AP US History

This course is designed to provide a college­level experience and preparation for the AP Exam in May 2008.  Students must be able to interpret documents, master significant body of factual information, understand historical chronology, use data to support an argument or position, and differentiate between historiographical schools of thought. They must also write critical essays using the analytical skill of evaluation, cause and effect, and compare and contrast..  This course is a survey in American History from the age of exploration and discovery to the present.  

Course Texts and Readings:

Primary text:David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American Pageant. 12th 

ed. Boston, Mass. Houghton Mifflin, 2002).

David M. Kennedy and Thomas A. Bailey.  They American Spirit:  (Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 2002).

Robert A. Divine, America:  Past and Present:  (New York: Longman, 2006).

Davidson and Lytle, After the Fact:  The Art of Historical Detection ( New York: McGraw­Hill, 1982).

Roberts and Olson.  American Experiences:  Readings in American History:  (New York: Harpers Collins, 1994).

Nash and Graves. From these Beginnings:  A Biographical Approach to American  History:  (New York:  Harpers Collins, 1991).

Gorn, Roberts and Bilhartz.  Constructing the American Past:  A Source Book of People’s History:  (New York:  Harpers Collins, 1991).

Various Articles, Primary Documents and Handouts

Grades

Students grades will be assessed based on the following:A nightly reading assignments. B. quizzes (These may be announced or unannounced)C. essays and DBQ's (Document Based Questions)D. tests (multiple choice and essay)E. Document analysis F. in class reading AssignmentsG. a mid term and final each semesterH. Research project

Students will be required to read the text book on a nightly basis. Reading assignments are broken down into about 10 to 15 pages a night. Students will be periodically assessed on reading assignment through daily journal writings and quizzes. Students will write about 5-7 essays a semester. Some of these will be Document based Essays. Students will test every 3-5 chapters. They will be essay tests. Students will have various outside readings and documents that they will have to read and analyze. During class lectures and discussions various documents and outside readings will be used as well. During class discussions and lectures students will be presented with historiography and changing interpretations. Different historical perspectives will be discussed. Students will also read documents and reading from different schools. They will be asked to find factual information to support each side. At the end of each 9 weeks students will be given a multiple choice test covering the material presented in the 9 weeks. Three to four weeks prior to the AP exam students will begin reviewing for the AP exam. They will take several multiple choice exams as well as write several essays. After the AP exam the students will be required to complete a research project on a topic is American History.

Course Outline

Week 1 Introduction Read chp 1 Practice essay

American Pageant  pre­testChp 1­ Discovery of the New WorldSR­ "Myths That Hide the American Indians"

Week 2 Chp 2 and 3 Settlement of the New Read chp 2and 3 World/ American and Brittish EmpireAmerican Pageant SR­ "The Witches of Salem Village"

Week 3 Chapters 4 and 5Read chp 3 and 4American Pageant

How to write a DBQ/Compare and Contrast the New England and Chesapeake ColoniesTest chapters 1­5­ Essay test

Week 4 Chp 6 and Chp 7 ­ Road to Revolution and Read chp 5 and 6 American RevolutionAmerican Pageant SR­ "Women in the American Revolution"

SR­" Points of View"SR­ "Declaring Independence"Boston Massacre Paper­Using Primary Documents to seewhat really happened. 

Week 5 Chp 9 ConstitutionRead chp 9 SR­ "The Most Successful Revolution"American Pageant SR­ "The Constitution: Was it an Economic 

Document"

Week 6 Chapter 10 and 11­ New Republic/Age of JeffersonRead chp10 and 11 SR­"Alexander Hamilton: The Founding Wizard"American Pageant

Week 7 Chp 12 and 13 Nationalism and Econ. Expansion/Read chp 12 and 13 Age of JacksonAmerican Pageant SR­ "Biography on Jackson"

SR­"Man of Iron"

Week 8 Chp 13 cont,Read chp 13 DBQ on JacksonAmerican Pageant Test on chp 6­13­ Essay Test

Week 9 Mid term exam chapters 1­13

Week 10 Chapters 14, 15 and 16­ Creating an American Culture/Read chp 14, 15 and 16 Sectional CrisesAmerican Pageant SR­"The Cult of True Womanhood:1820­1860"

Week 11  Territoral Expansion Chapter 17 Read chp 17 Essay­ Manifest DestinyAmerican Pageant

Week 12 Testing Chapters 14­17­ Essay test

Week 13 Chapters 18 and 19 Read chp 18 and 19 Sectionalism and 1850's "A Decade of Crises"American Pageant SR­ "The Slave Warehouse"

SR­ "A View From the Bottom Rail"SR­" The Southhampton Slave Revolt"

Week 14 Chp 19Essay­ Slavery

Week 15 Chapters 20 and 21Civil War Read chp 20 and 21 SR­ "Johnny Reb and Billy Yank"American Pageant SR­"A War that Never Goes Away"

  Week 16  Chapter 22 Reconstruction Project

Read chp 22 and 23American Pageant

DBQ on Reconstruction

Week 17 Testing Chapters 18­22

Semester Review

Week 18  Semester Tests­ Chapters 1­22End of 3rd 6 weeksEnd of 1st Semester2nd Semester

Week 1 Chapter 24 Industrialization, and Read chp 24 Corporate ConsolidationAmerican Pageant Essay­ TransportationWeek 2 Chp 26 The WestRead chp 26 DBQ­ The WestAmerican Pageant

Week 3 Chp 23 and  25 Urban Society, National Politics 1877­Read chp 23 AND 25 1896  The Guilded AgeAmerican Pageant SR­The Wizard of Oz

SR­" Two Views of Intergration"

Week 4 Chp 25, 27 and 28 Foreign Policy 1865­1914 and READ CHP 25, 27 AND 28 Intellectual and Cultural movementsAmerican Pageant DBQ­ Expansionism

Week 5 Chp 29 and 30 ProgressivismRead chp 29/30 SR­Shirtwaist FireAmerican Pageant SR­The Jungle

Week 6 Testing Chapters 23­30Essay test

Week7 Chapters 31 and 32 WWI and 1920'sRead chp 31 and 32 SR­ The Revolution in Manners and MoralsAmerican Pageant Essay on WWI

Week 8 Chapters 33 and 34 Depression/ New Deal Read chp 33 and 34 SR­The Sad IronsAmerican Pageant

Week 9 Chapter 35  and 36 World War II  Read chp 35 and 36 DBQ­ The BombAmerican Pageant

Week 10 Testing­ Chapters 31­36 Essay TestMid term­ multiple choice test chp 23­36 

Week 11 Chapters 37 and 38 Truman and ColdWar/ EisenhowerRead chp 37 and 38 DBQ­ Eisenhower

American Pageant Spring Break

Week 12 Chapters 39and 40Kennedy, LBJ and NixonRead chp 39 and 40 DBQ­ The 60'sAmerican Pageant

Week 13 Testing Chapter 37­41­ Essay Test

Week 14 AP ReviewSample Ap Multiple choice test

Week 15 AP Test ReviewTerm test, thesis statements, discussion questions, essays 

Week 16 AP Test Review  Term test, thesis statements, discussion questions, essays

Week 17 AP Test Review and testing

Week 18 Chapters 41 and 42 Reagan, Bush and ClintonRead chp 41 and 42American Pageant

Research projects

Week 19 Semester ReviewSemester Tests 

Week 20 Semester Tests

The students will be given the following note sheets to use during class lectures and discussions.

Lecture outline for Chapters 1­6SumlerAP US History

I.   Discovery and Settlement of the New World, 1492­1650(Hand out timeline)

Themes- The emergence of American cultural traits and the

factors that contributed to them- Emerging regional patterns and how they evolved

A.  Europe in the Sixteenth century

England v. Spain

Protestant Reformation­1517   

Martin Luther

John Calvin­ Predestination

Huguenots, Presbyterians, Puritans

Henry XIII

The Church of England

EdwardMary­ Bloody Mary 

Elizabeth­ The “Virgin Queen”

Spanish Armada

B. Spanish, English, and French exploration

Students will look at maps and graphs of Spanish, French and English settlement 

Spanish

Ferdinand and IsabellaColumbus

Spanish conquistadors

France

England

Roanoke

Sir Walter Raleigh

Reasons people came to the new world

C.  First English Settlements

Jamestown

Joint Stock Company­ the London Company

Early problems

John Smith

Plymouth

Mayflower Compact

Pilgrims

William Bradford

D.  Spanish and French settlements and long­term influence

E.  American Indians

Where did they come from?

Why were they over so easily?

II.  America and British Empire

Question to be discussed:­ Was British North America settled more by for economics or religion?­ Compare and Contrast the New England and Chesapeake regions.  ( Use Documents from DBQ during discussion)­ What were the Puritans trying to accomplish?

Student will look at maps and graphs showing immigration patterns, economics and geography of the Chesapeake, New England and Mid Atlantic regions.  

Fill out chart on  geography, economics, religion and Politics and gov’t of the New England, Southern and Middle colonies.

A.  Chesapeake country­ Virginia and Maryland

Virginia

Cash crop­ tobacco

Rank and status

Plantation farmers

Indentured servants

Demographics

Mortality rate

EducationWilliam and Mary

House of Burgess

Maryland

George Calvert­Lord Baltimore

Reason for settlement

Feudal State

Act Concerning Religion

B.  Growth of New EnglandMassachusetts Bay colonyPuritans­Congregationalism 

Half way covenant

John Winthrop

Massachusetts Bay charter

Great Migration 

Demographics

Mortality rates 

Towns

EducationPublic educationNew England PrimerDay of Doom­ Michael Wiggleworth

Harvard

Women

Rank and Status

 DissentersRoger Williams

Anne Hutchinson­ Antinomianism

New colonies formed form Mass. BayNew HampshireConnecticutRhode Island

Restoration colonies

Middle coloniesNew York

Dutch­Henry Hudson

New Jersey

Pennsylvania­ William Penn

Quakers

Holy experiment

Delaware 

Carolinas

Fundamental Constitution of Carlolina

Barbados­ slaves

Rice

Georgia

James Oglethorpe

D. Mercantilism

Adam Smith

Navigation Acts­ 1660’s

Navigation Act of 1663

Navigation Act of 1673­ Plantation Duty

Edward Randolph

1696­ Vice Admiralty courts

Board of Trade

Political unrest

Bacon’s Rebellion

Rebellion in MassKing Phillip’s War

Dominion of New EnglandGov. Edmond Andros

Glorious Revolution

Salem Witch Trials

Rebellions in New York and Maryland

Jacob Leisler

John Coode

E.  Origins of Slavery

Slave trade­ West Africa

Indentured Servants

Slave culture

Middle passage

Slave revolts­ Stono uprising

III. Colonial Society in the Mid­ Eighteenth CenturyThemes

- Colonists reevaluate their relationship with Great Britain and with each other.

- The American Revolution as a conservative or a radical movement

- The American Revolution’s place in world development of the time period

Questions to be discussed:How did the British policy of Salutary neglect influence the development of American Society?

A.  Social StructureFamilies

Farm and town life: the economy

North

South

Puritan communities

B.  CulturesGreat Awakening

Jonathan Edwards

George Whitefield

New Lights

Outcomes

The American Mind

The Enlightenment

Ben Franklin

“Folkways”

C.  New Immigration

Scotch­ Irish

Paxton BoysGermans

IV.  Road to Revolution

A.. Anglo­ French rivalries and the Seven Year’s war

Questions discussed:How did the French and Indian War cause the American Revolution?Evaluate the following as factors prompting the Americans to Rebel?Parliamentary taxation                           British Military measuresRestrictions of civil liberties                  the legacy of colonial religious and political ideas

French and Indian War

Albany Congress­ Ben Franklin( look at Ben Franklin’s famous Join or Die cartoon)

George Washington

William Pit

Amherst and Wolfe

America’s reaction

England reaction

Impact of the French and Indian War

Questions discussed: Who was to blame for the American Revolution?Was the American Revolution really a revolution?

A.   Anglo­French rivalries and Seven Year’s War

Imperial reorganization of 1763

King George III

English Parliament

George Greenville

1. Stamp Act

Stamp Act CongressRead Franklins testimony about the Stamp Act­ Spirit Book

Sons of Liberty

2. Declaratory Act

Quartering Act

3. Townshend Acts

Boston Massacre

Gaspee

Committee of Correspondence

4. Boston Tea Party

Tea Act 

East India Tea Company

Coercive Acts­ Intolerable Acts1.

2.

3.

4.

Quebec Act

Philosophy of the American Revolution

Great Awakening

John Locke and the Commonwealth men

Colonial Newspapers 

No taxation without representation

Read Points of View­ How radical was the American Revolution?Forest Mc Donald/ Gordon S. Wood

The American Revolution 1775­1783

A. Continental Congress

Halt commerce

 Shots heard around the World­ Lexington/ Concord

Battle of Bunker Hill

The 2nd Continental Congress

George Washington

Prohibitory Act

German mercenaries

 Thomas Paine/ Common Sense

B. Declaration of Independence

C. The War

Advantages and Disadvantages

New York

Trenton/Princeton

Saratoga

Yorktown

1. The French Alliance

2 War and society: Loyalists

3.  War economy

D. Articles of ConfederationQuestion Discussed:How effective were the Article of ConfederationHow did the Constitution correct the flaws of the Articles?Why were the Bill of Rights added? To protect liberties or fear of the new federal government? Students will read the Article of Confederation, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

 Republic

Problems with ratification

Strengths

Cabinet

Land Ordinance of 1784 and 85

Northwest Ordinance

 Weaknesses

Economic problems

Foreign Problems

E. Peace of Paris

F. Creating state governments

Political organization­ State constitutions 

   Political reforms

Social reforms:

Women

Read Article “ Women and the American Revolution”

Slavery

Constitution and New Republic 1776Themes- Impact of colonial experience on post-independence government- Development of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights- The emergence of political parties and the factors that divided them- the development of sectional specialization and interdependence- The conflict between national power and states’ rights

Shay’s Rebellion

Newburgh conspiracy

Diplomatic humiliation

Philadelphia Convention:  drafting the ConstitutionWHY??Read the Constitution

James Madison

2 plans­ Virginia and New Jersey

Great Compromise

Separation of Powers­ Checks and balances Three branches of government1.23

Slavery3/5 compromise

Electing a president­ Electoral College

Federalists versus Anti­Federalists

Federalist Papers­ Read Federalist Paper number 10 

­ Document Letters from the Federal Farmer

Chapters 10­15The New Republic 

The Bill of Rights­

Washington’s presidency

Judiciary Act of 1789

Hamilton’s financial program

3 Plans

1.

2.  

3.

Foreign and domestic difficulties

 

French Revolution

Neutrality Proclamation­ Read

Jay’s Treaty

Pinckney Treaty

Beginnings of political partiesWhiskey Rebellion ( Students will Read 

Farewell address­ Read

Federalists and Democrat Republicans ­ Compare and Contrast         Make Chart:Federalists                                                                                          Democrat Republicans

John Adams’ presidency

Election of 1796

Alien and Sedition Acts

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

XYZ affair

Election of 1800

“midnight judges”

The Age of Jefferson

Themes:- The peaceful transfer of power from one party to

another

- Changes in Party position- National growth and the growth of nationalism

Jefferson’s presidency

Louisiana Purchase

Burr Conspiracy

Students will discuss and debate the role the Federalist judges made in the foundation of the US.

The Supreme Court under John MarshallMarbury v. Madison

Judicial Review

McCulloch V. Maryland

Gibbons V. Ogden

Fletcher V. Peak

Dartmouth College v. Woodward

Neutral rights 

Impressments  Chesapeake incident

Embargo

Madison

Non –Intercourse Act 

Macon’s Bill #2

War of 1812Causes

Invasion of Canada

Hartford Convention

Conduct of the War

Treaty of Ghent

New OrleansAndrew Jackson

Nationalism and Economic ExpansionJames Monroe:  Era of Good Feelings

Panic of 1819

Settlement of the West

Missouri Compromise( look at Map)

Tallmadge Amendment

Foreign affairs:   Canada

                            Florida

                           Monroe Doctrine

Election of 1824;   End of the Virginia DynastyCorrupt Bargin

Economic revolution

1.  Early railroads and canalsFulton 

Erie Canal

2.  Expansion of business

             Beginning of factory system

Boston Associates

Samuel Slater

              Early Labor movements: women( documents on women working in textile factories)

Commonwealth v. Hunt

              Social mobility:  extremes of wealth

3.  The cotton revolution in the South

Eli Whitney and the cotton gin

    

4.  Commercial agriculture

Cyrus McCormick

The Age of Jackson­ 

Themes- The emergence of the second American party system- The emergence of the “Common Man” in American politics- Geographical and economic expansion- Reform movements and the American character

Student will look at various document on the Jackson Era and debate if the Jacksonians were all the claimed to be.

Democracy of the “Common man”

Expansion of suffrage

Rotation in Office

“Spoils System”

Second Party SystemDemocratic Party

Whig Party­ Webster/Clay

Internal improvements and states’ rights

The Maysville Road veto

The Nullification Crisis

The Tariff issueTariff of Abominations 

South Carolina Exposition(Read documents dealing with Nullification)

The Union:  Calhoun and Jackson

Jefferson Day Dinner  

Compromise of 1833 

The Bank War:  Jackson and Biddle

Specie Circular

Martin Van Buran

Independent treasury system

Panic of 1837

Creating an American CultureStudents will look at this time period by answering the following essay question in groups:

“American reform movements between 1820 and 1860 reflected both optimistic and pessimistic views of human nature and society.”  Assess the validity of the statement in reference to the following areas:  education, abolitionist, women, social vices, utopian societies, institutions and religion.

Cultural nationalismNativism

Germans and IrishStudents will read accounts from German and Irish immigrants describing life for them in the early 1800s.

Education reform/ professionalism

Horace Mann 

Noah Webster

Religion;  revivalism     Charles Finney

2nd Great Awakening

Students will look a various documents written by 2nd Great Awakening preachers.

Utopian experiments

MormansJoseph Smith and Brigham Young

Oneida Community

John Humphrey Noyes

Transcendentalists ­  Brooke FarmHawthorne, Fuller

National Literature­ Melville, Whitman, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott

Art­Hudson River School

Architecture

Reform crusades

Feminism;  roles of women in the nineteenth century

Declaration of Sentiments

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott

Abolitionism

TemperanceMaine Law

Criminals and the insaneDorthea Dix

Sectionalism

Themes- Sectionalism- Slavery and the causes of the civil war

A. The South1. Cotton Kingdom

Short staple cotton

2. Southern trade and industryVirginia and Maryland

3. Southern society and culture

Students are divided up into groups representing different southern perspectives and argue for or against slavery, state rights, tariffs etc.After discussion the students will write the following essay:Analyze the ways in which supporters of slavery in the nineteenth century used legal, religious, and economic arguments to defend the institution of slavery.

a. Graduations of white societyPlanters­

Common Whites

b. Nature of slavery:  “peculiar institution”

c. The mind of the Southd. Black experience under slavery

1. Slave resistance Passive v. Active

2. Free blacks

3. Religion

4. Family

B. The North1. Northeast industry

a. Laborb. Immigrationc. Urban slums

2. North west agriculture

C.  Westward expansiona. Advance of agricultural frontierb. Significance of the frontier

c. Life on the frontier: squattersd. Removal of the American Indian

 Territorial Expansion and Sectional Crisis

Students will write the following essay:  ( either as a group or individually)

“Although Americans perceived Manifest Destiny as a benevolent movement, it was in fact  an aggressive imperialism pursued at expense of others.”  Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to American expansionism in the 1840’s.

A. Manifest Destiny and Mission

President John Tyler

Election of 1844­ James K Polk

B. Webster Ashburton Treaty

Texan Revolution and Texas annexation 

Oregon boundary

California

C. James K Polk and the Mexican War

D. Later expansionist effortsOstend Manifesto

The 1850’s :  Decade of Crisis

Themes

- Secession and war- Reconstruction issues and plans- The struggle for equality- Native American relations

A. Compromise of 1850

Wilmot Proviso

Free soil movement

Lewis Cass and Popular Sovereignty

President Taylor

The compromise­  Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas

B. Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom’s Cabin­  Students read a chapter of Uncle Tom’s Cabin­ The Slaves Warehouse

C. Kansas­ Nebraska Act and realignment of parties

a. Demise of the Whig Party

b. Emergence of the Republican Party

c. The Know Nothing Party

D. Dred Scott decision and the Lecompton Crisis

Dred Scott

Problems in Kansas (Bleeding Kansas)

Brooks Sumner Assault

Election of 1856

Lecompton Controversy

E. Lincoln Douglas debates, 1858Freeport doctrine

F. John Brown’s raid

Harpers Ferry

G. Hinton Helper’s Book

H. The election of 1860: Abraham Lincoln­ Students will look a Maps of the 1860 election 

I. Secession Crisis

Crittenden Compromise

Civil War and Reconstruction

The UnionMobilization and FinanceIncome taxMorrill Tariff ActGreenbacksNational banking systemEconomic boomConscription

Civil LibertiesMartial Law

Election of 1864LincolnMcClellan

copperheads

The SouthConfederate Constitution 

Mobilization and financePaper moneyTariff­ hurt by blockade

9,000% inflation rate

Conscription

States’ rights and the Confederacy

Foreign affairs and diplomacyEngland and France­ Slavery issue

Cotton

Trent affair

Alabama

Mexico

Military Campaigns, and Battles

Civil War

1861­ April Ft. SumterUnion Army Head­ Winfield Scott

US Anaconda Policy­ Richmond, the west, blockade

July 1861­ Battle of Bull Run I/ ManassasU­ Mc Dowell (head of Army of the Potomac) S­SW Jackson            South wins

Lincoln replaces McDowell and Scott Retires

General George McClellan takes over for both

McClellan­ very slow, spent fall and winter drilling troops

Meanwhile in the West – Gen. Grant captures Fort Henry and Fort Donelson (Feb 1862)­ causes confederates to with draw from Kentucky and middle Tennessee.

April 6, 1862­ Shiloh­ very bloody   W­ North

March 9, 1862­ Naval battle Merrimack v. Monitor   ­ Iron clad vessels

Lincoln will remove McClellan as Commander­ he moves forward.  Goes to Yorktown and then 20 miles from Richmond (waits) April 5­ May 4

SW Jackson on a rampage in the Shenandoah Valley­­­­ Lincoln withdraws some troops from McClellan to defend Washington from SW Jackson.McClellan should have still moved forward but did not.

Confederates hear that McClellan’s Army is Split.  They attack!Battle of Seven Pines­ May 31­ June 1 1862U­ McClellan   C­ Gen. Joseph E JohnstonJohnston killed – Robert E. Lee takes over         ­ South wins

Seven Day’s Battle­ June 25­ July 1st 1862 – Confederate victory­ LeeCauses McClellan to retreat from Richmond

Lincoln makes Henry Halleck commander of the Army­ July 11, 1862 McClellan told to withdraw and join Gen. Pope.  McClellan slow and confederates get to Pope first.Battle of Bull Run II. ­ August 1862U­ Pope   C­ Lee& SW Jackson          Win – SouthMcClellan reappointed Head of the Army

Lee Invades MarylandBattle of Antietam/ Sharpsburg­ September 1862 – Bloodiest one day battle of the war.U­ McClellan  C­ Lee      Winner­ North ­  some say a draw because Lee got away.

Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln puts Ambrose E. Burnside head of the Army.

December 1862 Fredericksburg­ Confederates win1st 2 years­ failures for the north on the Eastern coast.

Blockade beginning to work and Grant doing well in the west.

Chancellorsville   May 1­4, 1863U­ Gen. Joseph Hooker               C­ Lee              W­ SouthSW Jackson killed

July 4, 1863­ Vicksburg, Mississippi  (Siege)U­ Grant      W­ North­ secured control of the Mississippi river.

July 1­3, 1863 Gettysburg – Lee invaded NorthU­ Gen. George Meade         C­ Lee           W­ NorthLee retreated but Meade did not pursue

Union continued winning in the west at Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Lookout Mt., and Missionary Ridge.Lincoln makes Grant head of the Union ArmyWest now lead by William Tecumseh Sherman.

Lee and Grant have several battles­ Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor and Siege at Petersburg.

Sherman invading Georgia­ March to the Sea    July 1863­ March 1865Burning of Atlanta – September 1864

April 9th 1865 Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House

April 15th 1865­ Lincoln is assassinated.

The abolition of slaveryConfiscation Acts

Emancipation Proclamation

Freedmen’s Bureau

13th amendment

Effects of war on society

Inflation and public debt

Role of womenTook soldiers jobsNeeded more workers in textile industry

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

Clara BartonDevastation of the SouthMarch to the Sea

Changing Labor patterns

RECONSTRUCTION   1877­Students do a complete a graph on the social, economic and political gains made by African  Americans during and after reconstruction.  They look at 10­ 15 primary source documents.  After the graphing of the documents they write the following essay:

Presidential plans:   Lincoln and Johnson10% Plan

Radical Plans( Congress)Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens

Civil rights and the 14th amendment

Military reconstruction

Impeachment of JohnsonTenure of Office Act­ Edwin Stanton

African­American suffrage:  the 15th amendment

Southern state governments:  problems, achievements, weaknessesCarpet Baggers and Scalawags

Compromise of 1877 and the end of ReconstructionRutherford B Hayes­ Samuel Tilden

Politices in the New South

The redeemers

White and African Americans in the New SouthKKK

Subordination of the Freed Slaves:  Jim Crow

Southern economy: colonial status of the South

Sharecropping

Industrial stirrings

National Politics, 1877­1896: Gilded Age Gild­ to give an often deceptively attractive or improved appearance to gloss or gloss over.

Themes

- Political alignment and corruption in the Gilded Age- Role of government in economic growth and regulation- Social, economic, and political of industrialization

A. A conservative presidency

Issues:

1. Tariff controversy2. Railroad regulation3. Trusts4. Civil Service Reform5. standards

Grant

Hayes

Garfield

Arthur

Cleveland

Harrison

Mc Kinley

Agrarian Discontent

Populism­ Students read the “Parable of Populism” 

Silver Question

Election of 1896­ McKinley versus Bryan­Read “Cross of Gold Speech”

Industrialization and Corporate Consolidation

A. Industrial growth

Reasons for growth­ Students create a graphic organizer 

Railroads

Iron

Coal

Electricity

Steel

Oil 

Banks

Laissez­faire conservatism

Gospel of Wealth

Myth of “self­made  man”

Social Darwinism: survival of the fittest

Social critics and dissenters

Effects of technological development on worker/ workplace

Students will read several documents of working conditions in the late 1800sUnion movement

Knights of Labor

American Federation of Labor

Haymarket

Homestead

Pullman

Urban Society

Lure of the city

Immigration

City Problems(look a pictures taken by Jacob Riis)

­ Slums

­ Machine Politics(look a Thomas Nast’s Cartoons / exposing of Tweed)

Awakening conscience: reforms

­ social legislation

­ settlement houses

­­Jane Addams

­­Lillian Wald

­ structural reforms in government

Intellectual and Cultural Movements

Education­ colleges and universities

­ Scientific advances

Professionalism and the social sciences

Realism in literature and art

Mass culture

­ use of leisure

­ publishing and journalism

Settlement of the westStudents will compare and contrast Turner’s view on the settling on the west with modern historians.Frederick Jackson Turner 

Cattle Kingdom

­ open range ranching

­ day of  the cowboy

Building of the Western railroad

Subordination of the American Indians:  dispersal of tribesRead several documents from the Spirit book on the American Indians situation in the late 1800s

Farming on the Plains; problems in agriculture

Mining bonanza

Foreign Policy

Students will look a documents on expansion 

A. Seward and purchase of Alaska

B. The new imperialism1. Blaine and Latin America

2. International Darwinism:  missionaries, politicians, and naval expansionists­ look at documents by Strong and Mahan

3.  Spanish­American Wara. Cuban Independenceb. Debate on Philippines

C. The Far East:  John Hay and the Open Door­  look at cartoon “ American Diplomacy”

D. Theodore Roosevelt1. The Panama Canal­ Read several accounts on the role the Amercans( TR) 

played in the Panama Revolution.

2. Roosevelt Corollary­ Read document

3. Far East

E. Taft and Dollar Diplomacy

F. Wilson and Moral Diplomacy

Mexico

Progressive Era

Themes- Inflation/Deflation—Role of government in the economy- Role of effectiveness of third parties- Immigration and urbanization

A. Origins of Progressivism1. Progressive attitudes and motives

2. Muckrakers­ Read documents on the following 

Ida Tarbell

Thomas Nast

Upton Sinclair

3. Social Gospel

B. Municipal, state, and national reforms1. Political:  suffrage

Local

StateRobert La Follette

National

2. Social and economic:  regulation

C.  Socialism:   alternativesEugene Debs­ Read documents written by Debs

D.  Black AmericaCompare and Contrast the following African American leaders.  Read primary documents written by all 3 and compare and contrast their view on what African Americans needed to do to succeed.

1. Washington, Dubois, and Garvey

2. Urban migration

3. Civil rights organizations

E.  Women’s role: family, work, education, unionization, and suffrage

F.  Roosevelt’s Square Deal

1. managing the trusts

2. conservation

G. Taft

1. Pinchot­ Ballinger controversy

2. Payne­Aldrich tariff

H. Wilson’s New Freedom

1. Tariffs

2. banking reform

3. Antitrust Act of 1914

World War I, the 20’s, the Depression, the New Deal

Themes- The changing role of the US in world affairs—from

isolationism to world powers.- US motives in World War I and post war agreements- Presidential and congressional roles in policy

management.

World War IEssay question to be answered as individuals or as a group:

Assess the relative influence of the following in the American decision to declare war on Germany in 1917.  German naval policy, American economic interests, Woodrow Wilson’s idealism, Allied propaganda, America’s claim to world power. 

A. Problems of neutrality

1. SubmarinesUnrestricted Submarine warfare

Lusitania

Arabic

Sussex

2. Economic ties

Britain /France

3. Psychological and ethnic ties

B. Preparedness and pacifism

C. MobilizationUnrestricted Submarine Warfane

Zimmerman Telegram

Russian Revolution

1. Fighting the war

Selective Service Act

Navy

General Pershing

Trench warfare

New weapons

2. Financing the war

3. War boardsWar Industries Board­ Baruch

Food Administration­ Hoover

Fuel Administration­ Garfield

National War Labor Board­ Taft

4. Propaganda, pubic opinion, civil liberties

(look at posters)

The committee of public information­George Creel

Espionage and Sedation Act

D. Wilson’s Fourteen PointsRead 14 points

1. Treaty of VersaillesBig Four

2. Ratification fight

Henry Cabot Lodge

E. Postwar demobilization1. red scare

2. labor strife

New Era: The 1920’s

Themes

- Post-World War I compared to post-Civil War Nativism, laissez-faire, labor government, farmers, attitudes toward reform

- US pursuit of “advantages without responsibilities”- Administration policy of “nullification by

administration”- Cultural conflicts: native v. foreign: rural vs.

urban- Revolution in manners and morals

A. Republican governmentsHarding: Coolidge: Hoover 

1. Business creed

2. Harding Scandals

Ohio Gang

Teapot Dome

B. Economic development1. Prosperity and wealth

The “roaring twenties”

Stocks

Higher standard of living

Uneven distribution(look graphs and charts on economic conditions in the 1920s)

2. Farm and labor problems

C. New Culture

1. Consumerism: automobile, radio, moviesHenry Ford

2. women, the familyFlappers

3. Modern religion

4. literature of alienationHemingway

Fitzgerald

Lewis

5. Jazz ageArmstrong

6. Harlem Renaissance

D. Conflicts of cultures1. Prohibition, bootlegging

18th amendment

Speakeasies

Rise of the Mafia­ Capone

2. Nativism

 Emergency Quota Act

Immigration Act of 1924

Red ScarePalmer raids

Sacco and Vanzetti

3. Ku Klux Klan

4. Religious fundamentalism versus modernistsRural v Urban

Scopes Trial

E. Myth of isolation1. replacing the league of Nations

Washington Conference

Kellogg­Briand Pact

2. Business and diplomacy

Dawes Plan

Depression, 1929­1933

Themes- The role of government in society and the economy- Political realignment- Human suffering and response to the Great Depression

A. Wall Street CrashBlack Tuesday

B. Depression economyReasons fro the Depression

1.

2

3

4

5

C. Moods of despair

1. Agrarian unrest

Hoover2. Bonus March

D. Hoover­Stimson diplomacy: Japan

New Deal

A. Franklin D. Roosevelt

1. Background, ideas

2. Philosophy of New Deal

Relief, Recovery and Reform

B. 100 Days; “alphabet agencies”  Look at chart on page 7811933AAA

FDR closes banksGlass­Steagall Act and  FDIC

CCC

FERA

NRA

PWA

TVA

1934FCC

FHA

SEC

C. Second New Deal  Look at chart on page 784

1935Wagner Act

NYA

REA

WPA

Social Security

1937FSA

1938Fair  Labor Standards Act

D. Critics, left and rightStudents will read several documents on the critics from both the right and the left of the New Deal.

American Liberty League

Father Coughlin

Dr. Francis TownsendHuey Long

E. Rise of CIO; labor strikes

John Lewis

F. Supreme Court fight

 G. Recession of 1938

H. American people in the Depression1. Social values, women, ethnic groups

2. Indian Reorganization Act

3. Mexican American deportation

4. The racial issue

Diplomacy in the 1930’s

A. Good Neighbor Policy:  

Montevideo

Buenos Aires

B. London  Economic Conference

C. DisarmamentGeneva

D. IsolationismNeutrality Legislation

Tydings McDuffie Act

E. Aggressors  Look a maps of Europe and Asia 

Japan

China

Italy

Ethiopia

Germany

Rhineland

Austria

Czechoslovakia

Poland

F. Appeasement

G. Rearmament;

Blitzkrieg

Lend­Lease

H. Atlantic Charter

I. Pearl Harbor

The Second World War

Themes- Comparison of Wilson and Roosevelt as neutrals,

wartime leaders, Allied partners, post-war planners- US adopts new role as peacetime leader in post-war

world- Home front conduct during World War I and World War II

A. Organizing for War

1. Mobilizing for warSelective Service

OSRD

OPA

WPB

Rationing

WAAC

2. PropagandaEntertainment

3. Internment of Japanese Americans

Korematsu v. the United States

B. The war in Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean; D­Day(Use maps)

Stalingrad

End of Operation Torch

Battle of the Atlantic

D­Day

France

Aachen

Bulge

Italian Campaign

V­E day

C. The war in the Pacific; Hiroshima, NagasakiMidway

Douglas MacArthurIsland hopping­  Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa,

Manhattan project Students will write DBQ on Why Truman dropped the Bomb.

D. Diplomacy1. War aims

2. War­time conferences:  Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam

E. Postwar atmosphere:  the United Nations

Truman and the Cold War

A. Postwar domestic adjustments

B. The Taft­Hartley Act

C. Civil rights and the election of 1948

 Dixiecrats

Fair Deal

Students will analyze the events that took place between 1945­75 and the relationship that was created between the United States and the Soviet Union.

D. Containment in Europe and the Middle East

1. Truman Doctrine

2. Marshall Plan

3. Berlin crisis

4. NATO

NSC­68

F. Revolution in China

Mao Zedong

Chiang Kai­shek

G. Limited war:  Korea, MacArthur38th parallel

Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism

ThemesDomestic Policy- Continued impact of New Deal in government’s role in

society- Struggle for civil liberties and civil rights- Checks and balances at work in American politics

Foreign Policy—Eisenhower-Reagan- Cycles of freezes and thaws in East-West relations- The “Vietnam Syndrome” in post-war foreign policy- Human rights v. strategic self-interest in policy

formulation- Interrelationship of foreign policy and economic

stability

A. Domestic frustration:  McCarthyism

B. Civil Rights movement

Students will write DBQ on  Civil Rights in the 1950s and 1960s.

1. The Warren Court and Brown v. Board of Education

2. Montgomery bus boycott

3. Greensboro sit­in

C. John Foster Dulles’s foreign policy

1. Crisis in Southeast Asia

2. Massive retaliation

3. Nationalism in Southeast Asia, the middle East and Latin America

Indochina

Vietnam­Ho Chi Minh

SEATO

Suez Crisis

Eisenhower Doctrine

OPEC

4. Khrushchev and Berlin

D. American  People:  homogenized society

Students will debate if the 1950’s deserve their reputation as an era of conformity.­ They will research several historical perspectives.  Prosperity: economic consolidation

1. consumer culture

2. consensus of value

E. Space RaceSputnik

Kennedy’s New Frontier: Johnson’s Great Society

A. New domestic programs

1. Tax cut

2. War on poverty

3. Affirmative Action

B. Civil rights and civil liberties1. African Americans:  political, cultural, and economic roles

2. The leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr

3. Resurgence of Feminism

4. The New Left and the Counterculture

5. Emergence of the Republican Party

6. The Supreme Court and the Miranda decision

C. Foreign Policy

1. Bay of Pigs

2. Cuban Missile crisis

3. Vietnam quagmire

Students will look at many Vietnam documents: songs, cartoons, personal accounts ect.

NixonA. Election of 1968

B. Nixon­Kissinger foreign policy

1. Vietnam:  escalation and pullout

2. China:  restoring relations

3. Soviet Union:  détente

C. New Federalism

D. Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade

E. Watergate crisis and resignationWatch CBS news footage of the Watergate scandal form beginning to end

The United States since 1974A. The New Right and the conservative social agenda

B. Ford and Rockefeller

C. Carter

1. Deregulation

2. Energy and inflation

3. Camp David accords

4. Iranian hostage crisis

D. Reagan

1. Tax cuts and budget deficits

2. Defense buildup

3. New disarmament treaties

4. Foreign crises: the Persian Gulf and Central America

E. Society1. Old and new urban problems

2. Asian and Hispanic immigrants

3. Resurgent fundamentalism

4. African Americans and local, state, and national politics