AP US History Syllabus
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FIRST SEMESTER – Approximately 18 weeks
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Weeks
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Chapter
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Time Period
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Assessment
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2
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1 & 2
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Exploration & Colonization
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Major Test
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1
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3
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Culture – Colonial America
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Essays
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1
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4
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Road to Revolution (1754-1775)
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Major Test, including Section 1, Chapter 5
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1
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5
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American Revolution (1775-1783)
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Quizzes & Essay
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1
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6
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Constitution, Washington, Adams
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Major Test
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1
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7
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Jefferson, Madison
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Major Test
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1
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8
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Monroe, Era of Good Feelings, Nationalism
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Sections 1 – 4: Quizzes
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1
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9
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Jacksonian Era
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Major Test, including Section 5, Chapter 8
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1
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10
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Economic Revolution
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Essays & Outline chapter
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1
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11
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Sectionalism – Old South
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Quizzes; Handout on Slavery
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1
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12
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Antebellum Reform
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Major Test, including Sections 1 & 2, Chapter 13
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1.5
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13
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1850’s
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Major Test; 13: Section 3 & 4 and all of Chapter 14
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14
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Civil War
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1
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15
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Reconstruction & New South
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Major Test
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1
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16
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Wild West
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Take-Home Test
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2
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17-18
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Industrialization; Urbanization; Immigration
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Major Test
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SECOND SEMESTER – Approximately 17 weeks
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1
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19
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Politics – Gilded Age
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Major Test
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1
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20
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Foreign Policy – Gilded Age
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Major Test
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1
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21
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Progressive Era
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Quizzes
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1
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22
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Progressive Era
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Major Test
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1
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23
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World War I
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Major Test
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1
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24
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1920’s
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Take-Home Test and Chapters 4, 5, 8, 10 in Only Yesterday
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2.5
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25 & 26
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Depression & New Deal
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Major Test
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1
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27
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Global Crisis: 1921 – 1941
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Major Test
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1
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28
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World War II
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Take-Home Test & Quizzes
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2.5
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29 & 30
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Truman & Eisenhower
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Major Test
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1
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31
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Kennedy and Johnson
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Major Test
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1
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32
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Nixon
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Quizzes
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1
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33
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Ford, Carter, Reagan
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Take-Home Test
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1
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Review --------- Review ---------- Review ---------- Review ---------- Review
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AP EXAM – ___________________
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Homework Assignment Example
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW A HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT SHOULD BE DONE IF YOU ARE DOING A GOOD JOB. IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE, LOOK ON PAGE 168.
Chapter 5, Section 1 – SAMPLE
- Civil War – violent conflict between 1861 and 1865 when northerners and southerners clashed with one another
Union – unified nation
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Who? Author; sister was Catherine Beecher
- What? Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Why: to show the brutality of slavery; to show how it could corrupt those born outside the system
- When? 1852
- Where: book takes place in the South; Stowe was from Massachusetts
- Describe the 2 main views historians hold about the causes of the Civil War.
- War could have been avoided with better leadership
- Differences were so great that the war could not have been prevented
- What effect did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on northern views of slavery?
- Became convinced that slavery would be the ruin of the US
- Worried about the impact not only on African Americans, but on whites and American society in general
- Describe George Fitzhugh’s criticism of northern capitalists.
- Wrote a book: Cannibals All!
- Took no personal responsibility for their workers
- Did not care that meager wages could not buy decent food, clothing and shelter
- Only intent on making a profit and thus showed no concern for human needs of their workers
- Describe the material differences between the North and South by 1860
- Population: larger and more diverse than South
- Industry: 110,000 factories vs. 20,000 in the South
- Railroads: 70% located in the North; South relied on water
- Urban: all but one of the ten largest cities were in the North
- Telegraph: Much less available in the South because wires were strung along the railroad tracks
- Explain how northerners and southerners were both guilty of exploiting labor.
- Both believed in capitalism. Both were trying to make a profit. Both tended to ignore the welfare of their laborers. Conditions in northern factories were terrible and slave working conditions were also terrible.
Test Format - AP Test
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55 minutes
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½
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Multiple – choice
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80 questions
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Approximately 13 questions = through 1789
Approximately 40 questions = 1790 – 1914
Approximately 27 quesitons = 1915 - present
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¼ point is subtracted for each incorrect answer
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130 minutes
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½
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Free Response …. (Essays)
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DBQ Essay
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+ Essay
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+ Essay
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15 minute mandatory reading period;
45 minute writing
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+ 35 minutes
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+ 35 minutes
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Multiple Choice
50%
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DBQ
22.5%
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2 Essays
27.5%
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