AP American Schedule of Assignments: 2004-2005
REVISED: September 13th 2004
This is an outline of the Advanced Placement American History course. It is this instructor’s goal to maintain this schedule as written. This schedule is designed to give you an idea of where we are heading in this class and the pace that will be required. Please keep this schedule in a place where you can utilize it throughout the school year.
September 7:New World Beginnings
September 10: Planting of English
September 15: Settling the Northern Colonies
September 20: TEST: COLONIAL
PERIOD
September 21: American Life in the 17th Century
September 24: Colonial Society on the Eve of the Revolution
September 29: TEST:
SOCIAL LIFE IN THE COLONIAL ERA
September 30: The Duel for
October 4: The Road to Revolution
October 7: TEST: CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION
October 8
October 14: The Confederation and the Constitution
October 20: TEST: REVOLUTION TO CONSTITUTION
October 21: Launching the New Ship of State
October 26: The Triumph of Jeffersonian Democracy
October 28: TEST:
WASHINGTON, ADAMS, AND JEFFERSON
October 29: Founding Fathers Speeches
November 2: The Second War For
November 5: The Rise of A Mass Democracy
November 12: TEST: War of 1812 and JACKSONIAN ERA
November 15: Forging the National Economy
November 18: The Ferment of Reform and Culture
November 23:
TEST: ECONOMICS AND REFORMNovember 24: The South and the Slavery Controversy
November 29: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
December 2: TEST: SLAVERY AND EXPANSION
December 3: Renewing the Sectional Struggle
December 8: Drifting Towards Disunion
December 15: TEST: SECTIONALISM
December 16: Girding For War
December 20: The Furnace of Civil War
December 22: TEST:
THE CIVIL WAR
January 3: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
January 7: Politics in the Gilded Age
January 11: TEST:
1865-1900 POLITICS
January 12: Industry Comes of Age
January 18:
January 24: TEST:
1865-1900 ECONOMICS
January 31: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
February 7: TEST: 1865-1900: THE WEST
February 8: The Path of Empire
February 10:
February 15: TEST:
1865-1900 FOREIGN POLICY
February 16: Progressivism and the Republican
March 1: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
March 3: The War to End War
March 7: TEST:
TEDDY ROOSEVELT TO WOODROW
March 8: American Life in the “Roaring 20’s”
March 11: The Politics of Boom and Bust
March 15: TEST: THE
1920’s
March 16: The Great Depression and the New Deal
March 21: Franklin Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
March 23:
TEST: THE
PRESIDENCY OF
April 4: The Cold War Begins
April 6: The Eisenhower Era
April 11: TEST:
April 12: The Stormy Sixties
April 15: The Stalemated Seventies
April 20: TEST 60’s
AND 70’s
April 21: The Resurgence of Conservatism
April 27- May 5: REVIEW
AP EXAMINATION :
