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Study Session: Topics 9-13 DBQ Workshop 2 Study Session: Topics 14-16
9. Territorial Expansion and – Planning (chart) 14. Development of the
Manifest Destiny – Using the Documents West in the Late 19th
10. The Crisis of the Union – Time Management Century
11. Civil War – Killer Theses 15. Industrial America in the
12. Reconstruction – Practice setting up Late 19th Century
13. The Origins of the New essays 16. Urban Society in the
South Late 19th Century
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Study Session: Topics 17-19 Practice DBQ 1 Study Session: Topics 20-22
17. Populism and – 15 minute Reading 20. The Great Depression
Progressivism session and the New Deal
18. The Emergence of – 45 minute Writing 21. The Second World War
America as a World session 22. The Home Front During
Power – Trade & Grade the War
19. The New Era: 1920s – Discussion
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Study Session: Topics 23-25 Practice DBQ 2 Study Session: Topics 26-28
23. The United States and – 15 minute Reading 26. Politics and Economics
the Early Cold War session at the End of the 20th Massive Cram Session: Date TBD
24. The 1950s – 45 minute Writing Century – Comprehensive Timeline
25. The Turbulent 1960s session 27. Society and Culture at – In-Depth Overview of Major Concepts
– Trade & Grade the End of the 20th – Quiz Bowl: Practice Multiple Choice Questions (Team Competition)
– Discussion Century – Discussion & Test Taking Strategy
28. The United States in the
Post Cold War World
AP Test Topics Outline
1. Pre-Columbian Societies 9. Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny
• Early inhabitatnts of the Americas • Forced removal of American Indians to the trans-Mississippi West
• American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley • Western migration and cultural interactions
• American Indian Cultures of North America at the time of European Contact • Territorial acquisitions
• Early U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War
2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492-1690
• First European contacts with American Indians 10. The Crisis of the Union
• Spain’s empire in North America • Pro- and antislavery arguments and conflicts
• French colonization of Canada • Compromise of 1850 and popular sovereignty
• English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the South • The Kansas–Nebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party
• From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region • Abraham Lincoln, the election of 1860, and secession
• Religious diversity in the American colonies
• Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo 11. Civil War
Revolt • Two societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissent
• Military strategies and foreign diplomacy
3. Colonial North America, 1690-1754 • Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war
• Population growth and immigration • Social, political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West
• Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports
• The eighteenth-century back country 12. Reconstruction
• Growth of plantation economies and slave societies • Presidential and Radical Reconstruction
• The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening • Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures
• Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America • Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy
• Compromise of 1877
4. The American Revolutionary Era, 1754-1789 • Impact of Reconstruction
• The French and Indian War
• The Imperial Crisis and resistance to Britain 13. The Origins of the New South
• The War for Independence • Reconfiguration of southern agriculture: sharecropping and crop-lien system
• State constitutions and the Articles of Confederation • Expansion of manufacturing and industrialization
• The federal Constitution • The politics of segregation: Jim Crow and disfranchisement
5. The Early Republic, 1789-1815 14. Development of the West in the Late 19th Century
• Washington, Hamilton, and shaping of the national government • Expansion and development of western railroads
• Emergence of political parties: Federalists and Republicans • Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians
• Republican Motherhood and education for women • Government policy toward American Indians
• Beginnings of the Second Great Awakening • Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West
• Significance of Jefferson’s presidency • Environmental impacts of western settlement
• Expansion into the trans-Appalachian West; American Indian resistance
• Growth of slavery and free Black communities 15. Industrial America in the Late 19th Century
• The War of 1812 and its consequences • Corporate consolidation of industry
• Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace
6. Transofmation of Economy and Society in Antebellum America • Labor and unions
• The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy • National politics and influence of corporate power
• Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures • Migration and immigration: the changing face of the nation
• Immigration and nativist reaction • Proponents and opponents of the new order, e.g., Social Darwinism and Social Gospel
• Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South
16. Urban Society in the Late 19th Century
7. Transformation of Polictics in Antebellum America • Urbanization and the lure of the city
• Emergence of the second party system • City problems and machine politics
• Federal authority and its opponents: judicial federalism, the Bank War, tariff controversy, and • Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment
states’ rights debates
• Jacksonian democracy and its successes and limitations 17. Populism and Progressivism
• Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century
8. Religion, Reform and Renaissance in Antebellum America • Origins of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and national
• Evangelical Protestant revivalism • Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive presidents
• Social reforms • Women’s roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reform
• Ideals of domesticity • Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives
• Transcendentalism and utopian communities
• American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions
14. The Emergence of America as a World Power 26. Politics and Economics at the End of the 20th Century
• American imperialism: political and economic expansion • The election of 1968 and the “Silent Majority”
• War in Europe and American neutrality • Nixon’s challenges: Vietnam, China, and Watergate
• The First World War at home and abroad • Changes in the American economy: the energy crisis, deindustrialization, and the service
• Treaty of Versailles economy
• Society and economy in the postwar years • The New Right and the Reagan revolution
• End of the Cold War
15. The New Era: 1920s
• The business of America and the consumer economy 27. Society and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
• Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover • Demographic changes: surge of immigration after 1965, Sunbelt migration, and the graying
• The culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment of America
• Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition • Revolutions in biotechnology, mass communication, and computers
• The ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and women • Politics in a multicultural society
20. The Great Depression and the New Deal 28. The United States in the Post Cold War World
• Causes of the Great Depression • Globalization and the American economy
• The Hoover administration’s response • Unilateralism vs. multilateralism in foreign policy
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal • Domestic and foreign terrorism
• Labor and union recognition • Environmental issues in a global context
• The New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the Left
• Surviving hard times: American society during the Great Depression