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06.12.27APUSH TOPIC OUTLINE

APUSH TOPIC OUTLINE
Revd 2006 (ACORN 2006/Brinkley 11e)
UNIT/TOPIC / TEXT PAGES
ONE | COLONIAL AMERICA
1COLLISION OF CULTURES, 1492-1600 / 2-31 (Ch 1)
D.English Exploration and first contacts (motivations, Ireland, Roanoke) / 23-30
2COLONIAL BEGINNINGS, 1600-1732 / 32-63 (Ch 2)
A.First English settlements: Jamestown, Plymouth
B.Chesapeake country
C.Growth of New England
D.Mid-Atlantic region
E.Origins of slavery: From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region
F.Religious diversity in the American colonies
G.Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, Glorious Revolution
3COLONIAL NORTH AMERICAIN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1700-1754 / 64-97 (Ch 3)
A.Population growth and immigration
B.Social structure: family, farm and town life
C.Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports; Mercantilism
D.The eighteenth-century back country
E.Growth of plantation economies and slave societies
F.Culture: The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening
G.Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America
TWO | REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA
4ROAD TO REVOLUTION, 1754-1775 / 98-123 (Ch 4)
A.The French and Indian War
B.The Imperial Crisis and resistance to Britain
C.Philosophy of the American Revolution
5THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1775-1787 / 124-157 (Ch 5)
A.The War for Independence
  1. Toward Independence: Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence

  1. The military war, French allianceTreaty of Paris

  1. War and society (Loyalists, Women, war economy)

B.Creating state governments
C.Articles of Confederation and Confederation Era, 1781-1787
D. Effects of the war: political, social, economic
6THE NEW REPUBLIC, 1787-1800 / 158-178 (Ch 6)
A.The federal Constitution (convention, ratification, Bill of Rights)
B.Washington, Hamilton, and shaping of the national government
C.Emergence of political parties: Federalists and Republicans
D.John Adams' presidency (Alien and Sedition Acts, Election of 1800)
THREE | THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
7THE (JEFFERSONIAN)REPUBLICAN ERA, 1800-1828 / 180-214 (Ch 7)
216-233 (Ch 8)
  1. Republican motherhood and education for women
/ (Ch 7)
  1. Beginnings of the Second Great Awakening

  1. Significance of Jefferson's presidency (Louisiana,Marbury,, embargo)

  1. Expansion into the trans-Appalachian West; American Indian resistance

  1. War of 1812 and its consequences

  1. “Varieties of Nationalism”: Nationalism and Sectionalism
/ (Ch 8)
  1. “Era of Good Feelings”

  1. Growth of slavery and free Black communities

  1. Missouri Compromise

  1. Foreign affairs: Canada, Florida, the Monroe Doctrine

  1. The Supreme Court under John Marshall and Economic Nationalism

  1. Election of 1824: end of Virginia dynasty

8TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICS IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA / 234-258 (Ch 9)
A.Emergence of the second party system: Democratic Party and Whig Party
B.Jacksonian Democracy and its successes and limitations
C.Federal authority and its opponents
1The nullification crisis and states’ rights debates
2The Bank War
D.Westward expansion and Indian Removal
  1. Election of 1840

FOUR | THE DEVELOPING REPUBLIC
9MARKET REVOLUTION: TRANSFORMATION OF ECONOMY AND
SOCIETY IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA / 260-295 (Ch 10)
A.The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy
B.Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures
C.Immigration and nativist reaction
D.Northwest agriculture
10 THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH: Planters, Yeoman Farmers And Slaves / 296-316 (Ch 11)
11RELIGION, REFORM, AND CULTURE INANTEBELLUM AMERICA / 318-341 (Ch 12)
  1. Religion: evangelical Protestant revivalism, the Second Great Awakening

  1. Transcendentalism and Utopian communities

  1. Social reforms: temperance, education, penal reform

  1. Abolitionism

  1. Women and ideals of domesticity

  1. American renaissance: literature, art, architecture

FIVE | THE DIVIDED REPUBLIC
12WESTWARD EXPANSION, 1830-1850 / 342-350 (pt Ch 13)
A.“Manifest Destiny” and mission
B.Western migration and cultural interactions
C.Territorial acquisitions: Texas annexation, the Oregon boundary
D.Early U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War
13CRISIS OF THE UNION: THE 1850s / 355-368 (pt Ch 13)
A.Pro- and antislavery arguments and conflicts
B.Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, and popular sovereignty
C.Kansas-Nebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party
D.Dred Scott decision
E.Abraham Lincoln, the election of 1860, and secession
14CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 / 370-403 (Ch 14)
  1. The Secession Crisis

  1. Two societies at War: mobilization, resources, internal dissent

  1. Foreign affairs and diplomacy

  1. Military strategy, campaigns, and battles

  1. Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war

  1. Social, political and economic effects of the war on North, South and West
(Inflation, women, South, labor)
15RECONSTRUCTION & THE NEW SOUTH, 1864-1900 / 406-437 (pt Ch 15)
A.Presidential plans: Lincoln and Johnson
B.Radical (congressional) plans
1.Civil rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
2.Military reconstruction
3.Impeachment of Johnson
4.African American suffrage: the Fifteenth Amendment
C.Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures
D.Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy
E.Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction
F.Impact of Reconstruction
G. Origins of the New South
  1. Reconfiguration of southern agriculture: sharecropping. crop lien system

  1. Expansion of manufacturing and industrialization

  1. Politics in the New South: Redeemers, Jim Crow, and disenfranchisement

SIX | INDUSTRIALIZINGAMERICA
16INDUSTRIALIZATION AND LABOR / 472-497 (Ch 17)
A.Industrial growth and corporate consolidation of industry: railroads, iron,
coal, electricity, steel, oil, banks
B.Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace
C.Labor and unions
D.Proponents and opponents of the new order: Gospel of Wealth, Social
Gospel, Social Darwinism; critics
17URBAN SOCIETY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY / 498-529 (Ch 18)
A.Urbanization and the lure of the city
B.Immigration
C.City problems and machine politics
D.Reforms: Social legislation, settlement houses, reforms in government
E.Intellectual and cultural movements
F.Popular culture
18DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY / 440-470 (Ch 16)
A.Gender, race and ethnicity in the far West
B.Expansion and development of western railroads
CCompetitors for the West
1.Mining bonanza
2.Ranchers
3.Homesteaders: Farming the plains; problems in agriculture
D.Government policy toward American Indians
E.Environmental impacts of western settlement
E.Myths and Realities
SEVEN | GILDED AGE POLITICS AND EXPANSION
19NATIONAL POLITICS IN THE GILDED AGE, 1877-1896 / 530-550 (Ch 19)
A.Issues
1.Tariff controversy
2.Railroad regulation
3.Trusts
4.Influence of corporate power
B.Agrarian discontent
C.Crisis of 1890s: Populism, the silver question and the election of 1896
20IMPERIALREPUBLIC: FOREIGN POLICY, 1865-1914 / 552-572 (Ch 20) & 613-619 (pt Ch 22)
A.American imperialism: political and economic expansion
1.Seward and the purchase of Alaska
2.The new imperialism: International Darwinism: missionaries,
politicians,and naval expansionists
3.Spanish-American War and aftermath (Cuban independence,
Philippines)
4.The Far East: John Hay and the Open Door
B.Theodore Roosevelt (Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary) / (from Ch 22)
C.Taft and dollar diplomacy; Wilson and moral diplomacy
EIGHT | PROGRESSIVISM & THE GREAT WAR
21PROGRESSIVISM, 1890-1920 / 574-599 (Ch 21) &
600-613 (pt Ch 22)
A.Origins of Progressive reform: Progressive attitudes and motives,
muckrakers, social Gospel / (Ch 21)
B.Municipal, state, and national reforms (suffrage, regulation)
C.Socialism: alternatives
D.Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson as Progressive presidents / (Ch 22)
1.Roosevelt's Square Deal: managing the trusts, conservation
2.Taft: Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, Payne-Aldrich Tariff
3.Wilson's New Freedom: tariffs, banking reform, Clayton Act
E.Women's role: family, workplace, education, politics/suffrage, and reform
22AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1919 / 620-647 (Ch 23)
A.War in Europe and Problems of neutrality: Submarines, Economic ties,
Psychological and ethnic ties
B.The First World War at home and abroad
1.Fighting the war
2.Financing the war, War boards
3.Propaganda, public opinion, civil liberties
C.Treaty of Versailles: Wilson's Fourteen Points and the ratification fight
D.Society and economy in the postwar years (Red scare, labor strife)
NINE | PROSPERITY & DEPRESSION
23THE NEW ERA: THE 1920s / 648-672 (Ch 24)
A.Business prosperity and the consumer economy; farm and labor problems
B.Culture of modernism: science, arts, entertainment
C.Culture clash: fundamentalism, Prohibition, Nativism; Ku Klux Klan
D.Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
E.African Americans; Harlem Renaissance
24THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL, 1929-1939 / 674-700 (Ch 25) &
702-726 (Ch 26)
  1. Causes of the Great Depression
/ (Ch 25)
  1. Surviving Hard Times: American society during the Depression

  1. The Hoover Administration’s response

  1. The New Deal:
/ (Ch 26)
  1. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Background, philosophy

  1. Hundred Days; "alphabet agencies"

  1. New Deal coalition

  1. Critics, left and right

  1. Second New Deal

  1. Assessment: Limits and Legacies

  1. Labor: union recognition, rise of CIO; labor strikes

TEN | WORLD WAR COLD WAR
25GLOBAL CRISES: DIPLOMACY IN THE 1920s AND 1930s / 728-746 (Ch 27)
A.Myth of isolation in the 20s: Replacing the League of Nations, business
and diplomacy
B.Rise of Fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy and Germany
C.Policy of neutrality: isolationism; prelude to war
D.Attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. declaration of war
26THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 748-775 (Ch 28)
A.Wartime mobilization of the economy
B.Impact on society, economy, politics
C.Fighting a multi-front war: Europe/Africa, Pacific
D.The United States as a global power in the Atomic Age
27THE EARLY COLD WAR / 776-796 (Ch 29), 824-829 (pt Ch 30)
A.Origins of the Cold War: War aims and Postwar Diplomacy
B.Truman and containment in Europe
C.The Cold War in Asia: China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan
D.The Red Scare and McCarthyism / (includes pt Ch 30)
E.Diplomatic strategies and policies of the Eisenhower Administration
F. Impact of the Cold War on American society
ELEVEN | AFFLUENCE & CHALLENGE
28AGE OF AFFLUENCE: 1950s / 798-824 (pt Ch 30)
A.The affluent society and “the other America”
B.Consensus and conformity: suburbia and middle-class America
C.Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels
D.Emergence of the modern civil rights movement
E.Impact of changes in science, technology and medicine
291960s / 830-857 (Ch 31)
A.From the New Frontier to the Great Society
B.Expanding Movement for civil rights
CCold War confrontations: JFK & LBJ’s diplomatic strategies and policies
1.Cuba: Bay of Pigs, missile crisis
2.Vietnam quagmire
D.“Traumas of 1968”; Election of 1968 and the Silent Majority
30“CRISIS OF AUTHORITY” / 858-891 (Ch 32)
A.The antiwar movement and the Counterculture
B.Women: Resurgence of feminism; Roe v. Wade
C.Environmentalism
D.Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy: Vietnam, China, détente
E.The Troubled Economy: energy crisis, deindustrialization, serviceeconomy
F.Watergate
TWELVE | RECENT TIMES REVIEW
31POLITICS & ECONOMICS AT THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY / 892-915 (Ch 33) & 920-926 (pt Ch 34)
A.Carter
1.Deregulation
2.Energy and inflation
3.Camp David accords
4.Iranian hostage crisis
B.The New Right and the Conservative Revolution
1.Rise of the New Right and the conservative social agenda
2.Reagan: Tax cuts and budget deficits, defense buildup, new
disarmament treaties
3.Foreign crises: the Persian Gulf and Central America
C.End of the Cold War
D.Clinton, George H.W. Bush / (Ch 34)
32AMERICA ENTERS THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY / 926-950 (pt Ch 34)
  1. Changing Society: surge of immigration after 1965, Sunbelt migration, graying of America

  1. Culture Wars; Resurgent fundamentalism?

  1. Revolutions in Science and Technology: biotechnology, mass communications, computers

  1. Economic Boom, Globalization and the American economy

  1. Rise of Terrorism

  1. Environmental issues in a global context

REVIEW FOR APUSH EXAM (possibly before Topic 32)