ap us history course outline09

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Science Skills Center High School Humanities DepartmentMr. Boehm

Advanced Placement United States HistoryPurpose

The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge

necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in U.S. History. The program prepares students forintermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-yearintroductory college courses. Students should learn to assess historical materialstheir relevance to a giveninterpretive problem, reliability, and importanceand to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented inhistorical scholarship. An AP U.S. History course should thus develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusionon the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively inessay format.

COURSE REQUIREMENTSI. Each marking periods grades shall be cumulative (count from the first day of the term) for each classII. Absence and lateness without a note shall not be excused.

III. Grades will be based on: Culminating Project 40% Exams/Essays/Tests 30% Classwork, Quizzes, Participation 20% Homework 10%

**Plan on having either a quiz or a test every Monday, as that is the assessment day for social studies atSSCHS.**IV. Class Materials:*Notebook: Composition or spiral (be prepared to hand it in for checks)*2 Pens*Folder designed to carry class procedures and returned assignments*Stapler: All assignments must be stapled before being handed in

V. This course will utilize www.engrade.com as an online grading system. This way, you can log on andchart your progress whenever you like. To register,1. Click Students and Parents2. Click sign on to account3. Enter the following in the box: engrade-pick1066-your nine digit id #

v. Students are expected to sit for the A.P. United States History Exam administered byThe College Board in May. More information is available at www.collegeboard.com

**The project for this marking period relates to the DBQ Essay section of the regents exam, relating to an

early theme in American history. This will be done throughout the marking period, in class and at home. Iwill include several DBQ essays, followed by a letter to a friend describing how to write a DBQ essay(inother words, what youve learned relating to how to write a DBQ essay).

STANDARDSNew York State Department of Education has defined the following Social Studies Standards:Standard 1: History of the United States and New YorkStandard 2: World HistoryStandard 3: GeographyStandard 4: EconomicsStandard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government
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These five standards will all be addressed, though Standards 1 and 5 will be emphasized.

OVERVIEW1. This course will emphasize primary documents and document based essays and essay writing, as well as2. Textbook: Divine, Robert A., et al.America Past and Present AP Edition. New York: Pearson/Longman.

You will also be reading non-fiction, historical fiction, newspapers, primary sources, and journalsthroughout this course

3. Students will sit for the A.P. exam in U.S. History in early May. A fee may be required for this exam.

MAJOR THEMES WITHIN AP UNITED STATES HISTORY

American DiversityThe diversity of the American people and the relationships among different groups. The roles of race, class,ethnicity, and gender in the history of the United States. American IdentityViews of the American national character and ideas about American exceptionalism. Recognizing regionaldifferences within the context of what it means to be an American. CultureDiverse individual and collective expressions through literature, art, philosophy, music, theater, and filmthroughout history. Popular culture and the dimensions of cultural conflict within American society.

Demographic ChangesChanges in birth, marriage, and death rates; life expectancy and family patterns; population size and density. Theeconomic, social, and political effects of immigration, internal migration, and migration networks. Economic TransformationsChanges in trade, commerce, and technology across time. The effects of capitalist development, labor and unionsand consumerism. EnvironmentIdeas about the consumption and conservation of natural resources. The impact of population growth,industrialization, pollution, and urban and suburban expansion. GlobalizationEngagement with the rest of the world from the fifteenth century to the present: colonialism, mercantilism, globa

hegemony, development of markets, imperialism, cultural exchange. Politics and CitizenshipColonial and revolutionary legacies, American political traditions, growth of democracy, and the development ofthe modern state. Defining citizenship; struggles for civil rights. ReformDiverse movements focusing on a broad range of issues, including antislavery, education, labor, temperance,womens rights, civil rights, gay rights, war, public health, and government. ReligionThe variety of religious beliefs and practices in America from prehistory to the twenty-first century, influence ofreligion on politics, economics, and society. Slavery and Its Legacies in North America

Systems of slave labor and other forms of unfree labor (e.g., indentured servitude, contract labor) in NativeAmerican societies, the Atlantic World, and the American South and West. The economics of slavery and itsracialdimensions. Patterns of resistance and the long-term economic, political, and social effects of slavery. War and DiplomacyArmed conflict from the pre-colonial period to the twenty-first century; impact of war on American foreign policand on politics, economy and society.

WEEKLY OUTLINE OF TOPICSThis is a proposed schedule and will be adjusted as circumstances dictate. Basic procedures throughout the yearwill include the assignment of reading, lecture and note taking, the administration of announced and unannounce


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reading quizzes, and involvement in class discussions. There will also be document based questions and practicefree response questions administered periodically, to be written in and out of class. Students are expected to takenotes on all primary source reading.

I. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 14921690(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 1,2

A. Pre-Columbian Societies

1. Early inhabitants of the Americas2. American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the MississippiValley

3. American Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contactB. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492-1690

1. First European contacts with Native Americans2. Spains empire in North America3. French colonization of Canada4. English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the South5. From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region6. Religious diversity in the American colonies7. Resistance to colonial authority: Bacons Rebellion, the Glorious

Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt

II. Colonial North America(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 3,4A. Colonial North America, 1690-1754

1. Population growth and immigration2. Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports3. The eighteenth-century back country4. Growth of plantation economies and slave societies5. The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening6. Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America

III. The American Revolution(1 week)Readings: Divine, Chapter 5

A. The American Revolutionary Era, 1754-1789

1. The French and Indian War2. The Imperial Crisis and resistance to Britain3. The War for Independence4. State constitutions and the Articles of Confederation5. The federal Constitution

IV. The Early Republic (2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 6,7,8

A. The Early Republic, 1789-18151. Washington, Hamilton, and shaping of the national government2. Emergence of political parties: Federalist and Republicans3. Republican motherhood and education for women4. Beginnings of the Second Great Awakening5. Significance of Jeffersons presidency

6. Expansion into the trans-Appalachian West; American Indian resistance7. Growth of slavery and free Black communities8. The War of 1812 and its consequences

V. Society, Politics and Reform 1816-1861 (2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 9,10,11,12

A. Transformation of the Economy and Society in Antebellum America1. The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy2. Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures3. Immigration and nativist reactions4. Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South

B. The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum America1. Emergence of the second party system


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2. Federal authority and its opponents: judicial federalism, the Bank War, tariff controversy,and states rights debates

3. Jacksonian democracy and its successes and limitationsC. Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in Antebellum America

1. Evangelical Protestant revivalism2. Social reforms3. Ideals of domesticity4. Transcendentalism and utopian communities5. American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions

VI. Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 13,14

A. Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny1. Forced removal of American Indians to the trans-Mississippi West2. Western migration and cultural interactions3. Territorial acquisitions4. Early U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War

VII. The Civil War(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 15

A. The Crisis of the Union1. Arguments and conflicts for and against slavery

2. Compromise of 1850 and popular sovereignty3.The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party4. Abraham Lincoln, the election of 1860, and Secession

A. Civil War1. Two societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissent2. Military strategies and foreign diplomacy3. Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war4. Social, political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West

VIII. Reconstruction and the New South(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 16

A. Reconstruction1. Presidential and Radical Reconstruction2. Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures

3. Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy4. Compromise of 18775. Impact of Reconstruction

B. The Origins of the New South1. Reconfiguration of southern agriculture: sharecropping and crop lien system2. Expansion of manufacturing and industrialization3. The politics of segregation: Jim Crow and disfranchisement

IX. Westward Expansion(1 week)Readings: Divine, Chapter 17

A. Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century1. Expansion and development of western railroads2. Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians

3. Government policy toward American Indians4. Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West5. Environmental impacts of western settlement

X. Industrial United States(1 week)Readings: Divine, Chapter 18,19

A. Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth Century1. Corporate consolidation of industry2. Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace3. Labor and unions4. National politics and influence of corporate power5. Migration and immigration: the changing face of the nation6. Proponents and opponents of the new order, e.g., Social Darwinism and Social Gospel


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B. Urban Society in the Late Nineteenth Century1. Urbanization and the lure of the city2. Urban problems and political machines3. Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment

XI. Populism and Progressivism(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 20,22,23

A. Populism and Progressivism1. Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century

2. Origins of progressive reform: municipal, state, and national3. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive presidents4. Womens roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reform5. Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives

XII. America as a World Power(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 21,24

A. The Emergence of America as a World Power1. American imperialism: political and economic expansion2. War in Europe and American neutrality3. The First World War at home and abroad4. The Treaty of Versailles5. Society and economy in the postwar years

XIII. 1920s, Great Depression, New Deal(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 25,26A. The New Era: 1920s

1. The business of America and the consumer economy2. Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover3. The culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment4. Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition

B. The Great Depression and the New Deal1. Causes of the Great Depression2. The Hoover administrations response3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal4. Labor and union recognition5. The New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the Left

6. Surviving hard times: American society during the Great DepressionXIV. World War II(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 27

A. The Second World War1. The rise of fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy, and Germany2. Prelude to war: policy of neutrality3. The attack on Pearl Harbor and United States declaration of war4. Fighting on many fronts5. Diplomacy, war aims, and wartime conference6. The United States as a global power in the Atomic Age

B. The Home Front during the War1. Wartime mobilization of the economy

2. Urban migration and demographic changes3. Women, work, and family during the war4. Civil liberties and civil rights during wartime5. War and regional development6. Expansion of government power

XV. The Cold War(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 28

A. The United States and the Early Cold War1. Origins of the Cold War2. Truman and containment3. The Cold War in Asia: China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan4. Diplomatic strategies and policies of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations


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5. The Red Scare and McCarthyism6. Impact of the Cold War on American society

XVI. The Affluent 50s and Turbulent 60s(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 29,30

A. The 1950s1. Emergence of the modern civil rights movement, the affluent society and the other

America2. Consensus and conformity: suburbia and middle-class America

3. Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels4. Impact of changes in science, technology and medicine

B. The Turbulent 1960s1. From the New Frontier to the Great Society expanding movements for civil rights2. Cold War Confrontations: Asia, Latin America, Europe3. Beginning of Dtente

XVII. Politics and Economics at the end of the 20th Century(2 weeks)Readings: Divine, Chapter 31

A. Politics and Economics at the End of the Twentieth Century1. Election of 1968 and the Silent Majority2. Nixons challenges: Vietnam, China, Watergate3. Changes in the American economy, the energy crisis, deindustrialization, and the service

economy4. The New Right and the Reagan revolution5. End of the Cold War

XVIII. Society and Culture at the end of the 20th Century and the Beginning ofthe 21st Century(1 week)Readings: Divine, Chapter 32

A. Society and Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century1. Demographic changes: surge of immigration after 1965, sunbelt migration, and the grayin

of America2. Revolutions in biotechnology, mass communications, and computers3. Politics in a multicultural society

B. The United States in the World after the Cold War1. Globalization and the American economy2. Unilateralism vs. multilateralism in foreign policy3. Domestic and foreign terrorism4. Environmental issues in a global context

* The AP Exam will be administered sometime in May. Read about it on www.apcentral.collegeboard.com


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