APUSH Semester 1 Research Project

Due January12, 2009

Choose a topic from the attached pages

Part 1 Research-

Research 4 Sources

  • Textbook- take notes on topics (include page numbers the topic is addressed)
  • Monograph (a book on the subject of choice)
  • 1 internet
  • One visual/video

Explain, Summarize and Define all items related to this topic indicated by the APUSH outline.

  • Must address each item and its significance to the main category

Each person Collects 8 documents from the period that students should know about

  • Documents can be: as short as 1 paragraph, quotations, pictures, political cartoons, speeches, newspaper reports, editorials, official documents, laws…
  • Document choice must be significant to a greater meaning for topic (Choose carefully)
  • Include a short description of document
  • Include a short analysis of document-
  • Significance of Document
  • What point does it make?
  • Why did you choose it?**

In order for projects to earn A or B

Must include citations (where information was obtained) (author pg #)

Bibliography According to MLA style

Project and reflection must show sufficient depth, creativity, and academic insight of an Advanced Placement Student.

Part II Reflective Writing (each person)

  • Write a thoughtful summary of the process and learning you encountered.
  • Why did you choose this topic?
  • What profound understandings do you come away with?
  • 3 pages Commentary not summary (each person must write)

Part III Product

Prepare a product that will help others learn from your research

Web Page/Video Documentary/Drama or Other Product

Must include:

  • Questions that can be answered by your product-
  • 4 questions- of varied level (factual, application, analysis, evaluative, synthesis- see levels of questioning document)
  • Study guide/List of key people, places, events, ideas/terms essential to the topic and defined in the project
  • Easy to read outline of topic
  • (The goal is for other students to gain a clear understanding of the topic and relevant details)
  • Pictures
  • Diagrams
  • Mapswith explanation
  • Timeline- can include a list or traditional timeline that visually depicts the evolution of the topic 15 items should be identified on the timeline. (Timelines must include some visual items)

Project Rubric:

Part 1 Research- Paper

Research 4 Sources

Summarize and define all items related to this topic indicated by the APUSH outline.
  • Must address each item and its significance to the main category
All items on APUSH outline are summarized and defined
Others must be able to understand the main idea-
Study guide/List of key people, places, events, ideas/terms essential to the topic and defined in the project
Citations-
Bibliography/Work Cited
Collect 8 documents(Each person)
  • Include a short description of document
  • Include a short analysis of document-

Timeline- includes visuals, and 15 items
Timeline- a list or traditional timeline that visually depicts the evolution of the topic 15 items should be identified on the timeline. (Timelines must include some visual items)
Part II Reflective Writing
  • Write a thoughtful summary of the process and learning you encountered.
  • Why did you choose this topic?
  • What profound understandings do you come away with? (each person must write) 3 pages Commentary not summary

Part III Product Web Page/Video Documentary/Drama or Other Product
Must include:
  • Essential information for others to understand all aspects of topic.
  • (The goal is for other students to gain a clear understanding of the topic and relevant details)
  • Pictures- with captions/explanations
  • Diagrams
  • Maps

  1. Discovery and Settlement of the New World, 1492-1650
  1. American and the British Empire, 1650-1754
  1. Colonial Society in the Mid Eighteenth Century
  1. Road to Revolution, 1754-1775
  1. The American Revolution, 1775-1783
  1. Constitution and New Republic, 1776-1800

a.Philadelphia Convention: Drafting the Constitution

b.Federalists versus Anti-Federalists

c.Bill of Rights

d.Washington’s Presidency

i.Hamilton’s Financial Program, Assumption, BUS

ii.Foreign and domestic difficulties

1.Neutrality Proclamation

2.Jay Treaty

3.Pinckney Treaty

4.Indian Problems

5.Whiskey Rebellion

iii.Beginning of Political Parties- Federalists vs. Democratic Republicans

iv.Washington’s Farwell Address

e.John Adams’ Presidency

i.Alien Sedition Act

ii.XYZ Affair

iii.Naval appropriations

iv.Election of 1800

  1. The Age of Jefferson, 1800-1816

f.Jefferson’s Presidency

i.Revolution of 1800

ii.Jeffersonian Ideals

iii.Louisiana Purchase

iv.Burr Conspiracy

v.The Supreme Court under John Marshall

vi.Neutral Rights, Impressments, embargo

g.Madison

h.War of 1812

i.Causes

ii.Invasion of Canada

iii.Hartford Convention

iv.Conduct of the War

v.Treaty of Ghent

vi.New Orleans

  1. Nationalism and Economic Expansion
  1. James Monroe, Era of Good Feelings
  2. Panic of 1819
  3. Settlement of the West
  4. Missouri Compromise
  5. Foreign Affairs: The Monroe Doctrine

i.Canada, Florida,

  1. Election of 1824- End of Virginia Dynasty
  1. Economic Revolution
  2. Early Railroads and Canals
  3. Expansion of business
  4. Beginnings of factory system
  5. Early labor movement; women
  6. Social mobility; extremes of wealth
  7. The cotton revolution in the South
  8. Commercial Agriculture
  1. Sectionalism
  1. The South
  2. CottonKingdom
  3. Southern Trade and Industry
  4. Southern Society and culture
  5. Gradation of White society
  6. Nature of Slavery: “Peculiar Institution”
  7. The mind of the South
  8. The North
  9. Northeast Industry
  10. Labor
  11. Immigration
  12. Urban slums
  13. Northwest Agriculture
  14. Westward Expansion
  15. Advance of agriculture frontier
  16. Significance of the frontier Turner Thesis
  17. Life on the frontier; squatters

7.Age of Jackson, 1828-1848

a.Democracy and the “Common Man”

i.Expansion of Suffrage

ii.Rotation in Office

b.Second Party System

i.Democratic Party

ii.Whig Party

c.Internal improvements and States’ Rights: Maysville Road Veto

d.Nullification Crisis

i.Tariff Issue

ii.The Union: Calhoun and Jackson

e.The Bank War: Jackson and Biddle

f.Martin Van Buren

11. Territorial Expansion and Sectional Crisis

  1. TexasIndependence
  2. Stephan Austin
  3. Alamo
  4. Manifest Destiny
  5. John L. O’Sullivan
  6. Texas annexation, the Oregon boundary, and California
  7. James K. Polk and the Mexican War; slavery and the Wilmot Proviso
  8. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  9. Later expansionist efforts

12. Creating an American Culture

  1. Cultural nationalism
  2. Education reform/professionalism
  3. Religion; revivalism
  4. Utopian experiments: Mormons, Oneida Community
  5. Transcendentalists
  6. National literature, art, architecture
  7. Reform crusades
  8. Feminism; roles of women in the nineteenth century
  9. Abolitionism
  10. Temperance
  11. Criminals and the insane

13. The 1850's: Decade of Crisis

  1. Compromise of 1850
  2. Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom's Cabin
  3. Kansas-Nebraska Act and realignment of parties
  4. Demise of the Whig Party
  5. Emergence of the Republican Party
  6. Dred Scott decision and Lecompton crisis
  7. Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
  8. John Brown's raid
  9. The Republican Party
  10. The election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln
  11. The secession crisis

14. Civil War

  1. The Union
  2. Mobilization and finance
  3. Civil liberties
  4. Election of 1864
  5. The South
  6. Confederate constitution
  7. Mobilization and finance
  8. States' rights and the Confederacy
  9. Foreign affairs and diplomacy
  10. Military strategy, campaigns, and battles
  11. The abolition of slavery
  12. Confiscation Acts
  13. Emancipation Proclamation
  14. Freedmen's Bureau
  15. Thirteenth Amendment
  16. Effects of war on society
  17. Inflation and public debt
  18. Role of women
  19. Devastation of the South
  20. Changing labor patterns

15. Reconstruction to 1877

  1. Presidential plans: Lincoln and Johnson
  2. Radical (congressional) plans
  3. Civil rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
  4. Military reconstruction
  5. Impeachment of Johnson
  6. African American suffrage: the Fifteenth Amendment
  7. Southern state governments: problems, achievements, weaknesses
  8. Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction

16. New South and the Last West

  1. Politics in the New South
  2. The Redeemers
  3. Whites and African Americans in the New South
  4. Subordination of freed slaves: Jim Crow
  5. Southern economy; colonial status of the South
  6. Sharecropping
  7. Industrial stirrings
  8. Cattle kingdom
  9. Open-range ranching
  10. Day of the cowboy
  11. Building the Western railroad
  12. Subordination of American Indians: dispersal of tribes
  13. Farming the plains; problems in agriculture
  14. Mining bonanza

17. Industrialization and Corporate Consolidation

  1. Industrial growth: railroads, iron, coal, electricity, steel, oil, banks
  2. Laissez-faire conservatism
  3. Gospel of Wealth
  4. Myth of the "self-made man"
  5. Social Darwinism; survival of the fittest
  6. Social critics and dissenters
  7. Effects of technological development on worker/work-place
  8. Union movement
  9. Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor
  10. Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman

18. Urban Society

  1. Lure of the city
  2. Immigration
  3. City problems
  4. Slums
  5. Machine politics
  6. Awakening conscience; reforms
  7. Social legislation
  8. Settlement houses: Jane Addams and Lillian Wald
  9. Structural reforms in government

19. Intellectual and Cultural Movements

  1. Education
  2. Colleges and universities
  3. Scientific advances
  1. Professionalism and the social sciences
  2. Realism in literature and art
  3. Mass culture
  4. Use of leisure
  5. Publishing and journalism

20. National Politics, 1877-1896: The Gilded Age

  1. A conservative presidency
  2. Issues
  3. Tariff controversy
  4. Railroad regulation
  5. Trusts
  6. Agrarian discontent
  7. Crisis of 1890s
  8. Populism
  9. Silver question
  10. Election of 1896: McKinley versus Bryan

21. Foreign Policy, 1865-1914

  1. Seward and the purchase of Alaska
  2. The new imperialism
  3. Blaine and Latin America
  4. International Darwinism: missionaries, politicians, and naval expansionists
  5. Spanish-American War
  6. Cuban independence
  7. Debate on Philippines
  8. The Far East: John Hay and the Open Door
  9. Theodore Roosevelt
  10. The Panama Canal
  11. Roosevelt Corollary
  12. Far East
  13. Taft and dollar diplomacy
  14. Wilson and moral diplomacy
22. Progressive Era
  1. Origins of Progressivism
  2. Progressive attitudes and motives
  3. Muckrakers
  4. Social Gospel
  5. Municipal, state, and national reforms
  6. Referendum
  7. Recall
  8. Initiative
  9. Political: suffrage
  10. Social and economic: regulation
  11. Socialism: alternatives
  12. Black America
  13. Washington, Du Bois, and Garvey
  14. Urban migration
  15. Civil rights organizations
  16. Women's role: family, work, education, unionization, and suffrage
  17. Roosevelt's Square Deal
  18. Managing the trusts
  19. Conservation
  20. Food and Drug Act
  21. Taft
  22. Pinchot-Ballinger controversy
  23. Payne-Aldrich Tariff
  24. Election 1912
  25. “Bull Moose Party
  26. Wilson's New Freedom
  27. Tariffs
  28. Banking reform = Federal Reserve
  29. Antitrust Act of 1914
  30. 16th Amendment
  31. 17th Amendment
  32. 18th Amendment
  33. 19th Amendment

23. The First World War

  1. Problems of neutrality
  2. Submarines
  3. Economic ties
  4. Psychological and ethnic ties
  5. Preparedness and pacifism
  6. Mobilization
  7. Fighting the war
  8. Financing the war
  9. War boards
  10. Propaganda, public opinion, civil liberties
  11. Wilson's Fourteen Points
  12. Treaty of Versailles
  13. Ratification fight
  14. Republicans
  15. Henry Cabot Lodge
  16. Postwar demobilization
  17. Red scare
  18. Labor strife

24. New Era: The 1920s

  1. Republican governments
  2. Business creed
  3. Harding scandals
  4. Economic development
  5. Prosperity and wealth
  6. Farm and labor problems
  7. New culture
  8. Consumerism: automobile, radio, movies
  9. Women, the family
  10. Modern religion
  11. Literature of alienation
  12. Jazz age
  13. Harlem Renaissance
  14. Conflict of cultures
  15. Prohibition, bootlegging
  16. Nativism
  17. Ku Klux Klan
  18. Religious fundamentalism versus modernists
  19. Myth of isolation
  20. Replacing the League of Nations
  21. Business and diplomacy

25. Depression, 1929-1933

  1. Hoover Response to the Great Depression
  2. Wall Street crash
  3. Depression economy
  4. Statistics of the Great Depression
  5. Moods of despair
  6. Agrarian unrest
  7. Bonus march
  8. Hoover-Stimson diplomacy; Japan

26. New Deal

  1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  2. Background, ideas
  3. Philosophy of New Deal
  4. 100 Days; "alphabet agencies"
  5. Second New Deal
  6. Critics, left and right
  7. Rise of CIO; labor strikes
  8. Supreme Court fight
  9. Recession of 1938
  10. American people in the Depression
  11. Social values, women, ethnic groups
  12. Indian Reorganization Act
  13. Mexican American deportation
  14. The racial issues

27. Diplomacy in the 1930s

  1. Good Neighbor Policy: Montevideo, Buenos Aires
  2. London Economic Conference
  3. Disarmament
  4. Isolationism: neutrality legislation
  5. Aggressors: Japan, Italy, and Germany
  6. Appeasement
  7. Rearmament; Blitzkrieg; Lend-Lease
  8. Atlantic Charter
  9. Pearl Harbor

28. The Second World War

  1. Organizing for war
  2. Mobilizing production
  3. Propaganda
  4. Internment of Japanese Americans
  5. The war in Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean; D Day
  6. The war in the Pacific: Hiroshima, Nagasaki
  7. Diplomacy War aims Wartime conferences: Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam Postwar atmosphere; the United Nations

29.Truman and the Cold War

  1. Postwar domestic adjustments
  2. The Taft-Hartley Act
  3. Civil Rights and the election of 1948
  4. Containment in Europe and the Middle East
  5. Truman Doctrine
  6. Marshall Plan
  7. Berlin crisis
  8. NATO
  9. Revolution in China
  10. Limited war: Korea, MacArthur

30. Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism

  1. Domestic frustrations; McCarthyism
  2. Civil rights movement
  3. The Warren Court and Brown v. Board of Education
  4. Montgomery bus boycott
  5. Greensboro sit-in
  6. John Foster Dulles' foreign policy
  7. Crisis in Southeast Asia
  8. Massive retaliation
  9. Nationalism in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America
  10. Khrushchev and Berlin
  11. American people: homogenized society
  12. Prosperity: economic consolidation
  13. Consumer culture
  14. Consensus of values
  15. Space race

31. Kennedy's New Frontier; Johnson's Great Society

  1. New domestic programs
  2. Tax cut
  3. War on poverty
  4. Affirmative action
  5. Civil rights and civil liberties
  6. African Americans: political, cultural, and economic roles
  7. The leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  8. Resurgence of feminism
  9. The New Left and the Counterculture
  10. Emergence of the Republican Party in the South
  11. The Supreme Court and the Miranda decision
  12. Foreign Policy
  13. Bay of Pigs
  14. Cuban missile crisis
  15. Vietnam quagmire

32. Nixon

  1. Election of 1968
  2. Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy
  3. Vietnam: escalation and pullout
  4. China: restoring relations
  5. Soviet Union: détente
  6. New Federalism
  7. Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade
  8. Watergate crisis and resignation

33. The United States since 1974

  1. The New Right and the conservative social agenda
  2. Ford and Rockefeller
  3. Carter
  4. Deregulation
  5. Energy and inflation
  6. Camp David accords
  7. Iranian hostage crisis
  8. Reagan
  9. Tax cuts and budget deficits
  10. Defense buildup
  11. New disarmament treaties
  12. Foreign crises: the Persian Gulf and Central America
  13. Society
  14. Old and new urban problems
  15. Asian and Hispanic immigrants
  16. Resurgent fundamentalism
  17. African Americans and local, state, and national politics

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