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Week Twenty-eight (4/14)	Unit Nine test(29-33)	Carnes, chapter 32 and 33
Week Twenty-nine (4/21)	Unit ten: Synthesis and Review Review Session All Day Thursday.
Week Thirty (4/28)		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 29-33. Download and take both tests to turn in by April 28. 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.

Overview of Absolutely Everything!

Topic and Learning Objectives

Assignment

Week One

Unit One: Colonial America

1. Describe the defining characteristics of Native American cultures & evaluate the impact of the European invasion on those cultures.

2. Explain why English settlers came to America—discuss regional variations.

3. Describe the characteristics of successful colonization that evolved in English America by 1700.

Carnes, Prologue

Week Two

1. Identify influences that transformed early immigrants into “Americans.”

2. Explain the emergence of slavery in the southern colonies.

3. Compare and contrast the demographic characteristics, political institutions, economic pursuits of New England, Middle, and southern colonies.

Carnes, chapters 1 & 2

“American Society in the Making”

Week Three

1. Define the basic assumptions and describe the operation of the British colonial system.

2. Assess the impact of the Great Awakening and Enlightenment on the intellectual and spiritual life of the colonies.

3. Trace the course of key events between 1763 and 1775 that worsened relations between England and the colonies.

Carnes, chapter 3

“America in the British Empire”

Unit One Test

Week Four

Unit Two: Revolutionary America

1. Analyze the intent and content of the Declaration of Independence.

2. Identify the key battles of the Revolutionary War.

Carnes, chapter 4

“The American Revolution”

Week Five

1. Explain how the Articles of Confederation failed as a national government for the United States.

2. Describe the work of the Philadelphia convention.

3. Explain the origins of the party system in American politics—contrast the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists, Republicans.

Carnes, chapter 5

“The Federalist Era”: The Constitution

Holiday

Week Six

1. Discuss key elements of Jefferson’s presidency and assess their significance: relationship with John Marshall and the courts; The Louisiana Purchase; foreign policy concerns.

2. Explain why the U.S. and Britain went to war in 1812.

3. Explain the opposition to the war by the Federalists.

4. Describe the outcome of the war, the Treaty of Ghent, and diplomatic settlements with Britain and Spain.

5. Explain and discuss the significance of the Monroe Doctrine; the Missouri Compromise.

Carnes, chapters 6&7

“National Growing Pains”

Unit Two test

Week Seven

Unit Three: Democratic America

1. List and discuss the major issues that began to divide the nation into competing political sections in the 20s.

2. Identify the emerging leaders from the North, South, and West in the 1820s.

3. Trace the development of the factory system.

4. Discuss the growth of cotton as the major crop in the South.

5. List key internal improvements that produced a transportation revolution in early 19^th century America.

6. Discuss the presidency of Andrew Jackson and his economic policies.

7. Compare and contrast the principles and policy positions of the Democrats and Whigs.

Carnes, chapters 8&9

“A National Economy”

&”Jacksonian Democracy”

Week Eight

1. Explain why a class-conscious industrial proletariat did not appear in the early stages of America’s Industrial Revolution.

2. Trace how industrialization changed the American family and how families adapted to these changes.

3. State the origins of 19^th century social reform movements, and assess their impact on American life.

4. Define literary romanticism and transcendentalism.

5. Discuss major themes in America’s civic and popular culture.

Carnes, chapters 10 & 11

“Middle-Class America”

Week Nine

1. Define “Manifest Destiny” and relate it to the conduct of American diplomacy in the 1840s.

2. Explain why the U.S. and Mexico went to war in 1846 and explain why The U.S. won the war.

3. Describe how the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo set the stage for a renewed debate over slavery.

4. State and discuss the terms of the Compromise of 1850.

5. Compare and contrast the views of national leaders as they debated the issue of slavery in the territories.

Carnes, chapter 12

“Expansion and Slavery”

Unit Three test

Week Ten

Unit Four: Civil War

1. Analyze the importance of slavery to the South’s economy .

2. Explain how economic differences between N. and S. and the pattern of railroad construction fed sectional resentment.

3. Explain the failure of the Compromise of 1850.

4. Describe the intent, provisions, and impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

5. Evaluate the significance of the Dred Scott decision, Lincoln-Douglass debates, John Brown’s Raid, and election of 1860 to the Secession crisis.

Carnes, chapters 13 & 14

“The Sections Go Their Ways”

Thanksgiving

Week Eleven

1. Compare and contrast the disadvantages and advantages of the North and South.

2. Trace the course of key military campaigns between 1861 and 1865.

3. Compare and contrast the leadership skills of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, and of Grant and Lee.

4. Assess the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation as an instrument of war and as a source of social revolution.

Carnes, chapter 15

“The War to Save the Union”

Week Twelve

1. Compare and contrast the provisions of presidential and congressional Reconstruction plans.

2. Explain the dominance of sharecropping and crop lien agriculture in the South.

3. Explain why Radical reconstruction governments faltered and were replaced by conservative.

4. List the provisions of the 14^th and 15^th Amendments.

Carnes, chapter 16

“Reconstruction and the South”

Unit Four test

Week Thirteen

Semester Exam

Christmas Break

Week Fourteen

Unit Five: Industrial America

1. Explain the significance of Booker T. Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise.”

2. Identify the federal government’s policies toward the Plains Indians in the late nineteenth century and explain the relative success or failure of each.

3. Compare and contrast the key features of the mining, farming, and cattle frontiers and identify the significance of railroads to each.

Carnes, chapter 17

“In the Wake of War”

Week Sixteen

1. Describe the impact of Andrew Carnegie and compare it to John D. Rockefeller.

2. Assess the traditional support for free enterprise along with interest in government regulation.

3. Elaborate the conditions that gave rise to labor unions and labor violence in the late 19^th century.

Differentiate between “old” and “new” immigration.

4. Explain how and why cities grew and relate this to late 19^th century social problems.

Carnes, chapter 18-19

“America in the Industrial Age”

Week Seventeen

1. Identify developments in the late 19^th century that were responses to the public’s thirst for knowledge.

2. Compare and contrast the key changes that occurred in American education in the late 19^th century—from public schools through graduate schools.

3. Explain how Darwin’s evolutionary theory influenced the social sciences.

4. Define literary romanticism, realism, and naturalism.

Carnes, chapter 20

“Intellectual and Cultural Trends”

Unit Five test

Week Eighteen

Unit Six: Melting Pot America

1. Describe characteristics of city governments in the late 19^th century. Assess how well they faced and solved their problems.

2. Explain how farm discontent led to the formation of the Alliance and Populist movements. Assess the program they offered and the reasons for their failure.

3. Explain the origins and philosophy of the progressive movement.

4. Evaluate the Roosevelt administration: business policies, Square Deal.

5. Explain how Taft split the Republican party 1909.

6. Evaluate W. Wilson’s presidency using his “New Freedom” campaign message as criteria.

Carnes, chapters 21-22

“Politics and Reform”

Week Nineteen

1. List factors leading to the rise of imperialism in the U.S. and explain American special interest in Latin America and the Far East.

2. Summarize the Spanish-American War with reference to causes, key battles, outcome, and the peace treaty.

3. Evaluate the significance of the Open Door policy in China.

4. Trace the timetable of events that led to the construction of the Panama Canal.

Carnes, chapter 23

“From Isolation to Empire”

Week Twenty

1. Outline the steps by which the U.S. became involved in World War I.

2. Explain how war mobilization affected the economy, the status of civil liberties, and the progressive movement in the U.S.

3. Describe the critical role American troops played in the war.

4. Explain how the Paric Peace Conference revised the European map and established the League of Nations—& why the U.S. did not sign the Treaty of Versailles.

5. Explain the outbreak of the postwar “Red Scare.”

Carnes, chapter 24

“Woodrow Wilson and the Great War”

Week Twenty-one

Review

Unit Six test

Week Twenty-two

Unit Seven: Modern America

1. Explain how and why America “closed the gates” to immigration in the 1920s. Connect this to success of prohibition campaign, popularity of fundamentalism, renewed KKK.

2. Summarize changing social patterns; explain why women’s issues gained greater prominence.

3. Identify literary trends among the “lost generation,” Paris expatriates, black nationalists, and the Harlem Renaissance.

4. Explain how the automobile and airplane revolutionized American life.

Carnes, chapter 25

“Postwar Society and Culture”

Week Twenty-three

1. Assess the key accomplishments of the Harding and Coolidge administrations.

2. Explain how the economic problems of the 1920s led to the stock market crash of 1929.

3. Evaluate Hoover’s policies to curb the Great Depression. What were the effects of the Great Depression on the American people?

Carnes, chapter 26

“The New Era: 1921-1933”

Week Twenty-four

1. Explain how FDR’s New Deal sought to revive the economy amid the Great Depression.

2. Explain the political views of those who opposed FDR.

3. Evaluate FDR’s attempt to alter the Supreme Court.

4. Explain how the United States tried to remain isolated from events leading to the Second World War.

Carnes, chapter 27

“The New Deal: 1933-1941”

Unit Seven test

Easter Break

Week Twenty-five

Unit Eight: Superpower America

1. Explain how and why the attack on Pearl Harbor led the United States into World War II.

2. Show how WWII changed the economy on the American home front.

3. Discuss the impact of the war on American minorities.

4. Outline the European and Pacific war strategies.

5. Evaluate the decision to drop the atomic bomb at Hiroshima and explain how it and the decisions made at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences contributed to the postwar international order.

Carnes, chapter 28

“War and Peace”

Week Twenty-six

1. Identify the impact of postwar economic conversion on government management of the economy, labor organizations, and the fortunes of the Democratic Party.

2. Identify the major tenets of the containment doctrine and associate it with the conduct of U.S. foreign policy in the postwar years.

3. Explain the ramifications of the Korean War to American foreign and military policy.

4. Evaluate the anti-communist crusade of Senator Joseph McCarthy and its impact on civil liberties.

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

Carnes, chapter 29

“The American Century”

Unit Eight test

Week Twenty-seven

Unit Nine: Contemporary America

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

2. Discuss the American role in the Vietnam War and how the war contributed to domestic divisions.

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

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

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

6. Analyze the racial turmoil of the 1950s-1970s and discuss the ways African-Americans pursued civil rights.

7. What did the student revolt and the counterculture of the 1960s have in common? How were they different?

Carnes, chapters 30 & 31

“From Camelot to Watergate: Society in Flux”

Week Twenty-eight

1. Explain how economic problems—inflation, unemployment, recession, and deficits—have persisted since 1974.

2. Explain the origin and resolution of the 79-81 Iranian hostage crisis.

3. Explain how the Reagan revolution changed America.

4. Assess the Iran-Contra affair as it relates to U.S. foreign policy and the Reagan Administration.

5. Discuss the winding down of the Cold War.

6. Evaluate the origin and prosecution of the Persian Gulf War.

7. Explain the rise of terrorism.

8. Evaluate the House impeachment and Senate acquittal of President Clinton.

Carnes, chapters 32 & 33

“Running on Empty:The Nation Transformed”

Unit Nine test