APUSH PACING GUIDE 2014-2015
Chapters and study guides should be read and completed during the assigned weeks
(This does not include additional outside readings)
Month
August
Week
20th-22nd
Week
Week
Week
Week
25th-29th
New World
Beginnings
(Chapter 1)
September
1492-1800
1st-5th
The Planting of
English
America/Settling
the Northern
Colonies
8th-12th
15-19th
22-26th
29th-3rd
American Life in the
th
17 Century/Colonial
Society on the Eve of
Revolution
The Duel for North
America/The Road to
Revolution
America Secedes from the
Empire
The Constitution
(Chapter 9)
(Chapters 6,7)
(Chapter 8)
The Confederation and the
Constitution
(Chapter 9)
Launching ship of State
(Chapter 10)
13th-17th
The Rise of a Mass
Democracy
20-24th
Forging the National
Economy
27th-31st
(Chapter 13)
(Chapter 14)
(Chapters 4,5)
(Chapters 2,3)
October
1800-1840
29th-3rd
The Triumphs and
Travails of the
Jeffersonian
Republic
(Chapter 11)
6th-10th
The Second War
for Independence
and rise of
nationalism
(Chapter 12)
The Ferment of Reform and
Culture
(Chapter 15)
November
1840--1865
3rd-7th
10th-14th
The South and the
Slavery
Controversy
Manifest Destiny and
Its Legacy
(Chapter 16)
17th-21st
Renewing the Sectional
Struggle
(Chapter 18, 19)
(Chapter 17)
24th-28th
Drifting Toward
Disunion/Girding for the
War
(Chapter 19, 20)
(Turkey Day assignment)
December
1865-1898
January
1898-1920
February
1920-1945
1st-6th
8th-12th
15th-19th
Civil War and
Civil War and
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Political Paralysis in
the Gilded Age
(Chapters 21, 22)
(Chapter 21, 22)
5th-9th
12-16th
The Great West
and the
Agricultural
Revolution
Review for
Empire and
Midterm/Midterm Expansion
(Chapter 26)
2nd-6th
(Chapter 23)
19th-23rd
22nd-26th
Holiday Break
Assignment
America Moves to the
City/Urbanization
(Chapter 24, 25)
26th- 30th
Progressivism and Immigration
(Chapter 28)
(Chapter 27)
9th-13th
Progressivism
World War I
From Roosevelt (Chapter 30)
to Wilson
(Chapter 28,
16th-20th
23rd-27th
American Life in the
Roaring Twenties
(Chapter 31)
The Politics of Boom
and Bust
(Chapter 32)
29th-2nd
Holiday break
assignment
March
1945-1968
29)
2nd-6th
The Great
Depression and
the New Deal
9th-13th
16th-20th
23-27th
29th-3rd
World War II
(Chapters 34-35)
The Cold War and
Eisenhower 1950s
The Civil Rights
Movement
The Stormy sixties and
Vietnam
(Chapter 38)
(Chapter 33)
April
1960-1990
6th-10th
The 1970s
(Chapter 37)
13th-17th
20th-24th
27th-1st
AP Test REVIEW
AP Test REVIEW
11th-15th
18-22nd
25th-29th
Modern American Project
Modern America Project
Modern America Project
1980s and conservatism
(Chapter 40)
(Chapter 39)
May
4th-8th
REVIEW AND AP
TEST!!!!!
June
1st-6th
Final Exam