APUnitedStatesHistory

AP United States HistoryIntroductionAP United States History is offered as an equivalent to an introductory college course in United States History. The course is designed to present students with an opportunity to develop the analytical skills and gain the factual information needed to think critically about United States History. The major goal of this course will be to help students develop the skills necessary to analyze and make informed judgments about the world in which they live.AP United States History Text BookNewman, John J. and John M. Schmalbach.United States History: Preparing for the AP Examination. NY: Amsco, 2004.Gillon, Steven M. and Cathy D. Matson.The American Experiment . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.AP United States History Primary Source ReaderAmerica Through the Eyes of its People: Primary Sources in American History, 2nd Edition . New York: Longman, 1997.Documents in United States History CD-ROM . New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002.PrerequisitesBecause of our school system s use of the four by four block schedule, Honors United States History is a required prerequisite for admittance into Advanced Placement United States History. AP United States History is only offered in the spring semester of each school year.Student ObjectivesUpon completion of AP United States History students will:? Have developed the analytical skills necessary to think critically about United States History? Have accumulated a body of factual information needed to analyze themes and events in United States History? Be able to analyze historical documents and determine their relevance, reliability, and importance within the context of United States History? Interpret and apply information from historical documents including, cartoons, graphs, letters, etc.? Demonstrate an understanding of historical chronology? Effectively use analytical skills of evaluation, cause and effect, compare and contrast? Be able to identify recurring themes in American History? Be able to clearly communicate conclusions with supporting reasons, and evidence in essay formatForms of Assessment:? Thirty percent of a student s grade will come from daily quizzes. Quizzes will assess student knowledge of course reading as signments and comprehension of class discussions. Quizzes will employ a short answer format. Additionally, some classroom activities will becounted as quiz grades.? Twenty percent of a students grade will come from graded class work and homework assignments? Fifty percent of a student s gradelbewilbased on unit tests. Each test will incorporate both multiple choice and essay questions. Essay questions will consist of free-response questions and document-based questions taken from previous AP United States History Exams.? AP US Course Notebook: Notebooks will be graded at any time during the grading period. (Notebooks will count as at least one test grade each nine weeks) Contents will include the following, in this exact order:1) Course Description2) Course Calendar3) Class Notes? Student notes from class discussions? Each entry should be labeled and dated? Each entry should be hand-written4) Textbook Reading/Key Term Definitions? Reading assignments are listed on the course calendar? Textbook readings and key term definitions should be completed before the dates listed on your course calendar? For each assigned reading define the key terms located at the end of each chapter? Key term definitions should be dated and labeled with the corresponding title from the course calendar? All key-term definitions should be hand-written5) Primary Source Reading Notes? Assignments are listed on the course calendar? Readings and reading notes should be completed before the dates listed on your course calendar? For each Primary Source Reading:? Identify: author, date, and intended audience? Students will identify at least three things from the document that they think were significant/relevant? Students should explain why they think the document was written? Explain what the document can tell us about life in the US at the time the document was written? Entries for each reading should include examples of how the primary source relates to the AP US History themes? Entries for each reading should be dated and labeled with the corresponding title from the course calendar? Each entry should be hand-written6) Presidential Pages7) Era Charts8) Writing Assignments9) Maps10) MiscellaneousThemes in AP United States HistoryThe themes listed below provided to encourage students to think conceptually about American History and to consider how the United States has changed over time. These themes should be used as a means of helping students place the history of the United States into larger analytical contexts. These themes will be used as a basis for primary source analysis, class projects, and writing assignments.American Diversity:? The diversity of the American people and the relationships among different groups? The roles of race, class, ethnicity, and gender in the history of the United States American Identity:? Views of the American national character and ideas about American exceptionalism? Recognizing regional differences within the context of what it means to be an AmericanCulture:? Diverse individual and collective expressions through literature, art, philosophy, music, and film throughout US History? Popular culture and the dimensions of cultural conflict within American societyDemographic Change:? Changes in Birth, Marriage, and death rates; life expectancy and family patterns; population size and density Economic Transformations:? Changes in trade, commerce, and technology across time? The effects of capitalist development, labor unions, and consumerismEnvironment:? Ideas about consumption and conservation of natural resources? The impact of population growth, industrialization, pollution, and urban and suburban expansion Globalization:? Engagement with the rest of the world from the 15th century to the present: colonialism, mercantilism, global hegemony, development of markets, imperialism, cultural exchangePolitics and Citizenship:? Colonial and revolutionary legacies, American political traditions, growth of democracy, and the development of the modern state? Defining citizenship; struggles for civil rightsReform:?Diverse movements focusing on a broad range of issues, including anti-slavery, education, labor, temperance, womens rights civil rights, gay rights, war, publichealth, and governmentReligion:? The variety of religious beliefs and practices in America from prehistory to the present; influence of religion on politics, economics, and society Slavery and its Legacies in North America:? Systems of slave labor and other forms of unfree labor (e.g. indentured servitude, contract labor) in Native American societies, the Atlantic World, and the American South and West? The economics of slavery and its racial dimensions, Patterns of resistance and the long-term economic, political, and social effects of slaveryWar and Diplomacy:? Armed conflict from the pre-colonial period to the present; impact of war on American foreign policy and on politics, economics, and societyAbsences? You must bring a note from home or the office the day you return from an absence.? You have five school days to make up missed quizzes and/or tests. After five school days the assignment will receive a grade of zero. Only work that has been missed due to excused absences can be made up. Work missed due to unexcused absences will receive a score of zero. Make up work is your responsibility you will not be reminded. Makeup and tutoring times are posted in class.?You will be quizzed daily on reading assignments, key terms, and the previous days discussion. If you are absent you are required to tailyke quizzesd uponyour return. An absence on the day prior to a quiz or test does not excuse you from a quiz or test.General Rules? Be prepared for class with books, paper, pens/pencils, and all other materials before class begins.? Be in your seat and ready to work before the tardy bell rings.?Participation in class activities and assignments is not optional.Participation is mandatory.? Respect all people and their property.?All students are required to be prepared for class and ready to begin working when the bell rings.Tardies are not allowed.The tardy policy is as follows:oFirst tardy = warningoSecond tardy = detentionoThird tardy = two detentionso Fourth tardy = referral to an administrator? You are required by the New Hanover County School Board to have a visible Student ID.? Use of Cell phones, CD players, MP3 players, or similar electronic devices is not permitted and will result in confiscation. (You are aware of my expectations, dont get mad when I take your iPod or your phone and give it to an administrator.)? Go to the bathroom before class.?These are not all of the rules and expectations. I reserve the right to change the rules depending on the classs level of cooperation and maturityFailure. to meetthese requirements will result in detentions. Continued failure to meet these requirements will result in a referral to the administrator for your grade level. We havetoo much materialto cover for us to waste time that could be used for learning. I will also be calling your parents on a regular basis.GradingTests = 50%Quizzes/Homework = 40%Classwork = 10%Fixing a Low Test ScoreYou have the option to retake any test on which you score below an 80. The highest score you will receive on the make up test is an 80. You have one week to retake tests.Student Signature: _Parent/Guardian Signature: _2AP US Course CalendarAll reading assignments are listed on the day they are due, meaning that they have been assigned prior to the due date. All assignments must be competed by the due date regardless of circumstances.Day1-221-231-241-251-281-291-301-312-1Discussion TopicIntroduction to AP USHistoryColonial America1492-1754Colonial America1492-1754Colonial America1492-1754Test 1The American Revolution 1754-1783The American Revolution 1754-1783The American Revolution 1754-1783The American Revolution 1754-1783Primary Source Reading Assignments1-2 Christopher Columbus letter (1494)1-9 The Columbian Exchange (1590)2-13 Gottleib Mittelberger, The Passage of Indentured Servants(1750)3- 2 Nathaniel Bacon s Challenge to William Berkley (1676)3-13 Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788)4-5 John Dickinson, letter from a Pennsylvania Farmer (1767)4-6 The Boston Massacre, from theBoston Gazette (1770)The Declaration of Independencewww.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htmText Book ReadingAssignments (AMSCO)Chap 1Chap 2 & 3Chap 4Chap 52-42-52-62-72-82-112-122-132-142-152-19The Constitution and the New Republic 1776-1800The Constitution and theNew Republic1776-1800Test 2The Age of Jefferson 1800-1816The Age of Jefferson 1800-1816Nationalism and EconomicDevelopment1817-1850Nationalism and EconomicDevelopment1817-1850The Age of Jackson1824-1840The Age of Jackson 1824-1840Reform Movementsof the 1800sReform Movementsof the 1800s6- 6 General William Shepard, Shay s Rebellion (1787)Chap 67-3 Alexander Hamilton on the National Bank (1791)7- 8 Washington s Farewell Address (1796)7-9 The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)7-10 The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798)8-4 Jefferson on the Constitutionality of the Louisiana PurchaseChap 7(1803)8-1 Memoirs of a Monticello Slave (1847)8-8 Lewis and Clark on the Importance of Sacagawea (1804)8-9 Tecumseh, Uncommon Genius (1809)8-12 Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention (1814)9-5 Jefferson on the Missouri Compromise (1820)Chap 89-6 The Monroe Doctrine (1823)9-7 Henry Clay, Defense of the American System (1832)9-9 The Harbinger , Lowell Workers (1836)9-10 James Fennimore Cooper, Notions of the Americans (1840)10-7 Andrew Jackson, Veto of the Bank Bill (1832)Chap 1010-9 The Force Bill (1833)10-11 A French Traveler Reports on American Society (1835)11-8 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841)Chap 1110-1 Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (1823)11-10 Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)11-12 John Humphrey Noyes and Bible Communism (1845)2-20Test 332-212-222-252-262-272-282-293-33-43-53-63-73-103-113-123-133-143-173-183-193-20Sectionalism1820-1850Sectionalism1820-1850Territorial and Economic Expansion 1830-1860The Union in Peril1848-1860The Union in Peril1848-1860The Civil War1861-1865Reconstruction1863-1877Reconstruction1863-1877Test 4The West and the New South 1865-1900The West and the New South 1865-1900The Rise of Industrial America 1865-1900Urbanization andImmigration 1865-1900Urbanization andImmigration 1865-1900Gilded Age Politics1877-1900Gilded Age Politics1877-1900US Foreign Policy1865-1914The Progressive Movement1901-1918The Progressive Movement1901-1918Mid-term ExamMid-term Exam13-3 Nat Turner, Confession (1831)Chap 913-6 Benjamin Drew, Narratives of an Escaped Slave (1855)13-7 George Fitzhugh, The Blessings of Slavery (1857)12- 4 John L O Sullivan, The Great Nation of Futurity (1845)Chap 1214-2 Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom s Cabin (1852)Chap 1314-1 William Lloyd Garrison, from The Liberator (1831)14-5 Fredrick Douglass, Independence Day Speech (1852)14-8 Dredd Scott v. Sanford (1857)14-9 Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided (1858)15-9 Gettysburg Address (1863)Chap 14Chap 1516-4 Mississippi Black Codes (1865)16-7 The 14 th Amendment (1868)16-12 Share Cropper Contract (1882)Chap 1617-5 A Century of Dishonor (1881)17-7 Tragedy at Wounded Knee (1890)17-10 Plessy v. Furgeson (1896)17-11 WEB Du Bois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington (1903)Chap 17Chap 1818-6 Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1898)18-11 Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities (1904)19-4 Lincoln Steffens, How the Other Half Lives (1890)19-8 Lee Chew, Life of a Chinese Immigrant (1903)Chap 1917-9 The Omaha Platform (1892)19- 5 People s (Populist) Platform (1892)19-10 Plunkitt of Tammany (1905)20-05 McKinley on the Philippines (1900)20-2 Henry Cabot Lodge, The Business World vs. the PoliticiansChap 20(1895)Chap 2121-3 Eugene V. Debs, The Outlook for Socialism (1900)21-6 Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)21-7 Teddy Roosevelt, New Nationalism (1910)21-10 Louis Brandeis, Other People s Money and How the Bankers Use It (1913)21-11 Woodrow Wilson, New Freedom (1913)4AP US Course CalendarAll reading assignments are listed on the day they are due, meaning that they have been assigned prior to the due date. All assignments must be competed by the due date regardless of circumstances.3-253-263-273-283-314-14-24-34-44-144-154-164-174-184-214-224-234-244-25World War I1914-191822-3 Letters from the Great Migration (1917)World War I22-4 American Troops in the Trenches (1918)1914-191822- 8 Woodrow Wilson s 14 Points (1918)22-2 Boys Scouts Support the War Effort (1917)The 1920s23-6 Saco and Vanzetti, Court Statement (1927)The Great Depression andNew Deal 1929-1939The Great Depression and24-1 Herbert Hoover, 1932 Campaign Speech (1932)New Deal 1929-193924-3 FDR , 1932 Campaign Speech (1932)The Great Depression and24-4 Huey Long, Share the Wealth (1933)New Deal 1929-193924-6 Farther Charles Coughlin, A Third Party (1936)WWII 1939-194525-1Albert Einstein, Letter to FDR (1939)25-2 Charles Lindbergh, Radio Address (1941)WWII 1939-194525-3 FDR, The Four Freedoms (1941)25-5 Phillip Randolph, Why We Should March (1942)25-6 Japanese Relocation Order (1942)Test 5Truman and the Cold War26-3 The Marshall Plan (1947)1945-195226-5 The Truman Doctrine (1947)Truman and the Cold War1945-1952The Eisenhower Years 1952-26-7 Joseph McCarthy Speech (1950)196027-2 Brown v. Board (1954)The Kennedy and JohnsonYears: The 1960s28-3 JFK, Cuban Missile Crisis Address (1962)The Kennedy and Johnson28-4 SDS, Port Huron Statement (1962)Years: The 1960s28-6 The Civil Rights Act of 196428-9 Stokely Carmichael, Black Power (1967)The Kennedy and Johnson29-3 LBJ, The War on Poverty (1964)Years: The 1960s29-2 Betty Freidan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)The Nixon, Ford and Carter29-7 Roe v. Wade (1973)Years: The 1970sThe Nixon, Ford and Carter29- 8 Southie Won t Go (1975)Years: The 1970s29-9 Jimmy Carter, The Malaise Speech (1979)The Reagan to Clinton30-6 The Supply Side Revolution (1984)Years: 1980-200030-7 The Strategic Defense Initiative (1985)The Reagan to Clinton30-9 George Bush Announcement of Military Action in the PersianYears: 1980-2000Gulf (1991)Chap 22Chap 23Chap 24Chap 25Chap 26Chap 27Chap 28Chap 29Chap 304-28Test 64-29AP Exam Review*54-30AP Exam Review*5-1AP Exam Review*5-2AP Exam Review*5-5AP Exam Review*5-6AP Exam Review*5-7AP Exam Review*5-8AP Exam Review*5-9AP US Exam* Exam review days may be added or removed from the calendar depending on variations in the school systems calendar.6