Unit 1-Colonial America



Advanced Placement

United States History

Overview:

Advanced Placement United States History is a challenging course that is meant to be the equivalent of a freshman college course and can earn students college credit. It is a two-semester survey of American history from the age of exploration and discovery to the present. Solid reading and writing skills along with a willingness to devote considerable time to homework and study are necessary to succeed. Emphasis is placed on critical and evaluative thinking skills, essay writing, interpretation of original documents, and historiography.

Objectives:

In this course, students will be able to:

▪ Develop an appreciation for the study of history.

▪ Master a broad body of historical knowledge.

▪ Demonstrate an understanding of historical chronology.

▪ Use historical data to support an argument or position.

▪ Interpret and apply data from original documents; including cartoons, graphs, letters, etc.

▪ Effectively use analytical skills of evaluation, cause and effect, compare and contrast.

▪ Work effectively with others to produce products and solve problems.

▪ Develop an appreciation for and understanding of the process of historical inquiry.

▪ Develop a better understanding of the history of the United States in political, economic, social, and cultural terms.

▪ Develop a better understanding of the great issues that are at the heart of American history.

▪ Develop an understanding of present-day United States and our relationship to this country.

▪ Improve writing, research, and critical reading skills.

▪ Improve thinking skills-specifically to develop ability to analyze historical arguments.

▪ Prepare for the Advanced Placement Exam.

Textbooks:

Bailey, Thomas, David Kennedy, and Lizabeth Cohen. The American Pageant. 11th Edition. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998.

Brands, H.W., Robert A. Divine, T.H. Breen, George M. Fredrickson, R. Hal Williams, and Ariela J. Gross. America: Past and Present. 8th Edition. New York, New York: Pearson-Longman, 2007.

Boezi, Michael. Voices of America, Past and Present: Volume I and II. New York, New York: Pearson-Longman, 2006.

Caliguire, Augustine and Roberta J. Leach. Advanced Placement U.S. History 1 Workbook. Villa Maria, Pennsylvania: The Center for Learning, 1995.

Dollar, Charles M. and Gary W. Reichard. American Issues: A Documentary Reader. New York, New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Frazier, Thomas R. Voices of America: Readings in American History. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1985.

Johnson, Michael P. Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents: Volume I and II. 3rd Edition. Boston, Massachusetts: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005

Kennedy, David and Thomas Bailey. The American Spirit: Volume I and II. 8th Edition. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Company, 1994.

Newman, John J. and John M. Schmalbach. United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Exam. New York, New York: Amsco School Publications, Inc., 1998

Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present. Revised and Updated Edition. New York, New York: HarperPerennial, 1995.

Grades:

Grades will be based on a combination of participation, class presentations, quizzes, unit tests, unit essays (free-response and document-based), and benchmarks.

List of assignments:

1. Daily reading quizzes based on Textbook reading

2. Vocabulary usage and guided reading assignments

3. Weekly primary source readings and questions

4. Unit tests and quizzes

5. Major papers assigned in Units IV, V, VIII, IX, X, XI

AP students will also participate in Maryland History Day and National History Day. More information and explanation of this project will be introduced in class. The projects picked will be studied all year.

Topics and Themes of Study and Discussion:

A vast amount of history will be covered during the year long study of American history. The course will begin with exploration of the Americas and conclude with current issues facing the United States today. Certain themes should be realized throughout your study, such as cause and effect, change over time, and long term effects of a variety of historical events. More specific topics and themes will present themselves as we divulge into each unit.

Unit 1-Colonial America

Textbook Reading:

▪ America: Past and Present: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4

Major themes/topics to be covered:

▪ Chapter 1: Native Americans before Columbus, Reasons for exploration, the early explorers and Columbus, Consequences associated with Columbus’ discovery Spain builds its New World empire.

▪ Chapter 2: English society at the beginning of colonization and their beginnings in the New World. Jamestown and Chesapeake beginnings, 1607. The association of English settlers with Native Americans, The English colonies, The growth of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia.

▪ Chapter 3: What beliefs make up the Puritan faith, The Plymouth Colony, 1620, The Puritan settlement of New England, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630, Separation from the Bay Colony, the founding of Rhode Island and Connecticut publishes the first colonial constitution, the Fundamental Order of Connecticut, New Netherland is purchased from the Dutch and rechristened, New York, Pennsylvania, the Quaker Colony. Life in the Chesapeake tobacco region, its life and labor, and the spread of slavery. The hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts. Indentured servants and Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia.

▪ Chapter 4: The growth and diversity of the colonies, and the impact of European ideas on the growing American culture. The first major religious revival begins with the First Great Awakening sweeping through the colonies. Early clashes between colonial governments and the mother government in England. The Seven Years’ War erupts in the New World, and has potent ramifications for the future of the American colonies.

Additional Primary/Secondary Source Readings:

American Issues: A Documentary Reader,

▪ 1.1-“An Indentured Servant Writes Home,” Richard Frethorne

▪ 1.1-“The First Americans,” L.S. Stavrianos

▪ 1.7-“Jamestown in 1607 and 1614

▪ 2.2-“Reasons for Colonization,” Richard Hakluyt the Elder

▪ 3.1-“The First Representative Assembly in Virginia,” 1619

▪ 3.2-“The Plymouth Compact,” William Bradford

▪ 4.2-“Temptations and God’s Providence,” John Dane, Memoir, ca. 1670

▪ 4.3-“Keeping Order in a Puritan Community,” Suffolk County Court Records, 1671-1673

▪ 4.3-“Salem Witchcraft Trials”

▪ 4.4-“Colonial Class Status,” Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.

▪ 4.7-“Cultural Pluralism in the Middle Colonies, Frederick B. Tolles

Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents

▪ Chapter 3, Document 3-3-“A Yeoman Planter’s Tobacco Farm,” Robert Cole, Inventory, 1661

▪ Chapter 3, Document 3-5-“Bacon’ Rebellion,” Nathaniel Bacon, Declaration, 1676

Voices of America: Readings in American History

▪ Chapter 4.1-“William Penn’s Appeal for Immigrants,” A description of ideal immigrants

▪ Chapter 4.3-“Life on a Virginia Farm: A French View,” A French traveler’s impression of Virginia

Assignments

▪ Reading Questions for each chapter

▪ Reading Quizzes for each chapter

▪ American Pageant Guidebook:

o Chapter 2-Part C-Identification and Part D-Matching People Places and Events

o Chapter 4-Part C-Identification and Part D-Matching People Places and Events

o Chapter 5-Part A- True False, Part C-Identification and Part D-Matching People Places and Events

▪ Five Paragraph Essay: Compare and contrast Jamestown/Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in terms of voyage, arrival, commerce, daily life, problems with survival and relations with Native Americans

Unit 1-Test

▪ The unit 1 test will include both multiple choice and essay questions.

Unit 2-Revolution, Constitution, and the Early Republic

Textbook Reading:

▪ America: Past and Present: Chapters 5, 6, 7

Major themes/topics to be covered:

▪ Chapter 5: Protests against “unfair” taxation policies begin in the colonies in response to actions by Parliament. Eventually, these protests fan the flames of the Revolutionary War. The peace that comes at the end of this conflict changes world history forever with the creation of the United States of America.

▪ Chapter 6: The hard-won independence is in peril in the early days of the nation with the weak Articles of Confederation in place. With this new document in place, the nation begins its journey from a young, weak nation to a dynamic world power.

▪ Chapter 7: Even with the new guidelines set forth in the Constitution, the young nation struggles to find its way. Under our first two presidents, the nation faces its first real challenges to the new power that now resides in the federal government.

Additional Primary/Secondary Source Readings:

American Issues: A Documentary Reader

▪ 3.3-“Mercantilism,” Gerald N. Grob and George A Billias (secondary source)

▪ 5.3-“Women and the Revolutionary Cause: The Daughters of Liberty,” Mary Beth Norton (secondary source)

▪ 5.5-“A Loyalist Viewpoint,” Charles Inglis, 1776 (primary source)

▪ 8.3-“Organizing the Frontier: The Northwest Ordinance,”

▪ 7.2-“Origins of Party: Hamilton’s Economic Program,” Alexander Hamilton

▪ 7.5-“Suppression of ‘Rebellious Spirit’,” Nathanael Emmons

Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents,

▪ Chapter 4, Document 4-3-“Observations of New England Indians,” Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, 1643

▪ Chapter 6, Document 6-1-“An Oration on the Second Anniversary of the Boston Massacre,” Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1772

▪ Chapter 6, Document 6-4-“George Washington Concludes That the Crisis Has Arrived,” Letters, 1774

▪ Chapter 7, Document 7-1-“Thomas Paine Makes the Case for Independence,” Common Sense, 1776

▪ C Chapter 8, Document 8-3-“Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race,” Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782

▪ Chapter 8, 8-4-“Making the Case for the Constitution,” James Madison, Federalist Number 10, 1787

▪ Chapter 9, Document 9-4-“Alexander Hamilton on the Economy,” Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791

▪ Chapter 9, 9-5-“President George Washington’s Parting Advice to the Nation,” Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796

▪ Chapter 7, Document 7.2-“Letters of John and Abigail Adams,” Correspondence, 1776

Voices of America: Readings in American History,

▪ Chapter 5.1-“The Stamp Act Riot,” An account by Thomas Hutchinson

▪ Chapter 5.2-“The Townshend Acts Resisted by Boycott,” A resolution issued by the merchants of Boston, 1768

▪ Chapter 5.5-“Patrick Henry Calls for a Firm Defense of Liberty,” A speech by Patrick Henry, 1775

▪ Chapter 7.4-“John Jay on the Articles of Confederation,” A letter to Thomas Jefferson

▪ Chapter 7.5-“Thomas Jefferson on the Articles of Confederation,” A letter to James Madison, 1787

▪ Chapter 7.6-“The Constitutional Convention,” Notes on the Convention by William Pierce, delegate from Georgia, 1787

▪ Chapter 8.4-“A Federalist on the Sedition Act,” A congressman’s defense of the Sedition Act, 1798

▪ Chapter 8.5-“A Republican on the Sedition Act,” A congressman’s objections to the Sedition Act, 1798

Assignments

▪ Reading Questions for each chapter

▪ Reading Quizzes for each chapter

▪ American Pageant Guidebook:

o Chapter 6-Part C-Identification, Part D-Matching People Places and Events and Part F-Matching Cause and Effect

▪ Five Paragraph Essay-Were the American colonists justified in their demands to separate from England?

▪ Debate: The Great Debate preceding the American Revolution-Students will assume roles of different historical figures that were alive during the time of the events leading up to and during the American Revolution and will participate in a fictional debate with each other on whether the colonies should separate or remain a part of the British empire (Research will be conducted so each student will learn, amongst other information, their historical figures stance on the question of remaining with or separating from England)

▪ DBQ-How Revolutionary Was the American Revolution?

Unit 2-Test

▪ The unit 2 test will include both multiple choice and essay questions.

Unit 3-Jeffersonian to Jacksonian Democracy

Textbook Reading:

▪ America: Past and Present: Chapters 8, 9, 10

Major themes/topics to be covered:

▪ Chapter 8: A new era in American politics dawns as Jefferson is elected president, and takes the nation in a new direction. The nation expands greatly during this period, adding the massive Louisiana Territory in a purchase with France. America faces its first great foreign challenge in the War of 1812 with Britain.

▪ Chapter 9: The young nation begins to focus on improving both its infrastructure and economy with Clay’s American system. The Era of Good Feelings begins and many of the early political clashes in the nation melt away—for a time.

▪ Chapter 10: The election of Jackson ushers in a era of change for the presidency and the federal government. With the election of the first “common man” begins a new era of democracy in America.

Additional Primary/Secondary Source Readings:

American Issues: A Documentary Reader

▪ 8.5-“Extending American Dominion to Louisiana,” Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,

▪ 9.7-“The ‘American System’,” Daniel W. Howe

▪ 9.1- “The National Vision of John Quincy Adams”

▪ 9.4-“King Andrew: A Whig View”

▪ 9.7-“The “American System”: Daniel W. Howe”

▪ 10.4-“Indian Removal: Alexis de Tocqueville”

Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents,

▪ Chapter 10-10.1-“A Jeffersonian Sailmaker’s Fourth of July Address,” Peter Wendover, Oration, July 4, 1806

▪ Chapter 10, Document 10-4-“Meriweather Lewis Describes the Shoshone,” The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805

Voices of America: Readings in American History

▪ Chapter 9.2-“Thomas Jefferson’s View of the Courts,” A letter by Thomas Jefferson, 1819

▪ Chapter 10.2-“The Monroe Doctrine,” President Monroe’s message to Congress, 1820

▪ Chapter 10.5-“Slavery Causes Further Disagreement,” Charles Pinckney on the spread of slavery, 1819

Assignments

▪ Reading Questions for each chapter

▪ Reading Quizzes for each chapter

▪ American Pageant Guidebook:

o Appendix, The Constitution of the United States of America

o Chapter 10-Part A- True-False, Part C-Identification and Part D-Matching People Places and Events

o Chapter 11-Part C-Identification and Part D-Matching People Places and Events

o Chapter 12-Part C-Identification, Part D-Matching People Places and Events and Part F-Matching Cause and Effect

Unit 3-Test

▪ The unit 3 test will include both multiple choice and essay questions.

Unit 4-Culture and Expansion in Antebellum America

Textbook Reading:

▪ America: Past and Present: Chapters 11, 12, 13

Major themes/topics to be covered:

▪ Chapter 11: The culture of the antebellum South is examined. The focus is on the main characteristics of this region, and the culture of slavery that permeated throughout.

▪ Chapter 12: The focus is on the rise of a truly “American” culture. Included is the growth of home-grown religion, the culture of the American family, and the growing ideas of reform that began to demand change for many Americans.

▪ Chapter 13: America begins an age of expansion that would see it stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Fueled by the idea of Manifest Destiny, nothing (and no nation) would stand in the way of American progress.

Additional Primary/Secondary Source Readings:

American Issues: A Documentary Reader

▪ Ulysses S. Grant Recalls the Mexican American War Personal Memoirs, 1885-1886 pgs. 230-234

▪ Manifest Destiny: Justifiable Policy or National Disgrace? Pgs. 195-198

▪ The Cotton Kingdom, 1861 pgs. 256-259

▪ A Free African American Concludes Emigration is Necessary pgs. 268-271

▪ Walter Colton’s California Gold Rush Diary 1849-1850 pgs. 234-239

Readings the American Past: Volume 1

▪ The Anxiety of Gain: Henry W. Bellow on Commerce and Morality, 1845 pgs, 221-224

▪ That Woman Is Man’s Equal: The Seneca Falls Declaration pages 225-228

▪ On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

▪ 13.3- The Confessions of Nat Turner pgs. 248-251

▪ Letter to an English Abolitionist by James Henry Hammond pgs. 252-255

Assignments

▪ Reading Questions for each chapter

▪ Reading Quizzes for each chapter

▪ U.S. History 1 Workbook:

o The Evolving American Nation-State: The End of Homespun – The Early Industrial Revolution pgs. 96-99

o The Evolving American Nation-State: Abolition – The Role of the Individual in Effecting Change pgs. 145-147

▪ DBQ: The Lives and Status of Northern Middle-Class Women Between

Unit 4-Test

▪ The unit 4 test will include both multiple choice and essay questions.

Unit 5-The Sectional Crisis through Reconstruction

Textbook Reading:

▪ America: Past and Present: Chapters 14, 15, 16

Major themes/topics to be covered:

▪ Chapter 14: The nation struggles to find a compromise to the slavery issue as the young nation continues to expand. Although a series of agreements would keep the peace for many years, the gathering storm of civil war becomes a reality with the election of Lincoln in 1860.

▪ Chapter 15: As the southern states secede and form the Confederacy, battle lines are drawn during the first engagement at Fort Sumter. The brutal war drags on for more than four years, and leaves the nation in tatters. With the assassination of Lincoln, the great task of reconstructing the nation fell to Johnson and the Radical Republicans and Congress.

▪ Chapter 16: The terrible ordeal of Reconstruction is discussed, along with the battle for control between Johnson and Congress during this time period. The successes and failures of this era will have future ramifications that no one could have possibly seen.

Additional Primary/Secondary Source Readings:

Reading the American Past:

▪ Abraham Lincoln’s Speech in Peoria addressing the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 pgs. 260-263

▪ The Constitution of the United States: Is It Proslavery or Antislavery? 1860 pgs. 263-265

▪ Jefferson Davis Speech before the U.S. Senate, 1860 Pgs. 266-267

▪ John Brown: Pottawatomie and Harpers Ferry pgs. 271-273

▪ Statement from an Anonymous Former Slav, New Orleans, 1863 pgs. 278-281

▪ The New York Draft Riots pgs. 281-286

▪ General William T. Sherman explains the Hard Hand of War pgs. 286-293

▪ Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days, 1862-1863 pgs. 293-296

▪ Mississippi Black Code, November 1865 pgs. 297-300

▪ Address of the Colored Convention to the People of Alabama, 1867 pgs. 306-310

▪ A Northern Republican’s Report on Reconstruction pgs. 314-317

Assignments

▪ Reading Questions for each chapter

▪ Reading Quizzes for each chapter

▪ U.S. History 1 Workbook:

o Territorial and Economic Expansion, 1830-1860 pgs. 221-232

o The Union in Peril, 1848-1860 pgs. 240-255

o Fanaticism in the Fifties p. 219

▪ DBQ: The 1850s: Prelude to Civil War (Doing the DBQ pgs. 85-91)

▪ DBQ: John Brown’s Raid (Doing the DBQ pgs. 94-97)

Unit 5-Test

▪ The unit 5 test will include both multiple choice and essay questions.

Unit 6-The Settlement of the West and Growth of American Industry

Textbook Reading:

▪ America: Past and Present: Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20

Major themes/topics to be covered:

▪ Chapter 17: The settlement of the West continues with the subjugation of the Native American peoples of this region. The expansion of the railroads and discovery of other profitable enterprises only accelerates this process.

▪ Chapter 18: America becomes a world industrial power with the growth of major industries such as steel, oil, and railroad. However, with the great progress made during the era also comes the horrors of urban industrial life that will scar the landscape and culture of America for generations to come.

▪ Chapter 19: America transforms from a mostly rural, agrarian society into a mostly urban, industrial one. This change has many ramifications in terms of every ounce of the American fabric—from politics to family life.

▪ Chapter 20: The 1890’s brought many political changes to the American landscape. With the growth of the Populists began the movement towards what will eventually become the Progressive Movement in America, and a time of reform.

Additional Primary/Secondary Source Readings:

Reading the American Past:

▪ “John D. Rockefeller Defends his Oil Trust” Testimony to the U.S. Industrial Commission, 1899

▪ “Andrew Carnegie explains the Gospel of Wealth” Wealth, 1889

▪ “A Plea to ‘Citizenize’ Indians” Richard Pratt, “Kill the Indian…and save the man,” 1892

▪ “Addressing the Crisis in Rural America” Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892

▪ “A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market” Thomas O’Donnell, Testimony before a U.S. Senate Committee, 1885

▪ “A Romanian Jew Emigrates to America” Michael Gold, Jews without Money, 1890

Assignments

▪ Reading Questions for each chapter

▪ Reading Quizzes for each chapter

▪ U.S. History 1 Workbook:

o The Civil War, 1861-1865 pgs. 265-281

o Abraham Lincoln: Sectional President as Preserver of the Union p. 235

o The Abolition – The Role of the Individual in Effecting Change pgs. 145-147

o The “Failure” of Radical Reconstruction pgs. 151-152

▪ DBQ: The Crittenden Compromise (Doing the DBQ pgs. 102-108)

Unit 6-Test

▪ The unit 6 test will include both multiple choice and essay questions.

Unit 7- Imperialism through the Progressive Era

Textbook Reading:

▪ America: Past and Present: Chapters 21, 22, 23

Major themes/topics to be covered:

▪ Chapter 21: As America’s internal expansion begins to wind down, the nation begins to look outward to become an imperial power. Through purchase, annexation and war, the U.S. eventually becomes a strong player in the competition for foreign spoils.

▪ Chapter 22: The goals and origins of the Progressive Movement are discussed. Born out of many of the Populists’ ideas of how the nation and government should function, their leaders would help bring about many needed changes in the nation.

▪ Chapter 23: The Progressive Era begins in earnest with the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt, and lasts the administration of Woodrow Wilson. Through the reforms of this era began a struggle for equality, justice, and protection of the environment in America that lasts to this very day.

Additional Primary/Secondary Source Readings:

Reading the American Past:

▪ “Conflicting Views about Labor Unions” N.F. Thompson, Testimony before the Industrial Commission on the Relations and Conditions of Capital and Labor, 1900 and Samuel Gompers, Letter to the American Federationist, 1894

▪ “Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation” The Atlantic Exposition Address, 1895

▪ “W.E.B. DuBois on Racial Equality” Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903

▪ “Jane Addams on Settlement Houses” The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements, 1832

Assignments

▪ Reading Questions for each chapter

▪ Reading Quizzes for each chapter

▪ United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Exam

o Chapter 17: The Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900

o Chapter 18: The Growth of Cities and American Culture, 1865-1900

▪ DBQ: Assessing the success of organized labor on improving the position of workers

▪ DBQ: Examining the factors that led to farmer discontent and the validity of their complaints

Unit 7-Test

▪ The unit 7 test will include both multiple choice and essay questions

Unit 8: World War I through the Great Depression

Textbook Reading:

▪ America: Past and Present: Chapters 24, 25, 26

Major themes/topics to be covered:

▪ Chapter 24: Although the nation attempts for many years to stay out of the Great War in Europe, outside forces eventually pull America into the conflict. However, when the war finally ends, Wilson’s dream of establishing a lasting peace are smashed by the Treaty of Versailles, and the world is sent on a path that will bring about a second and even more devastating world war.

▪ Chapter 25: Isolationism, jazz, flappers, and bootleggers in the Roaring Twenties. This decade of Republican leadership brings about great prosperity for a time, but eventual disaster as the decade closes with the Crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression.

▪ Chapter 26: After Hoover fails to alter the course of financial disaster in the early years of the Great Depression, the nation turns to FDR and his “New Deal” in 1932. With the fundamental changes in government that occur during this time period begins the great transformation of the nation into the one we see today.

Additional Primary/Secondary Source Readings:

Reading the American Past:

▪ “President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress for a Declaration of War” Speech to Congress, April 2, 1917

▪ “Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers” Speech delivered in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918

▪ “A Doughboy’s Letter from the Front” Anonymous Soldier, Letter to Elmer J. Sutters, 1918.

▪ “National Popular Justice League Criticizes the Red Scare” Report on Illegal Practices of the Department of Justice, 1920.

▪ “President Calvin Coolidge on Government and Business” Address before the New York Chamber of Commerce, November 19,1925

▪ “The Ku Klux Klan defends Americanism” Hiram W. Evans, The Klan’s Fight for Americanism, 1926.

▪ “Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association” The Negro’s Greatest Enemy, 1923.

▪ “Franklin D. Roosevelt Proposes an Activist Government” Speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, 1932

▪ “Working People’s Letters to New Dealers”

o Letter to Francis Perkins, 1/27/35

o Letter to Francis Perkins, 3/29/35

o Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 11/23/36

o Letter to Francis Perkins, 7/27/37

o Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 11/27/39

▪ “Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth” Speech to members of the Share Our Wealth Society, 1935

▪ “Conservatives Criticize the New Deal” Herbert Hoover, Anti-New Deal Campaign Speech, 1936 and Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937

Assignments

▪ Reading Questions for each chapter

▪ Reading Quizzes for each chapter

▪ United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Exam

o Chapter 20: Foreign Policy, 1865-1914

o Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1901-1918

o Chapter 22: World War I, 1914-1918

▪ DBQ: Comparing and contrasting late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism

Unit 8-Test

▪ The unit 8 test will include both multiple choice and essay questions

Unit 9: World War to Cold War

Textbook Reading:

▪ America: Past and Present: Chapters 27, 28

Major themes/topics to be covered:

▪ Chapter 27: The isolationist mood of the 1920’s continues on through the next decade as the nation struggles to rebuild during the Great Depression. However, just as happened in WWI, the U.S. can only stay neutral for so long, and joins the Allies after the disastrous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After a brutal four more years of war, the victorious Allies are faced with post-war decisions that will alter the world political landscape for the next fifty-plus years.

▪ Chapter 28: The Cold War begins as the Americans and Soviets compete for the hearts and minds of the rest of the world. The competition spills over into the arms and space races, as well as conflicts on the battlefield around the globe.

Additional Primary/Secondary Source Readings:

American Issues: A Documentary Reader

▪ 24.3: Japanese-American Relocation House Select Committee Hearings

▪ 24.6: Women and Wartime Mobilization

▪ 25.1: American Commitment to the cold War

The American Spirit, Vol II: Since 1865

▪ Dropping the Atomic Bomb pg 391

▪ The Marshall Plan pg 418

Assignments

▪ Reading Questions for each chapter

▪ Reading Quizzes for each chapter

▪ United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Exam

o Chapter 23: A New Era: The 1920s

o Chapter 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

▪ DBQ: Analyzing the response of FDR’s administration to the problems of the Great Depression

Unit 9-Test

▪ The unit 9 test will include both multiple choice and essay questions

Unit 10: The 50’s and 60’s

Textbook Readings:

▪ America: Past and Present: Chapters 29, 30

Major themes/topics to be covered:

▪ Chapter 29: The post-war economic boom in the nation fuels the (mostly) good times of the 1950’s in America. Social norms of family, work, and popular culture all revolve around the “American Dream” of the decade. With the baby boom comes the growth of American suburbia.

▪ Chapter 30: As a stark contrast to the peaceful times of the 1950’s comes the turbulent times of the 1960’s. While the War in Vietnam rages half a world away, battles rage at home in the name of peace, revolution, and rock ‘n roll.

Additional Primary/Secondary Source Readings:

American Issues: A Documentary Reader

▪ 26.1: Postwar Prosperity and Government Spending

▪ 26.6: Feminism in Postwar America

The American Spirit, Vol II: Since 1865

▪ The New Shape of Postwar Society pg 397

▪ The McCarthy Hysteria pg 441

▪ The Cuban Missile Crisis pg 467

▪ The Politics of Protest in the 1960’s pg 505

A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

▪ Chapter 18: The Impossible Victory: Vietnam

Assignments

▪ Reading Questions for each chapter

▪ Reading Quizzes for each chapter

▪ DBQ : Decision to drop the bomb

▪ Essay on Vietnam as an outgrowth of the Cold War

▪ Advanced Placement U.S. History 2 on

o Pearl Harbor – Interpretations of History

o The US and the Holocaust

o Cold War Revisited

o McCarthyism and the Climate of Fear

o The New Frontier and the Great Society

o Evaluating Recent Presidents

Unit 11: The 1970’s to Recent America

Textbook Readings:

▪ America: Past and Present: Chapters 31, 32

Major themes/topics to be covered:

▪ Chapter 31: Seeming to leave off right where Lyndon B. Johnson finished, Richard Nixon’s presidency further shakes the American peoples’ belief in their government, with the scandals involving the Vietnam War and Watergate. With the failures of the Ford and Carter administrations begins the Reagan Revolution and conservative comeback in America. The Fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe signals the end to the Cold War.

▪ Chapter 32: The changing demographics of the nation foreshadow the many changes coming in the decades ahead. The Clinton years bring about some successes that will be forever overshadowed by the scandals that brought about the second presidential impeachment in American history. The disputed Election of 2000 make George W. Bush the president, and the attacks on September 11th, 2001 make him wartime president.

Additional Primary/Secondary Source Readings:

American Issues: A Documentary Reader

▪ 27.5: The War Powers Act: A President’s View

▪ 27.7: The end of Watergate: Pardoning Nixon

▪ 29.3: The reemergence of the “immigration issue”

The American Spirit, Vol. II: Since 1865

▪ Richard Nixon’s Cambodia Coup pg 514

▪ The Reagan “Revolution” in Economic policy pg 565

▪ American Women: New Roles, New Problems pg 609

▪ The Continuing Debate on Abortion pg 616

▪ Can the United States Still Afford to be a Nation of Immigrants? Pg 627

A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

▪ Afterward: On the Clinton Presidency

Assignments

▪ Reading Questions for each chapter

▪ Reading Quizzes for each chapter

▪ Essay on Post Cold War Foreign Policy

▪ Advanced Placement U.S. History 2 on

o Evaluating Recent Presidents

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