Textbook Kennedy, and Elizabeth Cohen. The American Pageant: A History of the Republic. 14th Edition (2011). [CR1a] Grading Grades will be calculated by points Tests = 40% Quizzes = 20% Homework = 20% Class Participation = 20% Students progress will be evaluated through homework, writing assignments, quizzes and tests Weekly chapter reading quizzes based on American Pageant readings Unit tests – Teacher-developed Unit tests, based on the new APUSH format There will be formal writing assignments based on the written portions required by the APUSH exam Short answers Long essay [CR5] DBQs [CR5][CR13a] Homework will be posted on School Wires and in-class Notebook Requirement Students must have a multi-section notebook. The notebook will be divided into the following sections: Vocabulary Key-Concepts and Thematic Learning Objectives Period 1[CR2] (1491-1607) On a American continent controlled by American Indians, contact among the peoples of Americas, and West Africa created a new world. Textbook: American Pageant Chapter (pages): 1-2 [CR1a] Content Interaction between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans The Colombian Exchange Spanish colonization Foundations of slavery Effect of colonization on Natives
Content War with Mexico Popular sovereignty CA statehood Underground railroad Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law Pierce and expansion Douglas and the KS-NE Act Uncle Tom’s Cabin Bleeding Kansas Dred Scott case Lincoln-Douglas debates Harper’s Ferry Election of 1860 Secession The Civil war Lincoln and civil liberties Women and the war Total war Antietam Black soldiers Gettysburg Sherman’s march Appomattox Lincoln assassination slaves Reconstruction Codes Ku Klux Klan Johnson impeachment Vocabulary Expansionism Migration/immigration Manifest Destiny Mexican-American War Ethnic Communities Nativism War Sectionalism Free manufacturing Abolitionists States’ rights Nullification Secession Election of 1860 Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act Dred Scott decision Republican Party Abraham Lincoln Free Soil platform Reconstruction Confederacy Emancipation Proclamation 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment Sharecropping system Radical vs. moderate Republicans Segregation Key Concepts 5.1: The United States became more connected with the world as it pursued an expansionist foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere and emerged as the destination for many migrants from other countries. 5.2: Intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural, and political issues led the nation into civil war.
Students will read “Popular Sovereignty Should Settle the Slavery Question” by Stephen A. Douglass and “Slavery Should Not be Allowed to Spread” by Abraham Lincoln. Students will identify major arguments of each man, and then debate whose argument was more persuasive. Students analysis should address at least two of the following features from each of the documents: audience, purpose, point of view, format, argument, limitations, and content germane to the evidence considered [CR7] Working in groups of and using the following articles as a basis for their arguments, students will have a class discussion focused on the question: “What caused the Civil War?” 1. “The Economic Origins of the Civil War” 2. “The Political Origins of the Civil War” 3. “Slavery, the Constitution, and the Origins of the Civil War” [CR8][CR6] Students will read The Spectator article Southerners Defense of Slavery.” What were the moral, political and economic arguments for slavery? Students will create Cornell notes for chapters 17-22 of The American Pageant, 13th Ed. Period [CR2] (1865-1898) The transformation of the U.S. from an agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society brought about significant economic, political, diplomatic, social, environmental, and cultural changes. Textbook: American Pageant Chapters: 23-26 [CR1a] Content Grant Administration Political corruption Economic depression Compromise of 1877 Jim Crow Class conflict and ethnic clashes Billion Dollar Congress Homestead Strike Populists Railroads Age of Industry Gilded Age Gospel of wealth Labor Urbanization Immigration Settlement Houses Nativism Washington vs. DuBois Urban culture The West Native conquest Bryan vs. McKinley
Content American expansionism Hawaii Spanish-American War Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines Filipino insurgency The Open Door in China President Theodore Roosevelt Panama Canal Progressivism Muckrakers Temperance movement Trustbusting Conservation Dollar Diplomacy Election of 1912 Wilson’s New Freedom America WWI 14 Points League of Nations Propaganda/civil liberties Versailles Treaty Red Scare KKK Immigration restriction Prohibition Consumption Roaring 20’s culture Great Depression FDR New Deal Dust Bowl Pearl Harbor WWII Japanese internment and the war Atomic Vocabulary Pluralistic Business cycle Depression Progressive Reform Welfare state Liberalism FDR New Deal Relief, recovery, reform Conservatives Modernization Tradition vs. innovation Urban vs. rural Fundamentalist Christianity vs. scientific modernism Management vs. labor Native born vs. immigrants vs. black Idealism vs. Disillusionment Harlem Renaissance War I Xenophobia Civil Liberties Strikes Red Scare Quotas Migration Frontier closed Imperialism Spanish-American war Filipino insurrection Anti-imperialist Interventionists vs. Isolationists Neutrality Woodrow Wilson American Expeditionary Force Treaty of Versailles League of Nations World War II Pearl Harbor Japanese internment Atomic Axis powers Allied powers
race JFK Vietnam Cuba Civil Rights JFK assassination Great Society Nixon 60’s culture China Middle East Watergate Feminism Energy crisis Iran Hostage crisis Vocabulary Collective security Containment Korean conflict Vietnam conflict Détente Decolonization Nationalist movements Nonaligned countries Cold War Oil crisis Military Industrial Complex Liberalism Non-violent protest Desegregation of military Brown v. Bd. of Education Civil Rights Act of 1964 Lyndon Johnson Great Society Private sector Baby boom Suburbanization Sun Belt Conformity Immigration Act of 1965 Counterculture Sexual Revolution Key Concepts 8.1: The United States responded to an uncertain and unstable postwar world by asserting and attempting to defend a position of global leadership, with far-reaching domestic and international consequences. 8.2: Liberalism, based on anticommunism abroad and a firm belief in the efficacy of governmental and especially federal power to achieve social goals at home, reached its apex in the mid-1960s and generated a variety of political and cultural responses. 8.3: Postwar economic, demographic, and technological changes had a far-reaching impact on American society, politics, and the environment.