AP US History
Course Guide 2013-14
The following course guide should be used as a planning tool and a topic guide for the
year. The assignments listed are the major readings, tests, essays and DBQs, but note
that not all assignments have been included. Additional course work such as vocabulary
quizzes, in-class assignments, and handouts will be a component of this course. More indepth explanation of all assignments will be discussed in class and posted on the course
website.
Unit 1: Contact
 Bailey Ch. 1-3- take notes and do vocabulary for each chapter.
 “Jamestown: Lost and Found”
 “Puritans and Sex” (handout)
 Multiple Choice exam (Unit 1)
Unit 2: Colony and Conflict
 Bailey Ch.4-6; take notes and do vocabulary for each chapter.
 Various primary and secondary sources
 Multiple Choice exam, in-class essay
Unit 3: Making the World Over: Revolution
 Read Bailey Ch.6-8: take notes and do vocabulary for each chapter.
 Various primary and secondary sources
 Multiple Choice exam, in class essay
Unit 4: The Ideals of a Nation
 Read Bailey Ch. 9-16; take notes and do vocabulary for each chapter.
 Various primary and secondary sources
 POA “Sunrise at Philadelphia”
 POA “Personal Side of a Developing People”
 Unit 4 essay-take home DBQ
 Multiple Choice exam
Unit 5: Tension, Turmoil and Transformation
 Read Bailey Ch. 17-23: take notes and do vocabulary for each chapter
 Various primary and secondary sources
 POA “The Lords and the Mill Girls”
 POA “Life in a Totalitarian System”
 POA “A New View of Reconstruction”
 Multiple Choice , DBQ practice
Unit 6: Farmers, Factory Workers and the New Economy
 Read Bailey Ch. 24-28: take notes and do vocabulary for each chapter
 Various primary and secondary sources
 Reading Response, POA(choose 1): “Andrew Carnegie: Master of Steel” “How
the Other Side Lived”
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Multiple Choice
Exam Week
Cumulative Semester Exam: Units 1-9
SEMESTER TWO
Unit 7: America Faces Global Challenges
 Read Bailey Ch. 29-38: take notes and do vocabulary
 POA “The Populist Protest:
 POA “African-Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights”
 POA “Woodrow Wilson Wouldn’t Yield”
 Handout “The Myth of the New Deal”
 POA “The Biggest Decision…” & “Hiroshima: The Victims”
 Various primary and secondary sources
 Multiple Choice; in class essay
Unit 8: America the Superpower
 Read Bailey Ch. 39-42; take notes and do vocabulary for each chapter
 Various primary and secondary sources
 POA “Betty Friedan Destroys the Myth of the Happy Housewife”
 POA “LBJ and the Nightmare of Vietnam”
 POA “How the 1970s Changed America”
 multiple choice and in-class essay
Unit 9: The New World Order
 Read Bailey Ch. 43-44: take notes and do vocabulary for each chapter
 Various primary and secondary sources
 “The New Right” and “The Evil Empire”
Unit 10: Review Time
 Mock exam
APUSH EXAM! WEDNESDAY MAY 14 8:00 AM @
NEIU
Unit 11: Constitution Applied
 Various exercises and projects, state-mandated Constitution Test (US and
Illinois)
 US and IL Constitution exam
Unit 12: Final Project
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Analyze a topic of choice in American popular culture to draw upon many
disciplines to understand the development of American culture. Investigate
popular media to illustrate the effects and scope of year-long study.
Presentations in May/June.