Download AP US Audit (students)

Course Outline:
1. The Age of Discovery and American Colonies (1492 – 1769):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 1-5
Theme(s):
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First Discoverers of America and their contact with Native Americans
Territorial Expansion and Imperialism
Religious discontent and divisions
Advanced development of the Middle Colonies
New England’s social dynamics
Colonial culture taking on American qualities through education, free press, and self
government
Primary Sources:
Cortes Conquers Mexico / Aztec Describe the Spanish Conquest / A Slave Taken to Barbados / The Starving
Time / Governor William Berkeley Reports / The Great Indian Uprising / Persecution of Catholics / Framing
the Mayflower Compact / Anne Hutchinson is Banished / A Contract for an Indentured Servant / The
Baconite Grievances / Benjamin Franklin Analyzes the Population /
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
Columbus
Cortes
Montezuma II
John Smith
Pocahontas
Jamestown, VA
The "Starving Time"
Virginia Company
Lord De La Warr
Captain John Smith
Powhatan
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Headright system
House of Burgesses
Royal colony
George Calvert
Proprietorship
Maryland Toleration Act
Indentured servant
Gov. William Berkeley
Nathaniel Bacon
English Reformation
"The Great Migration"
Puritan
Church of England
(Anglican Church)
Congregationalists
"Middling sort"
Pilgrims [Separatists]
The "elect"
Mayflower Compact
Squanto
MA Bay Colony
John Winthrop
Covenant
Thomas Hooker
Fundamental Orders of CT
Fundamental Articles of New
Haven
New England town meetings
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Antinomianism
Theocracy
Pequot War
Captain John Mason
Wampanoag
King Philip's War
Flintlock musket
Stuart Restoration
Peter Stuyvesant
Dutch Reformed Church
Sir George Carteret
Quakers
George Fox
Margaret Fell
"Inner Light"
Charters of Liberty
William Penn
Barbados
James Oglethorpe
John Locke
Two Treatises on Government
Atlantic trading system
Indigo
African "Rice Coast"
Gullah
Mercantilism
Board of Trade & Plantations
Dominion of New England
Sir Edmond Andros
Navigation Acts
Enumerated goods
Stono Rebellion
Rev. Increase Mather
Salem Witch Trials
Rev. Cotton Mather
Rev. George Burroughs
Essay Topics:
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Discuss the motives, expectations, problems, and rewards associated with the age of
European expansion
Discuss English treatment of the Irish and its consequences
To what extent was the New England Confederacy a first step toward colonial unity
What were the short term and long term consequences of the American colonists seeking
foreign markets for their exports
Possible Assignments:
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Develop a chart comparing the relationship between Spain, France, and England with
Native Americans
Have students read pertinent documents relating to the Chesapeake and New England
colonies (ex. indenture contract & “City Upon A Hill” speech) and make comparison
notes on the two colonial societies
Teach DBQ writing process with past DBQ comparing Chesapeake and New England
colonies. Have students brainstorm responses, analyze documents with S.O.A.P.S method
in groups, and report to class. Supervise writing of thesis statements
2. Conflict and Causes for a Revolution (1608 – 1783):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 6-8
Theme(s):
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Britain and France struggle for control in North America
France is defeated in the Seven Years’ War
Britain’s victory reveals long standing tensions between the Mother Country and her
colonies in North America
Tension increase between Britain and colonies based around the mercantile system
Radicals in Boston test Britain’s authority and start to protest tightening control
The war divides Americans, many whom remain loyal to Britain
Americans, with assistance from France gain independence
Primary Sources:
Benjamin Franklin characterizes General Braddock / Pontiac Rallies His Warriors / A Lawyer Denounces
Search Warrants / Two Views of the British Empire / Patrick Henry Demands Boldness / Thomas Paine
Talks Common Sense (1776) / Tories Fear French Catholics / Vengeance on the Tories / The Hanging of a
Loyalist
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
"Era of Salutary Neglect"
Albany Plan of Union
Iroquois Confederacy
Treaty of Utrecht
Fort Necessity
Fort Duquesne
General Edward Braddock
William Pitt
Seven Years' War
French and Indian War
The "Great War for Empire"
Fort William Henry
Treaty of Paris of 1763
King George III
George Grenville
Sugar Act (1764)
Currency Act (1764)
Stamp Act (1765)
Paxton Boys
Pontiac's Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Patrick Henry
Stamp Act Congress
Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
Declaratory Act (1766)
Mutiny [Quartering] Act
(1765)
Townshend Acts (1767)
Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
Massachusetts Circular Letter
John Adams
John Dickinson
Letters from a Farmer in
Pennsylvania
Actual representation
Virtual representation
Writs of assistance
Gaspeé Incident
Tea Act (1773)
Mercy Otis Warren
Daughters of Liberty
Non-importation
Boston Tea Party
Coercive [Intolerable] Acts
(1774)
Quebec Act (1774)
First Continental Congress
Committees of
Correspondence
Conciliatory Propositions
Lexington and Concord
General Thomas Gage
Patriots
Olive Branch Petition
Declaration on the Causes of
Necessity of Taking Up Arms
Prohibitory Act (1775)
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Marquis de Lafayette
Continental Army
Kazimierz Pulaski
Baron von Steuben
Battle of Trenton
Hessians
Valley Forge, PA
General William Howe
"Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne
Fort Ticonderoga
Franco-American Alliance of
1778
Battle of Saratoga
Benedict Arnold
Nathaniel Greene
Count de Rochambeau
Admiral de Grasse
General Cornwallis
Battle of Yorktown
Peace of Paris, 1783
Loyalists
Manumission
Judith Sargent Murray
Abigail Adams
"Virtuous Republic"
Republicanism
"Critical Period"
Ordinance of 1784
Ordinance of 1785
Cadastral system
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Little Turtle
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Treaty of Greenville
Shays' Rebellion
Newburgh Conspiracy
Annapolis Convention
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Great Compromise of 1787
Essay Topics:
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Washington, awful general or excellent leader?
Was the Seven Years’ War a World War?
To what extent did the Seven Years’ War contribute to the American Revolutionary War?
Compare and Contrast the reasons for unity and the reasons for disunity in the American
colonies before and after the Seven Years’ War.
Why was the Ohio Valley and area of conflict for Britain and France?
What role did pamphlets, boycotts, and mob action play in the American Revolution?
Compare and Contrast the advantages and disadvantages of the British and colonists as the
American Revolutionary War began.
Explain the characteristics of a virtuous leader
What qualities made George Washington a virtuous leader?
Explain the importance of the Battle of Saratoga
Possible Assignments:
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Create a timeline of the various laws imposed on the colonists by England and the colonial
reactions. Read pertinent colonial responses (ex. Resolution of the Stamp Act Congress)
and summarize the arguments on taxation by both sides. Write an essay on whether the
American Revolution was inevitable.
Have students groups address either the American Revolution in terms of northern,
southern, or western campaigns. Create a poster noting the influential figures and events.
Present to the class.
3. A New Nation (1776 – 1812):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 9-11
Theme(s):
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Americans begins to rethink their ideas on the institution of slavery
The Articles of Confederation prove to be too weak and fail to deal with America’s
problems
Controversy surrounds the revising of the Articles of Confederation and ratification of the
Constitution and stronger national government
A rebellion in Pennsylvania is suppressed revealing the strength of the national
government under the new Constitution
The emergence of two political parties: the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
George Washington sets precedents for following US Presidents, warns of political
parties, and advises the US to stay neutral in foreign affairs
Jefferson realizes condemning is easier than ruling
Madison must decide between western War Hawks and New Englanders’ neutral
hostilities
Primary Sources:
Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address / Monroe Doctrine / George Washington Expresses Alarm /
Thomas Jefferson Favors Rebellion / The Debate of Representation in Congress / George Mason is Critical /
A Farmer Favors the Constitution / The Clash over States’ Rights / Jefferson Duped by Hamilton / Hamilton
Defends Assumption / A Jeffersonian Condemns Neutrality / Washington’s Farewell Address / Marshall
Sanctions the Bank / Napoleon Decides to Dispose of Louisiana / Lewis and Clark Meet a Grizzly
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
3/5s clause
Elastic clause
Federalism
Strict constructionist
Loose [broad] constructionist
Checks & balances
Whiskey Rebellion
Edmond Genêt
Jay's Treaty (1795)
Pinckney's Treaty (1795)
XYZ Affair
Quasi-French War
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Virginia & Kentucky
Resolutions (1798)
Nullification
"Revolution of 1800"
Aaron Burr
Judiciary Act (1801)
"Midnight Judges"
12th. Amendment
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Bill of Rights
The Federalist Papers
Anti-Federalist Papers
Judiciary Act of 1789
Alexander Hamilton
Assumption
11th. Amendment
Report on Public Credit (1790)
Report on Manufactures
(1791)
First Bank of the U. S.
Cultural nationalism
Judith Sargent Murray
Noah Webster
Washington Irving
Deism
Revivalism
Second Great Awakening
Charles G. Finney
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
Clermont
"Turnpike Era"
Pierre L 'Enfant
Jeffersonian democracy
Albert Gallatin
Barbary Pirate Wars
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Writ of mandamus
Judicial review
John Marshall
Samuel Chase
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Sacagawea
Zebulon Pike
Essex Junto
Democratic-Republicans
"Burr Conspiracy”
Continental System
Impressment
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
Embargo Act of 1807
Macon's Bill No. 2
Gen. William Henry Harrison
The Prophet, Tenskwatawa
Tecumseh
"War Hawks"
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
"Mr. Madison's War"
Francis Scott Key
Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson
Hartford Convention
Treaty of Ghent
Rush-Bagot Agreement
John Quincy Adams
Second Bank of the US
National Road
Tariff of 1816
"Era of Good Feeling"
First Seminole War
Adams-Onis Treaty
Panic of 1819
Tallmadge Amendment
Missouri Compromise
Fletcher v. Peck
Dartmouth College v.
Woodward
McCulloch v. Maryland
Cohens v. Virginia
Gibbons v. Ogden
Johnson v. McIntosh
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia
Monroe Doctrine
"King Caucus"
American System
"Corrupt Bargain"
Tariff of Abomination
Essay Topics:
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To what extent did the American Revolution bring about greater equality?
How did the Revolution impact the American economy?
What internal problems did the government under the Articles face?
What were Hamilton’s main ideas in his economic plan for the nation and what arguments
were made against his plan?
How did differences in views on foreign relations, economic policy, and federal power
lead to the development of political parties?
Possible Assignments:
- The Articles of Confederation were a failure. Evaluate this statement.
- To what extent did presidents Washington and Adams succeed in building a secure and
stable democracy?
- How did differences in views on foreign relations, economic policy, and federal power
lead to the development of political parties?
4. Nationalism and Democracy (1812 – 1840):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 12-13
Theme(s):
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Following the war, a spirit of Nationalism swept the country, known as the “Era of Good
Feelings” and is associated with the Monroe Presidency
As the US expands, slavery becomes a major issue and the question of whether it should
be allowed to expand west causes concern
The Spoils system brings government positions based less on merit
Jackson mobilized the techniques of the New Democracy and presidential powers win a
series of political battles against his enemies
Primary Sources:
Tecumseh Challenges William Henry / President James Madison’s Fateful War Message / The London
Times Cries Vengeance / A Boston Paper Obstructs the War / Representative Charles Pinckney Upholds
Slavery / Thomas Jefferson Turns Pro-British / James Monroe Warns the European Powers / Davy Crockett
Advises Politicians / Daniel Webster Pleads for the Union / Jackson Vetoes the Bank Recharter
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
Lake Erie
“The Star-Spangled Banner”
The Constitution
Hartford Convention
White House and Capitol
The North American Review
American Plan
Erie Canal
Conventions
Nullification
Trail of Tears
Masons
Bank of the US
Wildcat Bank
Rush-Bagot agreement
John Quincy Adams
Tsar Alexander I
Henry Clay
Sequoya
Jacksonian Democracy
"Old Hickory"
"Reign of King Mob"
"Era of the Common Man"
Door Rebellion
Second Party System
Spoils system
"Kitchen Cabinet"
Era of Good Feelings
Peggy Eaton Affair
Webster-Hayne Debate
Tariff of Abomination (1828)
Force Bill (1830)
Black Hawk War (1832)
"Five Civilized Tribes"
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
(1830)
Worcester v. Georgia (1831)
Trail of Tears
Second Seminole War (18351842)
Nicholas Biddle
"Hard" or "dear" money
[specie]
"Soft" money [paper currency]
Roger B. Taney
Maysville Road Bill
Second National Bank of the
U. S.
"King Andrew"
Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842)
Essay Topics:
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What was the American strategy in the war of 1812? Why did it fail?
Discuss the 3 pronged attack by Britain and the results of each attack
Discuss the Hartford convention and its decline of the Federalists party
Discuss the impact of the War of 1812 on America
Discuss the three parts to Henry Clay’s American System
Was Monroe’s presidency an “Era of Good Feelings”
How have Texas’ unique beginnings made it different from other states?
Discuss the consequences of Westward expansion
Possible Assignments:
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Create a PowerPoint presentation on the major decisions of the Marshall Court and its
impact on the relationship between national and state governmental power
Chart the status of lower class whites, women, blacks, and Native Americans in
antebellum society in comparison to the post-Revolution period.
In small groups, brainstorm the issues of class and states rights in the Jacksonian era.
Develop individual thesis statements and write an essay, to what extent does Jackson’s era
earn the description of “Age of the Common Man” or The Jacksonian era was in a sense
the continuation of the goals of the American Revolution. Evaluate this statement.
5. Rise of American Culture and Reform (1790 – 1860):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 14-15
Theme(s):
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The West gains gained popularity with an increase in population, technological advances,
cheap land, and an increase in transportation
The start of industrialization begins in America
Transportation starts to tie the country together
The Second Great Awakening creates a moral self-improvement and expansion of
democracy through many different reform movements
American culture expands through art and literature, such as the Hudson River Valley
School of Art and Transcendentalism
Primary Sources:
Wage Slavery in New England / The Abuse of Female Workers / The Coming of the Irish / Agitation for the
Ten-Hour Day / The Impact of the Erie Canal / Steamboats Lose to the Railroads / Railroads link the East
and West / Joseph Smith has a Vision / Dorothea Dix Succors the Insane / The Seneca falls Manifesto /
Emersonisms and Thoreauisms
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
Romanticism
Hudson River School
James Fennimore Cooper
Herman Melville
Edgar Allen Poe
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
On Civil Disobedience
Utopian socialism
Communitarianism
Brook Farm
George Ripley
Robert Owen
New Harmony
John Humphrey Noyes
Oneida Community
Margaret Fuller
Mother Ann Lee
Shakers
Mormons
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
"Burned-Over District"
American Temperance Society
Female Moral Reform Society
Sylvester Graham
Phrenology
William Morton
Horace Mann
McGuffey Reader
The "Benevolent Empire"
Dorothea Dix
"Cult of Domesticity"
Oberlin College
Mary Lyon
"Separate spheres" theory
Godey's Lady's Book
Angelina & Sarah Grimké
Catharine Beecher
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Lucretia Mott
Lucy Stone
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Seneca Falls Convention
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
- Discuss the demographics of antebellum America
- Evaluate the importance of the reform movements that arose in antebellum America
- How did nationalism impact America following the War of 1812
- Was the Monroe Presidency truly an “Era of Good Feelings”?
- What role did religion play in the reforms and the slavery debate?
Possible Assignments:
- Create a pamphlet advertising a museum exhibit of the antebellum Art of the Hudson
River Valley Landscape Painters, George Catlin, and James Audubon
- Create a commonplace book of a fictional character in antebellum America that describes
their life and references significant political events and economic and cultural trends from
the time. Include samples of literature from the period and their meaning to the character.
6. Manifest Destiny and Sectionalism (1793 – 1861):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 16-19
Theme(s):
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The cotton boom increases the demand for slave labor and solidifies the economy of the
south
The South’s wealth is dominated by a small percentage of wealth plantation owners
forming an aristocracy like society
Abolitionism emerges but lacks total unanimity in the North
The idea of Manifest Destiny becomes a reality to many settlers and leaders eager to
expand across the continent
Border disputes erupt with Britain in both the East and West
The Mexican-American War proves costly for Mexico, provides territorial gains for the
US, and causes more controversy between North and South
Temporary compromises over sectionalism are reached with the Missouri Compromise,
Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act providing no lasting solution
Conflicts erupt in Kansas and Virginia foreshadowing the Civil War
Primary Sources:
A Former Slave Exposes Slavery / William Lloyd Garrison Launches the Liberator / Slavery and the Family
/ Uncle Tom’s Cabin / Abraham Lincoln Appraises Abolitionism / Hinton Helper’s Banned Book / Two
Pioneers Describe Oregon / Charles Sumner Assails a Texas Grab / President Polk Justifies the Texas Coup /
Mexico Remembers the Despoilers / Salmon Chase Upholds Free Soil / Northwest Support for Douglas /
The South Justifies Yankee-Beaters / Lincoln Disowns Brown
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
John L. O'Sullivan
Manifest Destiny
"Empire of Liberty"
Sam Houston
Stephen Austin
Empresario
Santa Fe Trail
Tejanos
General Antonio López de
Santa Anna
Remember the Alamo!
Lone Star Republic
John Jacob Astor
Oregon Trail
Donner Party
"54° 40' or Fight!"
"Mr. Polk's War"
General Zachary Taylor
"Old Rough & Ready"
General Winfield Scott
"Old Fuss & Feathers"
Slidell Mission
John C. Frémont
Bear Flag Republic
Battle of Vera Cruz
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
Popular sovereignty
Free-Soil Party
Forty-Niners
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
"Young America" Movement
Fugitive Slave Act
Ostend Manifesto
Sen. Charles Sumner
Congr. Preston Brooks
Free Soil, Free Speech, Free
Land, & Free Men
Thomas R. Dew
Coolies
Compromise of 1850
Omnibus bill
"King Cotton"
Antebellum South
DeBow's Review
"Cavalier" image
"Slavocracy"
Greek Revival-style
Preston Brooks
"Southern Belle"
Yeoman
Southern paternalism
"Peculiar Institution"
George Fitzhugh
"Sambo" image
William Harper
Manumission
Gabriel Prosser
Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
African Methodist Episcopal
Church
Hinton Rowan Helper
The Impending Crisis
American Colonization
Society
David Walker
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
American Anti-Slavery
Society
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Underground Railroad
Amistad Case
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Liberty Party
James G. Birney
"Personal liberty" laws
"Free Soil" movement
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Roger B. Taney
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
Stephen Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Republican Party
Freeport Doctrine
John Brown
Pottawatomie Massacre
Crittenden Plan
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Ft. Sumter, SC
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
- What was popular sovereignty and why did it gain support?
- What affect did westward expansion have on the slavery issue?
- What issues did California’s admission to the Union raise and how was this addressed?
- Evaluate the previous compromises regarding slavery and why they were not solutions to
the problem
Possible Assignments:
- Write a journal from the point of an abolitionist. Note major events from 1845 – 1861 and
how they would be interpreted from this perspective. Also, address the religious, ethical,
and economic arguments of the proslavery side.
7. Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 20-22
Theme(s):
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Northern advantages stemming from its industry forecast a devastating war for the South
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Lincoln’s leadership helps keep the Border States from seceding while keeping France
and Britain from entering the Civil War
Initially a war to preserve the Union turns into an all out attempt to end slavery
The conclusion of the Civil War provides additions to the Constitution and rights to the
Freedmen
Southern resistance to Reconstruction including racism and violence takes newly given
rights away from the Freedmen
Primary Sources:
A Marylander Rejects Disunion / Fort Sumter Inflames the North / The Pinch of a Blockade / The War to
Preserve Union / Abolitionists View of the War / Emancipation Proclamation / Jefferson Davis Deplores
Emancipation / A Report From Antietam / General William T. Sherman Dooms Atlanta / Gettysburg
Address / General Ulysses S. Grant is Optimistic / Southern Blacks Ask for Help / Thaddeus Stevens
Demands Black Suffrage / Booker T. Washington Reflects
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
Homestead Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Morrill Land Grant College
Act (1862)
Confiscation Acts (1861,
1862)
National Bank Acts (1863 &
1864)
Greenbacks
Peace Democrats
[Copperheads]
Clement L. Vallandigham
Conscription Act (1863)
A rich man's war, but a poor
man's fight!
New York Draft Riots (1863)
Writ of habeas corpus
Emancipation Proclamation
54th Massachusetts Regiment
Clara Barton
Mathew Brady
Jefferson Davis
Alexander H. Stephens
"Backcountry" southerners
"Upcountry" southerners
Mary Boykin Chestnut
General George B. McClellan
General Robert E. Lee
Monitor
Merrimac [Virginia]
"King Cotton" diplomacy
Trent Affair
William C. Quantrill
Jayhawks
First Battle of Bull Run [First
Manassas]
Anaconda Plan
General "Stonewall" Jackson
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Ulysses S. Grant
General William Tecumseh
Sherman
Sherman's "March to the Sea"
Appomattox Court House
Andersonville
"Lost Cause"
Field Order #15
13th. Amendment
Freedman's Bureau
Radical Republicans
Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA)
Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Ten Percent Plan
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Ford's Theater
John Wilkes Booth
Black Codes
Civil Rights Act of 1866
14th. Amendment
Reconstruction Act of 1867
15th. Amendment
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Blanche K. Bruce
Hiram R. Revels
Sharecropping
Crop-lien system
Horatio Seymour
Hamilton Fish
"Grantism"
"Waving the bloody shirt!"
Horace Greeley
Amnesty Act (1872)
Crédit Mobilier Scandal
Whiskey Ring
Panic of 1873
National Greenback Party
William H. Seward
"Seward's Folly"
Alabama claims
White League
General Nathan Bedford
Forrest
Ku Klux Klan
Social Darwinism
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Gov. Samuel Tilden
Compromise of 1877
Redeemers
Bourbon rule
Henry W. Grady
Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus (1880)
"convict-lease" system
Chain gang
"Fence laws
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
- Why did southern “cotton diplomacy” fail?
- Describe Lincoln’s stance towards southern secession and actions he took when he
assumed office
- Evaluate Lincoln’s, Johnson’s, and Congress’ Plans for Reconstruction
- To what degree did the Civil War and Reconstruction prove to be a test of the supremacy
of the federal government?
Possible Assignments:
- Write a series of letters from family members in the North and South from 1848 – 1861
that note the views of each side and events / issues that contributed to the Civil War.
- Write letters to the editor from the perspectives of a freedman, plantation owner, and
“carpetbagger” on the motives and success / failures of Reconstruction.
- Reconstruction DBQ
8. Forging an Industrial Society (1869 – 1900):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 23-25
Theme(s):
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The Post-Civil War era becomes marked with political corruption
Industrialization and big business prosper while labor suffers horrible conditions while
providing fortunes
Big business develops a “survival of the fittest” attitude for their success and philanthropy
for moral responsibility
New Immigration increases with various “push and pull” factors and increases the
population and problems in America’s cities
Primary Sources:
The New South Speech – Henry Grady / Haymarket Square protest circular / Forty Years of Hull House by
Jane Addams / “Gospel of Wealth” by Andrew Carnegie / How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis /
Sherman Antitrust Act / “Atlanta Compromise” speech – Booker T. Washington / Plessey v. Ferguson /
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
Henry Ford
Model T
William and Orville Wright
Kitty Hawk, NC
Frederick W. Taylor
"Taylorism"
Scientific management
Thomas Alva Edison
"The Wizard of Menlo Park"
Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Carnegie
J. Pierpont Morgan
Horizontal integration
Vertical integration
John D. Rockefeller
Pool
Trust
"Self-Made Man" myth
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Social Darwinism
"Invisible hand"
Herbert Spenser
William Graham Sumner
Horatio Alger
"Gospel of Wealth"
Lester Ward
Dynamic Sociology
Henry George
Progress & Poverty
Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward
National Labor Union
Molly Maguires
Pinkerton Agency
Scabs
"Yellow-dog" contract
Blacklisting
Open shop
Closed shop
Great Railroad Strike (1877)
Injunction
Knights of Labor
Terence V. Powderly
American Federation of Labor
[AFL]
Samuel Gompers
Haymarket Riot (1886)
Homestead Steel Strike (1892)
Pullman Strike (1894)
Eugene V. Debs
Nativism
American Protection
Association
Naturalization Act of 1870
Emma Lazarus
Ellis Island
Angel Island
"Melting Pot"
1893 Columbian Exposition in
Chicago
"Streetcar suburbs"
Shtetl
Hell's Kitchen
Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lived
"Dumbbell" tenement
John A. Roebling
Louis Sullivan
Chicago School of
Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
Salvation Army
Theodore Dreiser
George Washington Plunkitt
Boss Tweed
Tammany Hall, NYC
Thomas Nast
F. W. Woolworth's
Marshall Field
Montgomery Ward
Sears Roebuck
Simon Patten
NCAA
Yiddish theater
Vaudeville
George M. Cohan
Ziegfeld Follies
D. W. Griffith
"Birth of a Nation" (1915)
Dime novel
"Yellow journalism"
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
Social realism
Henry James
"Natural selection"
Pragmatism
William James
John Dewey
"Seven Sisters"
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
- What were the demands for the Populists, their impact on the election of 1892, and
reasons for their overall lack of success?
- Defend the farmers position to support the free silver
- Discuss the challenges faced by early labor unions and explains reasons for their antiimmigrant attitudes
- Discuss the change in immigration and the reasons for the change
- How did industrialization affect the cities?
Possible Assignments:
- Use pictures of union leaders and events to create an educational poster on the early
struggles of the labor movement
- Write a transcript of a dinner conversation between major figures of the time with diverse
views on the topic of wealth and its proper distribution in society (Rockefeller, Alger,
Debs, Bellamy, etc.)
9. The Great West (1865 – 1896):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 26
Theme(s):
-
Plaines Indians resist western settlers while the frontier comes to a close
Farmers find themselves victims and look for a voice in the government
Primary Sources:
“I Will Fight No More Forever” – Chief Joseph / A Century of Dishonor – Helen Hunt Jackson / Dawes Act
of 1887 / Black Elk Recalls Wounded Knee / 1896 Populist Party Platform / “Cross of Gold” speech –
William J. Bryan / “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” by Frederick Jackson Turner
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
Great American Desert
Californios
Tong Wars
Workingman's Party of CA
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Timber Culture Act (1873)
Desert Land Act (1877)
Frederick Jackson Turner
"Turner Frontier Thesis"
Comstock Lode
Cow town
Chisholm Trail
Exodusters
"Open" range
"Range" Wars
"Buffalo Bill" Cody
Annie Oakley
"Calamity" Jane
Tombstone, AZ
Owen Wister
Frederic Remington
"Concentration" policy
Sand Creek Massacre (1864)
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Geronimo
Gen. George A. Custer
Battle of Little Big Horn
Chief Joseph
"Ghost Dance"
Battle of Wounded Knee, SD
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Helen Hunt Jackson
A Century of Dishonor
Joseph F. Glidden
Sod house
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
- Discuss the attractions to and difficulties in farming in the Midwest of the late 19th century
- How did discoveries of precious metals in the west impact the nation?
Possible Assignments:
- Chart the tribes / leaders across U.S. history that resisted the colonists / U.S. government
and summarize the changing policy towards Native Americans
- As a Midwestern farmer, write a petition to your Congressman describing the hardships of
farming and how the government could help
10. Imperialism and the Progressive Era (1890 – 1918):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 27-30
Theme(s):
-
Imperialism emerges and the Spanish-American War spreads American influence abroad
The Progressive Movement expands government power to solve economic and social
problems of industrialization
Wilson provides a program of domestic economic and social reform in his first term
Militarism, Nationalism, and Imperialism cause conflict for European countries while
Wilson attempts to remain neutral
Primary Sources:
“Benevolent Assimilation” speech – Pres. McKinley / “Open Door” memorandum from William Rockhill to
John Hay / “As Regards Patriotism” – Mark Twain / The Jungle by Upton Sinclair / Shame of the Cities by
Lincoln Steffens
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
Josiah Strong
Our Country (1885)
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Influence of Sea Power
Upon History
Queen Liliuokalani
McKinley Tariff of 1890
"Yellow" journalism
Jingoism
William Randolph Hearst
De Lôme Letter
"Remember the Maine!
"Splendid Little War"
Teller Amendment
Rough Riders
Commodore George Dewey
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Foraker Act (1900)
Insular Cases (1901)
Jones Act (1917)
Anti-Imperialist League
José Martí
Cuba libre
Emilio Aguinaldo
Boxer Rebellion
Open Door Notes
John Hay
Rudyard Kipling
"White Man's Burden"
"Big Stick" Policy
"Great White Fleet"
Commodore Matthew Perry
Treaty of Kanagawa (1854)
Russo-Japanese War (19041905)
"Gentlemen's" Agreement"
(1908)
Roosevelt Corollary to the
Monroe Doctrine
Platt Amendment
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
"Dollar Diplomacy"
"Moral Diplomacy"
Francisco "Pancho" Villa
Banditos
John J. ["Blackjack"] Pershing
"Colossus of the North"
Progressivism
Muckrakers
Lincoln Steffens
The Shame of the Cities (1904)
Social Gospel
Walter Rauschenbusch
Pope Leo XIII
Settlement House Movement
Jane Addams
Hull House
Lillian Wald
Henry Street Settlement
Thorstein Veblen
Ashcan School of Painting
1913 Armory Show
A Theory of the Leisure Class
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Women and Economics (1898)
NAWSA
19th. Amendment
Equal Rights Amendment
Alice Paul
National Women's Party
Margaret Sanger
Mann Act [White Slave Traffic
Act] (1910)
Charles A. Beard
Commissioner plan
City-manager plan
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Australian ballot
Governor Hiram Johnson
Governor Robert La Follette
"Laboratory of Democracy"
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Fire
Women's Christian
Temperance Union
Anti-Saloon League
Carrie Nation
Francis Willard
18th Amendment
Eugenics
Madison Grant
The Passing of the Great Race
Dillingham Report
IWW ("Wobblies")
Louis Brandeis
Herbert Croly
The Promise of American Life
Northern Securities Co. v. US
(1904)
"Square Deal"
Hepburn Act (1906)
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle (1906)
Pure Food & Drug Act (1906)
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Lochner v US (1905)
Gifford Pinchot
George Perkins Marsh
Newlands Reclamation Act
(1902)
John Muir
Sierra Club
Panic of 1907
"New Freedom"
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (
Federal Trade Commission
Mann-Elkins Act
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
-
How did writers contribute to the emerging Progressive movement?
Discuss the role of women in the Progressive movement
How did progressive reformers respond to the social, political, and economic problems of
industrial America?
Possible Assignments:
- Draw a political cartoon which addresses a problem that interested progressive reformers
of that time period.
- Chart the various problems affecting industrial America and the reformers / solutions
proposed for each
- Class debate on whether the United States actually engaged in imperialism in the classic
sense
11. World War One (The Great War) (1917 – 1918):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 30
Theme(s):
-
The US enters World War One in response to unrestricted submarine warfare
Wilson attempts to provide a peaceful solution with his 14 points
The Treaty of Versailles ends World War One and provides problems for the future
Primary Sources:
Fourteen Points – Pres. Wilson / Zimmerman Telegram / Wilson’s War Message to Congress / Schenck v.
U.S. decision / WWI posters / Henry Cabot Lodge speech against the League of Nations
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
Central Powers
Sarajevo
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
U-Boat
RMS Lusitania
Sussex Pledge
Zimmermann Telegram
Jeannette Rankin (MT)
Selective Service Act (1917)
"War to End All Wars"
Doughboys
Liberty Bonds
War Industries Board
Bernard Baruch
War Labor Board
Billy Sunday
"Liberty Cabbage"
Ludlow Massacre
Great Migration
Women's Peace Party
George Creel
Committee on Public
Information
War Revenue Act (1917)
Emma Goldman
Espionage Act (1917)
Sedition Act (1918)
Roger Baldwin
American Civil Liberties
Union [ACLU]
Schenck v. U. S. (1919)
Abrams v. U. S. (1919)
Wilsonianism
"Big Four"
Article 10
"War-Guilt" clause
League of Nations
Fourteen Points
"Irreconcilables"
"Reservationists"
Self-determination
Boston Police Strike (1919)
Chicago Race Riots
Marcus Garvey
Universal Negro Improvement
Association [UNIA]
Red Scare
A. Mitchell Palmer
John Reed
Palmer Raids
"Red Summer"
Great Flu Pandemic of 1918
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
- Discuss the American foreign policy position at the outbreak of WWI and events that
challenged this position
- It was inevitable that the United States would enter World War One on the side of the
Allies. Evaluate this statement
- Discuss the factors that led to U.S. rejection of the Treaty of Versailles and a return to
neutrality following WWI
Possible Assignments:
- Develop a graphic organizer answering the question, why did the U.S. join the Allies in
World War I? Use to organize an essay response to the same question.
- Have students create their own Document Based Question essay on WWI and describe
how each document could be used to respond to the question.
12. The 1920s (1919 – 1932):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 31-32
Theme(s):
-
The US returns toward a policy of isolationism
New technologies, entertainment, and marketing change American culture
The stock market crash of 1929 lead to a severe depression that devastates the country
Primary Sources:
Volstead Act / 19th Amendment / Women and the New Race – Margaret Sanger / The Immigration Act of
1924 / “Mother to Son” – Langston Hughes / Bartolemeo Vanzetti’s last statement in court
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
"Return to Normalcy"
Charles Lindbergh
"Spirit of St. Louis"
"Lost Generation"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Josephine Baker
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Zora Neale Hurston
Cotton Club
"Jazz Age"
Jelly Roll Morton
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
George Gershwin
Volstead Act (1920)
Al Capone
Speakeasy
Madame C. J. Walker
Immigration Act of 1924
National Origins Act (1924)
Babe Ruth
Georgia O'Keefe
Scopes ["Monkey"] Trial
Clarence Darrow
Leopold & Loeb Trial
"Black Sox" Scandal
"Fatty" Arbuckle Scandal
Henry Sweet
Gov. Al Smith (NY)
"Ohio Gang"
Teapot Dome Scandal
The business of America is
business!
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.
Adkins v. Children's Hospital
Andrew Mellon
Dawes Plan of 1924
"Associational"
"on-margin" buying
"Black Tuesday" [Oct. 29,
1929]
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
- Discuss the development and societal effects of new forms of media in the early 20th
century
- How were societal values chaging in the 1920s?
- How did the automobile transform American society in the 1920s?
- Discuss the negative affects of the Prohibition
Possible Assignments:
- Categorize events / figures from the 1920s in terms of whether they represent the
emerging modern / urban America or the traditional / rural America
- Prepare a PowerPoint presentation of the Harlem Renaissance. Represent the literary,
artistic, musical, and political contributions of the movement with sample work (poem,
painting, music file, etc.)
13. Great Depression and Recovery (1933 – 1939):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 33
Theme(s):
-
Roosevelt attempts to cure the country of depression through government sponsored
programs to bring relief, recovery, and reform
Primary Sources:
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” – song by E.Y. Harburg / Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inaugural address /
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck / “Every Man a King” speech – Huey Long /
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
"Rugged individualism"
Hoovervilles
"Hoover Blankets"
John Maynard Keynes
Brother, Can You Spare a
Dime?
Dust Bowl
Okies
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
Scottsboro Boys
Agricultural Marketing Act
(1929)
Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)
Reconstruction Finance
Corporation [RFC]
Bonus Army
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"New Deal"
Happy Days Are Here Again!
First "Hundred Days"
"Bank Holiday"
Emergency Banking Relief Act
(1933)
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation [FDIC]
20th Amendment
Fireside Chats
21st Amendment
Agricultural Adjustment
Administration [AAA]
National Industrial Recovery
Act (1933)
Section 7(a) of the NIRA
National Recovery
Administration [NRA]
NRA "Blue Eagle"
Public Works Administration
[PWA]
Tennessee Valley Authority
[TVA]
Glass-Steagall Act (1933)
Securities & Exchange
Commission [SEC]
Civilian Conservation Corp
[CCC]
American Liberty League
Father Charles Coughlin
Dr. Francis Townsend
Sen. Huey P. Long [LA]
"Share-the-Wealth" program
Every Man a King!
"Second" New Deal
National Labor Relations
[Wagner] Act (1935)
National Labor Relations
Board [NLRB]
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial
Organizations [CIO]
Republic Steel Plant Massacre
[Chicago]
The Cradle Will Rock!
Social Security Act (1935)
Works Progress
Administration [WPA]
Federal Writers Project
Federal Arts Project
Federal Music Project
Federal Theater Project
Alf Landon
New Deal Coalition
US v. Butler (1936)
Judiciary Reorganization Bill
(1937)
"Roosevelt Recession" of 1937
"Broker state"
Eleanor Roosevelt
Marian Anderson
Mary McLeod Bethune
"Black Cabinet"
Executive Order No. 8802
Indian Reorganization
[Wheeler-Howard] Act (1934)
Francis Perkins
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
- Compare and contrast the approaches of presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D.
Roosevelt to the Great Depression.
- The New Deal dramatically changed the role of the national government and its
relationship to its citizens. Evaluate this statement.
Possible Assignments:
- Have students simulate a radio talk show with major figures of the time in discussion of
the merits of the New Deal
- Chart the approaches of presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to the Great Depression. Use to
develop a thesis statement and respond to the essay. Compare and contrast the approaches
of presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Great Depression.
14. World War Two (1933 – 1945):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 34-35
Theme(s):
-
The US attempts to stay neutral while World War Two rages through Europe
America mobilizes for war after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The US focuses on the Pacific with an Island Hopping Campaign
The atomic bomb brings an abrupt end to World War Two
Primary Sources:
The Neutrality Act of 1937 / Einstein’s letter to F.D.R. / Four Freedoms Speech – F.D.R. / The Lend Lease
Act / Japanese Relocation Order
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
Washington Conference
(1921)
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
Dawes Plan (1924)
Young Plan (1929)
Circular loans
Fordney-McCumber Tariff of
1922
Henry L. Stimson
Reciprocal Trade Agreements
Act (1934)
Pan-American Union
"Good Neighbor" Policy
Nye Committee
Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936,
1937
FDR's "Quarantine" speech
Manchurian Crisis
Stimson Doctrine
Panay Incident
Greater East Asia CoProsperity Sphere
Appeasement
Munich Agreement
September 1, 1939
Orson Welles
"War of the Worlds"
Cash-and-Carry
Joseph P. Kennedy
Committee to Defend America
America First Committee
Selective Service Act (1940)
Wendell Wilkie
Lend Lease Act (1941)
"Arsenal of Democracy"
Greer Incident
Atlantic Charter
December 7, 1941
A date which will live in
infamy!
Smith-Connolly Act (1943)
Office of Price Administration
[OPA]
War Production Board
Operation Magic
Fair Employment Practices Act
[FEPC]
Executive Order 8802
A. Philip Randolph
Congress of Racial Equality
[CORE]
Tuskegee Airmen
National War Labor Board
Navajo "code-talkers
Braceros
"Zoot Suit" Riots
"Rosie the Riveter"
Issei
Nisei
Manhattan Project
J. Robert Oppenheimer
I am become death, destroyer
of worlds!
General Leslie Groves
Enola Gay
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Unit 731
Executive Order 9066
Internment ["relocation"]
camps
Manzanar
Korematsu v. US (1944)
V-J Day
September 2, 1945
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
- The origins of WWII and the initial American response of neutrality can both be
explained by the results of WWI. Evaluate this statement.
- The traditional defense of the decision to use atomic weapons against Japan is that it was
to end the war more quickly and save lives. Present historical arguments that challenge
this explanation.
Possible Assignments:
- Construct a scrap book that traces the major events of World War II and the home front
through pictures and narrative of a fictional character
- Have students debate the decision to use atomic weapons against Japan as justified or
unjustified
15. Cold War (1945 – 1980):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 36-39
Theme(s):
-
America comes out of World War Two as the World’s strongest economic power
American population settle in suburbs
The US and Soviet Union become two superpowers in a Cold War confrontation
America rejects the policy of isolationism following in World War Two and takes on the
policy of containment
A second Red Scare Follows WWII
-
African Americans and other groups gain significant civil rights
President Kennedy and Nixon increase involvement in Vietnam
The Watergate Scandal leads to Nixon’s resignation
Primary Sources:
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act / The Long Telegram – George Kennan / The Marshall Plan / Baby and
Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock / The “Eightieth do-nothing Congress” speech – Harry S. Truman /
Douglas MacArthur’s speech to Congress / “Checkers Speech” – Richard Nixon / Brown v. Board of
Education, Topeka, KS. / McCarthy Army Hearings transcript / Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
"Big Three"
Teheran Conference (1943)
Bretton Woods Conference
(1944)
Baruch Plan
World Bank
International Monetary Fund
[IMF]
Yalta Conference (1945)
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Cold War
"Iron Curtain"
George F. Kennan
Containment
Marshall Plan
COMECON
National Security Act (1947)
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Blockade
NATO]
Warsaw Pact
NSC-68
Serviceman's Readjustment
Act
"G.I. Bill"
"Fair Deal"
The buck stops here!
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
Dixiecrats
Governor Strom Thurmond
(D-SC)
National Housing Act of 1949
Film noir
Syngman Rhee
Inchon landing (1950)
38th Parallel
General Douglas MacArthur
HUAC
Klaus Fuchs
Executive Order 9835
Red-lining
"Hollywood Ten"
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI)
Red-baiting
Red Channels
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
McCarran Internal Security
Act
"McCarthyism"
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Dennis et. al. v. US (1951)
Communist Control Act (1954)
Sen. Robert Taft
CIA
"Baby Boom"
Keynesian Economics
"Postwar Contract"
Dr. Jonas Salk
DDT
UNIVAC
"Duck-and-Cover"
Sputnik I
Explorer I
NASA
Levittown, LI
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Sunbelt
Rustbelt
"The American Dream"
A vast wasteland!
National Defense Education
Act (1958)
William H. Whyte
The Organization Man
"The Man in the Gray Flannel
Suit"
David Riesman
The Lonely Crowd
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
The Affluent Society
"Throwaway Society"
Beat Generation
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
James Dean
"Race" Music
"Payola" Scandals
Michael Harrington
The Other America
Jackie Robinson
Brown v. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
White Citizens' Councils
"Little Rock Nine"
Southern Manifesto
Rosa Parks
Montgomery, AL Bus Boycott
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference
Eisenhower Republicanism
Federal Highway Act (1956)
John Foster Dulles
Massive retaliation
Brinkmanship
M. A. D.
Ho Chi Minh
Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Accords
17th. parallel
Ngo Dinh Diem
Viet Cong
The Ugly American (1958)
Mohammed Mossadegh
Fulgencio Batista
Fidel Castro
Gamal Abdul Nasser
Suez Crisis
Eisenhower Doctrine
Radio Free Europe
Voice of America
Hungarian Uprising
"Kitchen Debate"
U-2 Incident
Military-industrial complex
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
- What change in foreign policy occurred following World War II and how effectively did it
address problems that the U.S. faced in the world? Use the Truman and Eisenhower
administrations to illustrate your argument.
- What effects did the Cold War have on domestic politics and social life in America?
- The 1950s and 1920s share much in common. Evaluate this statement in terms of political,
social, and economic trends during the two decades.
- Weigh the impact of governmental and individual initiatives in sparking the modern civil
rights movement during the 1950s. Which contributed more?
Possible Assignments:
- Create a poster comparing the decades of the 1920s with the 1950s statement in terms of
political, social, and economic trends during the two decades.
- Origins of the Cold War DBQ
- Hold a simulated H.U.A.C. / McCarthy type hearing on suspected communists
16. 1980s and Beyond (1980 – present):
Readings: American Pageant Ch 40-41
Theme(s):
-
President Ronald Reagan leads a conservative movement
Communism collapses in Eastern Europe
Primary Sources:
“Malaise speech” – James Carter / Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address / Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom
Wolfe / Iran-Contra Hearings / Americans with Disabilities Act / Contract With America – Newt Gingrich
Important Historical Figures/Terms:
Reagan Coalition
Neo-Cons
Conservatism
Phyllis Schlafly
"The Great Communicator"
"The Teflon President"
John W. Hinckley, Jr.
Reaganomics
Supply-Side Economics
PATCO Strike (1981)
Deregulation
AARP
"Grey Power"
Grenada Invasion
Reagan Doctrine
Contras
Sandinistas
Bolland Amendment
Strategic Defense Initiative
[SDI or "Star Wars']
Sandra Day O'Connor
William Rehnquist
Robert Bork
Morning in America
Congr. Geraldine Ferraro (DNY)
Walter Mondale
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
(1985)
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Perestroika
Glasnost
S & L Scandal
Iran-Contra Scandal
Col. Oliver North
Sen. J. Danforth ["Dan"]
Quayle (R-IN)
Gov. Michael J. Dukakis (DMA)
Willie Horton ad
Read my lips--No New Taxes!
Clarence Thomas
Anita Hill
Americans With Disabilities
Act (1990)
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Persian Gulf War (1991)
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
Operation Desert Storm
Ross Perot
Reform Party
Essay/DBQ/Discussion Topics:
- To what extent is the claim true that President Reagan escalated the Cold War and
helped bring about its end?
- Trace the resurgence of conservatism in American politics and society in the 1980s
- Discuss the new direction in foreign policy that has followed the end of the Cold War
Possible Assignments:
- Provide pictures of major figures from the period. Have students organize them by
themes of their choosing and create an educational poster to reflect their impact on U.S.
/ world events.