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 Day
Due 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