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Advanced Placement United States History
Text:
Bailey, Kennedy, and Cohen, The American Pageant
Supplemental Texts and Readings:
Constitution Magazine, A Quarterly Journal of the Foundation of the U.S.
Constitution
Marcus and Bruner, America First Hand
Retrieving the American Past, Pearson Custom Publishing
Wheeler and Becker, Discovering the American Past
Oates, Portrait of America
Bailey and Kennedy, The American Spirit
Unit I Colonial America, 1500-1775
Bailey, Chapters 1-5
Historiography - Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or
Consensus?
Concept: Values
Unit II American Revolution, 1754-1783
Bailey, Chapters 6-8
Historiography - Whose Revolution?
Concept: Revolutionary or Evolutionary
Unit III The New Nation, 1776-1800
Bailey, Chapters 9-10
Historiography -The Constitution: Revolutionary or Counterrevolutionary?
Concept: Sovereignty
Unit IV Virginia Dynasty, 1800-1824
Bailey, Chapters 11-12
Concept: Identity
Unit V Jacksonian Democracy, 1825-1840
Bailey, Chapters 13
Historiography – What was Jacksonian Democracy?
Concept: Suffrage
Unit VI The American Society, 1790-1860
Bailey, Chapters 14-15
Historiography – Reform: Who? What? How? and Why?
Concept: Reform
Unit VII Dichotomy of a Nation, 1793-1860
Bailey, Chapters 16-19
Historiography – What was the true nature of slavery?
The Civil War: Repressible or Irrepressible?
Concept: Conflict
Unit VIII The Civil War, 1861-1865
Bailey, Chapter 20-21
Historiography – What were the Consequences of the Civil War?
Unit IX Reconstruction and Its Impact, 1865-1900
Bailey, Chapter 22
Historiography – What was the true nation of Reconstruction?
Unit X The Gilded Age, 1865-1900
Bailey, Chapters 23-25
Historiography – Industrialization: Boom or Blight?
Concept: Adolescence
Unit XI The Great West and the Revolt of the Debtor, 1865-1900
Bailey, Chapters 26
Historiography – Was the West Really Won?
Populist: Radical or Reactionaries?
Concept: Revolution or Reform
Unit XII Imperialism, 1890-1909
Bailey, Chapters 27-28
Historiography – Why did America become a World Power?
Unit XIII Progressive Era and World War I, 1901-1920
Bailey, Chapters 29-31
Historiography – Who were the Progressives?
Woodrow Wilson: Realist or Idealist?
Concept: Transition
Unit XIV The Twenties
Bailey, Chapter 32
Concept: Dichotomy
Unit XV The Great Depression, 1920-1938
Bailey, Chapters 34-35
Historiography – How Radical Was the New Deal?
Concept: Crisis
Unit XVI World War II, 1933-1945
Bailey, Chapters 33, 35-36
Historiography – World War II: Triumph or Tragedy?
Unit XVII The Cold War, 1945-1963
Containment, Brinkmanship, and Confrontation
Bailey, Chapters 37-39
Historiography – Who was the Blame for the Cold War?
Concept: Confrontation and Conformity
Unit XVIII The Sixties and Vietnam
Bailey, Chapters 39-40
Historiography – The Sixties: Constructive or Destructive?
Concept: Non-Conformity
Unit XIX The Seventies
Bailey, Chapter 40
Concept: Confusion
Unit XX Conservatism Renewed, 1980-1996
Bailey, Chapter 41
Historiography – Where did Modern Conservatism Come From?
Concept: Conservatism
Evaluations: Each unit will include a multiple-choice test and a pre-writing or writing activity. Essays include Document Based Questions and traditional free response formats.
Students will create visual presentations, complete oral history interviews, and research topics for class discussion.
Reading Activities:
Daily reading assignments require students to:
Identify key historical facts
Sequence key events
Determine the relative importance of events and opinions
Compare and Contrast events and ideas
Make generalizations
Draw conclusions
Make inferences
Determine Cause and Effect relationships |
