New ProvidenceHigh School

New Providence, New Jersey

ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY

The purpose of the AP--U.S. History Course is to provide students with a strong foundation in United States History, and in the major historical interpretations of selected topics from the time of the Civil War to the contemporary period. The course format will make extensive use of a combination seminar and library research experience. Heavy emphasis will be placed upon refining skills in the area of interpretation of historiography & primary sources, & the development of effective thesis essay writing. Students will make use of a standard text, avolume of primary sources, and an extensive collection of conflicting historical interpretations of events as a basis for the course. Though the focus of the course is to prepare those students who are planning to take the AP U.S. History Exam, it is expected that the students will gain an appreciation for the richness of American History and that they will develop skills applicable to continued learning.

PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS

Each student will demonstrate the ability to:

  1. Identify the following persons, events, and historical concepts: Henry Clay, Tallmadge Amendment, Wilmot Proviso, popular sovereignty, Free-Soil Party, Stephen Douglas, Millard Fillmore, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law, Underground Railroad, Ostend Manifesto, John C. Fremont, Kansas-Nebraska Act, James Buchanan, Dred Scott, John Brown, secession, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Confederacy, U.S. Grant, Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment, Frederick Douglass, 54th Massachusetts, Homestead Act, freedman, Andrew Johnson, "40 acres & a mule", black codes, Ku Klux Klan, Force Acts, Hiram Revels, "Jim Crow", Radical Republicans, W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.5
  2. In essay form, describe the basic conditions under which slaves lived. NJCCS 6.5, 6.8
  3. Compare, in seminar discussions, the arguments of various historians as to the profitability of slavery. NJCCS 6.5, 6.6, 6.8
  4. In an essay, defend or attack the use of civil disobedience by the abolitionists in their defiance of the Fugitive Slave law. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.4
  5. In an essay, describe & explain the constitutional problem of whether or not a state may secede from the Union. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
  1. List the following: NJCCS 6.3, 6.5, 6.6

2 advantages of the North in the Civil War

2 handicaps of the North in the Civil War

2 advantages of the South in the Civil War

2 handicaps of the South in the Civil War

  1. Explain, in a seminar discussion, how the results of the Election of 1860 demonstrate the end of compromise on the issues which had divided the North and South since 1820. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
  2. Describe, in outline form, the major military campaigns & outcomes of the Civil War. NJCCS 6.3, 6.7
  3. Analyze the problem of the severity of punishment due the Southern states at the end of the war. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6
  4. Describe, in essay form or seminar discussion, the development of racial segregation in the South between 1865-1900.

NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5

  1. In an essay, explain how the Compromise of 1877 marked the beginning of a new age of institutional racism in the South and the "end" of Reconstruction. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.8
  2. Identify the following persons, events, & concepts: "waving the bloody shirt", political machines, Credit Mobilier, Whiskey Ring, Tammany Hall, Tweed Ring, Jay Gould, civil service, Samuel Tilden, Rutherford Hayes, James Blaine, Thomas Nast, James Garfield, Mckinley Tariff of 1890, Populist Party, lobbies, trusts, Grange, rebates, "16 to 1", bimetallism, William Mckinley, William Jennings Bryan, Mark Hanna, Adam Smith, free enterprise, supply & demand, Social Darwinism, Greenback Labor Party, imperialism, colonial empire, Josiah Strong, Alfred Mahan, "Rough Riders", Teller Amendment, Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, "white man's burden", William Howard Taft, Boxer Rebellion, John Hay, Platt Amendment, Roosevelt Corollary, "dollar diplomacy", Pancho Villa, Open Door Policy.

NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6

  1. Relate the growth of industrialization in the U.S. with American expansion as a colonial power. NJCCS 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8
  2. Explain the concept of Manifest Destiny as it was made to apply to American expansion outside the boundaries of the continental United States. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8
  3. Complete an essay regarding the justifiability of U.S. colonial expansion at the turn of the century. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7
  4. Give 3 reasons for the conflict between the Plains Indians and migrating white Americans. NJCCS 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.7, 6.8
  5. Analyze in an essay the importance of the following 3 factors in Indian-White relations: racism, conflict of dissimilar cultures, and competition for land. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.7, 6.8
  6. List the technological innovations, which helped make it possible for White Americans to dominate the Great Plains.

NJCCS 6.3, 6.4, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8

  1. In a class seminar, explain & give examples showing how a monopoly can be formed. NJCCS 6.3, 6.8
  2. List the provisions of the Populist Party platform of 1892. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6
  3. In an essay, analyze the Populist Party to determine what groups gravitated toward membership in the Party. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6
  4. Identify the following persons, events, or historical concepts: company town, technological unemployment, business cycle, real

wages, immigrants, union, skilled worker, unskilled worker, arbitration, craft union, industrial union, Uriah Stephens, Terence Powderley, Samuel Gompers, closed shop, Haymarket Affair, Pullman Strike, capitalism, anarchism, socialism, Communism, Eugene Debs, Progressive Movement, muckrakers, recall, direct primary, referendum, 17th & 19th Amendments, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, conservatism, Department of Labor, "Bull Moose Party", "New Freedom", Underwood Tariff, elastic currency, William H. Taft, nationalism, balance of power system, Central Powers, Allied Powers, trench warfare, U-boats, Sussex Pledge, unrestricted submarine warfare, Lusitania, Zimmerman Note, convoy, Espionage Act, 14 Points, neutrality, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, return to normalcy, John L. Lewis, merger, Warren Harding, Teapot Dome Scandal, rugged individualism, Al Smith, "Ohio Gang", Henry Ford, Clarence Birdseye, "Harlem Renaissance", Babe Ruth, Marian Anderson, Marcus Garvey, George Washington Carver, Matthew Henson, Sinclair Lewis, "The Jazz Singer", Model T, moonshine, flapper, radio, THE GREAT GATSBY, bull market, buying on margin, panic selling, common stock, GNP, consumer spending, Stock Exchange, laissez-faire capitalism, Depression, Recession. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7

  1. List & explain the conditions that caused workers to form unions. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6
  2. Explain, in an essay, why unionization was more successful among American workers than socialism. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6
  3. Research and analyze members of the Progressive Movement in order to determine their social & economic status.

NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.5, 6.6

  1. Prepare & present in a seminar discussion an evaluation of the following "The Progressives-Were they liberal or conservative?"

NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6

  1. List the sequence of events leading to America's entry into World War I. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.7
  2. Explain, in an essay, how the experiences in WW I affected America in the 1920s. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.5, 6.6
  3. Complete an essay critiquing the contradictory nature of the 1920s. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6
  4. List 3 characteristics of the economic expansion of the 1920s. NJCCS 6.1, 6.4, 6.6
  5. Describe several weaknesses that undermined the seeming "boom" of the 1920s. NJCCS 6.3, 6.4, 6.6, 6.8
  6. In an essay, describe 5 changes in the American life-style of the 1920s. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6
  7. List 5 phases of the Business Cycle and give several characteristics of each phase. NJCCS 6.6 – 11, 13, 16
  8. Explain the characteristics of laissez-faire capitalism. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6
  9. Describe 3 characteristics of the Crash of 1929. NJCCS 6.6 – 11, 13, 16
  10. List & explain 4 causes of the Crash of 1929. NJCCS 6.6 – 11, 12, 14, 15, 16
  11. Describe the major issues, candidates, and results of the Election of 1932. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6
  12. Identify the major legislation of the First New Deal. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6
  13. Identify the major legislation of the Second New Deal. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7
  14. List and explain the major philosophical characteristics of Liberals & Conservatives, and place them on the political continuum.

NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6

  1. Describe 3 criticisms of the New Deal programs from both the "right" and the "left". NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.5, 6.6
  2. Describe the purposes and outcomes of FDR's attempt to "reform" the Supreme Court. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
  3. Explain the theories of John Maynard Keynes and apply them to the New Deal. NJCCS 6.3, 6.4, 6.6
  4. Define each of the following terms: disillusionment, pacifism, fascism, totalitarianism, nationalism, isolationism, interventionism, aggression, appeasement, Nazism, left-wing totalitarianism, right-wing totalitarianism, axis powers, Holocaust, Cold War, McCarthyism, Fair Deal, Dixiecrats, veto power, containment, Marxism, Communism, Third World, Iron Curtain, Baby Boom, Sputnik, Rosa Parks, segregation, de facto segregation, modern republicanism, John Foster Dulles, massive retaliation, U-2, Adlai Stevenson, suburbia, civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, Little Rock Central High School.

NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6

  1. Explain 3 causes for the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1920s-1930s. NJCCS 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6
  2. Using Nazism in Germany as an example, list & explain the characteristics of Fascism. NJCCS 6.3 – 11,13,14
  3. Explain the importance of the Manchurian Crisis of 1931. NJCCS 6.3, 6.5, 6.6
  4. In an essay, describe the origins & development of the appeasement policy, which existed in the 1930s. NJCCS 6.2, 6.3, 6.6
  5. In an essay, compare the isolationist & interventionist positions in the great debate of the 1930s. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6
  6. Evaluate FDR's leadership in foreign policy from 1935-1941. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
  7. Given a chronological list of the major battles of WW II, briefly describe each, indicate the victor, and state the significance of the battle. NJCCS 6.3 – 9, 11, 12, 13,14
  8. Describe the events of the Holocaust, and show how it was a development of the philosophy of Nazism. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.5
  9. Outline the arguments for & against the use of the Atomic Bomb in August, 1945. NJCCS 6.3 – 9, 11, 12, 13, 14
  10. Identify each of the following persons: Henry Wallace, Joseph Stalin, Lenin, Karl Marx, Ho Chi Minh, Chiang Kai-shek, Douglas MacArthur, Mao Zedong, Joe McCarthy, the Rosenbergs, and Alger Hiss. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3
  11. Locate on a map of the World the following places: EastWest Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Berlin, NorthSouth Korea, Taiwan, China, Indo-China, Palestine, and Israel. NJCCS 6.7 – 11, 12
  12. Explain 5 characteristics of communism. NJCCS 6.3 – 11, 13, 14
  13. Describe the background & outcome of the Yalta Conference. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6
  14. Describe the importance of the following Cold War events or concepts: The Truman Doctrine, NATO, The Marshall Plan, Point Four Program, and the Berlin Airlift. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6
  15. Analyze and evaluate George Kennan's policy of containment, and explain the role it played in American foreign policy during the Cold War. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.8
  16. In an essay, compare the positions of the Democratic Party, the Dixiecrat Party, the Progressives, and the Republican Party on the issues of the 1948 Presidential Election. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6
  17. List 5 proposals of the Fair Deal and evaluate each. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6
  18. Describe the term McCarthyism, and explain the role it played in the early 1950s. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
  19. Outline the major agencies of the UN and explain the roles & powers of each. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6
  20. Explain the major issues of the Truman-MacArthur Controversy. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3
  21. Describe & evaluate American Foreign Policy in Asia from 1945-1960. NJCCS 6.3, 6.6
  22. State the facts, legal issue, and Supreme Court's decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5
  23. Explain 2 aspects of Martin Luther King's philosophy of civil disobedience. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6
  24. Describe the Eisenhower position on each of the following: massive retaliation, the Hungarian Revolution, and Vietnam.

NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7

  1. Define each of the following: The New Frontier, The Great Society, Medicare, Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Barry Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, the New Left, escalation, Doves, Hawks, Black Power, hippies, Malcolm X, vietnamization, détente, Henry Kissinger, nuclear proliferation, MIA, Salt I, OPEC, stagflation, oil embargo, impeachment, Kent State, shuttle diplomacy, George McGovern, Judge Sirica, Watergate, CREEP, Spiro Agnew, Three Mile Island, ERA, the Bakke Case, reverse discrimination, Salt II Treaty, hostages, Ayatollah Khomeini, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Six Day War, Yom Kippur War, deficit spending, fiscal policy, monetary policy, Reaganomics, supply-side economics, interest rates, OMB, George Bush, Walter Mondale, Bob Dole, Bill Clinton, Gulf War, and Saddam Hussein, Kuwait. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8
  2. Identify on a map of Asia: North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, China, and the 17th Parallel. NJCCS 6.7 – 11,12
  3. Define the philosophy of the New Frontier, and list 5 examples of New Frontier programs. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6
  4. In an essay, describe the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.7
  5. List 6 accomplishments of the Great Society. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6
  6. In an essay, describe the events of the TonkinGulf incident and the consequences of the incident. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.7
  7. Outline 4 arguments of the "Hawks" and "Doves" regarding U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.8
  8. Describe the key people, issues, events and results of the 1968 Presidential Election. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6, 6.8
  9. Describe the Tet Offensive, and explain its importance to the U.S. policy in Vietnam. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.8
  10. List 4 results of the War in Vietnam for the United States. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.8
  11. Evaluate the "China Policy" of Richard Nixon. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5, 6.8
  12. Describe the origins & nature of the Energy Crisis of 1973-1974. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8
  13. Describe the following phases of the Watergate Crisis: the burglary, the cover-up, and the struggle for the Presidential tapes, the

"Saturday Night Massacre", and the impeachment process. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3

  1. List & describe 3 attempts of the Congress to limit the power of the Presidency. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
  2. Evaluate President Ford's handling of the Mayaguez Incident. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3
  3. Describe the achievements & failures of the Carter Presidency. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.8
  4. Describe the background & importance of the Camp David Accords. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8
  5. Explain the events surrounding the seizure of the American Embassy in Iran, and evaluate the response of President Carter to it.

NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.5, 6.7, 6.8

  1. Describe the Afghanistan Crisis of 1979, and explain its significance in terms of foreign policy. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.7, 6.8
  2. Describe 5 features of Reagan's philosophy of government as reflected in the campaign of 1980. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6, 6.8
  3. Place the Reagan political philosophy on the political continuum. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6
  4. "The accomplishments of President Reagan can be designated as the 'Reagan Revolution' in American politics." Assess the

validity of this statement. NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8

  1. Describe the major achievements of the Bush Presidency. NJCCS 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8
  2. List and describe the major candidates, issues, and outcomes of the 1992 & 1996 Presidential Election Campaigns.

NJCCS 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6