ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY Course Syllabus Instructor: A. Kuhn/CNS Room M3 782-2814 ext. 79 Email: akuhn@cnhs.org Course Description AP United States History is a challenging course. It is the equivalent of a freshman level college course, and with success on the AP exam, college credits can be earned. It will be taught as a two semester survey of American History beginning with the initial European discovery, exploration, and involvement in North America to the present modern day era. An emphasis will be placed on the development of solid reading and writing skills aimed toward achieving success on the AP U.S. History exam at the end of the school year. In order to achieve these goals, students must be willing to devote a considerable amount of time to homework and studying. Areas of concentration and focus will include the development of critical thinking and interpretation skills dealing with the social, political, religious, and economic development of our country. Course Objectives Students will: 1. develop a wide range of historical knowledge 2. demonstrate an understanding of the chronology of history 3. be able to use historical information to support an argument 4. interpret and apply data taken from documents, cartoons, and graphs 5. use analytical skills to debate cause and effect, and compare and contrast statements 6. work within groups on problem solving 7. prepare for and successfully pass the AP History Exam Materials To help you better prepare for the AP U.S. History exam, you will be given an outline and PowerPoint presentations for notes everyday and numerous handouts throughout the year. You will need to have a 3-Ring binder for this class. It is suggested you have one for first semester and one for second semester. All materials turned into me must be in pencil or blue or black ink ONLY. You will be instructed when to bring the required texts for class. The texts for this class include: David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, Thomas A. Bailey. The : A History of the Republic (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006)
James A. Henretta, David Brody, Lynn Dumenil. Documents to Accompany America s History, Sixth Edition, Volumes One and Two (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin s 2008) Additional reading will include: Howard Zinn, A People s History of the United States (New York: Harper Perennial, 2005) Davidson and Lytle, After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004) Numerous outside sources, on-line web sites, supportive videos, various articles, cartoons, and handouts will be used as needed. Themes and Objectives These themes are woven throughout unit discussions, with assessments (quizzes, essays, and exams) being structured around them: 1. American Diversity The diversity of the American people and the relationships among different groups. The roles of race, class, ethnicity, and gender in the history of the United States. 2. American Identity Views of the American national character and ideas about American exceptionalism. Recognizing regional differences within the context of what it means to be an American. 3. Culture Diverse individual and collective expressions through literature, art, philosophy, music, theater, and film throughout U.S. history. Popular culture and the dimensions of cultural conflict within American society. 4. Demographic Changes Changes in birth, marriage, and death rates; life expectancy and family patterns; population size and density. The economic, social, and political effects of immigration, internal migration, and migration networks. 5. Economic Transformations Changes in trade, commerce, and technology across time. The effects of capitalist development, labor and unions, and consumerism. 6. Environment Ideas about the consumption and conservation of natural resources. The impact of population growth, industrialization, pollution, and urban and suburban expansion. 7. Globalization Engagement with the rest of the world from the fifteenth century to the present: colonialism, mercantilism, global hegemony, development of markets, imperialism, and cultural exchange. 8. Politics and Citizenship
Colonial and revolutionary legacies, American political traditions, growth of democracy, and the development of the modern state. Defining citizenship; struggles for civil rights. 9. Reform Diverse movements focusing on a broad range of issues, including antislavery, education, labor, temperance, women s rights, civil rights, gay rights, war, public health, and government. 10. Religion The variety of religious beliefs and practices in American from prehistory to the twenty-first century; influence of religion on politics, economics, and society. 11. Slavery and Its Legacies in North America Systems of slave labor and other forms of unfree labor (e.g. indentured servitude, contract labor) in Native American societies, the Atlantic World, and the American South and West. The economics of slavery and its racial dimensions. Patterns of resistance and the long-term economic, political, and social effects of slavery. 12. War and Diplomacy Armed conflict from the precolonial period to the twenty-first century; impact of war on American foreign policy and on politics, economy, and society. Webpage Information All assignments for the week will be posted on my webpage on the Cardinal Newman School website. If you forget to write down an assignment, it is your responsibility to check the webpage for the assignment. If you miss a day of class, it is your responsibility to check the webpage for any assignments that you miss. The webpage can be found at http://www.cnhs.org/. Homework/Assignments The different assessments that will be used during this semester will include daily homework, quizzes, in-class assignments, tests, free response essays, and document-based questions (DBQs), and the final exam. Homework will be given everyday that will include reading from the texts, guidedreading activities, and/or free responses. Lessons will be supplemented with activities, film clips, music, etc. to further enhance the material. For every chapter in the main text, there will be a quiz the following day. These quizzes will include multiple-choice and/or true and false questions. In addition to these quizzes you will complete a guided reading activity (GRA) to accompany the chapters from the text. You will be able to use these guided reading activities when taking the quizzes. You will get a grade for the quiz and one for completing the GRA. Tests will be given every five-six periods and they will emulate the AP Exam, with 25-30 multiple choice questions, 1 free response, and 1 DBQ. Depending on time restraints, you may be given free response essays and DBQs to complete at home.
Late Work/Missing Assignments Information on make-up work can be found on pages 3-4 of the Cardinal Newman School Student/Parent Handbook. As for late work all homework, take-home assignments, projects, etc. are due at the beginning of class. NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED. As juniors in high school in Advanced Placement classes, you are accountable for your work, so make sure you get your work completed on time. THERE WILL BE NO WORK SUBMITTED VIA EMAIL. In addition, any homework assignments that do not have a name on them will be given a grade of zero. All major assignments without a name will have a 10% deduction in their grade. Grading Procedures All grades will be calculated based on a points within percentages system. Assignments will be worth different point values, but will fall within a given percentage to calculate grades. Grades will be based on the following percentages: Homework (10%) There will be homework everyday in this course. As AP students, you are expected to keep up and complete all homework as it is due. Quizzes (20%) There will be quizzes for every chapter that is read from the textbook. This accounts for about a quiz per day. I also allow for pop quizzes if I feel they are necessary. Tests (55%) The tests in this class will include primarily multiple-choice questions. They will range from 30-60 per test. There may be free-response or document-based questions to accompany the tests as well. Tests will cover about three to four chapters and will equate to approximately three tests per quarter. Free Responses/DBQs (15%) The start of the year will include more freeresponse essay assignments while we get accustomed to writing document-based questions. There will be about three essays per quarter. End of Quarter Tests You will be given an end of quarter test for the first three quarters. These may end up consisting of culminating projects. End of Course Exams There is none! The A.P. United States History exam at the end of the year is the only exam you will take. During April, there will be a MANDATORY AP practice exam in April. The exam will be a full length test in order to best prepare you for the exam. The tentative date for this is April 21, 2012. Yes, this is a Sunday. You are REQUIRED to attend the practice exam. It will not conflict with spring break or prom. You will be told with ample time if the date changes. Field Trip One of the objectives for this course is to understand history from the viewpoints of those who experienced it firsthand. On Friday, September 21 st, we will be taking a trip to the Colonial Life Arena to see a show by the United States Army titled The Spirit of America. Soldiers reenact major scenes from our history in a live-action presentation. The cost of the trip is free. We will be stopping for lunch so bring money for lunch. We will leave that morning after first block and return to Cardinal Newman by last block. You will be responsible for any missed work that day.
Permission slips and waivers will be sent out in the next couple of days. Feel free to see me with questions or conflicts you might have. The trip will not interfere with any sports practices, games, matches, etc. You are required to attend the trip. Classroom Guidelines In class, there are five major rules that will be observed at all times: 1. Respect the teacher and respect each other. Be mindful of others in the class. If I am conducting a lesson or if another student is given permission to speak, I expect no interruptions or other conversations to be going on in the classroom. Also, cell phones will be confiscated if seen in use in class. 2. Be in your seat and ready to work when the bell rings. Class will often start with in introductory activity and/or a discussion on current events. Be prepared to begin working by the time the bell rings. 3. Come prepared to class everyday. If you are instructed to have something for class, please come to class prepared. 4. Raise your hand and wait to be acknowledged by the teacher. If you need to leave the classroom or use the restroom, raise your hand and wait for permission before leaving. 5. Follow all other Cardinal Newman rules outlined in the school handbook. This includes everything from being in the correct uniform, coming to class on time, etc. Also, water is permitted in class, but all other food and beverages must stay outside the class. Course Outline All readings must be finished by the class they are due. Tests will be taken every four to five class periods based on the completion of discussions and assignments. Each unit will involve discussions and writings about certain historical events, concentrating on the following: how the interpretations of these events have changed over time, how the issues of one time period have impacted decisions of following time periods, and how the study and continuous evaluations of each time period have continued to influence the way historians and politicians view the world today [CR6]. There will also be a thesis statement or question given at the beginning of each week pertaining to topics that will be covered. An assignment will involve individual or group work to discuss or answer each in either a positive or negative fashion. These issues will be constant themes and influences during discussions and assignments throughout the school year, but there will be a concentration on the following topics: Week One: August 23, 24 Introduction of course, outline, and expectations Explanation of terms: AP Exam discussion, DBQs, Free Response, etc. Week Two: August 27-31
Chapter 1, New World Beginnings: the geology of the New World, Native Americans before Columbus, Europeans and Africans, Columbus and the early explorers, The ecological consequences of Columbus s discovery, the conquest of Mexico, and Spain builds a New World Empire Chapter 2, The Planting of English America: England of the eve of empire, the expansion of Elizabethan England, the planting of Jamestown, 1607, English settlers and Native Americans, growth of Virginia and Maryland, England in the Caribbean, settling the Carolinas and Georgia Thesis: Between 1607 and 1763, the British North American Colonies developed experience in, and the expectation of self-government in the political, religious, economic, and social aspects of life. [CR5] Week Three: September 4-7 (No school on September 3, Labor Day), Chapter 3, Settling the Northern Colonies: the Puritan faith, Plymouth Colony, 1620, the Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, Puritans and Indians, the Confederation and Dominion of New England 1686-1689, New Netherland becomes New York, Pennsylvania, the Quaker colony, and New Jersey and Delaware Chapter 4, American Life in the Seventeenth Century: Life and labor in the Chesapeake tobacco region, indentured servitude and Bacon s Rebellion in Virginia, 1676, the spread of slavery, African American culture, southern society, families in New England, declining Puritan piety, the Salem witchcraft trials, 1692, daily life in the colonies Week Four: September 10-14 UNIT TEST CHAPTERS 1, 2, 3, 4 Week Five: September 17-21 Chapter 5, Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution: Immigration and population growth, colonial social structure, earning a living, the Atlantic economy, the role of religion, the Great Awakening of 1730s, education and culture, politics and the press, colonial folkways Chapter 6, The Duel for North America: New France, fur-traders and Indians, Anglo-French colonial rivalries, Europe, America, and the first world wars, the Seven Years War, Pontiac s Uprising and the Proclamation of 1763 Week Six: September 4-28 Chapter 7, The Road to Revolution: Roots of revolution, the merits and menace of mercantilism, the Stamp Act crisis, 1765, the Townshend Acts, 1767, the Boston Tea Party, 1773, the Intolerable Acts and the Continental Congress, 1774, Lexington, Concord, and the gathering clouds of war, 1775, the rebel army
Chapter 8, America Secedes from the Empire: Early skirmishes, 1775, American republicanism, the Declaration of Independence, 1776, Patriots and Loyalists, the fighting fronts, the French alliance, 1778, Yorktown, 1781, the Peace of Paris, 1783 Week Seven: October 1-5 UNIT TEST CHAPTERS 5, 6, 7, 8 Chapter 9, The Confederation and the Constitution: Changing political sentiments, the new state constitutions, economic troubles, the Articles and Confederation, 1781-1788, the Northwest Ordinance, 1787, Shays Rebellion, 1786, the Constitutional Convention, 1787, Ratifying the Constitution, 1787-1790 Week Eight: October 9-12 (Oct. 15 th, last day of 1 st quarter) Chapter 10, Launching the New Ship of State: Problems of the young republic, the first presidency, 1789-1793, the Bill of Rights, 1791, Hamilton s economic policies, the emergence of political parties, the impact of the French Revolution, Jay s Treaty, 1794, and Washington s farewell, 1797, President Adams keeps the peace, the Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798, Federalists versus Republicans Theme: The conflict between national power and states rights CR1 - This course includes the study of political institutions in U.S. History EOQ Week Nine: October 15-19 Chapter 11, The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic: the Revolution of 1800, the Jefferson presidency, John Marshall and the Supreme Court, Barbary pirates, the Louisiana Purchase, 1803, the Anglo- French War, the Embargo 1807-1809, Madison gambles with Napoleon, battle with the Shawnees, a declaration of war CR5 This course uses themes and/or topics as broad parameters for structuring the course. CR6 The course teaches students to analyze evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. Week Ten: October 22-26 (Oct. 23, last day of 1 st quarter) Chapter 12, The Second War For Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism: Invasion of Canada, 1812, the war on land and sea, the Treaty of Ghent, 1814, the Hartford Convention, 1814-1815, a new national identity, the American System, James Monroe and the Era of Good Feelings, westward expansion, the Missouri Compromise, 1820, the Supreme Court under John Marshall, Oregon and Florida, the Monroe Doctrine, 1823
CR1 The course includes the study of political institutions in the US CR2 The course includes the study of social and cultural developments in U.S. history UNIT TEST CHAPTERS 9, 10, 11, 12 Week Eleven: October 29-November 2 Chapter 13, The Rise of a Mass Democracy: the corrupt bargain of 1824, President John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829, the triumph of Andrew Jackson, 1828, the spoils system, the Tariff of Abominations, 1828, the South Carolina nullification crisis, 1832-1833, the removal of the Indians from the Southeast, Jackson s war on the Bank of the United States, the emergence of the Whig party, 1836, Martin van Buren in the White House, 1837-1841, revolution in Texas, William Henry Harrison s log cabin campaign, 1840, mass democracy and the two-party system Chapter 14, Forging the National Economy: the westward movement, European immigration, the Irish and the Germans, nativism and assimilation, the coming of the factory system, industrial workers, women and the economy, the ripening of commercial agricultural, the transportation revolution, a continental economy CR4 This course includes the study of economic trends in U.S. History CR2 This course includes the study of social and cultural developments in U.S. History CR7 This course includes extensive instruction in Analysis and interpretation of a wide variety of primary sources. Week Twelve: November 5-9 Chapter 15, The Ferment of Reform and Culture: Religious revivals, the Mormons, educational advances, the roots of reform, temperance, women s roles and women s rights, utopian experiments, science, art, and culture, a national literature Week Thirteen: November 12-16 Chapter 16, The South and the Slavery Controversy: the economy of the Cotton Kingdom, southern social structure, poor whites and free blacks, the plantation system, life under slavery, the abolitionists crusade, the white Southern response, abolition and the Northern conscience CR6 This course teaches students to analyze evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. CR7 This course includes extensive instruction in analysis and interpretation of a wide variety of primary sources. UNIT TEST CHAPTERS 13, 14, 15, 16 Week Fourteen: November 19-20
Chapter 17, Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy: Tyler Too becomes president, 1841, fixing the Maine boundary, 1842, the annexation of Texas, 1845, Oregon fever, James K. Polk, the dark horse of 1844, war with Mexico, 1846-1848 Week Fifteen: November 26-30 Chapter 18, Renewing the Sectional Struggle: Popular sovereignty, Zachary Taylor and California statehood, the underground railroad, the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law, President Pierce and expansion, 1853-1857, Senator Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 CR2 This course includes the study of social and cultural developments in U.S. History. CR8 The course provides students with frequent practice in writing analytical and interpretive essays such as document-based questions and thematic essays. Chapter 19, Drifting Towards Disunion: Uncle Tom s Cabin and the spread of abolitionist sentiment in the North, the contest for Kansas, the election of James Buchanan, 1856, the Dred Scott case, 1857, the financial panic of 1857, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858, John Brown s raid on Harper s Ferry, 1859, Lincoln and Republican victory, 1860, secession CR2 This course includes the study of social and cultural developments in U.S. History Week Sixteen: December 3-7 Chapter 20, Girding for War: The North and the South: the attack on Fort Sumter, April 1861, the crucial border states, the balance of forces, the threat of European intervention, the importance of diplomacy, Lincoln and civil liberties, men in uniform, financing the Blue and the Gray, the economic impact of the war, women and the war, the fate of the South Chapter 21, The Furnace of Civil War: Bull Run ends the ninety-day war, the Peninsula Campaign, the Union wages total war, the war at sea, Antietam, 1862, the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, black soldiers, Confederate high tide at Gettysburg, the war in the West, Sherman marches through Georgia, politics in wartime, Appomattox, 1865, the assassination of Lincoln, April 1865, the legacy of war Week Seventeen: December 10-14 UNIT TEST CHAPTERS 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 EOQ Week Eighteen: December 17-19 Chapter 22, The Ordeal of Reconstruction: the defeated South, the freed slaves, President Johnson s Reconstruction policies, the Black Codes,
Congressional Reconstruction policies, Johnson clashes with Congress, Military Reconstruction, 1867-1877, freed people enter politics, Black Reconstruction and the Ku Klux Klan, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the legacy of Reconstruction CR2 This course includes the study of social and cultural developments in U.S. History CR7 This course includes extensive instruction in analysis and interpretation of a wide variety of primary sources. SECOND SEMESTER Week Nineteen: January 3-4 Week Twenty: January 7-11 Chapter 23, Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age: Ulysses S. Grant, soldierpresident, corruption and reform in the post-civil War era, the depression of the 1870s, political parties and partisans, the Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction, the emergence of Jim Crow, class conflict and ethnic clashes, Grover Cleveland and the tariff, Benjamin Harrison and the Billion Dollar Congress, the Populists, depression and dissent Chapter 24, Industry Comes of Age: the railroad boom, speculators and financiers, early efforts at government regulation, lords of industry, the gospel of wealth, industry in the South, the laboring classes, the rise of trade unions CR5 The course uses themes and/or topics as broad parameters for structuring the course. CR4 The course includes the study of economic trends in U.S. history Week Twenty-One: January 15-17 Chapter 25, America Moves to the City: the rise of the city, the New Immigrants, settlement houses and social workers, nativists and immigration restriction, churches in the city, evolution and education, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, literary landmarks and intellectual achievements, the New Woman and the new morality, art, music, and entertainment in urban America CR2 The course includes the study of social and cultural developments in U.S. history. CR6 The course teaches students to analyze evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. Week Twenty-Two: January 22-25 Chapter 26, The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution: the conquest of the Indians, the mining and cattle frontiers, free lands and fraud,
the fading frontier, the industrialization of agriculture, farmers protest, the People s Party, Bryan versus McKinley, 1896 CR2 The course includes the study of social and cultural developments in U.S. History Chapter 27, Empire and Expansion: the sources of American expansionism, the Hawaii question, the Spanish-America War, 1898, the invasion of Cuba, acquiring Puerto Rico (1898) and the Philippines (1899), crushing the Filipino insurrection, the Open Door in China, Theodore Roosevelt becomes president, 1901, the Panama Canal, Roosevelt on the World Stage Week Twenty-Three: January 28-February 1 Chapter 28, Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt: campaigning against social injustice, the muckrakers, the politics of progressivism, women battle for the vote and against the saloon, Roosevelt, labor, and the trusts, consumer protection, conservation, Roosevelt s legacy, the troubled presidency of William Howard Taft, Taft s dollar diplomacy, Roosevelt breaks with Taft CR5 The course uses themes and/or topics as broad parameters for structuring the course. CR2 The course includes the study of social and cultural developments in U.S. history. Week Twenty-Four: February 4-8 Chapter 29, Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad: the election of 1912: the New Freedom versus the New Nationalism, Wilson, the tariff, the banks, and the trusts, Wilson s diplomacy in Latin America, war in Europe and American neutrality, the reelection of Wilson, 1916 Week Twenty-Five: February 11-14 Chapter 30, The War to End War: America goes to war, 1917, Wilsonian idealism and the Fourteen Points, propaganda and civil liberties, workers, blacks, and women on the home front, drafting soldiers, the United States fights in France, Wilsonian peacemaking at Paris, the League of Nations, the Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles CR1 This course includes the study of political institutions in U.S. history. Chapter 31, American Life in the Roaring Twenties: the red scare, 1919-1920, immigration restriction, 1921-1924, prohibition and gangsterism, the Scopes Trial, a mass-consumption economy, the automobile age, radio and movies, jazz age culture, music, and literature, the economic boom CR7 This course includes extensive instruction in analysis and interpretation of a wide variety of primary sources. CR1 This course includes the study of political institutions in U.S. history.
CR8 The course provides students with frequent practice in writing analytical and interpretive essays such as DBQs and thematic essays. Week Twenty-Six: February 19-22 Chapter 32, The Politics of Boom and Bust: the Republicans return to power, 1921, disarmament and isolation, the Harding scandals, Calvin Coolidge s foreign policies, the international debt snarl, Herbert Hoover, cautious progressive, the great crash, 1929, Hoover and the Great Depression, hard times, aggression in Asia, Good Neighbors in Latin America Chapter 33, The Great Depression and the New Deal: Franklin D. Roosevelt as president, the Hundred Days Congress, 1933, relief, recovery and reform, depression demagogues, the National Recovery Administration, 1933-1935, aid for agriculture, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Housing and Social Security, a new deal for labor, the election of 1936, the Supreme Court fight, 1937, the New Deal assessed CR7 This course includes extensive instruction in analysis and interpretation of a wide variety of primary sources. Week Twenty-Seven: February 25-27 Chapter 34, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War: Roosevelt s early foreign policies, German and Japanese aggression, the Neutrality Acts, 1935-1939, isolation and appeasement, the Lend-Lease Act and the Atlantic Charter, 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December, 7, 1941 CR6 The course teaches students to analyze evidence and interpretation presented in historical scholarship. CR8 The course provides students with frequent practice in writing analytical and interpretive essays such as document based questions and thematic essays. Week Twenty-Eight: March 4-8 Chapter 35, America in World War II: the shock of war, the internment of Japanese Americans, mobilizing the economy, women in wartime, the war s effect on African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican Americans, the economic impact of war, turning the Japanese tide in the Pacific, campaigns in North Africa (1942) and Italy (1943), D-Day in Normandy (France), June 6, 1944, Germany surrenders, May 1945, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945 Week Twenty-Nine: March 11-15 Chapter 36, The Cold War Begins: postwar prosperity, the Sunbelt and the suburbs, the postwar baby boom, Harry S Truman as president, origins of
the Cold War, communism and containment, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and NATO, anti-communism at home, the Korean War, 1950-1953 Week Thirty: March 18-22 Chapter 37, The Eisenhower Era: affluent America, consume culture in the 1950s, the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952, the menace of McCarthyism, desegregating the South, Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the seeds of the civil rights revolution, Eisenhower republicanism, Cold War crises, the space race and the arms race, the election of John F. Kennedy, 1960, postwar literature and culture CR8 The course provides students with frequent practice in writing analytical and interpretive essays such as document-based questions and thematic essays. Week Thirty-One: March 25-26 Week Thirty-Two: April 8-12 Chapter 38, The Stormy Sixties: the Kennedy spirit, Kennedy and the Cold War, the Vietnam quagmire, the Cuban missile crisis, 1962, the struggle for civil rights, Kennedy assassinated, November 22, 1963, Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Great Society, the civil rights revolution explodes, the Vietnam disaster, the election of Richard Nixon, 1968, the cultural upheavals of the 1960s CR7 This course includes extensive instruction in analysis and interpretation of a wide variety of primary sources. Week Thirty-Three: May 18, 20 Chapter 39, The Stalemate Seventies: economic stagnation, Nixon and the Vietnam War, new policies toward China and the Soviet Union, Nixon and the Supreme Court, Nixon s domestic program, Nixon trounces McGovern, 1972, Israelis, Arabs, and oil, the Watergate scandal, Nixon resigns, feminism, desegregation and affirmative action, the election of Jimmy Carter, 1976, the energy crisis and inflation, the Iranian hostage humiliation Week Thirty-Four: April 22-26 Chapter 40, The Resurgence of Conservatism: the New Right and Reagan s election, 1980, budget battles and tax cuts, Reagan and the Soviets, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and the thawing of the Cold War, the Iran-Contra scandal, Reagan s economic legacy, the religious right, conservatism and the courts, the election of George Bush, 1988, the end of the Cold War, the Persian Gulf-War, 1991, Bush s battles at home
Week Thirty-Five: April 29-May 2 Week Thirty-Six: May 6-10 Review all Week MAY 15, 2013 A.P.U.S.H. EXAM!
ACCEPTANCE OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY SYLLABUS Student Name (Please Print): I have reviewed, understood, and agree to abide by all that is contained in this syllabus. Student Signature: Date: Parent Signature: Date: