Unit 1: the Exploratory, Colonial, and Revolutionary Periods

Advanced Placement United States History

Texts and Supplemental Materials

 The American Pageant, 16th Edition, by Kennedy, Cohen, and Bailey, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002  The American Spirit: Volume 1: To 1877, 10th Edition, by Kennedy and Bailey, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002  The American Spirit Volume II: Since 1865, 10th Edition, by Kennedy and Bailey, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002  The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents by William A. DeGregorio, published by Barnes and Noble Books, 2002  A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present, by Howard Zinn, published by Harper-Collins, 2005  School library materials and databases.

Purpose Statement:  This course is a survey of United States history from the age of exploration and colonization to the present, as described in the Course Description. Methods of teaching and learning are sophisticated in nature, and include but are not limited to class lectures, class seminars, in-class activities, a significant amount of reading, lessons and practice in essay writing, independent research, projects and more. Students are continuously challenged to utilize and develop critical thinking and analytical skills. Students are also challenged to master a broad body of historical knowledge and understand the chronology of U.S. History in political, economic, social and cultural terms, conceptualize and evaluate the great themes and issues that are at the heart of American history. Critical evaluation of historical documents is also emphasized.

Themes overall AP United States History for 2011-2012 The themes will include discussions of American diversity, the development of a unique American identity, the evolution of American culture, with the ever changing American society demographic changes over the course of America’s history, The course will also examine the importance of the Presidency and the men who held office and their impact on issues that faced the nation. We will emphasis economic trends and transformations, environmental issues, the development of political institutions including the Presidency and the components of citizenship, social reform movements, the impact in a multicultural society, the history of slavery and its legacies in this hemisphere, war and diplomacy, and finally, the place of the New World Order of the Twenty First Century The course will explore these themes throughout the year, emphasizing the ways in which society and world events precipitate change in the United States both politically, economically and militarily.

Course Description:

Summer Reading and Assignment Unit 1: The Exploratory, Colonial, and Revolutionary Periods

Summer Assignment: Unit 1 Readings are assigned to students at the end of their sophomore year, to be completed by the start of school. Students will read the first 8 chapters of the textbook, which constitute

1 Unit 1, and will complete chapter packets as well. An AP based assessment will be conducted during the first week of school.

Academic School Year:

Unit 1: The Exploratory, Colonial, and Revolutionary Periods Theme: Students will be able to understand and discuss the effects when two different cultures converge and relate the concept to events taking place today.

In order to understand the nature of history and the development of an American identity, the student will be able to:

Understanding of the impact and the effects of cultures when two cultures converge Discuss why one culture imposes their beliefs and customs on the existing culture

American Pageant, Chapters 1-8

Ch. 1: New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C..- A.D.1769  The geology of the New World  Early inhabitants of the New World  Native Americans prior to Columbus  Search for a water route to Asia  Columbus and early explorers  Ecological consequences of Columbus’s European discovery  American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley  The Spanish empire in the Americas Theme: Ch. 2. The Planting of English America 1500-1733 Southern Colonies settled  England: economics, politics, society, population issues  England defeats Spain, Spanish Armada  English naval dominance  Jamestown planted, 1607, by the Virginia Company  English settlers and Native Americans: Interactions and wars  Growth of Virginia and Maryland  First Africans in North America  England in the Caribbean  Slave trade; slave codes  Settling the Carolinas and Georgia  Development of plantation system

Ch. 3: Settling the Northern Colonies 1619-1700  Protestant Reformation  Puritan faith  Plymouth Colony, 1620: The start of New England  Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630: A Puritan society  Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire  Indian-Puritan relations  Dominion of New England  Dutch in the New World  Middle Colonies: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware  Quakers in Pennsylvania

2 Ch. 4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607-1692  Growth of the Chesapeake region, including tobacco  Indentured servants  Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia  Increase of slavery  Slave culture and rebellion  First Families of Virginia  Southern life / plantation life  New England family life  Erosion of Puritanism  Salem witch trials  Women’s rights, or lack of  Climate  Commerce in New England  Town meetings

Ch. 5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700-1755  Growth of Population; immigration  Social stratification in colonial times  Economy  Reign of Agriculture  Triangle Trade  Religion in the colonies  The Great Awakening  Art and Architecture  Literature  Education  Political structure and process

Ch. 6. The Duel for North America 1608-1763  Huguenots and the Edict of Nantes  French settlement of Canada: New France  Fur trading and the Indians  French-British conflicts  Conflict in the Ohio Valley  World Conflicts / War  King William’s War  Queen Anne’s War  King George’s War  French and Indian Wars  French removed, essentially, from North America  Indian Rebellion (Pontiac)  Proclamation of 1763

Ch. 7. The Road to Revolution 1763-1775  Republicanism  Clash over political principles  Currency shortage in the colonies  End of salutary neglect  The Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act  The Stamp Act Crisis, 1765  The Townshend Acts, 1767

3  Colonial responses to British actions  Boston Tea Party, 1773  Mass demonstrations  The Intolerable Acts  Continental Congress, 1774  Lexington and Concord  Rumblings of war  Britain and America: strengths and weaknesses of each

Ch. 8. America Secedes from the Empire 1775-1783  Second Continental Congress, 1775  Early fighting  Attempts at reconciliation  Thomas Paine’s Common Sense  Declaration of Independence  Fighting increases in intensity  Alliance with France  Loyalists and Patriots  Yorktown, 1781  Negotiations in Paris  Treaty of Paris, 1783

For All Units, 1-8 Lecture and Discussion are a regular feature of this course throughout all units. For each unit (1-8): AP-level multiple choice Exams, selected essay examinations, chapter packets, discussion, written assignments, brain teasers to develop analytical skills, quizzes, and homework and class work assignments. Sample essay questions for Unit 1 Discuss the differences of the Southern Colonies and the Northern colonies and what impact these differences had in the colonial period. Examine the causes of the American Revolution and explain how the Revolution may have been prevented. Unit 1 Readings and Activities: Lectures DBQ Chesapeake and New England Colonies DBQ: “Columbus, the Indians and Human Progress” from A People’s History by Zinn Activity: The Three Colonial Societies Center For Learning (hereafter noted as CFL) Activity 2: Puritans, Great Awakening, Enlightenment Cooperative Activity: The Four Colonial Conflicts Cooperative Activity: CFL #7: The Path to Revolution Seminar: Declaring Independence Cooperative/Individual Activities: Develop Political and Military Chronologies of events during the Revolutionary Era. DBQ “Columbus, the Indians and Human Progress” from A People’s History by Zinn

Unit 2: Launching a New Nation 1776-1869

American Pageant, Chapters 9 and 10

Ch. 9. The Confederation and the Constitution 1776-1790  Evolution of political philosophies

4  Separation of church and state  Republican motherhood  Tensions over slavery  Writing of state constitutions  Economic distress  Articles of Confederation, 1781-1789  Land Ordinance of 1785 and Northwest Ordinance of 1787  Shays’s Rebellion, 1786  Weakness of the Confederation government  Problems in the Confederation  Annapolis Convention  Constitutional Convention, 1787  Ratification of the Constitution: Federalists vs. Antifederalists

Ch. 10. Launching the New Ship of State 1789-1800  First Presidency  George Washington  Bill of Rights  Economic policy- Alexander Hamilton  First Bank of the United States  Strict and broad construction  Whiskey Rebellion, 1794  Emergence of political parties  French Revolution and its impact  Proclamation of 1793  Jay’s Treaty, 1794  Washington’s Farewell Address  Presidency of John Adams  Steering clear of war  Alien and Sedition Acts  Compact Theory  Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions  Federal System  Wherein does power lie? This is the burning question.  Federalists vs. Republicans

Unit 2 Readings, Activities, and Assessments Between Units: Lesson: The Document-Based Question: An Introduction. Cooperative/Independent Activities: DBQ Federalist Paper 10 and 51 DBQ Excerpts from Common Sense Great Debate: The Constitution Cooperative Activity: CFL #13: The Emergence of Political Parties Cooperative Activity: Foreign Policy under the Washington Administration Lesson: The Free Response Essay Exam, Unit 2 Sample Questions for Essays Unit 2 The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution were vastly different documents explain the failures of the Articles of confederation and the significance of the drafting of a new document that became the Constitution. Discuss the impact and significance of Washington not accepting a third term for the Presidency and the impact of his decision in the United States.

5 Chart: The Federal System of Government Portraits of American Presidents Documentary Series: Washington and Adams

Unit 3: The Age of Jefferson and Jackson 1800-1840

American Pageant, Ch. 11-5

Ch. 11. The Trials and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800-1812  Election of 1800  Presidency of Thomas Jefferson  John Marshall and the Principle of Judicial Review  Tripolitan War  Louisiana Purchase  British and French at War, and the consequence on American commerce  Jefferson’s Embargo Act  The Presidency of James Madison  Napoleon dupes Madison  Changes in Congress  Native American issues and conflicts  Battle with the Shawnees  War declared against Britain: The War of 1812

Ch. 12. The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812-1824  War of 1812 battles and skirmishes  Aggression towards Canada  Treaty of Ghent  Hartford Convention  Nationalism  American System  Presidency of James Monroe  Second Bank of the United States  Protective tariff  Internal improvements  Era of Good Feelings  Westward expansion  Missouri Compromise  The Marshall Court  Secretary of State John Quincy Adams  Missouri Compromise  Florida and Canada  Monroe Doctrine

Ch. 13. The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824-1849  Election of 1824: A corrupt bargain?  National Republicans  Presidency of John Quincy Adams  Rise of states’ rights and sectionalism  Election of 1828: Democratic party politicking works  Presidency of Andrew Jackson

6  Tariff of Abominations  Spoils system  Nullification crisis, South Carolina; Jackson’s response  Indian removal / Train of Tears  Bank Wars  Emergence of the Whig party: The anti-Jackson party  Presidency of Martin Van Buren  Depression of 1837  Texas revolts from Mexico  Election of 1840  Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too: both presidencies  Vigorous two-party system emerges

Ch. 14. Forging the National Economy 1790-1860  Population shifts west  Frontier life  European immigration and American response (nativism)  German and Irish  Growth of the modern factory system  Agricultural production booms  Transportation revolution  Market economy

Ch. 15. The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790-1860  Religious revivals  Mormons  Education reform and expansion  Reform movements  Women’s roles and rights  Attempts at Utopia: Utopian Societies  Artistic achievements and developments  A national literature  Transcendentalism

Unit 3 Readings, Activities, and Assessments DBQ Marbury vs. Madison opinion DBQ Trail of Tears Indian Removal: From Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States Cooperative Activity: War of 1812: Causes, Engagements, Treaty Terms, and Analysis of Outcome Cooperative Activity: CFL #12 American Foreign Policy Side A Individual / Cooperative Work: Ch. 13 Questions: Going in Depth. Quiz, Ch. 11-13 Cooperative Activity: Jackson and Van Buren Portraits of American Presidents: Jefferson, Madison, Monroe Portraits of American Presidents: Jackson and Van Buren Reading: Indian Removal: From Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States: “As Long As Grass Grows or Rivers Run” Exam, Unit 3 Sample Essay Questions Unit 3 Discuss the changes in United States presidency after the campaign and election of Andrew Jackson over John Quincy Adams. Thomas Jefferson believed in a strict interpretation of the Constitution discuss the significant event that would be difficult to defend Jefferson approach to a strict interpretation of the Constitution.

7 Unit 4: Causes of the Civil War / The Civil War / Reconstruction 1840-1870

American Pageant Chapters 16-22

Ch. 16. The South and the Slaver Controversy  Economy of the Cotton Kingdom  Planter aristocracy  Southern slave owners  Slavery in the south  Rise of abolitionism in the North  Southern response to abolitionism  Second Great Awakening influence on abolitionism  Radical Abolitionism  Northern response to abolitionism  Opposition to expansion of slavery to western territories

Ch. 17. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841-1848  Presidency of John Tyler  Maine boundary dispute and resolution  Election of 1844: James K. Polk  Texas annexed  Presidency of James K. Polk  Oregon dispute  Manifest Destiny  Independent Treasury restored  War with Mexico  Mexican Cession  Wilmot Proviso  Slavery question to the fore

Ch. 18. Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848-1854  Popular sovereignty  Presidency of Zachary Taylor  Free Soil party  California gold rush  California applies for statehood  Compromise of 1850  The Great Triumvirate: Clay, Calhoun, and Webster  Fugitive Slave Law and unintended consequences  Presidency of Millard Fillmore after Taylor’s death  Presidency of Franklin Pierce and expansion  Japan opened to U.S trade and other foreign policy issues  Desire for transcontinental railroad  Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 and Stephen Douglas  Slow splintering of the Democratic party along sectional lines  Emergence of the Republican Party

Ch. 19. Drifting Toward Disunion 1854-1861  Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the spread of abolitionism in the North  The battle for Kansas: Bleeding Kansas  Presidency of James Buchanan

8  Nativism (again)  Dred Scott Decision  Panic of 1857  Lincoln-Douglas Debates  John Brown and Harper’s Ferry  Election of 1860  Lincoln and Republican victory  Secession

Ch. 20. Girding for War: The North and the South 1861-1865  Fort Sumter, April 1861  The border states  Lincoln’s goals  The North and South: Advantages and Disadvantages  The view from Europe  Lincoln and civil liberties  Forming the Northern and Southern armies  Financing the war for both sides  Economic impact of the war  Women and the war  Collapse of the Southern economy  The fate of the South

Ch. 21. The Furnace of Civil War 1861-1865  Civil War battles, including Bull Run, the Peninsular Campaign, Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Hampton Roads, Shiloh, Sherman’s march through Georgia, and  Union strategy: Anaconda Plan  Civil War generals  African American contributions  Emancipation Proclamation  13th Amendment  Politics during the War  Division of the Democratic party  Election of 1864: Lincoln again  Lee surrenders at Appomattox  The Assassination of President Lincoln  The Legacy of War

Ch. 22. The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865-1877  The South defeated  Shaky road to emancipation of slaves  Freed slaves  President Johnson’s Reconstruction policies  Moderate and Radical Republicans  Congressional Reconstruction; clashes with Johnson  Black Codes  Military Reconstruction  14th Amendment  15th Amendment  African American political participation  Emergence of the Ku Klux Klan  Andrew Johnson impeached  Disenfranchisement of black Americans

9  Successes and failures of Reconstruction

Unit 4 Readings, Activities, and Assessments Cooperative Activity: Ch. 16 Questions CFL #20 The Mexican War- Was it in the National Interest? DBQ Practice Cooperative Activity: Maine, Oregon, Tyler, Election of 1844, Polk, Walker Tariff, Wilmot Proviso Quiz (pop) Ch. 16-17 DBQ Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States: “We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God” Music Appreciation: 10,000 Maniacs “Gold Rush Brides” DBQ : The Great Triumvirate Seminar: Analysis of a Man: Was John Brown sane or insane Cooperative Activity: Comparison of the North vs. the South Assessment: Quiz, Ch. 19 and 20, and Presidents Polk through Buchanan Chronologies of Civil War Battles and Generals Seminar: Reconstruction Portraits of American Presidents: Lincoln, Johnson, Grant Unit 4 Exams Sample Essay Questions for Unit 4 Discuss the many attempts and compromises that were enacted to hold off war. The Emancipation Proclamation was an important document discuss its impact on the issue of slavery and its affect on the Constitutional Amendments that followed. Discuss the importance of John Tyler’s philosophy and the impact it had when he assumed the Presidency after the death of William Henry Harrison.

Unit 5: The Gilded Age and the Forging of an Industrial Society 1870-1900

Ch. 23. Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869-1896  The presidency of Ulysses S. Grant  Issues of corruption and reform  Election of 1872  Panic of 1873  Monetary policy and problems  Political parties and political issues  Election of 1876  Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction  Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes  Southern politics and society post reconstruction  Jim Crow and other legal and social problems  Ethnic conflicts and class conflicts  Reform of civil service  Election of 1880 and presidencies of Garfield, Arthur  Election of 1884 and presidency of Grover Cleveland  Populists and populism  Election of 1888 and presidency of Benjamin Harrison  Billion Dollar Congress  Election of 1892 and Cleveland again

Ch. 24. Industry Comes of Age 1865-1900  Railroads, Railroads, and more Railroads  Significance of Railroads on business and politics

10  Corruption in the Railroad industry  Combinations, pools, and more  Emergence of the Grange and other farmer’s groups  Wabash Case and Interstate Commerce act  Big Business- steel, oil, and more  Industry in the South  Social Darwinism  Labor class and labor issues  Growth of trade unions

Ch. 25. America Moves to the City 1865-1900  Immigration, New Immigration  Nativism and anti-foreign organizations  Growth of the cities  Problems in the cities  Settlement houses and social workers  Opportunities for women  Challenges to the churches  Darwinism  Social gospel  Education reform  Black leaders  Literary leaders  Reform writers  Science and medicine  Women’s suffrage movement  Temperance movement  Painters  Burgeoning American culture  Entertainment, art, music, sports,

Ch. 26. The Great West and the agricultural Revolution 1865-1896  Great West  Black Hills and Indian Territory  Sioux War and other conflicts: Conquest of Indians  Mining and cattle  Homestead Act of 1862  Agriculture and technology in the Great Plains  Oklahoma Eighty-niners  Western Frontier  Farmers specializing  Agrarian unrest and protest  The Grange  Populists and Greenback Labor Party  Pullman Strike  Election of 1896: William Jennings Bryan versus William McKinley  Panic of 1893

Ch. 27. The Path of Empire 1890-1899  Reasons for overseas expansion  White Man’s Burden  Social Darwinism  Overseas markets

11  Pan-American Conference  Venezuela boundary dispute and Cleveland  Hawaii  Cuban revolt against Spanish rule  Yellow journalism  William Hearst vs. Joseph Pulitzer  Explosion of the Maine  War fever, jingoism, and war declared: The Spanish-American War  Teller Amendment  Invasion of Cuba  Hawaii annexed  Results of the War: territories gained (ex: Puerto Rico, Cuba, Philippines)  Anti-Imperialist League  Platt Amendment  Implications of U.S. victory

Unit 5 Readings, Activities, and Assessments Assignment: Create profiles of Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and Cleveland Cooperative Activity: Presentations of presidential profiles to the class. Robber Barons vs. Workers Family Feud Assessment: Quiz, Ch. 23-24 Library visit: Using Library Databases to Investigate late 19th century social history DBQ Biographies of Mellon, Carnegie and Rockefeller Assessment: Quiz, Ch. 25-26 DBQ The Empire and The People” (Zinn) Debate: U.S. Imperialism Additional materials: Complete Book of U.S. Presidents Portraits of Presidents: Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland Documentary: Ellis Island Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States Portraits of American Presidents: McKinley Exam, Unit 5 Sample Essay Questions Unit 5 Explain the failures of the Grant’s Administration and the impact of these failures on the economy of the United States. Discuss the difference between horizontal and vertical business plans used by the industrialist in the late nineteenth century.

Unit 6: The Progressive Era through the First World War 1898-1920

Ch. 28: America on the World Stage 1899-1909  The Filipino uprising and guerilla warfare  Manchuria, China  Open Door policy and Secretary of State John Hay  Boxer Rebellion  Election of 1900  Assassination of McKinley  Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901  Need for a trans-isthmian canal

12  Associated canal treaties and antics  The building of the Panama Canal  Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine  Latin American relations  Russo-Japanese War and settlement  Roosevelt and the Far East  Japanese immigration to California  Ensuing racial / ethnic discord  Gentleman’s Agreement  The Great White Fleet

Ch. 29 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901-1912  Social Injustices and reform  Progressivism  Muckrakers  Jacob Riis  Progressive politics  17th Amendment  Women suffrage movement  Temperance again  Settlement house movement  Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire and reform  Roosevelt’s Square Deal  Roosevelt, labor, and the trusts  Consumer protection  Upton Sinclair  Conservation  Election of 1904: Roosevelt wins  Panic of 1907  Election of 1908- Taft wins  Presidency of William Howard Taft  Dollar diplomacy  Roosevelt and Taft split  New Nationalism and National Progressive Republican League

Ch. 30 Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad 1912-1916  Election of 1912: New Freedom vs. New Nationalism  The presidency of Woodrow Wilson  Wilson and the bank, the tariff, and the trusts  16th Amendment  Clayton Anti-Trust Act  Interlocking Directorates  Louis D. Brandeis  Wilson and Mexico  War in Europe  American neutrality  Election of 1916: Wilson again  The last of the progressive presidents

Ch. 31 The War to End War 1917-1918  German unrestricted submarine warfare  Sussex Pledge / Lusitania  Zimmermann Note

13  Wilson’s request for war, April 2, 1917  Fourteen Points  League of Nations  Anti-German-American backlash  Propaganda and civil liberties  National War Labor Board-headed by Taft  Workers, blacks, and women on the home front  Drafting soldiers  Race riots  Strikes  Women and the vote: Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul  National American Women Suffrage Association  19th Amendment  American Expeditionary Force fights in France  German collapse  Armistice  Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles  European demands and Wilson’s compromise  Politics on the home front regarding the Versailles Treaty  Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles  Wilson in poor health  Election of 1920: Warren G. Harding  Treaty of Versailles passes in Europe /longstanding effects

Unit 6 Readings, Activities, and Assessments Cooperative Activity: Theodore Roosevelt and Foreign Policy Cooperative Activity: Ch. 29 Thematic Questions Assessment: Quiz, Ch. 28-29 and Presidents DBQ Wilson’s Fourteen Points Documentary Series: The Century, narrated by Peter Jennings. Episode: The Beginning: Seeds of Change Excerpt from Zinn’s chapter on Socialism Portraits of Presidents: Roosevelt through Wilson Documentary: The Century: Shell Shock, 1914-1919 Exam, Unit 6 Sample essay questions for Unit 6 Discuss the causes of World War I in Europe and the events that led the United States into the war and the subsequent fall out of American involvement in the war and the impact it had on foreign affairs of the United States.

Discuss how the history of the world may have altered if the Treaty of Versailles had implemented all or most of Wilson’s Fourteen Points.

Unit 7: Boom and Bust, the Great Depression, and the Causes of the Second World War 1919-1941

American Pageant Chapters 32-35 Ch. 32 American Life in the Roaring Twenties 1910-1929  Red Scare and Palmer Raids  Prosperity in the Twenties  Sacco and Vanzetti  Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan

14  Anti-foreignism  Isolationism  Prohibition and the 18th amendment  Rise of organized crime  Scopes Monkey Trial  Henry Ford, the Model T, and mass production  Advertising  Buying on credit  Charles Lindbergh  Entertainment, including radio and films  Women in the Twenties  Literature in the Twenties, including Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, Hughes, Neale Hurston  Harlem Renaissance  Marcus Garvey  Financial wheelings and dealings, and bank failures  Problems in the farming sector  Oversupply in industry and agriculture  Stock market speculation; buying on the margin

Ch. 33 The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920-1932  The presidency of Warren G. Harding  Andrew Mellon  Ohio Gang  Laissez-faire  Supreme Court and Progressivism  From guns to butter  Washington Disarmament Conference  Kellogg-Briand Pact  The tariff  Scandals under Harding, including Teapot Dome  The death of Wilson and presidency of Calvin Coolidge  Election of 1924- Silent Cal again  Creditor-Debtor nations  European post-war debts / Dawes Plan  Election of 1928 and presidency of Herbert Hoover  Rugged individualism  Hawley-Smoot Tariff, 1930  Over-inflation of stock values  Black Tuesday: October 29, 1929  Causes of the Depression  Banking industry collapses  Hoover and the Depression  Reconstruction Finance Corporation  Bonus Army  Japan invades Manchuria; United States response  Good Neighbor Policy

Chapter 34 The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933-1939  Election of 1932 and the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt  Eleanor Roosevelt  Relief, Recovery and Reform  Banking Holiday  Hundred Days

15  New Deal programs  Fireside chats  Harry Hopkins- FERA, WPA  Opposition to the New Deal, including Huey Long  Dust Bowl  Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath  Indian Reorganization Act, 1934  Second New Deal  Wagner Act  Nation Labor Relations Board  Labor issues and labor leaders  1937 economic downturn  John Maynard Keynes  Successes and failures of the New Deal  Compare and Contrast the perception of the two presidents

Ch. 35 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933-1941  Isolationism vs. interventionism  United States recognizes the Soviet Union  Good Neighbor Policy  Pan-American Conference  Neutrality Acts  Spanish Civil War  Appeasing Japan  Japanese invasion of China  Japanese militarism  Munich Conference of 1938; appeasement of Hitler  Sudetenland  Benito Mussolini and Italian aggression  Italian / German (and late Japanese) Axis  Hitler and Stalin’s Non-Aggression Pact  September 1, 1939: Blitzkrieg of Poland  Neutrality Law of 1939  Conscription Law, 1949  US propaganda, for and against intervention  Destroyers for Bases deal, 1940  Election of 1940: FDR again  Lend-Lease Act  Europe falls to Hitler  US convoys escort transatlantic crossings  Hitler invades the Soviet Union  Battle of Britain  Winston Churchill  Atlantic Conference; Atlantic Charter  US embargoes Japan  Pearl Harbor attacked  US declares war

Unit 7 Readings, Activities, and Assessments Introducing Jazz: Music of Jazz Era Literature of the Twenties

16 Cooperative Activity: CFL#8: Causes of the Depression DBQ The Election of 1932 DBQ The Bonus March Assessment: Quiz, Ch. 32-33 Cooperative Activity: CFL#11: New Deal programs Musical works by various artists Readings from Hemingway and Hughes Documentary Series: The Century: Boom to Bust, 1920-29 Portraits of Presidents: Harding and Coolidge Documentary Series: The Century: Stormy Weather, 1929-1936 Portraits of American Presidents: F. Roosevelt Documentary Series: The Century: Over the Edge, 1936-1941 Exam, Unit 7 Sample essay Questions for Unite 7 Discuss the arguments for and against Prohibition and the impact Prohibition had on the United States.

Discuss the events leading up to the Stock market Crash of 1929 and compare it to the housing market crash of 2008.

Explain the approach each president took to ease the effects of the Depression in the United States and why President Roosevelt is considered a “success” while Hoover is thought of as a “failure”. 9

Unit 8: World War II to the Present 1941- Present

Ch. 36 America in World War II 1941-1945  Japanese internment  End of the New Deal  From butter to guns  War Production Board  Women and wartime  Wartime migration within the U.S.  Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans during wartime  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)  Economic impact of war  American wartime production- unbelievable  War in the Pacific- major battles and engagements  Europe first  North African Campaigns  Italian front  Operation Overlord and Dwight Eisenhower  D-Day and the invasion of Normandy  Holocaust  Yalta Conference (briefly; emphasize in Ch. 37)  Potsdam Conference  Europe falls to the Allies  Germany surrenders  The Manhattan Project  Trinity Test

17  Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki  Japanese surrender

Ch. 37: The Cold War Begins 1945-1952  Postwar economic adjustments and prosperity  Growth of the Sunbelt  Growth of the suburbs  Racial tension and division  agribusiness  Yalta Conference  Baby Boom!  The presidency of Harry S. Truman  Soviet-American relations  Nuremberg Trials  Division of Germany  Iron Curtain, coined by Churchill  Soviet satellite nations  The next global conflict: the Cold War  United Nations, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund  Berlin Airlift  Containment  Truman Doctrine  Iran and Greece  Marshall Plan  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)  Principle of collective security  Israeli statehood  Central Intelligence Agency  National Security Act; National Security Council  Reconstruction of Japan  China, communism, and Mao Zedong  Soviets acquire atom bomb  Hydrogen bomb  Fear of communism and ensuing reactions  Loyalty Review Board  HUAC and Nixon  Dixiecrats: States’ Rights Party  A “Police Action” in Korea: the Korean War begins

Ch. 38: The Eisenhower Era 1952-1960  Election of 1952- Dwight D. Eisenhower  Richard Nixon- Vice President  Korean Armistice, 38th parallel  Joseph McCarthy/ McCarthyism; Army-McCarthy hearings  Jim Crow laws in the South; Racism nationwide  Thurgood Marshall  Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott  Rev. Martin Luther King, JR  Gandhi’s influence: protest by civil disobedience  Truman desegregates the military  Chief Justice Earl Warren  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954  White Citizens’ Councils

18  Crisis at Central High, Little Rock, Ark., 1957  Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)  Sit-ins starting in 1960  SNCC (“Snick”)- Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee  Modern republicanism  John Foster Dulles  Rollback (not utilized as policy)  Massive retaliation  Nikita Khrushchev  Interstate Highway Act, 1956  Vietnam post- WWII (French role, U.S. role)  West Germany joins NATO, 1955  Warsaw Pact formed, 1955  Hungarian revolt, 1956  Situation in Iran / Shah Reza Pahlavi  Suez crisis  OPEC- formed 1960  Election of 1956: Ike again  Labor issues  Sputnik; NASA established  Berlin Crisis, 1960-61  U2 incident, 1960  Castro leads Cuba, 1959  CIA-backed coup in Guatemala, 1954  Election of 1960: Kennedy v. Nixon  Presidency of JFK  Changing economic patterns  Betty Friedan: “The Feminine Mystique”  Television; consumerism  Rock and Roll / Elvis Presley  Writers and poets  Beat generation (Beatniks)

Ch. 39: The Stormy Sixties 1960-1968  Kennedy’s top advisor: Bobby Kennedy, Attorney General at age 35  J. Edgar Hoover: FBI director  Robert McNamara, Sec. of Defense  Dean Rusk, Secretary of State  New Frontier  Peace Corps  Steel episode  Kennedy and Khrushchev meet, Vienna, June 1961  Berlin Crisis / Berlin Wall  Flexible response  Diem / Vietnam / 17th parallel  Kennedy increased “military advisors”  US-backed coup against Diem, 1963  Alliance for Progress, 1961  Bay of Pigs invasion, April 17, 1961  Cuban Missile Crisis- took us to the brink…  Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 1963  JFK’s American University speech, June 1963: beginning of détente

19  JFK and civil rights  Freedom riders and sit-ins, 1960  March on Washington, August 1963  Birmingham explosion: 4 girls killed  JFK assassinated  Lee Harvey Oswald / Jack Ruby  Warren Commission  Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson/ “Johnson Treatment”  Civil Rights Act of 1964 (strong support of LBJ)  EEOC: Equal Employment Opportunity Comm.  Great Society  Election of 1964: Johnson v. B. Goldwater  Tonkin Gulf Incident  Tonkin Gulf Resolution- “blank check”  War on poverty  Congress and the Great Society  National Endowment of the Arts  Medicare / Medicaid, 1965  Domestic policy and legislation  Voting Rights Act of 1965  Freedom Summer of 1964  Selma to Montgomery, March 1965  Black Power  Watts and other riots (Newark NJ, 1967)  Elijah Muhammad- Nation of Islam  Malcolm X  Black separatism  Black power / Stokely Carmichael / emphasis on African-American culture and identity  April 4, 1968: MLK, Jr. assassinated (Memphis)  Viet Cong and continuing struggle in Vietnam  Operation Rolling Thunder; escalation  Americanization of the war  Hawks and doves  domino theory  Teach-ins  CIA and FBI spy at home  Tet offensive  Democratic primary, 1968  LBJ pulls out of the race  Bobby Kennedy assassinated, June 5, 1968  Democratic National Convention in Chicago  President Richard Nixon (R); VP Spiro Agnew  Nixon had no clear mandate from voters  Counterculture / sexual revolution/ Dr. A. Kinsey  Hippies / flower children  Greening of America

Ch. 40: The Stalemated Seventies 1968-1980  productivity slump; record inflation  Cost of Vietnam War and Great Society  1968 presidential election  President Richard Nixon (R) 1969  Vietnamization of the war (Nixon Doctrine)

20  Public opposition to the war  “Silent majority” / Nixon’s response to anti-war sentiment  Nixon widens war to Cambodia, 1970  Kent State  Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg  Nixon goes to China and Moscow  Detente  ABM Treaty, 1972; SALT, 1972  Earl Warren and judicial activism, starting in 1953  Domestic issues  EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)  OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety Admin.)  Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring”  DMZ  election of 1972: Nixon bests George McGovern (D)  Watergate scandal  Vice President Spiro Agnew forced to resign  New VP- Gerald Ford  War Powers Act, 1973  Egypt and Syria attack Israel (Six-Day War, 1967)  Oil embargo on U.S. ; energy crisis resulted  U.S. House moves to impeach Nixon  Nixon resigns the Presidency, Aug. 8, 1974  President Gerald Ford / pardons Nixon  Helsinki Accords, July 1975  Defeat in Vietnam; casualties and costs  Women’s movement  Title IX, 1972; ERA amendment fails (barely), 1982  Roe v. Wade, 1973  Racial issues, 1970’s  1976: United States bicentennial  election of 1976: President Jimmy Carter  Carter struggles with Congress  Carter and human rights  Carter, Egypt, and Israel : Camp David Accords  End of détente / renewed cold war tensions  Economic problems  Shah of Iran overthrown (1979) by Islamic fundamentalists; oil crisis followed  SALT II: Carter, Brezhnev, shot down by Senate  Nov. 4, 1979: US embassy seized in Iran  Ayatollah Khomeini  Soviets invade Afghanistan  US boycott of 1980 Moscow Olympics

Ch. 41: The Resurgence of Conservatism  Election of 1980: Ronald Reagan  The New Right  Tax Cuts  Budget problems and battles  US – Soviet Relations  Mikhail Gorbachev  Easing of the Cold War freeze  Scandal: Iran- Contra

21  Economic program of Reagan: Reaganomics  Domestic and social policy  Teflon president  Assassination attempt  Legacy of Reagan  Election of 1988: George W. Bush  The fall of the Berlin Wall  The collapse of the Soviet Union  The end of the Cold War  Bush and domestic issues / policy  The Persian Gulf War  Election of 1992: Bill Clinton  A Republican Congress, 1994  Election of 1996: Clinton again  Foreign Policy under Clinton  Clinton impeachment  Election of 2000

Unit 8 Readings, Activities, and Assessments Cooperative Activity: Timeline of the Allied Invasion of Europe, from D-Day through the surrender of Germany Cooperative Activity: Timeline of the war in the Pacific, from Midway through Japanese surrender Cooperative Activity: The Makings of the Cold War: Development of U.S. – Soviet tensions Portraits of Presidents: Truman Documentary about the Trinity test Documentary Series: The Century: Civilians at War Documentary Series: The Century: Best Years Portraits of Presidents: Eisenhower Documentary Series: The Century: Happy Daze Portraits of a President: Kennedy and Johnson Documentary Series: The Century: Poisoned Dreams Documentary Series: The Century: Unpinned: 1965-1970 Film: All the President’s Men Documentary Series: The Century: Approaching the Apocalypse, 1971-1975 Documentary Series: The Century: Starting Over, 1976-1980 Documentary Series: The Century: New World, 1981-1989 Seminar: US Foreign Policy Cooperative Activity: Domestic and Foreign Policy Under Kennedy Seminar: Civil Rights Cooperative Activity: Timeline of Major Events in Vietnam Debate: Involvement in the Vietnam War Seminar: Watergate: The Scandal Cooperative Activity: The Warren Court Seminar: The Women’s Movement Cooperative Activity: Profile of Foreign Policy under Carter DBQ Debate Yes We Should have dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan No We should not have dropped bomb on Japan DBQ Eisenhower’s farewell address Warning of Industrial Military Complex DBQ Life Article by William Shirer “What if Hitler Won the War” Sample Essay Question During the European and Pacific Theater in World War I; I there were significant turning points in each campaign. Choose two turning points from each campaign and discuss how the outcome of the war may have been altered if these turning points had different outcomes.

22 Each President from Truman to Eisenhower used the policy of Containment during the Cold War Explain how each President from Truman to Nixon addressed the policy of Containment with each president policy adaptation of the policy of Containment

Debate: High Crimes and Misdemeanors, or Partisan Politics

Exam, Unit 8