This course covers all of the material outlined by the College Board as necessary to prepare you to pass the AP^® U.S. History exam. Students will:

• Demonstrate comprehension of a broad body of historical knowledge.
• Express ideas clearly in writing.
• Work with classmates to research an historical issue.
• Interpret and apply data from original documents.
• Identify underrepresented historical viewpoints.
• Write to persuade with evidence.
• Compare and contrast alternate interpretations of an historical figure, event, or trend.
• Explain how an historical event connects to or causes a larger trend or theme.
• Develop essay responses that include a clear, defensible thesis statement and supporting evidence.
• Effectively argue a position on an historical issue.
• Critique and respond to arguments made by others.
• Raise and explore questions about policies, institutions, beliefs, and actions in an historical context.
• Evaluate primary materials, such as historical documents, political cartoons, and first-person narratives.
• Evaluate secondary materials, such as scholarly works or statistical analyses.
• Assess the historical significance and cultural impact of key literary works (e.g. Common Sense, Uncle Tom's Cabin).

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Two Semesters or Block

The American Pageant ISBN: 061810349X

Unit 1: Exploration and Colonial America
Unit 2: Colonial Society
Unit 3: The Shot Heard Round the World
Unit 4: The New Nation Forms
Unit 5: America's Growing Pains
Unit 6: The Concurrent Rise of Nationalism and Sectionalism
Unit 7: The Era of Andrew Jackson
Unit 8: Emergence of America's Literary, Philosophic, and Religious Movements
Unit 9: The Coming of the Civil War
Unit 10: The Only Recourse: War
Unit 11: Picking up the Pieces

Unit 12: The New South and the New West
Unit 13: Industrial Ascendancy
Unit 14: Urbanization: A Changing America
Unit 15: Agrarian Discontent and Progressivism
Unit 16: Isolationist to World Power
Unit 17: Wilson and the World
Unit 18: Boom to Bust
Unit 19: The U.S. at War
Unit 20: The Cold War
Unit 21: Turbulent Decades
Unit 22: Toward a New Century

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