AP United States History

Instructor: Mr. Houghton

– Room 503, history office D and H blocks, email

The AP program in United States History is designed to provide students with analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States history. The AP program prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those of full-year introductory college courses. Students will learn to assess historic materials - their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance - and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. This course will develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format.

Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas Bailey. The American Pageant. 12th ed. Boston, MA.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002

Primary Source Readers

Kennedy, David M., The American Spirit Volume I: To 1877 9th edition Boston, MA.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998

Kennedy, David M., The American Spirit Volume II: From 1865 9th edition Boston, MA.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996

- To express verbally or in writing an awareness of our nation's past and present

- To undestand current issues and how to reason towards solution

- To analyze and interpret primary sources

- To express yourself with clarity and precision

- To undertsand the causes and effects of major events

- To identify trends, patterns, and connections in United States history

- To understand significant historical controversies throughout United States history

- To understand the position of the United States in the world today

Tests and Quizzes 25%

HW - Nightly Reading, Essays 25%

Territorial Acquisition

American Pageant - The Furnace of Civil War – pages - 451 - 476

American Spirit - pages 433 - 451

American Spirit - pages 452 - 484

Reading Quiz - The Furnace of Civil War

American Pageant - The Ordeal of Reconstruction - pages 477 - 499

American Spirit - pages 485 - 520

DBQ - essay due - Abraham Lincoln

American Pageant - pages 502 - 527

American Spirit - bring to class to trade in for Volume II

Reading Quiz Chapters 23 - Poitical Paralysis in the Gilded Age

American Pageant - 528 - 556 - Industry Comes of Age

American Spirit - 64 - 93

DBQ - Gilded Age - Political Machines

American Pageant - 557 - 589 America Moves to the City

American Spirit - 94 - 125 and 71-75 (understand Gospel of Wealth)

American Pageant - 590 - 622

American Spirit - 126 - 151

American Pageant - 590 - 622

American Spirit - 126 - 155

American Pageant - 623 - 663

American Spirit - 178 - 189

Reading Quiz - Chapter 27

American Pageant - 646 - 663

American Spirit - 190 - 203

American Pageant - 664 - 686

American Spirit - 204 - 231

American Pageant - 687 - 704

American Spirit - 232 - 248

DUE: Quiz - Chap 29 + 30

Chap. 30 reading questions

American Pageant - 705 - 727 (Chapter 31)

American Spirit - 249 - 274

DUE: DBQ - "Making Use of Documents"

American Pageant - 728 - 752 (Chapter 32)

American Spirit - 275 - 293 (chapter 34)

DUE: American Pageant 753 - 776 (Chapter 33)

American Spirit 275-293 (Chapter 35)

American Pageant 753 - 776 (Chapter 33)

American Spirit 275-293 (Chapter 35)

American Pageant 777 - 805 (Chapter 34)

American Spirit 310 - 333 (Chapter 36)

American Pageant 806 - 826 (chapter 35)

American Spirit 336 - 358 (chapter 37)

DBQ - FDR Intro. and reading questions Chapter 34

American Pageant 827 - 855 (chapter 36)

American Spirit 360-381 (chapter 38)

Reading questions for chapter 35

American Pageant - 858 - 886 (Chapter 37)

American Spirit - 382 - 422 (Chapter 39)

American Pageant 887 - 915 (Chapter 38)

American Spirit 423-452 (Chapter 40)

American Pageant 916-945 (Chapter 39)

American Spirit 453-499 (Chapter 41)

Spring Vacation - Read Chapters 40, 41 and 42 in the American Pageant