1st Semester

The following are topics that will be covered during the 1st Semester of Advanced Placement United States History.  These may include the weekly syllabus, notes, identifications, short answer questions, etc. for each topic.

The Primary textbook is America's History (ASH) by James Henretta, et al. I will regularly refer to it as the 'Henretta' text and it will be abbreviated "ASH" on these pages.

The Secondary 'textbook' is "Preparing for the Advanced Placement United States History Exam" by Newman and Schmalbach, published by AMSCO. I will refer to it as the 'AMSCO' book.

We will use both books liberally and I will regularly supplement them with other sources, documents, etc.

• ASH chapter 2 Colonial Beginnings
• ASH chapter 3 British Empire
• ASH chapter 4 Crisis in Colonial Society - 1720-1765 - French and Indian War
• ASH chapter 5 Road to Revolution 1763-1775
• ASH chapter 6 American Revolution 1775-1783
• ASH chapter 7 (part of 8) Founding A Nation - 1776-1800 - A New Political Order
• ASH chapter 8* AMSCO chapter 7 and 8 Jeffersonian America - War of 1812
• ASH chapter 9 "Republican Society" - 1790-1820
• ASH chapter 10 "Market Revolution" - Economic Change from 1820-1860
• ASH chapter 11 Jacksonian America - Democratic Reform from 1820-1844

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• EV chapters 11 & 12 "Antebellum America Culture, Society, Old South and Slavery
• EV chapter 13 Manifest Destiny Texas, Mexico, Oregon, California
• EV chapter 14 "Sectional Crisis The 1850s
• EV chapter 15 "Civil War 1861-1865
• EV chapter 16 Reconstruction 1865-1877
• EV chapter 17 "Trans-Mississippi West 1865-1900
• EV chapters 18 & 19 "Industrialization of America: 1865-1900
• EV chapter 20 "Gilded Age Politics
• EV chapter 21 "Progressivism

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