1 AP United States History2008-2009
Mrs. Vertescher
Class Profile: The class will meet every 5 times a week for 42 minutes. This course is designed to give students the opportunity to examine and analyze historical evidence. Classroom activities include simulations, seminars, debates, roleplay and analysis of primary sources (documents, speeches, pictures, political cartoons). Students will be required to complete document based essays and thematic essays for each unit of study, both in class and for homework. At the end of each unit, students will be assessed with a unit exam. The unit exam will be comprised of multiple choice questions and essays. For each chapter read, students will be required to complete questions that show an understanding of the reading. Active participation is an integral part of the course. Course Requirements: Cumulative Assessments: Unit Exams, Essays, Unit Essay Exams Intermediate Assessments: Pop Quizzes, Quizzes, Chapter Review Questions Learning Process: Checked Homework, Participation in Class Activities, Unit Outlines Rules: 1. Be on time. Detention will be assigned for lateness. 2. Be respectful. This class is your chance to discuss key issues and learn from each other. We can only do this if we as a class are able to listen to each other and wait for others to stop talking before speaking. 3. Hand in assignments on time. Papers/Essays will receive a deduction of 10% for each day it is late. Homework will receive half credit when handed in late. 4. Ask questions. 5. All cell phones and sidekicks will be confiscated. There will be a zero tolerance on this issue. 6. Complete all assignments. It is extremely important that you do well in this class. Colleges will be looking at your senior year transcript. This is not the time to slack off. If you fail this class, you will not meet the requirements for graduation. 7. Participate!
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Unit 1: The First Americans 1 week Required Reading: Nash Chapters 12 Howard Zinn Chapter 1 Key Topics: The Columbian Exchange, PreColumbian Societies, Spanish, French and English settlement in the New World, Spanish Armada
Unit 2: Colonial America 16601783 2 weeks Required Reading: Chapters 35 Zinn chapters 23
Primary Sources: • Mayflower Compact • John Winthrop “A Model of Christian Charity” 1630. • Richard Frethorne “Our Plantation is Very Weak”, 1623. Key Topics: Jamestown and Plymouth, Massachusetts, English settlement of New England, the MidAtlantic regions, South, Religious diversity in the American colonies, Bacon’s Rebellion, Salem Witch Hysteria, French and Indian War, the Great Awakening, Slavery in New York , Salutary Neglect Essays:AP DBQ Essay French and Indian War 2004; AP Thematic Essay Comparison of Economic Development in Massachusetts and Virginia 2005 Unit 3: From Revolution to a Constitution: The Creation of America 2.5 weeks Required Reading: Nash Chapters 68 Zinn Chapters 45 Themes:
3 1. The social, political and economic effects of the Revolution. 2. Was the Revolution a radical or conservative movement? Primary Sources: • Excerpts from The Federalist Papers • Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” • Thomas Jefferson “Declaration of Independence” • Lord Dunmore’s ProclamationNovember 7, 1775. • Virginia’s Legislature Response to Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation • Thomas Jefferson “The Kentucky Resolutions” Key Topics: Mercantilism and Salutary Neglect, Patriots and Loyalists in the Revolution, Events leading up to the Revolution, Republican Motherhood, AfricanAmericans and the Revolutionary War, Successes and Failures of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution as a bundle of compromises, Federalists and Antifederalists, Northwest Ordinance 1787, Shay’s Rebellion Essays: AP DBQ Essay American Revolution 2005; AP Thematic Essay Constitution 2006
Unit 4: The New Nation 17831824 2 weeks Required Reading: Nash Chapters 910 Founding Brothers Book Review Due Primary Sources: • Alien and Sedition Acts, • Newspaper clippings from the War of 1812, • George Washington “Farewell Address”, • Monroe Doctrine 1823 • Virginia Resolutions 1799 Key Topics: Washington’s Precedents, John Adams and the XYZ affair, Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates, Nationalism and the War of 1812, Monroe Doctrine, Erie Canal, The American System, Missouri Compromise, Gibbons v. Ogden, McCulloch v. Maryland, Marbury v. Madison, Whiskey Rebellion Special Activities: Book Talk Seminar “Founding Brothers” by Joseph Ellis
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Essays : Students will be required to submit a book review of Founding Brothers Unit 5: The Age of Jackson 18241860 Antebellum Period 3 weeks Required Reading: Nash Chapters 1112 Zinn Chapters 6 7 Primary Sources: • Henry David Thoreau’s Thoreau Civil Disobedience • Seneca Falls Declaration, 1848 • Excerpts from Worcester v. Georgia • Factory Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848 • Excerpts from Daniel Webster’s and Robert’s Haynes debates over nullification, 1830 Key Topics: Immigration and Nativism, States Rights, Jacksonian Democracy, and its successes and limitations, Evangelical Protestant revivalism, social reforms, Cult of Domesticity, Transcendentalism, and Utopian Communities Trail of Tears, Lowell Mill girls, Nullification Crisis, Market Revolution, the Bank War, Slavery and abolitionism Essay: AP DBQ Essay Reform Movements 2002; AP Thematic Essay Market Revolution 2008 Unit 6: Manifest Destiny 1.5 weeks Required Reading: Nash Chapter 13 Zinn Chapter 8 Primary Sources: • Polk’s War Message to Congress • Jesus VelascoMarquez “A Mexican Viewpoint on the War with the United States”. • Charles Sumner “Report on the War with Mexico” Key Topics: James. K. Polk, the Oregon Trail, Gold Rush, MexicanAmerican War, Annexation of Texas, Frontier Life, Compromises 1850, Expansion of Slavery in Texas, John O’ Sullivan coins a phrase Essay: AP Free Response Mexican War 2005
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Unit 7: Civil War and Reconstruction 18611890 3 weeks Required Reading: Chapters 1416 Zinn Chapter 9 “View from the Bottom Rail” in Davidson, Lytle, After the Fact Themes: 1. Analysis of political compromises leading up to the Civil War 2. Impact of Industrial development and its impact on the causes of the Civil War 3. Analysis of the Compromise of 1877 and its social implications in the New South Primary Sources: • Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, 1861 • Constitution of the Confederate States of America • Jefferson Davis’s Inaugural Address, 1861 • Excerpts from the Mississippi Black Codes • Reconstruction Amendments Key Topics: Sectionalism, KansasNebraska Act, Third American party system, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War (social, economic, political consequences) slave revolts , Nat Turner, John Brown, King Cotton, draft riots, Reconstruction Amendments, Andrew Johnson, Compromise of 1877, development of the South and West after Reconstruction, KKK, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, Plessy v. Ferguson Essay: AP Thematic Essays 2004 & 2008
Unit 8: Gilded Age and the Closing of West 3 weeks Required Reading: Nash Chapters 1719 Zinn Chapters 10 11 Themes: 1. Politics and Corruption in the Gilded Age 2. Role of government in economic growth and regulation 3. Social, political and economic impact of industrialization
6 4. Responses to industrialization Primary Sources: • Frederick Jackson Turner “Significance of the Frontier” • William Jennings Bryan “Cross of Gold Speech” • Excerpts from the Dawes Act • Excerpts from Tecumseh, Black Hawk, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph and Sitting Bull • Andrew Carnegie “The Gospel of Wealth” • Excerpt: William Graham Sumner, What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883 Key Topics: the effect of westward expansion on Native Americans, Populism, Grange Movement, Development of Railroads, Big Business Leaders, Knights of Labor and the AFL, Homestead and Pullman Strikes of 1892 and 1894, Munn v. Illinois, Sherman Antitrust Act, Interstate Commerce Act Essay: AP DBQ Essay Transformation of Agriculture 2007 Unit 9: American Imperialism 18901919 1 week Required Reading: Zinn Chapter 12 Nash Chapter 20 Themes: 1. Development of America as a world power 2. Social Impact of Imperialism Primary Source: • Examples of Yellow Journalism from Hearst’s “The World and New York Journal”, • Excerpts from William McKinley’s War Message Key Topics: SpanishAmerican War, Yellow Journalism, Platt Amendment, Philippines, Annexation of Hawaii, The Maine, Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders Unit 10: Progressivism and WWI 19011919 3 weeks Required Reading: Zinn Chapters 1314
7 Nash Chapter 2122 “USDA Government Inspected” inDavidson, Lytle, After the Fact Themes: 1. Responses to Industrialism in the Urban Setting 2. Emergence of the Progressive Party and its PresidentsRoosevelt, Taft, Wilson 3. Impact of WWI on civil liberties Primary Sources: • Excerpts from Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Jane Addams Twenty Years at Hull House • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine • Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points • Woodrow Wilson’s Inaugural Address, 1914 • Espionage Act 1917 • Sedition Act 1918 • Excerpts from Schenck v. US 1919 Key Topics: Booker T. Washington, W. E. B Dubois, Progressive Presidents respond to industrial abuses, the Bull Moose Party, Progressive Reforms, Muckrakers, American Neutrality and the Outbreak of war, reason’s for America’s entry into the war, America as the arsenal of democracy, Wilson’s ideology and plans for peace after the war, Schenck v. US Essay: AP DBQ Essay Progressive Era 2003 Unit 11 : The Roaring Twenties, Great Depression and the New Deal 3 weeks Required Reading: Zinn Chapter 15 Chapters 2324 “Sacco and Vanzetti” inDavidson, Lytle, After the Fact
Themes: 1. Post WWI compared to post Civil War nativism, laissezfaire, labor, government, farmers and attitudes towards farmers 2. Social, economic and political impacts of war on society 3. Cultural conflicts: native v. foreign; rural v. urban 4. Expansion of government and its role in society
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Primary Source: • Excerpts from Margaret Sanger, The Women Rebel • Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again and I, Too, Sing America • Herbert Hoover, Rugged Individualism • The Neutrality Act 1937 • Excerpts from Roosevelt’s Fire Side Chats Key Topics: Generation Gap in the 1920’s, the changing role of women, Harlem Renaissance, revival of the KKK, Republican prosperity, isolationism and the first Red Scare, Immigration quotas, a consumer culture, the Prohibition era, causes of the Great Depression, Hoover and Roosevelt’s different approaches to the Great Depression, major New Deal Programs, lasting effects of the New Deal Essay: AP DBQ Essay FDR’s response to the Great Depression 2003
Unit 12: World War II and the Cold War 3 weeks Required Reading: Chapters 25 and 27 Zinn Chapter 16 Themes: 1. Emergence of America as a world power and its implications for the future 2. War Economy and its impact on society 3. Effects of WW II on civil liberties and rights 4. Containment and its impact on the foreign policy objectives for the US 5. Social Effects of the Cold War on American society Primary Sources: • Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” Speech to Congress 1941 • Truman, Inaugural Address, 1949 • Truman Doctrine • Eisenhower Doctrine • Eisenhower, Farewell Address, 1961 • John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961
9 Key Topics: America mobilizes for war, Cause and Effects of WWII, Korematsu case and civil liberties, island hopping, containment, collective security, Marshall Plan, Truman and Eisenhower doctrines, Korean War, Vietnam War and Protest, McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cultural Changes during the 1950’s, GI Bill and the Suburban Sprawl, Television and its impact on politics, baby boomers, Space Race, Sputnik Special Activities: Simulation: Berlin Airlift; Simulation: of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Seminar: Should the government suspend civil liberties during times of war? Essay: AP DBQ Essay Cold War 2006B; AP DBQ Essay Changes in Foreign Policy from 1920 1941
Unit 13: Turbulent Sixties and the Trend toward Conservatism 19601980 2 weeks Required Reading: Chapters 26 and 28 31 Zinn Chapter 17 Themes: 1. Expansion of government under Johnson 2. Counterculture and its impact on Vietnam War objectives 3. The Civil Rights Movement and its implications for today Primary Sources: • Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream Speech” • Excerpts from Betty Friedan • Excerpts from Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Key Topics: Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X, Responses to the Vietnam War, Counter culture of the 1960’s, Great Society, Warren Court and its expansion of Civil Liberties, Women’s Movement, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Watergate, the oil embargo, IranHostage Crisis, War Powers Act, Nixon and Détente, the collapse of the Soviet Union Special Activities: Seminar: Has Martin Luther King’s Dream been fulfilled in America?
10 Essay: AP DBQ Essay Vietnam War 2008; Thematic Essay Comparison of Reform Movements during the 1960’s
Unit 14: Review for AP Exam 2 weeks