ADVANCED PLACEMENT
UNITED STATES HISTORY
ASSIGNMENT OUTLINE: UNITS 1 – 15
Book Note Directions: Please read and either download, outline, or use Cornell book notes. They
should be read, highlighted, and studied before the test.
Primary Sources: Each Document should be read and analyzed using the SOAPSS method. This is
listed in the classroom.
Terms:
You should be prepared to explain the historical significance of each term as it relates to
the study of U.S. History. You may also use the terms for flash cards.
UNIT I: COLONIZATION
Test: Friday, Sept. 9, 2011
Book Notes: The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 1: New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C. – A.D. 1769
Chapter 2: The Planting of English America, 1500 – 1733
Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619 – 1700
Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607 – 1692
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Volume I-to 1877
Chapter 1: New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1769 p. 1
A Slave Is Taken to Barbados (c.1750)
Chapter 2: The Planting of English America, 1500-1733 p.31
The Intolerant Act of Toleration (1649)
Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700 p. 41
Anne Hutchinson is Banished (1627)
Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692 p. 62
The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria (1692)
Discussion: Wed., September 7, 2011
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Chapter 1
nation-state
matrilinear
confederacy
primeval
saga
middlemen
caravel
plantation
ecosystem
demographic
conquistador
capitalism
encomienda
mestizo
province
Chapter 2
nationalsim
primogeniture
joint-stock companies
charter
census
feudal
indentured servant
toleration
squatter
buffer
melting pot
Chapter 3
predestination
elect
conversion
visible saints
calling
heresy
seditious
commonwealth
autocratic
passive resistance
asylum
proprietary
naturalization
blue laws
ethnic
Chapter 4
headright
disfranchise
civil war
tidewater
middle passage
fertility
menial
militia
hierarchy
corporation
jeremiad
lynching
hinterland
social structure
blue blood
UNIT 2: THE REVOLUTION
Test:
Friday, Sept. 23, 2011
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700 – 1775
Chapter 6: The Duel for North America, 1608 – 1763
Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution, 1763 – 1775
Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire, 1775 – 1783
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Volume I-to 1877
Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700 – 1775 p. 83
Jonathan Edwards Paints the Horrors of Hell (1741)
Chapter 6: The Duel for North America, 1608 – 1763 p.104
Andrew Burnaby Scoffs at Colonial Unity (1760)
Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution, 1763 – 1775 pp. 126-146
Connecticut Decries the Boston Port Act (1774)
Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire, 1775 – 1783 p. 147
The Hanging of a Loyalist (C. 1778)
Discussion : Wed., Sept. 21, 2011
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Chapter 5
melting pot
sect
agitators
stratification
mobility
elite
almshouse
gentry
tenant farmer
penal code
veto
apprentice
speculation
revival
secular
Chapter 6
domestic
minister
autocratic
peasant
coureurs des bois
voyageurs
flotilla
ecological
mutinous
strategic
guerilla warfare
sallies
siege
regulars
commissions
Chapter 7
patronage
mercantilism
depreciate
veto
monopoly
admiralty courts
virtual representation
nonimportation agreement
mulatto
duty
propaganda
boycott
inflation
desert
Chapter 8
mercenary
indictment
dictatorship
neutral
civilian
traitor
confiscate
envoy
rabble
arsenal
isolationist
hereditary
blockade
privateer
graft
UNIT 3: THE FEDERALISTS
Test:
Friday, Sept. 30, 2011
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776 – 1790
Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State, 1789 – 1800
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Volume I-to 1877
Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776 – 1790 p. 167
Daniel Gray Explains the Shaysites’ Grievances (1786)
Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State, 1789 – 1800 p. 188
Jefferson Versus Hamilton on the bank (1791)
Discussion : Wed. Sept. 28, 2011
Chapter 9
disestablish
emancipation
chattel
abolitionist
ratification
bill of rights
speculators
township
territory
annex
requisition
foreclosure
quorum
anarchy
bicameral, unicameral
Chapter 10
census
public debt
cabinet
circuit court
fiscal
assumption
excise
stock
medium of exchange
despotism
impress
assimilation
witch-hunt
compact
nullification
UNIT 4: THE JEFFERSONIANS
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Test:
Friday, October 7, 2011
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800 – 1812
Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism,
1812 – 1824
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Volume I-to 1877
Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800 – 1812 p. 215
Napoleon Decides to Dispose of Louisiana (1803)
Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812 – 1824 p. 237
Causes of the War (1812, 1813)
Discussion:
Wed., Oct. 5, 2011
secession
conscription
broadside
embargo
Chapter 12
regiment
mediation
armistice
dynasty
reaction
Chapter 11
lame duck
commission
writ
impeachment
pacifist
consulate
cede
precedent
protection
raw materials
internal improvements
intrastate
depression
boom
wildcat bank
peculiar institution
demagogic
contract
UNIT 5: JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
Test:
Friday, October 21, 2011
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824 – 1840
Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy, 1790 – 1860
Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform & Culture, 1790 – 1860
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Volume I-to 1877
Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824 – 1840 p. 263
South Carolina Threatens Secession (1832)
Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy, 1790 – 1860 p. 291
The “Utopian” Lowell Looms (1844)
Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform & Culture, 1790 – 1860
The Seneca Falls Manifesto (1848)
Discussion: Wed., Oct. 19, 2011
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Chapter 13
deference
puritanical
mudslinging
spoils
denominations
evangelical
hard money
usurpation
favorite sons
machine
temperance
populist
divine right
Chapter 14
caste
nativist
factory
trademark
patent
liability
incorporation
labor union
strike
capitalist
turnpike
posterity
productivity
barter
Chapter 15
polygamy
theocracy
zealot
utopian
communistic
communitarian
free love
eugenic
coitus reservatus
classical
mystical
nonconformist
nonviolence
urbane
providential
UNIT 6: PRELUDE TO WAR 1840 – 1860
Tests:
Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793 – 1860
Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841 – 1848
Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848 – 1854
Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854 – 1861
Primary Source Documents; The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Volume I-to 1877
Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793 – 1860 p. 351
A Former Slave Exposes Slavery (1850)
Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841 – 1848
The Cabinet Debates War (1846)
Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848 – 1854 p. 400
Stephen Douglas’s Popular-Sovereignty Plea (1854)
Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854 – 1861 pp. 427-446
The South Scorns Mrs. Stowe (1852)
Discussion: Tues., Nov. 8, 2011
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intrigue
parallel
deadlock
dark horse
mandate
platform
no-man’s-land
indemnity
Chapter 18
self-determination
homestead
vigilante
sanctuary
fugitive
topography
mundane
statecraft
isthmian
filibustering
Chapter 16
oligarchy
medievalism
commission
middlemen
racism
bankruptcy
overseer
sabotage
fratricidal
barbarism
Chapter 17
caucus
royalty
default
repudiate
protectorate
colossus
resolution
Mikado
cloak-and-dagger
manifesto
booster
truce
Chapter 19
puppet government
bigoted
public domain
bandwagon
apportionment
splintering
affidavit
martyr
border state
vassalage
UNIT 7: THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION (1860 – 1877)
Test:
Wed., Nov. 30, 2011
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861 – 1865
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War, 1861 – 1865
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865 – 1877
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Volume I-to 1877
Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861 – 1865 pp. 447-465
Fort Sumter Inspirits the South (1861)
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War, 1861 – 1865 pp. 466-499
The Hell of Andersonville Prison (1864)
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865 – 1877 pp. 501-537
Johnson’s Cleveland Speech (1866)
Discussion: Mon., Nov. 28, 2011
Chapter 20
balance of power
moral suasion
martial law
ultimatum
loophole
squadron
arbitration
appropriation
habeas corpus
arbitrary
quota
greenback
bond
graft
profiteer
Chapter 21
intelligence
reconnaissance
proclamation
flank
court-martial
garrison
morale
pillaging
tribunal
running mate
Chapter 22
treason
civil disabilities
legalistically
mutual aid societies
confiscation
pocket veto
lease
chain gang
sharecrop
peonage
scalawag
carpetbagger
felony
terror
president pro tempore
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UNIT 8: THE GILDED AGE (1869 – 1900)
Directions: Please read and either outline or use Cornell book notes. They are due on the dates listed.
NO EXCEPTIONS!
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869 – 1896: Jan. 10, 2011
Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age, 1865 – 1900: Jan. 10, 2011
Chapter 25: America Moves to the City, 1865 – 1900: Jan. 10, 2011
Themes:
▪ Political Alignment and the Corruption of the Gilded Age
▪ The Role of Government in a changing economy
▪ Social, economic, and political impacts of industrialization
▪ The winning of the West
▪ The rise of labor unions, immigration, and urbanization
▪ Inflation and deflation
Terms:
Each term is to be included in your Book Notes as you read. Please highlight each term as
you use it. You should be prepared to explain the historical significance of each term as it
relates to the study of U.S. History.
Test:
Friday, January 14, 2011
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Vol. II Since 1865
Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896 p. 39
Rutherford B. Hayes Believes Himself Defrauded (1876)
Reconstruction and Redemption (1882)
A Southern Senator Defends Jim Crow (1900)
A Spokesman for the “New South” Describes Race Relations in the 1880s (1889)
Booker T. Washington Portrays the Plight of Black Tenant Farmers (1889)
A Southern Black Woman Reflects on the Jim Crow System (1902)
A Black-Alliance Man Urges Interracial Cooperation (1891)
The Wilmington Massacre (1898)
A Justice of the Peace Denies Justice (1939)
Cleveland Pleads for Tariff Reduction (1885)
The New York Times Acclaims Courage (1887)
A Cartoonist Criticizes the Tariff (1884)
Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900 p. 66
A Defense of Long-Haul Rates (1885)
General James B. Weaver Deplores Stock Watering (1892)
John D. Rockefeller Justifies Rebates (1909)
An Oil Man Goes Bankrupt (1899)
Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (1899)
The Nation Challenges Carnegie (1901)
Henry Grady Issues a Challenge (1889)
A Yankee Visits the New South (1887)
Life in a Southern Mill (1910)
In Praise of Mechanization (1897)
The Life of a Sweatshop Girl (1902)
The Knights of Labor Champion Reform (1887)
Samuel Gompers Condemns the Knights (c.1886)
Capital Versus Labor (1871)
Chapter 25: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900 pp. 98-129
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Due: Friday, 14 January 2011
Chapter 23
coalition
corner
censure
amnesty
civil service
unsecured loans
contraction
deflation
fraternal organization
consensus
kickback
lien
assassination
laissez-faire
pork barrel
Chapter 24
pool
rebate
free enterprise
regulatory commission
trust
syndicate
patrician
plutocracy
Third World
socialist
radical
lockout
yellow dog contract
cooperative
anarchist
Chapter 25
megalopolis
tenement
affluence
despotism
parochial
sweatshop
pauper
convert
Fundamentalist
agnostic
behavioral psychology
syndicated
tycoon
feminist
prohibition
UNIT 9: POPULISTS & PROGRESSIVES (1880 – 1920)
Directions: Please read and either outline or use Cornell book notes. They are due on the dates listed.
NO EXCEPTIONS!
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865 – 1896: Jan. 18
Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901 – 1912: Jan. 24
Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912 – 1916: Jan. 24
Themes:
▪ Role and Effectiveness of Third Parties
▪ The Agrarian Revolt
▪ The Farmer faces a changing world
▪ The Supreme Court in Changing Times
▪ The Progressive Coalition of Liberal reformers
▪ Women's Issues
▪ Consumer and Environmental Protection
Terms:
Each term is to be included in your Book Notes as you read. Please highlight each term as
you use it. You should be prepared to explain the historical significance of each term as it
relates to the study of U.S. History.
Test:
Chapter 26: Friday, January 21, 2011
Chapters 28 & 29: On Scheduled Final Exam Day- Last week of January 2011
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Vol. II Since 1865
Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896 p. 130
The U.S. Army Negotiates a Treaty With the Sioux (1868)
Harper’s Weekly Decries the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
She Walks With Her Shawl Remembers the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
Chief Joseph’s Lament (1879
Theodore Roosevelt Downgrades the Indians (1885)
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A Native American Tries to Walk the White man’s Road (1890s)
President James Buchanan Kills a Homestead Bill (1860)
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1868)
Sodbusters in Kansas (1877)
An Iowan Assesses Discontent (1893)
Mrs. Mary Lease Raises More Hell (c. 1890)
William Allen White Attacks the Populists (1896)
A Populist Condemns George Pullman (1894)
Pullman Defends His Company (1894)
Starvation at Pullman (1894)
Coin’s Financial School (1884)
William Jennings Bryan’s Cross of Gold (1896)
Bryan’s Afterthoughts (1896)
Due: Friday, 21 January 2011
Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912 pp. 191-221
Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916 pp. 222-238
Due: Monday, 31, January 2011
Chapter 26
nomadic
immunity
reservation
ward
probationary
folklore
irrigation
meridian
contiguous
safety valve
loan shark
serfdom
mumbo jumbo
prophet
citadel
Chapter 28
progressive
conspicuous consumption
direct primary
initiative
referendum
recall
city manager
red-light district
franchise
bureaucracy
worker’s compensation
reclamation
collectivism
insubordination
Chapter 29
entrepreneurship
self- determination
piety
graduated income tax
levy
inelasticity
commercial paper
promissory note
Magna Carta
agricultural extension
enclave
gringo
censor
torpedo
draft
UNIT 10: WORLD POWER (1880 – 1920)
Directions: Please read and either outline or use Cornell book notes. They are due on the dates listed.
NO EXCEPTIONS!
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion 1890 – 1909: Jan. 31
Chapter 30: The War to End War, 1917 – 1918: Feb. 7
Themes:
▪ The changing role of the United States in world affairs
▪ Global awareness and the shrinking world – American Imperialism
▪ The Spanish-American War
▪ The failure of Neutrality
▪ Causes and results of World War I
▪ Treaty negotiations and the Senate rejection of the Treaty of Versailles
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Terms:
Each term is to be included in your Book Notes as you read. Please highlight each term as
you use it. You should be prepared to explain the historical significance of each term as it
relates to the study of U.S. History.
Test:
Friday, February 11, 2011
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Vol. II Since 1865
Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909 pp. 171-190
Due: Friday, 4 February 2011
Chapter 30: The War to End War, 1917-1918 p. 239
President Wilson Breaks Diplomatic Relations (1917)
Un-Christlike Preachers (1918)
Abusing the Pro-Germans (1918)
Robert La Follette Demands His Rights (1917)
Zechariah Chafee Upholds Free Speech (1919)
George Creel Spreads Fear Propaganda (c. 1918)
General John Pershing Defines American Fighting Tactics (1917-1918)
A “Doughboy” Describes the Fighting Front (1918)
Due: Friday, 11 February 2011
Chapter 27
arbitration
scorched-earth policy
reconcentration
atrocity
proviso
hostage
Americanization
sphere of influence
partition
blue blood
bellicose
preparedness
corollary
indemnity
Chapter 30
isolationism
collective security
mobilization
pardon
ration
conscientious objector
Bolshevik
salient
parliamentary
protectorate
trustee
mandate
self-determination
reservation
demagogue
UNIT 11: BOOM & BUST (1920 – 1940)
Directions: Please read and either outline or use Cornell book notes. They are due on the dates listed.
NO EXCEPTIONS!
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 31: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties,” 1919 – 1929: Feb. 15
Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920 – 1932: Feb. 15
Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933 – 1939: Feb. 22
Themes:
▪ The rejection of world leadership, but not isolationism
▪ Cultural conflicts of the 1920’s
▪ The failure of Prohibition
▪ Government and business – was this really laissez-faire?
▪ Organized Intolerance
▪ The persistence of progressive reform
▪ The role and responsibilities of government in society
▪ The New Deal and the Welfare State
▪ Hoover as the first of the “new” presidents
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▪ Economic, social, and political causes and impacts of the Depression
Terms:
Each term is to be included in your Book Notes as you read. Please highlight each term as
you use it. You should be prepared to explain the historical significance of each term as it
relates to the study of U.S. History.
Tests:
Chapters 31 & 32: Friday, February 18, 2011
Chapter 33: Friday, February 25, 2011
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Vol. II Since 1865
Chapter 31: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties,” 1919-1929 p. 265
Randolph Bourne Defends Cultural Pluralism (1916)
The World’s Work Favors Restrictive Quotas (1924)
The New Republic Opposes Racialized Quotas (1924)
Samuel Gompers Favors Restriction (1924)
Two Views of Immigration Restriction (1921, 1924)
Tar-Bucket Terror in Texas (1921)
A Methodist Editor Clears the Klan (1923)
A German Observes Bootlegging (1928)
Fiorello La Guardia Pillories Prohibition (1926)
The WCTU Upholds Prohibition (1926)
Margaret Sanger Campaigns for Birth Control (1920)
The Lynds Discover Changes in the Middle-American Home (1929)
The Supreme Court Declares That Women Are Different from Men (1908)
The Supreme Court Declares That Men and Women Are Equal (1923)
Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932 pp. 290-305
Due: Friday, 18 February 2011
Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939 pp.306-339
Due: Friday, 25 February 2011
Chapter 31
syndicalism
Bible Belt
provincial
racketeer
underworld
credit
installment plan
magnate
repression
charismatic
functionalism
surtax
Chapter 32
nationalization
dreadnought
accomplice
reparations
pump priming
Chapter 33
dispossessed
rubberstamp
blank check
foreign exchange
hoarding
boondoggling
Facist
parity
holding company
collective bargaining
jurisdictional
checks and balances
pinko
deficit spending
left (or left-wing)
UNIT 12: WORLD WAR II (1920 – 1945)
Directions: Please read and either outline or use Cornell book notes. They are due on the dates listed.
NO EXCEPTIONS!
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
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Chapter 34: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933 – 1941: Feb. 28
Chapter 35: America in World War II, 1941 – 1945: Feb. 28
Themes:
▪ The rejection of world leadership, but not isolationism
▪ National Neutrality Neurosis: U.S. Response to Aggression
▪ The social, economic, and political causes of World War II
▪ The social, economic, and political results of World War II
▪ Women and minorities receive an opportunity
▪ Home Front Developments and regulations
Terms:
Each term is to be included in your Book Notes as you read. Please highlight each term as
you use it. You should be prepared to explain the historical significance of each term as it
relates to the study of U.S. History.
Test:
Friday, March 11, 2011
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Vol. II Since 1865
Chapter 34: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941 341-363
Chapter 35: America in World War II 1941-1945 pp. 365-388
Due: Friday, 4, March 2011
Chapter 34
exchange rate
militarist
totalitarianism
quarantine
division
unilateral
multilateral
steppes
convoy
warlord
hara-kiri
Chapter 35
concentration camp
bracero
U-boat
deposition
beachhead
underground
acclamation
bastion
genocide
bazooka
UNIT 13: A COLD PEACE (1945 – 1960)
Directions: Please read and either outline or use Cornell book notes. They are due on the dates listed.
NO EXCEPTIONS!.
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins, 1945 – 1952: March 14
Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era, 1952 – 1960: March 14
Themes:
▪ The revolution in American foreign policy
▪ The beginning of the cold war
▪ The return to peacetime post-World War II
▪ The goals and policies of collective security and containment
▪ Anti-Communism
▪ Modern Republicanism
▪ The Rise of the Middle Class
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Terms:
Each term is to be included in your Book Notes as you read. Please highlight each term as
you use it. You should be prepared to explain the historical significance of each term as it
relates to the study of U.S. History.
Test:
Friday, March 18, 2011
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Vol. II Since 1865
Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952 pp. 389-428
Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1960 pp. 430-462
Due: Friday, 18 March 2011
Chapter 36
gross national product
agribusiness
population curve
precinct
protégé
superpower
exchange rates
underdeveloped
military occupation
containment
communist-fronter
Politburo
perimeter
Chapter 37
Pentecostal
McCarthyism
universalism
taboo
sheikdom
jury tampering
secondary boycott
thermonuclear
confiscation
iconoclastic
UNIT 14: CONTEMPORARY AMERICA (1960 – 2006)
Directions: Please read and either outline or use Cornell book notes. They are due on the dates listed.
NO EXCEPTIONS!
Book Notes:
The American Pageant, 13th Edition
Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties, 1960 – 1968: March 21
Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies, 1968 – 1980: March 28
Chapter 40: The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980 – 1992: March 28
Chapter 41: America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992 – 2004: April 12
Chapter 42: The American People Face a New Century: April 18
Themes:
▪ The escalation of tension during the Cold War
▪ The Civil Rights Movement and the Great Society
▪ “Vietnamization” to stagflation
▪ The “new right” and “supply-side” economics
▪ Reagan and the Collapse of Communism
▪ The United States as the remaining superpower
▪ Ideological confrontation in Washington in the 1990s
 The Election of Bill Clinton
 The controversial 2000 election
 The terrorist attacks of September 11
 The high tech economy
Terms:
Each term is to be included in your Book Notes as you read. Please highlight each term as
you use it. You should be prepared to explain the historical significance of each term as it
relates to the study of U.S. History.
Test:
Chapter 38: Friday, March 25, 2011
Chapters 39 & 40: Friday, April 1, 2011 (no joke!)
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Chapter 41: Friday, April 15, 2011
Chapter 42: Friday, April 22, 2011
Primary Source Documents: The American Spirit-Kennedy & Bailey-Vol. II Since 1865
Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968 pp. 464-510
Due: Friday, 25 March 2011
Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980 pp. 511-548
Chapter 40: The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1992 p. 549
The Supply-Side Gospel (1984)
President Reagan Asks for a Tax Cut (1981)
The New York Times Attacks Reagan’s Policies (1981)
Reagan Sees Red in Nicaragua (1986)
A Journalist Urges Caution in Nicaragua (1986)
An Editor Analyzes the Iran-Contra Affair (1987)
Editor Irving Kristol Defines Neoconvervatism (1983)
Journalist Peter Steinfels Criticizes the Neoconservatives (1979)
A Skeptical View of Reagan’s Legacy (2004)
Charles Krauthammer Praises Reagan (2004)
James T. Patterson Weighs the Reagan Record (2003)
Stephen J. Solarz Makes the Case for War Against Iraq (1991)
The Gulf War as Happy Ending or Ominous Beginning (1991)
The Foreign Policy President Falls Short at Home (1991)
Due: Friday, 1 April 2011
Chapter 41: America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2004 p. 587
Anthony Lake Advocates Replacing Containment with Enlargement (1993)
Searching for a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy (1994)
Michael Mandelbaum Decries “Foreign Policy as Social Work” (1996)
William Kristol Denounces “Clintonism” (1999)
The New Republic Opposes Impeachment (1998)
David T. Canon and Kenneth R. Mayer Appraise Impeachment’s Impact on the
Presidency (2001)
The Supreme Court Makes George W. Bush President (2000)
Justice Stevens Dissents (2000)
Al Gore Concedes Defeat (2000)
President Bush Describes an “Axis of Evil” (2002)
The 9/11 Commission Finds Fault (2004)
President Bush Claims the Right of Preemptive War (2002)
Thomas L. Friedman Supports the War (2003)
Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay See Failure in Iraq (2004)
Michael E. O’Hanlon Considers Preemptive War (2004)
America Is Humiliated at Abu Ghraib (2004)
Jonathan Alter Decries the Abu Ghraib Scandal (2004)
Due: Friday. 15 April 2011
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Paul Krugman Blasts the New Gilded Age (2002)
Robert Rector Questions the Causes of Poverty (2003)
Commonweal Favors the Estate Tax (2000)
Poverty Amidst Plenty? (2003)
The Gender Divide (2001)
Cathy Young Analyzes the “Opt Out” Controversy (2004)
Samuel P. Huntington Fears a Cultural Divide (2004)
Enrique Krauze Defends Mexican-American (2004)
Barry Sanders and Francis D. Adams Demand Reparations for African Americans
(2003)
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John H. McWhorter Laments a Culture of Victimhood (2000)
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Approves Affirmative Action-For Now (2003)
Justice Clarence Thomas Deems Affirmative Action Unconstitutional (2003)
Andrew Sullivan Demands Marriage Rights for Gays (2000)
Governor Mitt Romney Defends Traditional Marriage (2004)
William Saletan Scrutinizes the Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion (2003)
A Christian Conservative Urges Moderation (1996)
Tom Toles Illustrates the Abortion Dilemma (2003)
President George W. Bush Restricts Embryonic Stem Cell Research (2001)
Patti Davis Pleads for More Embryonic Stem Cell Research (2004)
Lance Morrow Sees a Faustian Bargain (2001)
Stephen L. Carter Considers the Role of Religion in Public Life (2000)
Hendrik Hertzberg Reflects on Religion and Politics (2004)
Due: Friday, 22 April 2011
Chapter 38
free world
nuclear proliferation
exile
peaceful coexistence
détente
sit-in
establishment
literacy test
ghetto
black separatism
hawk
dove
militant
dissident
coattails
Chapter 39
moratorium
Marxism
anti-ballistic missile
devaluation
foray
Kremlin
attorney general
executive privilege
recession
born-again
balance of payments
Commando
Chapter 40
neoconservatives
supply side
red ink
oligarchs
welfare state
leveraged buy-out
logistical
Chapter 41
sect
paramilitary
protectionism
vouchers
junta
autocratic
Chapter 42
biosphere
nuclear family
undocumented
amnesty
civil trial
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