AP U.S. History Syllabus
Course Description
AP U.S. History course is a comprehensive look at the history of the United States from pre-colonial time up to the present day. The course is intended to prepare the students for the AP U.S. History exam. Emphasis will be placed on content knowledge through considerable assignments outside class time along with essay writing and interpretation of original documents.
Daily readings and guided reading assignments will be assigned during each unit and discussed in class. Students are responsible for keeping up with reading assignments. Unit tests will be given and DBQ essays will be written during each unit using DBQ’s from previous AP U.S. History exams. Tests will be a combination of multiple choice and essay questions, similar in style to the AP U.S. History exam.
Course Materials
You will need to bring the following materials to class everyday. • Pen or Pencil • Notebook • Folder (one slot for new assignments and the other slot for returned assignments)
Course Textbook
• The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy
Additional Texts: Readings and historical documents provided by the instructor.
• Discovering the American Past, Volume 1 to 1877, Third Edition, Wheeler and Becker • The American Spirit, Volume II, Thomas Baily and David Kennedy • America, A Concise History, Second Edition, Volume 2: Since 1865, James Henretta, David Brody, and Lynn Dumenil • America Past and Present, Volume 2, Fourth Edition, Robert Divine, T.H. Breen, George Fredrickson, R. Hal Williams • Doing the DBQ, Advanced Placement U.S. History Examination, Teaching and Learning with the Document-Based Question, The Colleger Board
Grading will be determined on cumulative points attained from all assigned coursework and tests.
A 100-95% A- 94-90% B+ 89-87 B 86-84 B- 83-80 C+ 79-77 C 76-74 C- 73-70 D+ 69-67 D 66-64 D- 63-60 F 60 - 0 Day One: Discovery. Perspectives on Discovery Due Read pages 3 - 21 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, DBQ Preparation, and writing a document based essay Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Writing a thesis statement, using 2006 DBQ
Themes of the day: Founding the New World Test • The First Discoverers of America • The Earliest Americans • Indirect Discoverers of the New World Day Four: Seventeenth Century Life in America • Europeans Enter Africa • Columbus Comes Upon a New World Read pages 62 - 78 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • When Worlds Collide Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Spanish Conquistadores • The Conquest of Mexico Themes for the day: • The Spread of Spanish America • The Unhealthy Chesapeake • The Tobacco Economy Perspectives on Discovery Assigned • Frustrated Freemen and Bacon’s Rebellion DBQ Preparation, and writing Document based essays. • Colonial Slavery Using 2006 Republican Motherhood/Cult of Domesticity DBQ • Africans in America • Southern Society • The New England Family Day Two: Colonization • Life in the New England Towns Read pages 23 - 39 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The Half-Way Covenant and the Salem Witch Trials Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The New England Way of Life • The Early Settlers’ Days and Ways Themes of the day: • England’s Imperial Stirrings America’s Distinct Culture Assignment, essay “melting pot” or • Elizabeth Energizes England “salad bowl?” • England on the Eve of Empire • England Plants the Jamestown Seedling • Cultural Clash in the Chesapeake Day Five: Colonial Society and Economy • Virginia: Child of Tobacco • Maryland: Catholic Haven Read pages 80 - 90 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Colonizing the Carolinas • The Emergence of North Carolina Themes for the day: • Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony • Conquest by the Cradle • The Plantation Colonies • A Mingling of the Races • Interpreting the Mayflower Compact, an in-depth analysis • The Structure of Colonial Society • Clerics, Physicians, and Jurists Discovering the American Past: Chapter One • Workaday America Pages 7-11 Selections from Cortes’s Letters, Interpret • Horsepower and Sailpower information. Discovering the American Past: Chapter Three Background Day Three: European Conflict in the Colonies The Evidence
Read pages 50 - 60 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Day Six: Colonial Religion and Culture
Themes of the day: Read pages 90 - 99 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Andros Promotes the First American Revolution • Old Netherlanders at New Netherland Themes for the day: • Friction with English and Swedish Neighbors • Dominant Denominations • Dutch Residents in New York • The Great Awakening • Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania • Schools and Colleges • Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors • Culture in the Backwoods • The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies • Pioneer Presses • The Great Game of Politics • Colonial Folkways Day Nine: The Struggle for Independence
Interpreting Documents: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Read pages 139 - 147 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, by Jonathan Edwards. An in-depth analysis. Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Themes for the day: Day Seven: Colonial World Wars • Congress Drafts George Washington • Bunker Hill and Hessian Hirelings Read pages 101 - 117 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The Abortive Conquest of Canada Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Thomas Paine Preaches Common Sense • Interpreting Common Sense, an in-depth analysis Themes for the day: • Jefferson’s “Explanation” of Independence • France Finds a Foothold in Canada • Patriots and Loyalists • New France Fans Out • The Loyalist Exodus • The Clash of Empires • General Washington at Bay • George Washington Inaugurates War with France • Global War and Colonial Disunity Discovering the American Past, Chapter 4: What really • Braddock’s Blundering and Its Aftermath happened in the Boston Massacre, pages 71-96, The Legal • Pitt’s Palms of Victory Papers of John Adams. Analysis and interpretation. • Restless Colonials
America’s Distinct Culture Due Day Ten: America Conquers the British DBQ Preparation 2, writing a document based essay using 1993 New England and Chesapeake regions DBQ Read pages 147 - 157 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Colonial Life Test Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Americans: A People of Destiny Themes for the day: • Burgoyne’s Blundering Invasion • Strange French Bedfellows Day Eight: Revolutionary War, The British Menace • The Colonial War Becomes a World War • Blow and Counterblow Read pages 119 - 136 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The Land Frontier and the Sea Frontier Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Yorktown and the Final Curtain • Peace at Paris Themes for the day: • A New Nation Legitimized • The Deep Roots of Revolution • The Mercantile Theory Revolutionary War Campaigns Due • Mercantilist Trammels on Trade • The Merits of Mercantilism Revolutionary Era Test • The Menace of Mercantilism • The Stamp Tax Uproar • Parliament Forced to Repeal the Stamp Act Day Eleven: The Articles of Confederation • The Townshend Tea Tax and the Boston “Massacre” • The Seditious Committees of Correspondence Read pages 159 - 167 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Tea Parties at Boston and Elsewhere Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Parliament Passes the “Intolerable Act” • The Continental Congress and Bloodshed Themes for the day: • Interpreting the Declaration of Independence, an in-depth • A Revolution of Sentiments analysis • Constitution Making in the States • Imperial Strength and Weakness • Economic Crosscurrents • American Pluses and Minuses • A Shaky Start Toward Union • A Thin Line of Heroes • Creating a Confederation • The Articles of Confederation Revolutionary War Campaigns Assignment, How did the Northern campaigns differ from the Southern campaigns? Interpreting The Articles of Confederation, an in-depth analysis, Were they ALL bad? Day Twelve: The Constitutional Convention Day Fifteen: Jeffersonian Democracy
Read pages 167 - 179 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Read pages 204 - 211 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Themes for the day: Themes for the day: • Landmarks in Land Laws • Federalist and Republican Mudslingers • The World’s Ugly Duckling • The Jeffersonian “Revolution of 1800” • The Horrid Specter of Anarchy • The Federalist Finale • A Convention of “Demigods” • Responsibility Breeds Moderation • Patriots in Philadelphia • Jeffersonian Restraint Helps to Further a “Revolution” • Hammering Out a Bundle of Compromises • The “Dead Clutch” of the Judiciary • Safeguards for Conservatism • Jefferson Threatens the Supremacy of the Court • The Clash of Federalists and Antifederalists • The Great Debate in the States DBQ Preparation 3, writing a document based essay • The Four Laggard States using 1985 Articles of Confederation DBQ • A Conservative Triumph
Interpreting the Bill of Rights, an in-depth analysis, Protection Day Sixteen: The Louisiana Purchase from ourselves? Was it necessary? Read pages 211 - 223(The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Day Thirteen: The Infantile Nation Themes for the day: Read pages 182 - 189 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The Pacifist Jefferson Turns Warrior Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Louisiana Godsend • Out-Federalizing the Federalists in Louisiana Themes for the day: • Louisiana in the Long View • A New Ship or an Uncertain Sea • America: A Nutcrackered Neutral • Washington’s Profederalist Regime • British Man-Stealing • The Bill of Rights • Jefferson’s Backfiring Embargo • Hamilton Revives the Corpse of Public Credit • The Wooden-Gun Embargo: A Successful Failure • Customs Duties and Excise Taxes • The Living Jefferson • Hamilton Battles Jefferson for a Bank • Mutinous Moonshiners in Pennsylvania Selected Readings from Undaunted Courage by, Stephen • The Emergence of Political Parties Ambrose Analysis and interpretation of diaries of Meriwether Lewis
Day Seventeen: The War of 1812 Day Fourteen: Emerging on the International Scene Read pages 225 - 239 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Read pages 190 - 201 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Themes for the day: Themes for the day: • Madison: Dupe of Napoleon • The Impact of the French Revolution • War Whoops Arouse the War Hawks • Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation • Mr. Madison’s War • Embroilments with Britain • Fight Over Canada on Land and Lakes • Jay’s Treaty and Washington’s Farewell • Washington Burned and New Orleans Defended • “Bonny Johnny” Adams Becomes President • Ship Duels and Privateer Prizes • Unofficial Fighting with France • The Treaty of Ghent • Adams Puts Patriotism Above Party • Federalist Grievances and the Hartford Convention • The Federalist Witch Hunt • The Second War for American Independence • The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions • International Legacies • Federalists Versus Democratic-Republicans Jefferson and Madison Test Forming a New Nation Test Day Eighteen: James Monroe’s Presidency • Cabinet Crises and Nationalistic Setbacks • The Webster-Hayne Forensic Duel Read pages 240 - 245 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Websterian Cement for the Union Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Themes for the day: Day Twenty-Two: Major Jacksonian Issues • Nascent Nationalism • “The American System” Read pages 277 - 285 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The So-Called Era of Good Feelings Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Panic of 1819 and the Curse of Hard Times Themes for the day: • “Nulllies” in South Carolina Day Nineteen: Westward Expansion • A Victory for Both Union and Nullification • The Bank as a Political Football Read pages 245 - 256 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Brickbats and Bouquets for the Bank Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • “Old Hickory” Crushes Clay in 1832 • Badgering Biddle’s Bank Themes for the day: • Transplanting the Tribes • Growing Pains of the West • Slavery and the Sectional Balance Discovering the American Past: Chapter Six, pages 121-133 • The Uneasy Missouri Compromise The Taney Court and the Charles River Bridge Decision. • John Marshall and Judicial Nationalism The correct ruling? You decide. • The Supreme Court Curbs States’ Rights • Judicial Dikes Against Democratic Excesses DBQ Preparation 4, writing a document based essay • Sharing Oregon and Acquiring Florida Using the 1981 Northern middle-class women DBQ • The Menace of Monarchy in America • Monroe and His Doctrine • Monroe’s Dictum Abroad Day Twenty-Three: Politics of the Late 1830’s • Monroe’s Doctrine Appraised Read pages 286 - 297 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Interpreting the Monroe Doctrine, an in-depth analysis, Did the Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) U.S. really mean this..???? Themes for the day: • The Lone Star of Texas Flickers Day Twenty: John Adams’ Presidency • Interpreting the Constitution of The Republic of Texas, an in-depth analysis Read pages 258 - 266 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Texas: An International Derelict Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Birth of the Whigs and the Election of 1836 • Big Woes for the “Little Magician” Themes for the day: • Depression Doldrums and the Independent Treasury • Politics for the People • “Tippecanoe” Versus “Little Van” • Nourishing the New Democracy • The Log Cabins and Hard Cider of 1840 • The Adams-Clay “Corrupt” Bargaining • The Two-Party System Emerges • A Yankee Misfit in the White House • The Tricky “Tariff of Abominations” Jacksonian Democracy Test • The Tariff Yoke in the South
Day Twenty-Four: Early Industrialism Day Twenty-One: Early Jacksonian Democracy Read pages 299 - 315 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Read pages 266 - 275(The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Themes for the day: Themes for the day: • The Westward Movement • Going “Whole Hog” for Jackson in 1828 • Shaping the Western Landscape • The Jacksonian “Revolution of 1828” • The March of the Millions • The Advent of “Old Hickory” Jackson • The Emerald Isle Moves West • Jackson Nationalizes the Spoils System • The German Forty-Eighters • More Victors Than Spoils • Flare-Ups of Antiforeignism • The March of Mechanization • Whitney Ends the Fiber Famine Themes for the day: • Marvels in Manufacturing • “Cotton Is King!” • The Planter “Aristocracy” • Slaves of the Slave System Day Twenty-Five: Americans and the Economy • The White Majority • Free Blacks: Slaves Without Masters Read pages 315 - 330 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Plantation Slavery Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Life Under the Lash • The Burdens of Bondage Themes for the day: • Early Abolitionism • Workers and “Wage Slaves” • Radical Abolitionism • Women and the Economy • The South Lashes Back • Western Farmers Reap a Revolution in the Fields • The Abolitionist Impact in the North • Highways and Steamboats • “Clinton’s Big Ditch” in New York Selected readings from the Liberator, founded by William Lloyd • Pioneer Railroad Promoters Garrison, • The Transport Web Binds the Union analysis and interpretation of selected weekly issues. • Wealth and Poverty • Cables, Clippers, and Pony Riders Discovering the American Past: Chapter Eight pages 175-180 Lay my Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery Summarize the characteristics of a slaves life, compare it to Day Twenty-Six: The Era of Reform migrant workers of today.
Read pages 332 - 344 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Cultural History of Early America Test Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Themes for the day: Day Twenty-Nine: Manifest Destiny • Reviving Religion • Denominational Diversity Read pages 377 - 384 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • A Desert Zion in Utah Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Free Schools for a Free People • Higher Goals for Higher Learning Themes for the day: • An Age of Reform • The Accession of “Tyler Too” • Demon Rum--The “Old Deluder” • John Tyler: A President Without a Party • Women in Revolt • A War of Words with England • Wilderness Utopias • Manipulating the Maine Maps • The Lone Star of Texas Shines Alone • The Belated Texas Nuptials Day Twenty-Seven: Science and the Art of the Early • Oregon Fever Populates Oregon Nineteenth Century
Read pages 345 - 354 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Day Thirty: The Mexican-American War Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Read pages 384 - 396 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Themes for the day: Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Dawn of Scientific Achievement • Artistic Achievements Themes for the day: • The Blossoming of a National Literature • A Mandate (?) for Manifest Destiny • Trumpeters of Transcendentalism • Polk the Purposeful • Glowing Literary Lights • Misunderstandings with Mexico • Literary Individualists and Dissenters • American Blood on American (?) Soil • Portrayers of the Past • The Mastering of Mexico • Fighting Mexico for Peace • Profit and Loss in Mexico Day Twenty-Eight: The Slavery Controversy DBQ Preparation 5 writing a document based essay Read pages 357 - 374 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, using 1987 Constitution failure DBQ Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • “Old Buck” Versus “The Pathfinder” Day Thirty-Two: Sectional Struggle • The Electoral Fruits of 1856
Read pages 398 - 408 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Readings from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet B. Stowe. Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Analysis of the book as a cause of the civil war.
Themes for the day: • The Popular Sovereignty Panacea Day Thirty-Six: Secession • Political Triumphs for General Taylor • “Californy Gold” Read pages 426 - 440 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Sectional Balance and the Underground Railroad Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Twilight of the Senatorial Giants • Deadlock and Danger on Capitol Hill Themes for the day: • Breaking the Congressional Logjam • The Dred Scott Bombshell • Balancing the Compromise Scales • The Financial Crash of 1857 • An Illinois Rail-Splitter Emerges • The Great Debate: Lincoln Versus Douglas Day Thirty-Three: Expansion Before the Civil War • John Brown: Murderer or Martyr? • The Disruption of the Democrats Read pages 409 - 417 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • A Rail-Splitter Splits the Union Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Electoral Upheaval of 1860 • The Secessionist Exodus Themes for the day: • The Collapse of Compromise • Defeat and Doom for the Whigs • Farewell to Union • President Pierce the Expansionist • Coveted Cuba: Pearl of the Antilles Day Thirty-Seven: North vs. South • Pacific Railroad Promoters and the Gadsden Purchase • Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Scheme Read pages 442 - 456 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Interpreting the Kansas-Nebraska Act, an in-depth analysis Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Congress Legislates a Civil War Themes for the day: Westward Expansion Test • President of the Disunited States of America • South Carolina Assails Fort Sumter • Brothers’ Blood and Border Blood Day Thirty-Four: North and South Hatreds • The Balance of Forces • Dethroning King Cotton Read pages 419 - 427 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The Decisiveness of Diplomacy Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Foreign Flare-Ups • President Davis Versus President Lincoln Themes for the day: • Limitations on Wartime Liberties • Stowe and Helper: Literary Incendiaries • Volunteers and Draftees: North and South • The North-South Contest for Kansas • The Economic Stresses of War • Kansas in Convulsion • “Bully” Brooks and His Bludgeon • “Old Buck” Versus “The Pathfinder” Day Thirty-Eight: Fighting the Civil War • The Electoral Fruits of 1856 • The Dred Scott Bombshell Read pages 461 - 477 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Day Thirty-Five: Toward Disunion Themes for the day: • Bull Run Ends the “Ninety-Day War” Read pages 419 - 426 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • McClellan and the Peninsula Campaign Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The War at Sea • The Pivotal Point: Antietam Themes for the day: • A Proclamation Without Emancipation • Stowe and Helper: Literary Incendiaries • Interpreting the Emancipation Proclamation, an in-depth • The North-South Contest for Kansas analysis • Kansas in Convulsion • Blacks Battle Bondage • “Bully” Brooks and His Bludgeon • Lee’s Last Lunge at Gettysburg • The War in the West Day Forty-Two: Grant and Hayes • Sherman Scratches Georgia Read pages 509 - 522 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Day Thirty-Nine: Civil War Legacy Themes for the day: Read pages 456 - 458 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The “Bloody Shirt” Elects Grant Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Era of Good Stealings • A Carnival of Corruption Themes for the day: • The Liberal Republican Revolt of 1872 • “Shoddy” Millionaires in the North • Depression and Demands for Inflation • A Crushed Cotton Kingdom • Pallid Politics in the Gilded Age • Read pages 477 - 484 • The Hayes-Tilden Standoff, 1876 • The Politics of War • The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction • The Election of 1864 • Cold-Water Integrity on the Potomac • Grant Outlasts Lee • The Martyrdom of Lincoln • The Aftermath of the Nightmare Day Forty-Three: The Politics of the 1880’s
Civil War Test Read pages 523 - 532 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Day Forty: Reconstructing the South Themes for the day: • The Garfield Interlude Read pages 487 - 499 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Chester Arthur Takes Command Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Blaine-Cleveland Mudslingers of 1884 • “Old Grover” Takes Over Themes for the day: • Cleveland Battles for a Lower Tariff • The Problems of Peace • Harrison Ousts Cleveland in 1888 • Unfettered Freedmen • The Freedmen’s Bureau The Gilded Age Test • Johnson: The Tailor President • Presidential Reconstruction • The Baleful Black Codes Day Forty-Four: The Railroad • Congressional Reconstruction • Johnson Clashes with Congress Read pages 535 - 545 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Swinging ‘Round the Circle with Johnson Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Republican Principles and Programs • Reconstruction by the Sword Themes for the day: • The Iron Colt Becomes an Iron Horse The Gilded Age • Spanning the Continent with Rails DBQ Preparation 6, writing a document based essay • Binding the Country with Railroad Ties using the 1979 Federal Government and Laissez-Faire DBQ • Railroad Consolidation and Mechanization • Revolution by Railways • Wrongdoing in Railroading Day Forty-One: Reconstruction Ends • Government Bridles the Iron Horse • Miracles of Mechanization Read pages 499 - 506 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) America a Concise History, pages 489-492, The Railroad Boom What impact did railroad expansion have on the South? Themes for the day: • The Realities of Radical Reconstruction in the South • The Ku Klux Klan Day Forty-Five: Business Tycoons • Johnson Walks the Impeachment Plank • A Not-Guilty Verdict for Johnson Read pages 545 - 561 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The Purchase of Alaska Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Heritage of Reconstruction Themes for the day: • The Trust Titan Emerges • The Supremacy of Steel • Receding Native Population • Carnegie and Other Sultans of Steel • Bellowing Herds of Bison • Rockefeller Grows an American Beauty Rose • The End of the Trail • The Gospel of Wealth • Government Tackles the Trust Evil America past and present pages 506-513 Crushing the Native • The South in the Age of Industry Americans • The Impact of the New Industrial Revolution on America Methods, major battles and removal. • In Unions There Is Strength • Labor Limps Along • Unhorsing the Knights of Labor Day Forty-Nine: Settling the West • The AF of L to the Fore Read pages 607 - 620 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Day Forty-Six: Immigration and Urbanization Themes for the day: Read pages 564 - 578 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Mining: From Dishpan to Ore Breaker Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Beef Bonanzas and the Long Drive • Free Land for Free Families Themes for the day: • Taming Western Deserts • The Urban Frontier • The Far West Comes of Age • The New Immigration • The Folding Frontier • Southern Europe Uprooted • The Farm Becomes a Factory • Reactions to the New Immigration • Deflation Dooms the Debtor • Narrowing the Welcome Mat • Unhappy Farmers • Churches Confront the Urban Challenge • The Farmers Take Their Stand • The Passionate Populist Crusade Timed DBQ Essay using 1982 John Brown’s Raid Question AP test DBQ Industrialization Test
Day Forty-Seven: Industrial Era Reform Day Fifty: Economic Crisis of the 1890’s
Read pages 578 - 593 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Read pages 623 - 638 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Themes for the day: Themes for the day: • Darwin Disrupts the Churches • The Republicans Return Under Harrison • The Lust for Learning • Political Gravy for All • Booker T. Washington and Education for Blacks • The Populist Challenge in 1892 • The Hallowed Halls of Ivy • “Old Grover” Cleveland Again • The March of the Mind • Gold Shortages and Job Shortages • The Appeal of the Press • Cleveland Crushes the Pullman Strike • Apostles of Reform • Democratic Tariff Tinkering • Postwar Writing • McKinley: Hanna’s Fair-Haired Boy • Literary Landmarks • Bryan: Silverite Messiah • The New Morality • Hanna Leads the “Gold Bugs” • Families and Women in the City • Appealing to the Pocketbook Vote • Prohibition of Alcohol and Social Progress • Class Conflict: Plowholders versus Bondholders • Artistic Triumphs • Republican Standpattism Enthroned • The Business of Amusement • Inflation Without Silver
Cross of Gold, by William Jennings Bryan, analysis and Day Forty-Eight: Conquering the West interpretation of historical documents.
Read pages 597 - 607 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, The enduring allegory of the the “battle of the standards” The Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Wizard of Oz. by Frank Baum, Comparisons from America Past and Present pages 620-621. Themes for the day: • The Indian Barrier to the West Day Fifty-One: The Spanish-American War Read pages 681 - 688 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Read pages 646 - 655 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Themes for the day: • Progressive Roots Themes for the day: • Raking Muck with the Muckrakers • Cubans Rise in Revolt • Political Progressivism • The Mystery of the Maine Explosion • Progressivism in the Cities and States • McKinley Unleashes the Dogs of War • Dewey’s May Day Victory at Manila • Unexpected Imperialistic Plums Day Fifty-Five: Teddy Roosevelt • The Confused Invasion of Cuba • Curtains for Spain in America Read pages 688 - 700 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • McKinley Heeds Duty, Destiny, and Dollars Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
The New York Journal, 1898 Yellow Journalism and the sinking Themes for the day: of the USS Maine. How was public opinion influenced? • TR’s Square Deal for Labor • TR Corrals the Corporations • Caring for the Consumer Day Fifty-Two: Imperialism • Earth Control • The “Roosevelt Panic” of 1907 Read pages 641 - 646 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The Rough Rider Thunders Out Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Taft: A Round Peg in a Square Hole • The Dollar Goes Abroad as a Diplomat Themes for the day: • Taft the Trustbuster • Imperialist Stirrings • Taft Splits the Republican Party • Monroe’s Doctrine and the Venezuelan Squall • The Taft-Roosevelt Rupture • Spurning the Hawaiian Pear • Read pages 655 - 660 Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty, and it’s impact on the Panama Canal • America’s Course (Curse?) of Empire • Interpreting the Roosevelt Corollary, an in-depth analysis Timed DBQ Essay Writing, 1974 The Crittenden Compromise • Perplexities in Puerto Rico and Cuba DBQ • New Horizons in Two Hemispheres
Day Fifty-Six: Woodrow Wilson Day Fifty-Three: Post War Foreign Policy Read pages 703 - 710 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Read pages 662 - 678 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Themes for the day: Themes for the day: • The Emergence of Dr. Woodrow Wilson • “Little Brown Brothers” in the Philippines • The “Bull Moose” Campaign of 1912 • John Hay Defends China (and U.S. Interests) • Woodrow Wilson: A Minority President • Hinging the Open Door in China • Wilson: The Idealist in Politics • Kicking “Teddy” Roosevelt Upstairs • Wilson Tackles the Tariff • Imperialism or Bryanism in 1900? • Wilson Battles the Bankers • TR: Brandisher of the Big Stick • The President Tames the Trusts • Colombia Blocks the Canal • Wilsonian Progressivism at High Tide • Uncle Sam Creates Puppet Panama • Completing the Canal and Appeasing Colombia • TR’s Perversion of Monroe’s Doctrine Day Fifty-Seven: Passive Foreign Policy • Roosevelt on the World Stage • Japanese Laborers in California Read pages 710 - 719 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Imperialism Test Themes for the day: • New Directions in Foreign Policy Day Fifty-Four: Progressivism • Moralistic Diplomacy in Mexico • Thunder Across the Sea • A Precarious Neutrality • The Prohibition “Experiment” • America Earns Blood Money • The Golden Age of Gangsterism • Wilson Wins Reelection in 1916 • Monkey Business in Tennessee
World War I Essay: Was the Treaty of Versaille an indirect Day Fifty-Eight: World War I cause of World War II?
Read pages 722 - 733 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Day Sixty-One: The Roaring Twenties
Themes for the day: Read pages 753 - 765 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, War by Act of Germany Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Wilsonian Idealism Enthroned Fourteen Potent Wilsonian Points Themes for the day: • Creel Manipulates Minds • The Mass-Consumption Economy • Enforcing Loyalty and Stifling Dissent • Putting America on Rubber Tires • The Nation’s Factories Go to War • The Advent of the Gasoline Age • Forging the War Economy • Humans Develop Wings • Making Plowboys into Doughboys • The Radio Revolution • Fighting in France--Belatedly • Hollywood’s Filmland Fantasies • America Helps Hammer the “Hun” • The Dynamic Decade • Literary Liberation • Wall Streets Big Bull Market Day Fifty-Nine: The Great War’s Legacy
Read pages 733 - 742 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Day Sixty-Two: Politics of the 1920’s Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Read pages 768 - 780 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Themes for the day: Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Fourteen Points Disarm Germany • Interpreting the Fourteen Points, an in-depth analysis Themes for the day: • Wilson Steps Down from Olympus • The Republican “Old Guard” Returns • An Idealist Battles the Imperialists in Paris • GOP Reaction at the Throttle • Hammering Out the Treaty • The Aftermath of War • The Peace Treaty That Bred a New War • America Seeks Benefits Without Burdens • Interpreting the Treaty of Versaille, an in-depth analysis • Ship-Scrapping at the Washington Conference • The Domestic Parade of Prejudice • Hiking the Tariff Higher • Wilson’s Tour and Collapse (1919) • The Stench of Scandal • Wilson Rejects the Lodge Reservations • Calvin Coolidge: A Yankee in the White House • Defeat Through Deadlock • Frustrated Farmers • The “Solemn Referendum” of 1920 • A Three-Way Race for the White House in 1924 • The Betrayal of Great Expectations • Foreign-Policy Flounderings • Unraveling the Debt Knot America Past and Present, page 753. Wilson’s Fourteen Points, From American Foreign Policy, A History Since 1900, Success and failure of implementation of each point. Day Sixty-Three: The Excess Ends
Progressivism Test Read pages 780 - 791 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Day Sixty: Controversies of the 1920’s Themes for the day: • The Triumph of Herbert Hoover, 1928 Read pages 745 - 753 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • President Hoover’s First Moves Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Great Crash Ends the Golden Twenties • Hooked on the Horn of Plenty Themes for the day: • Rugged Times for Rugged Individualists • Insulating America from the Radical Virus • Herbert Hoover: Pioneer for the New Deal • Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK • Routing the Bonus Army in Washington • Stemming the Foreign Flood • Japanese Militarists Attack China • Hoover Pioneers the Good Neighbor Policy • Appeasing Japan and Germany • Hitler’s Belligerency and U.S. Neutrality
Day Sixty-Four: The New Deal Day Sixty-Seven: Outbreak of War Read pages 794 - 814 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Read pages 834 - 844 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Themes for the day: • FDR: A Politician in a Wheelchair Themes for the day: • Presidential Hopefuls of 1932 • Aftermath of the Fall of France • The Humiliation of Hoover in 1932 • Bolstering Britain with the Destroyer Deal • FDR and the Three R’s: Relief, Recovery, Reform • FDR Shatters the Two-Term Tradition (1940) • Roosevelt Tackles Money and Banking • Congress Passes the Landmark Lend-Lease Law • Creating Jobs for the Jobless • Hitler’s Assault on the Soviet Union Spawns the Atlantic • A Helping Hand for Industry and Labor Charter • Paying Farmers Not to Farm • U.S. Destroyers and Hitler’s U-Boats Clash • Dust Bowls and Black Blizzards • Heading for the Surprise Assault at Pearl Harbor • Battling Bankers and Big Business • America’s Transformation from Bystander to Belligerent • The TVA Harnesses the Tennessee River • Housing Reform and Social Security • A New Deal for Unskilled Labor Day Sixty-Eight: Girding for War • Roosevelt’s “Coddling” of Labor • Interpreting the New Deal, an in-depth analysis Read pages 847 - 859 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) The American Spirit, Volume II pages 333-351 The New Deal Wendell Willkie, Political Power, How did Wilkie expose the Themes for the day: “yardstick?” • The Allies Trade Space for Time • The Shock of War • Building the War Machine Day Sixty-Five: New Deal Controversies • Manpower and Womanpower • Holding the Home Front Read pages 814 - 821 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The Rising Sun in the Pacific Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Themes for the day: Day Sixty-Nine: Allied Victory • Landon Challenges “the Champ” in 1936 • Nine Old Men on the Supreme Bench Read pages 859 - 873 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The Court Changes Course Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Twilight of the New Deal • New Deal of Raw Deal? Themes for the day: • FDR’s Balance Sheet • Japan’s High Tide at Midway • American Leapfrogging Toward Tokyo Boom and Bust Test • The Allied Halting of Hitler • The North African Second Front • The Rough Road to Rome Day Sixty-Six: World War II, America’s Neutrality • Eisenhower’s D-Day Invasion of France • FDR: The Fourth-Termite of 1944 Read pages 824 - 834 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Roosevelt Defeats Dewey Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Last Days of Hitler • Japan Dies Hard Themes for the day: • Atomic Awfulness • The London Conference and Soviet Recognition • The Allies Triumphant • Freedom for (from?) the Filipinos • Good Neighborism Under FDR Interpreting the Marshall Plan, an in-depth analysis of the plan • Secretary Hull’s Reciprocal Trade Agreements to rebuild Europe, using text from the Marshall Plan speech. • Impulses Toward Storm-Cellar Isolationism • Congress Legislates Neutrality World War II Test • America Dooms Loyalist Spain Day Seventy: The Cold War, the Feel Good Fifties • The Continuing Arms Race • Cuba, Castro and Communism Read pages 876 - 883 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Kennedy Challenges Nixon, Presidential Issues of 1960 Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Cold War Test, The 1950’s Themes for the day: • Postwar Economic Anxieties • The Long Economic Boom, 1950 - 1970 Day Seventy-Three: Entering the Sixties • The Smiling Sunbelt • The Rush to the Suburbs Read Pages 930-939 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • The Postwar Baby Boom Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Themes for the day: Day Seventy-One: The Cold War Begins • Kennedy and the Frontier Spirit • Rumblings in Europe Read pages 883 - 902 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Foreign Flare-Ups and Flexible Response Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • The Vietnam Quagmire • Cuban Confrontations Themes for the day: • The Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights • Truman: the “Gutty” Man from Missouri • The Kennedy Assassination • The United States and the Soviet Union • Shaping the Postwar World • The Problem of Germany Day Seventy-Four: LBJ Takes Over • Crystallizing the Cold War • America Begins to Rearm Read Pages 939-955 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Reconstruction and Revolution in Asia Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Ferreting Out Alleged Communists • Democratic Divisions in 1948 Themes for the day: • The Korean Volcano Erupts (1950) • Johnson vs. Goldwater, 1964 • The Military Seesaw in Korea • The Great Society • The Black Revolution or Black Rage? • Fighting Communism in Two Hemispheres Day Seventy-Two: The Civil Rights Movement • Problems in Vietnam and Johnson’s Downfall • The Election of 1968 Read pages 906 - 916 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Victory for Nixon Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Cultural Upheaval During the 1960’s
Themes for the day: The Great Society Speech, By Lyndon B. Johnson, In what • The Advent of Eisenhower ways does President Johnson propose to build “the Great • “Ike” Takes Command Society?” • Desegregating the South • Seeds of the Civil Rights Revolution • Crisis at Little Rock Day Seventy-Five: Stagnation; The 1970’s • Eisenhower Republicanism at Home Read Pages 958-967 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) Day Seventy-Three: The Cold War Continues Themes for the day: Read Pages 916-926 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, • Economic Issues of the 1970’s Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy) • Vietnamization and Cambodia • Nixon: China and Russia Themes for the day: • A New Supreme Court • A New Look in Foreign Policy • The Home Front, 70’s Style • The Vietnam Nightmare • Nixon Again in 1972 • A False Lull in Europe • Bombing Intensifies in Vietnam • Menaces in the Middle East • The Voters Still Like Ike in 1956 • Term Two for Ike • The Soviet Space Race Day Seventy-Six: Watergate, OOPS
Read Pages 967-982 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Themes for the day: • The Great Tape Controversy • The War Powers Act • Arab Oil Embargo • Nixon Resigns, Ford’s Turn • Defeat in Vietnam • The Election of 1976, Carter wins, Who? • Carter’s Problems, Economy, Energy, Iran....
Test The 1960’s and 1970’s
Day Seventy-Seven: Conservatism Makes a Comeback
Read Pages 985-999 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Themes for the day: • The Reagan Era: Reaganomics and the battle of the budget • The Cold War...... again. • Foreign Policy issues. • Iran-Contra, What? Why? Who? • Reagan’s Social battles.
Day Seventy-Eight
Read Pages 999-1011 (The American Pageant, Tenth Edition, Thomas Baily, David M. Kennedy)
Themes for the day: • George Bush a continuation of Reagan? • The end of the Cold War. • The Middle East: Turmoil and Triumph (maybe) • Operation Desert Storm.
Day Seventy-Nine
Themes for the day: • 1992, Bush v. Clinton • The Clinton Presidency • Economic Boom • Political scandal • New Foriegn Policy challenges
Day Eighty Test Reagan-Clinton
Days 81-83 Review topics for AP exam.