UNIT ONE: Founding the New Nation
Approximately 2 weeks
TOPICS/ THEMES
CHAPTER 1: New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C. - A.D. 1769
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 Geology of the New World
 Native Americans before
Columbus
 Europeans and Africans
 Columbus and the early explorers
 The Ecological Consequences of
Columbus’s discovery
 The conquest of Mexico
 Spain builds a New World Empire
Pageant pages 4-24
Primary Source Documents Chapter 1:
European Exploration & Colonization
pages1-18
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Zinn
Reading Quizzes
 Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de
Sat’ Angel (1493)
 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, “Indians
of the Rio Grande” (1528-1536)
 Bartolommeo de las Casa, “Of the Island
of Hispaniola” (1542)
 Jacques Marquette, from the Mississippi
Voyages of Jolliet and Marquette (1673)
 Zinn, Chapter 1, A People’s History of
the United States
CHAPTER 2: The Planting of English America, 1500-1733
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 England on the eve of an empire
 The expansion of Elizabethan
England
 The planting of Jamestown
 English Settlers and native
Americans
 The growth of Virginia and
Maryland
 England in the Caribbean
 Settling the Carolinas and Georgia
Dates:
Pageant pages 25- 42
Primary Source Documents Chapter 2:
The Early English Colonies pages 19-36
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John Smith, “The Starving Time”
(1624)
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The laws of Virginia (1610-1611)
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Bacon’s Rebellion: The Declaration
(1676)
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John Winthrop, “A Model of
Christian Charity” (1630)
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Excerpt from the Trial of Anne
Hutchinson (1637)
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Zinn, Chapter 3, A People’s History
of the United States
Dates:
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
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Think, Group, Share
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Primary Source Analysis
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Opposing Viewpoints: Zinn
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Reading Quizzes
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DBQ 1: English-Indian Relations
(pages 28-42, 49, 52, 68)
CHAPTER 3: Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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The Puritan Faith
Plymouth Colony
R.I. C.T. and N.H.
Puritans and Indians
The Confederation and Dominion
of New England
 New Netherlands becomes New
York
 Pennsylvania, the Quaker Colony
 N.J. and D.E.
TOPICS/ THEMES
Pageant pages 43-65
Primary Source Documents: Chapter 3
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Primary Source Analysis
History in the Making Chapter
1 and Chapter 5
Indentured Servants and Slaves pages 37-52
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William Bull, Report on the Stono
Rebellion (1793)
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Gottlieb Mittelberger, The passage
of Indentured Servants (1750)
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Elizabeth Sprigs, Letter to Her
Father (1756)
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Olaudah Equiano, The Middle
Passage (1788)
 Alexander Falconbridge, The African
Slave Trade (1788)
 Zinn, Chapter 2, A People’s History of
the United States
CHAPTER 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607 - 1692
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 Life and Labor in Chesapeake
Tobacco Region
 Indentured Servants and Bacon’s
Rebellion
 The spread of slavery
 African American culture
 Southern Society
 New England Families
 Declining Puritan piety
 The Salem witchcraft trials
 Daily life in the colonies
Dates:
Pageant pages 66-83
Primary Source Documents: Chapter 4
Uniquely American pages 53-64
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William Byrd II, Diary (1790)
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Michel-Guillaume-Jean de
Crevecouer from Letters from an
American Farmer (1782)
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Benjamin Franklin, “Upon Hearing
George Whitfield Preach” (1771)
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Jonathan Edwards, from “Sinners in
the Hands of an Angry God” (1741)
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James Oglethorpe, Establish the
Colony of Georgia (1733)
Dates:
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
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Primary Source Analysis
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Unit Test
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Unit Test Reflections
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DBQ 2: The Transformation of
Colonial Virginia (pages 27-33, 66-76)
UNIT TWO
American Revolution
Approximately 3 Weeks
CHAPTER 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 Immigration and population
growth
 Colonial social structure
 The Atlantic economy
 The role of religion
 The Great Awakening of the 1730s
 Education and culture
 Political and the Press
 Colonial Folkways
TOPICS/ THEMES
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Zinn, Chapter 3, A People’s History of the United
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Pageant pages 84-105
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Opposing Viewpoints: Zinn
Think, Group, Share Great
Awakening
CHAPTER 6: The Duel for North America, 1608-1763
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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New France
Fur-traders and Indians
Anglo-French colonial rivalries
Europe, America, & the 1st world
wars
 The Seventh Years’ War
 Pontiac’s Uprising and the
Proclamation of 1763
Pageant pages 106-121
CHAPTER 7: The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
 Roots of revolution
 The merits and menace of
mercantilism
 The Stamp Act crisis, 1765
 The Townsend Acts, 1767
 The Boston Tea Party, 1773
 The Intolerable Acts and the
Continental Congress, 1774
 Lexington, Concord, and the
gathering of clouds of war, 1775
 The rebel army
Pageant pages 122-139
Primary Source Documents Chapter 7:
A Revolutionary Era pages 65-78
 John Dickson, from Letters from a
Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768)
 Address if Inhabitants of Anson County
to Governor Martin (1774)
 Patrick Henry, “Give Me Liberty or Give
Me Death” (1775)
 Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas
Jefferson (1791)
 Judith Sagent Murray, “On Equality of
the Sexes” (1790)
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints:
Proclamation of 1763
Dates:
ASSIGNMENTS
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Essay Questions
Primary Source Analysis
Think, Group, Share
CHAPTER 8: American Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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Early skirmishes, 1775
American “republicanism”
The Declaration of Independence
Patriots and Loyalists
The fighting fronts
The French alliance
Yorktown
The Peace of Paris
Pageant pages 140-163
Zinn Chapter 5, A People’s History of the
United States
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Zinn
Unit Test
Unit Test Reflections
UNIT THREE
The New Nation/Constitution
Approximately 3 weeks
CHAPTER 9: The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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Changing the Political sentiments
The new states constitutions
Economic troubles
The Articles of Confederation
The Northwest Ordinance, 1787
Shays’s Rebellion, 1786
The Constitutional Conventions,
1787
 Ratifying the Constitution, 17871790
Pageant pages 166-189
Examining the Evidence:
Copley Family Portrait
Zinn Chapter 6 , A People’s History of the
United States
Varying Viewpoints:
The Constitution: Revolutionary or
Counterevoluntary
Primary Source Documents Chapter 9:
Forming the Young Republic pages 79-94
 George Washington, Farwell Address
(1796)
 Publius (James Madison), Federalist
Paper #10 (1788)
 George Mason, Objections to This
Constitution of Government (1787)
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Zinn
Think, Group, Share
 Molly Wallace, Valedictory Oration
(1792)
 “Petition for Access to Education” (1787)
CHAPTER 10: Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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Problems of the Young Republic
The First Presidency
The Bill of Rights, 1791
Hamilton’s Economic Policies
The emergence of political parties
The Impact of the French
Revolution
Jay’s Treaty, 1794
Washington’s Farewell 1797
President Adams keeps the peace
The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1789
Federalists v. Republicans
Pageant pages 190- 210
Primary Source Documents Chapter 10:
Settling the Government pages 95-110
 George Washington, Farewell
Address(1796)
 The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Six Degrees of Separation:
Proclamation of 1763 to the
Constitution
CHAPTER11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jefferson Republic
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 The “Revolution of 1800”
 The Jefferson presidency
 John Marshall and the Supreme
Court
 Barbay pirates
 The Louisiana Purchase, 1803
 The Anglo-French War
 The Embargo, 1807-1809
 Madison gambles with Napoleon
 Battle of the Shawnees
 A Declaration of War
Pageant pages 211-232
Examining the Evidence page 213
The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings
Controversy
Primary Source Documents Chapter 11
Settling the Government pages 95-110
 Marbury v. Madison (1803)
 Meriwether Lewis, Journal (1805)
 Tecumseh, Letter to Governor William
Henry Harrison (1810)
Dates:
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
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Reading Quizzes
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Primary Source Analysis
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Unit Test
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Unit Test Reflections
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DBQ 3: Thomas Jefferson and
Philosophical Consistency, 1790-1809
UNIT 4
War of 1812/Nationalism/Age of Jackson
Approximately 3.5 weeks
CHAPTER12: The Second War for Independence and The Upsurge of Nationalism
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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The Invasion of Canada, 1812
The war on land and sea
The Treaty of Ghent, 1814
The Hartford Convention, 18141815
A new national identity
“The American System”
James Monroe and the Era of Good
Feelings
Western Expansion
The Missouri Compromise, 1820
The Supreme Court Under John
Marshall
Oregon and Florida
The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
TOPICS/ THEMES
Pageant pages 233-255
Makers of America page 244
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Settlers of the Old Northwest
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Missouri
Compromise
Primary Sources:
Monroe Doctrine
Marshal Supreme Court Cases
CHAPTER13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824-1840
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 The “corrupt Bargain” of 1824
 President John Quincy Adams
 The triumph of Andrew Jackson,
1828
 The spoils system
 “The Tariff of Abominations,” 1828
 The South Carolina Nullification
Crisis
 The Removal of the Indians from the
southeast
 Jackson’s war on the Bank of the
United States
 The emergence of the Whig Party
 Martian Van Buren in the White
House
 Revolution in Texas
 William Henry Harrison’s “log
cabin” campaign
 Mass Democracy and the Two party
system
Dates:
Pageant pages 256-286
Election of 1824 Results (Chart & Graph)
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Bank of
United States
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Six Degrees of Separation:
From Jefferson to Jackson and
Makers of America page 278
Mexican or Texican?
Dates:
Varying Viewpoints page 285
Mass Democracy
What was Jacksonian Democracy?
Primary Source Documents Chapter 13:
The Jacksonian Era pages 111-124
 Andrew Jackson, First Annual
Message to Congress (1829)
 “Memorial of the Cherokee Nation”
(1830)
 Henry Clay, Speech Opposing
President Jackson’s Veto of the Bank
Bill
 Davy Crockett, Advice to politicians
(1833)
 Jose Maria Sanchez, “A Trip to Texas”
(1828)
CHAPTER14: Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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The western Movement
European Immigration
The Irish and the Germans
Nativism and assimilation
The coming of the factory system
Industrial workers
Woman and the economy
The ripening of the commercial
agriculture
 The transportation revolution
 A continental economy
Pageant pages 287-319
Makers of America page 294
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
The Irish
Makers of America page 298
The Germans
Examining the Evidence page 305
The Invention of the Sewing Machine
CHAPTER15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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Religious Revivals
The Mormons
Educational advances
The roots of reform
Temperance
Women’s roles and women’s rights
Utopian experiments
Science, art, and culture
A national literature
Pageant pages 320-347
Examining the Evidence page 333
Dress Reform
Makers of America page 336
The Oneida Community
Varying Viewpoints page 346
Reform: Who? What? How? And Why?
Primary Source Documents Chapter 15:
The Ferment of Reform pages 125-140
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Charles Finney, “Religious
Revival” (1835)
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Nathaniel Hawthorn, A
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
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Primary Source Analysis
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Unit Test
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Unit Test Reflections
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DBQ 4: The Changing Place of
Women 1815-1860
Letter From Brook Farm (1841)
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Dorthea Dix, Appeal on
Behalf of the Insane (1843)
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William Llyod Garrison,
from The Liberator (1831)
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
Unit 5
South & Slavery/Manifest Destiny/Failure of Compromise
Approximately 3.5 weeks
CHAPTER16: The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 The economy of the Cotton
Kingdom
 Southern Social Structure
 Poor Whites and free blacks
 The plantation system
 Life under slavery
 The abolitionist crusade
 The White Southern Response
 Abolition and the Northern
Conscience
Pageant pages 350-370
Examining the Evidence page 363
Bellgrove Plantation
Varying Viewpoints page 369
What was the true nature of slavery?
Primary Source Documents Chapter 10:
Living in Rebellion Against Antebellum
America pages 141-158
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The Harbinger, Female Workers of
Lowell (1836)
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Mary Paul, Letters Home (1845,
1846)
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Nat Turner, Confession (1831)
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Benjamin Drew, Narratives of
Escaped Slaves (1855)
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Henry David Thoreau, from “Civil
Disobedience (1849)
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Responses
Chapter Study Guide Quiz
History in the Making: Chapter
22 Slavery in America
CHAPTER17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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“Tyler Too” becomes president
Fixing the Maine boundary
The Annexation of Texas
Oregon Fever
James K. Polk, “the dark horse”
War with Mexico
Pageant pages 371-389
Makers of America page 386
The Californios
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Zinn
Think Group Share: Mexican
War
Zinn Chapter 8
, A People’s History of the
United States
Primary Source Documents Chapter 17:
Manifest Destiny and Its Consequences
pages 159-176
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John L. Sullivan, “The Great Nation
of Futurity” (1845)
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Thomas Corwin, Against the
Mexican War (1847)
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Elizabeth Dixon Smith Greer,
Journal (1847-1850)
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Chief Seattle, Oration (1854)
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The Ostend Manifesto (1854)
CHAPTER18: Renewing the Section Struggle, 1848-1854
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 Popular Sovereignty
 Zach Taylor and California
statehood
 The underground Railroad
 The Compromise of 1850
 The Fugitive Slave Law
 President Pierce and expansion
 Senator Douglas and the Kansas
Nebraska Act
Pageant pages 390-408
Compromise 3: Clay and the 1850 Debate
Lincoln/Douglas Debates
Zinn Chapter 9, A People’s History of the
United States
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Zinn
DBQ 5: Slavery and Sectional
Attitudes
TOPICS/ THEMES
CHAPTER19: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the spread
of abolitionist sentiment in the
North
 The contest for Kansas
 The election of James Buchanan
 The Dred Scott case, 1857
 The financial panic of 1857
 The Lincoln –Douglas debates,
1858
 John Brown’s raid on Harpers
Ferry
 Lincoln and the Republican victory
 Secession
Pageant pages 409-433
Examining the Evidence page 411
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Varying Viewpoints page 432
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
History in the Making: Chapter
24: John Brown
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Unit Test
Unit Test Reflections
The Civil War: Responsible or Irresponsible
Primary Source Documents Chapter 19:
Road to Civil War pages 177-192
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, form Uncle
Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
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Fredrick Douglas, Independence
Day Speech (1852)
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George Fizthugh, “The Blessings of
Slavery” (1857)
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John Brown, Address to the
Virginia Court (1859)
UNIT 6
Civil War and Reconstruction
Approximately 3 weeks
TOPICS/ THEMES
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CHAPTER20: Girding for War: The North and the South1861-1865
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
The attack on Fort Sumter
The crucial border states
The balances of forces
The threat of European
intervention
The importance of diplomacy
Lincoln and civil liberties
Men in uniform
Financing the Blue and the Gray
The economic impact of war
Women and the war
The fate of the south
Pageant pages 434-452
Makers of America page 440
Billy Yank and Johnny Reb
Election of 1860 Results (graph, chart)
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Zinn
Ken Burns Civil War Series
On the Eve of the Civil War
CHAPTER 21: The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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Bull Run end the “ninety-day war”
The Peninsula Campaign
The union wages total war
The war at sea
Antietam
The Emancipation Proclamation
Black solders
Confederate high tide at
Gettysburg
The war in the west
Sherman marches through Georgia
Politics in wartime
Appomattox
The Assassination of Lincoln
The legacy of war
Pageant pages 453-478
Examining the Evidence page 465
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Civil War
Varying Viewpoints page 478
What were the Consequences of the Civil War
Primary Source Documents Chapter 21:
The World Turned Upside Down pages
193-208
 James Henry Gooding, Letter to
President Lincoln (1863)
 Jefferson Davis, Second Inaugural
Address as President of the Confederate
States of America (1862)
 Clara Barton, Medical Life at the
battlefield (1862)
 Theodore A. Dodge, from Civil War
Diary (1863)
 Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
(1863)
CHAPTER 22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 The Defeated South
 The Freed Slaves
 President Andrew Johnson’s
Reconstruction Policies
 The Black Codes
 Congressional Reconstruction
policies
 Johnson Clashes with Congress
 Military Reconstruction
 Freed people Enter politics
 “Black Reconstruction” and the Ku
Klux Klan
 The Impeachment of Andrew
Johnson
 The Legacy of Reconstruction
Dates:
Pageant pages 479-501
Examining the Evidence page 483
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Letter from a Freedman to his old Master
Varying Viewpoints page 500
How Radical was Reconstruction?
Primary Source Documents Chapter 22:
To Heal the Nation’s Wounds pages 209226
 Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural
Address (1856)
 Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
History in the Making: Chapter
28
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Unit Test
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Unit Test Corrections
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DBQ 6:
Abraham Lincoln and the
Struggle for Union and
Emancipation
S
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Students will write an essay
 A Sharecrop Contract (1882)
 Congressional testimony on the Actions
of the Ku Klux Klan (1872)
 The Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Primary Sources
explaining how DuBois and
Washington criticized each
other.
Divisions of the New South
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Henry Grady, “The New South” (1886)
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From Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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Booker T. Washington, Atlanta
Exposition Address (1895)
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W.E.B. Du Bois, from “Of Mr. Booker
T. Washington and Others” (1903)
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TOPICS/ THEMES
Tarbell-Barnett, from A Red Record
UNIT 7
Gilded Age/Industry/Urbanization
Approximately 2 weeks
CHAPTER 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896 Dates:
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 Ulysses S. Grant, soldier-president
 Corruption Reform in the post
Civil War Era
 The Depression of the 1870s
 Political Parties and Partisans
 The Compromise of 1877 and the
End of Reconstruction
 The Emergence of Jim Crow
 Class Conflict and Ethnic Clashes
 Grover Cleveland and the Tariff
 Benjamin Harrison and the
“Billion Dollar Congress”
 The Populists
 Depression and Dissent
Pageant pages 504-529
Makers of America page 516
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Six Degrees of Separation: The
Liberator to the Compromise of
The Chinese
1877
Varying Viewpoints page 529
Populists: Radicals or Reactionaries
Primary Source Documents Chapter 23:
Huddled Masses
 John Spargo, from The Bitter Cry of
Children (1906)
 Letters to the Jewish Daily Forward
(1906-1907)
 Lee Chew, from Life of a Chinese
Immigrant (1903)
 Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
 The Secret oath of the American
Protective Association (1893)
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Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoint: Chinese
Exclusion
TOPICS/ THEMES
CHAPTER 24: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 The railroad boom
 Speculators and financiers
 Early efforts of government
regulation
 Lords of industry
 The Gospel of Wealth
 Industry in the South
 The laboring classes
 The rise of trade unions
Pageant pages 530-557
Examining the Evidence page 549
The Photography of Lewis W. Hine
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Zinn
DBQ 7: The Role of Capitalists
Makers of America page 554
The Knights of Labor
Varying Viewpoints page 557
Industrialization: Boom or Blight
Primary Source Documents Chapter 24:
Industrialization and Economic Growth
Zinn Chapter 11, A People’s History of the
United States
 Andrew Carnegie, from the “Gospel of
Wealth” (1889)
 Russell Conwell, from Acres of
Diamonds (1915)
 Edward Bellamy, from Looking
Backward (1888)
 Terence V. Powderly, Preamble to the
Constitution of the Knights of Labor
(1878)
 Mother Jones, “The March of the Mill
Children” (1903)
CHAPTER 25: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 The rise of the city
 The “New immigrants”
 Settlement houses and social
workers
 Navisitsts and Immigration
Pageant pages 558-593
Examining the Evidence page 567
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Think, Group, Share Tammany
Documents
Restriction
 Churches in the city
 Evolution and education
 Booker T. Washington and W.E.B.
Du Bois
 Literary Landmarks and
intellectual achievements
 The “New Woman” and the new
morality
 Art, Music and entertainment in
urban America
Manuscript Census Data, 1900
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Video: Ric Burns New York
Episode 3 Sunshine and Shadow
Unit Test
Unit Test Reflections
The Italians
Pioneering Pragmatists
Primary Source Documents Chapter 25: City Life
 Charles Loring Brace, “The Life of the Street
Rats” (1872)
 George Waring, Sanitary Conditions in New
York (1897)
 Theodore Dreiser, from Sister Carrie (1900)
 William T. Riordon, from Plunkitt of
Tammany Hall (1905)
 Richard K. Fox, from Coney Island Frolics
UNIT 8
The Great West/Agriculture/Progressivism/Teddy Roosevelt
Approximately 2.5 weeks
CHAPTER26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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The conquest of the Indians
The mining and Cattle Frontiers
Free lands and fraud
The fading frontier
The industrialization of agriculture
Farmers protest
The People’s Party
Ryan versus McKinley
Pageant pages 594-625
Examining the Evidence page 609
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Transcontinental
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Journey, 1879
Makers of America page 600
Plains Indians
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Think, Group, Share Frederic
Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis
Six Degrees of Separation from The
Homestead Act to Wounded Knee
Chapter Test Corrections
DBQ 8: The Farmers Movement
Students will engage in a role
playing debate showing the
Varying Viewpoints page 625
varying viewpoints on
Was the West Really ‘Won”?
treatment of American Indians
Primary Source Documents Chapter 26:
Expansion and Conflict in the West
 Helen Hunt Jackson, from A Century of
Dishonor (1881)
 Black Elk, Account of the Wounded Knee
Massacre (1890)
 Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance
of the Frontier in American History” (1893)
 The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party
(1892)
 William Allen White, “What’s the Matter with
Kansas?” (1896)
CHAPTER 27: Empire Expansion, 1890-1909
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
 The source of American
Expansionism
 The Hawaii Question
 The Spanish-American War, 1898
 The invasion of Cuba
 Acquiring Puerto Rico and the
Philippines
 Crushing the Filipino insurrection
 The Open Dorr in China
 Theodore Roosevelt becomes
president
 The Panama Canal
 Roosevelt on the World Stage
Pageant pages 626-654
Makers of America page 638, 644
Dates:
ASSIGNMENTS
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The Puerto Ricans
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The Filipinos
Varying Viewpoints page 653
Why Did America Become a World Power?
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Howard Zinn Chapter 12: Empire and the People
Primary Source Documents Chapter 27:
The American Flag Around the Globe
 Josiah Strong, from Our Country (11885)
 Albert Beveridge, “The March of the Flag”
(1898)
 William Graham Sumner, from “on Empire
and the Philippines” (1898)
 William McKinley, “Decision on the
Philippines” (1900)
 The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe
Doctrine (1904)
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Think, Group, Share: America
Becoming a World Power
History in the Making: Sinking of
the USS Maine
Opposing Viewpoints: Yellow
Journalism
Philippine War Cartoon Analysis
from Stanford Reading Website
CHAPTER 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 Campaigning against social
injustice
 The muckrakers
 The politics of progressivism
 Women battle for the vote and
against the saloon
 Roosevelt, labor and the trusts
 Consumer protection
 Conservation
 Roosevelt’s Legacy
 The troubled presidency of
William Howard Taft
 Taft’s “dollar diplomacy”
 Roosevelt breaks with Taft
Pageant pages 256-286
Examining the Evidence page 663
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Muller v. Oregon, 1908
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Makers of America page 670
The Environmentalists
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints Muir vs.
Industrialists
Think, Group, Share: The
Progressives
Unit Test
Unit Test Reflection
Primary Source Documents Chapter 28:
Progressive Reform and Politics
 Ida M. Tarbell, from The History of Standard
Oil (1904)
 Theodore Roosevelt, from The New
Nationalism (1910)
 Woodrow Wilson, from The New Freedom
(1913)
 National American Woman Suffrage
Association, Mother’s Day Letter (1912)
 Jane Adams, from Twenty Years at Hull
House (1910)
UNIT 9
Wilson/World War I/Roaring Twenties
TOPICS/ THEMES
CHAPTER 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 The election of 1912: The New
Freedom v. the New Nationalism
 Wilson, the tariff, the banks, and
the trusts
 Wilson’s diplomacy in Latin
America
 War in Europe and American
Neutrality
Pageant pages 679-695
Varying Viewpoints page 695
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Who were the Progressives?
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Howard Zinn: Chapter 13 Socialist Challenge
Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: New
Nationalism vs. New Freedom
Think, Group, Share: Zinn vs.
Progressives
 The reelection of Wilson, 1916
Primary Source Documents:
Zimmerman Note
TOPICS/ THEMES
CHAPTER 30: The War to End War, 1917-1918
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 The “America goes to war
 Wilsonian idealism and the
Fourteen Points
 Propaganda and civil liberties
 Workers, blacks and women on the
home front
 Drafting soldiers
 The United States fights in France
 Wilsonian Peace making at Paris
 The League of Nations
 The Senate rejects the Versailles
Treaty
Pageant pages 696-719
Examining the Evidence page 709
“mademoiselle from Armentires”
Varying Viewpoints page 718
Woodrow Wilson: Realists or Idealist?
Dates:
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Wilson’s
Fourteen Points
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Think, Group, Share: Wilson
Idealist vs. Realist
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DBQ 9: The United States as a
World Power
Primary Source Documents Chapter 30:
America in the Great War
 Boy Scouts of America, from “Boy Scouts
Support the War Effort” (1917)
 Eugene V. Debs,
 Statement to the Court (1918)
 Newton D. Baker, “The Treatment of GermanAmericans” (1918)
 Eugene Kennedy, A “Doughboy” Describes
the Fighting Front (1918)
 Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918)
TOPICS/ THEMES
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CHAPTER 31: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties,” 1919-1929
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
The “Red Scare”
Immigration Restrictions
Prohibition and gangsterism
The Scopes Trial
A mass-consumption economy
The automilbe age
Pageant pages 720-745
Makers of America page 726
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The Poles
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Think, Group, Share: Sacco and
Vanzetti Case
Opposing Viewpoints: History in
 Radio and the movies
 Jazz age culture, music, and
literature
 The economic boom
Examining the Evidence page 739
the making Chapter 34 The
Espionage Act.
The Jazz Singer, 1927
Primary Source Documents Chapter 31:
The New Decade
 Mitchell Palmer, “The Case Against the Reds”(
 Comprehensive Immigration Law (1924)
 Calvin Coolidge, Honoring Charles Lindbergh
(1927)
 Marcus Garvey, Aims and Objectives of the
UNIA (1923)
 Margaret Sanger, The Need for Birth Control
(1928)
TOPICS/ THEMES
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Chapter 32: The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
The Republicans return to power
Disarmament and isolation
The Harding Scandal
Calvin Coolidge’s foreign policies
The international debt snarl
Herbert Hoover cautious
progressive
The great crash, 1929
Hoover and the Great Depression
Hard Times
Aggression in Asia
“Good Neighbors” in Latin
America
Pageant pages 746-769
Examining the Evidence page 765
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Lampooning Hoover, 1932
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: History in
the Making: Causes of the Stock
Market Crash
Think, Group, Share: Economic
Policies of Coolidge, Hoover
Six Degrees of Separation: Panic of
1893 to Crash of 1929
Unit Test
Unit Test Reflections
UNIT 10
Great Depression/World War II
Approximately 2.5 weeks
TOPICS/ THEMES
Chapter 33: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 Franklin D. Roosevelt as a
president
 The Hundred Days Congress, 1933
 Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Pageant pages 770-799
Makers of America page 786
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
History in the Making Chapter 37:
 Depression Demagogues
 The National Recovery
Administration
 Aid for Agriculture
 The Tennessee Valley Authority
 Housing and Social Security
 A new deal for labor
 The election of 1936
 The Supreme Court Fight, 1937
 The New Deal assessed
The Dust Bowl Migrants
Varying Viewpoints page 799
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The Social Security Act
Think, Group, Share: FDR speeches
Opposing Viewpoints: Share Our
Wealth?
How Radical Was the New Deal?
Primary Source Documents:
Hard Times
 Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural
Address (1933)
 Jouett Shouse, American Liberty League (1934)
 Huey Long, “Share Our Wealth” (1935)
 Mrs. Henry Weddington, Letter to President
Roosevelt (1938)
 Eleanor Roosevelt, from “My Day” Columns
(1939)
Chapter 34: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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Roosevelt’s early foreign policies
German and Japanese aggression
The Neutrality Acts
The Spanish Civil War
Isolation and appeasement
The lend-Lease Act and the
Atlantic Charter
 The Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor
Pageant pages 800-820
Makers of America page 808
Refugees from the Holocaust
Examine the Evidence page 811
Public Opinion Polling in the 1930s
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
DBQ 10: Foreign Policy, 19301914
TOPICS/ THEMES
Chapter 35: America in World War II, 1941-1945
READINGS
 The Shock of the War
 The Internment of Japanese
Americans
 Mobilizing the Economy
 Women in wartime
 The war’s effect on African
Americans, Native Americans, and
Mexican Americans
 The economic impact of war
 Turning the Japanese tide in the
Pacific
 Campaigns in North Africa and
Italy
 “D-Day” in Normalcy (France)
 Germany surrenders
 The atomic bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki
Pageant pages 821-859
Makers of America page 824
Dates:
ASSIGNMENTS
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The Japanese
Examine the Evidence page 839
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Franklin Roosevelt at Teheran, 1943
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Varying Viewpoints page 848
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The Atomic Bombs: Were They Justified?
Primary Source Documents Chapter 35:
World War II
 Albert Einstein, Letter to President Roosevelt
(1939)
 Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms
(1941)
 Charles A. Lindbergh, from Des Moines
Speech (1941)
 A. Phillip Randolph, “Why should We
March?” (1942)
 Kofematsu v. United States (1944)
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Six Degrees of Separation: From
The Sinking of the Maine to
Hiroshima
Opposing Viewpoints: Atomic
Bombs
History in the Making Chapter 40
Rosie the Riveter
Unit Test
Unit Test Reflections
UNIT 11
Cold War/Eisenhower/Korean War
Approximately 2 weeks
Chapter 36: The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
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Postwar prosperity
The “Sunbelt” and suburbs
The postwar baby boom
Harry S. Truman as president
Origins of the Cold War
The United Nations and the
postwar world
Communism and containment
The Truman Doctrine, the
Marshall Plan, and NATO
Anti-communism at home
The Korean War
Dates:
ASSIGNMENTS
Pageant pages 850-881
Makers of America page 860
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The Suburbanites
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Examine the Evidence page 855
Advertising Prosperity
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Varying Viewpoints page 880
Who was to blame for the Cold War?
Primary Source Documents Chapter 36:
The Cold War at Home and Abroad
 Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947)
 George Marshall, The Marshall Plan (1947)
 Joseph R. McCarthy, from Speech
Delivered to the Women’s Club of Wheeling,
West Virginia (1950)
 Margaret Chase Smith, from “Declaration of
Conscience” (1950)
 Whittaker Chambers, from Foreword to
Witness (1952)
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Think, Group, Share: Truman
Doctrine vs. past foreign policy
History in the Making Chapter 45:
McCarthyism
Opposing Viewpoints: Red Scare
TOPICS/ THEMES
Chapter 37: The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1960
READINGS
 Affluent America
 Consumer culture in the 1950s
 The election of Dwight D.
Eisenhower
 The menace of McCarthyism
 Desegregating the South
 Brown v. Board of Education and
the seeds of the civil right
revolution
 Eisenhower Republicanism
 Cold War crises
 The space race and the arms race
 The election of John F. Kennedy,
1960
 Postwar literature and culture
Pageant pages 882-908
Makers of America page 892
Dates:
ASSIGNMENTS
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The Great American Migration
Examine the Evidence page 905
The Shopping Mall as New Ten Square
Primary Source Documents Chapter 37:
Resurgence f the Civil Rights Movement
 Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
 Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, The Montgomery
Bus Boycott (1955)
 Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from
Birmingham Jail (1963)
 The Civil Rights Act of 1964
 Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton,
from Black Power (1967)
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Brown vs.
Board of Education
Think, Group, Share: Desegregation
Unit Test
Unit Test Reflections
UNIT 12
JFK/Civil Rights/Vietnam/LBJ/Nixon/Counterculture
Approximately 2.5 weeks
Chapter 38: The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
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The Kennedy spirit
Kennedy and the Cold War
The Vietnam quagmire
The Cuban Missile crisis
The struggle for civil rights
Kennedy Assassination
Lyndon B. Johnson and the “Great
Society”
The civil rights revolution
explodes
The Vietnam disaster
The election of Nixon
The cultural upheavals of the
1960s
Pageant pages 909-937
Examine the Evidence page 919
Conflicting Press Accounts of the “March
on Washington,” 1963
Varying Viewpoints page 848
The Sixties: Construction of Destructive
Primary Source Documents Chapter 38:
Cuba, Vietnam, and the Costs of Containment
Dates:
ASSIGNMENTS
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: March on
Washington
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Six Degrees of Separation: Japanese
Surrender to Vietnam War
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History in the Making: Chapter 48
The Gulf of Tonkin
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History in the Making: Chapter 49
The Counterculture
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DBQ 11: Conformity and
Turbulence,
1950-1970
 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address
(1961)
 John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Address
(1962)
 The Tonkin Gulf Incident (1964)
 Kevin MacCauley, Oral history on the 1968
Siege of Khe Sanh
 Richard M, Nixon, Speech on Vietnamization
Policy (1969)
Primary Source Documents Chapter 29:
Dreams of a Great Society
 Michael Harrington, from The Other America
(1962)
 Lyndon Johnson, The War on Poverty (1964)
 Students for a Democratic Society, The Port
Huron Statement (1962)
 National Organization of Women, Statement
of Purpose (1966)
 Curtis Sitcomer, “Harvest of Discontent”
(1967)
Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
 Economic stagnation
 Nixon and the Vietnam War
 New policies toward China and the
Soviet Union
 Nixon and the Supreme Court
 Nixon’s domestic program
 Nixon trounces McGovern
 Israelis, Arabs and oil
 The Watergate Scandal
 Nixon resigns
 Feminism
 Desegregation and affirmative
action
 The election of Jimmy Carter
 The energy crisis and inflation
 The Iranian hostage humiliation
Pageant pages 938-965
Makers of America page 954, 958
Dates:
ASSIGNMENTS
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The Vietnamese
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The Feminists
Examine the Evidence page 951
The “Smoking Gun” Tape
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Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
History in the Making: Chapter 51
The Modern Feminist Movement
Think, Group, Share: Watergate
Scandal
Opposing Viewpoings: Roe v.
Wade
Unit Test
Unit Test Reflections
Primary Source Documents Chapter 30:
Post-Sixties America
 Roe v. Wade (1973)
 House Judiciary Committee, Conclusion on
Impeachment Resolution (1974)
UNIT 13
Reagan/Bush/Conservatism/Bush/Clinton/War on Terror
Appoximately 1 Week
Chapter 40: The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1992
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
 The “New Right” and Regan’s
election, 1980
 Budget battles and tax cuts
 Regan and the Soviets
 Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald
Regan, and the thawing of the Cold
War
 The Iran-Contra scandal
 Regan’s economic legacy
 The religious right
 Conservatism and the courts
 The election of George Bush, 1988
 The end of the Cold War
 The Persian Gulf War, 1991
Pageant pages 966-988
Varying Viewpoints page 987
Where Did Modern Conservatism Come
From?
Primary Source Documents Chapter 40:
Post-Sixties America
 Ronald Regan, Speech to the House of
Commons 91982)
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
History in the Making: Chapter 53
The Reagan Revolution
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Opposing Viewpoints:
Conservatism vs. Liberalism
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Six Degrees of Separation: Iron
Curtain to Berlin Wall Fall
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DBQ 12; The Resurgence of
Conservatism, 1964-2000
 Bush’s battles at home
 David E. Wildom, The Conscience of a
Conservative Christian (1985)
 George H.W. Bush, Address to the Nation
Announcing Allied Military Action in the
Persian Gulf (1991)
Chapter 41: America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2004
TOPICS/ THEMES
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
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The election of Bill Clinton, 1992
A false start for reform
The Politics of distrust
Clinton as president
Post-Cold War foreign policy
The Clinton Impeachment trial
The controversial 2000 election
George W. Bush as president
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11th
War in Iraq
The reelection of George W. Bush
Pageant pages 989-1010
Primary Source Documents Chapter 41:
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 Al Gore, from Earth in the Balance (1992)
 Articles of Impeachment against William
Jefferson Clinton (1998)
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Think, Group, Share: Impeachment
of Clinton
Six Degrees of Separation: Soviet
Invasion of Afghanistan to 9/11
attacks
 Owen Burdick, Witnessing the 9-11 Terrorist
Attack in New York (2001)
 Barbara Lee, Speech in opposition to
Authorizing the U.S. War in Afghanistan 2001
 Wayne Allard, Testifying in Favor of the
Federal Marriage Amendment (2004)
TOPICS/ THEMES
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Chapter 42: The American People Face a New Century
READINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
The high-tech economy
Widening inequality
The feminist revolution
The changing American Family
Immigration and assimilation
Cities and suburbs
A multicultural society
American culture at the century’s
turn
 The American prospect
Pageant pages 1011-1034
Makers of America 1014, 1024
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Scientists and Engineers
The Latinos
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Dates:
Chapter Outline Study Questions
Chapter Reading Quizzes
Primary Source Analysis
Opposing Viewpoints: Immigration
in the 21st Century
Unit Test
Unit Test Analysis