AP® US History Course Content Outline Fall Semester 2013-2014 Texts are Brinkley’s American History and AMSCO’s United States History On line titles are from Digital History’s website at www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
1. FIRST CONTACT Week One Brinkley Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures AMSCO: Chapter 1: Exploration, Discovery, and Settlement Digital History: First Americans, Exploration and Discovery Study Guide: Colonization
2. COLONIZATION Week Two Brinkley Chapter 2: The English “Transplantations” AMSCO: Chapter 2 The Thirteen Colonies and the British Empire Digital History: Colonization Study Guide: Colonization
Friday – Major Assessment
COLONIAL SOCIETY AND CULTURE Week Three Brinkley Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America AMSCO: Chapter 3 Colonial Society in the 18th Century Digital History: The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery Study Guide: Colonization
Friday – Major Assessment
3. CONFLICTS ESCALATE Week Four Brinkley Chapter 4: The Empire under Strain AMSCO: Chapter 4 Imperial Wars and Colonial Protest Digital History: Patterns of Change 1700-1775 Study Guide: Unit 2 – From Revolution to Constitution
Friday – Major Assessment
THE REVOLUTION Week Five Brinkley Chapter 5: The American Revolution AMSCO: Chapter 5 The American Revolution Digital History: The American Revolution, The Founders Study Guide: From Revolution to Constitution
Friday - Major Assessment
1 4. THE NEW REPUBLIC Week Six Brinkley Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic AMSCO: Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic Digital History: The Critical Period, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights, The First New Nation Study Guide: Establishing a New Nation
Friday - Major Assessment
JEFFERSONIAN ERA Week Seven Brinkley Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era AMSCO: Chapter 7 The Age of Jefferson 1800-1816 Digital History: Jeffersonian Republicanism, Antislavery Study Guide: Establishing a New Nation
Friday, Major Assessment
NATIONALISM AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Week Eight Brinkley Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism AMSCO: Chapter 8: Nationalism and Economic Development 1817 – 1824 Digital History: The Era of Good Feelings, Antislavery Study Guide: Establishing a New Nation
Friday - Major Assessment
JACKSONIAN ERA Week Nine Brinkley Chapter 9: Jacksonian America AMSCO: Chapter 10: The Age of Jackson Digital History: Jacksonian Democracy Study Guide: Reform and Expansion
CONTINUING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Week 10 Brinkley Chapter 10: America’s Economic Revolution AMSCO: Chapter 12: Territorial and Economic Expansion 1830-60 Digital History: The Roots of American Economic Growth, Westward Expansion Study Guide: Economic and Social Reform
Friday - Major Assessment
2 5. ANTIBELLUM SOUTH Week 11 Brinkley Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South AMSCO: Chapter 9: Sectionalism Digital History: Antislavery, The Pre Civil War South Study Guide: Economic and Social Reform
Friday – Major Assessment
CULTURE AND REFORM Week 12 Brinkley Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform AMSCO: Chapter 11: The Ferment of Reform Digital History: Pre Civil War Reform, Religion and the Early Republic Study Guide: Economic and Social Reform
Friday – Major Assessment
CONFLICT, EXPANSION, AND COMPROMISE Week 13 Brinkley Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis AMSCO: Chapter 13: The Union in Peril Digital History: The Impending Crisis Study Guide: Events Leading to the Civil War
Friday – Major Assessment
THE CIVIL WAR Week 14 Brinkley Chapter 14: The Civil War AMSCO: Ch 14: The Civil War Digital History: The Civil War Study Guide: The Civil War and It’s Aftermath
Friday – Major Assessment
6.RECONSTRUCTION Week 15 Brinkley Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South AMSCO: Chapter 15: Reconstruction Digital History: Reconstruction Study Guide: The Civil War and Its Aftermath, 1861-1900
Friday – Major Assessment
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