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APUSH COURSE OUTLINE

AP UAP UNITEDNITED S STATESTATES H HISTORYISTORY2007-2008 Course Outline

"Everything we have, all our great institutions, hospitals, universities, libraries, this city, our laws, our music, art, poetry, our freedoms, everything is because somebody went before us and did the hard work . . . indifference to history isn't just ignorant, it's rude. It's a form of ingratitude."

- David McCullough, author & historian

Without any knowledge of the past, the individual becomes a prisoner of the present--able neither to comprehend the present circumstances and their causes nor to deal intelligently with present problems.

- Myron Webster, former APUSH teacher

MAJOR THEMES OF THE COURSE

The following themes are woven throughout class discussions and readings. We will trace them throughout the year, emphasizing the ways in which they are interconnected and examining the ways in which each helps to shape changes over time that are indispensable to understanding U.S. history.

1. National identity and citizenship: What is America about? (idealism vs. self-interest) What does it mean to be an American? [I]

2. Political change and continuity: How has the leadership of the country shaped conditions for the American people – and how have conditions been reflected in the leadership? [P]

3. Economic trends and transformations: How has the United States grown from a largely agrarian subsistence economy to the leading industrial power, and now to a leading informational center in an increasingly interconnected world? [E]

4. The shaping of American society, including the changing roles of women, African Americans, immigrants, social reform movements, religion, and demographic changes over the course of U.S. history, and the evolution of American culture [S&C]

5. Foreign Affairs: What role(s) does the U. S. have in the world? [F]

6. History and Our World: How have the developments of the past, particularly individual and collective choices, shaped the world we inhabit? What can we learn from those choices? How do they define the challenges and options facing us today? [Q]

UNIT ONE | COLONIAL AMERICA

Content Outline:

1 COLLISION OF CULTURES, 1492-1600 Ch. 1 A. The Americas before European contact B. European colonization: Spanish, French and Dutch colonies C. English Exploration and first contacts (motivations, Ireland, Roanoke)

2 COLONIAL BEGINNINGS, 1600-1732 Ch. 2 A. Jamestown & Chesapeake country B. Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay & the Growth of New England C. Mid-Atlantic region

3 COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE 17th & 18th CENTURIES Chs. 2 & 3 A. Population growth and immigration B. Social structure: family, farm and town life C. Economies: Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports; Mercantilism D. Origins & development of slavery: From servitude to slavery; Growth of plantation economies & slave societies

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E. Role of Religion & Religious diversity in the American colonies F. Culture: The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening G. Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America H. Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, Glorious Revolution, 18th-century back country

Readings:

Brinkley, Chapters 1, 2 & 3 Prologue: “The Strange Death of Silas Deane,” After the Fact, pp. xv-xxix. The problem of selecting

evidence in writing history. “Serving Time in Virginia,” After the Fact, pp. 1-23. Early Jamestown; Perspectives of evidence in

social history. “The Visible and Invisible World of Salem,” After the Fact, pp. 24-48. Studying events at the

community level, multiple causation of events. Gary Nash, “Black People in a White People’s Country” in Portrait of America, pp. 32-48. The

origins of slavery in the Americas and the slave trade. Richard Frethorne, Letter to his father and mother (1623)* The Mayflower Compact (1620)* Pond Letter from Mass. Bay (1631)* Excerpts from the Virginia Slave Codes (1662-1705)*

Discussion Topics:

1. The reasons for the settlement of British North America.

2. The social and economic development of the British North American colonies, particularly the development of distinct regions in New England, the mid-Atlantic, the Chesapeake and the Lower South.

3. The economic, geographic, and social factors that encouraged the growth of slavery as an important part of the economy of the southern colonies.

4. The relationship between Britain and its North American colonies, particularly with respect to how Britain’s policy of salutary neglect influenced the development of American society, commerce and government.

Activities and Assessment:

Document Skill Activity: Analyzing a Primary Document (5Ws) (Henry SB1) Document Skill Activity: Summarizing a document (50 word summary) [(2008) Writing Skill Activity: Understanding the Essay Question (Henry SB1)] Summer Reading Test Unit Test

UNIT TWO | REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA

Content Outline:

4 ROAD TO REVOLUTION, 1754-1775 Ch. 4 A. The French and Indian War B. The Imperial Crisis and resistance to Britain C. Philosophy of the American Revolution

5 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1775-1787 Ch. 5A. The War for Independence

1. Toward Independence: Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence2. The military war, French alliance & Treaty of Paris

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3. War and society (Loyalists, Women, war economy)B. Creating state governmentsC. Articles of Confederation and Confederation Era, 1781-1787D. Effects of the war: political, social, economic

6 THE NEW REPUBLIC, 1787-1800 Ch. 6 A. The federal Constitution (convention, ratification, Bill of Rights) B. Washington, Hamilton, and shaping of the national government C. Emergence of political parties: Federalists and Republicans D. John Adams' presidency (foreign affairs, Alien and Sedition Acts, Election of 1800)

Readings: Brinkley Chapters 4, 5 & 6 Document Packet: Effects of the French and Indian War* Declaration of Independence (1776)* Excerpts from Common Sense (1776)* Primary Source Document Packet: Political, Social and Economic Effects of the American Revolution

(from the 2005 APUSH DBQ)* U.S. Constitution (1787) and Bill of Rights (1789)* James Madison, The Federalist, Nos. 10 & 51 (1787)* Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)* Kentucky Resolution (1798)* Gordon S. Wood, “The Greatness of George Washington,” in Portrait of America (8e), Vol. 1, pp.

132-144. [Alt: Brian McGinty, “Sunrise at Philadelphia,” in Portrait of America (8e), Vol. 1, pp. 116-131.]

Discussion Topics:

1. The ways the French and Indian War altered the political, economic and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies.

2. The causes of the American Revolution and why the United States eventually triumphed.

3. The effects of the Revolution. How radical (revolutionary) was the American Revolution? To what extent did the American Revolution fundamentally change American governments, society and the economy during the period 1775 to 1800?

4. How the Articles of Confederation resulted from the ideology of the Revolution and the extent to which they provided an effective form of government for the United States.

5. The reasons for the adoption of the U.S. Constitution and the extent to which the Constitution (1) resolved the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation and (2) fulfilled the ideology and goals of the Revolution.

6. The relative importance of domestic and foreign affairs in shaping American politics in the 1790s.

Activities and Assessment: Document Skill Activity: Determining Credibility [Henry SB2 (37-38)] [2007 HW?] Document Skill Group Activity: Making Inferences from Documents [Henry SB Ch 3 Doc Skill (51-52)][?] Film Clip – Alexander Hamilton, from New York: A Documentary History Writing Skill Activity: Answering the Question Asked [PPT & HO adapted from Henry SB1] Writing Skill Activity: Writing an essay - Writing a thesis [PPT] First in-class essay activity (Introduction, thesis and essay outline) Unit Test

UNIT THREE | THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

Readings: Brinkley, Chapters 7, 8 & 9

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Document Packet: Jeffersonian Republican Era* [Alt: Jefferson and Hamilton – Competing Visions for America[U?C]* Monroe Doctrine (1823)* [incld in Jeff Rep Doc Pack] Document Packet: Age of Jackson [Braithwaite DBQ]* [UC – CF 1990 DBQ, REDUCE DOCS, CT DECISIONS] Douglas L. Wilson, “Thomas Jefferson and the Meanings of Liberty,” Portrait of America (8e), Vol.

1, pp. 101-115. John F. Marszalek, “Andrew Jackson, Flamboyant Hero of the Common Man,” Portrait of America

(8e), Vol. 1, pp. 244-258. Jack Larkin, “The Personal Side of a Developing People” from Portrait of America, Vol. 1, pp. 146-

164. The everyday lives of ordinary people in early nineteenth-century America. [next unit?]

Discussion Topics:

1. The extent to which the so-called “Jeffersonian Era” of 1800-1824 was consistent with the vision of Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Republicans (strict constructionism, limited government, nation of independent farmers) as opposed to the vision of Hamilton and the Federalists (strong central government, broad constructionism, merchants and business).

2. Historians have traditionally labeled the period after the War of 1812 (1815-1825) the “Era of Good Feelings.” How accurate was this label, considering the emergence of nationalism and sectionalism during the period?

3. The reasons for the development of democracy between 1820 and 1840 and the limits of “Jacksonian” democracy. The extent to which the “Jacksonian Period” was truly an era of “the common man.”

4. The reasons for the reemergence of a two party system in the period 1820-1840.

Content Outline:

7 THE (JEFFERSONIAN) REPUBLICAN ERA, 1800-1828 Chs. 7 & 8A. Significance of Jefferson’s presidency (Louisiana, Marbury, embargo)B. Beginnings of the Second Great AwakeningC. Republican motherhood and education for womenD. Expansion into the trans-Appalachian West; American Indian resistanceE. War of 1812 and its consequencesF. “Varieties of Nationalism”: Nationalism and Sectionalism (Ch. 8)

1. “Era of Good Feelings”2. Expansion of slavery and free Black communities3. Missouri Compromise4. The Supreme Court under John Marshall and Economic Nationalism 5. Foreign affairs: Canada, Florida, the Monroe Doctrine

G. Election of 1824: a “corrupt bargain”? and the end of the Virginia dynasty

8 TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICS IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA Ch. 9A. Emergence of the second party system: Democratic Party and Whig PartyB. “Jacksonian” Democracy and its successes and limitationsC. Federal authority and its opponents: Nullification crisis, the Bank WarD. Westward expansion and Indian RemovalE. Election of 1840


Writing Skill Activity: Using Graphic Organizers [adapt Henry SB Ch 4 (60-61)] Writing/Document Skill Activity: Using Documents to Support an Argument [adapt Henry Ch4 (62-64)] Document Analysis Group Activity – Jacksonian Democracy [use 1990 DBQ] Writing Skill: Making an Essay Outline [adapt Henry 5 (71-73) combine with another activity?] Document/Writing Skill Activity: Handling Conflicting Documents [Henry 5 (74-76)] [?]

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Class discussion: Everyday Life in Early America Webquest – Should Andrew Jackson Be Impeached [Pojer/HistoryTeacher.net] [??] In-class essay (possible topics: national development, the “Era of Good Feelings,” “Jacksonian democracy”) Unit Test

UNIT FOUR | THE DEVELOPING REPUBLIC

Readings:

Brinkley, Chapters 10, 11 & 12 Frederick Law Olmsted, The Cotton Kingdom (excerpts)* Document Packet: American Culture of Reform (9 short documents) (transcendentalism, literature,

education) [no longer on Pojer-on AHS server?] Women and Antebellum Reform (8 documents)* Ralph Korngold, “William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionist Crusade” in Portrait of America, Vol.

1, pp. 232-241 A Southerner Compares Slave Labor and Free Labor (1850) in David M. Kennedy, The American

Spirit, Vol. 1, p. 366. Document Packet: Southern Defenses of Slavery (16 documents)* [alt to Kennedy - reduce #] Doc Packet – slavery [Braithwaite] “Material Witness”, After the Fact, pp. 73-98. Hearth and home in the material culture of a market economy. [?

covers similar ground to Larkin. Also more late 1700s-early 1800s. Reverse with Larkin?]

Discussion Topics:

1. The causes and effects of American economic growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, including developments in transportation, manufacturing and agriculture.

2. How industrial development from 1800 to 1860 was a factor in shaping the relationship between the northern and the southern states.

3. The degree to which slavery shaped life in the South during the period 1820 to 1860 and how supporters of slavery defended the institution.

4. The influence of the Second Great Awakening on the development of American society during the nineteenth century.

5. How social reform movements, including antislavery/abolitionism, women’s rights, temperance, education, prison reform, and utopian experiments, significantly changed American society between 1820 and 1860.

6. How the roles of women in American society changed prior to 1860. To what extent and in what ways did the role of women change in Americn society between 1790-1860? Consider the following areas: Economic; Political; Social

Content Outline:

9 MARKET REVOLUTION: TRANSFORMATION OF ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA

Ch. 10

A. The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy B. Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures

C. Immigration and nativist reactionD. Northwest agriculture

10 THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH: Planters, Yeoman Farmers And Slaves Ch. 11

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11 RELIGION, REFORM, AND CULTURE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA Ch. 12A. Religion: evangelical Protestant revivalism, the Second Great AwakeningB. Transcendentalism and Utopian communitiesC. Social reforms: temperance, education, penal reformD. Abolitionism E. Women and ideals of domesticityF. American renaissance: literature, art, architecture


Document Shuffle: The social, economic and legal realities of slavery in the Antebellum South [Jackdaw Packet]

Writing Activity: Thesis 2-Writing a Strong Thesis [Henry 6 (84-86)] Document Activity: Analyzing Charts [Henry 6 (87-88)] PowerPoint Slide Presentation & Analysis: Hudson River School paintings In-class essay [possible topics: the market revolution, slavery and southern society, the impact of reform movements] Unit Test

UNIT FIVE | THE DIVIDED REPUBLIC

Readings: Brinkley, Chapters 13, 14 & 15 John Faragher and Christine Stansell, “Women and Their Families on the Overland Trails” in Portrait of

America, Vol. 1, pp. 310-322 “The Invisible Pioneers,” After the Fact, Chapter 6, pp. 124-149. (Ecological Transformations along the

Western Frontier) David Wilmot, Wilmot Proviso (1847) [embedded-PPT] Document Packet: Causes of the Mexican War (16 short docs) South Carolina Declaration of Causes for Secession (1860) (excerpts)* [obtain 1-2 other secession ordinances] Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)* Jefferson Davis’ First Inaugural Address (1861)* Stephen Oates, *Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation” in Portrait of America, Vol. 1, pp. 363-384 Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation (1863)* Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1864) Excerpt from James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America (New York: Little Brown, 1931), pp. 283-

287. (An old view of Reconstruction, to be compared with more contemporary interpretations) Eric Foner, “The New View of Reconstruction” in Portrait of America, 6th ed., Vol. 1, pp. 404-417 Eric Foner, “The Checkered History of the Great Fourteenth Amendment” in Portrait of America, Vol.

1, 8th ed., pp. 425-434. “The View from the Bottom Rail” in After the Fact, Chapter 8, pp. 177-209. (Oral History and the

Freedpeople) Document Packet: Civil Rights in the Gilded Age (10 documents) [Pojer]* [or with Progressive Era???]

Discussion Topics:

1. How territorial expansion lead to national disunity between 1830 and 1850.

2. Why Americans unable to resolve sectional tensions during the 1850s.

3. The significant political, economic, and social changes that occurred during the Civil War.

4. The political, economic, and social reforms introduced (in the South) under Reconstruction and the extent to which they had any lasting impact on the nation, the South and the former slaves.

Content Outline:

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12 WESTWARD EXPANSION, 1830-1850 Ch. 13 A. “Manifest Destiny” and mission B. Western migration and cultural interactions C. Territorial acquisitions: Texas annexation, the Oregon boundary D. The Mexican-American War: early U.S. Imperialism

13 CRISIS OF THE UNION: THE 1850s Ch. 13 A. Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, and popular sovereignty B. Pro- and antislavery arguments and conflicts C. Kansas-Nebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party D. Dred Scott decision E. Abraham Lincoln, the election of 1860, and the Secession Crisis

14 CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 Ch. 14A. Two societies at War: mobilization, resources, internal dissentB. Foreign affairs and diplomacyC. Military strategy, campaigns, and battlesD. Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the warE. Social, political and economic effects of the war on North, South and West

15 RECONSTRUCTION & THE NEW SOUTH, 1864-1900 Ch. 15 A. Presidential plans: Lincoln and Johnson B. Radical (congressional) plans 1. Civil rights and the Fourteenth Amendment 2. Military reconstruction 3. Impeachment of Johnson 4. African American suffrage: the Fifteenth Amendment C. Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures D. Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy E. Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction

F. Impact of Reconstruction G. Origins of the New South

1. Reconfiguration of southern agriculture: sharecropping. Crop lien system2. Expansion of manufacturing and industrialization3. Politics in the New South: Redeemers, Jim Crow, and disenfranchisement


Document Skill Activity: Analyzing Political Cartoons [Henry 7 (99-102)] Film Clips – from The Civil War (Ken Burns, PBS) Class Debate: Causes and inevitability of the Civil War or Class Activity: Concept Mapping – Causes of the Civil War Writing Skill: Using Categories to Answer Essay Questions [Henry 8 (111-113)] Film Clips – from PBS Reconstruction Analysis of historians’ changing interpretations of Reconstruction: Comparison of contemporary

interpretations and those from the past Writing Skill: Using Charts and Documents Together [Henry 8 (114-117)][optional] Skill Activity: Answering a “Document-based” Question [PPT] In-class essay: First DBQ (potential topics: causes of the Civil War, effects of the Civil War and

Reconstruction) Unit Test

UNIT SIX | INDUSTRIALIZING AMERICA

Readings: Brinkley, Chapters 17, 18 & 19

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Document Packet: “Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?” (20 document excerpts)* [Brathwaite – or Pojer???]

Page Smith, “How the Other Side Lived” in Portrait of America, Vol. 2, p. 68. (working conditions during the Gilded Age)

“Mirror with a Memory: Photographic Evidence and the Urban Scene” in After the Fact, Chapter 9, pp. 210-233. (interpreting photographs as documentary evidence of the past)

William L. Riordon, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905) from An American Primer, p. 696. Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893) (excerpts)* Document Packet: Native Americans and the West (6 document excerpts)*

Discussion Topics:

1. The reasons the United States experienced significant economic development and growth between 1865 and 1900, including new technologies, reorganization and consolidation of business structures, transportation developments, government intervention and the efforts of individuals.

2. Justifications and criticisms of the extremes of wealth and poverty in the United States in the late 19 th

and early 20th centuries. The proposed solutions of critics, including those by Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Upton Sinclair and Eugene Debs.

3. How industrialization affected American industrial workers during the Gilded Age. The efforts of organized labor to improve the position of workers and the extent to which it was successful.

4. The social, economic, cultural and political factors that transformed the American city in the second half of the nineteenth century. The key changes urbanization brought to America, including the ways in which America was becoming a consumer and leisure society.

5. The factors that shaped the economic and social development of the trans-Mississippi West, including hardy individualism, the natural environment, market forces, the federal government, immigration and other cultures. The effect of this development on Native Americans. The myth of “the West.”

Content Outline:

16 INDUSTRIALIZATION AND LABOR Ch 17 A. Industrial growth and corporate consolidation: railroads, steel, oil, electricity, finance B. Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace C. Proponents and opponents of the new industrial order D. Labor and unions

17 URBAN SOCIETY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY Ch 18 A. Urbanization and the lure of the city B. Immigration C. City problems and machine politics D. Reforms: Social legislation, settlement houses, reforms in government E. Intellectual and cultural movements F. Popular culture

18 DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY Ch 16 A. Conflict of Cultures: race and ethnicity in the far West B. Expansion and development of western railroads C. Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers and homesteaders D. Government policy toward American Indians E. Environmental impacts of western settlement

F. Myths and realities of the West


Video Clip: “Ellis Island” from New York: A Documentary History

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Video Clip: “How the Other Half Lives” from New York: A Documentary History Class debate: Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? Writing Activity: Supporting Your Thesis [Henry 9 (126-127)] In-class essay (potential topics: causes and effects of industrialization, impact of organized labor,

development of the West) Unit Test

SEVEN | GILDED AGE POLITICS AND EXPANSION

Readings: Brinkley, Chapters 19, 20 & part of Ch. 22 (pp. 613-619) People’s Party Platform [Omaha Platform] (1892) Document Packet: Populism [Braithwaite – or 1983 DBQ] William Jennings Bryan, excerpts from the “Cross of Gold” Speech (1896) James MacGregor Burns, “The Populist Protest” in Portrait of America, 7 th ed .,Vol. 2, pp. 94 David R. Kohler and James. W. Wensyl, “America’s First Southeast Asian War: The Philippine

Insurrection” in Portrait of America, 8th ed.,Vol. 2, pp. 99-112 “Robber Barons and Rebels” (Chapter 11) from Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States

(2003 ed.), pp. 187-213. or “The Empire and the People” (Chapter 12), pp. 219-232.

Discussion Topics:

1. Why the federal government accomplished little during the Gilded Age, despite the high rate of participation in national politics. The important legislation of the period and its significance.

2. Why agrarian discontent, including the Populist Movement, emerged in the late nineteenth century and the impact of Populism.

3. The reasons for late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism and its relation to past expansionism. The causes and results of the Spanish-American War, including the debate over U.S. imperialism.

Content Outline:

19 NATIONAL POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE, 1877-1896 Ch 19 A. Issues: Tariffs, railroad regulation, trusts, monetary policy B. Agrarian discontent C. Crisis of 1890s: Populism, the silver question and the election of 1896

20 IMPERIAL REPUBLIC: FOREIGN POLICY, 1865-1914 Ch 20 A. American imperialism: political and economic expansion & Ch 22

1. Seward and the purchase of Alaska (613-619 only)

2. The new imperialism: missionaries, politicians, and naval expansionists 3. Spanish-American War and aftermath (Cuban independence, Philippines) 4. The Far East: John Hay and the Open Door

B. Theodore Roosevelt (Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary) C. Taft and dollar diplomacy; Wilson and moral diplomacy


Writing Activity: Using Cartoons & Documents together [Henry 9 (128-129)] Writing Activity: Supporting Your Thesis [Henry 9 (126-127)] Unit Test, including in-class essay. (potential topics: Populism, causes of expansionism)

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UNIT EIGHT | PROGRESSIVISM & THE GREAT WAR

Readings: Brinkley, Chapters 21, part of Ch. 22 (pp. 600-613) and Ch. 23 Theodore Roosevelt, First Message to Congress (1901)*, Inaugural Address (1905)* Excerpt from Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)* ”USDA Government Inspected: The Jungle of Political History” in After the Fact, Ch. 10, pp. 234-261. Sean Dennis Cashman, “African Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights” in Portrait of America, 8th

ed.,Vol. 2, pp. 128-142. (W.E.B DuBois, Booker T. Washington, NAACP, Great Migration) Document Packet: U.S. Involvement in WWI (18 short docs on joining the war, effects on society and the

debate over the Treaty of Versailles) Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points (1918)* Thomas A. Bailey, “Woodrow Wilson Wouldn’t Yield” in Portrait of America, 8th ed.,Vol. 2, pp. 156-

164. (The battle over the Treaty of Versailles)

Discussion Topics:

1. The origins, nature and reform efforts of progressivism. How successful were progressive reforms in the period 1890-1920?

2. The changing roles of women in the intellectual, social, economic and political spheres from 1848 to 1920. The activities of women which helped to bring about change.

3. The differing strategies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.

4. Why the United States entered the First World War. The impact of the war on American society, including the effects on women, African Americans and civil liberties.

5. Why the United States rejected the Treaty of Versailles ending the First World War, even though President Wilson helped to negotiate the Treaty. The extent to which the U.S. achieved the objectives that led it to enter World War I.

Content Outline:

21 PROGRESSIVISM, 1890-1920 Chs 21 & 22 (600-613) A. Origins of Progressive reform: Progressive attitudes and motives, muckrakers, social Gospel B. Municipal and state reforms C. Socialism; alternatives D. National Reform: Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson as Progressive presidents E. Women’s role: family, workplace, education, politics/suffrage, and reform F. African Americans and the struggle for civil rights (B.T. Washington, W.E.B DuBois)

22 AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1919 Ch 23 A. War in Europe and Problems of neutrality: Submarines, economic, psychological & ethnic ties B. The First World War at home and abroad

1. Fighting the war 2. Financing the war, War boards 3. Impact on society; Propaganda, public opinion, civil liberties

C. Treaty of Versailles: Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the ratification fight D. Society and economy in the postwar years (Red scare, labor strife)


Class Activity: You be the judge – Civil Liberties during the First World War Writing Activity: Answering all parts of an Essay [Henry 10 (140-141)] Writing Activity: Arranging Sources into Categories [Henry 10 (142-146)] Writing Skill Activity: Writing an Introductory Paragraph (Thesis 3) [Henry 11 (154-155)]

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In-class essay – DBQ (potential topics: Impact of Progressivism; Causes and impact of the Great War, Treaty of Versailles)

Unit Test

UNIT NINE | PROSPERITY & DEPRESSION

Readings: Brinkley, Chapters 24, 25 & 26 Document Packet: Culture and Conflict in the 20s (24 short documents and excerpts)* [Pojer] Herbert Hoover, “Rugged Individualism” (1928) “Dust Bowl Odyssey” in After the Fact, Chapter 12, pp. 289-315 T.H. Watkins, “Under Hoover, the Shame and Misery Deepened” in Portrait of America, 8th ed.,Vol. 2,

pp. 194-207. or Alonzo L. Hamby, “FDR and the New Deal: The Foundation of a New Political Tradition” in Portrait

of America, 6th ed.,Vol. 2, pp. 211-231.

Discussion Topics:

1. The causes of 1920s tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and traditional values and ways in which the tension was manifested.

2. The causes of the Great Depression.

3. How the Great Depression altered the American social fabric in the 1930s.

4. How the programs of the New Deal changed the roles of the federal government and fashioned a more stable economy and a more equitable society. How successful was the New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression? How did the New Deal transform the role of the federal government in the economy and society?

5. How and why the size, character, and effectiveness of the organized labor movement changed significantly by 1945.

Content Outline:

23 THE NEW ERA: THE 1920s A. Business prosperity and the consumer economy; farm and labor problems B. Culture of modernism: science, arts, entertainment C. Culture clash: fundamentalism, Prohibition, Nativism; Ku Klux Klan D. Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover E. African Americans; Harlem Renaissance

24 THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL, 1929-1939A. Causes of the Great DepressionB. Surviving Hard Times: American society during the DepressionC. The Hoover Administration’s responseD. The New Deal:

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Background, philosophy2. Hundred Days; "alphabet agencies"3. New Deal coalition4. Critics, left and right5. “Second” New Deal

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6. Assessment: Limits and LegaciesE. Labor: union recognition, rise of CIO; labor strikes


Group Activity: Analyzing 1920s culture and society through the lens of print advertisements Writing Skill Activity: Concession Paragraph from Documents [Henry 11 (156-158)] Writing Skill: Organizing a DBQ [adapt Henry 12 (169-172)] [alt: next unit] Individual Projects and Presentations: Analysis of a New Deal alphabet agency (product published on

class wiki) In-class essay – DBQ (potential topics: culture in the 1920s, impact of the New Deal) Unit Test

UNIT TEN | WORLD WAR & COLD WAR

Readings: Brinkley, Chapters 27, 28, 29 & part of Ch. 30 (pp. 824-829) Robert James Maddox, “The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan” in

Portrait of America, 8th ed.,Vol. 2, pp. 272-283. *Knebel and Bailey, “Hiroshima: the Victims” in Portrait of America, 8th ed.,Vol. 2, pp. 284-300. David McCullough, “Harry Truman” in Portrait of America, 8th ed.,Vol. 2, pp. 302-317 *Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., “Some Lessons from the Cold War” in Portrait of America, 8th ed.,Vol. 2,

pp. 415-423. The Decision to Drop the Bomb: The Uses of Models in History After the Fact, Chapter 13, pp. 317-

345. Yuri Tateishi, “Evacuation to Manzanar” (1942) in Eyewitness to America, pp. 406-408. (Personal

account of the Japanese internment) Official Senate Hearing Transcripts, April 23-June 17, 1947, McCarthy Meets His Match in Joseph

Welch, in Eyewitness to America, pp. 451-454.

Discussion Topics:

1. The extent to which U.S. foreign policy was characterized by isolationism during the 1920s and 1930s.

2. The social, economic and political effects of the Second World War on the United States, including the effects on women, African Americans, Japanese-Americans, corporations and demographics.

3. Why the United States decided to use atomic bombs against Japan.

4. Why relations between the United States and the Soviet Union devolved into a Cold War after the Second World War.

5. The successes and failures of the United States Cold War policy of containment during the period 1945-1960.

6. The impact of the Cold War on U.S. society and culture.

Content Outline:

25 GLOBAL CRISES: DIPLOMACY IN THE 1920s AND 1930s Ch 27 A. Myth of isolation in the 20s: Replacing the League of Nations, business and diplomacy B. Rise of Fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy and Germany C. Policy of neutrality: isolationism; prelude to war D. Attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. declaration of war

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26 THE SECOND WORLD WAR Ch 28 A. Wartime mobilization of the economy B. Impact on society, economy, politics C. Fighting a multi-front war: Europe/Africa, Pacific D. The United States as a global power in the Atomic Age

27 THE EARLY COLD WAR Ch 29 A. Origins of the Cold War: War aims and Postwar Diplomacy & Ch 30 B. Truman and containment in Europe ( - ) C. The Cold War in Asia: China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan

D. The Red Scare and McCarthyism E. Diplomatic strategies and policies of the Eisenhower Administration

F. Impact of the Cold War on American society


Writing Skill: Writing a Conclusion [Henry 12 (167-168)] Writing Skill: Organizing a DBQ [adapt Henry 12 (169-172)] [alt: previous unit] In-class essay (potential topics: interwar diplomacy, effect of the Second World War on society and

culture, causes of the Cold War) Unit Test

UNIT ELEVEN | AFFLUENCE & CHALLENGE

Readings: Brinkley, Part of Chapter 30 (pp. 798-824), all of Chapters 31 and 32 Document Packet: “America in the 1950s” (30 short excerpts) Stephen Ambrose, “The Ike Age” in Portrait of America, 6th ed., Vol. 2, pp. 306-316. (newer positive

view Ike; process of historical interpretation) *“From Rosie to Lucy: the Mass Media and Images of Women in the 1950s” in After the Fact, Chapter

14, pp. 346-373. Document Packet: The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s Document Packet: The 1960s Counterculture

Themes:1. The extent to which the decade of the 1950s deserved its reputation as an age of political, social, and

cultural conformity. Why many saw “conformity” as desirable and others (youth, civil rights activists, intellectuals) criticized American society.

2. How and why there was more concern for African American civil rights during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. The changes that occurred during the 1960s in the goals, strategies, and support of the movement for African American civil rights.

3. The origins, goals, and social and political legacy of the Great Society. The ways in which the Great Society resembled the New Deal.

4. How the year 1968 was a turning point for the United States in terms of national politics, civil rights and foreign policy.

5. How, why, and to what extent the movements for civil rights and social transformations in the 1960s and early 1970s (women’s movement, Latinos, Native Americans, antiwar movement, education, music, environmental movement) transformed American society.

Topics:

28 AGE OF AFFLUENCE: 1950s

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A. The affluent society and “the other America” B. Consensus and conformity: suburbia and middle-class America C. Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels D. Emergence of the modern civil rights movement E. Impact of changes in science, technology and medicine

29 1960s A. From the New Frontier to the Great Society

B. Expanding Movement for civil rights C Cold War confrontations: JFK & LBJ’s diplomatic strategies and policies 1. Cuba: Bay of Pigs, missile crisis 2. Vietnam quagmire

D. “Traumas of 1968”; Election of 1968 and the Silent Majority

30 “CRISIS OF AUTHORITY”A. The antiwar movement and the Counterculture

B. Women: Resurgence of feminism; Roe v. Wade C. Environmentalism D. Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy: Vietnam, China, détente E. The Troubled Economy: energy crisis, deindustrialization, service economy F. Watergate


Activity: Document shuffle using “America in the 50s” document packet to analyze society in the 1950s

Video: “A Time for Justice” (Civil Rights Movement) In-class essay: Final DBQ (potential topics: conformity in the 50s, civil rights movement, Vietnam

War) Unit Test

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UNIT TWELVE | RECENT TIMES & REVIEW

Readings: Brinkley, Chapters 33 and Part of Ch. 34 (pp. 920-926)

Themes:1. The origins, nature and impact of the “Conservative Revolution” of the 1970s and 1980s.

Topics:

31 POLITICS & ECONOMICS AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY

892-915 (Ch 33) & 920-926 (pt Ch 34)

A. Carter 1. Deregulation 2. Energy and inflation 3. Camp David accords 4. Iranian hostage crisis B. The New Right and the Conservative Revolution 1. Rise of the New Right and the conservative social agenda 2. Reagan: Tax cuts and budget deficits, defense buildup, new disarmament treaties 3. Foreign crises: the Persian Gulf and Central America

C. End of the Cold War D. Clinton, George H.W. Bush (Ch 34)

32 AMERICA ENTERS THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 926-950 (pt Ch 34)A. Changing Society: surge of immigration after 1965, Sunbelt migration,

graying of AmericaB. Culture Wars; Resurgent fundamentalism?C. Revolutions in Science and Technology: biotechnology, mass

communications, computersD. Economic Boom, Globalization and the American economyE. Rise of TerrorismF. Environmental issues in a global context

33 REVIEW FOR APUSH EXAM (possibly before Topic 32)


Chapter reading quizzes Individual Final Review Project: Analysis and Presentation of a FRQ or DBQ from a prior AP Exam.

Work product posted on wiki connected to the class web page.

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