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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
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
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