APUSH Comprehensive

Timeline Project, part II

Due: April 12, 2012

Worth: 75 points (projects category)

Directions: You and a group of up to three people will be constructing a timeline of the years 1876 to 2000 (Presidents Hayes to President Clinton). The timeline should include the requirements listed below.

  1. The timeline should be organized using the following:
  2. Date
  3. President’s Name
  4. The 6 major themes listed below
  5. Time periods (e.g. Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Turn of the Century, WWI, etc.)
  1. For each time period and Presidential administration identify the following elements:
  2. Major events
  3. Key figures
  4. Important Documents
  5. Major legislation
  6. Important Court Cases
  1. For each presidential administration, you should identify at least one of the above elements for each of the six themes. Each element identified should have a description included no less than five sentences.
  1. Include at least seven appropriate images, more are encouraged.
  1. How you present the material is open to creative freedom.
  1. Submit work to turnitin.com (each person submits their section)

APUSH Themes

  • American Identity and Culture – Views of the American national character and ideas about American exceptionalism. Recognizing regional differences within the context of what is means to be an American. Diverse, individual and collective expressions through literature, art, philosophy, music, theater and film throughout U.S. history. Popular culture and the dimensions of cultural conflict within American society.
  • Economic Transformations and Globalization – Changes in trade, commerce, and technology across time. The effects of capitalist development, labor and unions and consumerism. Engagement with the rest of the world from the fifteenth century to the present: colonialism, mercantilism, global hegemony, development of markets, imperialism and cultural exchange.
  • Environment– Ideas about the consumption and conservation of natural resources. The impact of population growth, industrialization, pollution, and urban and suburban expansion.
  • Politics and Citizenship – Colonial and revolutionary legacies, American political traditions, growth of democracy, and the development of the modern state. Defining citizenship; struggles for civil rights.
  • Slavery and its legacies in North America – Systems of slave labor and other forms of unfree labor (e.g. indentured servitude, contract labor) in American Indian societies, the Atlantic World, and the American South and West. The economies of slavery and its racial dimensions. Patterns of resistance and the long-term economic, political and social effects of slavery.
  • War and Diplomacy – Armed conflict from the pre-colonial period to the twenty-first century; impact of war on American foreign policy and on politics, economy and society.