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Advanced Placement United States HistoryCourse Syllabus
Introduction and Purpose Statement: This course is designed to provide students with analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States History. This course prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by fullyear introductory college courses. Students should learn to assess historical materials, their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance, and to weigh the evidence presented in historical scholarship. This course also helps develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of informed judgment and the present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format.
Required Texts:
Colbert, David. Eyewitness to America., New York: Vintage Books. 1997.
Tindall, George Brown, and David E. Shi. America: A Narrative History . Vols. 1 & 2. New York: W. W. Norton. (5th Edition 1999)
Course Objectives: Students will:
• master a broad body of historical knowledge• demonstrate an understanding of historical chronology• use historical data to support an argument or position• interpret and apply data from original documents, including cartoons, graphs, letters, etc.• effectively use analytical skills of evaluation, cause and effect, compare and contrast• work effectively with others to produce products and solve problems• understand the implications of legislation on economics, society, minorities, and politics• prepare for and successfully pass the Advanced Placement Exam
Grading and Evaluation: The following items will be used throughout the course to evaluate your performance in this course: Tindall Chapter Quizzes Document Based Questions Unit Tests Student Presentations
Unit and Length BreakdownUnit 1: Exploration and Settlement of the Americas 3 WeeksUnit 2: The American Revolution and the Early Federal Period 3 WeeksUnit 3: The Jeffersonian Era 3 WeeksUnit 4: Jacksonian Democracy and Antebellum America 3 WeeksUnit 5: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era 3 WeeksUnit 6: The Industrial Era 3 WeeksUnit 7: The Progressive Era 3 WeeksUnit 8: World War I and the Roaring 20’s 3 WeeksUnit 9: The Great Depression and the Presidency of FDR 3 WeeksUnit 10: The Cold War and American Society 3 WeeksUnit 11: The Era of Strain and Challenge: The 1970’s and 1980’s 3 WeeksUnit 12: The Shaping of Modern America and AP Review 3 Weeks
Coursework Summary and Description
Textbook Analysis: Our textbook serves the purpose of providing the basic ideas and analysis in our course. Students must read the text and outline the chapters in written form. Typed outlines are not accepted
Primary Source Analysis: Our Primary Source Analysis (Colbert) provides students with analysis of events in History from the primary perspective. This will both provide insight and provide practice in reading selections with different tones, terminology, and ideas.
Secondary Source Analysis: Students will be given in each unit a series of Secondary Sources. This will allow students to see how events and people have been interpreted over time. In addition, it will provide a model for students to follow as they choose to investigate and analyze evidence.
Unit Synopsis and Breakdown
Unit 1: Exploration and Settlement (3 Weeks)
Unit Goals/Skills Primary Source Analysis and Interpretation Secondary Source Analysis and Interpretation To highlight the PreEuropean civilizations in North America To analyze the reasons for European Discovery and Settlement To compare and contrast the colonial leadership, economic, and religious realities of the Spanish, French, Dutch, and
British colonies. To analyze the culture of the various colonies in North America: Special Attention will be given to women, slavery, and
religion Interpretation and Analysis of Evidence from the period. Familiarize students with the Document Based Question Format
Unit Outline
I Discovery and Settlement of the New World (14921650)A) Europe in the 16th CenturyB) Spanish, English, and French ExplorationC) First English settlements
1) Jamestown2) Plymouth
D) Spanish and French settlements and longterm influenceE) American Indians
II America and the British Empire, 16501754A) Chesapeake CountryB) Growth of New EnglandC) Restoration ColoniesD) Mercantilism: The Dominion of New EnglandE) Origins of Slavery
III Colonial Society in the Mid18th CenturyA) Social Structure
1) Family2) Farm and town life
B) Culture1) Great Awakening2) The American Mind3) “Folkways”
C) New Immigrants
Assignments and Projects Student Explorer Biographies Group Presentation: Colonies under the Microscope Secondary Source Analysis: Columbus’ effects
Required Reading:
Tindall: Chapters 14Colbert: Primary Sources 352
Evaluations Tindall Chapter Quizzes 14 American Explorer Biography DBQ: Founding of the American Colonies Unit Test
Unit 2: The American Revolution
Unit Goals/Skills To contrast the governing style of the British towards the colonies over time To analyze the significant effects of the French and Indian War To look at the ways in which the American colonies unified over time Highlight significant events of the American Revolution Compare and Contrast the various postrevolution state constitutions. Interpretation and Analysis of Evidence from the period. Familiarize students with the Document Based Question Format
Unit Outline
I The Road to Revolution 17541775A) AngloFrench rivalries and the Seven Years’ WarB) Imperial reorganization of 1763
1) Stamp Act2) Declaratory Act3) Townsend Act4) Boston Tea Party
D) Philosophy of the American Revolution
II The American RevolutionA) Continental CongressB) Declaration of IndependenceC) The War
1) French Alliance2) War and Society: Loyalists3) War Economy
D) Articles of ConfederationE) Peace of ParisF) Creating State Governments
1) Political Organizations2) State Reform: women and slavery
Assignments and Projects Debate: British vs. the Colonies: See the two perspectives Colonial Unity: Write a newspaper article to rally support for a clothing drive for the people of Boston
Required Reading:
Tindall: Chapters 57 Colbert: 53119
Evaluations Tindall Chapter Quizzes 57 Unity Paper DBQ: Effects of the French and Indian War Unit Test
Unit 3: The Jeffersonian Era
Unit Goals/Skills
Primary and Secondary Source Analysis of the causes and effects of the Election of 1800 Synopsis of the domestic and foreign policies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe Causes and Effects of the War of 1812 Birth of American Nationalism Interpretations of the Marshall Court
Unit Outline
VII The Age of Jefferson 18001816A) Jefferson Presidency
1) Louisiana Purchase2) Burr Conspiracy3) Marshall Court 4) Neutral Rights, impressments, and embargo
B) James Madison PresidencyC) War of 1812
1) Causes2) Invasion of Canada3) Hartford Convention4) Conduct of the War5) Treaty of Ghent6) New Orleans and Effects
VIII Nationalism and Economic ExpansionA) Monroe and the Era of Good FeelingsB) Panic of 1819C) Settlement of the WestD) Missouri CompromiseE) Foreign Affairs: Canada, Florida, and the Monroe DoctrineF) Election of 1824 and the End of the Virginia DynastyG) Economic Revolution
1) Railroads and Canals2) Expansion of Business
a) factory systemb) early labor movement and womenc) social mobility and extremes of wealth
3) The Cotton Revolution in the South4) Commercial Agriculture
IX SectionalismA) The South
1) Cotton Kingdom2) Southern Trade and industry3) Southern Society and Culture
a) Gradations of White Societyb) Nature of Slaveryc) Mind of the South
B) The North1) Northeast Industry
a) Laborb) Immigrationc) Urban Slums
C) Westward Expansion1) Advance of agricultural frontier2) Life on the frontier3) Removal of the American Indians
Assignments/Projects
Student Legal Defense: Jefferson Defends the Louisiana Purchase Student Court Briefs from cases heard by the Marshall Court Secondary Source Reading: The Effects of Lewis and Clark
Required Reading:
Tindall: Chapters: 910 Colbert: 119150
Evaluations: Tindall Reading Test Supreme Court Research Assignment: Preparation of Case Briefs Document Based Question: The Revolution of 1800 Unit Test
Unit 4: Jacksonian Democracy and Antebellum America
Unit Goals/Skills Analyze the growth of American culture and literature and its effects on society Shifting nature of American politics and its implications Underlying theme of sectionalism Primary and Secondary Source Analysis Jackson and Van Buren’s Administration Causes and effects of the Mexican War
Unit Outline
X Age of Jackson 18281848A) Democracy and the Common Man
1) Expansion of Suffrage2) Spoils System
B) Second Party System1) Democratic Party2) Whig Party
C) Internal Improvements and States’ Rights1) Maysville Road Veto
D) Nullification Crisis1) Tariff Issue2) The Union
E) The Bank WarF) Martin Van Buren
1) Independent Treasury System2) Panic of 1837
XI Territorial ExpansionA) Manifest Destiny and MissionB) Texas AnnexationC) James Polk and the Mexican WarD) Later Expansionist Efforts
XII Creating and American CultureA) Cultural NationalismB) Education ReformC) Religious revivalismD) Utopian Experiments: Mormons, Oneida CommunityE) TranscendentalistsF) National Literature, art, architectureG) Reform Crusades
1) Feminism2) Abolitionism3) Temperance4) Criminals and the insane
Assignments/Projects
Transcendentalism Author Analysis and interpretations Trail of Tears Diary Compare and Contrast Paper: 1st and 2nd Two Party Systems
Required Reading: Tindall: 1114 Colbert: 151225
Evaluations Primary Source Analysis and Interpretation Tindall Chapter Quizzes Class Presentation and Debate: Stance on the Mexican War: Sectionalism Document Based Question: Jackson’s Native American Policies Unit Exam
Unit 5: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era
Unit Goals/Skills Primary Source Analysis Secondary Source Interpretations: Short and Long term causes of the Civil War Discussion of the Northern and Southern Reality before and after the Civil War Class Debate: Was the Civil War Preventable? Analyze the role of Women and African Americans to the war effort View and Interpret film: “Glory”
Unit OutlineXIV Civil War
A) The Uniona) Mobilization and Financeb) Civil Libertiesc) Election of 1864
B) The Southa) Confederate Constitutionb) Mobilization and Financec) States’ Rights
C) Foreign Affairs and DiplomacyD) Military Strategy, campaigns, and battlesE) The Abolition of Slavery
a) Confiscation Actsb) Emancipation Proclamationc) Freedman’s Bureau
d) 13th AmendmentF) Effects of war on Society
a) Inflation and Public Debt\b) Role of Womenc) Devastation of the Southd) Changing labor patters
XV Reconstruction to 1877A) Presidential Plans: Lincoln and JohnsonB) Radical Congressional Plans
1) Civil Rights and the 14th Amendment2) Military Reconstruction3) Impeachment of Johnson4) African American Suffrage
C) Southern state governmentsD) Compromise of 1877
Assignments/Projects
Art Analysis: The Photos of M.Brady Secondary Source Analysis: The Rise of the KKK Film Interpretations of the South: Gone with the Wind and Roots
Required Readings:Tindall: Chapters 1618Colbert: 227286
Evaluations: Tindall Chapter Quizzes Unit Test Student Research and Debate Secondary Source Analysis
Unit 6: The Industrial Era
Unit Goals/Objectives
To analyze the factors involved in the industrial boom of the late 19th Century To highlight effects of industrialization on immigrants, women, and labor unions To analyze primary sources To highlight famous American industrialists whose ideas shaped this era To discuss the contributions of the American government to this era
Unit Outline
XVI New South and Last WestA) Politics in the New South
1) Redeemers2) Whites and AfricanAmericans in the New South3) Subordination and freed slaves: Jim Crow
B) Southern Economy: Colonial status of the South1) sharecropping2) industrial stirrings
C) Cattle Kingdom1) open –range ranching2) day of the cowboy
D) Building of the Western RailroadE) Subordination of the American Indians: dispersal of tribesF) Farming the plains: problems in agricultureG) Mining Bonanza
XVII Industrial and Corporate ConsolidationA) Industrial growth: railroads, iron, coal, electricityB) Laissezfaire conservatism
1) Gospel of wealth2) Myth of the selfmade man3) Social Darwinism4) Social critics and Dissenters
C) Effects of technological development on worker and workplaceD) Union Movement
1) Haymarket, homestead, and Pullman
XVIII Urban SocietyA) Lure of the CityB) ImmigrationC) City ProblemsD) Awakening Conscience
1) Social Legislation 2) Settlement Houses 3) Structural reforms in government
XIX Intellectual and Cultural MovementsA) Education
1) Colleges and universities2) Scientific Advances
B) Professionalism and the social sciencesC) Realism in literature and artD) Mass Culture
1) Use of leisure2) Publishing and Journalism
XX National Politics: 18771896A) A Conservative PresidencyB) Issues
1) Tariffs2) Railroad Regulation3) Trusts
C) Agrarian DiscontentD) Crisis of the 1890’s
1) Populism2) Silver Question3) Election of 1896
Assignments/Projects Student Muckraker writing assignment Field trip discovery tour: the Molly Maguires Election Demographic Analysis Project: The Election of 1896 Factory Worker Diary Student biography of an American industrialist and their contributions Debate: Greatest Invention of the period
Required Readings:Tindall: 1922Colbert: 303364
Evaluations Unit Test Tindall Chapter Quizzes Industrial Biography Factory Worker Diary Molly Maguires Field Trip Analysis
Unit 7: The Progressive Era
Unit Goals/Objectives
Summarize the goals and successes of Progressives on the state, local, and federal levels Highlight the achievements/controversies in the Roosevelt/Taft/Wilson Administrations Read and analyze The Jungle Primary Source Analysis Highlight American Foreign Policy from 1865the origins of World War I
Unit Outline
XXI Foreign Policy: 18651914A) William Henry Seward and AlaskaB) The New Imperialism
1) James Blaine and Latin America2) International Darwinism3) Spanish American War
a) Cuban Independenceb) Debate on the Philippines
C) The Far East: John Hay and the Open DoorD) Theodore Roosevelt
1) Panama Canal2) Roosevelt Corollary3) Far East
E) Taft and Dollar DiplomacyF) Woodrow Wilson and moral diplomacy
XXII Progressive Era
A) Origins of Progressivism1) Attitudes and Motives2) Muckrakers3) Social Gospel
B) Municipal, State, and national reforms1) Political: Suffrage2) Social and economic: regulations
C) Socialism: AlternativesD) Black America
1) Washington, DuBois, and Garvey2) Urban Migration3) Civil Rights
E) Women’s Role: Family, work, suffrage, and unionizationF) Roosevelt’s Square Deal
1) Trust management2) Conservation
G) Taft1) BallingerPinchot Controversy2) PayneAldrich
H) Wilson’s New Freedom1) Tariffs2) Banking Reform3) Antitrust Act of 1914
Assignments/Projects
Character profile of Roosevelt from primary and secondary research Debate: More Effective Progressive: Roosevelt vs. Wilson Secondary Source Analysis: American Expansionism
Unit Evaluations: Unit Exam Document Based Question Debate: More Effective Progressive: Roosevelt vs. Wilson Tindall Chapter Quizzes Analysis of selections from Theodore Rex (Morris)
Unit 8: World War I and the Roaring 20’s
Unit Objectives
Analyze the reasons for American involvement and attempts at neutrality Summarize the preparations for and actions of the American government and its citizens during the war Highlight critical Supreme Court cases during the war and their implications on Civil Liberties Analyze the goals, desires, and emotions of the American people after World War I and how that affected the American
mindset of the 1920’s. Read and analyze the literature of the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance
Unit Outline
XXIII World War IA) Problems of Neutrality
1) Submarines2) Economic ties 3) Psychological and ethnic ties
B) Preparedness and pacifism
C) Mobilization1) Fighting the War2) Financing the War3) War Boards4) Propaganda, public opinion, and civil liberties
D) Wilson’s 14 Points1) Treaty of Versailles2) Ramification fight
E) Postwar Demobilization1) Red Scare2) Labor Strife
XIV New Era: The 1920’sA) Republican Governments
1) Business Creed2) Harding Scandals
B) Economic Development1) prosperity and wealth2) farm and labor problems
C) New Culture1) Consumerism2) Women3) Modern religion4) The Lost Generation5) Jazz age6) Harlem Renaissance
D) Conflict of cultures1) Prohibition, bootlegging2) Nativism3) KKK4) Religious Fundamentalism
E) Myth of Isolation1) replacing the League of Nations2) Business and Diplomacy
Assignments/Projects Primary Source Analysis: Sacco and Vanzetti Read The Great Gatsby Class Debate: Civil Liberties in war time
Required Readings Tindall 2527 Colbert: 383441
Evaluation:
Research Paper and biography: author of the 1920’s Unit Test Tindall Chapter quiz Class Debate: American involvement in WWI
Unit 9: The Great Depression and the Presidency of FDR
Unit Goals/Objectives
Analyze the causes of the Great Depression and the early attempts to alleviate the suffering of the American people Summarize the basic ideas of the New Deal and discuss how these programs have changed the role of government
permanently Summarize the causes of the growth of radicalism in Europe during the middle 20’s and 30’s. Analyze the reasons for and effects of American involvement in World War II Primary Source Analysis Secondary Source Analysis Analyze the American preparation for War
Unit Outline
XV Depression 19291933A) Wall Street CrashB) Depression economyC) Moods of despair
1) agrarian unrest2) bonus march
D) Hoover Diplomacy
XVI New DealA) Franklin D. Roosevelt
1) Philosophy of the New DealB) 100 Days: Alphabet Agencies
C) 2nd New DealD) Critics: Left and RightE) Rise of the CIO and Labor StrikesF) Supreme Court Packing ControversyG) Recession of 1938H) American people in the depression
1) social values, women, ethnic groups2) Indian Reorganization Act3) Mexican American deportation4) The Racial issue
XVII Diplomacy in the 1930’sA) Good Neighbor PolicyB) London Economic ConferenceC) DisarmamentD) IsolationismE) Aggressors: Japan, Italy, and Germany\F) AppeasementG) Rearmament: Blitzkrieg; Lend LeaseH) Atlantic CharterI) Pearl harbor
XVIII World War IIA) Organizing for War
1) Mobilizing production2) Propaganda3) Internment of Japanese Americans
B) The War in Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean: DDayC) The war in the pacific: Hiroshima, NagasakiD) Diplomacy
1) War aims2) Wartime conferences
E) Postwar atmosphere; the United Nations
Assignments/Projects
American Propaganda Project Read the Grapes of Wrath Class Project: Causes of the Cold War
Reading Requirements
Tindall: Chapters 2830 Colbert: 450503
Evaluations Unit Exam Tindall Chapter Quizzes Class Presentation: New Deal Agency Analysis Class Debate: Long term benefits and costs of the New Deal Holocaust Speaker and project
Unit 10: The Cold War and American Society
Unit Goals/Objectives Primary Source Analysis Secondary Source Analysis Analyze the short and long term causes of the Cold War America in the 1950’s: Societal strains and comfort Discuss the growth of the modern Civil Rights and Feminist Movement InDepth Analysis of the Foreign and Domestic successes and failures of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson
Administrations Short and long term causes of the Korean and Vietnam Wars
Unit OutlineXXIX Harry Truman and the Cold war
A) Postwar domestic adjustmentsB) The Taft Hartley ActC) Civil Rights and the Election of 1948D) Containment in Europe and the Middle East
1) Truman Doctrine2) Marshall Plan3) Berlin Crisis4) NATO
F) Revolution in ChinG) Limited War: Korea
XXX Dwight Eisenhower and Modern RepublicanismA) Domestic Frustrations: McCarthyismB) Civil Rights Movement
1) The Warren Court and the Brown Decisions2) Montgomery Bus Boycott3) Greensboro sitin
C) Dulles’ Foreign Policy1) Crisis in Southeast Asia2) Massive Retaliation3) Nationalism in Southeast Asia, the Middle east. Latin America4) Khrushchev and Berlin
D) American people: homogenized society1) prosperity and economic consolidation2) consumer culture3) consensus of values
E) Space Race
XXXI JFK’s New Frontier and LBJ’s Great SocietyA) New Domestic Programs
1) Tax Cut2) War on Poverty3) Affirmative Action
B) Civil Rights and Liberties1) African Americans: cultural and economic roles2) The leadership of Martin Luther King jr. 3) Resurgence of Feminism4) The new left and counterculture5) Emergence of the Republican Party in the South6) Warren Court and rights of the accused
C) Foreign Policy1) Bay of Pigs2) Cuban Missile Crisis3) Vietnam
Assignments/Projects
Primary Source Analysis Secondary Source Analysis Read Selections from Dr. Spock and Betty Freidan Document Based Question: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Required Readings:
Tindall: Chapters 3134 Colberr: 508586
Evaluations Document Based Question: The Causes and Effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis Tindall Quizzes Unit Test Secondary Source Analysis: McCarthyism and the Hollywood Ten Movie Analysis: CNN’s The Cold War Volume 1
Unit 11: The Era of Strain and Challenge: The 1970’s and 1980’s
Course Objectives/Goals To analyze the reasons for the end of the Cold War and its effects on the politics of the world To highlight the challenges that America faced socially, economically, and politically in this period. To analyze primary sources To analyze secondary sources
Unit Outline
XXXII Nixon AdministrationA) Election of 1968B) NixonKissinger foreign policy
1) Vietnam: Escalation and pullout2) China: restoring relations3) Soviet Union and Détente
C) New Federalism
D) Supreme Court and Roe v. WadeE) Watergate Crisis and resignation
XXXIII The US since 1974A) The New Right and the Conservative social agendaB) Gerald Ford and RockefellerC) Jimmy Carter
1) deregulation2) Energy and inflation3) Camp David accords4) Iranian hostage crisis
Assignments/Projects
Movie Analysis: Miracle and the American psyche Individual Projects: Middle East challenges
Required Readings:
Tindall: Chapters 35 Colbert: 596620
Evaluations: Unit Test Tindall Chapter Quizzes Issue Paper: Challenges to United States in the Modern Era Group Analysis: Massive Retaliation vs. Realpolitik
Unit 12: The Shaping of Modern America and AP Review
Unit Goals and Objectives To compare and contrast the Presidencies of Reagan, Bush, and Clinton To summarize the causes and effects of the Reagan economic plan To summarize the causes and effects of the Gulf War To highlight the challenges of American foreign policy since September 11th
To prepare students for the AP Exam
Unit OutlineI Modern Presidencies
1) tax cuts and budget deficits2) defense buildup3) new disarmament treaties4) foreign crisis: Persian Gulf and Central America
5) September 11th and the Bush DoctrineII Society
6) Old and New urban problems7) Asian and Hispanic immigrants
8) Resurgent fundamentalism9) African Americans and local, state, and national politics
Assignments/Projects
AP Test Preparation Compare and Contrast Reagan’s Inaugural with Carter’s Crisis of Confidence
Required Readings
Tindall: Chapters 3637 Colberr: 625639
Evaluation Unit Test Tindall Reading Quizzes Practice AP Exams and DBQ’s AP American Terms and Authors quiz