TOPIC
OUTLINE
The following is a topic outline of
the AP United States History curriculum. The textbook and e Digital History chapters covering the individual topics are
listed. As you can see there are nearly as many topics as there are weeks
in the school year so speed is of the essence. I will also assign a
significant amount of supplemental reading. I strongly encourage you to
keep up with the following reading schedule. You are responsible for
every bit of the assigned reading. Forming study groups and sharing notes
should ease your burden. There will be at least one reading quiz each
week.
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TOPICS |
COMPLETE BY THE END OF GRADING CYCLE 1 |
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1.
Pre-Columbian
Societies/ Transatlantic Encounters ·
Early
inhabitants of the Americas ·
American
Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley ·
American
Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contact ·
First
European contacts with Native Americans ·
Spain’s
empire in North America ·
French
colonization of Canada |
Textbook:
Chapter 1 Digital
History Readings: |
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2. Colonial Beginnings, 1492–1690 ·
English
settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the South ·
Religious
diversity in the American colonies ·
Resistance
to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the
Pueblo Revolt |
Textbook:
Chapter 2 Digital
History Reading: |
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3. Colonial North America, 1690– 1754 ·
From
servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region ·
Population
growth and immigration ·
Transatlantic
trade and the growth of seaports ·
The
eighteenth-century back country ·
Growth
of plantation economies and slave societies ·
The
Enlightenment and the Great Awakening ·
Colonial
governments and imperial policy in British North America |
Textbook: Chapter 3 Digital
History Reading: The
Origins and Nature of New World Slavery |
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4. The American Revolutionary Era, 1754–1789 ·
The
French and Indian War ·
The
Imperial Crisis and resistance to Britain ·
The
War for Independence ·
State
constitutions and the Articles of Confederation ·
The
federal Constitution |
Textbook:
Chapter 4 Textbook:
Chapter 5 Textbook:
Chapter 6 (through the adoption of the
Constitution) Digital
History Reading: The
Critical Period: America in the 1780s The
US Constitution and the Bill of Rights |
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5. The Early Republic, 1789–1815 ·
Washington,
Hamilton, and the shaping of the national government ·
Emergence
of political parties: Federalists and Republicans ·
Republican
Motherhood and education for women ·
Beginnings
of the Second Great Awakening ·
Significance
of Jefferson’s presidency ·
Expansion
into the trans-Appalachian West; American Indian resistance ·
Growth
of slavery and free Black ·
communities ·
The
War of 1812 and its consequences |
Textbook:
Chapter 6 (Washington’s presidency
through the emergence of political parties) Textbook:
Chapter 7 Textbook: Chapter 8 (The War of 1812 and its
consequences) Digital
History Reading: |
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6. The Transformation of Politics in
Antebellum America ·
Emergence of the second party system ·
Federal authority and its opponents:
judicial federalism |
Textbook: Chapter 8 |
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COMPLETE BY THE END OF GRADING
CYCLE 2 |
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7.
The Age of Jackson ·
The Bank War, tariff controversy, and
states’ rights debates ·
Jacksonian democracy and its
successes and limitations ·
Forced removal of American Indians to
the trans-Mississippi West |
Textbook: Chapter 9 Digital History Reading: |
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8. The Transformation of Economy and
Society in Antebellum America ·
The
transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy ·
Beginnings
of industrialization and changes in social and class structures ·
Immigration
and nativist reaction ·
Planters,
yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South ·
Pro-
and antislavery arguments and conflicts |
Textbook:
Chapter 10 Textbook:
Chapter 11 Digital
History Reading: Pre-Civil
War American Culture The
Roots of American Economic Growth |
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9. Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in
Antebellum America ·
Evangelical
Protestant revivalism ·
Social
reforms ·
Ideals
of domesticity ·
Transcendentalism
and utopian communities ·
American
Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions |
Textbook:
Chapter 12 Digital
History Reading: Religion
and the Early Republic The
Struggle for Public Schools |
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10. Territorial Expansion, Manifest Destiny,
and the Crisis of the Union ·
Western
migration and cultural interactions ·
Territorial
acquisitions ·
Early
U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War ·
Compromise
of 1850 and popular sovereignty ·
The
Kansas–Nebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party ·
Abraham
Lincoln, the election of 1860, and secession |
Textbook:
Chapter 13 Digital
History Reading: |
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11. Civil War ·
Two
societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissent ·
Military
strategies and foreign diplomacy ·
Emancipation
and the role of African Americans in the war ·
Social,
political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West |
Textbook:
Chapter 14 Digital
History Reading: |
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12. Reconstruction and The Origins of the New
South ·
Presidential
and Radical Reconstruction ·
Southern
state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures ·
Role
of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy ·
Compromise
of 1877 ·
Impact
of Reconstruction ·
Reconfiguration
of southern agriculture: sharecropping and crop lien system ·
Expansion
of manufacturing and industrialization ·
The
politics of segregation: Jim Crow and disfranchisement |
Textbook:
Chapter 15 Digital
History Reading: |
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13. Development of the West in the Late
Nineteenth Century ·
Expansion
and development of western railroads ·
Competitors
for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians ·
Government
policy toward American Indians ·
Gender,
race, and ethnicity in the far West ·
Environmental
impacts of western settlement |
Textbook:
Chapter 16 Digital
History Reading: |
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14. Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth
Century ·
Corporate
consolidation of industry ·
Effects
of technological development on the worker and workplace ·
Labor
and unions ·
Migration
and immigration: the changing face of the nation |
Textbook:
Chapter 17 Digital
History Reading: Industrialization
and the Working Class |
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COMPLETE BY THE END OF
GRADING CYCLE 3 |
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15. Urban Society in the Late Nineteenth
Century ·
Urbanization
and the lure of the city ·
City
problems and machine politics ·
Intellectual
and cultural movements and popular entertainment ·
Proponents
and opponents of the new order, e.g., Social Darwinism and
Social Gospel |
Textbook:
Chapter 18 Digital
History Reading: |
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16. National Politics, 1877-1896: The Gilded
Age ·
National
politics and influence of corporate power ·
Agrarian
discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century ·
The
origins, purposes, and effectiveness of the Interstate Commerce Act and the
Sherman Antitrust Act. ·
The
rise of the silver question from the "Crime of ‘73" through the Gold
Standard Act of 1900. ·
The
significance of the presidential campaign and election of 1896. |
Textbook:
Chapter 19 Digital
History Reading: The
Political Crisis of the 1890s |
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17. Foreign Policy, 1865 – 1914 ·
American
imperialism: political and economic expansion ·
The
causes of the Spanish-American War. ·
The
problems involved in developing a colonial administration for America’s new
empire. |
Textbook:
Chapter 20 Digital
History Reading: United
States Becomes a World Power |
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18.
Progressivism ·
Origins
of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and national ·
Roosevelt,
Taft, and Wilson as Progressive presidents ·
Women’s
roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reform ·
Black
America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives |
Textbook:
Chapter 21 Textbook:
Chapter 22 Digital
History Reading: The
Struggle for Women's Suffrage |
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19.
World War I and its effects ·
War
in Europe and American neutrality ·
The
First World War at home and abroad ·
Treaty
of Versailles ·
Society
and economy in the postwar years |
Textbook:
Chapter 23 Digital
History Reading: |
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20.
The New Era: 1920s ·
The
business of America and the consumer economy ·
Republican
politics: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover ·
The
Culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment ·
Responses
to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition ·
The
ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and women |
Textbook:
Chapter 24 Digital
History Reading: The
Jazz Age: The American 1920s |
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21.
The Great Depression and the New Deal ·
Causes
of the Great Depression ·
The
Hoover administration’s response ·
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal ·
Labor
and union recognition ·
The
New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the Left ·
Surviving
hard times: American society during the Great Depression |
Textbook:
Chapter 25 Textbook:
Chapter 26 Digital
History Reading: |
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22.
The Second World War ·
The
rise of fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy, and Germany ·
Prelude
to war: policy of neutrality ·
The
attack on Pearl Harbor and United States declaration of war ·
Fighting
a multifront war ·
Diplomacy,
war aims, and wartime conferences ·
Wartime
mobilization of the economy ·
Urban
migration and demographic changes ·
Women,
work, and family during the war ·
Civil
liberties and civil rights during wartime ·
War
and regional development ·
Expansion
of government power |
Textbook:
Chapter 27 Textbook:
Chapter 28 (Grading Cycle 4) Digital
History Reading: |
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COMPLETE BY APRIL 20, 2011 |
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23.
The United States and the Early Cold War ·
Origins
of the Cold War ·
The
United States as a global power in the Atomic Age ·
Truman
and containment ·
The
Cold War in Asia: China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan ·
The
Red Scare and McCarthyism ·
Impact
of the Cold War on American society |
Textbook:
Chapter 29 Digital
History Reading: |
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24.
The 1950s ·
Emergence
of the modern civil rights movement ·
The
affluent society and “the other America” ·
Consensus
and conformity: suburbia and middle-class America ·
Social
critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels ·
Impact
of changes in science, technology, and medicine ·
Diplomatic
strategies and policies of the Eisenhower administration |
Textbook:
Chapter 30 Digital
History Reading: |
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25.
The Turbulent 1960s ·
From
the New Frontier to the Great Society ·
Expanding
movements for civil rights ·
Cold
War confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe ·
Beginning
of Détente ·
The
antiwar movement and the counterculture ·
The
election of 1968 and the “Silent Majority” ·
The
Vietnam War |
Textbook:
Chapter 31 Digital
History Reading: America
in Ferment: The Tumultuous 1960s |
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26.
Politics and Economics at the End of the Twentieth Century ·
The
election of 1968 and the “Silent Majority” ·
Nixon’s
challenges: Vietnam, China, Watergate ·
Changes
in the American economy: the energy crisis, deindustrialization, and the
service economy ·
The
New Right and the Reagan revolution ·
End
of the Cold War |
Textbook:
Chapter 32 Textbook:
Chapter 33 Digital
History Reading: The
Past Three Decades: Years of Crisis - Years of Triumph |
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27.
Society and Culture in the modern world ·
Demographic
changes: surge of immigration after 1965, Sunbelt migration, and the graying ·
of
America ·
Revolutions
in biotechnology, mass communication, and computers ·
Politics
in a multicultural society ·
Globalization
and the American economy ·
Unilateralism
vs. multilateralism in foreign policy ·
Domestic
and foreign terrorism ·
Environmental
issues in a global context |
Textbook:
Chapter 34 Digital
History Reading: The
Past Three Decades: Years of Crisis - Years of Triumph |
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