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Chicopee Comprehensive High School Advanced Placement US History 2

Course Information

Office Hours: Before and after school by arrangement.

Program: AP U.S. History is offered to CCHS juniors and seniors. Pre-AP US History

is offered to sophomores and juniors. Both are full year five credit courses.

Course Design: AP United States History is a challenging course that is meant to be

the equivalent of a freshman college course and can earn students college credit. Pre-

AP US History focused on the Age of Discovery to the United States Civil War. This

class will focus mainly on US History from the Civil War to the Present. Topics will

include: the Civil War, Reconstruction, The American Indians, Industrialization, the

American Farmer, Imperialism, World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and the Stock Market

Crash, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II, the Holocaust, the cold

war, Korea, Vietnam, Counterculture, the Civil Rights Movement, Watergate,

Reaganomics, the Persian Gulf War, President Clinton’s Impeachment, the 2000

Presidential Election and 9/11.

Solid reading and writing skills, along with a willingness to devote considerable

time to homework and study, are necessary to succeed in this class. Emphasis is

placed on critical and evaluative thinking skills, essay writing, interpretation of original

documents, and historiography. Several different ‘hands on’ field trips are also

possibilities for AP and Pre-AP students.

Course Objectives: Students will have the opportunity to:

1. Develop an appreciation for the study of history.

2. Master a broad body of historical knowledge and demonstrate an understanding of

historical chronology.

3. Develop an appreciation for and understanding of the process of historical inquiry.

4. Develop a better understanding of the history of the United States – in political,

economic, social, and cultural terms.

5. Develop a better understanding of the great issues that are at the heart of American

History.

6. Improve writing, research, and critical reading skills.

7. Improve thinking skills – especially to develop an ability to analyze historical

arguments and using this information to support your own position.

8. Effectively use analytical skills of evaluation, cause and effect, compare and

contrast.

9. Work effectively with others to produce products and solve problems.

10. Prepare for and successfully pass the Advanced Placement Exam in May.

Text:

1. The American Pageant. Bailey, Cohen, and Kennedy, Houghton Mifflin

Company, Boston: 1998.

Supplementary Text:

2. United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination.

Newman, Schmalbach, Amsco Publications, New York: 2004.

Course Requirements:

Readings and homework as assigned.

Students must have notebooks and come to class prepared every day.

There will be six individual differentiated assignments (1850-2001), allowing

students to choose the types of assignments that they prefer in accordance with

the different cognitive learning styles. These assignments include researching

and analyzing primary source documents, defining historical terms, performance

assessments, thematic essays, document based questions, project based

learning experiences, and more. Each will count as 1.5 test grades.

Tests and quizzes will be a combination of objective and informal, persuasive, or

expository essay questions and Document Based Questions.

Grading and Evaluation:

Tests: 60%

Quizzes: 30%

Homework/Classwork: 10%

At the end of the first semester, all students will take a mid-term exam. At the

end of the second semester, all students will also take a final exam, regardless of

whether or not they have taken the AP exam.

*The key to success in this class is consistent effort, and improvement, as

needed. Do not be discouraged if your grades are low in the first quarter, stick with it. It

is worth it in the long run.

Mutual Agreements:

1. Respect each other! For example, do not speak while someone else is speaking.

Wait your turn…you will be allowed to speak.

2. Attendance – 16 days – full year course (as required by school committee) and

skipping earns you an office slip, as well as Saturday School.

3. Consistent tardiness to class – Another reason that you get to stay after school.

4. No hats or coats in class. This is not my rule but a school rule. Pass usage: Once a

week and you must sign out on the corridor sign out sheet.

5. You MUST wear your I.D. at all times. No questions asked.

6. You are not allowed to talk on days of tests and quizzes until all tests are in. You will

also be given an assignment after tests and quizzes, which can be done in class and

or finished for homework.

7. You must have a computer login name issued by the library since we will periodically

be using computers for various assignments.

8. No cell phones, iPods or other electronic devices are allowed in school.

AP US History – Class topics and assignments – 2007-2008 – 1st Term

*This topic and assignment sheet is subject to change.

Class 1

Chapter 1: The Furnace of Civil War

Pass out books. Discuss course syllabus.

Review “Slave Life”.

Assignment:

1. Go to www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exgrd.html. Sign up for an

account. Answer the following questions:

How much does the AP US History exam cost to take?

What is the format?

How long is the exam?

Are you interested in taking the exam? Why or why not?

2. Label a blank map of the 50 states and their capitals.

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/exgrd.html

Class 2

Differentiated Instructional Packet #1 (1850-1877). Discuss. Due class #15

Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

The American Civil War

Brother against Brother/Robert E. Lee

Border States and War Perspectives

Assignments:

1. Read pp 445-460 (American Pageant)

2. Primary Source Document: Read and identify three major points of Lincoln’s

First Inaugural Address.

Class 3

Summer Reading Book Reports are due.

*Map Activity

Trip to the library to use the computers

Students will visit the website: www.sheppardsoftware.com

Using various links, practice your knowledge of where the states are located and also

their capitals. See who can get the highest scores and fastest times.

Assignment:

1. Study map for a quiz on the states and their capitals scheduled for Class #5

Class 4

*Civil War Strategy Activity

Assignment:

1. In groups, develop a northern plan of attack. Each group will have the US

Navy and 750,000 army troops at their disposal. Each group will present their ideas and

discuss.

Notes- Phases of Northern Attack

Limitations on Wartime Liberties

The Union Blockade and Monitor v. Merrimack

Key Battles of the War including: Bull Run, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Class 5

Quiz on the states and their capitals

Questions in a Circle Activity on “The Great Draft Riots”

Casualties of War

Review Obituary characteristics.

Review Key Points in Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

Discuss Thesis and Forecast Sentences

School Wide Essay Rubrics and Social Studies Department Open Response Question

Rubric.

Expository, Persuasive, and Narrative Essays

How to include documents into an essay

Assignment:

1. Read AMSCO Book pp. xix-xxv on writing the Standard Essay on the AP exam.

2. Write a sample thesis/forecast statement to the following essay prompt: Pinpoint the

major points of Abraham’s Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address. Did President Lincoln

give the South no other choice but to secede?

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/

Class 6

Film – “Glory” (1988)

Assignment:

1. Write an obituary for Robert Gould Shaw – Due class #9.

Class 7


Class 8


Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document: Read the New York Times (Apr. 15th

, 1865) on

Lincoln’s Assassination. Answer questions 1-5.

Class 9

Robert Gould Shaw Obituaries due.

Election 1964 and Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

Review Emancipation and Lincoln’s Assassination questions

Review for Test “The Civil War”

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Civil War – Part I

Class 10

TEST – The Civil War – Part I - Multiple Choice and Open Response Questions

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Civil War – Part II

Class 11

TEST – The Civil War – Part II - DBQ: Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

Assignment:

1. Read: Case Study: “Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment” and answer

questions 1-3.

Class 12

Begin Chapter 2 – The Ordeal of Reconstruction

Lincoln’s Plan and the Wade Davis Bill

Radical Republicans

Andrew Johnson

Alaska

Tenure of Office Act

Assignment:

1. Read pp. 487-506 (American Pageant)

Class 13

Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

Congressional Reconstruction/Military Reconstruction Act

Freedmen’s Bureau

Primary Source Document: The US Constitution: Civil War Amendments (13, 14, 15)

Election 1868

Effects of Reconstruction

Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

Assignment:

1. Read AMSCO Book Chapter 15. Answer MC questions 1-10.

2. Read AMSCO pp. xxvii-xxix on Writing the Document Based Question.

2. Map Interpretation: “The End of Reconstruction” and questions 1-5.

Class 14

Bring AMSCO books to class today.

Review AP US History scoring rubric for standard essays.

Review AP US History scoring rubric for document based questions.

Review answering the Multiple Choice Questions on the AP exam.

Discrimination Activity – Primary Source Document: South Carolina Literacy Test

Assignment:

1. Complete Sample Literacy Test.

Class 15

Differentiated Instructional Packet #1 (1850-1877) due.

Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests

Jim Crow Laws/Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Black Codes

Review End of Reconstruction Map

Assignment:

1. Read pp. xiii-xv in AMSCO Book on Standard/Thematic Essays and the DBQ on the

AP exam.

Class 16

Knights of the White Sheet and Force Acts

Hiram Revel and Blanche K. Bruce

Tenant Farming and Sharecroppers

Review AMSCO Chapter 15 MC questions

Review Andrew Johnson Impeachment questions

Review Civil Literacy Test.

Review for Test – Reconstruction

Assignment:

1. Study for Test on Reconstruction – Part I

Class 17

TEST – Reconstruction – Part I - Multiple Choice, Matching, and Open Response

Questions

Assignment:

1. Study for Test on Reconstruction – Part II

Class 18

TEST – Reconstruction – Part II - Persuasive Essay – the Failure of Reconstruction

Assignment:

1. Read US News and World Report article “A new take on a guy named Grant”.

Class 19

Begin Chapter 3 – Politics of the Gilded Age The Era of Good Stealings

Scandals: the Credit Mobilier, Salary Grab, and more.

Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall and Samuel J. Tilden

Assignment:


2. Read article “Boss Tweed Goes to Jail” and answer questions 1-11.

Class 20

Questions in a Circle Activity on “A new take on a guy named Grant”.

The Gilded Age and the “Solid South”

Election of 1872

Election 1876 and the Electoral Commission

Assignment:

1. Read AMSCO pp16-17 Essay Writing Guide: Stating Your Thesis

Class 21

Compromise of 1877

Election of 1880

Garfield’s Assassination

The Pendleton Act and the Civil Service Commission

Election of 1884

Election mud slinging

Assignment:

1. Read AMSCO pp 72 DBQ Guide: Deciding What Position to Argue

Class 22

First Semester Book Review Assignment – Discuss due dates for “One-Minute Oral”

(class # 52), Written Report (class #48), and Book Selection (class #25).

Presidential Succession Act

The Electoral Act

Election of 1888

Election of 1892

The Income Tax

Panic of 1893

Review for Test – Trials of Democracy

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – Trials of Democracy – Part I

2. Select a book to read for Book Review #1

Class 23

TEST – Trials of Democracy – Part I - Multiple Choice, Matching, and Open Response

Questions

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – Trials of Democracy – Part II

Class 24

TEST – Trials of Democracy – Part II - Persuasive Essay – Best President of the

Gilded Age

Assignment:

1. Word Search: The Last Frontier

Class 25

Book Review #1 Selection Due

Begin Chapter 4 - Conquering the Last Frontier The “Great American Desert”

The Gold Rush

US Policies on Native Americans: Concentration, Reservation, and Americanization

Textbook biases in US History

Buffalo Bill Cody

Battle of Little Bighorn

Geronimo

The “Ghost Dance”

Oklahoma Sooners

Assignment:

1. Map Interpretation: “The Tragedy at Wounded Knee” and questions 1-6.


Class 26

Wounded Knee/Review Map

The Dawes Act of 1887

The Homestead Act of 1862

Cattle and Vaqueros

Cattle towns

Sod Houses, Barbed Wire and Windmills

Review for Quiz – The Last Frontier

Assignment:

1. Study for Quiz – The Last Frontier

Class 27

QUIZ – The Last Frontier - Multiple Choice, Matching and Fill in the blanks.

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document: “The Communist Manifesto” and questions 1-6.

Class 28

Differentiated Instructional Packet #2 (1865-1900). Discuss. Due class # 43

Begin New Chapter - Industry and Urbanization Architecture including the Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building, Sears Tower, and

dumbbell tenements.

New inventions including power plants, light bulbs, telephone, trolleys and more.

Assignment:


Class 29

Department and Chain Stores

Types of Business

Corporations, stocks, and dividends

Advantages and Disadvantages of a corporation

Trusts and Monopolies

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document: “The Gospel of Wealth” and questions 1-5.

Class 30

Assign topics for Social/Cultural History of the Industrial Revolution (One-Minute Orals)

Go to the library for research. Due class #33.

Assignment:

1. Develop a one-minute oral presentation on an assigned topic. Presentation must

include visual aids.

Class 31

Prominent Business Leaders including Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Morgan, and Rockefeller

Changes in working conditions

Company Towns

Technological Unemployment (mass production, division of labor, and the assembly line)

Unsafe working conditions

Low wages, long hours

The Business Cycle

Assignment:

1. Students to draw stick (people) figures for “assembly line” activity.

Class 32

Assembly Line Activity – replicate stick figures on an assembly line of students.

Assignment:


Class 33

“One Minute Orals” on assigned topics for Social and Cultural US History of the

Industrial Revolution.

Assignment:

1. Read AMSCO p. 160 DBQ Guide: Organizing Historical Evidence

Class 34

Review Primary Source Document: “The Gospel of Wealth”.

New Immigration

Labor Unions

National Labor Union, Knights of Labor, and the American Federation of Labor

Opposition to Labor Unions, including Black Lists, Yellow Dog Contracts, Lockouts,

Shutdowns, and Injunctions

Assignment:

1. Map Interpretation: Votes for Women and questions 1-5.

Class 35

Social and Cultural History during the Industrial Revolution

Concentration of Wealth

Opportunities for Women

Anti-Saloon League and Carrie A. Nation

Jane Addams

Women Suffrage Movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Assignment:

1. Read AMSCO p. 239 DBQ Guide: Organizing a DBQ Essay.

Class 36

National Women Suffrage Association, 19th

Amendment

Clara Barton and the American Red Cross

Education Reform

Primary Source Documents: Samples from elementary textbooks (1836-1848).

Curriculum Changes

Colleges and Universities

Progressive Education, Pragmatism, and John Dewey

The Press

Sensationalism, Joseph Pulitzer, and William Randolph Hearst

Syndicated Articles, the Associated Press, and Magazines.

Literature of the times including Horatio Alger, Edith Wharton, Emily Dickinson, and

Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain

Assignment:

1. Read AMSCO p. 258 DBQ Guide: Writing the Introduction and the Conclusion

Class 37

Edward Bellamy and “Looking Backward”

New types of Recreation

The Greatest Show on Earth

Spectator Sports including baseball, and basketball

Review Votes for Women map questions

Review “Communist Manifesto” questions

Review for Test – Industry and Urbanization

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – Industry and Urbanization Part I

Class 38

TEST – Industry and Urbanization – Part I - Multiple Choice, Matching and Open

Response Questions.

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – Industry and Urbanization Part II

Class 39

TEST – Industry and Urbanization – Part II - Essay (choice of persuasive or

expository models) – Business leaders: Robber Barons or Captains of Industry or Three

most significant consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

Assignment:

1. Word Search – 1889-1900

Class 40

Begin Chapter 5 - Politics and Plight of the Farmer 1889-1900 Overproduction, High Farm Costs, and Deflated Currency

Weather and Distribution problems

The Grange, Greenbacks, and cooperatives

James Weaver and the Greenback Labor Party

Assignment:


Class 41

The Populists

Primary Source Document: The Omaha Platform

The Homestead Strike

Election of 1892

Gold Shortages, J.P. Morgan, and Sound Money

Assignment:


Class 42

Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894

Pullman Strike

Socialist Party of America, Socialism and Capitalism

Election 1896

William McKinley and Marcus Alonzo Hanna

William Jennings Bryan

Primary Source Document: The Cross of Gold Speech

Review for Quiz – Politics and the Plight of the Farmer (1889-1900)

Assignment:

1. Study for Quiz – Politics and Plight of the Farmer

Class 43

Differentiated Instructional Packet #2 (1865-1900) due.

QUIZ – Politics and the Plight of the Farmer (1889-1900)

Multiple Choice

Assignment:

1. Label a blank map of the Caribbean.

Class 44

Begin Chapter 6 - America Becomes a World Power Expansionists v. Isolationists

Cuba and the Causes of the Spanish-American War

Battles in the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico

The Treaty of Paris

Imperialism

Arthur MacArthur

The Philippine Government Act of 1902

Big stick/gun boat and dollar diplomacy

Assignment:

1. Spanish-American War Web Quest (quiz grade - due class# 46)

2. Read “The Rough Riders” and answer questions 1-3.

3. Read pp. pp641-657 (American Pageant)

Class 45

The Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary

Hawaii

The Panama Canal

Trade with China

Assignment:

1. Read pp. pp664-679 (American Pageant)

2. Cartoon Analysis – Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal

Class 46

Spanish-American War Web Quests due

The Open Door Policy

The Boxers and the Boxer Rebellion

Japan and the Treaty of Kanagawa

The Russo-Japanese War and the Treaty of Portsmouth

Review Cartoon Analysis: The Panama Canal

Review for Test – America as a World Power

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – America as a World Power

Class 47

TEST – America as a World Power - Matching, Multiple Choice, Caribbean Map, and

Open Response Questions.

Assignment:

1. Literature Selection: Excerpts from Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and

questions 1-3.

Class 48

Book Review #1 written report due.

Begin Chapter 7– The Progressives Election of 1900

McKinley’s assassination

Progressive era goals and Robert LaFollette’s Wisconsin Plan

Popular Muckrakers

Social Reform

Review Excerpts from Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”

Assignment:


2. Read US News and World Report article “Don’t Read This Over Dinner”

Class 49

Questions in a Circle Activity on article “Don’t Read This Over Dinner”

Women Suffrage Movement and the 19th

amendment

The Temperance Movement

Jane Addams

NAACP, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. DuBois

Election of 1904 and Roosevelt’s “Square Deal”

Assignment:

1. Read Chapter 21 in the AMSCO Review Book. Do MC questions pp.441-442

Class 50

Improving the Public Health

Minimum Wage in Massachusetts

Pennsylvania Coal Miner Strike

Meat Inspection Act/Pure Food and Drug Act

Departments of Labor and Commerce

Conservation and New Lands Act of 1902

Roosevelt Panic of 1907

Election of 1908 and William Howard Taft

Assignment:

1. Read pp. 692-700 (American Pageant).

Class 51

Review MC questions 1-10 AMSCO Chapter 21

Ballinger and Pinchot controversy

Election of 1912

New Nationalism and New Freedom

Underwood Tariff and the 16th

Amendment

Federal Reserve Act and the Federal Trade Commission

Assignment:

1. Read American Pageant pp 703-719

Class 52

“One Minute Oral” Book Review Presentations

Differentiated Assignment #3 – 1898-1920 – Due class # 64.

Class 53

Ben Bernanke

Mexico, martial law, and “Pancho” Villa

Adamson Act of 1916

Louis Brandeis

17th

Amendment

Election of 1916

The Virgin Islands

Discuss Primary Source Documents A and B

Review for Test – The Progressives

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Progressives – Part I

Class 54

Test – The Progressives – Part I - Multiple Choice and Open Response Questions

Assignment:

1. Review Primary Source Documents A and B.

2. Study for Test – The Progressives Part II

Class 55

Test – The Progressives – Part II - DBQ – the importance of the 18th

and 19th

amendments in American History (Progressive Era)

Assignment:

1. Label a blank map of modern day Europe

Class 56

Begin Chapter 8– The War to End War

Balkan Peninsula

Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente

Allies and Central Powers

Causes of WWI

German invasion of Belgium

First Battle of the Marne

Assignment:


Class 57

The German U-Boat

Lusitania, Arabic and the Sussex Pledge

Trenches and stalemate

Zimmerman Note

America Declares War

Wilson’s 14 Points

Assignment:


Class 58

Review Map of Europe

Committee on Public Information

Espionage and Sedition Acts

U.S. v. Schenck (1919)

War Industries and National Labor Boards

Food and Fuel Administrations

Liberty Loans and the Draft

Assignment:

1. Study for Map Quiz – Modern Day Europe

2. Read Chapter 22 AMSCO. Answer MC questions 1-10.

Class 59

Map Quiz – Europe

Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Surrender

Chateau Thierry

Second Battle of the Marne

Meuse Argonne-Offensive

Armistice

Pass out “The Lost Battalion” character sheets. Discuss Film

Assignment:

1. Read pp732-743 (American Pageant)

Class 60

Film – “The Lost Battalion”

Pass out MC questions for movie (1-10).

Assignment:

1. Answer MC questions 1-10 while watching A&E film “The Lost Battalion”.

Class 61

Film – “The Lost Battalion”

Assignment:

1. Map Interpretation: – “A New Look for Europe” and questions 1-7.

Class 62

Review Movie MC questions (1-10).

MRE Activity

Form groups of 4 or 5. Each group will be given an MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) and will

inventory the contents. After the can try the different food and drink.

Assignment:

1. Written food review of the MRE

Class 63

Review Chapter 22 AMSCO MC questions.

Paris Peace Conference

The Big Four

The Treaty of Versailles

The League of Nations

Election of 1920

Review for Quiz – World War I

Assignment:

1. Study for Quiz - WWI

Class 64

Differentiated Assignment #3 – 1898-1920 due.

Quiz – The War to End War – Matching and Multiple Choice

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document – “A Woman Speaks Out Against Woman Suffrage” and

questions 1-4.

Class 65

Begin Chapter 10 – The Roaring Twenties

Video: “Time was the 20’s”

Assignment:

1. Fill out worksheet along with the video


Class 66

Xenophobia and the Red Scare

Palmer Raids

Primary Source Document: New York Times, January 2, 1920

Sacco and Vanzetti

ACLU

100% Americanism and the Ku Klux Klan

Immigration

The Emergency Quota Act and the Immigration Act

Prohibition and the 18th

Amendment

Gangsterism and other criminal activity

The Lindbergh Kidnapping

Education

John Dewey and Pragmatism

The Scopes Monkey Trial

Assignment:

1. Read Primary Source Document: “The Lindbergh Kidnapping” from the Springfield

Republican, 1936.

Class 67

Questions in a Circle Activity – “The Lindbergh Kidnapping” Article.

Automobile Revolution and the beginning of oil dependency

Henry Ford and Ransom E. Olds

The Radio (KDKA)

Other new inventions

Advertising

Orville and Wilbur Wright and Lucky Lindy

Assignment:

1. Read AMSCO Book p. 350 DBQ Writing Guide: Making Use of the Documents.

Class 68

Film – “The Untouchables” (1989)

Assignment:

1. Write a ½ page biography on the life of Eliot Ness due class #70.

Class 69


Class 70


Class 71

Review the Jazz Age Glossary

Spectator Sports

The Movies

Urbanization

Women, the 19th

Amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment

Flappers

Margaret Sanger and Dr. Sigmund Freud

Jazz and the Charleston

Marcus Garvey and Black Pride

Native American Citizenship

Assignment:


Class 72

Differentiated Instruction Packet #4 (1920-1941). Due class # 86

Literature of the 1920’s (Mencken, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, and American

poets)

The Harlem Renaissance

Review for Test – The Roaring Twenties

Pass out Documents A-D. Discuss

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Roaring Twenties – Part I

Class 73

TEST – The Roaring Twenties – Part I – Multiple Choice and Open Response

Questions.

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Roaring Twenties – Part II

Class 74

TEST – The Roaring Twenties – Part II – Timed DBQ (45 minutes) – “Social ills of

the 1920’s and today”.

Assignment:

1. Read Chapter 23 AMSCO book and answer MC questions 1-10.

Class 75

Begin Chapter 11 – The Politics of Boom and Bust

Labor, the AF of L, and the IWW

Election of 1920

The Ohio Gang

The Veteran’s Bureau

Oil Rights in the Middle East

Assignment:


Class 76

Teapot Dome Scandal

Harding’s death

Calvin Coolidge

Political Parallel’s of the 1920’s and the 2000’s

Election of 1924

The Dawes Plan

The Kellogg-Briand Pact

Assignment:


Class 77

Review AMSCO Chapter 23 MC questions.

Election 1928

Alfred E. Smith – the first Catholic to run for President

Hoover’s “Good Neighbor Policy”

Japanese attack on China

Stock Market Crash

Black Tuesday

Bank Runs

The Great Depression

Class 78

Causes of the Great Depression

Effects of the Depression

Herbert Hoover’s Response to the Crisis

The RFC

The Norris-LaGuardia Act and the Hawley Smoot Tariff

The Bonus Army and the Battle of Anacostia Flats

Review for Quiz – the Politics of Boom and Bust

Assignment:

1. Study for Quiz – The Politics of Boom and Bust

Class 79

Quiz – The Politics of Boom and Bust – Matching and Multiple Choice

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document “Letter from a Dust Bowl Survivor” and answer

questions 1-4.

Class 80

Begin Chapter 12 – The New Deal

Election 1932

20th

Amendment

Relief, Recovery, Reform

Bank Reform and Managed Currency

Pump Priming

The Dust Bowl

Assignment:


Class 81

New Deal Jigsaw (entire period) – cooperative learning experience

Assignment:

1. Finish New Deal Program Study Guide.

Class 82

New Deal Programs

NIRA, NRA, and the AAA

TVA, FSA, HOLC, FERA, CWA, and the CCC

Fireside Chats and Brain Trusts

The Welfare State

Imperial Presidency

Assignment:


Class 83

More New Deal Programs

SEC, REA, WPA, and the NYA

US v. Schechter

US v. Butler

Huey Long and the Share Our Wealth Society

Francis Townsend and Townsendites

Father Charles Coughlin

The Wagner Labor Relations Act

The Social Security Act

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document: “Herbert Hoover Attacks the New Deal” and answer

questions 1-5.

Class 84

Review for Mid-Term Exam

Assignment:

1. Study for Mid-Term Exam

Class 85

Mid Term Exam – Multiple Choice and Thematic Essay (TBA)

Class 86

Review New Deal

Differentiated Instruction Packet #4 (1920-1941) due. Second Semester Book Review Assignment – Discuss and select due dates for “One-

Minute Oral (class #134)”, Written Report (class #130), and Book Selection (class #90)

Election 1936

Assignment:

1. Select a book to read for written and oral book review.

Class 87

Eleanor Roosevelt (bio-sheet)

Supreme Court Reform Plan and Court Packing

Deficit Spending and John Maynard Keynes

Roosevelt’s Depression

USHA, Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, AAA (1938), and the Fair Labor Standards Act

Labor, the CIO, and the General Motor’s sit-down strike.

Review for Test – the New Deal

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – the New Deal Part I

Class 88

TEST – The New Deal Part I – Multiple Choice and Open Response Questions

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – the New Deal Part II

Class 89

TEST – The New Deal Part II – Timed (35 minutes) Expository or Persuasive): Most

significant New Deal programs or pro/anti FDR.

Assignment:

1. Fill out a blank map of Europe.

Class 90

Book Review #2 Selection Due

Begin Chapter 13 – From Isolation to War

Dictatorship, Totalitarian, Fascism and Communism

Aggressor Nations

Spain and Francisco Franco

Italy and Benito Mussolini

Japan, Tojo, and Hirohito

Russia and Josef Stalin

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document: from Mein Kempf, “Hitler’s Political Views” and

answer questions 1-5.

Class 91

Germany and Adolf Hitler

Mein Kempf

The Enabling Act and the Third Reich

The SS and the Gestapo

The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

The Munich Conference and appeasement

Nazi-Soviet Pact

Germany invades Poland

Assignment:

1. Read pp 825-830 (American Pageant) and define the following terms: London

Conference, Latin American Good Neighbor Policy, reciprocal trade agreements,

Congressional Neutrality, and Spanish Civil War

Class 92

Review Map of Europe

Review Hitler’s Political Ideas Document

The fall of France and the “Free French”

The Battle of Britain

Operation Barbarossa

America’s Response

The Neutrality Act of 1939

The Draft

Act of Havana

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document: “Charles Lindbergh objects to US participation in

WWII” and answer questions 1-3.

Class 93

Roots of American Isolationism

FDR’s Presidential Agreements with Britain

Election of 1940

Lend Lease Act

Primary Source Document: The Four Freedoms

The Atlantic Charter

Undeclared War with Germany

USS Robin Moor, USS Greer, and the USS Reuben James

Assignment:


Class 94

The Road to Pearl Harbor

Japanese Invasion of French-Indochina

Lend Lease to China

The Japanese Peace Mission

December 7, 1941

Interpreting Maps: Pearl Harbor

Primary Source Document: Play excerpts from FDR’s “Day of Infamy Speech”.

Declaration of War

Review for Quiz – From Isolation to War

Assignment:

1. “Flags of Our Fathers” Chapter 1 Analysis sheet (1-15).

Class 95

Discuss Summer Reading - “Flags of Our Fathers” by James Bradley

“Flags of Our Fathers” differentiated assignment – Choose from open response

questions, character analyses, vocabulary, and research assignments as well as a compare

and contrast essay. Due class # 110.

Assignment:

1. Study for Quiz – From Isolation to War

Class 96

Quiz – From Isolation to War – Map, Matching and Multiple Choice

Differentiated Instruction Packet #5 (1941-1960). Due class # 122

Assignment:

1. Label a blank map of Asia

Class 97

Begin Chapter 14– America in WWII

ABC-1 Agreement

Axis Control Spreads Quickly

The War at Home

War bonds and budget deficits

American Men and Women in WWII (Rosie the Riveter)

War Production Board, Henry Kaiser, and Industrial relocation

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document “Letter to Mrs. Bixby” and answer questions 1-5.

Class 98

Review Asia Map

The War in Europe

Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of El Alamein

Operation Torch

Battle of Kasserine Pass

Invasion of Sicily and Italy

Operation Overlord and D-Day

The fall of Paris and Aachen

Assignment:

1. Study for Asia Map Quiz

Class 99

Deposit ($20.00) due for students taking the AP US History Exam

Map Quiz – Asia

Film Excerpt “Saving Private Ryan”

Assignment:

1. Read article “Caught in the Line of Fire” from Newsweek

Class 100

Questions in a Circle Activity on article “Caught in the Line of Fire”

Election of 1944

The Battle of the Bulge

Invasion of Germany

V-E Day

The Holocaust

Genocide

Assignment:

1. Summarize a victim of the Holocaust (1/2 page).

Class 101

Class Activity: Read and Discuss Holocaust victim summaries.

Assignment:

1. Read AMSCO Chapter 25. Answer MC questions 1-10.

Class 102

The Death of FDR

War in the Pacific

Bataan Death March

Battle of Coral Sea

Battle of Midway

Battle of Guadalcanal

Douglas MacArthur

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Bombing the Japanese homeland

Assignment:


Class 103

Review AMSCO Chapter 25 MC questions

Iwo Jima

Battle of Okinawa

Manhattan Project

Potsdam Ultimatum

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

V-J Day

Diversity in WWII

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document: Read “Two Views on Using the Atom Bomb” and

answer questions 1-4.

Class 104

Film – Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Assignment:

1. “Flags of Our Fathers” Chapter 6 Analysis sheet (1-15).

Class 105


Class 106


Class 107

Costs and Casualties of WWII

Terms Contributed to WWII

Five Star Generals

African-Americans in WWII

A. Philip Randolph

Japanese Internment Camps

Korematsu v. US

Hispanic Americans in WWII

Native Americans in WWII

Comanche’s and Navajo’s

The American Century?

Review for Test – America in WWII

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – America in WWII Part I

Class 108

TEST – America in WWII Part I – Multiple Choice and Open Response Questions

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – America in WWII Part II

Class 109

TEST – America in WWII Part II – Timed (35 minutes) Essay (Persuasive or

Expository Model) Major turning points of WWII or Discrimination during WWII.

Class 110

“Flags of Our Fathers” differentiated assignment due.

Begin Chapter 15– The Cold War Begins

America after WWII

GI Bill

Economic Boom

The Sunbelt

Suburbia and “white flight”

The Baby Boom

Yalta Conference and the post-war world

US v. USSR – Communism, Stalinism, Capitalism, and the Mixed Economy

Assignment:

1. Read pp 892 (American Pageant) and define the following terms: UNESCO, FAO and

WHO.

Class 111

New World Organizations

IMF, World Bank, the United Nations, and Ban Ki-Moon

The Baruch Plan

The Nuremburg Trials

The Division of Germany

Operation Vittles, the Berlin Airlift and Westover Air Force Base

George F. Kennan and Containment

The Truman Doctrine

The Marshall Plan

The National Security Act, the Department of Defense, the CIA, and the National

Security Council

Assignment:

1. Read AMSCO Chapter 26 and answer MC questions 1-10.

2. Graph Interpretation: The Marshall Plan and questions 1-9.

Class 112

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

Israel and Palestine

Reconstructing Japan

Revolution in China and Taiwan

The Korean War

The removal of Douglas MacArthur

Assignment:

1. Korean War Web Quest (quiz grade) due class #114

Class 113

Define “Hate” and apply to US-Soviet relations during the Cold War

Film – excerpts from “Rocky IV”.

Identify symbolism of the Cold War.

Assignment:

1. “East v. West” WS and questions 1-6.

2. Locate three “Cold War” movies. Turn in their on-line summaries.

Class 114

Korean War Web Quest due.

Review Chapter 26 AMSCO MC questions.

38th

parallel and the DMZ

Election of 1948

Truman’s Fair Deal

The first H-bomb

The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Review for Test – The Cold War Begins

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Cold War Begins Part I

Class 115

TEST – The Cold War Begins Part I – Multiple Choice

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Cold War Begins Part II

Class 116

TEST – The Cold War Begins Part II – Timed (35 Minute) Essay (Expository

Model) – The policy of containment in relation to the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall

Plan, and NATO

Class 117

Begin Chapter 16– The Eisenhower Era

22nd

Amendment

Election of 1952

The Second Red Scare and McCarthyism

Richard Nixon, Alger Hiss and HUAC

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Assign partners for 1950’s Civil Rights Movement Terms.

Assignment:

1. Read pp 912-916 (American Pageant) on desegregation and the beginning of the Civil

Rights movement. Define your assigned term with your partner for one-minute oral

presentation.

Class 118

Crisis at Little Rock’s Central High School

Salk Vaccine

Interstate Highway Act 1956

SAC and “massive retaliation”

Nikita Khrushchev and revolt in Hungary

Nasser, Egypt, and the Suez Crisis

OPEC and the Eisenhower Doctrine

Ho Chi Minh, the 17th

parallel and the Viet Cong

Assignment:

1. Read pp 922-923 (American Pageant) on Labor Reform and the Space Race. Define

Sputnik, Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Landrum-Griffin Act.

Class 119

One Minute Oral Presentation - present 1950’s Civil Rights terms with partner.

Begin Video – “Time was the 50’s”

Assignment:

1. Fill in the blank worksheet to go along with the video.

2. Read Chapter 27 AMSCO and do MC questions 1-10.

Class 120

Finish Video – “Time was the 50’s”

Review “Time was the 50’s” WS

Assignment:

1. Read pp 927-934 (American Pageant) – Social/cultural history

Class 121

Quiz – Time Was the 1950’s – Fill in the blanks.

Review Chapter 27 AMSCO MC questions

Election 1956

The National Defense and Education Act (1958)

Eisenhower Doctrine

The 1960 Summit and Francis Gary Powers

Alaska and Hawaii

Cuba

Election 1960 and television

Review Social and Cultural History of the 1950’s

Review for Quiz – The Eisenhower Era

Assignment:

1. Study for Quiz – The Eisenhower Era

Class 122

Quiz – The Eisenhower Era (1952-1960) – Fill in the blanks and Multiple Choice

Differentiated Instruction Packet #5 (1941-1960) due.

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech and

questions 1-3.

Class 123

Begin Chapter 17– The Stormy Sixties

Kennedy’s Administration

23rd

Amendment

Martin Luther King Jr.

March on Washington

Medgar Evers

Berlin Wall

European Common Market/European Union

Military Advisors in Vietnam

Assignment:


Class 124

Bay of Pigs Invasion

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Leonid Breznhev and the Moscow “hot line”

The Kennedy Assassination

View Primary Source: Video Clip “The Zapruder Film”

Lyndon Baines Johnson

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document: Read “Civil Right Act of 1964” and questions 1-8.

Class 125

The War on Poverty and the Great Society

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The Election of 1964

Department of Transportation and Department of Housing and Urban Development

Medicare and Medicaid

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Project Head Start

Battle of Pleiku

Assignment:

1. Read Chapter 28 AMSCO Review Book and answer MC questions 1-10.

2. Fill out a blank map of SE Asia

Class 126

Review map of Southeast Asia

Operation Rolling Thunder

“Domino” Theory

World reaction to US involvement in Vietnam

Napalm and Agent Orange

The TET Offensive

Six-Day War

Opposition to the Vietnam War at Home

Hawks and Doves

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document: Read” Voting Rights Act of 1965” and questions 1-8.

Class 127

Review Chapter 28 AMSCO Multiple Choice questions.

The Civil Rights Movement

The Sit-in Movement

24th

Amendment

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Black Power

WATTS Riots

Begin Video “Time Was the 60’s”.

Assignment:

1. Read Case Study: “Miranda v. Arizona” and questions 1-3.

2. Fill out “Time Was the 60’s” sheet (1-40) as video plays.

Class 128

Finish Video “Time Was the 60’s”

Review “Time Was the 60’s” sheet

Assignment:

1. Study for Quiz – Time Was the 60’s

Class 129

Quiz – “Time Was the 60’s” – Fill in the blanks.

Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam

Black Panther Party and the SNCC

The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Warren Court Protects Individual Rights

Yates v. US

Mapp v. Ohio

Engel v. Vitale

Gideon v. Wainwright

Escobedo v. Illinois

Griswold. V. Connecticut

Miranda v. Arizona

Democratic Primaries 1968

The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

Assignment:

1. Take the AMSCO AP Practice Exam p. 677 (Multiple Choice Questions). Answers

will be given on class #141.

Class 130

Written Book Review #2 due

The Democratic National Convention

Election 1968

Richard Nixon and the “Silent Majority

The Counterculture: Beatniks and Hippies

The three P’s

Rock Music and Woodstock

Assignment:

1. Cartoon Analysis Worksheet: LBJ and Vietnam

Class 131

Review Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream Speech”

The “Sexual Revolution”

The Gay Rights Movement

Negative Effects of the Counterculture

Primary Source Document: “Dress Code for the Chicopee Public Schools” (1967)

Review Fads and Fancies of the 1960’s

Review for Test – The Stormy Sixties

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Stormy Sixties Part I

Class 132

TEST – The Stormy Sixties – Part I: Multiple Choice and Open Response Questions

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Stormy Sixties – Part II

2. Review Documents A-H for DBQ

Class 133

TEST – The Stormy Sixties – Part II: Timed DBQ (45 minutes) – Assess President

Johnson’s Vietnam policies.

Assignment:

1. Prepare for “One Minute Oral” Book Review #2

Class 134

“One Minute Orals” – Book Review Presentations

Differentiated Instruction Packet #6 (1960-present). Due class # 160

Assignment:

1. Read pp970-971 (American Pageant).

Class 135

Begin Chapter 18: The Stormy Seventies

Inflation

Vietnam War and the My Lai Massacre

Nixon Doctrine

Invasion of Cambodia

Tragedy at Kent State University

26th

Amendment

Pentagon Papers

Nixon visits China and the USSR

Poverty Rates

Philadelphia Plan and Affirmative Action

The EPA and Earth Day

Wage/Price Freeze and the Gold Standard

Assignment:

1. Fill out blank map of the Middle East

Class 136

Election 1972

Vietnamese Cease Fire

Cambodia, Secret bombings, and Pol Pot

The resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew

The 25th

Amendment

Energy Crisis (1973)

War Powers Act

CREEP

Nixon’s Enemy List

Assignment:

1. Read pp.973-975 (American Pageant).

Class 137

Review blank map of the Middle East

Watergate and the Watergate Hearings

The Tapes

US v. Nixon (1974)

The resignation of President Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford pardons the former President

Defeat in Vietnam

Assignment:

1. Case Study: US. V. Nixon and questions 1-3.

Class 138

Election of 1976

Tax cuts and the Department of Energy

Carter pardons Vietnam draft dodgers

Energy Crisis (1979)

Camp David Accords

Begin Video “Time Was the 70’s”

Assignment:

1. Students to fill out video sheet for “Time Was the 70’s”

Class 139

Finish Video “Time Was the 70’s.”

Review Video sheet “Time was the 70’s”

Assignment:

1. Word Search – The Stalemated 70’s

2. Study for Quiz – “Time Was the 70’s”

Class 140

Quiz – Time Was the 70’s – Fill in the blanks.

Panama Canal Treaty

SALT II

Iranian Hostage Crisis

USSR attacks Afghanistan

Review Fads and Fancies of the 1970’s

Review for Test – The Stalemated 70’s

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Stalemated 70’s

Class 141

TEST – The Stalemated Seventies – Multiple Choice, Middle East Map, and Open

Response Questions

Assignment:

1. Take 1980-1984 Summary Packet. Define Terms.

Class 142

Bring AMSCO books to class today.

Review Practice AP exam Multiple Choice answers

Review AP exam format

Assignment:

1. Prepare for AP US History exam. Read ahead to the next chapter in the American

Pageant (The Age of Conservatism)

Class 143

AP US History Exam (CCHS Library) $62.00 balance due.

Class 144

Review Packet 1980-1984.

Begin Chapter 19– The Age of Conservatism

The Alan Bakke Case

Election 1980

The “New Right”

Iranians release American hostages

Assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan

Sandra Day O’Connor

Assignment:

1. Take 1985-1990 Summary Packet. Define Terms

Class 145

Review Packet 1985-1990

Reaganomics

“Reagan Recession” and eventual economic recovery

Massive Military expenditures

Cold War Renewal

Solidarity Movement in Poland

Strategic Defense Initiative

Assignment:


2. Study for Quiz 1980-1990

Class 146

Quiz – 1980-1990 – Matching and Fill in the blanks.

Israeli invasion of Lebanon and settlement of the West Bank

Revolution in Nicaragua and the Sandinistas

US invasion of Grenada

Election of 1984

Mikhail Gorbachev, Glasnost and Perestroika in the USSR

Assignment:

1. Case Study: “The Equal Rights Amendment” and questions 1-3.

Class 147

Summit Meetings between the US and the USSR

Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines

Muammar Quadaffi and Libya

The Iran-Contra Affair

Increasing national debt and the Balanced Budget Act

The Abortion issue heats up

Anti-drug policy

AIDS

Black Monday (October 19, 1987)

Assignment:


Class 148

Election 1988

Tiananmen Square Massacre in China

The fall of the Berlin Wall

The End of the Cold War

Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States

START II

Nelson Mandela and the end of South African Apartheid

Manuel Noriega and Panama

The Persian Gulf Crisis and “Operation Desert Shield”

Assignment:


Class 149

The Gulf War

Operation Desert Storm

Gulf War Syndrome

Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)

The Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings

27th

Amendment

Election of 1992

Assignment:

1. Read article “Ambush in Mogadishu”.

Class 150

Carol Moseley Braun

President Clinton’s Cabinet appointments and Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Healthcare Crisis and Deficit Reduction

WTC (1993) and the Oklahoma City Building (1995) bombings

The Brady Bill

Contract with America

Personal Responsibility and Opportunity Act

Tragedy in Somalia

Assignment:

1. Answer questions 1-19 on article “Ambush in Mogadishu”.

Class 151

Film “Black Hawk Down” (2002)

Class 152


Class 153


Class 154

Review article “Ambush in Mogadishu”.

US involvement in Bosnia

NAFTA and the WTO

The continuing Israeli and Palestinian Conflict

The Election of 1996

Review for Test – The Age of Conservatism

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Age of Conservatism Part I

Class 155

TEST – The Age of Conservatism – Part I - Multiple Choice and Open Response

Questions.

Assignment:

1. Study for Test – The Age of Conservatism Part II

Class 156

TEST – The Age of Conservatism Part II – Timed (35 minutes) Essay (Expository

Model): Evaluate roles in the conclusion of the Cold War.

Class 157

Begin Chapter 20: The Present (1996-2004) Reducing the federal deficit and the creation of budget surpluses

The Monica Lewinsky Scandal

The Clinton Impeachment

Vladimir Putin and Russia

North Korea and a possible nuclear program

India and Pakistan

Continued problems with Iraq

Terrorist attacks in Kenya and Tanzania

Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda

The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

The European Union

Assignment:

1. Read AMSCO Review book pp656-668.

Class 158

The Nature of Islam

Muslim extremists and jihad.

Assignment:

1. Study for quiz - Islam

Class 159

Quiz – Islam – Matching and Fill in the blanks.

Changing American Society

Race, Origins, and the aging population

Median Income and Wage Differences

Population shifts continue

A Reduction in the Crime Rate

Record prison inmate numbers

Assignment:

1. Cartoon Analysis: “Another Victim of bin Laden’s Terror”

Class 160

Differentiated Instruction Packet #6 (1960-present) due. Election of 2000

Ralph Nader

Bush v. Gore (2000)

Hillary Clinton’s election to the US Senate

Class 161

Bush tax cuts and the compassionate conservative agenda

Primary Source Document: No Child Left Behind Act (2002)

Enron and corporate corruption

The recession of 2001

Roots of Terrorism

The September 11th

attacks

Military tribunals

The war in Afghanistan and Hamid Karzai

Assignment:

1. Primary Source Document: “Excerpts from the speeches of Osama bin Laden” and

questions 1-3.

Class 162

Film – A&E “Flight 93” (2006)

Assignment:

1. Students to write a journal entry reflecting on the events of 9/11.

Class 163


Class 164


Class 165

Homeland Security

Renewed plans for “Star Wars”

Revised Foreign Policy

The Axis of Evil

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Election of 2004

Review for Quiz – The Present (1996-2004)

Assignment:

1. Study for Quiz – The Present (1996-2004)

Class 166

Quiz – The Present (1996-2004) – Multiple Choice

Assignment:

1. Prepare for Final Exam

Class 167

Review for Final Exam

Assignment:

1. Study for Final Exam

Class 168

Final Exam – Multiple Choice and Thematic Essay (TBA)

Assignment:

1. HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!