2010-2011 AP U.S. History Syllabus*
Date
8/25
8/26
8/27
Topic
Rules, etc.
Introduction
Origins/Early colonies
Reading Assignment
8/30
8/31
9/1
9/2
9/3
Puritans/New England
Middle Colonies/MC Test
Test Bailey 2-3
Slavery/Colonial life
Class structure/Economics
53-66
9/7
9/8
9/9
9/10
Politics/Great Awakening
New France/MC Test
Test Bailey 4-6
Mercantilism/Conflict
109-124
126-133
133-144
9/13
9/14
9/15
146-158
9/16
9/17
The road to revolution
War politics/Early battles
AP Format and DBQ
Assignment/Trial Info
British defeats/MC Test
Test Bailey 7-8
9/20
9/21
9/22
9/23
9/24
Articles of Confederation
The Constitutional Debate
The Washington Years
The Federalist era/MC Test
Test Bailey 9-10
186-197
199-213
213-221
224-238
9/27
9/28
238-246
9/29
9/30
10/1
Jefferson/DBQ 1 Due
Madison and causes of
War of 1812
War of 1812/Nationalism
Monroe/MC Test
Test Bailey 11-12
10/4
10/5
10/6
10/7
10/8
Rise of Jackson
290-304
Jackson’s legacy/Texas
305-321
Irish, Germans/Technology 321-337
Transportation/Labor/MC Test
Test Bailey 13-14
Zinn Handout
27-41
46-53
68-86
88-98
98-108
158-171
174-186
248-259
259-270
272-290
*all dates and assignments are tentative and subject to revision
Date
10/12
10/13
10/14
10/15
Topic
Reading Assignment
“The Intimately Oppressed”/
DBQ 1 Review/
DBQ 2 assignment
Cartoons
340-354
Religion/Reform movements 354-366
The Arts
370-383
10/18
10/19
10/20
10/21
10/22
The Slave System
Abolitionism/MC Test
Kennedy Test 15-16
Polk and Manifest Destiny
Compromise of 1850
10/25
Kansas-Nebraska et. al/
MC Test
Test Bailey 17-18
Descent toward secession
An unbridgeable chasm
Coping with the war
10/26
10/27
10/28
10/29
11/1
11/2
11/3
11/4
11/5
11/8
11/9
11/10
11/11
11/12
11/15
11/16
11/17
11/18
11/19
383-395
396-414
416-427
427-435
437-451
451-461
462-472
Economics/Diplomacy/
472-479
MC Test
Test Bailey 19-20
481-492
Fighting the war/DBQ 2 Due 492-511
Victory for the Union
513-522
Film: Birth of a Nation, Part I
Presidential Reconstruction 522-535
Radical Reconstruction/MC Test
Test Bailey 21-22
536-548
Era of “Good Stealings”
WWI Simulation Assignment
Gilded Age politics
548-564
Late Gilded Age
DBQ 2 Review
565-579
Railroads and Robber Barons 579-594
Labor and
Big Business/MC Test
Test Bailey 23-24
595-611
Age of immigration
611-631
Date
11/22
11/23
11/24
Topic
Reading Assignment
Arts and entertainment
633-645
Indians/Cowboys
645-667
Farmers
DuBois/Washington handout
11/29
11/30
12/1
12/2
12/3
DuBois vs. Washington/MC Test
Test Bailey 25-26
669-685
Spanish-American War
685-698
Imperialism/TR
702-715
The Square Deal
715-725
12/6
TR and his shadow/
MC Test
Test Bailey 27-28
Woodrow Wilson
WWI Simulation
WWI Simulation
12/7
12/8
12/9
12/10
12/13
12/14
12/15
12/16
12/17
1/3
1/4
1/5
1/6
1/7
1/10
1/11
1/12
1/13
1/14
1/18-20
1/24
1/25
1/26
1/27
1/28
WWI Simulation
The fight for neutrality
The war at home
Victory and defeat
for Wilson/MC Test
Test Bailey 29-30
Douglas MacArthur Trial
Douglas MacArthur Trial
Douglas MacArthur Trial
Douglas MacArthur Trial
The conservatives
strike back
The Jazz Age
Republicanism triumphant
Hoover and the Crash/
MC Test
Test Bailey 31-32
Promise of the New Deal
The New Deal stumbles/
Refighting WWI?
America joins the war/
MC Test
Test Bailey 33-34
War at Home/
War in the East
The end of the war
Postwar trends
728-738
738-747 (not a typo)
747-756
756-769
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770--781
781-795
798-809
809-821
823-839
839-861
861-872
875-889
889-906
908-920
921-932
Date
1/31
2/1
2/2
2/3
2/4
Topic
Reading Assignment
Origins of the Cold War
932-941
Korean War/MC Test
Test Bailey 35-36
DBQ 3 Review
Lemann Chapter 1 Quiz
65-80 (65-77—2nd Edition) Boyer
2/7
2/8
2/9
2/10
2/11
Boom times/Minorities
81-95 (77-95)
Korea/McCarthyism
97-112 (98-113)
Eisenhower and Dulles
112-126 (113-128)
Vietnam/Consumerism/MC Test
Test Boyer 3-4
2/14
2/15
Lemann Quiz Chapter 2/
Discussion
Dissent in the 1950s
2/16
2/17
2/18
Civil Rights in 1950s
160-170 (163-176)
JFK and the Cold War
170-183; 187-190 (176-188; 192-196)
Domestic JFK/Vietnam and JFK/MC Test
2/22
Test Boyer 5-6
132-147 (134-152)
148-158 (152-161)
2/23
2/24
2/25
185-199 except 192-196
(190-204 except 192-196)
War on Poverty.
199-212 (204-218)
Great Society
214-230 (220-237)
Civil Rights in early 1960s 230-239 (237-247)
2/28
3/1
3/2
3/3
Civil Rights Act/Selma/ MC Test
Test Boyer 7-8
244-252 (254-263)
Civil Rights Radicalization 252-261 (263-274)
New Left/Counterculture
263-277 (276-290)
3/7
3/8
Escalation in Vietnam
Lemann Quiz Chapter 3/
277-288 (290-302)
Discussion
Antiwar movement/MC Test
Test Boyer 9-10
William Calley Trial
3/9
3/10
3/11
Date
3/14
3/15
3/16
3/17
3/18
Topic
Reading Assignment
William Calley Trial
William Calley Trial
William Calley Trial
291-299 (304-313)
1968
Richard Nixon Trial
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3/22
3/23
3/24
3/25
Richard Nixon Trial
Richard Nixon Trial
Richard Nixon Trial
Nixon and Vietnam
4/4
4/5
4/6
4/7
4/8
Lemann Quiz Chapter 4/
Discussion
Détente and Nixon at Home
The 1970s
Watergate/MC Test
Test Boyer 11-12
4/11
4/12
4/13
4/14
4/15
Ford and Carter
367-381 (383-398)
Backlash in the late 1970s
384-404 (400-420)
The Reagan Revolution
404-422 (420-422)
Bush I/1980’s/Clinton/MC Test
Test Boyer 13-14
4/25-5/5
5/6
5/9-6/9
Review and Preparation
US History AP Exam; 7:30 a.m.
TBD
299-310 (313-322)
310-319 (322-334)
322-335 (336-351)
335-347 (351-363)
353-367 (369-383)
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