EXAM & PROJECT SCHEDULE
Exam 1 – Feb 3
Research Project Number 1 – Feb 28
Exam 2 – March 10
Research Project Number 2– April 28
Exam 3 – May 5
Weekly
Jan 7- CH 16 Agony of ReconstructionReconstruction
1.
Ancillary reading - Eric Foner
Contends That Reconstruction Did Not Go
Far Enough (1983)
Jan 13 – CH 17 Exploiting an Empire: The West
1.
Ancillary reading - Homestead
Act of 1862 ; An Indian's Perspective, Chief Joseph
Jan 20 – CH 18-19 – Big Business and Organized Labor; Emergence of Urban America
1.
2.
Ancillary reading - The American Federation of Labor (1883), Samuel
Ancillary reading - On the Origin of Species (1860), Louis Agassiz
Gompers ;
Jan 27– CH 20 – Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt
1.
Ancillary reading - The Strength
and Weakness of the People's Movement (1892),
Eva McDonald-Valesh
EXAM 1
Feb 3 – CH 21-22 – American Empire; Progressive Era
Ancillary reading - Plessy v. Ferguson
Feb 10 – CH 23 – Age of Prgressivism
Ancillary reading - 14 Points Speech – Woodrow Wilson
Feb 17 – CH 24 – Nation at War
1.
2.
Ancillary reading - The
LaFollette Platform of 1924
Ancillary reading - Herbert Hoover's "New York City Speech" (1928)
Feb 24 – CH 25 – Transition to Modern America
1.
Ancillary reading - Excerpts
from the Federal Writers' Project Interviews with
Depression Victims (1930's)
EXAM 2
Mar 3 – CH 26-27 – FDR and the New Deal; America and the World
1.
Ancillary reading - Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Speech (1941) ; Executive Order
9066 Prescribes Military Areas within the U.S. (1942)
Mar 17 – CH 28 – Onset of the Cold War
1.
2.
Ancillary reading - The Truman
Doctrine (1947)
Ancillary reading - The Marshall Plan (1947)
Mar 24 – CH 29– Affluence and Anxiety
1.
Ancillary reading - Feminine Mystique
(1963), Betty Friedan
Apr 7 –– Eisenhower Years
Ancillary reading - Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, KS
Apr 14 – Ch 30 –1960’s
Ancillary reading - “I have a dream…” – The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Apr 21 – Ch 31 – A new Conservatism
1.
2.
Ancillary reading - Listen
America (1980), Jerry Falwell
Ancillary reading - Common Ground and Common Sense (1988), Jesse Jackson
Apr 28 – CH 32 Into the 21st Century
May 5
FINAL EXAM / TEXAS EOC