Jenkintown High School
AP American History
Mr. T. Cunningham, Instructor
AP American History is an opportunity for the motivated and talented Social Studies student to grapple with the ideas that brought rise to our nation and the issues that it faces in its fourth century. Rather than merely absorbing facts, students will actually learn to do history: to use the methods historians use to bring insight and analysis to events in our nation’s past. AP American History will help to prepare students to take the AP United States History exam in May 2004.
Syllabus (Adobe PDF)
AP Exam Content Outline (Adobe PDF)
AP American History information from the College Board
Real World Assignment Instructions
Course of Study (click unit name for Adobe PDF review sheet)
Unit 1: Foundations of American Democracy (Review of Chapters 1-6)
Ch. 1: New World Beginnings
Ch. 2: The Planting of English America
Ch. 3: Settling the Northern Colonies
Ch. 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century
Ch. 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of the Revolution
Ch. 6: The Duel for North America
Unit 2: Independence
Ch. 7: The Road to Revolution
Ch. 8: America Secedes From the Empire
Unit 3: Defining Democracy
Ch. 9: The Confederation and the Constitution
Ch. 10: Launching the New Ship of State
Unit 4: Jeffersonian Democracy
Ch. 11: The Triumph of Jeffersonian Democracy
Ch. 12: James Madison and the Second War for Independence
Ch. 13: The Postwar Upsurge of Nationalism
Unit 5: The Rise of Mass Democracy/American Life: the first 70 years
Ch. 13: The Rise of Mass Democracy
Ch. 14: Forging the National Economy
Ch. 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture
Unit 6: Slavery & Sectionalism 1
Ch. 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy
Ch. 17: Manifest Destiny & Its Legacy, 1841-48
Unit 7: Slavery & Sectionalism 2
Ch. 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854
Ch. 19: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861
Unit 8: The Furnace of Civil War
Ch. 20: Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-65
Ch. 21: The Furnace of Civil War
Unit 9: Politics of Reconstruction & the Gilded Age
Ch. 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Ch. 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1899
- From Harpers Weekly: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- ABCNEWS.com Andrew Johnson's Impeachment
- The Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson; A Trial Account by Douglas O. Linder
Unit 10: The Industrial Revolution in America
Ch. 24: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
Ch. 25: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
Ch. 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
Unit 11: American Imperialism
Ch. 27: The Path of Empire
Ch. 28: America on the World Stage, 1899-1909
Unit 12: The Progressive Era
Ch. 29: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
parts of Ch. 30: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
Unit 13: The Great War and Its Aftermath
parts of Ch. 30: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
Ch. 31: The War to End War, 1917-1918
Ch. 32: American Life in the "Roaring Twenties"
Unit 14: The Great Depression & The New Deal
Ch. 33: The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932
Ch. 34: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Unit 15: World War II
Ch. 35: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
Ch. 36: America in World War II
Unit 16: Postwar America
Ch. 37: The Cold War Begins
Ch. 38: The Eisenhower Era, 1953-1960
Unit 17: The 1960s and 1970s
Ch. 39: The Stormy Sixties
Ch. 40: The Stalemated Seventies
Unit 18: The 1980s to the Millennium
Ch. 41: The Resurgence of Conservatism
Ch. 42: The American People Face a New Century