Choose a Topic from the Attached Pages

APUSH Semester 1 Research Project

Due January 12, 2009

Choose a topic from the attached pages

Part 1 Research-

Research 4 Sources

o  Textbook- take notes on topics (include page numbers the topic is addressed)

o  Monograph (a book on the subject of choice)

o  1 internet

o  One visual/video

Explain, Summarize and Define all items related to this topic indicated by the APUSH outline.

o  Must address each item and its significance to the main category

Each person Collects 8 documents from the period that students should know about

o  Documents can be: as short as 1 paragraph, quotations, pictures, political cartoons, speeches, newspaper reports, editorials, official documents, laws…

o  Document choice must be significant to a greater meaning for topic (Choose carefully)

o  Include a short description of document

o  Include a short analysis of document-

o  Significance of Document

o  What point does it make?

o  Why did you choose it? **

In order for projects to earn A or B

Must include citations (where information was obtained) (author pg #)

Bibliography According to MLA style

Project and reflection must show sufficient depth, creativity, and academic insight of an Advanced Placement Student.

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Part II Reflective Writing (each person)

o  Write a thoughtful summary of the process and learning you encountered.

o  Why did you choose this topic?

o  What profound understandings do you come away with?

o  3 pages Commentary not summary (each person must write)

Part III Product

Prepare a product that will help others learn from your research

Web Page/Video Documentary/Drama or Other Product

Must include:

·  Questions that can be answered by your product-

o  4 questions- of varied level (factual, application, analysis, evaluative, synthesis- see levels of questioning document)

·  Study guide/List of key people, places, events, ideas/terms essential to the topic and defined in the project

·  Easy to read outline of topic

·  (The goal is for other students to gain a clear understanding of the topic and relevant details)

·  Pictures

·  Diagrams

·  Maps with explanation

·  Timeline- can include a list or traditional timeline that visually depicts the evolution of the topic 15 items should be identified on the timeline. (Timelines must include some visual items)

Project Rubric:

Part 1 Research- Paper

Research 4 Sources

Summarize and define all items related to this topic indicated by the APUSH outline.
o  Must address each item and its significance to the main category
All items on APUSH outline are summarized and defined
Others must be able to understand the main idea-
Study guide/List of key people, places, events, ideas/terms essential to the topic and defined in the project
Citations-
Bibliography/Work Cited
Collect 8 documents (Each person)
o  Include a short description of document
o  Include a short analysis of document-
Timeline- includes visuals, and 15 items
Timeline- a list or traditional timeline that visually depicts the evolution of the topic 15 items should be identified on the timeline. (Timelines must include some visual items)
Part II Reflective Writing
o  Write a thoughtful summary of the process and learning you encountered.
o  Why did you choose this topic?
o  What profound understandings do you come away with? (each person must write) 3 pages Commentary not summary
Part III Product Web Page/Video Documentary/Drama or Other Product
Must include:
·  Essential information for others to understand all aspects of topic.
·  (The goal is for other students to gain a clear understanding of the topic and relevant details)
·  Pictures- with captions/explanations
·  Diagrams
·  Maps
1.  Discovery and Settlement of the New World, 1492-1650
2.  American and the British Empire, 1650-1754
3.  Colonial Society in the Mid Eighteenth Century
4.  Road to Revolution, 1754-1775
5.  The American Revolution, 1775-1783
6.  Constitution and New Republic, 1776-1800

a.  Philadelphia Convention: Drafting the Constitution

b.  Federalists versus Anti-Federalists

c.  Bill of Rights

d.  Washington’s Presidency

i.  Hamilton’s Financial Program, Assumption, BUS

ii.  Foreign and domestic difficulties

1.  Neutrality Proclamation

2.  Jay Treaty

3.  Pinckney Treaty

4.  Indian Problems

5.  Whiskey Rebellion

iii.  Beginning of Political Parties- Federalists vs. Democratic Republicans

iv.  Washington’s Farwell Address

e.  John Adams’ Presidency

i.  Alien Sedition Act

ii.  XYZ Affair

iii.  Naval appropriations

iv.  Election of 1800

7.  The Age of Jefferson, 1800-1816

f.  Jefferson’s Presidency

i.  Revolution of 1800

ii.  Jeffersonian Ideals

iii.  Louisiana Purchase

iv.  Burr Conspiracy

v.  The Supreme Court under John Marshall

vi.  Neutral Rights, Impressments, embargo

g.  Madison

h.  War of 1812

i.  Causes

ii.  Invasion of Canada

iii.  Hartford Convention

iv.  Conduct of the War

v.  Treaty of Ghent

vi.  New Orleans

8.  Nationalism and Economic Expansion
1.  James Monroe, Era of Good Feelings
2.  Panic of 1819
3.  Settlement of the West
4.  Missouri Compromise
5.  Foreign Affairs: The Monroe Doctrine

i.  Canada, Florida,

j.  Election of 1824- End of Virginia Dynasty
6.  Economic Revolution
i.  Early Railroads and Canals
ii.  Expansion of business
1.  Beginnings of factory system
2.  Early labor movement; women
3.  Social mobility; extremes of wealth
4.  The cotton revolution in the South
5.  Commercial Agriculture
9.  Sectionalism
1.  The South
a.  Cotton Kingdom
b.  Southern Trade and Industry
c.  Southern Society and culture
i.  Gradation of White society
ii.  Nature of Slavery: “Peculiar Institution”
iii.  The mind of the South
2.  The North
a.  Northeast Industry
i.  Labor
ii.  Immigration
iii.  Urban slums
b.  Northwest Agriculture
c.  Westward Expansion
i.  Advance of agriculture frontier
ii.  Significance of the frontier Turner Thesis
iii.  Life on the frontier; squatters

7.  Age of Jackson, 1828-1848

a.  Democracy and the “Common Man”

i. Expansion of Suffrage

ii.  Rotation in Office

b.  Second Party System

i. Democratic Party

ii.  Whig Party

c.  Internal improvements and States’ Rights: Maysville Road Veto

d.  Nullification Crisis

i. Tariff Issue

ii.  The Union: Calhoun and Jackson

e.  The Bank War: Jackson and Biddle

f.  Martin Van Buren

11. Territorial Expansion and Sectional Crisis

1.  Texas Independence
a.  Stephan Austin
b.  Alamo
2.  Manifest Destiny
a.  John L. O’Sullivan
3.  Texas annexation, the Oregon boundary, and California
4.  James K. Polk and the Mexican War; slavery and the Wilmot Proviso
a.  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
5.  Later expansionist efforts

12. Creating an American Culture

1.  Cultural nationalism
2.  Education reform/professionalism
3.  Religion; revivalism
4.  Utopian experiments: Mormons, Oneida Community
5.  Transcendentalists
6.  National literature, art, architecture
7.  Reform crusades
A.  Feminism; roles of women in the nineteenth century
B.  Abolitionism
C.  Temperance
D.  Criminals and the insane

13. The 1850's: Decade of Crisis

1.  Compromise of 1850
2.  Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom's Cabin
3.  Kansas-Nebraska Act and realignment of parties
a.  Demise of the Whig Party
b.  Emergence of the Republican Party
4.  Dred Scott decision and Lecompton crisis
5.  Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
6.  John Brown's raid
7.  The Republican Party
8.  The election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln
9.  The secession crisis

14. Civil War

1.  The Union
a.  Mobilization and finance
b.  Civil liberties
c.  Election of 1864
2.  The South
a.  Confederate constitution
b.  Mobilization and finance
c.  States' rights and the Confederacy
3.  Foreign affairs and diplomacy
4.  Military strategy, campaigns, and battles
5.  The abolition of slavery
a.  Confiscation Acts
b.  Emancipation Proclamation
c.  Freedmen's Bureau
d.  Thirteenth Amendment
6.  Effects of war on society
a.  Inflation and public debt
b.  Role of women
c.  Devastation of the South
d.  Changing labor patterns
e. 

15. Reconstruction to 1877

1.  Presidential plans: Lincoln and Johnson
2.  Radical (congressional) plans
a.  Civil rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
b.  Military reconstruction
c.  Impeachment of Johnson
d.  African American suffrage: the Fifteenth Amendment
3.  Southern state governments: problems, achievements, weaknesses
4.  Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction

16. New South and the Last West

1.  Politics in the New South
a.  The Redeemers
b.  Whites and African Americans in the New South
c.  Subordination of freed slaves: Jim Crow
2.  Southern economy; colonial status of the South
a.  Sharecropping
b.  Industrial stirrings
3.  Cattle kingdom
a.  Open-range ranching
b.  Day of the cowboy
4.  Building the Western railroad
5.  Subordination of American Indians: dispersal of tribes
6.  Farming the plains; problems in agriculture
7.  Mining bonanza

17. Industrialization and Corporate Consolidation

1.  Industrial growth: railroads, iron, coal, electricity, steel, oil, banks
2.  Laissez-faire conservatism
a.  Gospel of Wealth
b.  Myth of the "self-made man"
c.  Social Darwinism; survival of the fittest
d.  Social critics and dissenters
3.  Effects of technological development on worker/work-place
4.  Union movement
a.  Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor
b.  Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman

18. Urban Society

1.  Lure of the city
2.  Immigration
3.  City problems
a.  Slums
b.  Machine politics
4.  Awakening conscience; reforms
a.  Social legislation
b.  Settlement houses: Jane Addams and Lillian Wald
c.  Structural reforms in government

19. Intellectual and Cultural Movements

1.  Education
a.  Colleges and universities
b.  Scientific advances
1.  Professionalism and the social sciences
2.  Realism in literature and art
3.  Mass culture
A.  Use of leisure
B.  Publishing and journalism

20. National Politics, 1877-1896: The Gilded Age

1.  A conservative presidency
2.  Issues
1.  Tariff controversy
2.  Railroad regulation
3.  Trusts
3.  Agrarian discontent
4.  Crisis of 1890s
1.  Populism
2.  Silver question
3.  Election of 1896: McKinley versus Bryan

21. Foreign Policy, 1865-1914

1.  Seward and the purchase of Alaska
2.  The new imperialism
1.  Blaine and Latin America
2.  International Darwinism: missionaries, politicians, and naval expansionists
3.  Spanish-American War
1.  Cuban independence
2.  Debate on Philippines
3.  The Far East: John Hay and the Open Door
4.  Theodore Roosevelt
1.  The Panama Canal
2.  Roosevelt Corollary
3.  Far East
5.  Taft and dollar diplomacy
6.  Wilson and moral diplomacy
22. Progressive Era
1.  Origins of Progressivism
2.  Progressive attitudes and motives
a.  Muckrakers
b.  Social Gospel
3.  Municipal, state, and national reforms
a.  Referendum
b.  Recall
c.  Initiative
d.  Political: suffrage
e.  Social and economic: regulation
f.  Socialism: alternatives
4.  Black America
a.  Washington, Du Bois, and Garvey
b.  Urban migration
c.  Civil rights organizations
5.  Women's role: family, work, education, unionization, and suffrage
6.  Roosevelt's Square Deal
a.  Managing the trusts
b.  Conservation
c.  Food and Drug Act
7.  Taft
a.  Pinchot-Ballinger controversy
b.  Payne-Aldrich Tariff
c.  Election 1912
d.  “Bull Moose Party
8.  Wilson's New Freedom
a.  Tariffs
b.  Banking reform = Federal Reserve
c.  Antitrust Act of 1914
d.  16th Amendment
e.  17th Amendment
f.  18th Amendment
g.  19th Amendment

23. The First World War

1.  Problems of neutrality
a.  Submarines
b.  Economic ties
c.  Psychological and ethnic ties
2.  Preparedness and pacifism
3.  Mobilization
a.  Fighting the war
b.  Financing the war
c.  War boards
d.  Propaganda, public opinion, civil liberties
4.  Wilson's Fourteen Points
a.  Treaty of Versailles
b.  Ratification fight
c.  Republicans
d.  Henry Cabot Lodge
5.  Postwar demobilization
a.  Red scare
b.  Labor strife

24. New Era: The 1920s

1.  Republican governments
1.  Business creed
2.  Harding scandals
2.  Economic development
1.  Prosperity and wealth
2.  Farm and labor problems
3.  New culture
1.  Consumerism: automobile, radio, movies
2.  Women, the family
3.  Modern religion
4.  Literature of alienation
5.  Jazz age
6.  Harlem Renaissance
4.  Conflict of cultures
1.  Prohibition, bootlegging
2.  Nativism
3.  Ku Klux Klan
4.  Religious fundamentalism versus modernists
5.  Myth of isolation
1.  Replacing the League of Nations
2.  Business and diplomacy

25. Depression, 1929-1933

1.  Hoover Response to the Great Depression
2.  Wall Street crash
3.  Depression economy
4.  Statistics of the Great Depression
5.  Moods of despair
1.  Agrarian unrest
2.  Bonus march
6.  Hoover-Stimson diplomacy; Japan

26. New Deal

1.  Franklin D. Roosevelt
1.  Background, ideas
2.  Philosophy of New Deal
2.  100 Days; "alphabet agencies"
3.  Second New Deal
4.  Critics, left and right
5.  Rise of CIO; labor strikes
6.  Supreme Court fight
7.  Recession of 1938
8.  American people in the Depression
1.  Social values, women, ethnic groups
2.  Indian Reorganization Act
3.  Mexican American deportation
4.  The racial issues

27. Diplomacy in the 1930s

1.  Good Neighbor Policy: Montevideo, Buenos Aires
2.  London Economic Conference
3.  Disarmament
4.  Isolationism: neutrality legislation
5.  Aggressors: Japan, Italy, and Germany
6.  Appeasement
7.  Rearmament; Blitzkrieg; Lend-Lease
8.  Atlantic Charter
1.  Pearl Harbor

28. The Second World War

1.  Organizing for war
1.  Mobilizing production
2.  Propaganda
3.  Internment of Japanese Americans
2.  The war in Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean; D Day
3.  The war in the Pacific: Hiroshima, Nagasaki
4.  Diplomacy War aims Wartime conferences: Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam Postwar atmosphere; the United Nations

29.Truman and the Cold War

1.  Postwar domestic adjustments
2.  The Taft-Hartley Act
3.  Civil Rights and the election of 1948
4.  Containment in Europe and the Middle East
1.  Truman Doctrine
2.  Marshall Plan
3.  Berlin crisis
4.  NATO
5.  Revolution in China
6.  Limited war: Korea, MacArthur

30. Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism

1.  Domestic frustrations; McCarthyism
2.  Civil rights movement
1.  The Warren Court and Brown v. Board of Education
2.  Montgomery bus boycott
3.  Greensboro sit-in
3.  John Foster Dulles' foreign policy
1.  Crisis in Southeast Asia
2.  Massive retaliation
3.  Nationalism in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America
4.  Khrushchev and Berlin
4.  American people: homogenized society
1.  Prosperity: economic consolidation
2.  Consumer culture
3.  Consensus of values
5.  Space race

31. Kennedy's New Frontier; Johnson's Great Society

1.  New domestic programs
1.  Tax cut
2.  War on poverty
3.  Affirmative action
2.  Civil rights and civil liberties
1.  African Americans: political, cultural, and economic roles
2.  The leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr.
3.  Resurgence of feminism
4.  The New Left and the Counterculture
5.  Emergence of the Republican Party in the South
6.  The Supreme Court and the Miranda decision
3.  Foreign Policy
1.  Bay of Pigs
2.  Cuban missile crisis
3.  Vietnam quagmire

32. Nixon

1.  Election of 1968
2.  Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy
1.  Vietnam: escalation and pullout
2.  China: restoring relations
3.  Soviet Union: détente
3.  New Federalism
4.  Supreme Court and Roe v. Wade
5.  Watergate crisis and resignation

33. The United States since 1974