\ Tests will be a mixture of essay and objective questions.

\ A final exam will be required of all students.

\ I. PreColumbian
\ Indians and the age of exploration (1 week)
\ a. Themes
\ i. Native America
\ ii. European quest for empire
\ iii. Clash of cultures
\ b. Content
\ i. Native cultures in North and South America
\ ii. The age of exploration
\ iii. Spanish, French, and English models of colonization, social,
\ political, and biological exchange
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text, Chapter 1, “Meeting of Cultures”
\ ii. Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Chapter 18,
\ “Hemispheres Colliding”
\ d. Project question: What causes the ascendancy of one society over
\ another?
\ e. Essay test: free response, regarding motivations of the Europeans in
\ coming to the Americas.
\ II. Colonial America (1 week)
\ a. Themes
\ i. English legacy in America
\ ii. Development of pluralism
\ iii. Emerging regional patterns in the 13 colonies
\ b. Content
\ i. Settlement of the 13 colonies
\ ii. Social, economic, and religious patterns: southern, middle, and
\ New England colonies
\ iii. Wars with the Indians and the French
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text: Chapter 2, “English Transplantations, “pp. 3770
\ and
\ Chapter 3, Society and Culture in Provincial America,” pp. 75110
\ ii. Excerpts from David Hackett Fisher, Albion’s Seed
\ iii. Mayflower Compact
\ d. Projects and assessments
\ i. Multiple choice test, from text
\ ii. Essay: What was the synergy of the two societies (English and
\ Indian) represented in colonial America?
\ iii. Project: create a chart detailing the points of the Mayflower
\ Compact
\ III. Causes of the American Revolution (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. Changing English policies and attitudes toward the colonies
\ ii. Our “rights as Englishmen”
\ iii. The tortuous road to independence
\ b. Content
\ i. The acts of Parliament and the American response
\ ii. The ambiguity of “no taxation without representation”
\ iii. The road to war
\ iv. From the Olive Branch Petition to Independence
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text, Chapter 5, “The American Revolution,” pp. 151185
\ ii. Selected readings, Thomas Paine, Common Sense, John Locke,
\ Two Treatises on Government, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan,
\ JeanJacques
\ Rousseau, The Social Contract, The Declaration
\ of Independence
\ d. Projects and assessments
\ i. DBQ, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau and their impact on the
\ founding fathers
\ ii. Project: create a graph showing the percent of population that
\ were loyalist and patriot
\ IV. The Revolution and its aftermath (1 week)
\ a. Themes
\ i. Washington’s leadership, French Alliance, and British blunders
\ ii. A conservative or radical revolution?
\ iii. The difficulties of starting a nation
\ b. Content
\ i. Evolution of the Revolution
\ ii. Military victory and the Treaty of Paris
\ iii. The failure of the Articles of Confederation
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text, Chapter 5, “The American Revolution,” pp. 151185
\ ii. Selected readings, Thomas Paine, The Crisis, David
\ McCulloch, 1776
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\ iii. The Articles of Confederation
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Multiple choice test
\ ii. Essay: “A little blood” the legacy of Bacon’s and Shay’s
\ Rebellion
\ V. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
\ a. Themes
\ i. The importance of compromise
\ ii. Balance of power and the rule of law
\ iii. States rights and unity
\ b. Content
\ i. The call for federal power
\ ii. Writing the constitution
\ 1. separation of power
\ 2. fear of the mob
\ 3. large state, small state
\ 4. ratification and the Bill of Right
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text: Chapter 6, “Framing a New Government,” pp. 193203
\ ii. The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights
\ iii. Selected readings from The Federalist Papers
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Multiple choice test
\ ii. Project: Essay, Why did the founding fathers distrust
\ democracy?
\ VI. The Early Republic (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. Leadership of Washington, Hamilton, and Jefferson
\ ii. National growth and the growth of Nationalism
\ iii. Keeping Europe at arms length
\ b. Content
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\ i. Getting started: Washington, Adams, and the Marshall Court
\ ii. The debate of national vision, Jefferson and Hamilton, states
\ rights versus federal power
\ iii. Napoleon and the U.S.
\ iv. The war of 1812
\ v. The Era of Good Feeling and the “corrupt bargain”
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text: Chapter 6, “Constitution and the New Republic,” pp.
\ 204215,
\ Chapter 7, “The Jeffersonian Era,”236260,
\ Chapter
\ 8, “Era of Good Feelings,” pp. 273282
\ ii. Jefferson’s 1800 inaugural speech
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Essay: Agrarian Republic or Manufacturing Republic?
\ ii. Project: Create a chart for landmark Marshall Court rulings,
\ giving circumstances, ruling, rationale, and effect
\ iii. Compare Jefferson’s 1800 inaugural address with George W.
\ Bush’s 2000 inaugural address
\ VII. The Age of Jackson (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. Party politics and the advance of democracy
\ ii. The phenomenon of Andrew Jackson
\ iii. The specter of sectionalism
\ b. Content
\ i. Jackson’s election, a new breed of leader
\ ii. The spoils system
\ iii. Jackson and the Indians
\ iv. Nullification and John Calhoun
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text, “Revival of Opposition,” pp. 283286,
\ Chapter 9,
\ “Jacksonian America,” pp. 291320
\ ii. Alexis d’Tocqueville, Democracy in America
\ iii. Excepts from the WebsterHayne
\ debates
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Multiple choice test
\ ii. Essay, Tocqueville, Liberty or Equality?
\ VIII. The Birth of the Modern Age (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. Our changing civilization
\ ii. The evolution of national thought, art, and culture
\ iii. Emerging sectional economies
\ b. Content
\ i. Invention and the beginnings of the industrial revolution in America
\ ii. Changes in society and the development of cities
\ iii. Abolition, women’s rights, and reform
\ iv. Utopian societies
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text: Chapter 7 “Rise of Cultural Nationalism” and “Stirrings of
\ Industrialism” pp. 371395,
\ Chapter 10, “America’s Economic
\ Revolution” pp. 325365,
\ Chapter 12, “Antebellum Culture and Reform”
\ pp. 399424
\ ii. Seneca Falls, Declaration of Sentiments
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Terms test
\ ii. Essay; Why were the Utopian Societies important in our development
\ as a nation?
\ IX. The Westward Movement before the Civil War (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. Manifest Destiny
\ ii. U.S. expansion, the Mexican point of view
\ iii. U.S. expansion, the Indian point of view
\ b. Content
\ i. Penetration of the TransMississippi
\ West
\ ii. The Mexican War and its consequences
\ iii. The gold rush and its aftermath
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text, Chapter 8 “Expanding Westward,” pp. 269273,
\ Chapter 13,
\ “Looking Westward,” and “Expansion and War.” Pp. 429442
\ ii. Excerpt from David Lavender, Bent’s Fort
\ iii. Albert Pike’s impressions of the Great Plains
\ d. Assessments
\ 1. Multiple choice test
\ 2. Essay: Was genocide a part of U.S. policy concerning the Indians?
\ X. Causes of the Civil War (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. Manifest Destiny and slavery
\ ii. Sectionalism and southern nationalism
\ ii. Slavery as core of conflict
\ b. Content
\ i. The history of American Slavery
\ ii. Sectional issues after 1848
\ iii. Lincoln’s election, secession, and Fort Sumter
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text: Chapter 11, “Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South,” pp371395
\ Chapter 13, “Sectional Debated” and “Crisis of the 1850’s,” Chapter 14,
\ pp. 442462,
\ “Secession Crisis” pp. 467474
\ ii.Dred Scott v. Sanford
\ iii. Excerpts from LincolnDouglas
\ debates
\ iv. I. A. Newby, The South, A History
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Essay: Race and Racism in the Coming of the Civil War
\ ii. Terms test
\ iii. Project: Identify the main qualities of the Missouri Compromise, The
\ Compromise of 1850, and the Dred Scott decision that would bring the
\ U.S. to civil war
\ XI. The Civil War and Reconstruction (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. The American people and the Civil War
\ ii. Restoring the Union
\ iii. From slave to Freedman
\ b. Content
\ i. Waging the Civil War, Gettysburg and Vicksburg
\ ii. Northern victory
\ iii. Reconstruction
\ 1. Reconstruction plans
\ 2. Reconstruction Acts
\ 3. Compromise of 1877
\ iv. Jim Crowism
\ 1. court cases
\ 2. dejure segregation
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text; Chapter 14, “The Civil War,” pp. 474501,
\ Chapter 15
\ “Reconstruction and the New South,” pp. 507549
\ ii. Selected readings from Shelby Foote
\ iii. Excerpts from Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage
\ iv. Slaughterhouse Case, Civil rights Cases
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Projects, choice of one
\ 1. White paper: Protocols of War: logistics, objectives, philosophy
\ 2. Create a diary of a common soldier on either side, North or
\ South, detailing life in army. Your soldier must be with
\ the Army of the Potomac or the Army of Virginia.
\ 3. Write a report of a social worker for the Freedman’s Bureau.
\ This report is going back to Washington, D.C. and will be read
\ before Congress. Detail life in the south for the
\ Freedmen and what the Freedman’s Bureau is doing for them.
\ End of first semester
\ XII. The rise of industry and labor (2weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. End of the frontier
\ ii. Rise of consumerism, manufacturing
\ iii. Partnership of government and business
\ iv. Consolidation of wealth
\ v. Immigration
\ vi. Unionizing labor
\ b. Content
\ i. Conquest of the west, government policy and law
\ ii. Realizing Hamilton’s dream, manufacturing
\ iii. Tycoons and monopolies
\ iv. Immigration, patterns of, legislation against, radicalism
\ v. Strikes
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text: selected readings, Chapters 16,17,18, and 19
\ ii Eugene Debs website, www.marxist.org/archive/debs/index/htm
\ iii. Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
\ iv. John and Helen Lynd, Middletown
\ d. Assessments
\ i. DBQ, labor
\ ii. Essay, changes in the American cultural landscape brought on by
\ urbanization
\ XIII. Populism and Progressivism (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. Industrialization and its impact on society
\ ii. Inflation, deflation
\ iii. Role of government in the economy
\ iv. Politics and third parties
\ b. ContentPopulism
\ i. Agrarian revolt
\ ii. Grange, Farmers Alliances
\ iii. Election of 1896, “Cross of Gold”
\ c. ContentProgressivism
\ i. Social and political ills
\ ii. Muckrakers
\ iii. Social Gospel
\ iv. Reform
\ d. Readings
\ i. Text: Chapter 19, “From stalemate to Crisis,” pp. 672678,
\ Chapter
\ 21, “Progressive Movement,” pp. 717743,
\ Chapter 22, “Battle for
\ National Reform,” pp. 749770
\ ii. Excerpt from Muckrakers, Tarbell, Steffens, Sinclair.
\ iii. Lester Frank Ward, Dynamic Sociology
\ e. Assessments
\ i. Terms test
\ ii. DBQ: Role of the government in the economy and society
\ XIV. The New Imperialism and World War I (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. U.S. enters the world theater
\ ii. International anarchy in an age of hop
\ iii. American idealism and postwar
\ disillusionment
\ b. Content
\ i. U.S. imperialism
\ ii. End of the policy of isolation
\ iii. World War I, cause
\ iv. Allied victory, the Treaty of Versailles
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text; Chapter 23
\ ii. Woodrow Wilson, ‘Fourteen Points”
\ iii. Henry Cabot Lodge, “Fourteen Reservation”
\ iv. Letters from the Panama Canal
\ d. Assessments
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\ i. Essay: Problems Created by the “Big Stick”
\ ii. Multiple choice test
\ XV. The Roaring Twenties (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. Reaction v. idealism
\ ii. Growing prosperity and middle class lifestyles
\ iii. Revolution in manners and morals
\ b. Content
\ i. Postwar troubles, “a return to normalcy”
\ ii. The Jazz Age, mass media, consumerism, disillusionment
\ iii. Republican politics and the stock market crash
\ c. Readings
\ i. Edna St. Vincent Millay, Figs, “I burn my candle at both ends”
\ ii. F. Scott Fitzgerald, This side of Paradise, “All wars fought, all gods
\ dead, all faith in man Shaken”
\ iii. Text, Chapter 23, “Society in Turmoil,” pp. 796802,
\ Chapter 24, “The
\ New Era”
\ iv. Herbert Hoover, “Rugged Individualism”
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Essay: Reflections of Society: Millay and Fitzgerald
\ ii. DBQ: Cultural Conflicts in the 1920’s
\ XVI. The Great Depression and the New Deal (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. Collapse of the economy and human suffering
\ ii. Role of the government at a time of crisis
\ iii. Politics and progress during the 1930’s
\ b. Content
\ i. The downward spiral of deflation
\ ii. Franklin Roosevelt, the first hundred days
\ iii. Relief, Regulation, Pump Priming
\ iv. The Second New Deal
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\ c. Readings
\ i. Text: Chapter 25, “The Great Depression,” pp.841870,
\ Chapter
\ 26, “The New Deal,” pp. 875901
\ ii. Franklin Roosevelt, first inaugural address
\ iii. Huey Long, “Sharing the Wealth”
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Multiple Choice test
\ ii. Essay: Socialism or Capitalism: The Legacy of the New Deal
\ XVII. The Second World War (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. America’s response to aggression
\ ii. The home front and the upheavals of society
\ iii. Fighting a two ocean war, unconditional surrender
\ b. Content
\ i. American entrance into the war
\ ii. Harnessing America’s power
\ iii. Defeat of the Axis
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text: Chapter 27, “The Global Crisis,” pp. 908925,
\ Chapter 28,
\ “America in a World at War,” pp. 931958
\ ii.
\ ii. Winston Churchill on the BBC, audio
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Multiple choice test
\ ii. Essay: America First?
\ XVIII. Post War America (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. The nuclear terror
\ ii. The pursuit of happiness
\ iii. Fighting segregation
\ b. Content
\ i. The Cold War to the Cuban Missile Crisis
\ ii. The Fifties and the affluent society
\ iii. The Civil Rights Movement
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text: Chapter 29, “The Cold War,” pp. 963988,
\ Chapter 30, “Affluent
\ Society,” Chapter 31, “Expanding Liberal State,” pp. 10311037
\ ii. Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream”
\ iii. Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, Cooper v.
\ Aaron
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Terms test
\ ii. Essay: “How I Learned to Love the Bomb”
\ iii. DBQ: Judicial History of Segregation, 19491960
\ XIX. The storm decade: Kennedy’s assassination to Nixon’s Resignation (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. The age of disappointment
\ ii. War and protest
\ iii. A divided society
\ b. Content
\ i. Civil Rights and the Great Society
\ ii. The Vietnam War
\ iii. Protest and counterculture
\ iv. Abuse of power, The Pentagon Papers and Watergate
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text: “The Ordeal of Liberalism,” pp. 10381062,

\ Chapter 32,
\ “The Crisis of Authority,” pp. 10671100
\ ii. Daniel Elsberg, “Interview on the Pentagon Papers”
\ iii. Henry Kissinger, “The Challenge of Interdependence”
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Essay: Betrayal of Trust
\ ii. Multiple choice test
\ XX. The United States since 1975 (2 weeks)
\ a. Themes
\ i. American power: a dilemma
\ ii. Economic realities of the modern world
\ iii. The liberal and conservative debate
\ b. Content
\ i. The Carter and Reagan years
\ ii. American international interests and policy
\ iii. The world of 9/11
\ c. Readings
\ i. Text: Chapter 33, “The Age of Limits,” 11051123,
\ Chapter
\ 34, “Modern Times,” pp. 11271158
\ ii. Billy Joel, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
\ d. Assessments
\ i. Project: Complete Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” from
\ 1990 to the present; groups will write lyrics for the 90’s and 20002007
\ using the same rhyme scheme and meter of Joel’s song. Additionally,
\ the groups will perform their song in class. Creativity is
\ encouraged; musical instruments, dance routine, costumes, etc.
\