AP United States History Syllabus - Public Schools of Robeson County

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1850; The Fugitive Slave Law; President Pierce and expansion, 1853-1857; Senator Douglas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act; Uncle Tom’s Cabin; “Bleeding Kansas”; Dred Scott; The financial panic of 1857; The Lincolon-Douglas debates; John Brown; Lincoln and Republican victory, 1860; Secession; Fort Sumter; European intervention; Lincoln and civil liberties; Financing the Civil War; Women and the war; Bull Run; Total War; Antietam; The Emancipation Proclamation; Black soldiers; Gettysburg; Sherman marches through Georgia; Appomattox, 1865; The assassination of Lincoln, April 1865; Johnson’s Reconstruction policies; The Black Codes; Congressional Reconstruction; Military Reconstruction; “Black Reconstruction” and the Ku Klux Klan; The impeachment of Andrew Johnson; The legacy of Reconstruction. Major Assignments: 1. Readings with essential questions. 2. Selected Vocabulary 3. Historical Journal a. News Story: John Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry. b. Advertisement: Land Available In Kansas-Nebraska Territory – Take the side of a proslavery or freesoiler and create an advertisement flyer to send back to the east to encourage people to come west. c. Create an obituary for Jefferson Davis or Abraham Lincoln. d. Series of Journal Entries: An African American in the South between 1860 and 1869 traveling to the north or the west. 4. Historical Writing Essay: Compare and contrast the Confederate Constitution and the United States Constitution. Identify those parts of the Confederate Constitution which might be considered reforms of the United States Constitution. 5. Unit Multiple Choice Test with DBQ Goal 6 Activities: Pie Graph: Five leading exports of the United States in 1850 and 1860. Geographic Activity: Map the route of the Underground Railroad. Debate on slavery within the south “Choosing Sides” – Abolitionist or Plantation Owner. Cooperative Groups: Identify the sectional arguments in the Webster-Hayne Debates. Cooperative Groups: Identify the four party platforms of the Election of 1860. Geographic Activity: Map the United States (Free/slave states, first seven states to secede, second four states to secede, border states, capital of the Union and Confederacy). Bar Graph The Confederacy and The Union: Industrial Production, Agricultural Production, Population. Timeline the major conflicts of the Civil War. Complete a War Summary Chart for the Civil War. Complete a Reconstruction Reform Chart. Timeline the major events of Reconstruction. DBQ Analysis: Historical Essay with Thesis, Supporting evidence from documents and expanded historical knowledge: Antebellum Compromise DBQ, Compromise of 1850 DBQ, Reconstruction DBQ. 8
Unit Four: Forging an Industrial Society Unit Four Objectives: Goal 7: In order to understand and evaluate the great westward movement, the emergence of the New South, and the impact of the agricultural revolution on the nation. The Student Will Be Able To: 1. Examine the rise of The New South and assess the changes and impact that this concept brought to the southern economy and society. 2. Evaluate the impact of westward expansion on American Indians, the environment, and the American economy. 3. Analyze reasons for the rise of the Populist Party, assess their goals and evaluate their effects on American politics and economics. Content and/or Skills Taught: Ulysses S. Grant; 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; Jim Crow; Class conflict and ethnic clashes; Grover Cleveland and the Tariff; Benjamin Harrison and the “Billion Dollar Congress”; The Populists; Depression and Dissent. Major Assignments: 1. Readings with essential questions. 2. Selected Vocabulary 3. Historical Journal a. Campaign Promotion Flyer: Outline the social, political, and economic programs of the Populist Party. 4. Historical Writing Essay: Choose a. Analyze the impact of the frontier on American life from 1607 to 1890. b. Examine the political problems that plagued farmers of the Great Plains and trace the rise of the Populist Party. Evaluate the impact of the reforms in business regulation that the Populists introduced. Goal 8: In order to understand and analyze how industrialization, immigration, urbanization, political machines, and the new intellectual movements impacted America. The Student Will Be Able To: 1. Contrast the Second Industrial Revolution with the First Industrial Revolution and analyze the contributions of industrial leaders and the following industries: railroads, iron industry, coal mining, electricity, steel production, oil drilling, and banking. 2. Assess the impact of laissez faire conservatism in late 19 th century economics and politics. 3. Examine the rise of labor unions and evaluate the impact these groups had on America. 4. Describe the rise of cities in the last half of the 19 th century and analyze the problems and reforms that resulted. 5. Evaluate the intellectual and cultural movements of the time and determine how they impacted American life and society. Content and/or Skills Taught: The railroad boom; Speculators and financiers; Early efforts at government regulation; Lords of Industry; The Gospel of Wealth; Industry in the South; The laboring class; The rise of trade unions; The rise of the city; The “New Immigrant”; Settlement houses and social workers; Nativists and immigration restriction; 9
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