Advanced Placement U.S. History Syllabus 2013-14

This course will provide a college-level approach to the study of History from the Age of Exploration to the present, preparing students to take the Advanced Placement Exam in May 2014. An emphasis is placed on mastering a significant amount of factual information, but beyond that, analyzing and interpreting that information in order to synthesize and evaluate its impact on the history of our country and on our lives today.

A chronological approach will be used, studying established periods in American political, economic and social development. Key themes in this development will be identified, traced, analyzed, and evaluated, throughout the course. These themes include political development, the impact of immigration, the changing nature of relations among groups (racial, ethnic, class, gender), the significance of regional economies and cultures, the rise and impact of large social movements, and the relationship of the United States to other nations.

TEXTBOOKS AND RESOURCES

Atlas of American History, Skokie, IL; Rand McNally, 1993

Berkin, Carol; Miller, Christopher; Cherny, Robert; Gormly, James. Making America. Sixth Edition, Boston, MA; Houghton Mifflin Co., 2012

Caliguire, Augustine, and Leach, Roberta J. Advanced Placement American History I and II. Dubuque, lA; Brown Publishing Co., 1994

Davidson, James W., and Lytle, Mark H. After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection. 4th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000 Foner, Eric, Voices of Freedom, A Documentary History. Second Edition, , NY; W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008

Monk, Linda R., Ordinary Americans, U.S. History Through the Eyes of Everyday People. Second Edition, Alexandria, VA; Close Up Foundation, 2003

Newman, John J. and Schmalbach, John M., United States History, Amsco School Publications, Inc., 2004

Yazawa, Melvin, Documents to Accompany America’s History. Sixth Edition, Boston, MA; Bedford/St. Martin’s 2008

Berkin: Chapter 1, Making a “New” World, to 1588 A World of Change, Exploiting Atlantic Opportunities, The Challenges of Mutual Discovery

Chapter 2, A Continent on the Move, 1400-1725 The New and the Atlantic World, European Empires in America, Indians and the European challenge, Conquest and Accommodation in a Shared New World

 Describe how the meeting of American Indians, Europeans, and Africans in the aftermath of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the Western hemisphere affected and changed each.  Explain the similarities and differences that characterized the choices made by Spanish, French, and Dutch officials in starting their empires in and analyze how the choices made by colonists themselves placed constraints on administrative policies.  Analyze the constraints environmental changes and the arrival of Europeans placed on Indians as well as the opportunities that the Europeans brought with them and evaluate the social and political choices the Indians made in response to these changes

Course Introduction – Historical Detection excerpt from “Serving Time in ” After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (HA) AP US History Themes Giovanni Da Verranzano, Encountering Native Americans 1524 - Primary Source Analysis (PSA) J. R. McNeil, The Columbian Exchange - Historical Analysis (HA) Intro to writing DBQ’s – “Clash of Cultures” Unit Test – Chapters 1-2

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Berkin: Chapter 3, Founding the English Mainland Colonies, 1585-1732 England and Colonization, Settling the Chesapeake, New England: Colonies and Dissenters, The Pluralism of the Middle Colonies, Colonies of the Lower South

Chapter 4, The English Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689-1763 The English Transatlantic Communities of Trade, Life and Work in Colonial Society, Conflicts Among the Colonists, Reason and Religion in Colonial Society, North America and the Struggle for Empire

 Analyze and evaluate the contributions of Puritanism, the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment, to the political development of the U.S.  Analyze and evaluate the characteristics of the English colonies by 1763  Describe regional differences in settlement patterns, family structure, labor systems, and cultural adaptation and explain why they arose.

Susan Myra Kingsbury, The Records of the Virginia Company of London Sending Women to Virginia (PSA) John Smith, Checklist for Virginia–Bound Colonists (1624) (PSA) Writing DBQ’s – Developing a thesis, using historical documents, organizing a essay structure (93 DBQ New England and Chesapeake Colonial Development) 83 FRQ 2 – Puritan Model Society Unit test: Chapters 3-4

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Berkin: Chapter 5, Deciding Where Loyalties Lie, 1763-1776 Victory's New Problems, Asserting American Rights, The Crisis Renewed, The Decision for Independence

Chapter 6, Recreating America: Independence and a New Nation, l775-1783 The First Two Years of War, Diplomacy Abroad and Profiteering at Home, From Stalemate to Victory, Republican Expectations in a New Nation

 Analyze the political, social and economic factors which led to the American Revolution  Argue whether the Revolutionary War could have been avoided or whether it was an inevitable conflict once the colonists met in the First and Second Continental Congresses  Explain how different American and British choices during the war might have changed its outcome  Show how white women and African Americans hoped for changes in their respective positions in society and analyze the degree to which their conditions actually changed.

VIDEO – Liberty! The American Revolution, “Are we ready to be a nation?” PBS James Otis, An American Opposes New Taxes and Asserts the Rights of the Colonists, 1764 (PSA) Captain Thomas Preston, An Account of the Boston Massacre 1770 (PSA) Patrick Henry, Speech to the Second Virginia Convention 1775 (PSA) Practice DBQ – (99 DBQ Extent of Colonial identity prior to the American Revolution) 88 FRQ 2 Tyranny of George III 07 FRQ French and Indian War – British and American Relations Unit test: Chapters 5-6

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Berkin: Chapter 7, Competing Visions of a Virtuous Republic, 1770-1796 America’s First Constitutions, Challenges to the Confederation, Creating a New Constitution, Resolving the Conflict of Vision, Competing Visions Re-emerge

Chapter 8, The Early Republic, 1796-1804 Conflict in the Adams Administration, The "Revolution of 1800", Republicanism in Action, Challenge and Uncertainty in Jefferson's America

 Analysis of the Articles of Confederation as an instrument of government  Compare the arguments and methods employed by Federalists and Antifederalists in their struggle over ratification of the Constitution.  Describe the constraints Federalists tried to place on the incoming Republican president and analyze what Jefferson meant by the statement that “every difference of opinion is not a difference of principles,” along with the Federalists’ response to it.  Analyze the impact of westward expansion during Jefferson’s presidency on Native Americans, African Americans, and on American society in general

Abigail Adams, Boston Women Support Price Control 1777 (PSA) James Madison, The Federalist, No. 10 (1787) (PSA) The Sedition Act (1798) (PSA) Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address 1801 (PSA) Meriwether Lewis, excerpt from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-06 (PSA) Practice DBQ - (98 DBQ C onflicting interpretations of the Constitution by political parties from 1801-1817) 04 FRQ – Roles of Women 1790-1860 05 FRQ – Articles of Confederation v. Constitution Unit test: Chapters 7-8

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Berkin: Chapter 9, Increasing Conflict and War, 1805-1815 Troubling Currents in Jefferson's America, Crises in the Nation, The Nation at War, Peace and the Rise of New Expectations

Chapter 10, The Rise of a New Nation, 1815-1836 An "Era of Good Feelings", Dynamic Growth and Political Consequences, The “New Man” in Politics, The Reign of “King Andrew”

 Analyze the development of U.S. foreign policy from 1809-1823  Analyze the effect of the War of 1812 on the United States and the changing economic conditions of the nation’s geographical regions  Describe the initiatives in domestic and foreign affairs undertaken during the presidencies of James Madison and James Monroe, as well as the expectations from which they arose  Analyze and evaluate the impact of John Marshall's decisions on economic growth and the expansion of federal power in the first half of the 19th century

John P. Deeben, British Maritime Tradition Collides with American Ideals (HA) VIDEO – Francis Scott Key and the Defense of Fort McHenry The War of 1812 YouTube excerpt Samuel G. Drake, Tecumseh on Indians and Land 1810 (PSA) Angelina Grimke Weld, A Cruel Mistress (PSA) James Monroe, State of the Union Address 1823 (PSA) Eyewitnesstohistory.com, The Inauguration of President Andrew Jackson 1829 (HA – PSA) E.C. Tracy, Appeal of the Cherokee Nation 1830 (PSA) Practice DBQ – (02 DBQ Era of Good Feelings) 85 FRQ 5 – Monroe Doctrine Unit Test: Chapters 9-10

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Berkin: Chapter 11, The Great Transformation: Growth and Expansion, 1828-1848 The New Cotton Empire in the South, The Manufacturing Empire in the Northeast, A New Empire in the West

Chapter 12, Responses to the Great Transformation, 1828-1848 Reactions to Changing Conditions, The Whig Alternative to Jacksonian Democracy, The Triumph of Manifest Destiny

 Analyze and evaluate the conditions which led to the development of manufacturing in the early 19th century  Analyze the changes in the nature of work and how the developing factory system affected the expectations of various classes in American society.  Examine the constraints in the West that forced people to adapt and explain the cultural outcomes.  Analyze and evaluate the evolution of democracy in the U.S. from Jefferson to Jackson  Describe the choices Americans made in dealing with the stresses created by the rapid change of the Jacksonian era and evaluate the cultural outcome.  Discuss the major elements of American cultural thought during the Jacksonian era, and describe efforts by some thinkers to cope with what they thought was an excess of individualism.

Bennet H. Barrow, A Plantation as a Piece of Machinery – Excerpts from a Planter’s Diary (PSA) Lucy Larcom, I Never Cared Much for Machinery – Life in the Lowell Mills (PSA) R. B. Mason, An American Officer Describes the Beginning of the Gold Rush in 1848 (PSA) George Catlin’s paintings of American Indians (HA) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention 1848 (PSA) Henry David Thoreau, Walden excerpt 1854 (PSA) John L. O’Sullivan, A Newspaperman Declares the “Manifest Destiny” of the United States in 1845 (PSA) Practice DBQ - (90 DBQ analyzing and evaluating the impact of Jacksonian Democracy) 90 FRQ 3 – Manifest Destiny and early Imperialism Unit test: Chapters 11-12

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Berkin: Chapter 13, Sectional Conflict and Shattered Union, 1848-1860 New Political Options, Toward a House Divided, The Divided Nation, The Nation Dissolved

Chapter 14, A Violent Choice: Civil War, 1861-1865 The Politics of War, From Bull Run to Antietam, The Human Dimensions of the War, Waging Total War

 Analyze and evaluate sectional conflicts and series of compromises which eventually led to the Civil War  Analyze the election of 1860 in terms of the deep division of opinion within the United States over slavery and chart the course of events that led afterward to secession.  Describe how the war affected the home front on both sides  Analyze and evaluate the expectations, constraints, choices and outcomes associated with military, political, social and economic aspects of the Civil War and Reconstruction periods

Frederick Douglas, Frederick Douglas on the Desire for Freedom 1845 (PSA) The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (PSA) “The Madness of John Brown” After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (HA) The Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858 (HA) Henry W. Ravenel, Can Such a Population be Subjugated? – Arguing the Southern Cause (PSA) MAJ Sullivan Ballou, A Pure Love of My Country has Called upon Me – Reflections on the Union Cause (PSA) Frank H. Moore, The Rebellion Record, Ordinance of Secession 1860 (PSA) Kate Cumming, Men Mutilated in Every Imaginable Way – Nursing the Wounds from Shiloh (PSA) Lewis Douglas, A Hundred Thousand Colored Troops – The Attack on Fort Wagner (PSA) VIDEO – The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns PBS Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address 1863 (PSA) Practice DBQ – (09B DBQ African Americans in the Civil War) 95 FRQ 3 – Supporting slavery

Unit test: Chapters 13-14 PA Core Standards: History and Studies: CC.8.5.11-12.A - CC.8.5.11-12.I CC.8.6.11-12.A - CC.8.6.11-12.I PA Academic Standards: History 8.1.12.A 8.1.12.B 8.1.12.C 8.3.12.A 8.3.12.B 8.3.12.C 8.3.12.D

Berkin: Chapter 15, Reconstruction: High Hopes and Broken Dreams, 1865-1877 Presidential Reconstruction, Freedom and the Legacy of Slavery, Congressional Reconstruction, Black Reconstruction, The End of Reconstruction

Chapter 16, The Nation Industrializes, 1865-1900 Foundation for Industrialization; The Dawn of Big Business, Expansion of the Industrial Economy, Incorporating the West into the National Economy, Boom and Bust: The Economy from the Civil War to World War I

 Analyze and evaluate the expectations, constraints, choices and outcomes associated with military, political, social and economic aspects of the Civil War and Reconstruction periods  Identify the factors that led to rapid economic growth and industrial expansion after the Civil War  Analyze what African Americans in the South looked forward to, now that they were free, and describe the actual conditions they encountered during the first years of Reconstruction.  Evaluate the constraints faced by Indians, Mexican Americans, Chinese immigrants, and African Americans between 1850 and 1900 and the choices that each made.

Andrew Johnson, Plan of Reconstruction 1865 (PSA) Henry W. Ravenel, The Experiment is Now to be Tried – Social Revolution in the South (PSA) Black Codes of 1865 (PSA) Mary A. Livermore, Women and the War 1883 (PSA) Lee Chew, Experiences of a Chinese Immigrant 1903 (PSA) Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth 1889 (PSA) Practice DBQ - (96 DBQ Reconstruction-constitutional and social developments) 03 FRQ 4 – Regional impact of the Civil war Unit test: Chapters 15-16

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Berkin: Chapter 17, Life in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900 The New Urban America; New South, Old Problems; Ethnicity and Race in the Gilded Age; Worker’s Organize

Chapter 18, Politics and Foreign Relations in a Rapidly Changing Nation, 1865-1902 Parties, Spoils, Scandals and Stalemate; Challenges to Politics as Usual; Political Upheaval in the 1890s, Standing Aside from World Affairs; Stepping into World Affairs: Harrison and Cleveland; Striding Boldly in World Affairs: McKinley, War and Imperialism

 Analyze primary source documents relating to industrialism, immigration, organized labor, and the emergence of the New South  Analyze the development of urban America and discuss the challenges faced by city dwellers and how they dealt with these obstacles.  Explain why immigrants were attracted to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Discuss what these newcomers found when they arrived and whether or not they assimilated successfully.  Explain how American labor sought to improve its working and living conditions in the late nineteenth century and identify major instances of labor protest  Evaluate how American choices regarding , Latin America, and Asia reflected traditional American expectations regarding world affairs.

John Hill, Testimony on Southern Textile Industry 1883 (PSA) Anthony Bimba, On Child Labor 1877 (PSA) Louis H. Sullivan, The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered 1896 (PSA) Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives 1890 (PSA) Populist Party National Platform 1892 (PSA) The New York World, An Advancing Step in Manifest Destiny – Purchasing Alaska (PSA) Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power 1890 (PSA) Richard H. Davis, Into the Chute of Death – Roosevelt and the Rough Riders (PSA) Practice DBQ - (00 DBQ evaluate the success of the labor movement in the U.S. from 1875-1900) 03 FRQ – Farmers and Workers in the Gilded Age Unit test: Chapters 17-18

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Berkin: Chapter 19, The Progressive Era 1900-1917 Organizing for Change; The Reform of Politics, The Politics of Reform; Roosevelt, Taft, and Republican Progressivism; “Carry a Big Stick”: Roosevelt, Taft and World Affairs; Wilson and Democratic Progressivism; New Patterns in Cultural Expression; Progressivism in Perspective

Chapter 20, The United States in a World at War 1913-1920 Inherited Commitments and New Directions, The United States and the Great War, The Home Front , Planning for Peace in the Midst of War, The Peace Conference and the Treaty, America and the Aftermath of the War.

 Evaluate whether progressivism was successful, explain its criteria for judging success, and list progressive outcomes that affect modern American politics.  Explain the constraints that faced women, moral reformers, African Americans, and radicals who attempted to enter the political arena, as well as the political choices they made and the outcomes of these choices  Evaluate the constraints Theodore Roosevelt faced and how he chose to deal with them. Explain the resulting role of the federal government in the economy and the new power of the presidency.  Analyze the choices the federal government made in mobilizing the economy and society in support of the war and how the war affected Americans.  Comparison and contrast of "The New Nationalism" and "The New Freedom"

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle 1906 (PSA) Booker T. , The Atlanta Exposition Address 1895 (PSA) “USDA Government Inspected” After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (HA) The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine 1904-05 (HA) Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom 1912 (PSA) Analysis of the Zimmermann Note (HA) Anna Howard Shaw, Women’s Committee of the Council of National Defense 1917 (PSA) Norman Roberts, Going Over the Top – Warfare in the Trenches (PSA) Practice DBQ – (03B DBQ – Progressivism) 07 FRQ – Progressive Reformers 95 FRQ 5 – Us Declaration of War – WW I Unit Test: Chapters 19-20

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Berkin: Chapter 21, Prosperity Decade The 1920's, 1920-1928 The Bullish Decade; The “Roaring Twenties”; Traditional America Roars Back; New Social Patterns in the 1920s; The Politics of Prosperity; The Diplomacy of Prosperity

Chapter 22, The Great Depression and New Deal, 1929-1939 The Economic Crisis and Hoover’s response, The Election of 1932 and the Early New Deal; The Later New Deal; Americans face the Depression; The Great Depression and New Deal in Perspective

 Analyze how the economic changes of the 1920s transformed older expectations, removed former constraints, and opened new choices to consumers  Tell how new expectations and choices reflected or contributed to the important social changes of the period.  Explain the ways in which the New Deal changed society so as to provide better opportunities and offer more choices to those who found their road to success obstructed on account of gender, race, and poverty

Robert and Helen Lynd, The Automobile Comes to Middletown 1924 (PSA) Herbert Hoover, American Individualism 1922 (PSA) Hiram Evans, America Belongs to Americans – The Resurgence of the Klu Klux Klan (PSA) Meridel Le Sueur, Women on the Breadlines 1932 (PSA) Mary Heaton Vorse, The Sit-Down Strike at General Motors 1937 (PSA) Ann Rivington, What if our Check Doesn’t Come? – Living on Relief (PSA) Franklin Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address 1933 (PSA) Practice DBQ (03 DBQ FDR’s effect on the Great Depression and role of government) 06 FRQ – 1920’s Culture Unit test: Chapters 21-22

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Berkin: Chapter 23, America's Rise to World Leadership, 1933-1945 The Road to War; America Responds to War; Waging World War

Chapter 24, Truman and Cold-War America, 1945-1952 The Cold War Begins; The Korean War; Postwar policies; Cold War Politics; Homecomings and Social Adjustments;

 Analyze the foreign policy constraints Roosevelt faced before 1939 and tell how they shaped America’s foreign policy choices from 1932 to the outbreak of World War II  Understand what new opportunities women and minorities encountered on the home front as they responded to the war.  Evaluate the strategic choices and constraints Roosevelt and Truman confronted in making the decisions that shaped the course of the war against Germany and Japan  Analyze how America’s expectations regarding world affairs affected the foreign policy choices of the Truman administration between 1946 and 1952.  Explain the constraints and choices the Cold War placed on American politics and society

Franklin Roosevelt, Fireside Chat on the Great Arsenal of Democracy 1940 (PSA) Stephen Bower Young, Abandon Ship! Abandon Ship! – Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor (PSA) Virginia Snow Wilkinson, From Housewife to Shipfitter 1943 (PSA) Wartime Propaganda Posters (HA) Ernie Pyle, Street Fighting 1944 (PSA) Clark Clifford, Memorandum to President Truman 1946 (PSA) The Truman Doctrine 1947 (HA) John Foster Dulles, Cold War Foreign Policy 1958 (PSA) Practice DBQ – (01 DBQ – Cold War fears) 96 FRQ 4 – The Great Depression 09 FRQ 5 – WWII homefront Unit Test: Chapters 23-24

Berkin: Chapter 25, Quest for Consensus, 1952-1960 Politics of Consensus; Eisenhower and World Affairs; The Best of Times; Outside Suburbia

Chapter 26, Great Promises, Bitter Disappointments, 1960-1968 The Politics of Action; Flexible Response; Defining a New Presidency; New Voices

 Explain what expectations reflected the American dream and which ones conflicted with it during the 1950s and describe the choices people made as they tried to fulfill their expectations.  Analyze how the expectations of African Americans changed as the civil rights movement evolved from a primarily southern movement confronting legal discrimination to a national movement combating poverty and social prejudice

Green Acres – Newspaper ads from 1950 (PSA) John K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society 1958 (PSA) Michael Harrington, The Other America 1962 (PSA) Brown v. Board of Education 1954 (HA) The Southern Manifesto on Integration 1956 (HA) Rosa Parks, Describing My Arrest 1955 (PSA) Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail 1963 (PSA) John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address 1961 (PSA) Practice DBQ – (07B DBQ – Great Society) 05 FRQ – Lives of Women mid-20th Century 97 FRQ 5 - McCarthyism Unit Test: Chapters 25-26

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Berkin: Chapter 27, America Under Stress, 1967-1976 Johnson and the War; Tet and 1968 Presidential Campaign; Defining the American Dream; Nixon and the World; Nixon and the Domestic Agenda

Chapter 28, New Economic and Political Alignments, 1976-1992 The Carter Presidency; Resurgent Conservatism; A Society and Economy in Transition; Asserting World Power; In Reagan’s Shadow

Chapter 29, Entering a New Century, 1992-2010 Economy and Society in the 1990s, The Clinton Years, The Testing of President Bush, War and Politics

 Analyze the expectations that led Johnson to choose the policy of escalation of America’s role in Vietnam and the military outcome of his decision.  Outline the implications of the end of the Cold War for U.S. foreign policy  Describe what expectations influenced Americans who chose to vote for Reagan and how his social and domestic policies both reflected and altered those expectations.  Analyze the successes and failures of the Clinton and Bush administrations and the role partisan politics played.  Evaluate the impact of the events of September 11, 2001, and the resulting war on terrorism on politics, the nation, and foreign policy

Lyndon B. Johnson, Why We are in Vietnam 1965 (PSA) John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War 1971 (PSA) “Where Trouble Comes” After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (HA) Richard Nixon, Vietnamization and the Nixon Doctrine 1969 (PSA) Gloria Steinem, Statement in Support of the Equal Rights Amendment 1970 (PSA) Jimmy Carter, The National Crisis of Confidence 1979 (PSA) Ronald Reagan, The Evil Empire 1983 (PSA) Frank Lumpkin, Back to Where They Were Before – Poor and Unemployed in the 1980s Jesse Jackson, Common Ground 1988 (PSA) George H.W. Bush, Iraqi Aggression in Kuwait 1990 (PSA) Contract With America 1994 (PSA) Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address 1996 (HA) Lisa Jefferson, Let’s Roll – Attack on America (HA) US National Security Strategy 2002 (HA) Practice DBQ – (11 DBQ Nixon Administration Policies) 10 FRQ – Effects of Vietnam War Unit test: Chapters 27-29

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