AP US History Reading and Homework Guide
2010-2011
UNIT SIX: From Republic to Empire, From Riches to Rags – 1898 to 1929
Unit Themes:
1. Political alignment and corruption in the Gilded Age.
2. Role of government in economic growth and regulation.
3. Social, economic, and political impact of industrialization.
4. The changing role of the U.S. in world affairs – from isolation to world power
5. U.S. motives in World War I and postwar agreements
6. Post World War I compared to post Civil War nativism, laissez-faire, labor government, farmers, attitudes towards reform
Unit Five Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did Progressivism include both democratic and anti-democratic impulses?
2. How did the labor and women’s movements change the meanings of American freedom?
3. How did the United States emerge as an imperial power in the 1890s?
4. In what ways did the boundaries of American freedom grow narrower in this period?
5. How did the war accentuate Progressive attitudes toward race and ethnicity?
Essential Terms and Concepts
For each of the following be able to:
1. Identify the term, person, concept or event.
2. Provide a summary of each.
3. Understand and explain the significance of each.
Updated: 1/18/2011
1. Interstate Commerce Commission
2. United States Steel Corporation
3. Standard Oil Company
4. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
5. United States v. E.C. Knight Company
6. Standard Oil Company
7. National Labor Union
8. Knights of Labor
9. Chinese Exclusion Act
10. American Federation of Labor
11. Samuel Gompers
12. “yellow dog” contracts
13. Haymarket Riot
14. Pullman Strike
15. laissez-faire
16. Social Darwinism
17. Jacob Riis and How the Other Half Lives
18. Ellis Island
19. Horatio Alger
20. “Machine Politics”
21. William Marcy Tweed
22. Tammany Hall
23. Social Gospel Movement
24. Settlement-House Movement
25. Jane Addams
26. Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
27. Granger Movement
28. populism
29. Plessy v. Ferguson
30. Queen Liliuokalani
31. “yellow journalism”
32. “Rough Riders”
33. Theodore Roosevelt
34. Platt Amendment
35. Mugwumps
36. Panama Canal
37. Eugene V. Debs
38. John Dewey
39. Muckrakers
40. 18th amendment
41. Eugenics
42. W.E.B. DuBois
43. NAACP
44. Booker T. Washington
45. Emma Goldman
46. 19th amendment
47. Upton Sinclair
48. Square Deal
49. Bull Moose Party
50. Federal Reserve Act
51. Woodrow Wilson
52. Clayton Anti-Trust Act
53. Muller v. Oregon
54. 16th amendment
55. 17th amendment
56. William Randolph Hearst
57. Food Administration
58. Dollar Diplomacy
59. Roosevelt Corollary
60. Lusitania
61. Zimmerman Note
62. Liberty Loans
63. Carrie Chapman Catt
64. Harlem Renaissance
65. Marcus Garvey
66. Fourteen Points
67. League of Nations
68. Treaty of Versailles
69. Red Scare
70. American Farm Bureau Federation
71. Warren G. Harding
72. Calvin Coolidge
73. Teapot Dome Scandal
74. Jazz
75. flappers
76. T.S. Eliot
77. F. Scott Fitzgerald & The Great Gatsby
78. Ernest Hemingway
79. Sacco & Vansetti
80. Ku Klux Kan
81. Scopes Trial
Updated: 1/18/2011
Unit Six: Reading Schedule
B DayDue Date / Textbook/
Source / Pages to Read / Topic / Homework Assignment /
1/20/11 / American Pageant Handout
Enduring Vision handout / 547-556
511-515 / Labor and Unions/Effects of technological development on the worker & workplace / 1. Read and take cornell notes
2.
1/25/11 / SEMESTER ONE FINAL EXAM
1/27/11 / GML
AMSCO / 619-624, 629 and 655-662
358-361 / Migration and immigration: the changing face of America/proponents and opponents of the new order (Social Darwinism & Social Gospel) / 1. Read and take cornell notes
1/28/11 / GML
AMSCO / 701-709
366-371 / Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment/Origins of Progressive reform / 1. Read and take cornell notes
2.
2/1/11 / GML
AMSCO / 701-709
366-371 / Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment/Origins of Progressive reform / 3. Read and take cornell notes
4.
2/3/11 / American Pageant Handout
GML / 612-616
662-672 / Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late 19th century/ American imperialism: political and economic expansion / 1. Read and take cornell notes
2.
2/8/11 / Enduring Vision handout
AMSCO / 630-639
436-438 / Women’s Roles: family, workplace education and political reform/ Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives / 1. Read and take cornell notes
2.
2/10/11 / GML
AMSCO / 709-716
430-436 / Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson as progressive presidents / 1. Read and take cornell notes
2.
2/15/11 / Enduring Vision handout
AMSCO / 650-653
408-414 / Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson foreign policy / 1. Read and take cornell notes
2.
2/17/11 / AMSCO / 419-423 / Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson foreign policy / 1. Read and complete SOAP SToneS
2. Complete analyzing the questions
3. Write intro, topic sentences and one complete body paragraph
2/18/11 / AMSCO / 447-460 / War in Europe and American Neutrality/The First World War at home and abroad/Treaty of Versailles / 1. Read and take cornell notes
2.
2/22/11 / American Pageant handout / 753-767 / Society and economy in the post war years/the business of America in consumer economy/Republican politics: Harding Coolidge, Hoover / 1. Read and take cornell notes
2.
2/24/11 / GML
AMSCO / 669-772 and 784-798
474-479 / The culture of Modernism: science, the arts and entertainment/Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism and prohibition / 1. Read and take cornell notes
2.
3/1/11 / UNIT SIX TEST (Study Guide Due)
Updated: 1/18/2011