Apush ap united States History Syllabus introduction
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- Unit Thirteen : (February 2-6) Teddy and Progressivism
- Themes
- Unit Fourteen : (February 9-13)
- Unit Fifteen : (February 16-20) The Roaring 20s
- Unit Sixteen : (February 23 – March 6) The Great Depression
- Unit Seventeen : (March 9-20) To End Tyranny – World War II
- Unit Eighteen : (March 23 – April 3) Cold Beginnings to a Cold War
- Unit Nineteen : (April 6-17) The Cultural Pendulum: The 1960s, 1970s and 1980s
- Unit Twenty : (April 20 – May 1) America Moving Forward in the Post-Modern Age
- After The Exam : (May 15 – June 20) AP American Government and Politics Prepper
Themes: Role of government in the economy, impact of third parties, role of the United States in world affairs, motives for entering WWI, postwar agreements, presidential power vs. congressional power Reading for this Unit: American Pageant, Chapters 26 & 27 Zinn, “The Empire and The People” pg. 297-320 Lamb, “William Randolph Hearst and the Rise of Yellow Journalism” pg. 157-163 “The Roosevelt Dynasty” pg. 227-235 Bell (vol. II), “Football Without Helmets” pg. 68-71 “Clergyman and Critics: A Debate over Imperialism” pg. 77-82 “The Rough Riders Charge San Juan Hill” pg. 132-136 Bruun and Crosby, “Annexation of Hawaii” pg. 489 “Panama Canal Treaty” pg. 504-506 FRQ: Yellow Journalism: Expanding American Imperialism Unit Thirteen: (February 2-6) Teddy and Progressivism: By 1900 the United States was a world power; its aggressive foreign policy and dynamic domestic growth were powered by enormous industrial production and the federal government’s more assertive domestic and international policies. For America’s large businesses, corporations, and the upper class, life was good. For the most part, they operated with little government interference other than measures that facilitated the concentration of capital. Approximately half of the nation’s wealth was in the hands of 1 percent of the population. Yet under the surface were serious problems. In many cases workers suffered abject poverty, scratching out an existence in America’s bustling, overcrowded, and filthy cities. Industrialization had made the American worker simply a cog in the production process. While industrialization had brought despair to millions of urban workers, it was the impetus for the emergence of a middle class of professionals, office workers, social workers, educators, and government employees. These new members of the middle class now had time and were willing to take up the challenges of addressing America’s social ill. Because of reform-minded public officials and private citizen organizations, a concerted effort was made to address the maladies that undermined American democracy. This period in U.S. history is referred to as the Progressive Era, and it was the first manifestation of liberalism in the 20th century. Themes: American Diversity, American Identity, Culture, Economic Transformations, Environment, Reform, Politics, War and Diplomacy Reading for this Unit: American Pageant, Chapters 28 & 29 Zinn, “The Socialist Challenge” pg. 320-357 Lamb, “The Celebrity of Helen Keller” pg. 179-184 Yazawa, “The Progressive Era” pg. 139-158 Bruun and Crosby, “The frontier has gone” pg. 466-468 “Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate but equal” pg. 481-483 “The Cross of Gold” pg. 483-485 “If you strike that dog again, I’ll kill you” pg. 497-502 “The Oil War of 1872” pg. 502-504 “The Jungle” pg. 512-513 “Clayton Anti-Trust Act” pg. 524-526 “There is a class struggle in society…” pg. 526-528 Lamb, “A Farmer in the Grip of the ‘Octopus’” pg. 137-141 DBQ: Progressive Period through Documents Unit Fourteen: (February 9-13) “The War to End All Wars” – World War I: By the 20th century the United States had established an international empire that stretched from the Caribbean to the Pacific. Ironically, while acquiring the lands of others, the government and various grassroots movements were engaged in democratizing the nation’s social, economic, and political system, in a reforming spirit known as the progressive movement. As the United States entered the second decade of the century, storm clouds were appearing on the horizon in faraway Europe. Before long, a considerable part of the globe was engaged in what would become the most destructive war in history up to that point. When WWI broke out in 1914, Americans looked warily from across the Atlantic Ocean at the political machinations of Europe’s powers, and they were determined to follow the advice given by President Washington over a century earlier: maintain the nation’s neutrality in foreign disputes. Despite this sentiment, in 1917American troops were fighting in France and Belgium in a war that would ultimately elevate the United States to world-power status. Reading for this Unit: American Pageant, Chapter 30 Zinn, “War is the Health of the State” pg. 359-376 Bell, “General Pershing Arrives in France” pg. 177-183 “Two Doughboys in the Great War” pg. 184-193 “Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Demands Harsh Peace Terms” pg. 194-196
“We kept the Germans from getting into Paris.” pg. 537-540 “Wilson’s Fourteen Points” pg. 540-542
“The Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial” pg. 197-205 Yazawa, “Modern Time” pg. 215-251 Bell, “The Great Boom and the Big Crash” pg. 230-236 DBQ: The Roaring 20s? Unit Sixteen: (February 23 – March 6) The Great Depression: In 1929, a little over a decade after the most devastating war in modern times up to that point, the United States and the world endured the worst economic crisis in history in terms of intensity and duration. The economic, political, and social crises that resulted from the Great Depression required massive interventions by the government on an unprecedented scale in order to preserve the capitalist system and recover from the ruinous effects of the depression. Ultimately, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal program preserved capitalism by balancing the needs of the capitalist class with the demands of the working classes. Equally important was that the New Deal represented the federal government’s expansion and implementation of its authority to tax, borrow, and spend in order to help find solutions for both short- and long-term problems in the economy. In short, Roosevelt and the New Deal took great strides in ending the depression, but it was not until WWII that the United States recovered from the despair of the Great Depression. Themes: America and Its Changing Face, Cultural Identity, Economic Transformation, Reform, Globalization, Demographic Changes Reading for this Unit: American Pageant, Chapters 32 & 33 Zinn, “Self Help in Hard Times” pg. 377-406 Lamb, “Great Depression and World War II” pg. 237-244 Bell, “A Portrait of FDR, from Sunrise at Campello” pg. 221-227 “Life in the Breadlines” pg. 250-253 “Roosevelt Defends the New Deal” pg. 254-257 “Two Poems from Langston Hughes’ Don’t You Want to be Free?” pg. 258-260 “The Impact of the Great Depression” pg. 261-266 “From Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath” pg. 274-281 Bruun and Crosby, “The Volstead Act” pg. 550-552 “Women must not accept; she must challenge” pg. 556-558 “The Bonus Army” pg. 588-589 “FDR’s First Inaugural” pg. 589-591 “The National recovery Act” pg. 593-596 “The Securities Exchange Act of 1934” pg. 604-607 DBQ: Depression and Recovery: How Did It Happen? Unit Seventeen: (March 9-20) To End Tyranny – World War II: As nations struggled to survive the ordeal of the Great Depression, they would soon be confronted with the malevolence greater than the horrors of WWI or the desperation associated with the collapse of the world’s economy. For in Europe and Asia imperialism, militarism, and fascism were taking hold and would soon envelope the world in a catastrophe that made other modern wars pale in comparison. Although these events increasingly concerned American political leaders, the developments in Europe and Asia could not shift the American public away from the belief that these were uniquely European or Asian problems, and that the United States should most certainly avoid involvement in yet another war, that like WWI, had dubious benefits for the United States. Thus, throughout the interwar years, the United States maintained an increasing fragile policy of neutrality until the infamous events of Pearl Harbor quickly drug the isolationist Americans into the global conflict. Themes: Comparison of the administrations of WWI and WWII as neutral leaders, wartime leaders, and peacemakers; home front comparisons of WWI and WWII; America assuming role of world leader in post-WWII world Reading for this Unit: American Pageant, Chapters 34 & 35 Zinn, “A People’s War?” pg. 407-442 Lamb, “The World War II Generation” pg. 269-273 Yazawa, “The World At War, 1939-1945” pg. 279-305 Bell, “The Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor” pg. 282-286 “Margaret Takahashi Describes the Internment…” pg. 294-296 Bruun and Crosby, “FDR’s Four Freedoms Speech” pg. 642-643 “FDR Asks for War against Japan” pg.645-646 “Japanese Relocation Order” pg. 646-647 “The Yalta Conference” pg. 659-663 “Total Victory” pg. 665 “The Marshall Plan” pg. 670-672 “The North Atlantic Treaty” pg. 672-674
“The Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy” pg. 313-320 Bell, “The Truman Doctrine and the Four Points” pg. 324-329 “Victor Navasky Describes the Costs of ‘McCarthyism’” pg. 334-337 FRQ: McCarthyism Unit Nineteen: (April 6-17) The Cultural Pendulum: The 1960s, 1970s and 1980s: Following the end of WWII, many groups in America began to press, once again, the question of equality. Throughout the second half of the 20th century, these groups began to mobilize and influence change across the United States. This period revolved around large philosophical, as well as real world, problems. As the Cold War intensified, McCarthyism put certain clamps on Civil Liberties that would have to be addressed by the Courts of the United States and by society in general. As these Cold War problems began to resolve themselves, the question of civil rights and equality came rushing forward as minority groups throughout the United States, in many different forms and credos, began to push state governments and the federal government for a redress to their issues. The United States saw some of its most endearing figures come from this period in history, but the time frame would be dominated by the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, and the rise of new Conservatism through the 1980s. Themes: The United States on the world stage, societal changes, Continuity and change, Cold War episodes, human rights, globalization, self-interests and the American character, economic stability, cultural mores, societal changes Reading for this Unit: American Pageant, Chapters 38, 39 & 40 Zinn, “Or Does it Explode?” pg. 443-467 “The Impossible Victory: Vietnam” pg. 469-501 “The Seventies: Under Control?” pg. 541-562
“The 2000 Election and the ‘War on Terrorism’” pg. 675-682 Yazawa, “The Reagan Revolution and the End of the Cold War” pg. 429-454 Lamb, “September 11 and Osama bin Laden” pg. 503-508 “September 11 and the Roots of Islamic Terrorism” pg. 509-514 FRQ: The U.S.A. Patriot Act After The Exam: (May 15 – June 20) AP American Government and Politics Prepper: For those that will be continuing on with us next year, we will begin to look at more government and politics items in the final weeks of the year. Most of this will be loose in nature and will revolve around defining and creating a basic understanding of the three branches of the federal government: the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. Directory: cms -> lib -> WA01001311 -> Centricity -> Domain lib -> 1. naclo 2015 – North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad lib -> 1. naclo 2017 – North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad lib -> Chem I honors Unit 2 Notes: Numbers in Chemistry Measurement lib -> Sanderson High School ap human Geography Summer Assignment 2016 lib -> Find fantastic ousd elementary music programs lib -> American Studies Pacing Calendar 2014-2015 lib -> The ap history Timeline 8000bce-the Present lib -> Absolutism in Europe Domain -> Name: Date: Period Download 130.74 Kb. Share with your friends:
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