APCourse Syllabus09-10

AP UNITED STATES HISTORY
COURSE AUDIT SYLLABUS

2009-2010
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
AP U.S. History is a challenging course that is meant to be the equivalent of a freshman

college course and is intended to prepare students for the AP U.S. History Exam as well
as to 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.
Course Objectives:
• Students will be prepared for the Advanced Placement United States History
Exam.
• Students will understand the institutional, cultural, and social forces that have
shaped the people of this nation from the early Seventeenth Century to the present
day.
• Students will analyze and interpret primary sources, including documentary

material, maps, statistical tables, and pictorial and graphic evidence of historical
events.
• Students will learn how to approach history critically and be able to analyze and
evaluate competing sources of historical information.
• Students will practice test-taking skills, including how to successfully take timed
exams.
• Students will learn to take effective notes from both printed materials and
lectures.
• Students will be able to express themselves with clarity and precision and know
how to cite sources and credit the phrases and ideas of others.
Student Expectations:
Students are responsible for their own learning and success in the course and, ultimately,
on the AP U.S. History Exam. Only bright, motivated, disciplined students who enjoy
history can expect to thrive. Students accustomed to getting A’s for simply showing up
and doing all their homework may be in for an awakening. While good attendance and
completing homework are essential to success, they are not enough. Content must be
mastered and learning demonstrated on exams and essays. This will require a level of
hard work and study that is foreign to many students.
Textbook:
Brinkley, Alan. American History: A Survey: Twelfth ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2007)
Primary Source Document Readers:
American History: Primary Investigator, McGraw Hill. CD ROM.

(Over 300 Primary Source Documents)
United States History Documents, Pearson, Prentice Hall, 2004 CD ROM.

(Over 300 Primary Source Documents)
Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.
Bantam Books, New York, 1972.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Bantam Book. New York. 1971.
Secondary Source Readers:
Madaras, Larry and James M. SoRelle. Taking Sides: Clashing Views In American
History, Eleventh Edition, Volumes I,II (New York: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Publishing,
2004.)
Gonick, Larry, The Cartoon History of the United States. Harper Perennial. New York.
1991.
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States 1492-Present. Harper Perennial.
New York, 1995.
Additional Source for Primary Documents and Student Activities:
Center for Learning’s Advanced Placement American History I, II
AP Instructor’s Manual to accompany: Brinkley, Alan, American History: A Survey:

Twelfth ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2007)
Jim Tomlin. Writing A DBQ: AP U.S. History. Social Studies School Service. (Culver
City, 2007.)
Recommended Supplemantary Texts:
Davis, Kenneth C. Don’t Know Much About History. Everything you Need to Know
About American History, but Never Learned. Avon Books, New York, 1992.
All students will be encouraged to supplement their review sessions for the AP Exam
with the following review books: Kaplan, REA, Barrons, or AP Achiever.
Course Themes:
• American Diversity—The diversity of the American people and the relationship

among different groups. The roles of race, class, ethnicity, and gender in the
history of the U.S.
• American Identity—Views of the American national character and ideas about

American exceptionalism. Recognizing differences within the context of what it
means to be an American.
• Culture—Diverse individual and collective expressions through literature, are,

philosophy, music, theater, and film throughout U.S. history. Popular culture and
the dimensions of cultural conflict within American Society.
• Demographic Changes—Changes in birth, marriage, and death rates; life

expectancy and family patterns; population size and density. The economic,
social, and political effects of immigration, internal migration, and migration
networks.
• Economic Transformation—Changes in trade, commerce, and technology across

time. The effects of capitalists development, labor and unions, and consumerism.
• Environment—Ideas about the consumption and conservation of natural

resources. The impact of population growth, industrialization, pollution, and
urban and suburban expansion.
• Globalization—Engagement with the rest of the world form the fifteenth century
to the present: colonialism, mercantilism, global hegemony, development of
markets, imperialism, cultural exchange.
• Politics and Citizenship—Colonial and revolutionary legacies, American political

traditions, growth of democracy, and the development of the modern state.
Defining citizenship; struggles for civil rights.
• Reform-Diverse movements focusing on a broad range of issues, including

antislavery, education, labor, temperance, women’s rights, civil rights, gay rights,
war, public health, and government.
• Religion—The variety of religious beliefs and practices in America from
prehistory to the twenty-first century; influence of religion on politics, economics,
and society.
• Slavery and Its Legacies in North America—Systems of slave labor and other
forms of un-fare labor (e.g. indentured servitude, contract labor) in Native
American societies, the Atlantic World, and the American South and West. The
economics of slavery and its racial dimensions. Patterns of resistance and the
long-term economic, political, and social effects of slavery.
• War and Diplomacy—Armed conflict from the pre-colonial period to the twenty-
first century; impact of war on American foreign policy and on the politics,
economy and society.
Course Organization:
Students will create and maintain an AP U.S. History notebook. The notebook will be of
a loose-leaf type and be divided into two major sections: Section I will contain class
discussions or lecture notes, instructor handouts, class activities, and test
preparation/review materials. Section II will contain identification or definition of terms,
organization and practice of DBQs (Document Based Questions), and organization and
practice of FRQs (Free Response Questions). The notebook will make up a per cent of
the grade.
For each unit studied, students are responsible for keeping up with the required weekly
text book, American History: A Survey, reading and homework assignments. These
assignments include but not limited to outlines, reading guides, interactive journals, or
study guides.
Multiple choice tests will be given over the previous unit studied. In addition, students
will also be required to write an in-class AP U.S. History style essay for each unit
studied. The essay prompts may be previously asked AP U.S. History essay questions.
Essays will alternate between document based questions and standard free-response
questions. Essays will be graded on the typical nine point AP U.S. History rubric. All of
these essays will be in class timed-writes.
Students in Advance Placement classes are expected to attend class regularly, on time,
with their materials and ready to work. If for some reason the AP student chooses to miss
three classes in the semester, he/she will be dropped from the course. All students are
encouraged to express their opinions and thoughts on any topic under discussion. All
students and the teacher will be treated with dignity and respect. Disagreement is
expected and encouraged, as long as that disagreement is conducted in an atmosphere of
mutual respect.
Students are expected to complete class activities on time and will lose credit if an
assignment is turned in late. Students, who fail to take an exam because of an unexcused
absence will lose credit for that particular exam.
Course Units:
*McGraw-Hill Company created a CD-ROM with over 300 primary sources and
documents to accompany Alan Brinkley’s, American History: A Survey. Unless
otherwise specified, the following primary sources and documents will be
referenced from the CD-ROM.
UNIT 1: COLLLISION OF CULTURES, 1400-1760
Week 1: The Meeting of Cultures

Discussion Topics: Early inhabitants of the Americas, American Indian
Cultures of North America at the time European contact,
First European contacts with Native Americans
Text Reading: Chapter 1, pp. 2-31, Chapter 2, pp 33-40
Analyze Primary Sources:
*John Norton, “Iroquois Creation Story,” ca. 1816
*Maps: “Early Native Peoples” and “The Atlantic World”
*“Virginia’s Commodities,” 1588
*“Virginia’s First Charter,” 10 Apr. 1606
* “Slaves are Introduced,” Aug 1619
Week 2: Transportations and Borderlands

Discussion Topics: English Settlements of New England, the Middle-Atlantic
Region, Population Growth, Growth of Plantations
Economies, and Slave Societies
Test Reading: Chapter 2, pp. 40-62
*Map: “Growth of Colonies, 1610-1690”
*“Bradford’s Plymouth,” (in Chapter 3 Sources)
*Map: “Growth of Colonies, 1610-1690”
*“Slave Codes,” 1662
Week 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

Discussion Topics: Colonial Population, Patterns of Society, Awakenings and
Enlightenments,
Text Reading: Chapter 3, pp. 65-97
*Map: “Settlement of Colonial America, 1700-1763”
*“The Trapanned Maiden,”c. 1600s
*“Examination of Tituba,” 1692
*“Mary Osgood Confession,” 1692
*“Whitefield Sermon,” 1740
*“Edwards Sermon,” 1741
Assessment Unit 1: Multiple Choice Test
UNIT 2: CREATION OF AN AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1750-1800
Week 4: The Empire in Transition

Discussion Topics: The Struggle for the Continent, New Imperialism, Stirrings of
Revolt, French Indian War,
*Map: “Settlement of Colonial America, 1700-1763”
*“Walking Purchase Dispute,” 1740
Chapter 4, pp. 113-125
*“Townshend Duties,” 1767
*“North Carolina Regulators,” 1769
*“Olive Branch Petition,” Jul 8 1775 (in Chapter 5 Sources)
*“P. Wheatley Poem,” 1783
Discuss Secondary Text: Gonick Chapter 2 and Zinn Chapter 2
Week 5: The American Revolution

Discussion Topics: The War for Independence, State Constitutions, Articles of
Confederation, Federation Constitution
*Map: “The American Revolution, 1775-1781”
*“Declaration, First Draft and Changed Draft,” 1776
*“Paine’s Common Sense,” 1776
*Abigail and John Adams Letters, 1776
*“Virginia Constitution,” 1776
*“Articles of Confederation,” 15 Nov 1777
*“Northwest Ordinance,” 1787 (in Chapter 6 Sources)
Discuss Secondary Text: Zinn Chapter 4
Week 6: The Constitution and the New Republic

Discussion Topics: Framing a New Government , Adoption and Adaptation,
Emerging of Political Parties, Downfall of the Federalists
*“Virginia Plan,” 1787
*“The US Constitution,” 1787
*“Federalist 10,” 1787
*“Federalist 51,” 1788
*“Jay Treaty,” 1794
*“Treaty of Greenville,” 1795
*“Alien and Sedition Acts,” 6 Jul 1798
Discuss Secondary Text: Gonick Chapter 6
Assessment Unit 2: Multiple Choice Test
UNIT 3: NEW REPUBLIC, 1800-1850
Week 7: The Jeffersonian Era

Discussion Topics: The Rise of Cultural Nationalism, Jefferson the President,
War of 1812, Republican Motherhood and Education of
Women, Beginning of the Second Great Awakening
*Map: “Exploration of the Far West, 1804-1807”
*“Barbary Treaties,” 1815
*Map: “War of 1812”
*“Hartford Convention,” 1814
Week 8: Varieties of American Nationalism

Discussion Topics: Growing Economy, Expanding Westward, “Era of Good
Feelings”, Growth of slavery and free Black Communities
*“National Road,” 1830
*“Narrative of Smallpox,” 1830s
Week 9: Jacksonian America

Discussion Topics: The Rise of Mass Politics, Federal Union and Indian
Removal, States’ Rights Debates, Bank War, Tariff
Controversy, Jacksonian Democracy
*Map: “Indian Expulsion, 1800-1890”
*“Proclamation on Nullification,” 1832
*“Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia,” 1831
Assessment Unit 3: Multiple Choice Test and a DBQ or FRQ Timed Write
UNIT 4: ANTEBELLUM AMERICA, 1820-1850
Week 10: America’s Economic Revolution

Discussion Topics: Population, Transportation, Communication , Commerce
and Industry, Immigration, Patterns of Society, Agricultural
North
*“Factory Girl’s Garland,” 1844
*Map: “Transportation Revolution,” 1840-1880
*“Declaration of Sentiments,” 1848
Week 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Discussion Topics: The Cotton Economy and Southern White Society, “Peculiar
Institution” and the Culture of Slavery
Text Reading: Chapter 11, pp.292-313
*“Slave Codes,” 1662-1669
*“Certificate of Freedom,” 1851
*Music: “Field Hollers,” 1880s
Week 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

Discussion Topics: The Romantic Impulse, Remaking Society, Evangelical
Protestant Revivalism, Ideals of Domesticity, Utopian
Communities, Abolition,
*Map: “Route of the Mormon Pioneers,” 1899
*Letter: Emerson to Whitman, 1855
*Rappite House, 1822
*“The Liberator,” April 1, 1864
UNIT 5: SECTIONAL STRIFE, CIVIL WAR, AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1850-

1890
Week 13: The Impending Crisis

Discussion Topics: Pro-and Antislavery Arguments and Conflicts, Compromise
of 1850, Kansans-Nebraska Act, Abraham Lincoln Election
of 1860,
*”Maximillian’s Journal,” 1833
*Map: “Mexican War,” 1846-1847
*John Brown Disguised, 1800s
*Chart: Presidential Elections, 1840s-1860s
Week 14: The Civil War

Discussion Topics: The Secession Crisis, Mobilization of North and South,
Military Strategies and Foreign Policy, Emancipation, Social
Political, and Economic effects of war in the North, South,
West
*Telegram: Maj. Robert Anderson to Hon. Simon Cameron, 1861
“Surrender of Fort Sumter”
*“Contraband Crossing,” 1862
*Letter: Englishman to Lincoln, 1861
Week 15: Reconstruction and the New South

Discussion Topics: The Problems of Peacemaking, Radical Reconstruction and
South, Compromise of 1877, Impact of Reconstruction
*Map: “Barrow Plantation,” 1886
*Map: “African-Americans and Crop Lien,” 1890
*“Mississippi Black Codes,” 1865
UNIT 6: AMERICAN WEST AND AN AGE OF INDUSTRY, 1877-1900
Week 16: The Conquest of the Far West

Discussion Topics: The Societies, Economies, and Romance of the Far West ,
Expansion and Development of Western Railroads,
Competition for the West: Miners, Ranchers, Homesteaders,
and American Indians
*Map: “Mining Towns, 1848-1883”
*“Chinese Exclusion Act,”1882
*“Turner’s Frontier Thesis”
*Map: “Indian Expulsion, 1800-1890”
*“In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat,” 1879
Discuss Secondary Text: Gonick Chapter 8 and Zinn Chapter 11
Week 17: Industrial Supremacy

Discussion Topics: Sources of Industrial Growth, Capitalism and its Critics,
Effects of Technological Development on the Worker and
Work Place
*Map: “Transportation Revolution”
*“Joyous Trusts,” 1902 (in Chapter 18 Sources)
Discuss Primary Literature: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, (Chapters1-19)
Week 18: The Age of the City
Discussion Topics: Urbanization and the Lure of the City, City Problems and
Machine Politics, Intellectual and Cultural Movements
And Popular Entertainment
*Map: “Streetcar Suburbs, 1880”
Show Video: “Ellis Island”
*“How the Other Half Lives”
UNIT 7: PROGRESSIVISM AND THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC, 1877-1920
Week 19: From Stalemate to Crisis

Discussion Topics: The Politics of Equilibrium, Agrarian Revolt, and the Crisis
of the 1890s, Spanish American War
*“Sherman Anti-Trust Act”
*Map: “Spanish-American War”
*”Populism”
Week 20: The Imperial Republic

Discussion Topics: Strings of Imperialism, War with Spain, and the Republic
As Empire
Text Reading: Chapter 20, pp 543-562
Map: “Spanish-American War”
Video: “ Roosevelt and the Rough Riders”
Video: “Annexation of Hawaii”
Week 21: The Rise of Progressivism / The Battle for National Reform
Discussion Topics: The Progressive Impulse: Women, Sources, Crusades,
Origins of Progressive Reform; Municipal, State, and
National,
*Map: “Women’s Suffrage, 1869-1914”
*“19th Amendment,” 1920
*“The Jungle Excerpt”, 1906 (in Chapter 22 Sources)
Discuss Secondary Text: Gonick Chapter 14
UNIT 8: THE GREAT WAR TO DEPRESSION, 1914-1930
Week 22: The New Nationalism, the New Freedom, and the “Big Stick”.
Discussion Topics: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive Presidents,
*Map: “US in Latin America, 1895-1994”
*Audio: “Roosevelt Speaks,” 15 Apr 1906
*“Yellowstone Park Est.”
*“Roosevelt’s Open Letter”
*“Neill-Reynolds Report”
*“Meat Inspection Act of 1906”
*“Keating-Owen Child Labor Act”
Week 23: America and the Great War

Discussion Topics: The Road to War, “War Without Stint”, First World
War at Home, Treaty of Versailles, Society and Economy
in the Post War Years
*Map: “America in World War I”
*Map: “Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919”
*“Fourteen Points,” 8 Jan 1918
*Sacco-Vanzetti Materials (in Chapter 22 Sources)
Week 24: The New Era and the Great Depression

Discussion Topics: The New Era, Great Depression, Economy, Culture of
Modernism: Science, the Arts, and Entertainment, Response
To Modernism: Religion, Fundamentalism, Nativism, and
Prohibition
Text Reading: Chapter 24, pp. 640-667; Chapter 25, pp 667-689
*Map: “Breakdown of Rural Isolation, 1900-1930”
*“Ku Klux Klan,” 1920s
*“Klan’s Fight for Americanism”
*Map: “Unemployment Relief,” 1934
*Audio: “Going Down this Road”
*“I’d Rather Not Be On Relief”
UNIT 9: MODERN STATE AND SOCIETY, 1920-1945

Week 25: The New Deal and the Global Crisis
Discussion Topic: Launching the New Deal, New Deal in Transition and
Disarray, Surviving Hard Time: American Society During the
Great Depression, Rise of Fascism, Prelude to War: Policy of
Neutrality, Pearl Harbor, Declaration of War
Text Reading: Chapter 26, pp. 693-715; Chapter 27 pp 719-736
*“Tennessee Valley Authority Act”
*“Social Security Act,” 14 Aug 1935
*Audio: “FDR on War Powers”
*“Lend-Lease Act,” 1941
*“War Declaration,” 1941
Week 26: America in a World at War

Discussion Topics: War on Two Fronts, The Defeat of the Axis, Wartime
Mobilization of the Economy, Urban Migration and
Demographic Changes, Women, Work, and Family During
the War, Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During the War,
War and Regional Development
*Map: “World War II, 1938-1946”
*“Einstein to FDR,” 1939
*“Handy to Spaats,” 1945
*“Stimson to Truman,” 30 Jul 1945
*“Japan Surrenders,” 2 Sept 1945
*“Women Needed,” 1941
*“Attention, Women!” 1941
*“Get a War Job!” 1941
*“Keep those Hands Off”
UNIT 10: THE AGE OF COLD WAR LIBERLAISM, 1945-1968
Week 27: The Cold War

Discussion Topics: Origins of the Cold War, Collapse of the Peace, Korean War
Crusade Against Subversion, Atomic Age, Truman and
Containment
*“United Nations Charter”
*“Marshall Plan,” 1948
*“NATO Treaty,” 1949
Week 28: The Affluent Society
Discussion Topics: The Economic “Miracle”, Science and Technology, People of
Plenty, Emergence of the Modern Civil Rights Movement,
The Affluent Society and “Other American”, Social Critics,
Nonconformists, and Cultural Rebels, Eisenhower Era
*“Stevenson at Smith,” 1955
*“Workingman’s Wife,” 1954
*Map: “Middle East, 1940-2004”
*“Brown v. Board of Education”
*“Robinson Letter,” 13 May 1958
*“McCarthy Censured,” 2 Dec 1954
Discuss Primary Literature: Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, (Chapters 1-36)
Week 29: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

Discussion Topics: Expanding the Liberal State, Battle for Racial Equality,
Vietnam, Flexible Response, Traumas of 1968, New Frontier
To Great Society, Cold War Confrontations: Asia, Latin
America and Europe, Beginning of Detente
*Map: “Patterns of Protest, 1960s”
*Map: “Vietnam War, 1955-1975”
*“Gulf of Tonkin Resolution”
*“American Opinion on the War”
*“World Reaction to Vietnam”
*“Ridenhour’s Letter,” 16 Mar 1968
*“Ron Kovic’s Memoir,” 1976
UNIT 11: THE RISE OF THE NEW CONSERVATISM, 1968-2004
Week 30: The Crisis of Authority

Discussion Topics: Youth Culture, Minorities, Feminism, and Environmentalism,
Nixon’s Challenges: Vietnam, China, Watergate, Changes in
The American Economy: Energy, Crisis, Deindustrialization,
and the Service Economy
Text Reading: Chapter 32, pp.851-882
*Map: “Patterns of Protest, 1960s”
*“Freidan’s Mystique,” 1963
*“NOW Mission,” 1966
*“EPA,” 1970
*Map: “Vietnam War, 1955-1975”
*“Nixon’s Statement,” 1973
*“Impeachment Articles”
*“National Address,” 8 Aug 1974
Week 31: The Age of Limits and the Age of Reagan

Discussion Topics: The New Right, the “Reagan Revolution,” End of the Cold
War, Economic Boom, Changing Society and Perils of
Globalization
Text Reading: Chapter 33, pp. 885-907, Chapter 34, pp 909-939
*Audio: “Crisis of Confidence,” 15 July 1979
*“Ford’s Oath,” 1974
*“Ford Pardons Nixon,” 1974
*“Reagan’s Inaugural,” 20 Jan 1981
*“Reagan’s Evil Empire Speech”
*“Reagan in Iceland,” 13 Oct 1986
*“Clarence Thomas Hearings” (in Chapter 33 Sources)
Week 32: The Age of Globalization

Discussion Topics: Changing Society, Perils of Globalization, Rise of
Terrorism, Iraqi War
Text Reading: Chapter 34, pp 909-939
*Map: Middle East, 1940-2004”
Week 33: Final Exam Part 1 Multiple Choice Test-Comprehensive

Review for AP U.S. History National Exam
Week 34: Final Exam Part 2 prompt DBQ-Comprehensive

Review for AP U.S. History National Exam
Week 35: Final Exam Part 3 prompt FRQs-Comprehensive

Preview Week and AP National Exam
Weeks 36-38: Class Evaluations and Suggested Multi-Unit Student Projects

 Formal Debates
 Historical Film Analysis
 DBQ Creation Projects
 Seminar Projects

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AP UNITED STATES HISTORY

COURSE AUDIT SYLLABUS

AP U.S. History is a challenging course that is meant to be the equivalent of a freshman

• Students will analyze and interpret primary sources, including documentary

Primary Source Document Readers:

American History: Primary Investigator, McGraw Hill. CD ROM.

United States History Documents, Pearson, Prentice Hall, 2004 CD ROM.

Secondary Source Readers:

Additional Source for Primary Documents and Student Activities:

Center for Learning’s Advanced Placement American History I, II

AP Instructor’s Manual to accompany: Brinkley, Alan, American History: A Survey:

• American Diversity—The diversity of the American people and the relationship

• American Identity—Views of the American national character and ideas about

• Culture—Diverse individual and collective expressions through literature, are,

• Demographic Changes—Changes in birth, marriage, and death rates; life

• Economic Transformation—Changes in trade, commerce, and technology across

• Environment—Ideas about the consumption and conservation of natural

• Politics and Citizenship—Colonial and revolutionary legacies, American political

• Reform-Diverse movements focusing on a broad range of issues, including

UNIT 1: COLLLISION OF CULTURES, 1400-1760

Week 1: The Meeting of Cultures

Week 2: Transportations and Borderlands

Week 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

Assessment Unit 1: Multiple Choice Test

UNIT 2: CREATION OF AN AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1750-1800

Week 4: The Empire in Transition

Week 5: The American Revolution

Week 6: The Constitution and the New Republic

Assessment Unit 2: Multiple Choice Test

UNIT 3: NEW REPUBLIC, 1800-1850

Week 7: The Jeffersonian Era

Week 8: Varieties of American Nationalism

Week 9: Jacksonian America

UNIT 4: ANTEBELLUM AMERICA, 1820-1850

Week 10: America’s Economic Revolution

Week 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Week 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform

UNIT 5: SECTIONAL STRIFE, CIVIL WAR, AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1850-

Week 13: The Impending Crisis

Week 14: The Civil War

Week 15: Reconstruction and the New South

UNIT 6: AMERICAN WEST AND AN AGE OF INDUSTRY, 1877-1900

Week 16: The Conquest of the Far West

Week 17: Industrial Supremacy

UNIT 7: PROGRESSIVISM AND THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC, 1877-1920

Week 19: From Stalemate to Crisis

Week 20: The Imperial Republic

UNIT 8: THE GREAT WAR TO DEPRESSION, 1914-1930

Week 23: America and the Great War

Week 24: The New Era and the Great Depression

UNIT 9: MODERN STATE AND SOCIETY, 1920-1945

Week 26: America in a World at War

UNIT 10: THE AGE OF COLD WAR LIBERLAISM, 1945-1968

Week 27: The Cold War

Week 29: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

UNIT 11: THE RISE OF THE NEW CONSERVATISM, 1968-2004

Week 30: The Crisis of Authority

Week 31: The Age of Limits and the Age of Reagan

Week 32: The Age of Globalization

Week 33: Final Exam Part 1 Multiple Choice Test-Comprehensive

Week 34: Final Exam Part 2 prompt DBQ-Comprehensive

Week 35: Final Exam Part 3 prompt FRQs-Comprehensive

Weeks 36-38: Class Evaluations and Suggested Multi-Unit Student Projects