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Note: At our high school, our APUSH course is a two year course. We consider the first year to be an honors course and the second year is given the AP designation. The first part of the following syllabus covers the first year and the second part covers the second year.
A.P. UNITED STATES HISTORY20062007 COURSE SYLLABUS
This course is designed to provide a collegelevel experience and preparation for the AP Exam in May 2007 (cost to be announced annually). An emphasis is placed on interpreting documents, mastering a significant body of factual information, and writing critical essays. Topics include life and thought in colonial America, revolutionary ideology, constitutional development, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, nineteenthcentury reform movements, and Manifest Destiny. Other topics include the Civil War and Reconstruction, immigration, industrialism, Populism, Progressivism, World War I, the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the postCold War era, and the United States at the beginning of the twentyfirst century. This is a two year course which will fulfill the United States history graduation requirement.
In addition to the topics listed above, the course will emphasize a series of key themes throughout the year. These themes have been determined by the College Board as essential to a comprehensive study of United
States history. The themes will include discussions of American diversity, the development of a unique American identity, the evolution of American culture, demographic changes over the course of America’s history, economic trends and transformations, environmental issues, the development of political institutions and the components of citizenship, social reform movements, the role of religion in the making of the United States and its impact in a multicultural society, the history of slavery and its legacies in this hemisphere, war and diplomacy, and finally, the place of the United States in an increasingly global arena. The course will trace these themes throughout the year, emphasizing the ways in which they are interconnected and examining the ways in which each helps to shape the changes over time that are so important to understanding United States history. The course uses themes and/or topics as broad parameters for structuring the course.
TEXTBOOKSKennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas Bailey. The American Pageant. 12th ed. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002.
Kennedy, David M., and Thomas Bailey. The American Spirit Vol. I and II, 11th ed, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006
Garraty, John A. Historical Viewpoints Vol. I and II 9th ed., New York: Longman Publishers, Inc., 2003
The following grading scale will be used in determining all grades in this course:0= 100%94%A= 93%86%B= 85%80%C= 79%70%D= 69%60%F= 59%0%
Your grade will be based on the total number of points that you accumulate each nine weeks. All of the points that you have earned on each assignment will be entered in the grade book. Then, at the end of the nine weeks, all of the points that you have earned will be added up. Your score will then be divided by the total possible points for the nine weeks. This figure will then be translated into a letter grade.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS1. NOTEBOOKSAll students are required to obtain and keep up to date a 3ring binder with appropriately labeled divided sections. The sections will be labeled and arranged as follows:A. 2column notes (from text readings and class discussions)B. Vocabulary termsC. HandoutsD. Other
2. OBJECTIVE TESTSConsult the course syllabus for test dates. The tests will be objective and they will consist of multiple choice, chapter vocabulary and nostalgia.
3. QUIZZESQuizzes will be given usually on Monday after each chapter is assigned to be read.
4. VOCABULARYEach chapter of the text has a set of vocabulary words. It is the students responsibility to find these words in the chapter that corresponds to definitions on the vocabulary list.
5. NOSTALGIAVocabulary from previous chapters in the text. Consult the syllabus for the chapters that the nostalgia questions will be drawn from.
6. WEEKLY ESSAYA graded short free response essay usually written in class on a given topic presented in the current chapter. Notes are indispensable for this assignment, as the question is often the topic of discussion of previous days.
7. NOTECARDSSpiral bound note cards to use for document analysis
8. HISTORIGRAPHY INFORMATION SHEETSWorksheet to be filled out as various historiographies are presented in class.
9. PRESIDENT TIMELINESPresident timeline forms to be completed on various presidents as they are discussed in the course.
10. DOCUMENT BASED QUESTION (DBQ)A longer essay than your weekly essays and you are usually not given the question beforehand. On the bright side you will be given information in the form of documents that pertain directly to the question. DocumentBased Question essays (DBQs) must be typed(doublespaced). Essays will vary in length depending on the topic and are graded on content, use of documentary and outside supporting evidence, grammar, spelling, and evidence of critical thinking.
11. EXAMSExams are given after each semester. Each semester exam will contain nostalgia and multiplechoice questions over everything covered.
All of the following readings should be completed by the beginning of the week during which they will be discussed. Test dates may be rearranged so that all classes can be tested on the same day, but such changes will be announced well in advance. Each unit also utilizes discussions of and writing about related historiography: how interpretations of events have changed over time,
how the issues of one time period have had an impact on the experiences and decisions of subsequent generations, and how such reevaluations of the past continue to shape the way historians see the world today.
Week 1 Introduction to classInstruction on Reading notes Note TakingCh. 1 New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C. A.D. 1769 PreColumbian cultures, early explorations, Spanish and French claims.Documents: Bartolome de Las Casas Defends the Indians (1552) Note cardsHow to write a history essay
Week 2 Ch. 2 The Planting of English America, 15001733The Chesapeake and southern English colonies, ties with Caribbean economies, British mercantilism.Documents: The Starving Time (1609) Note cardsHandout: Jamestown
Week 3 Ch. 3 Settling the Northern Colonies, 16191700 New England and the Puritans, religious dissent, colonial
politics and conflict with British authority, the middle colonies. Documents: Abandoning Communism at Plymouth (1623), The Blue Laws of Connecticut (1672) Note cards Historiography: Europeanizing America or Americanizing Europe?
Week 4 Ch. 4 American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 16071692
Tobacco and rice colonies, AfricanAmerican culture, colonial family life, dissent in New England and the Witch trials.Documents: A Contract for Indentured Service (1635), A Servant Describes His Fate (c. 1680), An Unruly Servant is Punished (1679), The Conscience of a Slave Trader (1694) Note cards
Week 5 Ch. 5 Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 17001775 includes the study of social and cultural immigration and demographic change, the Atlantic economy, the Great Awakening, education and culture, colonial politics.Historiography: Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus?
Week 6 Ch. 6 The Duel for North America, 16081763Colonial involvement in British imperial wars, consequences of the French and Indian War and the Proclamation of 1763.
Week 7 Historical Viewpoints: Middle Passage” pgs. 5567How to do a DBQ Powerpoint
Week 8 Introduction of Discovery Project Due Week 9DBQ The Transformation of Colonial Virginia, 1606 1700 Due Week 9
Week 9 Presentation of Discovery ProjectDBQ Due
Week 10 Ch. 7 The Road to Revolution, 17631775Roots of revolution and the role of mercantilism, end of benign neglect, failure of diplomacy, first conflicts Recent scholarship: Causes of the Revolution.Documents: Two Views of the British Empire (1767,1775), Conflicting Versions of the Outbreak (1775), Why an Old Soldier Fought (1898) Note cardsHistoriography: Whose Revolution?
Week 11 Ch. 8 America Secedes from the Empire, 17751783The American Revolution, wartime diplomacy, life on the home front, women and the war, the impact of the war on the institution of slavery. DVD: Liberty: The American RevolutionTories Vs. Patriots Debate
Week 12 Ch. 9 The Confederation and the Constitution, 17761790 The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, the role of the Enlightenment, slavery and religion in the political process, wartime diplomacy.Documents: Daniel Gray Explains the Shaysites’ Grievances (1786) Note cardsHistoriography: The Constitution: Revolution or Counterrevolutionary?Constitution Convention playDVD Liberty: The American Revolution Episode 6
Week 13 Ch. 10 Launching the New Ship of State, 17891800Early national politics and economics, diplomacy during the French Revolution, the making of the office of the
presidency.Hamilton Vs. Jefferson Chart Documents: The French Revolution: Conflicting Views (1790s) Note cardsAlien and Sedition Acts Handout
Week 14 Ch. 11 The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 18001812The “Revolution of 1800,” the Marshall Court, diplomacy of Jefferson and Madison, the Embargo Act, acceleration of expansion west.Louisiana Purchase PowerpointMarbury v. Madison handout
Week 15 Ch. 12 The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 18121824The War of 1812, The Era of Good Feeling, The American System, the diplomacy of expansion, forging a new national identity.Documents: Causes of the War (1812, 1813) Note cardsMissouri Compromise computer activity
Week 16 Historical Viewpoints: “The Most Successful Revolution.” Pgs. 99108
Week 17 Introduction of Animal Farm Trial
Trial proceduresDBQ The Alien & Sedition Acts due Week 18
Week 18 Assign Animal Farm Trial RolesPrepare cases for Animal Farm TrialConduct Animal Farm TrialDBQ Due
Week 19 Ch. 13 The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 18241840Jacksonian democracy and the Whigs, national policy toward American Indians, the era of the “common man,” expansion with the Texas revolution, slavery and sectionalism.Video 500 Nations Vol. 6Historiography: What Was Jacksonian Democracy?
Week 20 Ch. 14 Forging the National Economy, 17901860The rise of the market economy, immigration and the increase in nativism, women in the workplace, the factory system, the transportation revolution, expansion west.Video: Mill TimesDocuments: Disaster in a Massachusetts Mill (1860), Chattel Slavery Versus Wage Slavery (1840)
Week 21 Ch. 15 The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 17901860The Second Great Awakening and the growth of reform,
women’s roles in reform movements, creation of a national culture, advances in education and the sciences.Documents: New Yorkers Ridicule Feminists (1856), Lucy Stone Protests Traditional Marriage (1855), Orestes Brownson Explores the Woman Question (1869)Historiography: Reform: Who? What? How? and Why?
Week 22 Ch. 16 The South and the Slavery Controversy, 17931860 Cotton culture, southern society and the impact of the plantation system, the rise of abolitionist movements.Slavery map exercise computer web siteHistoriography: What Was the True Nature of Slavery?
Week 23 Ch. 17 Manifest Destiny and its Legacy, 18411848 Expansion under Polk, Manifest Destiny, war with Mexico
Week 24 Ch. 18 Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 18481854Popular sovereignty, the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Law, the economics of expansionDocuments: Joshua Giddings Rejects SlaveCatching (1850), Robert Rhett Resents a Hoax (1851), The South Threatens Retaliation (1855)
Week 25 Historical Viewpoints: “Andrew Jackson & Annexation of Texas.” Pgs. 184191Introduction of Genealogy Project
Week 26 DBQ Andrew Jackson & Indian Removal
Week 27 Genealogy Project DueDBQ Due
Week 28 Ch. 19 Drifting Toward Disunion, 18541861 Abolition in the 1850s, the impact of Dred Scott, the financial panic of 1857, political crisis in the election of 1860, the coming of the Civil War Uncle Tom’s Cabin activity analyze selection of novelHistoriography: The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible?
Week 29 Ch. 20 Girding for War: The North and the South, 18611865Wartime diplomacy, economic changes in both the North and South, women and the war, issues of civil liberties in wartime.Documents: Fort Sumter Inflames the North (1861), Fort Sumter Inspirits the South (1861)
Week 30 Ch. 21 The Furnace of Civil War, 18611865The Peninsula Campaign, the “Anaconda,” the war in the West, Sherman’s March, Appomattox, the Emancipation Proclamation, the legacy of war in both the North and South.Historiography: What were the consequences of the Civil War?
Week 31 Ch. 22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 18651877The politics and economics of Reconstruction, experiences of freedmen, the rise of the Bourbon South and the fate of
Reconstruction, impeachment politics and the balance of power.Historiography: How Radical Was Reconstruction?Analyze Black Codes ActivityHistory of Klan in Hancock County, Ohio
Week 32 Ch. 23 Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 18691896Ulysses S. Grant, soldierpresident, Corruption and reform in the postCivil War era, the depression of the 1870’s, political parties and partisans, the Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction, class conflict and ethnic clashes, populists.Historiography: The Populists: Radicals or Reactionaries?Documents: A Southern Senator Defends Jim Crow (1900), Booker T. Washington Portrays the Plight of Black Tenant Farmers (1889), A Southern Black Woman Reflects on the Jim Crow System (1902)
Week 33 Ch. 24 Industry Comes of Age, 18651900Era of the Robber Barons, the lives of the working classes and the growth of unionism, government and politics of regulation, the United States in the world economy.Historiography: Industrialization: Boon or Blight?
Week 34 DBQ: The Federal Government & LaissezFaire, 18651900Historical Viewpoints: “John Brown: Father of American Terrorism.” Pgs. 253262
Week 35 DBQ DueExam Review
Week 36 Exam Week
YEAR 2
Week 1 Intro to ClassInstruction on Reading Notes – Note TakingCh. 25 America Moves to the City 18651900Immigration patterns, cultural life in urban America, the
“New Woman”, AfricanAmerican push for expanded civil rights
Week 2 Essay Writing StrategiesCh. 25 America Moves to the City 18651900Documents: Atlanta Exposition Address
Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
Week 3 Ch. 26 The Great West and the Agricultural RevolutionThe close of the frontier and its impact, industrialization of
agriculture and political dissent among farmersHistoriography: Was the West Really “Won”?Documents: A Century of Dishonor
Week 4 Ch. 26 The Great West and the Agricultural RevolutionPresidential Timeline: Cleveland and HarrisonCH. 2526 Test
Day 1 Multiple ChoiceDay 2 Essay
Week 5 Ch. 27 The Path of EmpireOverseas expansion, The SpanishAmerican War, America
on the world stageDocuments: Joseph Pulitzer demands intervention
W.J. Bryan vents his bitterness
Week 6 Ch. 28 America on the World StagePresidential Timeline: McKinleyHistoriography: Why did America become a world power?
Week 7 Ch. 28 America on the World StageDocuments:The Gentlemen’s Agreement CH 2728 Test
Day 1 Multiple ChoiceDay 2 Essay
Week 8 Ch. 29 Progressivism and the Republican RooseveltProgressive reform and the trusts, political impact of
urbanization, environmental issuesPresidential Timeline: T. RooseveltDocuments: Exposing the Meatpackers
A Woman Assails Suffrage
Week 9 Ch. 30 Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and AbroadThe New Freedom versus the New NationalismPresidential Timeline: TaftHistoriography: Who Were The Progressives?
Week 10 Ch. 30 Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and AbroadCh. 2930 Test
Day 1 Multiple ChoiceDay 2 Essay
Week 11 Ch. 31 The War to End WarWar in Europe and war on the home front, propaganda and
civil liberties, the politics behind the making of the Treaty of VersaillesDocuments: Lord Bryce’s Propaganda Report
Robert Lansing’s Pro Ally Tactics
Week 12 Ch. 31 The War to End WarDocuments: Creel Spreads Fear Propaganda
Week 13 Ch. 31 The War to End WarPresidential Timeline: WilsonDocuments: Wilson Defeats Lodge’s Reservations
Lodge Blames WilsonCh. 31 Test
Day 1 Multiple ChoiceDay 2 Essay (DBQ)
Week 14 Ch. 32 American Life in the Roaring TwentiesThe “Red Scare” and immigration issues, a mass
consumption economy, the Jazz age and the Harlem Renaissance, traditionalism versus modernism
Documents: Two Views of Immigration Restriction F. La Guardia Pillories Prohibition The WCTU Upholds Prohibition
Week 15 Ch 33 The Politics of Boom and BustIsolationism in the 1920s, foreign debt and diplomacy, the
coming of the Great DepressionPresidential Timeline: Harding, Coolidge and HooverDocuments: Hoover Defends His Record
Roosevelt Indicts HooverCh 3334 Test
Day 1 Multiple ChoiceDay 2 Essay
Week 16 Ch 34 The Great Depression and the New DealFDR and “relief, recovery, and reform,” demographic
changes associated with the Depression, cultural changes in the 1930s, the Supreme Court and the balance of political power in government
Documents: FDR’s 1st Inaugural Address Harold Ickes Defends His Chief Dorothy Thompson Dissents
Week 17 Ch 34 The Great Depression and the New DealHistoriography: How Radical Was the New DealCh 34 Test
Day 1 Multiple ChoiceDay 2 Essay
Week 18 Ch. 35 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of WarAttempts at neutrality and isolationism, diplomacy and
economics of the prewar years, the move to war following Pearl HarborDocuments: Charles Lindbergh Argues For Isolationism
The N.Y. Times Rejects Isolationism Togo Blames the U.S.
Week 19 SEMESTER EXAMS
Week 20 Ch. 35 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War Ch. 36 America in World War II The war in Europe and in the Far East, the home front,
changes for women and minorities during the war, the decision to use the atomic bomb and its consequences
Documents: War Warnings From WashingtonAdmiral Kimmel Defends Himself
Week 21 Ch. 36 America in World War IIPresidential Timeline: FDRDocuments: The Christian Century Deplores the Bombing
Truman Justifies the BombingCh 3536 Test
Day 1 Multiple ChoiceDay 2 Essay (DBQ)
Week 22 Ch 37 The Cold War BeginsPostwar prosperity and the Baby Boom, communism and
containment diplomacy and the Marshall Plan, the Korean War, the Red Scare, the U.S. as a world power
Presidential Timeline: TrumanDocuments: The World Through Soviet Eyes
Week 23 Ch 37 The Cold War Begins Ch 38The Eisenhower EraDocumenets: MacArthur Calls for Victory
Truman Looks Beyond Victory
Week 24 Ch. 38 The Eisenhower EraConsumer culture in the 1950s, the civil rights revolution,
McCarthyism, Cold War expansion, the space race, postwar literature and culture
Presidential Timeline: EisenhowerDocuments: The Court Rejects Segregation
Newton Minow criticizes the “Vaste Wasteland”Ch. 3738 Test
Day 1 Multiple Choice Day 2 Essay
Week 25 Ch 39 The Stormy SixtiesThe Cold War continues, expansion of the war in Vietnam,
the civil rights revolution and evolution, Johnson and the Great Society, immigration and demographicc changes
Presidential Timeline: KennedyDocuments:JFK Inaugural Address
Week 26 Ch 39 The Stormy SixtiesDocuments: Johnson Declares War on Poverty
President Johnson Asserts His War Aims Presidential Timeline: Johnson
Week 27 Ch. 40 The Stalemated SeventiesRise of conservatism, economic stagnation, crisis over
presidential power, environmental issues, feminism and the women’s movement, civil rights and affirmative action, foreign policy and the issue of oil
Presidential Timeline: Nixon and FordDocuments: Nixon Defends His Incursion
The 1st Article of Impeachment
Week 28 Ch. 40 The Stalemated SeventiesDocuments: Betty Freidan Has Second ThoughtsPresidential Timeline: CarterCh. 3940 Test
Day 1 Multiple ChoiceDay 2 Essay
Week 29 Ch. 41 The Resurgence of ConservatismReagan and the “New Right”, the end of the Cold War,
Reaganomics, politics and the Supreme Court, globalization, war and diplomacy in the Middle East
Documents: Reagan Asks for a Tax Cut The NY Times Attacks Reagan’s Policies Presidential Timeline: Reagan
Week 30 Ch. 42 The American People Face a new CenturyThe Clinton era, postCold War politicsa and foreign policy
Documents: The Gulf War as Happy Ending or Ominous Beginning
Historiography: Where Did Modern Conservative Come From?
Week 31 Presidential Timeline: Bush, Clinton, and Bush
Ch. 4142 Test Day 1 Multiple ChoiceDay 2 Essay
Week 32 REVIEW
Week 33 REVIEW
Week 34 REVIEWAPUSH TEST