A Non-Guilty Verdict
for Johnson
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Johnson Clashes with
Congress
Swinging ‘Round the
Circle with Johnson
Key Term and People to
Know
Reading Assignment:
African American Leaders
During the Reconstruction
First Class Project:
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The Purchase of Alaska
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The Heritage of
Reconstruction
The Civil War and
Manifest Destiny
Power point/Poster/Essay
Unit Three Exam 60 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two out of three
free response questions
5
Makers of
America:
The Chinese
Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
1869-1896
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The “Bloody Shirt”
Elects Grant
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Class Conflict and
Ethnic Clashes
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The Era of Good
Stealings
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Garfield and Arthur
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A Carnival of
Corruption
The Blaine-Cleveland
Mudslingers of 1884
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The Liberal Republican
Revolt of 1872
“Old Grover” Takes
Over
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Depression, Deflation,
and Inflation
Cleveland Battles for a
Lower Tariff
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Pallid Politics in the
The Billion-Dollar
Congress
Key Term and People to
Know
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Gilded Age
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The Drumbeat of
Discontent
The Hayes-Tilden
Standoff, 1876
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Cleveland and
Depression
The Compromise of
1877 and the End of
Reconstruction
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Cleveland Breeds a
Backlash
The Birth of Jim Crow
in the PostReconstruction South
Reading Assignment:
1. The Populist and
Progressive
Movement
2. Walt Whitman,
Democratic Vistas
Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age 1865-1900
Makers of
America:
The knights of
Labor
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The Iron Becomes an
Iron Horse
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Carnegie and Other
Sultans of Steel
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Spanning the Continent
with Rails
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Rockefeller Grows an
American beauty Rose
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Binding the Country
with Railroad Ties
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The Gospel of Wealth
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Railroad Consolidation
and Mechanization
Government Tackles
the Trust Evil
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Revolution by
Railways
The South in the Age
of Industry
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Wrongdoing in
Railroading
The Impact of the New
Industrial Revolution
on America
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Government Bridles
the Iron Horse
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The Union There Is
Strength
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Miracles
Mechanization
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Labor Limps Along
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The Truth Titan
Emerges
Unhorsing the Knights
of Labor
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The Supremacy of
Steel
The AF of L to the
Fore
Chapters 23 and 24 Test: 40 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two out
of three free response questions.
3. Andrew Carnegie,
Wealth
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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City 1865-1900
 The Hallowed Halls of
Ivy
 The Urban Frontier
Key Term and People to
Know
 The New Immigration
 The March of the Mind
 Southern Europe
Uprooted
 The Appeal of the
Press
 Reactions to the New
Immigration
Makers of
America:
 Apostles of Reform
 Narrowing the
Welcome Mat
The Italians
 Postwar Writing
Reading Assignment:
 Literary Landmarks
The American Spirit:
Chapter 26 and 27
 Churches Confront the
Urban Challenge
 The New Morality
 Darwin Disrupts the
Churches
 Families and Women
in the City
 The Lust for Learning
 Prohibition of Alcohol
and Social Progress
 Booker T. Washington
and Education for
Black People
 Artistic Triumphs
 The Business of
Amusement
Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution 1865-1896

The Clash of Cultures
on the Plains

The Farm Becomes a
Factor

Receding Native
Population

Deflation Dooms the
Debtor

Bellowing Herds of
Bison

Unhappy Farmers


The End of the Trail
The Farmers Take
Their Stand

Mining: From Dishpam
to Ore Breaker

Prelude to Populism


Beef Bonanzas and the
long Drive
Coxey’s Army and the
Pullman Strike


The Farmer’s Frontier
Golden McKinley and
Silver Bryan

The Far West Comes
Of Age

Class Conflict:
Plowholders Versus
Bondholders

The Fading Frontier

Republican Stand-
1. Changing Role of
Women
2. Life on the
Frontier
pattism Enthrone
Chapters 25 and 26 Test: 40 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two
out of three free response questions.
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Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion 1890-1909

American Turns
Outward

Spurning the Hawaiian
Pear

Cubans Rise in Revolt

Dewey’s May Day
Victory at Manila

The Confused Invasion
of Cuba
The Puerto
Ricans

America’s Course
(Curse?) of Empire
The Filipinos

Perplexities in Puerto
Rico and Cuba

New Horizons in Two
Hemispheres
Makers of
America:

“Little Brown
Brothers” in the
Philippines

Hinging the Open Door
in China

Imperialism or
Bryanism in 1900?

TR: Brandisher of the
Big Stick

Building the Panama
Canal

TR’s Perversion of
Monroe’s Doctrine

Roosevelt on the World
Stage

Japanese Laborers in
California
Unit Four Test:60 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two out of
three free response questions
Key Term and People to
Know
Reading Assignment:
The American Spirit:
Chapter 29 and 30
1.
The Declaration of War
2.
The Panama Revolution
3.
D. Roosevelt and Japan
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Unit Five: Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad 1901-1945
Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901-1912
Makers of
America:
The
Environmentalists

Progressive Roots

Earth Control

Raking Muck with the
Muckrakers

The “Roosevelt Panic”
of 1907

Political Progressivism

The Rough Rider
Thunders Out

Progressivism in the
Cities and States

Taft: A Round Peg in
a Square Hole

Progressive Women

TR’s Square Deal for
Labor

TR Corrals the
Corporations

Caring for the
Consumer
Key Term and People to
Know
Reading Assignment
The American Spirit:
Chapter 31 and 32
1.
The Plight of Labor

The Dollar Goes
Abroad as a Diplomat
2.
The Crusade for
Women’s Suffrage

Taft the Trustbuster
3.
Campaigning for
Monetary Reform

Taft Splits the
Republican Party
4.
Acquiring in the British
Blockade

The Taft-Roosevelt
Rupture
Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad 1912-1916

The “Bull Moose”
Campaign of 1912

New Directions in
Foreign Policy

Woodrow Wilson: A
Minority President

Moralistic Diplomacy
in Mexico

Wilson: The Idealist in
Politics

Thunder Across the
Sea

Wilson Tackles the
Tariff

A Precarious Neutrality


Wilson Battles the
Bankers
America Earns Blood
Money


The President Tames
the Trusts
Wilson Wins
Reelection in 1916

Wilsonian
Progressivism at High
Tide
Chapters 28 and 29 Test: 40 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two
out of three free response questions.
9
Key Term and People to
Know
Chapter 30: The War to End War 1917-1918

War by Act of
Germany

America Helps
Hammer the “Hun”

Wilsonian Idealism
Enthroned

The Fourteen Points
Disarm Germany

Wilson’s Fourteen
Potent Points

Wilson Steps Down
from Olympus

Creel Manipulates
Minds

An Idealist Battles the
Imperialists in Paris

Enforcing Loyalty and
Stifling Dissent

Hammering Out the
Treaty

The Nation’s Factories
Go to War

The Peace Treaty That
Bred a new War

Workers in Wartime


Suffering Until
Suffrage

Wilson’s Tour Collapse
(1919)
Forcing a War
Economy

Defeat Through
Deadlock
Making Plowboys into
Doughboys

The “Solemn
Referendum” of 1920
Fighting in FranceBelatedly

The Betrayal of Great
Expectations



The Domestic Parade
of Prejudice
Chapter 31: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1919-1929

Seeing Red

The Advent of the
Gasoline Age

Hooded Hoodlums of
the KKK

Humans Develop
Wings
Stemming the Foreign
Flood

The Radio Revolution

Makers of
America:
The Poles

The Prohibition
“Experiment”

Hollywood’s Filmland
Fantasies

The Golden Age
Gangsterism

The Dynamic Decade

Cultural Liberalism

Monkey Business in
Tennessee

Cultural Liberalism

Wall Street’s Big Bull
Market

The MassConsumption
Reading Assignment
The American Spirit:
Chapter 33 and 34
1. The Propaganda
Front
2. The Struggle over
the Peace Treaty
3. New Goals for
Women
4. Woodrow Wilson,
The Fourteen
Points
Economy

Putting America on
Rubber Tires
Chapters 30 and 31 Test: 40 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two
out of three free response questions.
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Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920-1932
Key Term and People to
Know

The Republican “Old
Guard” Returns

Unraveling the Debt
Knot

GOP Reaction at the
Throttle

The Triumph of
Herbert Hoover, 1928
Reading Assignment

The Aftermath of War

President Hoover’s
First Moves

America Seek Benefits
Without Burdens
The American Spirit:
Chapter 35 and 36

The Great Clash Ends
the Golden Twenties
1.
Hiking the Tariff
Higher
The Depression
Descends

Hooked on the Horn of
Plenty
2.
Herbert Hoover
Clashes with Franklin
Roosevelt


The Stench of Scandal

“ Silent Cal” Coolidge




Rugged Times for
Rugged Individualists
Frustrated Farmers

Hoover battles the
Great Depression
3.
The Face of the Great
Depression
A Three-Way Race for
White House in 1924

Routing the Bonus
Army in Washington
4.
Foreign-Policy
Flounderings
The Struggle to
Organized Labor

Japanese Militarists
Attack China

Hoover Pioneers the
Good Neighbor Policy
Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933-1939

FDR: Politicians in a
Wheelchair

Dust Bowls and Black
Blizzards

Presidential Hopefuls
of 1932

Battling Bankers and
Big Business

Hoover’s Humiliation

The TVA Harnesses
the Tennessee

FDR and the Three R’s:
Relief, Recovery,
Reform

Housing and Social
Security

A New Deal for Labor

Landon Challenges
“the Champ”

Roosevelt Manages the
Money

Creating Jobs for the
Maker of
America:
The Dust Bowl
Migrants


Jobless

The Court Changes
Course
A Day for Every
Demagogue

Twilight of the New
Deal
New Visibility for
Women

New Deal or Raw Deal

FDR’s Balance Sheet

Helping Industry and
Labor

Paying Farmers Not to
Farm
Second Class Project:
Cause and Effect of World
War One, World War Two
and the Cold War
Power point/Poster/Essay
Chapters 32 and 33 Test: 40 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two
out of three free response questions.
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Makers of
America:
Refugees from the
Holocaust
The Japanese
Chapter 34: Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933-1941

The London
Conference

Freedom for (From?)
the Filipinos and
Recognition for the
Russians

Bolstering Britain with
the Destroyer Deal
(1940)

FDR Shatters the TwoTerm Tradition (1940)
Reading Assignment:


Secretary Hull’s
Reciprocal Trade
Agreements
Congress Passes the
Landmark Lend-Lease
Law

Hitler’s Assault on the
Soviet Union Spawns
the Atlantic Charter
Congress Legislates
Neutrality

U.S. Destroyers and
Hitler’s U-Boats Clash

America Dooms
Loyalist Spain

Surprise Assault on
Pearl Harbor

Appeasing Japan and
Germany


Hitler’s Belligerency
and U.S. Neutrality
America’s
Transformation from
Bystander to
Belligerent

The Fall of France

Storm-Cellar
Isolationism

Key Term and People to
Know
Chapter 35: America in World War II 1941-1945

The Allies Trade Space
for Time

The Allied Halting of
Hitler

The Shock of War

A Second Front from
North Africa to Rome

Building the War
Machine

D-Day: June 6, 1944
The American Spirit:
Chapter 37 and 38
1. The Struggle
Against
Isolationism
2. The Blame for
Pear Harbor
3. War and
American Society
4. Soviet-American
Friction

Manpower and
Womanpower

FRD: The FourthTermite of 1944

Wartime Migrations

Roosevelt Defeat
Dewey

Holding the Home
Front

The Last Days of Hitler

Japan Dies Hard

The Atomic Bombs

The Allies Triumphant

The Rising Sun in the
Pacific

Japan’s High Tide at
Midway

American
Leapfrogging Toward
Tokyo
Unit Five Test:60 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two out of three
free response questions
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Unit 6: Making Modern America 1945 to the Present
Key Term and People to
Know
Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins 1945-1952
Makers Of
America
The Suburbanites

Postwar Economic
Anxieties

Shaping the Postwar
World

The Long Economic
Boom, 1950-1970

The Problem of
Germany

The Roots of Postwar
Prosperity

The Cold War
Congeals

The Smiling Sunbelt

America Begins to
Rearm

The Rush to the
Suburbs

Reconstruction and
Revolution in Asia
The Postwar Baby
Boom

Ferreting out Alleged
Communists
Truman: The “Gutty”
Man form Missouri

Democratic Divisions
In 1948
Yalta: Bargain or
Betrayal?

The Korean Volcano
Erupts (1950)
The United States and
the Soviet Union

The military Seesaw in
Korea

Making Of
America
The Great
African American
Migration



Reading Assignment:
The American Spirit:
Chapter 39 and 40
1. The New Shape of
Postwar Society
2. The Truman
Doctrine
3. The Supreme
Court and the
Black Revolution
and
4. Brown versus the
Board of
Education
Chapter 36 and
37 Test
40 Multiple Choice
Questions and answer
two out of three free
response questions.
Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era 1952-1960

Affluence and Its
Anxieties

The Vietnam
Nightmare

Consumer Culture in
the Fifties

Cold War Crises in
Europe and the middle
East

The Advent of
Eisenhower

Round Two for Ike

The Rise And Fall of
Joseph McCarthy

The Continuing Cold
War

Desegregation
American Society

Cuba’s Castroism
Spells Communism

Seeds of the Civil
Right Revolution

Kennedy Challenges
Nixon for the
Presidency

Eisenhower
Republicanism at
Home

An Old General Fades
Away

The Life of the Mind in
Postwar America

A “New Look” in
Foreign Policy
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Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties 1960-1968








Kennedy’s “New
Frontier” Spirit
The New Frontier at
Home

Johnson Battle
Goldwater in 1964

The Great Society
Congress

Battling for Black
Rights

Black Power

Combating
Communism in Two
Hemispheres

Vietnam Vexations

Vietnam Topples
Johnson

The Presidential
Sweepstakes of 1968

The Obituary of
Rumbling in Europe
Foreign Flare-ups and
“Flexible Response”
Stepping into the
Vietnam Quagmire
Cuban Confrontations
The Struggle for Civil
Rights
The Killing of
Kennedy
Key Term and People to
Know

Lyndon Johnson
The LBJ Brand on the
Presidency

The Cultural Upheaval
of the 1960s
Reading Assignment:
Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies 1968-1980
Makers of
America:
The Vietnamese

Sources of Stagnation

Nixon “Vietnamizes”
the War


The Feminists

Watergate and the
Unmaking of a
President

The First Unelected
President

Defeat in Vietnam

Feminist Victories and
Defeats
Cambodianizing the
Vietnam War
Nixon’s Détente with
Beijing (Peking)and
Moscow

A New Team on the
Supreme Bench

The Seventies in Black
and White

Nixon on the Home
Front

The Bicentennial
Campaign and Carter
Victory

The Nixon Landslide of
1972

The Secret Bombing of
Cambodia and the War
Powers Act

Carter’s Humanitarian
Diplomacy

Economic and Energy
Woes

Foreign Affairs and the
Iranian Imbroglio
The American Spirit:
Chapter 41 and
1.
President Johnson’s
Great Society
2.
The Black
Revolution Erupts
3.
Martin Luther King,
Jr., “I Have a
Dream” speech
And
4.
John F. Kennedy,
Inaugural Address
Third Class Project Due:
AP US History Themes:
Power point/Poster/Essay

The Arab Oil Embargo
And the Energy Crisis
Chapter 38 and 39 Test: 40 Multiple Choice Questions and
answer two out of three free response questions.
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Chapter 40: The Resurgence of Conservatism 19801992

The Election of Ronald
Reagan, 1980

Reagan’s Economic
Legacy

The Reagan Revolution

The Religious Right

The Battle of the
Budget

Conservatism in the
Courts

Reagan Renews the
Cold War

Referendum on
Reaganism in 1988

Troubles Abroad


Round Two for Reagan
George H. W. Bush an
the End of the Cold
War
Key Term and People to
Know

The Iran-Contra
Imbroglio

The Persian Gulf Crisis

Bush on the Home
Front
Reading Assignment:
The American Spirit:
Chapter 43 and 44
Chapter 41: America Confronts the Post-Cold War
Era 1992-2004

Bill Clinton: The First
Baby-Boomer
President

The Bush-Gore
Presidential Battle

The Controversial
Election of 2000

Bush Begins

Terrorism Comes to
America

A False Start for
Reform

The Politics of Distrust

Clinton Again

Problems Abroad

Bush Takes the
Offensive Against Iraq

Scandal and
Impeachment

Owning Iraq
Clinton’s Legacy

A Country in Conflict

Reelecting George W.
Bush

1.
The Reagan
“Revolution” in
Economic Policy
2.
Social Issues Enter
Policies
3.
American Women:
New Roles, New
Problems
4.
Roe versus Wade
and
Chapter 40 and 41 Test: 40 Multiple Choice Questions and
answer two out of three free response questions.
15
Makers of
America:
Scientists and
Engineers
The Latinos
Chapter 42: The American People Face a New
Century

Economic Revolution

Affluence and
Inequality

The Feminist
Revolution

New Families and Old

The Aging of America

The New Immigration

Beyond the Melting
Pot

Cities and Suburbs

Minority America

The Life of the Mind

The American Prospect
Reading Assignment:
1.
Globalization and
Culture by John
Tomlinson
2. Women’s Quest for
Unit Six Test:60 Multiple Choice Questions and answer two
out of three free response questions
Key Term and People to
Know
Economic Equality
by Victor R. Fuchs
Book Report Due
16
Review for AP Exam
17
Review for AP Exam
18
Final Review
19
Finals
20
Grades Due