Mr. Baker
APUSH 2009-10
UNIT 8: CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE REPUBLICAN ERA,
1945-1991
Readings in America’s History, 6 ed.
Chapter 27: The Age of Affluence, 1945-1960
Chapter 28: The Liberal Consensus, 1960-1968
Chapter 29: Towards a More Conservative America, 1968-1980
Chapter 30: Amsco
Mr. Baker
APUSH 2009-10
Unit Assessments
- Document Based Questions (DBQs)
- Civil Rights DBQ
- Unit Project
- Weekly Reading Quizzes
- Hub Dates: 1968, 1989
- Unit FRQ Test
- Unit MC Test
Syllabus with Focus Questions
Mr. Baker
APUSH 2009-10
Day 1April 5Monday
APUSH mock exam2:05-5:30 (estimated)
Day 2April 7Wednesday
The Economic Powerhouse
The size, character, and effectiveness of the organized labor movement changed significantly during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Apply this statement by comparing the periods 1870-1915 and 1935-1955.
Day 3April 12Monday
The Affluent Society
TWE did the decade of the 1950's deserve its reputation as an age of political, social, and cultural conformity?
TWE was United States society in the 1920s similar to that in the 1950s with respect to race relations, the role of women, and consumerism.
Day 4April 14Wednesday
The Other America
Were the civil rights movements of the period 1955-1975 more driven from the bottom upward or from the top downward?
Day 5April 16Friday
Into the Quagmire: the Vietnam War
TWE was US involvement in Vietnam a continuation of, or break with, Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower Doctrine, Rollback, Containment, and other Cold War foreign policies?
Day 6April 19Monday
John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation (1961-1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society (1963-1969)
Day 7April 21Wednesday
Coming Apart
1968: The Year of Shocks
TWE was 1968 a pivotal year in terms of the Vietnam War, women’s rights, and the Civil Rights movement?
Day 8April 23Friday
The Nixon Years (1969-1974)
Battling for Civil Rights: The Second Stage
Landslide presidential victories do not ensure continued political effectiveness or legislative success.” Assess the validity of this statement by discussing President Richard Nixon (1972).
"Shifts in party control of the presidency during the twentieth century have typically not brought major shifts in domestic policy." Assess the validity of this statement by discussing the extent to which President Nixon adopted the domestic programs Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
TWE did the civil rights movement’s leaders of the period 1955-1975 continue their predecessors’ work and create their own visions compared to the period 1865-1925?
Day 9April 26Monday
Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, 1974-1981
The Lean Years
Politics in the Wake of Watergate
Wiki Article: “The Reform of a Liberal” NYT
Assess the success of the United States policy of containment in Asia between 1945 and 1975.
Day 10April 28Wednesday
The Conservative Resurgence in Amsco Ch. 30, pp 642-649
The Rise of Conservatism
The Reagan Presidency
Defeating Communism and Creating a New World Order
Wiki Article: The Imperial Presidency
Related videos: Bonfire of the Vanities; Wallstreet
Presidents Reagan and GHW Bush, representing the Republican Party’s New Right, “declared political war against both the Soviet Union and the liberal ideology that had informed American public policy since the New Deal of FDR.” TWE did Presidents Reagan and Bush win these political wars?
President Reagan broke the law and was criticized (Irangate). President Jackson broke the law and was celebrated (Indian Removal). How do we explain these responses?
Robert Dallek of Boston University claims that the United States experienced the rise of an “imperial presidency” from 1933-1980. Support or refute this claim.
Day 11April 30Friday
Unit MC Test
May 5Wednesday
To what extent has the United States lived up to the promise implied in the Declaration of Independence, “that all men are created equal”?
FridayMay 7
8:00 A.M. APUSH Exam
Please arrive by 7:45.