U. S. History A.P. - Assignment Calendar 2015-2016 - Semester I
Assignments are DUE on the day indicated. Assignments are subject to change!
In-Class Presentation Notes are due each Friday, unless otherwise announced.
Project: To what extent was the American Revolution, revolutionary? Due Jan. 5th
Unit 1
August 14First Day: The Course and the Exam
Early English Settlement 1600-1650
August 17 Virginia - early settlement p.33-34, p.38-42Virginia Population Characteristics
75 words: Jamestown foundation, problems and reorganization
50 words: Tobacco
Additional Quiz Items:Roanoke, Expansion, Exchanges of Ag. Technology
August 18 New England – early settlements p.44-49 col.1 doc:A Modell of Christian Charity (John Winthrop 1630)and Letter to the Town of Providence (Roger Williams 1655)
75 words: Massachusetts Bay Experiment
50 words: Plymouth Plantation
Additional Quiz Items: Expansion of New England
August 19 Virginia 1642-1677 pgs. 43-44
doc:TheDeclaracon of the People (Nathaniel Bacon 1675)
75 words: Turbulent Virginia
50 words: Bacon’s Rebellion
August 20New England 1637-1675 p.49 col.2 – p.51 andp 61 btm col 2 – p.62
50 words: The Pequot War 50 words: King Philip’s War
AQI: Settlers and Natives, Technology of Battle, Middle Grounds
August 21 Restoration Colonies 1670-1700 p.51-55
75 words New Netherlands/New York 50 words: The Carolinas
Last English Colonial Settlements 1700-1750
August 24 Last of the Colonies 1700-1750 pgs. 55-56 and p.60-61 and
Frame of Government (William Penn 1682)
75 words: The Founding of Georgia 50 words: The Quaker Colonies
AQI: The Southeastern Borderlands
August 25 Evolution of the Empire p.63-66, p.81-86 and letters: servants and settlers 1756-69
75 words: The Rise and Patterns of Colonial Commerce
50 words: The Dominion of New England
AQI: The Drive for Reorganization, The Southern Economy,
Northern Economic and Tech Life, Extent and Limits of Technology
August 26The Colonial Population pgs. 70-80
75 words: Indentured Servitude, 50 words: Changing Sources of Immigration
AQI: The Beginnings of Slavery in America
August 27 Patterns of Society pgs. 92-101 Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God(Jonathan Edwards 1741)and Benjamin Franklin on the preaching of George Whitefield
75 words: The Great Awakening 50 words The Enlightenment in the Colonies,
AQI: Witchcraft Phenomenon, Concept of Law and Politics
August 28 French and Indian War p.105-111
75 words: The Great War for Empire, 50 words A Tradition of Neglect
AQI: The Colonies Divided, New France and the Iroquois Nation
Unit 2The American RevolutionAmerican History Chapter 4
August 31 Multiple Choice Test Unit 1
September 1 The New Imperialism p.112-118
75 words: New Imperial Program, 50 words Paxton Boys
AQI: War’s debt,Proclamation of 1763, Regulator Movement
September 2 Stirrings of Revolt p.118-121 and Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress 1765
100 words:Stamp Act 1765, 50 words Sons of Liberty
AQI: Virginia Resolves, Townshend Duties, Boston Massacre,
Samuel Adams
September 3 The Philosophy of Revolt through Cooperation and War p.121-125 and
Howard Zinn pgs. 60-61
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention (Patrick Henry 1775)
75 words: Developing political philosophy 50 words Coercive Acts
AQI: Gaspee, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party and Zinn’s information
September 4 Independence p.125-128 and p.131-133
75 words: First Continental Congress, 50 words Declaration of Independence
AQI: Lexington and Concord, Olive Branch Petition, Common Sense, Responses to Independence (in class we will do Common Sense (Thomas Paine 1776))
September 7 LABOR DAY
September 8 War the Second Phase and Final Phase p.133-147
75 words: Financing War, 50 words the role of the French
AQI: Geo. Washington, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Yorktown, Treaty of Paris
September 9War and Society p.147-153 The American Revolution p.134-135
The American Revolution do Interpretations worksheet
50 words: Loyalists, 50 words Native Americans
Slaves, Women, Economy
September 10Confederation Creation of State Governments p.153-155 and
Act Establishing Religious Freedom(Thomas Jefferson 1786)
50 words Revising State Governments 50 words Religious Liberty
AQI: Republicanism, Constitutions, Slavery
September 11Confederation A Search for a National Government p.155-160 and
Worksheet on theNorthwest Ordinance of 1787
75 words: The Articles of Confederation 50 words: Shays Rebellion AQI: Diplomacy, Ordinances of '84 and '85, Northwest Ordinance '87, Battle of Fallen Timbers
September 14Constitution Framing A New Government p.163-166 and
75 words: Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plans, 50 words Annapolis Convention
AQI: Advocates of Centralization,
September 15Constitution p. 166-170 The Background of the Constitution p.168-169
Worksheet on The Backgroundof the Constitution
75 words: the Great Compromise, 50 words: Slavery in the Constitution
AQI: Sovereignty, Separation of Powers, federal structure
September 16Ratification p.170-172and Federalist #10 doc. Worksheet
50 words:Antifederalists, 50 words: Bill of Rights
AQI: Federalists, ratification debate, Judiciary Act 1789, Cabinet
September 17Massachusetts Ratification Convention notes on slavery 1788 doc. Worksheet
Essay Exam in class
September 18Multiple Choice Test (Unit 2 with some questions from Unit 1)
September 21Federalists and Republicans p.172-176
Worksheets Hamilton In Defense of a Bank and Jefferson Against a Bank
75 words: Hamilton's Program, 50 words: Whiskey Rebellion
AQI: Bank of the United States, The "Republican" Party,Location of the Capital,
Native Americans
September 22Sovereignty p.176-178 and Downfall of the Federalists p. 178-182 and Farewell Address (Geo. Washington, 1796)the section you are assigned
75 words: Alien and Sedition Acts, 50 words: Jay’s Treaty
AQI: Citizen Genet, Pinkney Treaty, election of 1796, Treaty of Paris of 1800, Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, election of 1800, Judiciary Act of 1801
September 23Nationalism p. 185-192 and Industrialism 192-193 and Virginia Resolution(James Madison 1798)
75 words:Second Great Awakening 50 words: Cotton Gin
AQI: Patterns of Education, Medicine and Science, developing "national culture", Deism,
September 24Jefferson the President p. 194-203 and First Inaugural Address(Jefferson 1801)
75 words: Transportation Innovations, 50 words: Marbury v. Madison
AQI: Barbary War, Impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase
September 25 Doubling the National Domain p. 203-207
75 words: Louisiana Purchase – Background, Louisiana Purchase and Quandary
50 words: Lewis and Clark Expedition, AQI: Burr Conspiracy
September 28 Expansion and War p.208-213
75 words: The Embargo 50 words: Battle of Tippecanoe
AQI: Conflict on the Seas, Impressment, Chesapeake and the Leopard, Non-Intercourse Act, Jefferson's Indian Policy, Tecumseh,
September 29 War of 1812 p.213-217 and Map of Congressional vote and Message to Congress (James Madison 1812)
75 words: War Hawks 50 words: Hartford Convention
AQI: War in the West, British Invasion, Battle of New Orleans, Treaty of Ghent
September 30A Growing Economy p.219-225
75 words: Transportation 50 words: Expansion into the old Southwest
AQI: Postwar issues, Expansion into the Northwest, the Trans-Mississippi West
October 1The Era of Good Feelings and the Missouri Compromise p.226-229
75 words each: Missouri Compromise 50 words: Panic of 1819
AQI: Seminole War, Adams-Onis Treaty, Tallmadge and Thomas Amendments
October 2 Marshall Court p. 229-230
50 words: Fletcher v. Peck,
AQI:Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Cohens v. Virginia
October 5 Nationalism p.229-231 doc. To Be Announced
75 words: The Monroe Doctrine 50 words: Gibbons v. Ogden
AQI: McCulloch v. Maryland, Johnson v. McIntosh, Worcester v. Georgia
October 6 The Revival of Opposition p.231-233
75 words: American System 50 words: Tariff of Abominations
AQI: Corrupt Bargain, Election of 1828
October 7 in class M/C Test Unit 3
Project Due January 5
Amer. History A.P. - Calendar 2015-16 - Semester I - Unit 4
October 8 Rise of Mass Politics p.238-242
75 words: Broadening Franchise 50 words: the Legitimization of Party
AQI: Dorr Rebellion, the Spoils System
October 9Our Federal Union p.242-246 and Second Reply to Hayne (Daniel Webster)
75 words: Nullification Crisis and Resolution 50 words: Webster-Haynes Debate
AQI: Theory of Nullification, Eaton Affair
October 12NO SCHOOL – Columbus Day
October 13 The Removal of the Indians p.246-250
75 words: Trail of Tears 50 words: Seminole War
AQI: Changing Attitudes Towards Native Americans, Black Hawk War, Federal and State Indian policy
October 14 PSAT
October 15 Jackson and the Bank War p.250-253 and The Bank Veto (Andrew Jackson)
75 words: The Bank War 50 words: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge Case
AQI: the Bank and its "enemies"
October 16 Changing Face of American Politics p.253-260 and The "Age of Jackson" p.240-241
75 words: Election of 1840 50 words: Whigs
AQI: Democrats, "Great Triumvirate", Panic of 1837, Whig Diplomacy 1837-1842
Project Due January 5
October 19 The Changing American Population p.263-269 and
75 words: Know Nothings 50 words: German and Irish Immigration,
AQI: Rise of Nativism
October 20 Transportation, Communication, and Technology p.269-278Fincher's Trade Review March 26, 1864 75 words:Erie Canal 50 words: the growth of factor
AQI: growth of railroads, innovations in communication, growth of corps, interchangeable parts
October 21Northern Work, Industry and Agriculture p. 278-294
75 words: Lowell System 50 words: middle class life
AQI: Commonwealth v. Hunt, difficulties for union organizing, economy of the Old Northwest 1840-1860, McCormick Reaper
October 22 Southern Economy, Society and Slavery p.297-316
75 words:Rise of King Cotton, 50 words: slave resistance
AQI: white southern culture, slave culture
October 23(Homecoming Parade) The Romantic Impulse p.320-326
75 word: Transcendentalists 50 words Utopian communities
AQI: Hudson River School, James Fennimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Mormons
Sectionalism and Manifest DestinyAmerican History
October 26 Remaking of Society p.326-333 and Memorial to the Legislature of Mass. (Dorothea Dix)
75 words: Seneca Falls Convention 50 words: Temperance,
AQI: Reforming Education, Asylum Movement, Feminism
October 27 NO SCHOOL Faculty In-Service
October 28 The Crusade against Slavery p.334-340 and Platform of the Amer. Anti-Slavery Society 1833
75 words: William Lloyd Garrison, Black Abolitionaists
AQI: American Colonization Society, Anti-Abolitionism, Harriet Beecher
October 29 Oregon and Texas p.343-350
75 words: Manifest Destiny 50 words: Texas Rebellion, AQI: Oregon
October 30 Mexican War 352-354
75 words: Compromise of 1850 50 words: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
AQI: James Polk, The Southwest and California, The War
November 2in class M/C Test Unit 4
Project Due January 5
Amer. History A.P. - Assignment Calendar 2015-16 - Semester I Unit 5
November 3 The Sectional Debate p.355-359
75 words: Free Soil Party, 50 words: Wilmot Proviso
AQI: The Gold Rush,
November 4 The Crisis of the 1850's Kansas p.359-362 top Col.1
75 words: Kansas-Nebraska Controversy 50 words: Bleeding Kansas
AQI: Ostend Manifesto, Gadsden Purchase
November 5 The Crisis of the 1850's Kansas p.359-362 top Col.1
100 words: Kansas-Nebraska Controversy AQI: Ostend Manifesto, Gadsden Purchase, Bleeding Kansas
November 6 The Crisis of the 1850's Free-Soil through John Brown p.362-367
Liberator Dec 16, 1859, My Bondage and My Freedom (Frederick Douglass),
Address at Cooper Institute Feb. 27, 1860 (Abraham Lincoln)
75 words: Free Soil Movement 50 words Dred Scott Decision
AQI: Deadlock over Kansas,Emergence of Lincoln, John Brown's Raid
November 9 The Crisis of the 1850's Lincoln p.367-368 and Secession p.371-375
75 words: Election of 1860 50 words: Northern Advantages
AQI: Crittenden Compromise, Fort Sumter, Southern Advantages
November 10 Due: The Causes of the Civil War p.376-377 200 to 300 word essay
The Civil War"irrepressible" or "repressible" – a reflection on the debate.
November 11 NO SCHOOL Veterans’ Day
November 12North and South p.375-388
75 words each: Economic Measures 50 words: Emancipation
AQI: Raising the Union Army, Wartime Politics,Confederate Government,
Money and Manpower, Economic and SocialEffects of the War
November 13Strategy and Battles p.388-403 Letter Jan. 11, 1863 (Thomas Warrick)
75 words: Europe and the Disunited States 50 words The Year of Decision
AQI: The Opening Clashes, The Last Stage
November 16Reconstruction p.405-413 Louisiana Black Codes 1865
75 words: The Congressional/Radical Plan 50 words: Competing Notions of Freedom
AQI: Issues of Reconstruction,Plans for Reconstruction The Death of Lincoln,
Johnson and"Restoration", Fourteenth Amendment, Black Codes,
The Impeachment of the President
November 17 Reconstruction p.413-425
75 words: The Reconstruction Governments 50 words: Abandonment of Reconstruction
AQI: The Grant Administration
November 18Post-Reconstruction South p.425-435
75 words: The New South 50 words: The Birth of Jim Crow
November 19 M/C/ Exam for Unit 5
November 20The West p. 439-448 (Part of Unit 6)
75 words: The Western Tribes, 50 words: Anti-Chinese sentiment and laws
AQI: Hispanic California
November 23 The Romance of The West 448-458
75 words: Arrival of the Miners 50 words: Cattle Kingdom
November 24The West and the Tribes p.458-464 The "Frontier" and the West p.456-57
50 words: Dawes Severalty Act
AQI: Sand Creek Massacre, Little Bighorn, Chief Joseph, Wounded Knee
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Amer. History A.P. - Calendar 2015-16 - Semester I - Unit 6 (Cont.)
Project Due January 5
November 30Sources of Industrial Growth p.471-480
75 words: Industrial Technologies 50 words: ConsolidatingCorporate America
AQI: The Science of Production
December 1Capitalism and Its Critics p.480-485Andrew Carnegie The Gospel of Wealth
75 words: Social Darwinism 50 words: Alternative visions
AQI: The Self-Made Man
December 2 Industrial Workers p.486-494
75 words Homestead Strike 50 words: Haymarket Square
AQI: Women and Children at Work, The Struggle toUnionize, The Knights of Labor, The AFL, Pullman Strike
December 3 Urbanization p.497-512 and How the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis1890)
75 words: Exclusion 50 words: Migrations
AQI: Lure of the City, Ethnic City, Assimilation, Frederick Law Olmstead,
Daniel Burnham, Jacob Riis, Louis Sullivan
December 4 Urban Life, Consumer Society and the Politics of Equilibrium p.519-534
75 words: Mass Communication 50 words: the Two Party System
AQI:The Machine and the Boss, Movies, Working Class Leisure, Literature, Art, Darwinism, Educating Women, Presidents and Patronage, New Public Issues
December 7The Agrarian Revolt p. 464-467 and p.534-540 Omaha Platform 1892
75 words: Populism 50 words: Farming on the Plains,
AQI: Commercial Agriculture, Farmers' Grievances, Agrarian Malaise, the Grange, Farmers Alliances
December 8 The Crisis of the 1890's p.540-547 col.1Populism p.542-543
75 words: Election of 1896 50 words: McKinley and Recovery
AQI: Panic of 1893, the Silver Question, The Cross of Gold
December 9McKinley and Imperial p.549-554 and Speech Sept. 16,1898(Albert Beveridge)
75 words: New Manifest. Destiny, 50 words: Hemispheric Hegemony
AQI: Yellow Journal p.552-553
December 10The War with Spain p.554-560 Wm. J. Bryan Imperialism Aug. 8, 1900
75 words: Controversy Cuba, 50 words: Debate over the Philippines
AQI:War, Puerto Rico
December 11The Republic as Empire p.560-564(8th Grade Visitation Day)
75 words: Philippine War 50 words: The Open Door
AQI: Governing Colonies, Modern Military System
December 14 Flex Day
December 15EXAMS
December 16EXAM
December 17EXAM- Comprehensive M/C: Units 1-6 emphasis on Unit 6
December 18 – January 8
Project Due January 5
American History A.P. Assignment Calendar 2015-2016 - Semester II
Project - Due January 5th.
Assignments are DUE on the day indicated. Assignments are subject to change!
In-Class Presentation Notes are due each Friday, unless otherwise announced.
Project - Due January 5th
Unit 7
Progressivism
January 11NO SCHOOL
January 12 The Progressive Impulse p.567-573 and Christianity and the Social Crisis (wrksht)
75 words: Muckrakers 50 words: Jane Addams and Hull House
AQI: the Social Gospel, Professional Associations, Women and the Professions
January 13 Women p.573-577 The Parties p.577-581 and Twenty Years at Hull House (wrksht)
75 words: Woman Suffrage 50 words: Robert La Follette
AQI: "New Women", Clubwomen, Municipal Reform and New Forms of Governance,
January 14 the Crusade, Challenge p.581-588 and Progressive Reform p.570-571(wrksht)
75 words: W.E.B. DuBois 50word: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
AQI: Western Progressives, NAACP, The Temperance Crusade, Immigration estriction, Eugene V. Debs,Wobblies, Decentralization and Regulation
January 15 Roosevelt and Square Deal p.588-592 Autobiography T.R. Roosevelt and (wrksht)
75 words: Pure Food and Drug Act 50 words: Conservation and Preservation
AQI: Theodore Roosevelt- Background, Northern Securities Company, "Square Deal", John Muir, Panic of 1907
Progressivism: Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson
January 18Martin Luther King Day
January 19Skip to T.R. The Big Stick p.601-604
75 words Panama Canal 50 words: Roosevelt Corollary
AQI: Portsmouth Peace Conf., Platt Amendment,
January 20 Taft: p.592-594 and Dollar Diplomacy p.604
75 words: Dollar Diplomacy 50 words: Ballinger-Pinchot Dispute,
AQI: New Nationalism, Progressive Party
January 21 Wilson and the New Freedom p.595-597
100 words: Federal Reserve Act 50 words: Federal Trade Commission
AQI: New Freedom, Underwood-Simmons Tariff, Clayton Anti-Trust, Child Labor Laws
January 22 Wilson: Diplomacy and Morality p.604-606
75 words: Wilson and Mexico 50 words:The Caribbean and Nicaragua
World War I
January 25 The Road to War p.606-613 Doc. Zimmerman Note Worksheet
75 words: Neutrality and anti-war sentiment 50 words: Technology and warfare
AQI:Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, War at Sea, Selective Service Act, trench warfare, Casualties
January 26 The War and American Society p.613-620
50 words:War Industries Board 50 words: “Great Migration”
AQI: Financing the War, Labor and the War, Espionage and Sedition Acts,
persecution of German-Americans
January 27 The New World Order p.620-623 The 14 Points Wilson wkst
75 words: Ratification Battle 50 words: Paris Peace Conference
AQI: The Fourteen Points, Wilson's Ordeal
January 28 A Society in Turmoil p.624-630 The Evolution of Negro Leadership - du Bois
75 words: Red Scare 50 words: Marcus Garvey
AQI: Industry and Labor, African Americans,Sacco and Vanzetti, Retreat from Idealism
January 29 The New Economy and New Culture p.633-648
75 words: Technology and Economic Growth 50 words: Harlem Renaissance
AQI: Labor, A. Philip Randolph, Labor in the West, Supreme Court and Labor, Farming in the 1920's, Impact of the Automobile, Advertising, Movies and Broadcasting, Religion in the 20's, Women in the 20's, Margaret Sanger, Women's Rights, Youth Culture, The Disenchanted
The 1920's
February 1 Republican Government p.653-656
75 words: Government and Business 50 words: Harding Administration Scandals
AQI: Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge,
February 2 Conflict of Cultures p.648-653
75 words: Nativism and National Origins Act 1924 50 words: Prohibition
AQI: The New Klan, Religious Fundamentalism, Scopes Trial, Democrat's Ordeal
February 3 The Depression p.659-663 and Herbert Hoover campaign speech 1928 (wrkst)
75 words: Causes of the Depression 50 words: The Great Crash,
AQI:Progress of the Depression
February 4 flex day
February 5 Multiple Choice Unit 7
Advanced Placement U. S. History
Assignment Calendar 2015-2016 - Semester II
Unit 8
The Depression: Hoover, Crash and Early New Deal
February 8 Hard Times and Depression Culture p.663-676