AP U.S.

History Study Group Calendar

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IMPORANT STUDY GROUP INFORMATION:
Study Session: Topics 1-3
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 (unless otherwise specified)
1. Pre-Columbian Societies
Location: FHS Library (unless otherwise specified) 2. Transatlantic Encounters
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Carson Kahn (me@carsonkahn.com) or Alex Cai (xelaiac@gmail.com) for details.
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Study Session: Topics 4-5 DBQ Workshop 1 Study Session: Topics 6-8 10
4. The American – Planning (chart) 6. Transofmation of
Revolutionary Era, – Using the Documents Economy and Society…
1754-1789 – Time Management 7. Transformation of
5. The Early Republic, – Killer Theses Polictics…
1789-1815 – Practice setting up 8. Religion, Reform and
essays Renaissance in
Antebellum America

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Study Session: Topics 9-13
9. Territorial Expansion and
Manifest Destiny
10. The Crisis of the Union
11. Civil War
12. Reconstruction
13. The Origins of the New
South
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DBQ Workshop 2 Study Session: Topics 14-16
– Planning (chart) 14. Development of the
– Using the Documents West in the Late 19th
– Time Management Century
– Killer Theses 15. Industrial America in the
– Practice setting up Late 19th Century
essays 16. Urban Society in the
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
• American imperialism: political and economic expansion
• War in Europe and American neutrality
• The First World War at home and abroad
• Treaty of Versailles
• Society and economy in the postwar years
15. The New Era: 1920s
• The business of America and the consumer economy
• Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
• The culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment
• Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition
• The ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and women
26. Politics and Economics at the End of the 20th Century
• The election of 1968 and the “Silent Majority”
• Nixon’s challenges: Vietnam, China, and Watergate
• Changes in the American economy: the energy crisis, deindustrialization, and the service
economy
• The New Right and the Reagan revolution
• End of the Cold War
27. Society and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
• Demographic changes: surge of immigration after 1965, Sunbelt migration, and the graying
of America
• Revolutions in biotechnology, mass communication, and computers
• 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

21. The Second World War

• The rise of fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy, and Germany
• Prelude to war: policy of neutrality
• The attack on Pearl Harbor and United States declaration of war
• Fighting a multifront war
• Diplomacy, war aims, and wartime conferences
• The United States as a global power in the Atomic Age

22. The Home Front During the War

• Wartime mobilization of the economy
• Urban migration and demographic changes
• Women, work, and family during the war
• Civil liberties and civil rights during wartime
• War and regional development Expansion of government power

23. The United States and the Early Cold War

• Origins of the Cold War
• Truman and containment
• The Cold War in Asia: China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan
• Diplomatic strategies and policies of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations
• The Red Scare and McCarthyism
• Impact of the Cold War on American society

24. The 1950s

• Emergence of the modern civil rights movement
• The affluent society and “the other America”
IMPORANT STUDY GROUP INFORMATION:
• Consensus and conformity: suburbia and middle-class
• America Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels Time: 3:00 - 5:00 (unless otherwise specified)
• Impact of changes in science, technology, and medicine
Location: FHS Library (unless otherwise specified)
25. The Turbulent 1960s Protocol: All meetings are optional, although it is highly recommended that you
• From the New Frontier to the Great Society attend all Study Sessions for maximum preparation. DBQ Workshops and Practice DBQ
• Expanding movements for civil rights Sessions (which are repeated) are for students who would like extra DBQ practice.
• Cold War confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe Additional meetings can be scheduled upon request. Please contact either
• Beginning of Détente Ryan Atallah (ryan.atallah@mac.com), Ved Topkar (vvtopkar@gmail.com),
• The antiwar movement and the counterculture Carson Kahn (me@carsonkahn.com) or Alex Cai (xelaiac@gmail.com) for details.