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United States History AP
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United States History AP A

Colonial History

  • Understand the motives and methods of colonization: Spain, France, and Great Britain.

  • Recognize the factors bringing colonist to the New World.

  • Compare and contrast Southern, Middle, and New England political, economic, social, and religious patterns.

  • Understand cultural differences between Americans and Europeans.

Independence

  • Identify mercantilism costs and benefits for Britain and colonies.

  • Identify British policy changes post 1763.

  • Recognize emerging colonial cooperation and the decision for independence.

  • Understand the military victory and terms of the Treaty of Paris.

Post-Independence and the Critical Period

  • Understand the US government under the Articles of Confederation successes and failures.

  •  Describe the Constitutional Convention's personalities, compromises, and ratification.

  • Identify differences between Hamilton vs. Jefferson.

  • Recognize how British and French conflict impacted American politics in terms of trade, diplomacy, and Alien and Sedition Acts.

Growth of Nationalism

  • Understand Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" in regards of changes in party positions, the Louisiana Purchase, and diplomatic problems.

  • Identify causes, conduct, and consequences in the War of 1812 in terms of the Era of Good Feelings, Rise of Nationalism, and Diplomatic achievements.

  • Identify the Marshall Court rulings and precedents.

  • Define the Monroe Doctrine.

The Age of Jackson

  • Identify the consequences of the election of 1824 and the founding of Jackson's Democratic party.

  • Understand the effects of the Jackson administration on American politics in terms of the Spoils System, nullification, Bank War, and the Cherokee Removal.

  • Understand Manifest Destiny and how it caused the War with Mexico.

  • Recognize immigration; social, political, and economic developments; and reform movements, 1820-1850.

Slavery and Sectionalism

  • Assess slavery as a social and economic institution.

  • Understand the politics of slavery in terms of the following: Missouri Compromise, Abolitionists, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott Decision, Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's Raid, and the election of 1860.

Civil War and Reconstruction

  • Identify strengths and weaknesses, event and outcomes during the Civil War.

  • Access the home front, North and South in regards to mobilizing power, finances, public opinion, social, economic, and political impact of war.

  • Contrast Presidential vs. Congressional Reconstruction plans and actions.

  • Track economic development in the New South.

  • Understand the 1877 Compromise and Home Rule.

  • Compare Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois's leadership styles and programs.

  • Understand the role of Native Americans post Civil War in regards to the Plains War and Reservation policy as well as Dawes Act.

  • Compare reform attitudes towards African Americans and Native Americans in the late 19th century.

Rise of Business and Labor

  • Understand Gilded Age Politics in regards to party alignment and political corruption.

  • Track industrial growth.

  • Recognize government support and actions regarding business.

  • Identify business tycoons' methods, accomplishments, philosophies.

  • Understand the rise of organized labor.

  • Recognize the change in living conditions, rich and poor.

  • Identify union leaders, methods, successes, and failures.

Populist and Progressives

  • Identify causes for the Agrarian Revolt in regards to post war problems, the Grange and attempts to organize, and the election of 1896.

  • Identify social and cultural developments of the late 19th century.

  • Describe urban middle class reformers such as Muckrakers, women's movement, political corruption and cries for change, consumer and environmental protection, business and labor issues, Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson's response to the Progressive Movement.

Imperialism and World War I

  • Understand the reasoning behind the United States becoming an imperial nation.

  • Describe the Spanish-American War with respect to the Cuban situation with Spain and the U.S. reaction to it, preparing the military for action, and Philippine Annexation.

  • Define the Open Door Policy and its changing of American foreign policy in Asia.

  • Understand TR's "Big Stick" Diplomacy in regards to the Roosevelt Corollary and how it was applied, intervention in Panama and the building of the canal.

  • TR-peace negotiator.

  • Define Taft's dollar diplomacy.

  • Describe Wilson's missionary diplomacy in terms of Mexico, Neutrality from 1914-1917, WWI  and making the world "safe for democracy".

  • Indentify U.S. motivations to enter WWI.

  • Describe the effects of WWI at home in regards to economic impact, anti-foreignism (especially towards Germans), women, minorities, limitations on civil liberties, propaganda usage (Creel Commission).

  • Recognize motivations behind the Senate's rejection of the Treaty of Versailles.

The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

  • Identify reasons for the emergence of an affluent society following WWI in respect to postwar recession, agricultural problems, intolerance to foreigners, reemergence of the KKK, restrictions on immigration, Prohibition and the emergence of organized crime, Jazz Age culture, business growth and consolidation, credit, advertising, Republican Administrations, scandals, "the business of America is business", boom and bust in the stock market.

  • Understand how the Great Depression effected American society in regards to Hoover vs. FDR's responses to the Depression, New Deal programs, court packing, demographic shifts due to the Dust Bowl, extremists, the new Democratic Coalition, impact of the Depression on various demographics.

World War II and the Origins of the Cold War

  • Describe the U.S. response to aggression abroad and the attempt at neutrality such as Neutrality Acts, Cash and Carry, and Lend-Lease.

  • Understand the events leading up to Pearl Harbor and the U.S. response.

  • Describe military strategy in regards to "Get Germany First", the debate over creating a second front, Island hopping, and the Atomic Bomb.

  • Understand the impact of WWII on the home front in regards to Executive Order 9066, women, and minorities in the workplace.

  • Assess war time diplomacy in regards to the Atlantic Charter compared to Wilson's 14 Points, wartime conferences in Potsdam, Tehran, and Yalta.

  • Tracking the founding of the Untied Nations.

  • Describe how wartime alliances faltered and the emergence of a policy of containment in regards to the division of Germany and Berlin, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, and the Asian conflicts in China and Korea.

Post War Domestic Issues

  • Assess the Truman administration in terms of the Fair Deal, GI Bill of Rights, 22nd amendment, election of 1948, Loyalty Program, and integration of the Armed Forces.

  • Asses the Eisenhower administration in terms of McCarthyism, highway construction, Brown vs. Board of Education, and the Warren rulings.

  • Assess the Kennedy administration in terms of the government's response to the Civil Rights movement, the war on poverty, the Great Society, counterculture and the Antiestablishment Movement.

Cold War Foreign Policy

  • Describe the Eisenhower Doctrine.

  • U2 incident between Eisenhower and Khrushchev.

  • Understand the differences between liberation vs. containment in terms of government actions such as Dulles and massive retaliation.

  • Describe Asian policies on China, Korea, and Southeast Asia and the Geneva Accords.

  • Understand Kennedy's reaction to Cold War events in terms of flexible response, Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress, military and economic aid for Southeast Asia and the United States wets its toes in Vietnam, Cuba, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Detente.

  • Assess Johnson's decision to escalate the conflict in Vietnam in terms of the Tonkin Resolution.

  • Understand Nixon's foreign policy decisions in Asia in terms of Vietnamization, Nixon Doctrine, Detente II, and China.

  • Describe events affecting the Carter Administration in terms of human rights, SALT II, Camp David Accords, Panama Canal Treaty, and the Iran Hostage Crisis.

  • Describe the Reagan administration's response to the Cold War in terms of the "evil empire", Star Wars (Strategic Defense Initiative), Fall of Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.

 

 

 

 

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