IB History of the Americas
Unit 1: Effects of the United States Civil War
Day
Topic
Sections/Pages to Read BEFORE the Quiz Date
1
Introduction:
Historiography
Establishment of
Reconstruction
Abandonment of
Reconstruction
New South
None
Quiz
Date
None
AH: Chapter 15 “Problems of Peacemaking” through “The African American
Family in Freedom” Pages 402-414.
AH: Chapter 15 “The Abandonment of Reconstruction” through “The
Legacies of Reconstruction” Pages 416-421.
AH: Chapter 15 “The New South” through “The Birth of Jim Crow” Pages
421-431.
9/3
9/4
9/6
9/9
9/10
9/11
2
3
4
Key of Abbreviations:
 AH = American History: A Survey
 CANH = Canada: A National History
 AHOMLA = A History of Modern Latin America
IB History of the Americas
Unit 2: Economic Development, 1865-1929
Day
Topic
Sections/Pages to Read BEFORE the Quiz Date
5
Railroads
6
Industrial Growth
& Economic
Modernization
7
Labor Movement
8
Immigration,
Emigration, &
Internal Migration
9
Urbanization
10
Social Darwinism
& Gospel of
Wealth
Neocolonialism, &
Dependency
AH: Chapter 10 “The Early Railroads” and “The Triumph of the Rails” Pages
268-270; Chapter 17 “The Airplane and the Automobile” Pages 465-466 and
“Railroad Expansion” Pages 467-468.
CANH: Chapter 13 “Transportation and Communication” Pages 224-226;
Chapter 17 “Transportation and Communication” Pages 307-308
AH: Chapter 17 “Industrial Technologies” Page 464-465, “Research and
Development” through “The Science of Production” Pages 466-467, and
“The Corporation” through “The Trust and the Holding Company” Pages
468-472; Chapter 18 “The Rise of Mass Consumption” through “Women as
Consumers” Pages 504-506.
CANH: Chapter 17 “The New Industrial Order” through “Assessing the
National Policy” Pages 305-307 and “Secondary Industry” through “Survival
of the Fittest” Pages 308-316.
AH: Chapter 17 and “Industrial Workers in the New Economy” through
“Sources of Labor Weakness” Pages 477-486.
CANH: Chapter 17 “Human Capital” through “Family and Work” Pages 316321.
AH: Chapter 18 “Urbanization of America” through “Exclusion” Pages 490497.
CANH: Chapter 16 “A Nation on the Move” through “No Englishmen Need
Apply” Pages 286-292
AH: Chapter 18 “The Urban Landscape” through “Crime and Violence”
Pages 490-503.
CANH: Chapter 17 “Urbanization” Pages 321-323.
AHOMLA: Chapter 7 “Life in the City” Pages 140-143.
AH: Chapter 17 “Survival of the Fittest” through “The Problems of
Monopoly” Pages 473-477; Chapter 18 “The Impact of Darwinism” Pages
514-517.
AHOMLA: Chapter 6 “Economic Transformation” through “Conclusion”
Pages 114-120 and Chapter 11 “Commerce and Pan-Americanism” Pages
214-218.
None
11
12
13
Paper Three
Workshop
Unit Test
None
Unit Test (Paper Three) on 10/2 (A-Day) & 10/3 (B-Day)
Key of Abbreviations:
 AH = American History: A Survey
 CANH = Canada: A National History
 AHOMLA = A History of Modern Latin America
Quiz
Date
9/12
9/13
9/16
9/17
9/18
9/19
9/20
9/23
9/24
9/25
9/26
9/27
9/30
10/1
None
None
IB History of the Americas
Unit 3: Political & Social Development, 1865-1929
Day
Topic
Sections/Pages to Read BEFORE the Quiz Date
14
Politics in the
Gilded Age
15
Populism
16
Progressivism
AH: Chapter 17 “The Self-Made Man” Pages 472-473; Chapter 18 “The
Machine and the Boss” Pages 503-504; Chapter 19 “The Politics of
Equilibrium” through “New Public Issues” Pages 522-527.
AH: Chapter 19 “The Agrarian Revolt” through “McKinley and Recovery”
Pages 527-540.
CANH: Chapter 18 “The Rural Response” Pages 334-335.
None
17
Progressivism
18
19
Roosevelt,
Taft, & Wilson
Women
20
African Americans
21
Indigenous People
22
Laurier & Diaz
23
Unit Test
AH: Chapter 21 “The Progressive Impulse” through “The Professions” Pages
566-572, “The Assault on the Parties” through “Western Progressives”
Pages 577-583, and “Crusade for Social Order and Reform” through
Decentralization and Regulation” Pages 584-589.
CANH: Chapter 18 “The Age of Reform” through “The Radical Response”
Pages 329-334.
AH: Chapter 22 “Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency” through
“Retreat and Advance” Pages 594-604.
AH: Chapter 12 “The Rise of Feminism” Pages 329-330; Chapter 21 “Women
and the Professions” through “Woman Suffrage” Pages 572-577; Chapter 24
“Professional Women” through “Pressing for Women’s Rights” Pages 650654.
CANH: Chapter 18 “The Woman Movement” Pages 335-338; Chapter 19
“Female Suffrage” Page 371; Chapter 20 “Political Women” Page 384.
AHOMLA: Chapter 7 “Women in the Nineteenth Century” Pages 131-135.
AH: Chapter 15 “African Americans and the New South” Pages 425-427;
Chapter 21 “African Americans and Reform” Pages 583-584. Chapter 23
“The Demands of African Americans” Pages 633-636.
AH: Chapter 16 “Western Tribes” Pages 434-435 and “The Dispersal of the
Tribes” through “The Dawes Act” Pages 453-457.
CANH: Chapter 15 “The Indian Treaties” through “The Indian Act” Page 267;
Chapter 16 “Native Peoples and the Dominant Culture” Page 296-299;
Chapter 20 “First Nations in the Age of Democracy” Page 385.
CANH: Chapter 16“Laurier Liberalism” Pages 283-285; “Provincial Rights and
the Management of Progress” through “Competing Nationalisms” Pages
292-297; “The 1911 Election” Pages 299-300.
AHOMLA: Chapter 6 “The Positivists” Pages 112-114; Chapter 8 “The
Porfiriato” Pages 154-157; Part III “Hemispheric Visions in 1900” Pages 229231.
None
Unit Test (Paper Three) on 10/31 (A-Day) & 11/1 (B-Day)
Key of Abbreviations:
 AH = American History: A Survey
 CANH = Canada: A National History
 AHOMLA = A History of Modern Latin America
Quiz
Date
10/8
10/9
10/10
10/11
None
10/16
10/17
10/21
10/22
10/23
10/24
10/25
10/28
10/29
10/30
10/31
11/1
None
IB History of the Americas
Unit 4: Artistic & Cultural Development, 1865-1929
Day
Topic
Sections/Pages to Read BEFORE the Quiz Date
24
Biographies of
Artists and
Intellectuals
Biographies of
Artists and
Intellectuals
Painting and
Architecture
None
Quiz
Date
None
None
None
AH: Chapter 12 “The Romantic Impulse” through “Nationalism and
Romanticism in American Painting” Page 316; Chapter 18 “The Creation of
Public Space” Page 497-498, “Art in the Age of the City” Page 514.
CANH: Chapter 18 “The Arts in the Age of Industry” Pages 345-348; Chapter
21 “Literature and Art” Pages 413-414.
AH: Chapter 12 “Literature and the Quest for Liberation” through “Visions
of Utopia” Page 316-320; Chapter 18 “The Literature of Urban America”
Pages 513-514; Chapter 24 “The Disenchanted” Pages 655-656.
AHOMLA: Chapter 10 “The Paradox of North America” through “Ariel and
Caliban” Pages 194-208.
AH: Chapter 15 “The Minstrel Show” Pages 422-423; Chapter 18 “Music and
Theater” through “The Movies” Pages 510-511, “Private Pursuits” Page 513;
Chapter 24 “The Movies and Broadcasting” through “The Cinema” Pages
648-650, “Dance Halls” Pages 652-653.
CANH: Chapter 18 “The Dramatic Arts” Pages 348-351; Chapter 21 “Music
and Theatre in the Interwar Years” Page 414.
AH: Chapter 24 “The Harlem Renaissance” Pages 656-657.
11/12
11/13
25
26
27
Literature
28
Music, Theater,
Movies, & Dance
29
30
Harlem
Renaissance
Education
31
Unit Test
AH: Chapter 12 “Reforming Education” Pages 326-327; Chapter 15
“Education” Page 411; Chapter 18 “Toward Universal Schooling” through
“Education for Women” Page 517; Chapter 24 “Education and Youth” Pages
654-655.
CANH: Chapter 18 “Schooling and Society” Pages 340-342; Chapter 21
“Education” Pages 412-413.
AHOMLA: Chapter 7 “Women in the Nineteenth Century” Pages 131-135.
None
Unit Test (Paper One) on 11/22 (A-Day) & 12/2 (B-Day)
Key of Abbreviations:
 AH = American History: A Survey
 CANH = Canada: A National History
 AHOMLA = A History of Modern Latin America
11/14
11/15
11/18
11/19
11/20
11/21
11/22
12/2
None
IB History of the Americas
Unit 5: Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs, 1880-1929
Day
Topic
Sections/Pages to Read BEFORE the Quiz Date
32
Monroe Doctrine
33
Imperialism
AH: Chapter 8 “The Latin American Revolution and the Monroe Doctrine”
Pages 227-228.
AHOMLA: Chapter 3 “Recognition and the Monroe Doctrine” through “Mr.
Monroe’s Doctrine” Pages 57-59.
AH: Chapter 15 “Republican Diplomacy” Pages 415-416; Chapter 20
“Stirrings of Imperialism” through “Hawaii and Samoa” Pages 544-549.
AHOMLA: Chapter 11 “The Emerging Colossus to the North” Pages 211-214.
34 S
Spanish-American
War
Spanish-American
War
35
36
Big Stick
Diplomacy
37
Dollar Diplomacy
& Moral
Diplomacy
Good Neighbor
Policy
38
39
40
41
42
43
U.S. Foreign Policy
in Latin America
World War I United States
World War I Canada & Latin
America
Impact of World
War I
Unit Test
Quiz
Date
12/9
12/10
12/11
12/12
None
AH: Chapter 20 “War with Spain” through “A Modern Military System”
Pages 549-562.
AHOMLA: Chapter 11 “The Cuban-Spanish-American War” Pages 218-222.
AH: Chapter 22 “The Big Stick: America and the World 1901-1917” through
“The Panama Canal” Pages 604-606.
AHOMLA: Chapter 14 “Panama and the Canal” Pages 264-270.
AH: Chapter 22 “Taft and Dollar Diplomacy” through “Diplomacy and
Morality” Pages 606-607.
12/17
12/18
AH: Chapter 27 “Hoover and the World Crisis” Pages 721-723 and “The
Good Neighbor Policy” Pages 724-725.
AHOMLA: Chapter 13 “Nonintervention Policy in the 1920s” Pages 259-261;
Chapter 15 “Augusto Sandino” pages 295-297; Chapter 16 “Evolving U.S.
Policy in the Caribbean Basin” Pages 317-319 and “Batista and Trujillo”
pages 320-323.
None
1/6
1/7
AH: Chapter 23 “The Road to War” through “Wilson’s Ordeal” Pages 614632.
1/8
1/9
CANH: Chapter 19 “Preparing for War” through “Financing the War” Pages
358-361; “The War at Home” through “The White Man’s War” Pages 364368.
AH: Chapter 23: “A Society in Turmoil” through “The Retreat from Idealism”
Pages 632-638.
CANH: Chapter 19 “Canada on the World Stage” through “Demobilization
and Recons truction” Page 369-371 and “Labour Revolt” Pages 371-372.
None
1/10
1/13
Unit Test (Paper Three) on 1/14 (A-Day) & 1/15 (B-Day)
Key of Abbreviations:
 AH = American History: A Survey
 CANH = Canada: A National History
 AHOMLA = A History of Modern Latin America
12/19
12/20
1/2
1/3
None
1/14
1/15
None
1st Semester Final Exam
IB History of the Americas
Day
Topic
Sections/Pages to Read BEFORE the Quiz Date
44
Review for the
Final Exam
Final Exam
None
Quiz
Date
None
None
None
45
Final Exam (Paper Three – 2 Questions)
1/22 – Period 2B
1/23 – Period 4A
1/24 – Period 4B