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Advanced American History

Mr. Coy

Class Syllabus

Textbook:

The American Pageant (The History of the Republic 13th Edition)

General Description:

Objectives:

This Class curriculum is based on the Advance Placement model for American History and is designed to prepare the student for a university level course. The class relies heavily on the reading and discussion of primary documents with an emphasis on essay and DBQ (document based questions) writing.

By the end of the course the student should have a better understanding of:

1. Multicultural perspectives with geographic, constitutional, religious, and economic themes.

2. All sides of the American story.

3. Historical, ethical, and political controversies that have changed the course of history.

Homework:

Homework is to be turned in when due and participation points will be given for taking an active part in the daily discussions. Late work will not be accepted. If you are absent, your assignment is due the day you return. It is the responsibility of the student to gather his or her homework missed for the absent day. There are exceptional circumstances that may occur when the teacher reserves the right to give an additional amount of time. All students will be required to take the final exam unless other wise notified by the teacher.

Class Rules:

1. No eating in class.

2. Raise your hand if you have a comment or question.

3. Exams or class assignments will not be made up when suspensions are the result of time missed.

4. Respect should be given to everyone in the room at all times.

5. Be prepared for class everyday when you walk in.

Materials:

Students should bring the following materials everyday to class:

1 Pencil or Pen (Black or blue)

2 Assignment folder

3 Paper

4 Textbook (unless one is issued at the beginning of each class and collected)

5 A willingness to learn

6 Good social skills

APARTS:

Throughout the school year the class will be working with the A.P. APARTS system in order to examine and understand primary source materials. We will evaluate their relevance to the study of historical events and their importance as they relate to events throughout history.

Assignment Folder:

A portfolio of all class materials and work will be kept in the assignment folder. The content of these folders will be checked periodicaly during the school year to ensure that each student is practicing good organizational and study skills. The materials in the folders may be used on chapter, mid-term and final exams but not on quizzes. These portfolios will be shared with parents on conference days as evidence of student's performance and class work. Each students will receive 25 points each time the folders are examined, provided that all materials are present, complete and corrected for mistakes. At the Midterm and Final exam periods each students will receive a bonus of 100 points for each complete folder.

Evaluation/Grading Practice:

Grades will be based on, but not limited to, daily work, quizzes, portfolios, exams, video notes, and class participation/attendance.

AP United States History

Syllabus

This course is designed to provide a college-level experience and preparation for the AP Exam. An emphasis is placed on interpreting primary documents, mastering a significant body of factual information, and writing critical essays. The class is a survey of American history from the age of exploration and discovery to the present. Topics include life and ideology in colonial America, the American Revolution, constitutional development, Manifest Destiny, the Civil War and Reconstruction, immigration, industrialism, World War I, the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War and the ushering in of the twenty-first century.

In addition to the topics listed above, the course will emphasize a series of key themes throughout the year. These themes have been determined by the College Board as essential to a comprehensive study of United States history. The themes will include discussions of American diversity, the development of a unique American identity, the evolution of American culture, demographic changes over the course of America’s history, economic trends and transformations, environmental issues, the development of political institutions and the components of citizenship, social reform movements, the role of religion in the making of the United States and its impact in a multicultural society, the history of slavery and its legacies in this hemisphere, war and diplomacy, and finally, the place of the United States in an increasingly global arena. The class will trace these themes throughout the year, emphasizing the ways in which they are interconnected and examining the ways in which each helps to shape the changes over time that are so important to understanding United States history.

Each unit will utilize discussions of and writing about related historiography; how interpretations of events have changed over time, how the issues on one time period have had an impact on the experiences and decisions of subsequent generations, and how such reevaluations of the past continue to shape the way historians see the world today. These discussions are woven throughout the course as they relate to the topics studied.

Course Objectives

Students will:

Master comprehensive knowledge of historical facts
Demonstrate an understanding of a historical time line
Apply historical facts to support an argument or position
Effectively use analytical skills of assessment, cause and effect, compare and contrast.
Interpret and apply data from primary sources, including cartoons, graphs, letters and journals.
Cooperate and collaborate with others to construct projects and problem solve
Prepare for and pass the AP U.S. History Exam.

Course Texts and Readings:

Textbook

David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen and Thomas A. Bailey. The American Pageant: A History of the Republic (Boston: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin, 2007). David M. Kennedy, Thomas A. Bailey.

Reader (Primary Documents)

The American Spirit Reader: United States History as Seen by Contemporaries (Eleventh Edition, Volumes I & 2, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York, 2006).

Summer Readings:

The Peopling of British North America; Author, Bernard Bailyn

Faces of Revolution; Author, Bernard Bailyn

Each student will be expected to present a written and oral presentation of each book to the class during the first week of the new school year. The oral presentation lasting about 10 minutes and papers consisting of 3 to 5 pages in length. All papers must be typed, using 12 font and double spaced. This is not to be a “book report” but a response to key elements of the books, a general idea of what the author is saying to the reader and your favorite parts of the text as it pertains to the historical material presented. Failure to complete these assignments in a timely manner may result in your dismissal from the class. It is very important that all students involved in the A.P. American History Class are sincere and committed to the course, demonstrating their commitment with punctuality, hard work and daily participation in all aspects of the class.

Tests and Grading

Test will be a combination of objective and essay questions. Grading will be as follows: test – 45%, historical essays – 35%, final exam – 20%. Documented – Based Question essays (DBQs) must be typed (double-spaced) or written in ink. Essays will vary in length depending on the topic and are graded on content, use of documentary and outside supporting evidence, grammar, spelling and evidence of critical thinking.

Study Guides

Each student will be provided with a study guide prior to the start of each chapter in the text book. It will be the student’s responsibility to complete the necessary information contained in the guide in order to be prepared for the chapter exams and quizzes. Progress of the study guides will be check at random times during the semesters by the instructor, unannounced.

Participation Points

All students will receive 10 participation points as a part of their daily grade provided that they take an active part in the discussions of the day.

Fall Term

All of the following readings should be completed prior to when they will be discussed.

August 21

American Pageant: Chapter 1, New World Beginnings Pre-Columbian cultures,

Early explorations, introduction of slavery, Spanish and French claims, the rise of

Mercantilism.

Readings:

The Native Americans
1. Visualizing the New World (1506 – 1510)
2. Juan Gines de Sepulveda Belittles the Indians (1547)
3. Bartolome de Las Casas Defends the Indians (1552)
4. Hernando de Soto Encounters the Indians of the Southeast (1539-1542)

Week of August 22 – August 24

American Pageant: Chapter 2, the Planting of English America. The Chesapeake and southern English colonies, ties with Caribbean economies, British mercantilism.

Chapter 3, Settling the Northern Colonies

New England and the Puritans, religious dissent, colonial politics and conflict

with British authority, the middle colonies.

Afternoon tutorials focused on “Doing the DBQ”

DBQ on Chesapeake and New England Colonies (due Sept. 8)

Readings:

Precarious Beginnings in Virginia
1. The Starving Time (1609)
2. Governor William Berkeley Reports (1671)
The Mix of Cultures in English America
1. The Great Indian Uprising (1622)
2. A West Indian Planter Reflects on Slavery in Barbados (1673)
The Planting of Plymouth
1. The Pilgrims Leave Holland (1620)
2. Framing the Mayflower Compact (1620)
3. Abandoning Communism at Plymouth (1623)

Week of August 27 - 31

American Pageant: Chapter 4, American Life in the 17^th Century

Tobacco and rice colonies, African-American culture, colonial family

Life, dissent in New England and the Witch trials

Chapter 5, Colonial Society on the Eve of the Revolution

Immigration and demographic change, the Atlantic economy, the

Great Awakening, education and culture, colonial politics.

Readings:

Indentured Servants in the Chesapeake Region
1. A Contract for Indentured Service (1635)
2. A Londoner Agrees to Provide a Servant (1654)
3. A Servant Describes His Fate (c. 1680)
4. A Servant Girl Pays the Wages of Sin (1656)
5. An Unruly Servant Is Punished (1679)
Bacon’s Rebellion and Its Aftermath
1. The Baconite Grievances (1677)
2. The Governor Upholds the Law (1676)
3. Slavery Is Justified (1757)
Slavery in the Colonial Era
1. The Conscience of a Slave Trader (1694)
2. The Stono River Rebellion in South Carolina (1739)

A. The Colonial Melting Pot

1. Benjamin Franklin Analyzes the Population (1751)

Gottlieb Mittelberger Voyages to Pennsylvania (c. 1750)
Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur Discovers a New Man (c. 1770)
The Growth of the Colonial Population (1740-1780)
The Great Awakening
1. George Whitefield Fascinates Franklin (1739)
2. Jonathan Edwards Paints the Horrors of Hell (1741)

Unit Test: September 4 – Chapters 1-5

Test format will include both multiple-choice and essay questions to be

completed in class.

Week of September 5 – 7

American Pageant: Chapter 6, The Duel for North America

Colonial involvement in British imperial wars, consequences of the

French and Indian War and the Proclamation of 1763

Chapter 7, The Road to Revolution

Roots of revolution and the role of mercantilism, end of benign

Neglect, failure of diplomacy, first conflicts.

Readings:

The Development of New France
1. Father Isaac Jogues Endures Tortures (1642)
2. A Swede Depicts the Indian Trade (1749)
The French and Indian War
1. Benjamin Franklin Characterizes General Edward Braddock (1755)
2. A Frenchman Reports Braddock’s Defeat (1755)
3. Francis Parkman Analyzes the Conflict (1884)
The Burden of Mercantilism
1. Virginia Resents Restrictions (1671)
2. Adam Smith’s Balance Sheet (1776)
The Tempest over Taxation
1. Benjamin Franklin Testifies Against the Stamp Act (1766)
2. Philadelphia Threatens Tea Men (1773

Week of September 10 -14

American Pageant: Chapter 8, American Secedes from the Empire.

The American Revolution, wartime diplomacy, life on the home front, women

and the war, the impact of the war on the institution of slavery.

Chapter 9, The Confederation and the Constitution

The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, the role of the Enlightenment,

slavery and religion in the political process, wartime diplomacy.

Readings:

General Washington in Command
1. Washington Scorns Independence (1775)
2. Washington’s Deep Discouragements
3. The Unreliable Militia (1776)
The Formal Break with Britain
1. Thomas Paine Talks Common Sense (1776)
2. Richard Henry Lee’s Resolution (1776)
3. Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence (1776)
4. The Abortive Slave Trade Indictment (1776)
Voices of Dissent
1. Lord Chatham Assails the War (1777)
2. Tories Fear French Catholics (1779)
The Shock of Shays’s Rebellion
1. Daniel Gray Explains the Shaysites’ Grievances (1786)
2. George Washington Expresses Alarm (1786)
3. Thomas Jefferson Favors Rebellion (1787)
Clashes in the Philadelphia Convention
1. The Debate on Representation in Congress (1787)
2. The Argument over Slave Importations (1787)
3. Singing for the Constitution (1787)

DBQ on the American Revolution (due Sept. 17)

Unit Test: September 17 – Chapters 6-9

Test format during class will be multiple-choice. Essays will be completed in

class.

Week of September 17 – 21

American Pageant: Chapter 10, Launching the New Ship of State.

Early national politics and economics, diplomacy during the French

Revolution, the making of the office of the presidency.

“Washington’s Farewell Address”

Readings:

Conflict in the Infant Republic
1. The Senate Snubs George Washington (1789)
2. Alexander Hamilton Versus Thomas Jefferson on Popular Rule (1780’s-1820’s)
3. The Clash over States’ Rights (1780’s-1820’s)
4. The Spectrum of Disagreement (1780’s-1820’s)
State Debts and the National Bank
1. Jefferson Duped (?) by Hamilton (1790)
2. Hamilton Defends Assumption (1792)
3. Jefferson Versus Hamilton on the Bank (1791)
Overawing the Whiskey Boys
1. Hamilton Upholds Law Enforcement (1794)
2. Jefferson Deplores Undue Force (1794)
The Birth of a Neutrality Policy
1. The French Revolution: Conflicting Views (1790’s)
2. A Jeffersonian Condemns Neutrality (1793)
The Controversial Jay Treaty
1. Virginians Oppose John Jay’s Appointment (1794)
2. Hamilton Attacks Jay’s Attackers (1795)

Week of October September 24 – 28

American Pageant: Chapter 11, Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian

Democracy.

The “Revolution of 1800”, the Marshall Court, diplomacy of Jefferson

and Madison, the Embargo Act, acceleration of expansion west.

Chapter 12, The Second War for Independence/Nationalism. The War of

1812, The Era of Good Feeling, The American System, the diplomacy of

expansion, forging a new national identity.

Readings:

The Three-Fifths Clause Gives Jefferson a Dubious Victory
1. A Federalist Cries Foul (1800)
2. The Centinel Declares Adams the Victor (18000
3. The Connecticut Courant Rejects Jefferson as a Man “of the People” (1801)
John Marshall and the Supreme Court
1. Marshall Sanctions the Bank (1819)
2. A Maryland Editor Dissents (1819)
3. Marshall Asserts the Supremacy of the Constitution (1803)
The Louisiana Purchase
1. Napoleon Decides to Dispose of Louisiana (1803)
2. Thomas Jefferson Alerts Robert Livingston (1802)
3. Jefferson Stretches the Constitution to Buy Louisiana (1803)
4. Representative Roger Griswold is Unhappy (1803)
5. Senator John Breckinridge Supports the Purchase (1803)
6. Lewis and Clark Meet a Grizzly (1805)
7. Louisiana Keeps its Civil Law (1808)
The Cauldron of War
1. Tecumseh Challenges William Henry Harrison (1810)
2. Representative Felix Grundy Demands War (1811)
3. Causes of the War (1812,1813)
4. President James Madison’s Fateful War Message (1812)
5. Federalist Congressmen Protest (1812)
Disloyalty in New England
1. A Boston Paper Obstructs the War (1813)
2. The Hartford Convention Fulminates (1814)
3. John Quincy Adams Reproaches the Hartfordites (1815)

Week of October 1 -5

Amercian Pageant: Chapter 13, The Rise of a Mass Democracy. Jacksonian

Democracy and the Whigs, national policy toward American Indians, the era

of the “common man,” expansion with the Texas revolution, slavery and

sectionalism.

Readings:

Background of the New Democracy
1. A Disgusting Spirit of Equality (1807)
2. A Plea for Nonproperty Suffrage (1841)
3. Davy Crockett Advises Politicians (1836)
The New Spirit of Enterprise in Jacksonian America
1. Justice Joseph Story Defends the Rights of Contract (1837)
2. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney Supports “Creative Destruction” (1837)
The Debate on Internal Improvements
1. Jackson Vetoes the Maysville Road Bill (1830)
2. Clay Protest (1830)
The Nullification Crisis
1. Senator Robert Hayne Advocates Nullification (1830)
2. Daniel Webster Pleads for the Union (1830)
3. South Carolina Threatens Secession (1832)
4. Andrew Jackson Denounces Nullification (1832)

Unit Test: October 8 – Chapters 10 – 12

Test format will include both multiple-choice and essay questions to be completed

in class.

Week of October 15 – 19

American Pageant: Chapter 14, Forging the National Economy. The rise of the

market economy, immigration and the increase in nativism, women in the work-

place, the factory system, the transportation revolution, expansion west.

Readings:

The Spread of the Factory
1. Wage Slavery in New England (1832)
2. The Abuse of Female Workers (1836)
3. The “Utopian” Lowell Looms (1834)
4. “Slavers” for New England Girls (1846)
5. Disaster in a Massachusetts Mill (1860)
The Flocking of the Immigrants
1. An English Radical Praises America (1818)
2. The Coming of the Irish (1836)
3. The Burning of a Convent School (1834)
4. A Southerner Defends the Catholics (1854)
Mounting Labor Unrest
1. A One-Sided Labor Contract (c. 1832)
2. Agitation for the Ten-Hour Day (1835)
3. The Tailors Strike in New York (1836)
4. Chattel Slavery Versus Wage Slavery (1840)
Steamboats and Canals
1. The First “Fire Canoe” In the West (1811)
2. The Impact of the Erie Canal (1853)
3. Steamboats Lose to the Railroads (c. 1857)

Week of October 22 – 26

American Pageant: Chapter 15, The Ferment of Reform and Culture. The

Second Great Awakening and the growth of reform, women’s roles in reform

Movements, creation of a national culture, advances in education and the

sciences.

Readings:

Religious Ferment
1. A Catholic Views Camp Meetings (c. 1801)
2. Joseph Smith Has a Vision (1820)
Social and Humanitarian Reformers
1. William Ellery Channing Preaches Reformism (c. 1831)
2. Dorothea Dix Succors the Insane (1843)
3. T.S. Arthur’s Ten Nights in a Barroom (1854)

Chapter 16, The South and the Slavery Controversy. Cotton culture, southern

Society and the impact of the plantation system, the rise of abolitionist move-

ments.

Readings:

The Face of Slavey
1. A Slave Boy Learns a Lesson (c.1827)
2. A Former Slave Exposes Slavery (1850)
3. Human Cattle for Sale (c. 1850)
4. Cohabitation in the Cabins (c. 1834)
5. From Slavery to Freedom (1835)
6. The White Southern View of Slavery
  1. William Harper’s Apology (1837)
  2. The “Blessings” of the Slave (1849)
  3. Slaves Don’t Strike (1846)
  4. Comparing Slave Labor and Wage Labor (1850)

DBQ on the success of reform movements in increasing democracy in American

Society (due Oct. 31)

Unit Test: October 29 – Chapters 14 – 16

Test format will include both multiple choice and essay questions.

Week of October 29 – November 2

American Pageant: Chapter 17, Manifest Destiny and its Legacy. Expansion

under Polk, Manifest Destiny, war with Mexico.

Readings:

The Debate over Oregon
1. Senator George McDuffie Belittles Oregon (1843)
2. Senator Edward Hannegan Demands 54 / 40’ (1846)
3. Two Pioneers Describe Oregon (1847)
4. A British View of the Oregon Controversy (1846)
Provoking War with Mexico
1. Charles Sumner Assails the Texas Grab (1847)
2. President James Polk Justifies the Texas Coup (1845)
3. The Cabinet Debates War (1846)
4. The President Blames Mexico (1846)
5. A British View of the Mexican War (1847)
Opposition to the War
1. Massachusetts Voices Condemnation (1847)
2. Abolitionists Libel General Zachary Taylor (1848)
Peace with Mexico
1. Polk Submits the Trist Treaty (1848)
2. A Whig Journal Accepts the Pact (1848)
3. Democrats Hail a Glorious Achievement (1848)
4. Mexico Remembers the Despoilers (1935)

Week of November 5 – 9

American Pageant: Chapter 18, Renewing the Sectional Struggle, Popular

sovereignty, the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Law, the

economics of expansion.

Readings:

Wilmot Proviso Issue
1. David Wilmot Appeals for Free Soil (1847)
2. Southerners Threaten Secession (1849)
The Compromise Debates of 1850
1. John Calhoun Demands Southern Rights (1850)
2. Daniel Webster Urges Concessions (1850)
3. Free-Soilers Denounce Webster (1850)

Chapter 19, Drifting Toward Disunion. Abolition in the 1850’s the impact of

Dred Scott, the financial panic of 1857, political crisis in the election of 1860,

the coming of the Civil War.

Readings:

The Impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1. Tom Defies Simon Legree (1852)
2. The South Scorns Mrs. Stowe (1852
3. Mrs. Stowe Inflames the Southern Imagination (1853)
4. 4. The London Times Demurs (1852)

Week of November 12 – 16

American Pageant: Complete Chapter 19. In-class DBQ – The role of the

Constitution in the crisis of the 1850’s.

Final Exams: November 19 - 23

WINTER TERM

Week of November 26 – November 30

American Pageant: Chapter 20, Girding for War. Wartime diplomacy,

economic changes in both the North and South, women and the war,

issues of civil liberties in wartime.

Readings:

Lincoln and the Secession Crisis
1. A Marylander Rejects Disunion (1861)
2. Fort Sumter Inflames the North (1861)
3. Fort Sumter Inspirits the South (1861)
Framing a New Government
1. Alexander Hamilton Stephens’s Cornerstone Speech (1861)
2. The New York Times Dissents (1861)
British Involvement
1. The London Times Breathes Easier (1862)
2. Britons Hail Democracy’s Collapse (1862)
3. Southern Resentment Against England (1862)
4. A Northerner Lambastes Britain (1863)

Chapter 21, The Furnace of the Civil War. The Peninsula Campaign, the

“Anaconda,” the war in the West, Sherman’s March, Appomattox, the

Emancipation Proclamation, the legacy of war in both the North and South.

Readings:

Northern War Aims
1. Congress Voices Its Views (1861)
2. Abolitionists View the War (1863)
3. Abraham Lincoln Answers Horace Greeley’s Prayer (1862)
4. A Colored Man “Reflects on the War (1863)
Lincoln and His Generals
1. George McClellan Snubs the President (1861)
2. McClellan Upbraids His Superior (1862)
3. Lincoln Warns General Joseph Hooker (1863)

In class DBQ on a topic that has been studied earlier in the year.

Week of December 3 – 7

American Pageant: Chapter 22, The Ordeal of Reconstruction. The politics

and economics of Reconstruction, experiences of freedmen, the rise of the

Bourbon South and the fate of Reconstruction, impeachment politics and the

balance of power.

Readings:

The Status of the South
1. Black Leaders Express Their View (1865)
2. Carl Schurz Reports Southern Defiance (1865)
3. General Ulysses S. Grant Is Optimistic (1865)
4. The Former Slaves Confront Freedom (1901)
5. Emancipation Violence in Texas (c. 1865)
The Debate on Reconstruction Policy
1. Southern Blacks Ask for Help (1865)
2. The White South Asks for Unconditional Reintegration into the Union (1866)
3. The Radical Republicans Take a Hard Line (1866)
4. President Andrew Johnson Tries to Restrain Congress (1867)
5. The Controversy over the Fifteenth Amendment (1866, 1870)

Week of December 10 -14

American Pageant: Chapter 22, The Ordeal of Reconstruction continued.

Chapter 23, Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age. The rise of big business

and the role of business in politics, class and ethnic conflict, the rise of

Jim Crow, Populism.

Readings: (Chapter 22 cont.)

Impeaching the President
1. Johnson’s Cleveland Speech (1866)
2. Senator Lyman Trumbull Defends Johnson (1868)
“Black Reconstruction:
1. Thaddeus Stevens Demands Black Suffrage (1867)
2. Black and White Legislatures (c. 1876)
3. 3. W.E.B. Du Bois Justifies Black Legislators (1910)

Unit Test: December 13 – Chapters 20 – 22

Test format will include both multiple-choice and essay question to be

completed in class.

Week of December 17 – 21

American Pageant: Chapter 23, Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age.

Readings:

The South After Reconstruction
1. Rutherford B. Hayes Believes Himself Defrauded (1876)
2. Zachariah Chandler Assails the Solid South (1879)
3. Reconstruction and Redemption (1882)
Race Divides the South
1. A Southern Senator Defends Jim Crow (1900)
2. A Spokesman for the “New South” Describes Race Relations in the 1880’s (1889)
3. An African American Minister Answers Henry Grady (1890)
4. Booker T. Washington Portrays the Plight of Black Tenant Farmers (1889)
5. A Southern Black Woman Reflects on the Jim Crow System (1902)
The Populist Crusade in the South
1. Tom Watson Supports a Black-White Political Alliance (1892)
2. A Black-Alliance Man Urges Interracial Cooperation (1891)
3. The Wilmington Massacre (1898)
The Spread of Segregation
1. The Supreme Court Declares That Separate Is Equal (1896)
2. A Justice of the Peace Denies Justice (1939)

Week of January 7 – 11

American Pageant: Chapter 24, Industry Comes of Age. Era of the Robber

Barons, the lives of the working classes and the growth of unionism,

government and politics of regulation, the United States in the world

economy.

Readings:

The Problem of Long-Haul Rates (1885)
1. A Defense of Long-Haul Rates (1885)
2. Railroad President Sidney Dillon Supports Stock Watering (1891)
3. General James B. Weaver Deplores Stock Watering (1892)
The Trust and Monopoly
1. John D. Rockefeller Justifies Rebates (1909)
2. An Oil Man Goes Bankrupt (1899)
3. Weaver Attacks the Trusts (1892)
The New Philosophy of Materialism
1. Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (1889)
2. The Nation Challenges Carnegie (1901)
3. Russell Conwell Deifies the Dollar (c. 1900)
The Rise of the New South
1. Henry Grady Issues a Challenge (1889)
2. A Yankee Visits the New South (1887)
3. Life in a Southern Mill (1910)

DBQ on business in the late nineteenth century (due January 9)

Unit Test: January 11 – Chapters 23 – 24

Test format will include both multiple-choice and essay questions to be

completed in class.

Week of January 14 – 18

American Pageant: Chapter 25, America moves to the city. Urbanization,

new waves of immigration, renewed instances of nativism, cultural life in

urban America, the “New Women” African-American push for expanded

civil rights.

Readings:

The Lures and Liabilities of City Life
1. Frederick Law Olmsted Applauds the City’s Attractions (1871
2. Sister Carrie Is Bedazzled by Chicago (1900)
3. Cleaning Up New York (1897)
4. Jacob Riis Goes Slumming (1890)
The New Immigration
1. Mary Antin Praises America (1894)
2. The American Protective Association Hates Catholics (1893)
3. Henry Cabot Lodge Urges a Literacy Test (1896)
4. President Cleveland Vetoes a Literacy Test (1897)
5. Four Views of the Statue of Liberty (1881,1885,1886)

Chapter 26, The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution. The close of

the frontier and its impact, industrialization of agriculture and political

dissent among farmers.

Readings:

The Plight of the Indian
1. The U.S. Army Negotiates a Treaty with the Sioux (1868)
2. Harper’s Weekly Decries the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
3. She Walks with Her Shawl Remembers the Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
4. Chief Joseph’s Lament (1879)
5. Theodore Roosevelt Downgrades the Indians (1885)
The Crusade for Free Homesteads
1. “Vote Yourself a Farm” (1846)
2. A Texan Scorns Futile Charity (1852)
3. President James Buchanan Kills a Homestead Bill (1860

Week of January 21 – 25

American Pageant: Chapter 26, The Great West and the Agricultural

Revolution.

Readings:

Life on the Frontier
1. Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1868)
2. A Pioneer Woman Describes the Overland Trail (1862)
3. Opening Montana (1867)
4. Sodbusters in Kansas (1877)
5. John Wesley Powell Reports on the “Arid Region” (1879)
The Farmers’ Protest Movement
1. An Iowan Assesses Discontent (1893)
2. Mrs. Mary Lease Raises More Hell (c. 1890)
3. William Allen White Attacks the Populists (1896)

Chapter 27, Empire and Expansion. American expansion overseas, a new

age of imperialism, The Spanish-American War, the Open Door, America

on the world stage.

Readings:

Yellow Journalism in Flower
1. Joseph Pulitzer Demands Intervention (1897)
2. William Randolph Hearst Stages a Rescue (1897)
The Declaration of War
1. President McKinley Submits a War Message (1898)
2. Professor Charles Eliot Norton’s Patriotic Protest (1898)

January 25: Unit Test – Chapters 25 – 26

Test format will include both multiple-choice and essay questions to be

completed in class.

Week of January 28 – January 31

American Pageant: Chapter 27, Empire and Expansion.

Readings:

The Debate over Imperialism
1. Albert Beveridge Trumpets Imperialism (1898)
2. Professor William Sumner Spurns Empire (1898)
3. William Jennings Bryan Vents His Bitterness (1901)
4. The Nation Denounces Atrocities (1902)
The Panama Revolution
1. John Hay Twists Colombia’s Arm (1903)
2. Theodore Roosevelt Hopes for Revolt (1903)
3. Official Connivance in Washington (1903)
The Monroe Doctrine in the Caribbean
1. Roosevelt Launches a Corollary (1904)
2. A Latin American Protests (1943)

In-class DBQ on imperialism (due January 30)

January 31: Unit Test – Chapters 26 – 27

Test format will be multiple-choice to be completed in class.

Week of February 4 – February 8

American Pageant: Chapter 28, Progressivism and the Republican

Roosevelt. Progressive reform and the trusts, demographics of urban-

ization and the resulting political impact, “Dollar Diplomacy,”

environmental issues.

Readings:

The Heyday of Muckraking
Exposing the Meatpackers (1906)
Theodore Roosevelt Roast Muckrakers (1906)
1. Corruption in the Cities
2. Lincoln Steffens Bares Philadelphia Bossism (1904)
3. George Washington Plunkitt Defends “Honest Graft” (1905)
  1. The Plight of Labor
4. From the Depths (1906)
5. George Baer’s Divine Right of Plutocrats (1902)
6. Child Labor in the Coal Mines (1906)
7. Sweatshop Hours for Bakers (1905)
8. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire Claims 146 Lives (1911)

Chapter 29, Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad. The New

Freedom versus the New Nationalism, Progressive economic reform,

diplomacy of neutrality.

Readings:

The Election of 1912
1. Theodore Roosevelt Proposes Government Regulation (1912)
2. Woodrow Wilson Asks for “a Free Field and No Favor” (1912)
Campaigning for Monetary Reform
1. Louis Brandeis Indicts Interlocking Directorates (1914)
2. J.P. Morgan Denies a Money Trust (1913)
3. William McAdoo Exposes the Bankers (c. 1913)

Week of February 11 – 15

American Pageant: Chapter 30, The War to End War

In-class DBQ on either Progressivism of the Treaty of Versailles

(due February 15).

Readings:

War with Germany
1. President Wilson Breaks Diplomatic Relations (1917)
2. Representative Claude Kitchin Assails the War Resolution (1917)
The War for the American Mind
1. Un-Christlike Preachers (1918)
2. Abusing the Pro-Germans (1918)
3. Robert La Follette Demands His Rights (1917)
4. Zechariah Chafee Upholds Free Speech (1919)
The Propaganda Front
1. George Creel Spreads Fear Propaganda (c. 1918)
2. Woodrow Wilson Versus Theodore Roosevelt on the Fourteen Points (1918)

Week of February 18 -22

American Pageant: Chapter 30, The War to End War. War in Europe

and war on the home front, propaganda and civil liberties, the politics

behind the making of the Treaty of Versailles and its rejection by the

Readings:

D. The Face of War

1. General John Pershing Defines American Fighting Tactics (1917-1918)

2. A “Doughboy” Describes the Fighting Front (1918)

E. The Struggle over the Peace Treaty

1. The Text of Article X (1919)

2. Wilson Testifies for Article X (1919)

3. The Lodge-Hitchcock Reservations (1919)

4. The Aborted Lodge Compromise (1919)

5. Wilson Defeats Henry Cabot Lodge’s Reservations (1919)

6. Lodge Blames Wilson (1919)

U.S. Senate.

Chapter 31, American Life in the Roaring Twenties. The “Red Scare” and

immigration issues, a mass-consumption economy, the Jazz Age and the

Harlem Renaissance, traditionalism versus modernism.

Readings:

The Great Immigration Debate
1. Theodore Roosevelt Preaches “Americanism” (1915)
2. Randolph Bourne Defends Cultural Pluralism (1916)
3. The World’s Work Favors Restrictive Quotas (1924)
4. The New Republic Opposes Racialized Quotas (1924)
5. Samuel Gompers Favors Restriction (1924)
6. Two Views of Immigration Restriction (1921,1924)
The Reconstituted Ku Klux Klan
1. Tar-Bucket Terror in Texas (1921)
2. A Methodist Editor Clears the Klan (1923)
The Wets Versus the Drys
1. A German Observes Bootlegging (1928)
2. Fiorello La Guardia Pillories Prohibition (1926)
3. The WCTU Upholds Prohibition (1926)

Week of February 25 – 29

American Pageant: Chapter 31, American Life in the Roaring Twenties (cont)

Chapter 32, The Politics of Boom and Bust. Isolationism in the 1920’s, foreign

debt and diplomacy, the coming of the Great Depression.

Readings:

Warren Harding and the Washington Conference
1. President Harding Hates His Job (c. 1922)
2. William Randolph Hearst Blasts Disarmament at Washington (1922)
3. Japan Resents the Washington Setback (1922)
The Depression Descends
1. The Plague of Plenty (1932)
2. Distress in the South (1932)
3. Rumbles of Revolution (1932)
Herbert Hoover Clashes with Franklin Foosevelt
1. On Public Versus Private Power
  1. On Government in Business
  2. On Balancing the Budget
  3. On Restricted Opportunity
An Appraisal of Hoover
1. Hoover Defends His Record (1932)
2. Roosevelt Indicts Hoover (1932)

SPRING TERM

Week of March 3 -7

American Pageant: Chapter 32 – The Politics of Boom and Bust (cont).

Chapter 33, The Great Depression and the New Deal. FDR and “recovery,

relief, reform,” demographic changes associated with the Depression,

cultural changes in the 1930’s, the Supreme Court and the balance of

political power in government.

Readings:

The Face of the Great Depression
1. Cesar Chavez Gets Tractored off the Land (1936)
2. A Salesman Goes on Relief (1930s)
3. A Bay in Chicago Writes to President Roosevelt (1936)
4. Hard Times in a North Carolina Cotton Mill (1938-1939)
An Enigma in the White House
1. The Agreeable FDR (1949)
2. He Liked People (1933)
3. FDR the Administrative “Artist” (1948)
Voices of Protest
1. Senator Huey P. Long Wants Every Man to Be a King (1934)
2. Father Coughlin Demands “Social Justice” (1934,1935)
3. Norman Thomas Proposes Socialism (1934)
4. Dr. Francis E. Townsend Promotes Old-Age Pensions (1933)
The Struggle to Organize Labor
1. Torn Girdler Girds for Battle (1937)
2. John Lewis Lambastes Girdler (1937)

Unit Test: March 5 – Chapters 31 – 32

Test format will include both multiple-choice and essay questions to be

completed in class.

Week of March 10 – 14

American Pageant: Chapter 34, FDR and the Shadow of War.

Attempts at neutrality and isolation, diplomacy and economics of the

prewar years, the move to war following Pearl Harbor.

Readings:

The Struggle Against Isolationism
1. Two Views of Isolationism (1936,1938)
2. Roosevelt Pleads for Repeal of the Arms Embargo (1939)
3. Senator Arthur Vandenberg Fights Repeal (1939)
4. Charles Lindbergh Argues for Isolation (1941)
5. The New York Times Rejects Isolationism (1941)
The Lend-Lease Controversy
1. FDR Drops the Dollar Sign (1940)
2. Senator Burton Wheeler Assails Lend-Lease (1941)
3. William Randolph Hearst Denounces Aid to the Soviet Union (1941)

Chapter 35, America in World War II

The war in Europe and in the Far East, the home front, changes for

women and minorities during the war, the decision to use the atomic

bomb and its consequences.

Readings:

War and American Society
1. The War Transforms the Economy (1943)
2. A Japanese American Is Convicted (1943)
3. A Black American Ponders the War’s Meaning (1942)
4. A Women Remembers the War (1984)
The Second-Front Controversy
1. Eisenhower Urges the Earliest Possible Second Front (1942)
2. Churchill Explains to Stalin That There Will Be No Second Front in 1942 (1942)
3. Stalin Resents the Delay of the Second Front (1943)
4. Roosevelt and Stalin Meet Face-to Face (1943)
5. Politics (1943)

Unite Test: March 14 – Chapters 33 – 35

Test format will include both multiple-choice and essay questions to be

completed in class.

Week of March 17 – 21

American Pageant: Chapter 36, The Cold War Begins

postwar prosperity and the Baby Boom, communism and

containment, diplomacy and the Marshall Plan, the Korean War,

the Red Scare, the United States as a world power.

Readings:

The New Shape of Postwar Society
1. Dr. Benjamin Spock Advises the Parents of the Baby-Boom Generation (1957)
2. A Working Mother Lauds the New “Two-Income Fmaily” (1951)
3. The Move to Suburbia (1954)
The Yalta Agreements
1. Franklin Roosevelt “Betrays” China and Japan (1945)
2. The Freeman’s Bill of Indictment (1953)
3. Secretary Edward Stettinius Defends Yalta (1949)

Chapter 37, The Eisenhower Era. Consumer culture in the 1950’s, the civil

Rights revolution, McCarthyism, Cold War expansion, the space race,

postwar literature and culture.

Readings:

A New Look in Foreign Policy
1. Secretary John Foster Dulles Warns of Massive Retaliation (1954)
2. President Eisenhower Calls for “Open Skies” (1955)
The McCarthy Hysteria
1. Joseph McCarthy Upholds Guilt by Association (1952)
2. A Senator Speaks Up (1950)
3. McCarthy Inspires Fear at Harvard (1954)
4. The Soviets “Develop” American Spies (1944)

In class DBQ on either America in the 1950’s or post-World War II diplomacy.

Week of March 31 – April 4

American Pageant: Chapter 37, The Eisenhower Era (cont)

Readings:

The Supreme Court and the Black Revolution
1. The Court Rejects Segregation (1954)
2. One Hundred Representatives Dissent (1956)
3. Eisenhower Sends Federal Troops (1957)
4. The Arkansas Democrat Protests (1958)
5. A Black Newspaper Praises Courage (1958)
6. Martin Luther King Jr., Asks for the Ballot (1957)
The Promise and Problems of a Consumer Society
1. The Editors of Fortune Celebrate American Affluence (1955)
2. John Kenneth Galbraith Criticizes the Affluent Society (1958)
3. Newton Minow Criticizes the “Vast Wasteland” of Television (1961)
4. Women’s Career Prospects (1950)
5. Agnes Meyer Defends Women’s Traditional Role (1950)

E. Eisenhower Says Farewell (1961)

Unit Test: March 31 – Chapters 36 – 37

Test format will include both multiple-choice and essay questions to be

completed in class.

Week of April 7 – 11

American Pageant: Chapter 38, The Stormy Sixties. The Cold War continues,

expansion of the war in Vietnam, the civil rights revolution and evolution,

Johnson and the Great Society, immigration and demographic changes.

Chapter 39, The Stalemated Seventies. Rise of conservatism, economic

stagnation, crisis over presidential power, environmental issues, feminism

and the women’s movement, civil rights and affirmative action, foreign

policy and the issue of oil.

Readings:

The Cuban Missile Crisis
1. President Kennedy Proclaims a Quarantine (1962)
2. Premier Khrushchev Proposes a Swap (1962)
3. Kennedy Advances a Solution (1962)
4. The Soviets Save Face (1962)
President Johnson’s Great Society
1. Michael Harrington Discovers Another America (1962)
2. President Johnson Declares War on Poverty (1964)
3. War on the Antipoverty War (1964)
The Black Revolution Erupts
1. Rosa Parks Keeps Her Seat (1955)
2. Students Sit in for Equality (1960)
3. Riders for Freedom (1961)
4. Martin Luther King Jr., Writes from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
5. President Johnson Supports Civil Rights (1965)
6. A Conservative Denounces Black Rioters (1965)
Vietnam Troubles
1. The Joint Chiefs of Staff Propose a Wider War (1964)
2. President Johnson Asserts His War Aims (1965)
3. The British Prime Minister Criticizes U.S. Bombing (1965)
4. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara Foresees a Stalemate (1965)
5. Secretary McNamara Opposes Further Escalation (1966)
6. The Soldier’s War (1966)
7. The Dilemma of Vietnam (1966)

Week of April 14 – 18

American Pageant: Chapter 39, The Stalemated Seventies (cont)

Chapter 40, The Resurgence of Conservatism. Reagan and the “New Right,”

the end of the Cold War, Reaganomics, politics and the Supreme Court,

globalization, war and diplomacy in the Middle East.

Readings:

Richard Nixon’s Cambodian Coup
1. The President Defends His Incursion (1970)
2. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dissents (1970)
3. Henry Kissinger Dissects the Dissenters (1979)
Winding Down the Vietnam War
1. Nixon’s Grand Plan in Foreign Policy (1968-1969)
2. Nixon’s Address to the Nation (1973)
3. Canadians See Neither Peace nor Honor (1973)
4. The Expulsion from Vietnam (1975)
The Reagan “Revolution’ in Economic Policy
1. The Supply-Side Gospel (1984)
2. President Reagan Asks for a Tax Cut (1981)
3. The New York Times Attacks Reagan’s Policies (1981)
Reagan’s Foreign Policies
1. Reagan Sees Red in Nicaragua (1986)
2. A Journalist Urges Caution in Nicaragua (1986)
3. An Editor Analyzes the Iran-Contra Affair (1987)
4. Four Views on the End of the Cold War (1994)

In-class DBQ on civil rights in the 1960’s.

Unit Test: April 21 – Chapters 38 – 40.

Week of April 22 – 25

American Pageant: Chapter 41, America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era.

The Clinton era, post-Cold War politics and foreign policy, the contested

election of 2000, the attack on the World Trade Center and America post 9/11.

Chapter 42, The American People Face a New Century. Demographic changes,

changes in the family, immigration and related issues, a multicultural society,

the high-tech economy, America in a global context.

April 28: Review Exam I

April 30 – May 1: Review Exam II

May 1 – 2: Go over the first two Review Exams

May 5 – 6: Review Exam III

May 6 – 7: Review Exam IV

May 8 – 9: Go over the second two Review Exams

May 9 – 12: Review AP Exam

May 12 – 13: Final Review

Friday, May 16: AP United States History Exam (This date is pending the A.P. Calendar for 2008).

Any remanding chapters not discussed due to time restraints will be the responsibility of the students and will be covered during the class review prior to the A.P. Exam.