Course Outline

Course Outline (Syllabus)

Advanced Placement, United States History

Provided to juniors in high school, the A.P. U.S. History course is meant to be equivalent to a freshman-level course in college. The students that are most successful on the A.P. U.S. History test in May are even able to claim that success and thus remove a college prerequisite to graduation in some universities and colleges. The class will encompass the entirety of North American, colonial, pre-modern and modern, United States history. Students enrolled in the course must be willing and able to read college-level textbooks, write fluently, and present or refute arguments as required. The difficulty of the course will be directly proportional to the amount of effort one puts into it. There will be a lot of reading, writing, and guided discussions on a myriad of topics relating to American history. Critical thinking skills will be built upon and required for success. INTRODUCTION:My name is Mr. Nickolas R. Diulio. My goal for every student that walks into my classroom is that they are able to become successful thinkers. Before any student can fully understand and comprehend history, they must first understand why history is important. The word history can be broken down into two very important words, his and story. History is a group of stories. Most of these stories are told by the winner and/or survivor.EMAIL: Mr.Diulio@gmail.com· All emails will be responded to within 24-48 hours

Materials
1. Notebook
2. Pens and Pencils OBJECTIVES:1. To prepare each student to succeed on the May AP US history exam2. To improve each student’s· analytical and critical-thinking skills· writing skills· study skills· technology skills· knowledge of significant Americans· knowledge of major events in U.S. history and various interpretations of these events· knowledge of geography· research skills
Free-Response Questions · public speaking skills

Videos: Will be show in class to enrich students learning. WIKI: Each student should post weekly responses to discussion questions.ASSESSMENT:Weekly or bi-weekly quizzes · Open-note focus writes or identifications· Student may use HIS/HER OWN notes· Students may NOT use any downloaded material or anyone else’s notesMajor tests (End of Chapter and/or Unit)· In class document-based essay· Take-home document-based essays· Free response essays· Multiple-choice tests taken from old AP tests· Supreme Court case summaries – oral and written presentations· Notify the teacher prior to the test date100% of you life skills grade: Class Participation: Students are expected to be actively attentive, alert and responsive in class. Student responses (or lack of response) indicate the quality of daily preparation and whether the student understands (or misunderstands) the factual material and major concepts being covered in class. Participation also provides the student with an opportunity to develop his/her speaking skills.

Texts and Readings:

Kennedy, D.M., & Cohen L., & Bailey, T. A. (2002). The American pageant: A history of the republic. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Bailey, T. A., & Kennedy, D.M.(1998). The American spirit: United States history as seen by contemporaries (Ninth Edition) (Vols 1-2). New York: Houghton Mifflin

Sinclair, U. (2001). The jungle. New York: New American Library, Penguin Putnam. Pages 7-214.

Steinbeck, J. (1992). The grapes of wrath. New York: Penguin Books

John Hopkins University Historical Journal On-line (http://www.tntech.edu/history/journals.html)

Cambridge University Historical Journal
(http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=HIS)

The History Cooperative
(http://www.historycooperative.org/)



Tests and Work:

This course is divided into 14 separate units as defined my chapters in the course textbook. The chapters themselves have already been further divided and organized by the authors and publishers. To ensure readings of the assignments, there will be vocabulary lists given with each unit (sample provided as Document A). The vocabulary work will promote better understanding of the readings as well as hopefully improve the finished products of the writing assignments when given. There are vocabulary tests for each unit, and the vocabulary tests are considered along with the rest of the grade in class (sample provided as Document B). The vocabulary will precede a unit test from selected questions provided by the Houghton Mifflin test generator. The questions are 5-option multiple choice, and reflect the rigor of the Advanced Placement test. These tests are extremely difficult and will require multiple readings and a great deal of studying (sample provided as Document C). An entire unit, from homework given to tests taken should take approximately three weeks. Key ideas and specific topics relevant to today may prolong some units. All 14 will be completed before Spring Break so that the remainder of class may be preparatory to the A.P. test.

Writing:

Writing skills will be encouraged as the class gets further into the textbook. The majority of the A.P. test is a writing skills test; therefore it is extremely important that students practice diligence when writing for the classroom assignments. There are readings (the readings are provided in the course outline and taken from the American Spirit Volumes 1 and 2 over the course of the year)connected to the topics discussed as the course progresses. As students are given the assignments to read, they will respond to prompts provided and develop a greater understanding of the writing process and critical thinking as expected at the collegiate level. The readings come from primary source documents and the reading selections will reflect a desired concept as taught in class. There will be at least one writing assignment per week. The writing may include only one reading or several readings as assigned. Expected length of the writing will vary with the topics introduced. Expect at least two paragraphs regularly.

Student will be given Free-Response Questions (FRQ). Students will be given a topic and a question. Students must write a one page response without using any notes, textbook, or any outside resources.

Document-Based Questions (DBQs) will be introduced as a more difficult—but an extremely important-- from of writing with the end of the first quarter. The DBQ will be attacked in segments over the first semester of school. Expect DBQs over every vacation! In the second semester, as the AP test approaches, the DBQ (and the instructor’s expectations from them) will be a constant theme and at least two assigned per 6-week grading period.

Newspaper Articles:

Old political newspaper articles from the time frame of our studies will be used for student to interpretation.

Cartoons:

Political cartoons and the interpretation of images such as cartoons will be a major theme explored at every opportunity. There are examples of relevant cartoons in nearly every chapter of the textbook, on the DBQ, and in some of the readings required by the class. There will be class discussions of cartoons and the inferences and conclusions to be drawn from them.

Supreme Court Cases:

At the beginning of the course students will receive a handout listing the major Supreme Court Cases and their major opinions. As the course develops and those themes are introduced, students will be expected to refer back to that list and provide more details to the information as well as know some major cases’ dissenting opinions. The list may be added to, as well.


Units, Themes, and Readings
READINGS FROM THE AMERICAN SPIRIT ARE PROVIDED AS ITALICIZED REFERENCES IN THE COURSE OUTLINE. THERE WILL BE EXPECTED WRITINGS ANALYZING AND INTERPRETING READINGS.
Unit 1: Chapters 1-4
Pre-Colonial America and Colonization
Early American civilizations
Columbus’s footprints in America
Spanish colonization and the Indians
Read: Bartolome de las Casas Defends the Indians (1552). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 1, p. 4-6
England in America
Read: Hakluyt Sees England’s Salvation in America (1584). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 1 p. 26-27
Jamestown
Establishing permanent colonies
Read: Governor William Berkeley Reports (1671). American Spirit. Chapter 2 p. 29-30
Mayflower Compact
Puritan roots Read: Anne Hutchinson is Banished (1673). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 3 p. 45-46
John Winthrop’s Concept of Liberty (1645). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 3 p. 46-47
Puritan Mistreatment of Quakers (1660). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 3 p. 47-48
John Hopkins University Historical Journal On-line
Growth of the Northern colonies
Southern Colonies
Bacon’s Rebellion
Read: The Baconite Greivances (1677). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 4 p. 70-71
Salem Witch Trials
Slavery in the colonies

Unit 2: Chapters 5-7
Struggle and Independence Movement
The Great Awakening
Immigration and population
Read: Benjamin Franklin Analyses the Population (1751). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 5 p82-83
Growth of the Colonial Population (1740-1780). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 5 p. 88-89
North vs. South as colonies
France vs. Britain vs. Spain as colonies
Politics of the colonies
Read: The Epochal Zenger Trial (1735). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 5 p. 96-98
French and Indian War
America proves self-sufficient
Read: Adam Smith’s Balance Sheet (1776). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 7p. 115-116
Emergence of political leaders
Britain’s mistakes and misunderstanding
Read: Adam Smith Criticizes Empire (1776). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 7 p. 123-124
Samuel Johnson Urges the Iron Fist (1775). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 7 p. 124-126
Colonial reaction to England’s taxes
Stamp Act Congress
Committees of Correspondence
Boston Tea Party
Continental Congress meets
Lexington and Concord
Read: Conflicting Versions of the Outbreak (1775). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 7 p. 131
John Hopkins University Historical Journal On-line
Unit 3: Chapters 8-10
The Republican Experiment
Importance of the Declaration
Patriots and Loyalists
Unpopular war
Read: Thomas Paine Talks Common Sense (1776). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 8 p. 138-140
Franklin nets France
Washington wins by not losing everything
Impact of Yorktown
Articles of Confederation
Northwest Ordinance
The country’s economy early on
Alexander Hamilton and Federalists
Shay’s Rebellion and implications
Read: Daniel Gray Explains Shaysites’ Grievances (1786). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 9 p. 152-153
Constitutional Convention
Read: The Debate on Representation in Congress (1787). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 9 p. 155
Jefferson Is Unenthusiastic (1787). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 9 p. 164-165
Why George Washington?
The Federalist Papers
Read: James Madison Defends the New Constitution (1787). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 9 p. 169-171
Bill of Rights and its importance
Hamilton vs. Jefferson
Read: Alexander Hamilton versus Thomas Jefferson on Popular Rule (1780’s- 1820’s). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 10 p. 174-176
The Clash Over States’ Rights (1780’s-1820’s). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 10 p. 176-177
Jefferson versus Hamilton on the Bank (1791). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 10 p.183-184
French Revolution vs. American Revolution
The Whiskey Rebellion and implications
Political parties in America begin
Washington’s farewell and implications
A President Bids Farewell (1796). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 10 p.191-193
Adams avoids war
Alien and Sedition Acts

Unit 4: Chapters 11-13
From Jefferson to Jackson
Jefferson finally wins
John Marshall asserts the Court
Marshall Asserts the Supremacy of the Constitution (1803). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 11 p. 203-204.
Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
Madison in a French bind
Indians aided by England
Tecumseh Challenges William Henry Harrison (1810). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 11 p. 219-220
Canadian Conquest Collapses
Britain’s successes
New Orleans and optimism
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
The Hartford Convention Fulminates (1814). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 11 p. 230-231
Monroe’s “Era of Good Feelings”
Monroe Doctrine and implications
Missouri Compromise
“The Corrupt Bargain”
John Quincy Adams and the economy
Jackson rides the tide to the White House
The “Spoils System” earns a champion
Jackson versus Nullification
Andrew Jackson Denounces Nullification (1832). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 14 p266-267
Jackson versus The Bank
Jackson Vetoes the Bank Recharter (1832). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 14 p.268-269
Jackson versus the Indians
Jackson Endorses the Indian Removal (1829). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 14 p.272-273
Jackson versus the Whigs
Martin van “Ruin”
Texas Independence and the implications

Unit 5: Chapters 14-17
Immigration, Migration, Abolition
The Irish waves hit the shores
The Coming of the Irish (1836). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 15 p.292-293
Nativism in response to immigration
Moving westward as a people
Factory growth and Farms as factories
Chattel Slavery Versus Wage Slavery (1840). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 15 p.299-300
The Second Great Awakening
Mormons make the trail
The roots of Temperance Movement
T.S. Arthur’s Ten Nights in a Barroom (1854). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 16 p.317-319
Utopian America?
Ralph Waldo Emerson Chides the Reformers (1844). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 16 p.329- 331
Henry David Thoreau Praises Spiritual Wealth (1854). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 16 p.332-333
Emersonism and Thoreauisms. American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 16 p.334-335
King Cotton in the South
James Hammond Declares Cotton King (1858). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 17 p.374-375
Southern social structure
Plantation systems
A Former Slave Exposes Slavery (1850). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 17 p.348-350
What is Abolition?
Southern response to abolition
Comparing Slave Labor and Wage Labor (1850). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 17 p.362-363
Adding Texas and new problems
Oregon Fever
War with Mexico
Dress Rehearsal to the Civil War?
Polk to Taylor

Unit 6: Chapters 18-20
Compromise Breeding Combat
California
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Joshua Giddings Rejects Slave Catching (1850). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 19 p.403-404
Robert Rhett Resents a Hoax (1851). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 19 p.405-406
New states upsetting the compromises
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Uncle Tom’s Cabin and implications
The South Scorns Mrs. Stowe (1852). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 20 p.415-416
Cambridge University Historical Journal

Bleeding Kansas and John Brown
Lincoln and Douglas take center stage
Dred Scott reveals political divisions
The Pro-Southern Court Speaks (1857). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 20 p.421-422
A Virginia Newspaper Gloats (1857). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 20 p.422-423
The North Breathes Defiance (1857). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 20 p.423-424
John Brown’s raid and implications
Lincoln wins by not being the other two
Southern threats and secession
Fire-Eaters Urge Secession (1860). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 20 p.430-431
Lincoln learning quickly
Lincoln and liberties?
Border states are the key
Fort Sumter and implications
North v South in economy, armies, and more
Economy of both before war
England to be involved?

Unit 7: Chapters 21-23
War and Recovery
Lee and southern strengths
Soldiers and northern strengths
Bull Run/Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Chancellorsville/Gettysurg
Gettysburg Address and implications
The War to Preserve the Union (1863). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 21 p.449
Abraham Lincoln Answers Horace Greeley’s Prayer (1862). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 22 p.457-458
Petersburg/Atlanta/Appomattox Courthouse
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Appomattox Courthouse and implications
Lincoln’s death the last shot?
Andrew Johnson vs. The Copperheads
The Radical Republicans Take a Hard Line (1866). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 23 p.494-495
Johnson’s Cleveland Speech (1866). American Spirit, volume 1. Chapter 23 p.499-500
Reconstruction in different ways
Cambridge University Historical Journal
The hated Freedmen’s Bureaus
The South in defeat
A Southern Black Woman Reflects on the Jim Crow System (1902). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 24 p.53-55
Johnson’s impeachment and why
Grant leads by Inaction
Corruption and the Gilded Age
Civil Service reform and pensions
Harper’s Weekly Hails a New Era (1883). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 24 p.56-57
End of Reconstruction
Rise of Populism
Cleveland and the tariff

Unit 8: Chapters 24-26
Urban Development and Ag Revolution
Railroads and financiers
“Robber Barons” or “Captains of Industry”?
John D. Rockefeller Justifies Rebates (1909). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 25 p.68-69
Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (1889). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 25 p.71-73
The Nation Challenges Carnegie (1901). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 25 p.73-74
Government and big business
Capital Versus Labor (1871). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 25 p.92-93
Rockefeller/Carnegie/Morgan/more
Urbanization of America
New immigrants and their lives
Jacob Riis Goes Slumming (1890). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 26 p.99-101
Henry Cabot Lodge Urges a Literacy Test (1896). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 26 p.103-104
Settlement houses and Progressive roots
Immigration restriction on both coasts
Cambridge University Historical Journal
W.E.B. du Bois/Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington Portrays the Plight of Black Tenant Farmers (1889). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 24 p.52-53
Women in the workplace
Women’s roles in family
End of the frontier
Chief Joseph’s Lament (1879). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 27 p.130-132
Agriculture no longer for the small farmer
Farmers’ protests
Mrs. Mary Lease Raises More Hell (c. 1890). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 27 p.150-151
Union movements and growth
Pullman Strike/Haymarket Riot/ etc.
William Jennings Bryan and fundamentalism
William Jennings Bryan’s Cross of Gold (1896). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 28 p.163-165
William McKinley and new Republicanism
The Front Porch Campaign
“Kingmaker” Mark Hanna
Money makes its mark

Unit 9: Chapters 27-29
Imperialism and Progressivism
Expansion after Manifest Destiny
Roosevelt and Alfred Mahan
Hawaii in our sights
Cuba and Hearst/Pulitzer
U.S.S. Maine touches off a war
The Splendid Little War and Rough Riders
Professor William Sumner Spurns Empire (1898). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 29 p.186-187
Albert Beveridge Trumpets Imperialism (1898). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 29 p.188-189
Philippines and a canal need
Filipino Insurrection and the Open Door
Roosevelt: The Accidental President
Roosevelt’s foreign policy and the Big Stick
The Panama Canal a reality
Official Connivance in Washington (1903). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 30 p.196-198
Roosevelt Corollary
Roosevelt Launches a Corollary (1904). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 30 p.198-199
Labor vs. business and regulation
Progressivism blooms in the cities
Lincoln Steffens Bares Philadelphia Bossism (1904). American Spirit volume 2. Chapter 31 p.207-209
George Washington Plunkitt Defends “Honest Graft” (1905). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 31 p.210-211
Muck-rakers in politics
The Jungle changes Americans’ expectations
Roosevelt’s environmentalism
Roosevelt Saves the Forests (1907). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 31 p. 217-218
Taft takes the helm
Congress and Taft collide
“Dollar Diplomacy” vs. “The Big Stick”
Roosevelt wants the presidency back

Unit 10: Chapters 30-32
Moral Diplomacy to Immoral 20s
New Freedom triumphs
Wilson and comparing Taft to Roosevelt
Wilson takes on trusts and finance
WWI implications on America
Wilson re-elected
Lusitania and Zimmerman make a war
Robert Lansing’s Pro-Ally Tactics (c.1916). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 32 p. 246-248
Idealism of 14 Points
Woodrow Wilson Versus Theodore Roosevelt on the Fourteen Points (1918). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 33 p. 258-263
The War to End All Wars
A “Doughboy” Describes the Fighting Front (1918). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 33 p. 266-268
Progressives on the march
Women in the Great War
The Great Migration
America goes Over There
Versailles blunders and Wilson’s dream
Collapse of the League and Wilson
Red Scare and why
Resurgence of fundamentalism
The Scopes Monkey Trial
Sacco and Vanzetti
Harlem Renaissance
The Temperance Movement wins and loses
Fiorello La Guardia Pillories Prohibition (1926). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 34 p. 282-284
The WCTU Upholds Prohibition (1926). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 34 p. 284-285
Women win the right to vote
Dawning of the automobile age
Gangsters and the American arts

Unit 11: Chapters 33-35
A Crash, A Hero, A War
The return of Republicans
Isolation the call of the country
Teapot Dome and Harding’s Presidency
President Harding Hates His Job (c.1922). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 35 p.294-295
Coolidge stays mum
Hoover and the economy
The Crash of ‘29
Hoover’s response to the Depression
Hoover Defends His Record (1932). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 35 p. 307-308
Roosevelt Indicts Hoover (1932). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 35 p. 308-309
The “Good Neighbor” Policy
Americans demand a change
Hoover in perspective
FDR’s Hundred Days and Alphabet Soup
A Boy in Chicago Writes to President Roosevelt (1936). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 36 p. 314
Father Coughlin Demands “Social Justice” (1934, 1935). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 36 p. 321-324
Impact of TVA and NRA
Bank Holiday
Social Security and implications
Huey Long
Dust Bowl and new migration
The History Cooperative
FDR’s court-packing scheme
Dorothy Thompson Dissents (1937). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 36 p. 330-332
New Deal in perspective
Germany on the warpath (again)
Japan making enemies
Neutrality of war
Lend-Lease while supporting war
FDR Drops the Dollar Sign (1940). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 37 p. 344-345
“Arsenal of Democracy”
Atlantic Charter and 14 Points
Framing the Atlantic Charter (1941). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 37 p. 347-348
Pearl Harbor ends the Depression

Unit 12: Chapters 36-37
A World War and a Cold War
Japanese Americans and internment
A Japanese-American is Convicted (1943). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 38 p. 363-366
America recovers in spectacular style
FDR’s vision
Philippines and Bataan
Women on the homefront and Rosie the Riveter
Early campaigns and early heroes
Midway and the Pacific Theater
Germany’s mistakes
D-Day
Tehran and Yalta in perspective
Roosevelt Manages “Uncle Joe” (1943). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 38 p. 373-374
FDR’s passing and Truman’s ascension
Germany’s surrender and the rebuilding
Truman at Potsdam
Japan capitulates with the Bomb
Japan’s Horrified Reaction (1945). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 38 p. 377-378
Harry Truman Justifies the Bombing (1945). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 38 p. 380-381.
Postwar America
Suburbs the norm
The Move to Suburbia (1954). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 39 p. 387-389.
Baby boomers and their implications
Stalin vs. the world
NATO and Warsaw Pact
IMF, World Bank, and United Nations (Wilson?)
Secretary George Marshall Speaks at Harvard (1947). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 39 p. 404-405
The policy of “Containment”
Truman’s Doctrine
Harry Truman Appeals to Congress (1947). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 39 p. 398-399
Anti-communism and fears
Senator Joseph McCarthy Blasts “Traitors” (1952). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 39 p. 409-411
Korea invades and U.S. responds
Secretary Acheson Defends NSC-68 (1969). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 39 p. 416-418
Tensions rise

Unit 13: Chapters 38-40
Social Revolutions and Foreign Disasters
Everyone likes Ike
Un-American activities
Joseph McCarthy Upholds Guilt by Association (1952). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 40 427-429
Civil Rights takes the stage
The Court Rejects Segregation (1954). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 40 p. 432-433
One hundred Representatives Dissent (1956). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 42 p. 433-434
Martin Luther King and Montgomery Bus Boycott
Space race begins
Highway Act and implications
1960 election and implications
Eisenhower’s Farewell
Eisenhower Says Farewell (1961). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 40 p. 449-451
New Frontier
Bay of Pigs and implications
Berlin Crisis and Cuban Missile Crisis
President Kennedy Proclaims a “Quarantine” (1962). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 41 p. 453-454
Premier Khrushchev Proposes a Swap (1962). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 41 p. 455
Kennedy Advances a Solution (1962). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 41 p. 456
The Soviets Save Face (1962). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 41 p. 456-458
Kennedy on civil rights
Kennedy assassination and LBJ
The Great Society
President Johnson Declares War on Poverty (1964). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 41 p. 460-462
Vietnam
Freedom Summer and Civil Rights Acts
Martin Luther King Jr., Writes from a Birmingham Jail (1963). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 41 p. 471-473
President Johnson Supports Civil Rights (1965). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 41 p. 474-478
Cultural upheaval in America
Nixon and Vietnam
Nixon kicks open China’s doors
The History Cooperative
The Warren Court and today
Middle East in crisis
Cambodia and Watergate
The President Defends His Incursion (1970). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 42 p. 500-502
Nixon leaves in disgrace
Ford tries to heal a nation
Recession and stagflation
Carter wins on honesty
Congress and economy thwart reform
Panama and Middle East success
The History Cooperative
OPEC the new USSR
Energy crisis and Three Mile Island
Iran Hostage Crisis

Unit 14: Chapters 41-42
Modern America on the March
New Right and Conservative resurgence
Reagan and televangelism
John Hopkins University Historical Journal On-line
The Gipper takes on the Soviets
Trickle-Down economics in a recession
Iran-Contra scandal
Glasnost and perestroika
Reagan and the Soviet collapse
Four Views on the End of the Cold War (1994). American Spirit, volume 2. Chapter 43 p. 550-556
Budget issues and Star Wars
George Bush
The Berlin Wall comes down
Persian Gulf War/Operation Desert Shield and Storm
Clinton wins because of Perot
Clinton versus the Congress
Foreign policy under Clinton
Impeachment of Clinton and implications
America since 2000

After Units

The remainder of the course will be geared toward the successful completion of the A.P. test preparation. There will be more writing, more DBQ review, and the review of samples of student work from previous years to develop a greater understanding of expectations.

The course uses themes and topics such as those listed in the course description, these themes are selected at the teacher’s discretion, as broad parameters for structuring the courser. The themes are designed to encourage students to think conceptually about the American past. The themes are designed to encourage students to focuses and analyze evidence on historical changes over time.

Student will be constialy working on their writing skills through DBQ’s and FRQ’s. The course provides students with frequent practice in writing analytical and interpretive essays based on primary source materials DBQ assignments will be given bi-weekly.

After the A.P. test the course will focus on some themes that deserve more scrutiny, or topics of interest to the students. Topics will include the Kennedy Assassination, American Serial Killers, Medal of Honor Winners, and much more will be delved into with tests for each topic.

For the auditors:
I included different units to “prove” the work was comprehensive. Doc A represents a full vocabulary list. Doc B represents a condensed list for the students to study for the vocabulary test. Doc C represents an example unit test with questions derived from the test generator of the Houghton Mifflin textbook. The documents all represent documents as they would be received by students in the classroom.