A.P. U.S. History

April 8-10, 2008

1. Read: Read chapters 30 and 31 and complete the study guides.  Take notes on the chapters —study and learn their contents.  Take the online quizzes. (Due April 15).

Study Guide: Chapter 30

“From Camelot to Watergate”

Write thorough, thoughtful answers to all of the following objectives and questions.

1.  Learning Objectives: 

1.  Show how the civil rights movement changed American life.

2.  Discuss the American role in Viet Nam and how the war contributed to domestic divisions.

3.  Evaluate the successes and shortcomings of President Johnson’s Great Society social programs.

4.  Explain how President Nixon tried to wind down American involvement in Viet Nam.

5.  Explain how a “third rate burglary” led to President Nixon’s resignation.

2.  Terms to Define:


1.  “sit-in”

2.  freedom rides

3.  “search and destroy”

4.  executive privilege

5.  “the best and the brightest”

6.  “expletive deleted”

7.  Vietcong

8.  Warren Commission

9.  Montgomery bus boycott

10.  “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

11.  Job Corps

12.  Head Start

13.  SALT I

14.  CREEP

15.  Medicare/Medicaid

16.  Minutemen

17.  “I Have a Dream”

18.  Robert S. McNamara

19.  Lee Harvey Oswald

20.  Malcolm X

21.  Barry M. Goldwater

22.  Eugene McCarthy

23.  Robert F. Kennedy

24.  Hubert H. Humphrey

25.  George C. Wallace

26.  Henry A. Kissinger

27.  George S. McGovern

 


3.  Essay Questions:

1.  Explain how the reality of the Kennedy administration was often at odds with the image of Camelot..

2.  Show how the Watergate affair forced Nixon from office and diminished his standing in history.

3.  Discuss the promises, shortcomings, and long-term significance of President Johnson’s Great Society.

Study Guide: Chapter 31

“Society in Flux”

Write thorough, thoughtful answers to all of the following objectives and questions.

1.  Learning Objectives: 

1.  Evaluate the impact of religion on mid-twentieth century American life.

2.  Evaluate educational developments of the post-war years and explain the rationale of the student revolt.

3.  Explain the appearance of the “sexual revolution” in the 1960s and then identify the connections between that movement and the rise of a new women’s liberation movement.

5.  Explain how civil rights emerged in the political arena of the 1950s and 1960s.

2.  Terms to Define:


1.  “vast wasteland”

2.  “organization man”

3.  black power

4.  barrios

5.  braceros

6.  Chicanos

7.  hippies

8.  SNCC

9.  American Indian Movement

10.  NDEA

11.  Dr. Benjamin Spock

12.  Norman Mailer

13.  Jack Kerouac

14.  Joseph Heller

15.  Jackson Pollock

16.  Andy Warhol

17.  Muhammed Ali

18.  Allen Ginsburg


3.  Essays:

1.  Explain how television influenced American thought and culture in the post-war years. 

2.  Assess the “two dilemmas” that America faced from a cultural standpoint in the post-war years.

 

Week Twenty-seven  (4/7)

Unit Eight test (26, 27, 28)

UnitNineContemporaryAmerica

Carnes, chapter 30, 31

Week Twenty-eight  (4/14)

 

Carnes, chapter 32

Week Twenty-nine  (4/21)

Unit ten: Synthesis and Review

Review Session All Day Thursday.

Carnes, chapter 33

 

Week Thirty  (4/28)

Unit Nine test(29-33)

Practice A.P. Tests

Week Thirty-one  (5/5)

A.P. Exam: Friday a.m.

Practice A.P. tests

Week Thirty-two  (5/12)

Portfolios

 

Week Thirty-three (5/19)

Semester Final Exam

 

 

2.  Upcoming Events:  Plan for a full day of review and testing on April 24.  We will meet in our regular classroom from 9:00 to 3:00.  I will provide lunch for the weary!

Come prepared with notes, paper, pens, and pencils!!!

 

3.  Tests:  On the website you will find a test on chapters 26-28.  Download and take both tests to turn in by April 17.  No late tests will be accepted!

 

4.  Help!!!  For those of you who have not started to review, the time is now—seize the day!  Again I urge you to invest in cards, in a review book, and in a study group!!!  Check out the internet for some helpful resources there:

Sparksnotes has a WONDERFUL site for U.S. History review--  

                        http://www.sparknotes.com/history/#american

 

            In addition, Sparks has started a new service—notes and quizzes for the iPod.  Google it for more information.

 

            And probably best of all is the http://www.Collegeboard.com website where you can find actual test questions from the past.