APUSH
READING ASSIGNMENTS
Note: This page is intended to be a general
overview of reading assignments and the pace at which we will
work. The Reading assignments are aligned with The
American Pageant, 10th Edition. You should consult the assignment as written on the
blackboard and your syllabus for more detailed information, including written work and outside
reading, as the year progresses.
AUGUST
ASSIGNMENTS
August 5: Course Introduction
August 8-11 "Colonial America Before
1750"
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American Pageant, Chapters 1 -5
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Preparing for
the AP Examination, FRQs and DBQs
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Readings
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Test on Early America, Ch 1-5
August 12-17 "The Duel for North
America"
August 18-22 "The Coming of the Revolution"
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American Pageant, Chapter
7, pp. 121-140
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Readings
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Test on Colonial America, Ch 6-7
August 23-26 "America Secedes From the Empire"
August 29-31 "The Confederation and
the Constitution"
SEPTEMBER
ASSIGNMENTS
September -September 9 "Launching
the New Ship of State"
September 12-15: "The Triumph and
Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy"
September 16-21: "The Second War for
Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism"
September 22-26: "The Rise of
Jacksonian Democracy"
September 27-30, "Jacksonian
Democracy at Floodtide
OCTOBER
ASSIGNMENTS
October 3-5 , "Forging the National
Economy, 1790-1860
October 6-11, "The Ferment of Reform
and Culture"
October 12: No Classes
October 13-17, "The South and the
Slavery Controversy"
October 18-21, "Manifest Destiny and
Its Legacy"
October 24-26, "Renewing the
Sectional Struggle"
October 27-November 1, "Drifting
Towards Disunion, 1854-1861"
NOVEMBER
ASSIGNMENTS
November 2-4, "Girding for War: The
North and the South, 1861-1865"
November 7-11, "The Furnace of Civil
War, 1861-1865"
November 14-16, "The Ordeal of
Reconstruction"
November 17-23, "Politics of the
Gilded Age"
November 24-27: Thanksgiving Break
November 29-30, "Industry Comes of
Age, 1865-1900"
DECEMBER
ASSIGNMENTS
December 1-7, "America Moves to the
City, 1865-1900
December 8-12
December 13-16
December 19-January 2: No Classes,
Christmas Recess
JANUARY ASSIGNMENTS
January 4: Classes Resume
January 4-7, " The Great West"
January 10-13 "The Revolt of the
Debtor"
January 17: No School
January 14-19:"The Path of
Empire"
January 20-25: "The Burdens of
Empire"
January 26-31: "Progressivism and
the Republican Roosevelt"
FEBRUARY
ASSIGNMENTS
February 1- 3: "Wilsonian
Progressivism at Home and Abroad"
February 7-9: "The War to End
War"
February 10-14: American Life in the
Roaring Twenties"
February 15-18: "The Politics of
Boom and Bust"
February 21: No Classes, Presidents' Day
February 22-24: "The Great
Depression and the New Deal"
February 25-March 1: "Franklin
Roosevelt and the Shadow of War"
MARCH ASSIGNMENTS
March 2-4: "America in World War
II"
March 7-9: "The Cold War
Begins"
March 10-15: "The Eisenhower Era,
1952-1960"
March 16-23: "The Stormy Sixties,
1960-1968"
March 24-April 1: Easter Break
APRIL ASSIGNMENTS
April 4-7: "The Stalemated
Seventies, 1968-1980"
April 8-12: "The Resurgence of
Conservatism, 1981-1992"
April 13-May 5: Review for AP Exam
Saturday, April 23: Practice AP Exam
MAY ASSIGNMENTS
May 5, 2005: AP U.S. History Exam
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