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AP U.S. History Syllabus Course Description The Advanced Placement United States History class is designed to provide you with the analytic skills and the factual knowledge to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States history. You will discover there are many themes that run throughout United States History. In this class we will explore several of those themes such as religion, American culture, economic changes, reform, and war. The program prepares you for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon you equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses. You will learn to assess historical materials for their relevance, their reliability, and their importance, and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in history. AP US History prepares you to pass the AP Examination in May. To achieve this goal, students should be prepared to spend a significant amount of time outside of class on homework and research. Unit 1: The Creation of American Society 1450 – 1763 (3 weeks) Text: America’s History – Chapter1, “World’s Collide, Europe, Africa, and America 1450 - 1620 Text: America’s History – Chapter 2, The Invasion and Settlement of North America 1550 – 1700 Text: America’s History – Chapter 3, The British Empire in America 1660 – 1750 Text America’s History – Chapter 4, Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society 1720 - 1765 Key Discussion Topics: First European contacts with Native Americans, English, settlement of New England, the Middle Atlantic Region, the Southern Colonies, Religious Diversity in the American Colonies, Colonial Economics and Societies • Required Reading: Opposing Viewpoints in American History, 2A – “Virginia Is an Abundant New Paradise (1613)” 2B – “Virginia is Not a New Paradise (1624)” Primary Source Documents – The Mayflower Compact John Winthrop’s “City Upon A Hill” (1630) Maryland Toleration Act Unit 2: The New Republic 1763 – 1820 (2 weeks) Text: America’s History – Chapter 5 Towards Independence Years of Decision 1763 - 1776 Text: America’s History – Chapter 6 Making War and Republican Governments 1776 - 1789 Key Discussion Topics: The French and Indian War, conflicts with British rule, The Revolutionary War, Articles of Confederation, The Constitution 1 • Required Reading: Opposing Viewpoints in American History, 11A – “Parliament is Abusing the Rights of Americans” 11B – “Parliament is Not Abusing the Rights of Americans” Documents: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense The Olive Branch Petition The Declaration of Independence The Constitution of the United States of America Federalist Ten Political Cartoons “The Bloody Massacre: “Join or Die” “The Bostonians in Distress” “Tarring and Feathering” “The Repeal” Unit 2 part 2 - (2 weeks) Text: America’s History – Chapter 7, Politics and Society in the New Republic 1787 - 1820 Text: America’s History – Chapter 8, Creating a Republican Culture 1790 1820 Key Discussion Topics: National economic policy and its consequences, the United States on the world stage, battling for the nation’s soul, the election of 1800, the Age of Jefferson, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Quids, Impressment, The Embargo Act, the election of 1808, problems with Native Americans, the War of 1812, the Hartford Convention, John Marshall and the Supreme Court, the Missouri Compromise, the Monroe Doctrine • Required Reading: Opposing Viewpoints in American History 18A – “A New National Bank Would Be Unconstitutional” 18B – “A New National Bank Would Not Be Unconstitutional” Founding Brothers – Chapters 1 and 2 Documents: Bill of Rights Washington’s Farewell Address Alien and Sedition Acts Virginia and Kentucky Resolves 12th Amendment The Embargo Act British Orders in Council Missouri Compromise Monroe Doctrine 2 Supreme Court Case: Marbury vs. Madison Unit 3: Economic Revolution and Sectional Strife (3 weeks) • Text: America’s History – Chapter 9, Economic Transformation 1820 1860 Text: America’s History – Chapter 10, A Democratic Revolution 1820 – 1844 Text: America’s History – Chapter 11, Religion and Reform 1820 – 1860 Text: America’s History – Chapter 12, The South Expands Slavery and Society 1820 – 1860 Text: America’s History – Chapter 13, The Crisis of the Union Key Discussion Topics: the expansion of democracy, the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams as President, the rise of Andrew Jackson, nullification, Jackson vs. Calhoun, the bank veto, the Panic of 1837, second party system, the second Great Awakening, the Age of Reform, technology and economic growth, King Cotton, social relations in the White South, honor and violence in the Old South, the plantation system, the emergence of African-American culture, newcomers and natives, anti-Catholicism, nativism, labor protests, the Far West, American settlement of Texas, Texas Revolution, politics of expansion, Manifest Destiny, the Mexican War, intensifying sectional divisions, Wilmot Proviso, the California gold rush, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Know-Nothings, the origins of the Republican Party, Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott Case, the legacy of Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, Civil War, political leadership in war time, the Emancipation Proclamation, the war’s economic impact, 13th Amendment, Reconstruction policies, 14th Amendment, the impeachment crisis, 15th Amendment, sharecropping, redeeming the South, the election of 1876 Required Reading: Opposing Viewpoints In American History, 23A – “The Bank of the United States Should Be Abolished” 23B – “The Bank of the United States Should Not Be Abolished” 25A – “Indians Should Be Removed to the West” 25B – “Indians Should Be Allowed to Remain in Their Homeland” Teacher Reading – “The Dawning of Democratic America” Primary Source Documents – Supreme Court Case “McCulloch vs. Maryland” Supreme Court Case “Gibbons vs. Ogden” “Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia” Jackson’s Veto of Maysville Road Bill 3 Jackson’s Veto of the Bank Bill Jackson’s Message on Removal of Indians South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification Force Bill Political Cartoons “King Andrew the First” “Set To Between Old Hickory and Bully Nick” Unit 3 Part 2 (3 weeks) Text: America’s History Chapter 14 – Two Societies At War 1861 – 1865 Text America’s History Chapter 15 – Reconstruction 1865 – 1877 • Required Reading: Opposing Viewpoints in American History, 26A – “Immigrants Endanger America” 27B – “Immigrants Do Not Endanger America.” 28A – “Slavery Is Not Oppressive” 28B – “Slavery Is Oppressive” 34A – “Secession Is Justified” 34B – “Secession is Not Justified” Teacher Reading – “Antebellum Culture and Reform” Teacher Reading – “Manifest Destiny” Documents: Compromise of 1850 Wilmot Proviso Crittenden Peace Resolutions Kansas-Nebraska Act The Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address 13th Amendment 14th Amendment Political Cartoons: “Shoving Slavery Down the Throat of a Free Soiler” “The Era of Manifest Destiny” Supreme Court Case: The Dred Scott case Unit 4: A Maturing Industrial Society (4 weeks) Text: America’s History – Chapter 16, The American West Text: America’s History – Chapter 17, Capital and Labor in the Age of Enterprise 1877 - 1900 Text: America’s History – Chapter 18 The Industrial City Building It, Text: America’s History – Chapter 19, Politics in the Age of Enterprise 1877 1896 4 Key Discussion Topics: Railroad innovations, the triumph of technology, mass production, mass marketing, industrialization: costs and benefits, the New South, labor unions, Homestead Strike, Haymarket Strike, urban expansion, revolution of transportation, slums and ghettos, the settlement house movement, The stakes of politics, regulating the money supply, civil service reform, big business the Granger movement, Populists, panic of 1893, the watershed election of 1896, Pacific expansion, Spanish-American War, Panama canal • Required Reading: Opposing Viewpoints in American History, 7A – “Concentrations of Wealth Harm America” 7B – “Concentrations of Wealth Help America” Teacher Reading: “The Birth of American Imperialism: American Foreign Policy 1890 – 1908” Documents: Interstate Commerce Act Sherman Anti-Trust Act Pendleton Act Populist Party Platform Bryan’s Cross of Gold Speech Sixteenth Amendment Seventeenth Amendment Eighteenth Amendment Open Door in China Platt Amendment Unit 4 Part 2 (3 weeks) Text: America’s History Chapter 20: The Progressive Era – 1900 – 1914 Text America’s History Chapter 21: An Emerging World Power 1877 – 1914 Key Discussion Topics: Immigrant masses, new urban middle class, progressivism, blacks and women organize, Jim Crow laws, NAACP, Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt Corollary, labor disputes, Conservation movement, William Taft, the election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson, WWI, problems of neutrality, election of 1916, U.S. enters the war, Washington Naval Conference, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Dawes Plan • Required Reading: Opposing Viewpoints in American History, 13A “America Should Retain the Philippines” 13B “America Should Not Rule the Philippines” Documents: Platt Amendment Roosevelt Corollary 5 Dollar Diplomacy Political Cartoons: “Champion Rough Rider of the World” “All That You Need is Backbone” “Are We So Soon Forgotten” “I hardly Know Which to Take First” “Measuring Uncle Sam For A New Suit” “The Big Stick in the Caribbean Sea” Unit 5: The Modern State and Society – (5 weeks) • Text: America’s History Chapter 22, War and the American State 1914- 1920 Text: America’s History – Chapter 23, Modern Times 1920 - 1932 Text: America’s History – Chapter 24,Redefining Liberalism The New Deal 1933 – 1939 Text: America’s History - Chapter 25, The World At War Required Reading: Opposing Viewpoints in American History, 16A “Immigrants Harm American Society” 16B “Immigrants Do Not Harm American Society” 18A “America Should Enter World War I” 18B “America Should Not Enter World War I” Teacher Reading: “The Progressives 1900 – 1914” Teacher Reading: “America and the Great War” Documents: The Zimmerman Telegram Woodrow Wilson’s War Message The Fourteen Points Political Cartoons: “Progressive Fallacies” “Dead on the Wire” “The Zimmerman Note” Key Discussion Topics: stock market crash of 1929, human toll of the depression, Herbert Hoover, election of 1932, New Deal, Second New Deal, FDR, packing the court, plight of the people, radio and movies, Good Neighbor Policy, rise of Fascism in Europe and Asia, from isolation to intervention, a war economy, women and the family, Japanese interment , Allied drive in Europe, War in the Pacific, Yalta Conference, atomic bombs, United Nations Required Reading: Opposing Viewpoints in American History, 25A “America Needs a New Deal” 25B “Roosevelt’s New Deal Would Destroy America” 6 29A “The Interment of Japanese-Americans was Justified” 29B “The Internment of Japanese Americans was Not Justified” 30A “The United States Should Not Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan” 30B “The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan Was Justified” Teacher Reading: “What Goes Up Must Come Down: The Stock Market Crash of 1929” Teacher Reading: “Home Front U.S.A” Documents: National Labor Relations Act Social Security Acts Reform of the National Judiciary Tennessee Valley Act Twentieth Amendment Twenty First Amendment Stimson Doctrine Roosevelt’s Four Freedom’s Speech The Lend Lease Act The Atlantic Charter Yalta Conference Japanese Relocation Order Political Cartoons: “The Dilemma” “A Hard Nag To Ride” “The End of the Depression” “World War II Ended the Great Depression” “Crack of Doom” “The End of the Nap” “Don’t Let Them Carve Those Faces on our Mountains” “Hitler’s Plan” Unit 6: Age of Cold War Liberalism 1945 - 1980 (3 weeks) Text: America’s History – Chapter 26, Cold War America – 1945 - 1960 Text: America’s History – Chapter 27, “The Age of Affluence – 1945 - 1960 Text: America’s History – Chapter 28, The Liberal Consensus Flaming Out 1960 – 1968 Text: America’s History - Chapter 29 The 1970s Toward a Conservative America Key Discussion Topics: Reconverting the economy from war time to peace time, polarization, Cold War, European Crisis, containment, Korean War, civil rights, the 7 Fair Deal, Eisenhower Presidency, Joseph McCarthy, Warren Court, the CIA, suburbs, affluent society, baby boom, the fifties, poverty, Sputnik, youth rebellion, Vietnam War, New Frontier, election of 1960, Civil Rights, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, John Kennedy, Voting Rights act of 1965, Freedom Summer, “Black Power”, Great Society, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Required Reading: Opposing Viewpoints in American History, 32A “Communist Subversives Threaten America” 32B “McCarthyism Threatens America” 33A “Racial Segregation in Public Schools is Unconstitutional” 33B “The Supreme Court Should Not Interfere in Southern Racial Practices” 36A “U.S. Actions in Vietnam are Justified” 36B. “U.S. Actions in Vietnam are Not Justified” Documents: The Berlin Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis The Warren Report Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Twenty-Third Amendment Twenty-Fourth Amendment Twenty- Fifth Amendment Nixon’s statement on the Invasion of China Twenty-Sixth Amendment Supreme Court Cases: Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Miranda vs. Arizona Gideon vs. Wainwright Roe vs. Wade United States vs. Richard M. Nixon Unit 7: Entering a New Era, Conservatism, Globalism Terrorism 1980 - 2006 (4 weeks) Text: America’s History – Chapter 30, “The Regan Revolution and the end of the Cold War 1980 – 2001 Text: America’s History – Chapter 31 A Dynamic Economy, A Divided People 1980 - 2000 Text: America’s History – Chapter 32 “Into the Twenty First Century Key Discussion Topics: the Youth movement, Tet Offensive in Vietnam, Vietnamization, Détente, Richard Nixon, Election of 1972, Watergate, Women’s movement, new patterns of immigration, AIDS, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Middle 8 East Peace Accords, Reagan Revolution, “ military buildup, “Reaganomics” Cold War ends, George Bush Sr., Operation Desert Storm, welfare reform, Bill Clinton, campaign finance reform, impeachment, a New World Order • Required Reading: Opposing Viewpoints in American History, 39A “A Defense of the Nixon Presidency” 39B “Richard Nixon Should Be Impeached” Political Cartoons: Reasons for being in Indochina Wiretapping Happy Birthday Dr. King I am not a Crook Bill Clinton’s Christmas Present from the House Main Text Book: America’s History by Henrietta 9