AP US HISTORY
Textbook
Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, Thomas A. Bailey. The American Pageant: A
History of the Republic 13th ed. Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and
Company, 2006.
Additional Course Materials:
Ellis, Joseph. Founding Brothers. New York: Vintage Books 2002.
Mladineo, Mike, Liu, Edward and Liu, Michael. Discover America: Student-Created
Materials to Help You Pass the AP U.S. History Examination. 2nd Edition.
Kennedy, David M. and Thomas Bailey. The American Spirit, Volumes 1 and 2.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 2006.
American Studies Album. Scott Foresman: Glenview, IL, 1995.
Grading Procedure
Charts
Dialectical Journals
Mini-Museum
Daily Activities (SOAPS, YES/BUT, etc.)
Top Ten Lists
Essay/DBQ Test (1 per unit)
Unit Multiple Choice Test
Course Outline
In addition to learning the facts and major themes of US History, the students will learn the different interpretations of US History and how those have changed over time. US History can be viewed as a series of chain reactions, and the action that causes an event will be reinterpreted several times in light of new understandings of events and actions. Historians are constantly reevaluating the motives for the actions and effects of the events.
UNIT ONE Exploration
First European Contact with the Native Americans
Spanish Empire in America and French Colonization in America
Required Readings
American Pageant, Chapter 1
The American Spirit:
Bartolome de Las Casas Defends the Indians
Francisco Coronado Explores the American Southwest
ESSAYS/CHARTS: French and Spanish interaction with Native Americans
Religion
UNIT TWO Colonial America
English Settlement of America
New England
Middle Atlantic
South
The Chesapeake vs. New England
Servitude and Slavery in America
Religious Diversity in America
Mercantilism
Resistance
Bacon’s Rebellion
The Glorious Revolution
Pueblo Revolt
Immigration to America
The Great Awakening
Rural vs. City life
Colonial government and Imperial Policy
Required Readings:
American Pageant Chapters 2-5
The American Spirit:
The Starving Time
The Intolerant Act of Toleration
John Winthrop’s Concept of Liberty
Slavery is Justified
Jonathan Edwards Paints the Horrors of Hell
DBQ: New England and the Chesapeake Region
UNIT THREE Revolutionary War Era
The French and Indian War
1763 to 1775
Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
Townshend Acts
Boston Tea Party
Continental Congress
The Declaration of Independence
The War for Independence
French Alliance
Loyalists and Homefront
War Economy
The Articles of Confederation and State Constitutions
Treaty of Paris
Social Reform: Women and Slavery
The Critical Period
Required Readings:
American Pageant, Chapters 6-9
The American Spirit
The Proclamation of 1763
Patrick Henry Demands Boldness
Thomas Paine Talks Common Sense
Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence
DBQ: French and Indian War
ESSAYS/CHART: The Road to the American Revolution
The Articles of Confederation
The Critical Period
UNIT FOUR The Early Republic
The US Constitution
The drafting of the Constitution
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Bill of Rights
Washington and Hamilton in shaping the National Government
Economic Policy
Foreign Policy
Domestic Problems
Political Parties
Federalists
Republicans
Republican Motherhood
Required Readings
American Pageant, Chapters 9-10
Founding Brothers, Chapters
The American Spirit
George Washington Expresses Alarm
A Delegate Fears for the Little People
James Madison Defends the New Constitution
Jefferson Versus Hamilton on the Bank
DBQ: American Society, 1775-1800
UNIT FIVE Age of Jefferson
John Adams
Alien and Sedition Acts
XYZ Affair
Election of 1800
Jeffersonian Presidency
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
Burr Conspiracy
Neutral Rights, Impressment and Embargo
American Indian Resistance to westward expansion
The War of 1812
Causes
Canada
Hartford Convention
Treaty of Ghent
New Orleans
James Monroe
Era of Good Feelings
American System
Panic of 1819
Missouri Compromise
Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
John Marshall and the Supreme Court
Required Readings:
American Pageant, Chapters 11-12
Founding Brothers, Chapters
The American Spirit
Causes of War
Disloyalty in New England
James Monroe Warns the European Powers
John Marshall and the Supreme Court
ESSAYS/CHART: Revolution of 1800
Foreign Policies of Washington, Adams and Jefferson
UNIT SIX Jacksonian Democracy
Jacksonian Democracy
The Bank War
Tariff Controversy
States Rights
Internal Improvements
Successes and Limitations
Two Party Political System
Democrats
Whigs
Martin Van Buren
Independent Treasury System
Panic of 1837
National Economy
Transportation Revolution
1st Industrial Revolution (TRIC)
Immigration and Nativism
Northeast Industry
Labor
Immigration
Lowell System
1st Great Awakening
Protestant revivalism
Social reforms
Education
Temperance
Prison Reform
Cult of Domesticity
Transcendentalism
Utopian communities
Literary and Artistic expressions (Hudson River)
Trail of Tears
Required Readings:
American Pageant, Chapters 13-15
The American Spirit
The Nullification Crisis
The War on the Bank
Wage Slavery in New England
Railroads Link East and West
The Changing Role of Women
Emersonisms and Thoreauisms
DBQ: Jacksonian Democrats
ESSAYS/CHART: American Reform Movements
TRIC
UNIT SEVEN Road to the Civil War
Peculiar Society
Planters
Yeoman Farmers
Slaves
Cotton
Slave culture
Manifest Destiny
Westward Migration (Trails)
Territorial Acquisitions (COIL)
The Mexican War
Abolitionism
Compromise of 1850 and Popular Sovereignty
The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
Dred Scott
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
John Brown’s Raid
The election of 1860
Secession
Required Readings
American Pageant, Chapters 16-19
The American Spirit
A Former Slave Exposes Slavery
Comparing Slave Labor and Wage Labor
The Wilmot Proviso Issue
Mrs. Stowe Inflames the Southern Imagination
DBQ: 1850’s
ESSAYS/CHART: Political Compromises: 1820 to 1861
Supreme Court: 1803 to 1866
Units 1-7 will be taught in the Sophomore US Studies Class. Units 8-16 will be taught in the Junior AP US History Class.
UNIT EIGHT (CIVIL WAR)
The Home-front
Mobilization
Resources
Internal dissent
Emancipation and the African Americans
Confiscation Acts
Emancipation Proclamation
African Americans in the war
13th Amendment
Civil Liberties or the Darkside of Lincoln
Foreign Affairs during the Civil War
Social, Political and Economic effects of the War
North
South
West
Required Readings
American Pageant, Chapters
The American Spirit
Lincoln and the Secession Crisis
Abraham Lincoln Defines the Purposes of the War
Lincoln Defends His Decision
The Hell of Andersonville Prison
UNIT SIX (Reconstruction and the Old West)
Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction
Ten Percent Plan
Johnson’s Plan
14th Amendment
Military Reconstruction
Impeachment of Johnson
Southern State Governments (1865-1877)
Goals
Achievements
Failures
African American
15th Amendment
Politics
Education
Economy
Compromise of 1877 and the Impact of Reconstruction
Southern Agriculture
Sharecropping
Crop Lien system
The Redeemers and the KKK
Southern Industry (Textiles and Iron)
Jim Crow and disenfranchisement
Western Railroads
The Old West Frontiers
Mining
Cattle
Farmers
The American Indian
Social Aspects of the West
Environmental impacts of western settlement
Required Readings
American Pageant
The American Spirit
Southern Blacks Ask for Help
The Controversy over the Fifteenth Amendment
W. E. B. Du Bois Justifies Black Legislators
Booker T. Washington Reflects
Carl Schurz Proposes to “Civilize” the Indians
Sodbusters in Kansas
DBQ: 1860 to 1877, Was it a revolution?
ESSAYS/CHART: SPRITE the Reconstruction Era
Frederick Jackson Turner
UNIT SEVEN (The Gilded Age)
2nd Industrial Revolution (ROSE)
Technology and the worker
Labor and unions
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Strikes and Riots
Laissez Faire
Gospel of Wealth
Self-Made Man
Social Darwinism
Migration and Immigration
Lure of the City
City problems
Party Bosses
Cultural movements
Entertainment
Social Gospel
Jane Addams and the Hull House
US Grant
The Forgettable Presidents
Tariff Controversy
Railroad Regulations
Trusts
Agrarian Discontent
Required Readings:
The American Pageant
The American Spirit
Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
Life in a Southern Mill
The Life of a Sweatshop Girl
Samuel Gompers Condemns the Knights
Jacob Riis Goes Slumming
Four Views of the Statue of Liberty
An Italian Immigrant Woman Faces Life Alone in the Big City
DBQ: Labor Unions
ESSAYS/CHART: Industrial Worker
Gilded Age Politics
Economic Developments
UNIT EIGHT (Populism to Progressivism)
Crisis of 1890s
Populism
Silver
Election of 1896 or Wizard of Oz
Origins of Progressive Reform
Municipal
State
National
Muckrakers
Social Gospel
Progressive Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt (3 Cs)
William Howard Taft (Controversy)
Woodrow Wilson (New Freedom)
Women’s Movement
Family
Workplace
Education
Politics and Suffrage
Reform
Black America
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Urban migration
NAACP
American Imperialism
Alaska
James G. Blaine
International Darwinism
Spanish-American War
The Open Door Notes
Big Stick Diplomacy
The Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
Far East
Dollar Diplomacy
Moral Diplomacy
Required Readings:
American Pageant
The American Spirit
William Jennings Bryan’s Cross of Gold
The Heyday of Muckraking
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire Claims 146 Lives
Images of the Suffrage Campaign
DBQ: Progressive Era Reformers
ESSAYS/CHART: Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois
UNIT NINE
World War I
Neutrality
Mobilization
Propaganda
Civil Liberties
Treaty of Versailles
14 Points
Ratification Crisis
Postwar Problems
Red Scare
Labor Strife
Republican Politics
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Business
Conservative Changes
Consumerism
Automobile
Radio
Movies
Roaring Twenties
Science
Arts
Entertainment
Women
Fundamentalism
Nativism
Prohibition
KKK
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
African Americans
The Great Depression
Farm Problems
Causes
Wall Street Crash
Depression Economy
Bonus March
Foreign Policy of the Twenties
League of Nations
Isolationism
Hoover-Stimson Diplomacy
Required Readings:
American Pageant
The American Spirit
Woodrow Wilson Versus Theodore Roosevelt on the Fourteen Points
A “Doughboy” Describes the Fighting Front
The Text of Article X
An Appraisal of Hoover
DBQ: Women (2)
ESSAYS/CHART: American entrance into WW I
Immigration
Cities: 1880-1930
UNIT TEN (New Deal and World War II)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Philosophy
Alphabet Agencies
RRR
Critics of FDR
Father Coughlin
Dr. Francis Townsend
Huey P. Long
Supreme Court vs. FDR
Labor and Unions
Society under the New Deal
Women
African Americans
Indian Reorganization Act
Mexican-Americans (1914-1945)
Foreign Policy under FDR
Good Neighbor Policy
London Economic Conference
Isolationism and the Neutrality Acts
Rise of the Aggressors
Italy
Germany
Japan
Appeasement
Poland
Atlantic Charter
Pearl Harbor
Organizing for War
Mobilization
Propaganda
Japanese Internment
Homefront
Urban migration
Regional Development
Civil Liberties
Expansion of Government power
Women
Rosie the Riveter
Family
Multi-front War
North Africa
Europe
D-Day
Pacific
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Wartime Conferences
Goals
Teheran
Yalta
Potsdam
The United Nations
Required Readings:
American Pageant
The American Spirit
Voices of Protest
Assessing the New Deal
Two Views of Isolationism
A Black American Ponders the War’s Meaning
Harry Truman Justifies the Bombing
DBQ: FDR and the Great Depression
ESSAYS/CHART: The New Deal
Foreign Policy: 1920 to 1941
UNIT ELEVEN (1945-1960)
The Cold War and Truman
Origins
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Crisis
NATO
China and Korea
The Cold War and Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
SE Asia and the Middle East
Massive Retaliation
Khrushchev and Berlin
The Taft and Hartley Act
The Red Scare and Joseph McCarthy
Civil Rights
Election of 1948
Jackie Robinson
Military
Brown v. Board of Education
Montgomery bus boycott
Little Rock Nine
Greensboro sit-in
The Affluent Society vs. “the other America”
Conformity and suburbia
Rebels and nonconformists
Life in the 50s
Space Race
Required Readings:
American Pageant
The American Spirit
Senator Joseph McCarthy Blasts “Traitors”
NSC-68 Offers a Blueprint for the Cold War
The Soviets “Develop” American Spies
The Court Rejects Segregation
A Black Newspaper Praises Courage
John Kenneth Galbraith Criticizes the Affluent Society
Women’s Career Prospects
Eisenhower Farewell Address
DBQ: Eisenhower and the Cold War
ESSAYS/CHART: American-Soviet Relations
Women: 1941- 1962
UNIT TWELVE (1960-1988)
John F. Kennedy
Election of 1960
New Frontier
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Great Society
War on Poverty
Affirmative Action
Vietnam
Civil Rights Movement and Civil Liberties
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feminism
Chicanos
Antiwar and Counterculture movements
Conservative South
The Supreme Court
Richard M. Nixon
Election of 1968 and the Silent Majority
Nixon-Kissinger Foreign Policy
Vietnam: Escalation and Pullout
Soviet Union: Détente
China: Ping Pong
New Federalism
The Supreme Court
Watergate
Ford and Carter
The New Right
Deregulation
Energy and Inflation
Camp David Accords
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Ronald Reagan
Supply Side Economics
Defense buildup
Disarmament Treaties
Central America and the Middle East
End of the Cold War
Domestic Issues
Sunbelt
Immigration post 1965
Environmentalism
Terrorism
Required Readings:
American Pageant
The American Spirit
Michael Harrington Discovers Another America
Martin Luther King, Jr., Writes from a Birmingham Jail
President Johnson Asserts His War Aims
The Dilemma of Vietnam
Nixon Incriminates Himself
The Revitalization of the Feminist Movement
James T. Patterson Weighs the Reagan Record
DBQ: African Americans and the 1960s
ESSAYS/CHART: The Presidents
Cold War
Social and Political Equality