Advanced Placement US History      Mr.  Houston   2007-2008

All chapters’ written assignment will be due on the day listed for the quiz. In cases when a school day is cancelled or a class rotates out of the schedule, the assignment will be due the following school day.  Each Reading Quiz consists of 25 questions that parallel the multiple-choice section of the AP exam. All tests consist of essays that parallel the standard and document based essays on the AP exam.      Text: John M. Blum: The National Experience.

September

6 Quiz Chapters 1, 2

            Age of Exploration

            Tudor and Stuart England

            Virginia and New England

            Proprietary Colonies

            Mercantilism

            Restoration Period

            Crown-Colonial Relations

            Competition for Empire in North America

            Analyze competing interpretations of English expansion


   Chapter 1 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 1 homework;

           

   Chapter 2 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 2 homework.

 

13 Quiz Chapters 3, 4

            Patterns of Existence in English colonies

            Colonial Intellectual Life

            French and Indian War

            Road to Revolution

            Clash of Ideas

            Analyze competing interpretations of the causes of the American Revolution


 
   Chapter 3 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 3 homework

    Chapter 4 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 4 homework

24   DBQ Essay Test

27  Quiz Chapters 5, 6

            War for Independence

            Confederation

            Constitutional Convention

            Washington Administration

            Federalists v. Republicans: Recurring Theme of Political Party Systems

            Adams Administration

            Foreign Policy Issues

            Analyze competing interpretations of party systems


    Chapter 5 Worksheet due
link to copy of chapter 5 homework

    Chapter 6 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 6 homework

October

11  Quiz Chapters 7, 8 

            Jeffersonian Philosophy

            Westward Expansion

            Domestic Political and Legal Controversies

            Causes of the War of 1812: Recurring Theme of Expansionism

            The War of 1812

            Treaty of Ghent

            Neo-Federalism and Henry Clay

            Marshall Court: Recurring Theme of Checks and Balances

            Monroe Doctrine

            Post-war expansion

            Slavery and the Cotton Kingdom: Recurring Theme of Race

            Industry and Technology

            Analyze competing interpretations of Marshall Court


    Chapter 7 Worksheet due
link to copy of chapter 7 homework

    Chapter 8 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 8 homework

19  Essay Test:  Two Thirty-five minute essays. Focus on the following topics:  Age of Discovery, Competing Empires in the New World,  Tudor monarchs enter the race, Stuart monarchs and English Colonization,  Two waves of  English Colonization,  Characteristics of the  "Original 13 Colonies,"  Colonial Society before the Revolution, Great  Awakening.

November

1 Quiz Chapters 9, 10

            Jacksonian Democracy, “Common Man”

            John Quincy Adams and the National Republicans

            Democratic Culture

            Land Policy and Internal Improvements

            Religious and Demographic Change

            Tariff and Nullification

            The Bank War

            Panic and Depression: Recurring Theme of Business Cycle

            Political Challenges: Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler

            Analyze competing interpretations of “Age of Common Man”


    Chapter 9 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 9 homework

   Chapter 10 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 10 homework

8 DBQ Essay Test

15  Quiz Chapters 11, 12

            Oregon and the Westward Movement

            Manifest Destiny

            Mexican-American War

            Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and Its Aftermath

            Compromise of 1850

            American Literature: Recurring Theme of Art Reflecting Society

            New Horizons of Imperialism

            Trade and Economic Change

            Antebellum Immigration: Recurring Theme of Demographic Change

            Economic Change and Sectionalism

            Analyze competing interpretations of US expansionism


    Chapter 11 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 11 homework
   
    Chapter 12 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 12 homework

29  Quiz Chapters 13, 14

            Kansas-Nebraska Act

            Bleeding Kansas

            Dred Scott

            Panic of 1857

            Lincoln-Douglas Debates

            John Brown

            Election of 1860

            Ft. Sumter

            Mobilization and the Home Front

            Women, Economics, Finance, Civil Liberties, Politics

            Early Military Campaigns

            Antietam and Emancipation

            Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Grant

            Final Campaigns, Sherman

            Analyze competing interpretations of “Bloody Ground” Historiography


    Chapter 13 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 13 homework

    Chapter 14 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 14 homework

December

13  Quiz Chapters 15, 16

            Lincoln, Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction

            Radical Reconstruction

            Constitutional Amendments: Recurring Theme of Civil Rights

            Redemption, KKK

            Grant Administration, Post-war Politics

            Compromise of 1877

            New South

            Jim Crow

            “Colonial Economy”

            Analyze the work of Kenneth Stampp


     Chapter 15 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 15 homework

     Chapter 16 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 16 homework

20  Essay Test  Postponed to January 10Two Thirty-five minute essays. Focus on the following topics: Wars for Empire, Road to the Revolution, Revolutionary War, Confederation Era, Constitutional Convention, Federalist Era, Jefferson Administration.

January

4 Quiz Chapters 17, 18

            Plains Indian Wars

            Mining Frontier

            Homesteading

            Railroad Boom: Transcontinental Link

            Accelerated Industrialization

            Laissez-faire Economics; Social Darwinism

            Roots of Labor Movement

            Analyze competing interpretations of “the West”


    Chapter 17 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 17 homework

    Chapter 18 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 18 homework

17 Quiz Chapters 19, 20

            Urbanization

            Social Movements of Late Nineteenth Century

            Educational Expansion and Reform

            Arts, Letters, Critics

            Business and Government

            Gilded Age

            Agrarian Revolt and Populism

            Panic of 1893 and Silver Issue

            Analyze competing interpretations of Immigration and its impact on US


    Chapter 19 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 19 homework

    Chapter 20 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 20 homework

24  Midterm Exam. Notebook Check.

31 Quiz Chapters 21, 22

            Roots of American Imperialism

            Spanish-American War

            “White Man’s Burden”

            Philippines, Hawaii, Latin America

            Open Door Policy

            Business Elite

            Roots of Progressivism: Recurring Theme of Reform

            TR and the Square Deal

            Trustbusting

            Panama, Great White Fleet, Nobel Prize

            Analyze competing interpretations of Teddy Roosevelt


        Chapter 21 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 21 homework

        Chapter 22 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 22 homework

February

14 Quiz Chapters 23, 24

            Taft and Roosevelt

            Pinchot-Ballinger Dispute

            1912 Election

            New Freedom and New Nationalism

            Eugene Debs

            Wilson’s Reforms

            Moral Diplomacy

            US Neutrality and WWI

            U-boats, Mexico, Russia

            “War to End All War”

            Home Front

            Fourteen Points

            Military Events

            Armistice, Versailles, Ratification Debate

            Indirect Impact of War and Its Aftermath

            Harding and Normalcy

            Analyze competing interpretations of Wilsonian World View

           
    Chapter 23 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 23 homework

    Chapter 24 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 24 homework

28 DBQ  Essay Test

March

6  Quiz Chapters 25, 26

            Business in the New Era

            Social Conflict in the 1920s

            Prohibition, Jazz, Scopes, Farm Problems

            Sacco and Vanzetti, Immigration Restriction

            “Lost Generation”

            Harlem Renaissance

            Gender, Family, and Social Change

            Coolidge and Hoover

            Great Crash and the Depression

            Hoover’s Response, RFC, Bonus Army

            Analyze competing interpretations of Causes of Great Depression


        Chapter 25 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 25 homework

        Chapter 26 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 26 homework

20 Quiz Chapters 27, 28

            Franklin Roosevelt and the 1932 Election

            Hundred Days, First New Deal

            FDR’s Critics

            Second New Deal and the 1936 Election

            Supreme Court Controversy

            Social and Cultural Change in the 1930s

            Isolationism and Neutrality

            FDR, Germany, and Japan

            Rising Threats, Pearl Harbor

Analyze competing interpretations of Racial Factors in Pacific War


        Chapter 27 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 27 homework

        Chapter 28 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 28 homework

28 Final Deadline for Research Paper

 

April

3  Quiz Chapters 29, 30

            European and Pacific Theatres

            Wartime Society, Economics, Mobilization, Home Front

            Wartime Diplomacy and Conferences

            FDR, Hitler, VE Day

            Truman, Hiroshima, VJ Day

            Holocaust, UN, Roots of Cold War

            Impact and Aftermath of WWII

            Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan

            1948 Election

            McCarthyism

            Korean War

            Eisenhower and 1952 Election

            Analyze competing interpretations of McCarthyism


        Chapter 29 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 29 homework

        Chapter 30 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 30 homework

10  Essay Test
 
17 Quiz Chapters 31, 32

 

            American Society in the 1950s

           

            Eisenhower, Dulles and the Cold War

 

            Republican Domestic Policy

           

            Nationalism and the “Superpowers”

 

            Roots of Vietnam War

 

            Civil Rights Movement

           

            Kennedy Administration

 

            Tonkin Gulf and Escalation in Vietnam

 

            Johnson and the Great Society

 

            American Society in the 1960s

           

            Analyze competing interpretations of 1950s American Society

        Chapter 31 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 31 homework

        Chapter 32 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 32 homework

May

1 Quiz Chapters 33, 34

            Rise of Richard Nixon and the 1968 Election

            Vietnam, Cambodia, Antiwar Movement

            Détente, USSR, China

            Watergate, 1972 Election, Paris Accords

            Ford Administration

            Carter, Panama, Camp David, Iran

            Reagan Revolution, supply-side, “morning in America

            Reagan and Foreign Policy

            American Society in the 70s and 80s

            Bush, Clinton, Bush

            Analyze competing interpretations of US and Vietnam

 
        Chapter 33 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 33 homework

        Chapter 34 Worksheet due link to copy of chapter 34 homework


 5 AP Review Field Trip

8  Final Review Quiz 1492-present

9  National Advanced Placement AP Exam

17    Essay on Film analysis

31    Essay on Film analysis

June

5  Local History Project due

12   Final Exam and Notebook Check


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