AP US History

*There will be an optional after school review every day following each test from promptly 3:00-4:00.

For DBQ's Remember to exercise APPARTS for each document

A=Author

P=Place and Time

P=Prior Knowledge

A=Audience

R=Reason

T=The Main Idea

S=Significance

January 2006

Important Dates

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday


ZINN CH.'s 1-3 

23

Intro's

4-40

Columbus

Las Casas

Mand. THT 1 Assigned

24



Reading Comprehension/English Colonization

43-74

The Laws of Virginia (Dale)

Maryland Toleration Ac

25

Writing Historical Essays/ Characteristics of Settlement

84-104

John Smith

Architecture Examples

26

106-118

Book of Laws


27

The colonies in 1750 & The French and Indian War

The Albany Plan of Union

STUDY



30

TEST

122-139

Mandatory Take home Test due

31

The philosophy of the Revolution/Writing a DBQ

141-150

Thomas Paine

Address to Gov. Martin

Mand. THT 2 Assigned








 

February  2004

Important Dates

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday






1

Strengths and weaknesses, post war society

164-188

The Yorktown Campaign and Siege (Closen)

2

Shay's Rebellion, the Articles of Confederation

HANDOUTS

The Articles of Confed.

A Proclamation of Shaysite Grievances

3

Ratification and Revolutionary Changes

Debates on Slavery

Madison's Defense of the Constitution

Henry and Arguments against Ratification

190-211


6

The First Party System: Jefferson, Hamilton and Washington

Washington's Farewell Address

Hamilton's Report on the Public Credit

211-233

7

Adams

ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS

Va. and KY Resolutions

Mandatory Take-Home test Due

8

Catch-Up Day

STUDY

9

The Revolution of 1800, Jeffersonian Democracy and Expansion

233-256

Jefferson to Lewis

Louisiana Purchase

TEST


10

Intro to Jackson

256-287

Webster's Speech on Foot's Resolution


13

Election of 1820's, Jackson the man

SC EXPO. & PROTEST

Jackson's Response

14

Jackson's Program, Nullification

INDIAN REM. ACT

Worchester v. Georgia

202-205

15



Elections of '36, '40 and Reform

287-320

Mand THT 3 Assigned

16

Industrialization Review

320-370

17



Writing a DBQ

Self-Reliance

Skim it

370-390


20

Social and Intellectual and Immigration Developments

Truth's Address to the Women's Rights Convention

Mann's Report as Sec. of Education

21

Catch Up

STUDY

22

Manifest Destiny/ Presidents through 1860 Quiz

TEXAS CONSTITUTION/

TREATY of G.H.

TEST/ Mandatory Take Home Test Due


23

Practice AP Questions/ Polk's War Message to Congress

Lincoln's Spot Resolutions

390-409

24



27

Slavery vs. Abolition

THE LIBERATOR and an APOLOGIST'S VIEW

409-434

28

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES/JOHN BROWN'S SPEECH/SCOTTv. SANDFORD

Scott v. Sandford

"House Divided"

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

John Brown - Harper's Ferry Speech







March 2004

Important Dates

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday






1

Sumner-Brooks, Dred Scott, Harper's Ferry, 1860 Election

434-451

SC's Ordinance of Secession

Emancipation Proclamation

2

Secession and Strategy

451-477

Sherman

Crump's POW Reminiscences

Handout and Zinn Quiz/

3

In Class DBQ/Catch-Up



6

Battles, Women, African-Americans, Results of the War

477-498

Lee's Order No. 9 at Appomattox

Optional THT Assigned

7

Reconstruction

Black Codes

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Stevens

8



STUDY/Catch-Up

Review of War and Reconstruction

9

TEST

Optional Take Home Test Due

Optional THT Assigned

10

Compromise of 1877, Grant

502-528


13

Politics of the 1880's, 1890's

528-557

14

Economic Growth through the Gilded Age

557-566/In-Class DBQ


15

Optional Take Home Test Due



Mand. THT Assigned

16

The Growth of Labor Unions

590-623

Gompers

17

The Politics of Silver/623-646


20

Spanish-American War, Election of 1900, Open Door, Boxer Rebellion

USS Maine

646-664

21

Catch-Up/

STUDY

22

TEST

Mandatory Take Home Test Due

Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, Foreign Policy

664-687

23

Taft, Progressivism and the election of 1912

687-705

24

Wilson's Request

705-728

Opt. THT Assigned


27


28

Treaty of Versailles, postwar society and the First Red Scare

Anti-LON

Pro-LON

753-777

29



IN-CLASS ESSAY/20's politics, foreign policy

Teapot Dome

Mind your own business

777-806

30



STUDY/Catch-Up


31

Bacon, Beans and Gravy

McArthur and the Bonus Army

Bonus Army

Optional Take Home Test Due


April 2004

Important Dates

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday


3

New Deal and Second New Deal

"A New Deal"

Opt. THT Test Assigned

4

806-827

5

Foreign Policy of the 30's, Causes of WWII, WWII domestically

Churchill to FDR

Against War

For War

FDR's chat on War

827-856

6

WWII "over there", Beginnings of the Cold War

856-884

What can I do?

Japanese- Americans

The Bomb/

Zinn Quiz


7

The Cold War, foreign policies of Truman, Ike

The Truman Doctrine/

STUDY

Optional Take Home Test Due

Opt. THT Assigned


10

TEST

Red Scare 2


11

TEST/Kennedy

Space Race

916-946

12

Johnson

Civil Rights Act of 64

King

X

Gulf of Tonkin Res.

Vietnamization

13

Nixon



Kent State



Articles of Impeachment

946-976

14



17


18


19


20


21



24

Ford and Carter

Energy Crisis

25

Zinn Quiz

976-1013

26

Reagan and the Conservative Tide

Reagan, 1981

Evening AP REVIEW DBQ Review/ Review Decade by Decade

27

Bush and the End of the Cold War

Evening AP REVIEW

Review: Presidents

28

Clinton, Impeachments and a New Democratic Party

Clinton's Inauguration

Contract with America

1014-1029

Evening AP REVIEW

Sample AP Exam MC

May 2004

Important Dates

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday


1

Evening AP REVIEW

Sample AP Exam: Essay

2

Evening AP REVIEW

Sample AP Exam: DBQ

3

Evening Review of AP Sample Exams

4

Optional Evening Review: Movie Night

5

AP TEST



Remainder: Projects