APUSH Supplemental Readings to go with The American Pageant Chapter 1 New World Beginnings Zinn Chapter 1 Columbus, The Indians and Human Progress DKMA Chapter 1 Who really discovered America? If he wasn t interested in the Bahamas, what was Columbus looking for in the first place? Chapter 2 The Planting of English America DKMA Chapter 1 Where were the first European settlements in the New World? What was the Lost Colony? When and how did Jamestown get started? Did Pocahontas really save John Smith s life? What was the House of Burgesses? Who started the slave trade? Chapter 3 Settling the Northern Colonies Zinn Chapter 2 The Color Line DKMA Chapter 1 Who were the Pilgrims and what did they want? What was the Mayflower Compact? How did New Amsterdam become New York? What was King Phillip s War (Ch 2) Chapter 4 American Life in the Seventeenth Century Zinn Chapter 3 Persons of Mean and Vile Condition What was Nat Bacon s Rebellion? Who were the witches of Salem? Chapter 5 Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution What was the Great Awakening? What was John Peter Zenger on Trial for? Chapter 6 The Duel for North America Zinn Chapter 4 Tyranny is Tyranny Who fought the French and Indian War? Chapter 7 The Road to Revolution Founding Brothers Preface
What do sugar and stamps have to do with revolutions? What was the Boston Massacre? What was the 1 st Continental Congress..? What was the Shot heard round the world? Chapter 8 American Secedes from the Empire Zinn Chapter 5 A Kind of Revolution What was Common Sense? What were the Articles of Confederation? How did the colonies win the war? What did America Win? Chapter 9 The Confederation and Constitution Founding Brothers The Duel What was Shay s Rebellion? What three-letter word is not in the Constitution? Who were the Federalists, and what were the Federalist Papers? Chapter 10 Launching the Ship of State Founding Brothers The Dinner, The Farewell, and The Collaborators Why didn t Jefferson like Hamilton? Chapter 11 The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic What was the Revolution of 1800? What was Marbury v. Madison? How did America purchase Louisiana? Why did Aaron Burr shoot Alexander Hamilton? Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Did he or didn t he? Who were Tecumseh and the Prophet? Chapter 12 The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism What was the war of 1812 about? What was the Monroe Doctrine? What was the Missouri Compromise? Chapter 13 The Rise of a Mass Democracy Zinn As long as the grass grows and the water runs What was the corrupt bargain? What were Jacksonian Democracy and the spoils system? What was the Trail of Tears?
Who was Tocqueville. What made the South fear a slave named Nat Turner? Chapter 14 Forging the National Economy Chapter 15 The Ferment of Reform and Culture Zinn The Intimately Oppressed Why did the Mormons move west? Chapter 16 The South and the Slave Controversy Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass Chapter 17 Manifest Destiny and its Legacy Zinn We take nothing by Conquest, Thank God Why was there a war with Mexico? Chapter 18 Renewing the Sectional Struggle Zinn Slavery without submission, Emancipation without Freedom How did Frederick Douglass become the most influential black man of his time? Where did the Underground railroad run? What was the Compromise of 1850? Chapter 19 Drifting Toward Disunion Founding Brothers The Silence Why was Uncle Tom s Cabin the most important and controversial novel of its time? What forced the Republicans to start a new political party? Why was Kansas Bloody? What was the difference between a man named Dred Scott and a mule? What did Lincoln and Douglas debate? Why did John Brown attack a federal arsenal? Why did the Southern states secede from the United States? Chapter 20 Girding for War: The North and the South The 1860 Census What was the difference between the Confederate and U.S. constitutions? Chapter 21 The Furnace of War
Zinn Chapter 10 The Other Civil War pgs 231-242 What did the Civil War cost America? Was Abe really honest? Who killed Lincoln? Chapter 22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction Zinn Chapter 10 The Other Civil War pgs 242-251 What was Reconstruction? Who celebrates Decoration Day and Juneteenth? Why was President Johnson impeached? Who were the carpetbaggers? Chapter 23 Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age What did separate but equal mean? Who was Jim Crow? Chapter 24 Industry Comes of Age Zinn Chapter 11 Robber Barons and Rebels Who were the Robber Barons? Of what was William Tweed Boss? What happened at Haymarket Square? Chapter 25 America Moves to the City Chapter 26 The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution What happened at Custer s Last Stand? What happened at Wounded Knee? Who were the cowboys? Who were the Populists? What was the Cross of Gold? Chapter 27 Empire and Expansion Zinn Chapter 12 The Empire and the People Who fought in the Spanish-American War? What did America gain from the Spanish-American war? Who built the Panama Canal? Chapter 28 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt Zinn Chapter 13 The Socialist Challenge
What was the Big Stick? Who was W.E.B. DuBois? What was the Bull Moose Party? Chapter 29 Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad Who was Pancho Villa? How did a dead archduke in Sarajevo start a world war? Who sank the Lusitania and what difference did it make? Chapter 30 The War to End War Zinn Chapter 14 War is the Health of the State What was the cost of WW I? Chapter 31 American Life in the Roaring Twenties Founding Brothers The Farewell What happened in Tulsa and Rosewood? Why were Sacco and Vanzetti executed? Why was Prohibition one of the greatest social and political disasters in American History? Who were the Suffragists? Chapter 32 The Politics of Boom and Bust Zinn Chapter 15 Self Help in Hard Times What was the scandal over Teapot Dome? Did Henry Ford invent the Automobile? What was so lucky about Lucky Lindy? Why did investors panic in 1929 leading to the Great Crash? What was so great about the Great Depression? What was the Bonus Army? Chapter 33 The Great Depression and the New Deal What were the New Deal and the Hundred Days? What was the WPA? Why did FDR try to pack the Supreme Court? What happened to Amelia Earhart? Chapter 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War What was Lend-Lease? Who were the Fascists? What did FDR know about a Japanese attack, and when did he know it?
Chapter 35 America in WW II Zinn A People s War pgs 407-424 What was the cost of WW II? What was the Yalta conference? How did FDR die? Did the United States have to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Chapter 36 The Cold War Begins Zinn A people s War pgs 425-435 DKMA Chapter 7 What was the Truman Doctrine? What were the Pumpkin Papers/ Why were the Rosenbergs executed for espionage? Who fought in the Korean War? Chapter 37 The Eisenhower Era DKMA Chapter 7 What was McCarthyism? What was Teddy Roosevelt s grandson doing in Iran? What was Brown v. Board of Education? Why did the arrest of a woman named Rosa Parks change American life? Why did President Eisenhower send the Army into Little Rock, Arkansas? How did a doll in stiletto heels and a Chicago publisher change America? Chapter 38 The Stormy Sixties Zinn Chapter 17 Or does it explode? DKMA Chapter 8 How did Richard Nixon s five-o clock shadow spoil his 1960 campaign for president? What happened at the Bay of Pigs? What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? What was The Feminine Mystique? Who was right? The Warren Commission or Oliver Stone? Did Mississippi Burning really happen? What was the Tonkin Resolution? What happened in Watts? Who was Miranda? What happened at My Lai? How did a successful break-in in Pennsylvania change the FBI? Chapter 39 The Stalemated Seventies Zinn Chapter 18 The Impossible Victory: Vietnam DKMA Chapter 8
How did Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger try to stop the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon papers? Why did Jane Roe sue Wade? How did a botched burglary become a crisis called Watergate and bring down a powerful president? How did OPEC cripple America during the 1970s? Chapter 40 The Resurgence of Conservatism Zinn Chapter 19 Surprises DKMA Chapter 8 What was voodoo economics? What happened to the space shuttle Challenger? Why was Ronald Reagan called the Teflon President? What happened to the Evil Empire? Chapter 41 America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era DKMA Chapter 9 Can a man called Bubba become president? Who took out a Contract with America? What is is? Is that chad dimpled, pregnant or hanging?