AP US History Course Content Outline



AP® US History Course Content Outline Fall Semester 2013-2014

Texts are Brinkley’s American History and AMSCO’s United States History

On line titles are from Digital History’s website at digitalhistory.uh.edu

1. FIRST CONTACT

Week One

Brinkley Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures

AMSCO: Chapter 1: Exploration, Discovery, and Settlement

Digital History: First Americans, Exploration and Discovery

Study Guide: Colonization

2. COLONIZATION

Week Two

Brinkley Chapter 2: The English “Transplantations”

AMSCO: Chapter 2 The Thirteen Colonies and the British Empire

Digital History: Colonization

Study Guide: Colonization

Friday – Major Assessment

COLONIAL SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Week Three

Brinkley Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

AMSCO: Chapter 3 Colonial Society in the 18th Century

Digital History: The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery

Study Guide: Colonization

Friday – Major Assessment

3. CONFLICTS ESCALATE

Week Four

Brinkley Chapter 4: The Empire under Strain

AMSCO: Chapter 4 Imperial Wars and Colonial Protest

Digital History: Patterns of Change 1700-1775

Study Guide: Unit 2 – From Revolution to Constitution

Friday – Major Assessment

THE REVOLUTION

Week Five

Brinkley Chapter 5: The American Revolution

AMSCO: Chapter 5 The American Revolution

Digital History: The American Revolution, The Founders

Study Guide: From Revolution to Constitution

Friday - Major Assessment

4. THE NEW REPUBLIC

Week Six

Brinkley Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic

AMSCO: Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic

Digital History: The Critical Period, The Constitution and the Bill of Rights, The First New Nation

Study Guide: Establishing a New Nation

Friday - Major Assessment

JEFFERSONIAN ERA

Week Seven

Brinkley Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era

AMSCO: Chapter 7 The Age of Jefferson 1800-1816

Digital History: Jeffersonian Republicanism, Antislavery

Study Guide: Establishing a New Nation

Friday, Major Assessment

NATIONALISM AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Week Eight

Brinkley Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism

AMSCO: Chapter 8: Nationalism and Economic Development 1817 – 1824

Digital History: The Era of Good Feelings, Antislavery

Study Guide: Establishing a New Nation

Friday - Major Assessment

JACKSONIAN ERA

Week Nine

Brinkley Chapter 9: Jacksonian America

AMSCO: Chapter 10: The Age of Jackson

Digital History: Jacksonian Democracy

Study Guide: Reform and Expansion

CONTINUING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Week 10

Brinkley Chapter 10: America’s Economic Revolution

AMSCO: Chapter 12: Territorial and Economic Expansion 1830-60

Digital History: The Roots of American Economic Growth, Westward Expansion

Study Guide: Economic and Social Reform

Friday - Major Assessment

5. ANTIBELLUM SOUTH

Week 11

Brinkley Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

AMSCO: Chapter 9: Sectionalism

Digital History: Antislavery, The Pre Civil War South

Study Guide: Economic and Social Reform

Friday – Major Assessment

CULTURE AND REFORM

Week 12

Brinkley Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

AMSCO: Chapter 11: The Ferment of Reform

Digital History: Pre Civil War Reform, Religion and the Early Republic

Study Guide: Economic and Social Reform

Friday – Major Assessment

CONFLICT, EXPANSION, AND COMPROMISE

Week 13

Brinkley Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis

AMSCO: Chapter 13: The Union in Peril

Digital History: The Impending Crisis

Study Guide: Events Leading to the Civil War

Friday – Major Assessment

THE CIVIL WAR

Week 14

Brinkley Chapter 14: The Civil War

AMSCO: Ch 14: The Civil War

Digital History: The Civil War

Study Guide: The Civil War and It’s Aftermath

Friday – Major Assessment

6.RECONSTRUCTION

Week 15

Brinkley Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South

AMSCO: Chapter 15: Reconstruction

Digital History: Reconstruction

Study Guide: The Civil War and Its Aftermath, 1861-1900

Friday – Major Assessment

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