APUSH Assignments:

In addition to the text book, students are required to understand the terminology used in
each chapter, be able to respond appropriately to chapter FRQs and occasional DBQs,
complete associated hard-copy assignments, read articles on line from History Now, read
hard-copy articles from OAH and participate in classroom discussions. Below is a
condensed version of chapter assignments.
Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures:
1. Terms and FRQs: Students will be responsible for knowing all terms for each
chapter as this will help you answer multiple-choice questions. In addition,
students must be able to write an acceptable answer for all FRQs. Each week you
will have a quiz in which I select SOME of the terms and ONE of the FRQs for
your response. Terms and FRQs may change from class period to class period.
Terms for each chapter are found on my web page.
2. Lesson 9: Pre-Columbian Societies in North America: HO 14: Instructions on
handout.
3. Lesson 10: First Contacts of Europeans and Native Americans: HO 16 &17: Read
HO 16 and think about the serotypes. Read handout 17 and summarize each
document.
4. Lesson 11: The Columbian Exchange: HO 18 & 19: Instructions on handouts.
5. Lesson 12: The Spanish Empire in North America: HO 20 & 21: Instructions on
handouts.
6. Lesson 13: The French Empire in North America: HO 22: Instructions on
handout.
7. Lesson 14: Early New England Colonies: HO 24 & 25: Instructions on handout.
8. Lesson 15: Early Middle Colonies: Experiment in Diversity: HO 26 & 27:
Instructions on handouts.
9. Lesson 16: The Chesapeake Region: Beginnings of the Plantation Economy: HO
28 & 29: Explain the position of each in handout 28; instructions on handout 29.
10. History Now: Issue 25, September, 2010: Change and Crisis: North America on
the Eve of the European Invasion; England on the Eve of Colonization; Iberian
Roots of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1640; Indian Slavery in the
Americas; and Perils of the Ocean in the Early Modern Era. Issue 12, June, 2007:
Navigating the Age of Exploration; The Columbian Exchange; Native American
Discoveries of Europe; Jamestown and the Founding of English America; and
Conflict and Commerce: The Rise and Fall of New Netherland. Issue 28, June
2011: Cahokia: A Pre-Columbian American Indian City; and The Impact of Horse
Culture
Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 17: Early Resistance to Colonial Authority: HO 30: Instruction on
handout.

3. Lesson 18: The New England Colonies in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: HO 31 &
32: In handout 31, which colonies are in the New England Region, in the Middle
Colonies, and in the South? Instructions are on handout 32.
4. Lesson 19: The Middle Colonies in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: HO 33 & 34:
Instructions on handouts.
5. Lesson 20: The Southern Colonies in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: HO 36:
Research each character; the first three are plantation owners, the next five are
slaves, and the final seven are people outside the plantation system. Some
characters are real and some are fictional. Write a summary of each.
6. History Now: Issue 3, March, 2005: African Immigration to Colonial America.
Issue 20, June, 2009: The Years of Magical Thinking: Explaining the Salem
Witchcraft Crisis. Issue 28, June, 2011: The Pueblo Revolt. Issue 28, June, 2011:
The Colonial Virginia Frontier and International Native American Diplomacy.
Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America:
1. Terms and FRQs:
2. Lesson 4: From the First to the Second Great Awakening: HOs 5, 6, & 7:
Instructions on handouts.
Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. History Now: Issue 28, June, 2011: The League of the Iroquois.
Chapter 5: The American Revolution:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 21: British Colonial Policy: A Tradition of Neglect: HOs 37: Instructions
on handout.
3. Lesson 22: The Path to Revolution, 1763-1776: HO 38 & 39: Instructions on
handouts.
4. Lesson 23: The War for Independence: The Global Context: HOs 40 & 41:
Instructions on handouts.
5. Lesson 24: The Declaration of Independence: HOs 42 & 43: Instructions on
handouts.
6. History Now: Issue 21, September, 2009: Lockean Liberalism and the American
Revolution; Unruly Americans in the Revolution; The Righteous Revolution by
Mercy Otis Warren; The Indians War of Independence; Women and Wagoners:
Camp Followers in the War for Independence; Inventing American Diplomacy;
and Teaching the Revolution. Issue 5, September, 2005. Antislavery Before the
Revolutionary War. Issue 11, March 2007. Revolutionary Philadelphia.
Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 25: The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution: HOs 44, 46:
Instructions on handouts.
3. Lesson 26: The Constitution: A Study in Historiography: HO 47: Instructions on
handout.

4. Lesson 27: Testing the Constitution: The Whiskey Rebellion and the Frontier: HO
48: Instructions on handout.
5. Lesson 1: The Development of Political Parties: HO 1: Instructions on handout.
6. Lesson 28: The Settlement of the Northwest Territory: HOs 49, 50 &51:
Instructions on handouts.
7. History Now: Issue 13, September, 2007. Why We the People? Citizens as Agents
of Constitutional Change; James Madison and the Constitution; The
Antifederalists: The Other Founders of the American Constitutional Tradition?;
George Washington and the Constitution; Ordinary Americans and the
Constitution and Race and the Constitution: A Struggle towards National Ideals.
Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 5: Coming Together: Nationalism Ascendant: HO 8: Instructions on
handout complete all three sections.
3. Lesson 2: The Role of the Judiciary in the Creation of the National State: HOs 2 &
3: Instructions on handouts.
4. History Now: Issue 15, April 2008: The Marshall and Taney Courts: Continuities
and Changes. Issue 1, September 2004: The Presidential Election of 1800: A Story
of Crisis, Controversy, and Change. Issue 20, June, 2009: Avast! How the U.S.
Built a Navy, Sent in the Marines, and Faced Down the Barbary Pirates. Issue 10,
December, 2006: Technology of the 1800s.
Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 6: The Transportation Revolution and the Creation of a Market Economy:
HO 9: Explain how the terms in each section 1-5 are connected to the topic.
3. Lesson 4: Foundations of American Foreign Policy: HOs 6 & 7: Instructions on
handouts.
Chapter 9: Jacksonian America:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 7: Whig Ideals in American History: HO 11: Instructions on handout.
3. Lesson 6: The U.S. Government, American Settlers, and the Cherokee: A Case
Study: HOs 9 & 10: Instructions on handouts.
4. History Now: Issue 22, December, 2009: Andrew Jacksons Shifting Legacy;
Andrew Jackson and the Constitution; Female Trouble: Andrew Jackson vs. the
Ladies of Washington; The Culture of Congress in the Age of Jackson; The Indian
Removal Act; and Teaching Andrew Jackson. Issue 28, June, 2011: Indian
Removal.
Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 8: Early American Artistic Expressions: HOs 12 & 13: Instructions on
handouts.
3. Lesson 5: The End of Homespun: The Early Industrial Revolution: HO 8:

Instruction on handout.
4. Lesson 3: Women and the Family in American Society: HOs 4 & 5: Instructions on
handouts.
5. History Now: Issue 10, December, 2006: Women and the Early Industrial
Revolution in the United States.
Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. OAH: Slavery and National Expansion in the United States: Hardcopy.
Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 9: Henry David Thoreau and Transcendentalism: HOs 14 & 15: In HO 14,
explain the content in a well crafted paragraph; instructions for 15 are on the
handout.
3. Lesson 11: The Nature of Slavery in the Antebellum South: HOs 18 & 19:
Instructions on handouts.
4. History Now: Issue 7, March 2006: The Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the
National Stage for Womens Suffrage; The Legal Status of Women, 1776-1830;
Thinking about Women: Nineteenth-Century Feminist Writings; and Sisters of
Suffrage: British and American Women Fight for the Vote. Issue 16, June, 2008:
The Scarlet Letter and Nathaniel Hawthornes America.
Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 8: Westward Expansion: A Force for Unity or Division?: HOs 12 & 13:
Instructions on handouts.
3. Lesson 10: Californias Gold Rush and the Oregon Trail: HOs 16 & 17:
Instructions on handouts.
4. Lesson 12: The Abolitionist Movements: HOs 20 & 21: Instructions on handouts.
5. Lesson 13: Compromise and Conflict: The Road to War: HO 22: Instructions on
handout.
6. History Now: Issue 5, September, 2005. Abolition and Antebellum Reform;
Rachel Weeping for Her Children: Black Women and the Abolition of Slavery;
Angelina and Sarah Grimke: Abolitionist Sisters; Abolition and Religion and Eye
on John Brown. Issue 26, December, 2010. The Underground Railroad and the
Coming of the War. Issue 16, June, 2008: Uncle Toms Cabin and the Matter of
Influence; and Rethinking Huck. Issue 20, June, 2009: The Filibuster King: The
Strange Career of William Walker, the Most Dangerous International Criminal of
the Nineteenth Century.
Chapter 14: The Civil War:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 14: North vs. South: Mobilization, Resources, and Soldiers Experiences:
HOs 23 & 24: Instructions on handouts.
3. Lesson 15: Womens Experiences during the Civil War: HO 25: Instructions on

handout.
4. Lesson 16: Assessment of Lincolns Presidency: HOs 26 & 27: Instructions on
handout 26; 27 will be completed in class.
5. Lesson 17: Emancipation and the Role of African Americans during the Civil War:
HO 28: Instructions on handout.
6. Lesson 18: Social, Political, and Economic Effects of the Civil War: HOs 29 & 30:
Instructions on handouts.
7. History Now: Issue 6, December, 2005: Lincoln and Whitman; Lincoln at Cooper
Union; Lincolns Civil Religion; The Emancipation Proclamation: Bill of Lading
or Ticket to Freedom? Issue 18, December 2008: Abraham Lincoln and Jacksonian
Democracy; Allies for Emancipation? Black Abolitionists and Abraham Lincoln;
Natural Rights, Citizenship Rights, State Rights, and Black Rights: Another Look
at
Lincoln and Race; and Lincolns Religion. Issue 26, December, 2010. Lincolns
Interpretation of the Civil War; The Riddles of Confederate Emancipation; and
Women and the Home Front: New Civil War Scholarship. Issue 10, December,
2006: Photography in Nineteenth-Century America; Transcontinental Railroads:
Compressing Time and Space; and Medical Advances in Nineteenth-Century
America.
Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 19: The Politics and Policies of Reconstruction: HO 31: Complete the
charts on your own.
3. Lesson 20: Resistance to Reconstruction: The Redeemer Governments and
Terrorism: HO 32: Instructions on handout.
4. Lesson 21: The New South: HO 33: Write out the three themes.
5. History Now: Issue 7, March, 2006: Reconstruction and the Battle for Woman
Suffrage.
6. OAH: Jim Crow Blues: Hardcopy.
Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 27: The Turner Thesis: HOs 41 & 42: Instructions on handouts.
3. History Now: Issue 9, September, 2006: Born Modern: An Overview of the West;
A New Look at the Great Plains; The Myth of the Frontier: Progress or Lost
Freedom; The Road to a New Era of American Indian Autonomy; and Women of
the West.
Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 22: Monopolies: Vertical and Horizontal Integration: HOs 34 & 35:
Instructions on handouts.
3. Lesson 29: Social Darwinism, the Gospel of Wealth, and the Social Gospel: HO
44: Instructions on handout.
4. Lesson 30: Images of Urbanization and Industrialization: HO 45: Instructions on

handout.
5. Lesson 3: Economic and Political Crisis: 1870-1900: HOs 3 & 4: Instructions on
handouts.
6. Lesson 4: The Rise of Labor Unions and Workers Ambivalences, 1870-1910:
HOs 5 & 6: Instructions on handouts.
7. History Now: Issue 24, June 2010: Getting Ready to Lead a World Economy:
Enterprise in Nineteenth Century America; The U.S. Banking System: Origin,
Development, and Regulation; The Rise of an American Institution: The Stock
Market; Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? And Economic Policy Through
the Lens of History.
8. OAH: American Manufacturing, 1850-1930: A Business History Approach:
Hardcopy.
Chapter 18: The Age of the City:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 25: American Industrialization and Urbanization: HO 39: Instructions on
handout.
3. Lesson 28: The Foundations of American Pragmatism: HO 43: Instruction on
handout.
4. History Now: Issue 11, March 2007: Coming to America: Ellis Island and New
York City; Motor City: The Story of Detroit; San Francisco and the Great
Earthquake of 1906; and New Orleans and the History of Jazz. Issue 3, March,
2005: Why Immigration Matters; and Immigration Fiction: Exploring and
American Identity.
Chapter 19: From Stalemate to Crisis:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 23: The Populist Movement: The Value of Third Parties: HOs 36 & 37:
Instructions on handouts.
3. Lesson 24: Gilded Age Presidents: HO38: Instructions on handout.
4. Lesson 26: The Election of 1896: HO 40: Instructions on handout.
Chapter 20: The Imperial Republic:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 1: The Spanish-American War: HO 1: Write a well crafted paragraph on
each of the topics.
Chapter 21: The Rise of Progressivism:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 2: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: HO 2: Summarize
Washingtons positions.
Chapter 22: The Battle for National Reform:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. History Now: Issue 17, September, 2008. The Square deal: Theodore Roosevelt
and the Themes of Progressive Reform; The Politics of the Future and Social

Politics Progressivism in International Perspective; Theodore Roosevelt: The

Making of a Progressive Reformer; and The Spectacles of 1912. Issue 16, June,
2008: The Jungle and the Progressive Era.
3. OAH: Mexican Immigration to the United States: Hardcopy.
4. OAH: Asian Migrants, Exclusionary Laws, and Transborder Migration in North
America, 1880-1940.
Chapter 23: America and the Great War:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 5: Social Aspects of World War I: HOs 7 & 8: Instructions on handouts.
3. Lesson 10: Isolation: Fact of Revisionist Battleground? : HO 14: Instructions on
handout.
4. OAH: The African American Great Migration Reconsidered: Hardcopy.
Chapter 24: The New Era:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 6: Literature of the 1920s: The Lost Generation: HO 9: Write a small
paragraph for each.
3. Lesson 7: The Twenties: Eyewitness Accounts: HO 10: Instructions on handout.
4. Lesson 9: Traditionalists vs. Modernists: HO 13: Instructions on handout.
5. History Now: Issue 1, September, 2004: Winning the Right to Vote: A History of
Voting Rights. Issue 16, June, 2008: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Age of Excess.
Issue 20, June, 2009: Graft and Oil: How Teapot Dome Became the Greatest
Political Scandal of its Time.
Chapter 25: The Great Depression:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 8: Causes of the Depression: HOs 11 & 12: Instructions on handouts.
3. History Now: Issue 19, March 2009: The Great Depression: An Overview; and
Women in the Great Depression.
Chapter 26: The New Deal:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. History Now: Issue 19, March, 2009: The WPA: Antidote to the Great
Depression?; Are Artists Workers?; The Hundred Days and Beyond: What did
the New Deal Accomplish?; and The New Deal, Then and Now. Issue 15, April
2008: The Form and Function of the Supreme Court; The Supreme Court Then and
Now; FDRs Court-Packing Plan: A Study in Irony; and Sandra Day OConnor: A
Life of Action.
Chapter 27: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 11: Causes of World War II: HOs 15 & 16: Instructions on handouts HO
16 write a brief concise paragraph on you position.
3. History Now: Issue 14, December 2007: Every Citizen a Soldier: World War II
Posters on the American Home Front; FDR and Hitler: A Study in Contrasts;

Patriotism Crosses the Color Line: African Americans in World War II; From
Citizen to Enemy: The Tragedy of Japanese Internment; and The World War II
Home Front. Issue 23, March, 2010: Before Jackie: How Strikeout King Satchel
Paige Struck Down Jim Crow.
Chapter 28: America in a World at War:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 12: The Decision to Drop the Bomb: Debating the Issues: HO 17:
Instructions on handout.
3. Lesson 13: World War II Conferences: HO 18: Instructions on handout.
Chapter 29: The Cold War:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 14: Military Involvement in Asia: Korea and Vietnam: HOs 19, 20 & 21:
Instructions on handouts.
3. Lesson 15: Cold War Revisited: HOs 22 & 23: Instructions on handouts.
4. Lesson 16: The Truman Doctrine: HOs 24 & 25: In handout 24, write the answer;
in handout 25 the instructions are on the handout.
5. Lesson 17: McCarthyism and the Climate of Fear: HO 27: Instruction on handout.
Chapter 30: The Affluent Society:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 20: Economic Recovery after World War II: HOs 34 & 35: Instructions on
handouts.
3. Lesson 18: Literature of the 1950s: HOs 28 & 29: Instructions on handouts may
need to google book summaries.
4. Lesson 19: Brown v. Board of Education: HOs 31 & 32: Instructions on handouts.
5. History Now: Issue 27, March 2011: Cold War, Warm Heart; and Truman and His
Doctrine: Revolutionary, Unprecedented, and Bipartisan. Issue 1, September,
2004: The Great Debate: Kennedy, Nixon, and Television in the 1960 Race for the
Presidency. Issue 16, June 2008: The Catcher in the Rye: The Voice of Alientation.
6. OAH: The Cold War and the Struggle for Civil Rights: Hardcopy.
Chapter 31: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 21: The New Frontier and the Great Society: HOs 36 & 37: Instructions on
handout 36; on 37 answer the questions in writing.
3. Lesson 22: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.: HO 38: Instructions on
handout.
4. Lesson 23: The Impact of the Warren Court: HOs 39, 40 & 41: Instructions on
handouts.
5. History Now: Issue 27, March, 2011: The Consequences of Defeat in Vietnam.
Issue 8, June, 2006: Different perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement; People
Get Ready: Music and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s; A
Local and National Story: The Civil Rights Movement in Postwar Washington,
D.C.; African American Religious Leadership and the Civil Rights Movement; and

The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies. Issue 23, March 2010:
The Importance of Muhammad Ali.
6. OAH: Reinterpreting the Black Power Movement; Some Abstract Thing Called
Freedom: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party;
Black Women and Black Power; and From James Madison to Malcolm X: Black
Power and the American Founding: Hardcopy.
Chapter Not a Specific One:
1. Lesson 24: Democrats and Republicans: Evolution and Transformation: HOs 42,
43 & 44: Instructions on handouts.
Chapter 32: The Crisis of Authority:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 25: Changes in the 1970s: HOs 45, 46 & 47: Instructions on HO 45; write
your answers for 43 and 44.
3. Lesson 26: Nixon, China, and Dtente: HO 48: Instructions on handout.
4. History Now: Issue 27, March, 2011: The United States and China During the
Cold War; and Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy. Issue 23, March,
2010: The battle of the Sexes; and The Impact of Title IX.
Chapter 33: From The Age of Limits to the Age of Reagan:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 27: The Conservatism of Reagan: HOs 49 & 50: Instructions on handout
49; write the answers to the questions in handout 50.
3. Lesson 28: The Radical Right and Left: HOs 51, 52 & 53: Instructions on
handouts.
4. Lesson 29: The End of the Cold War: HOs 54 & 55: Instructions on handout 54; on
55 answer the questions in writing.
5. History Now: Issue 27, March, 2011: Iran and the United States in the Cold War;
and Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War: The Debate Continues.
Chapter 34: The Age of Globalization:
1. Terms and FRQs
2. Lesson 30: Bill Clintons Presidency: HO 56: Instruction on handout; locate
information on line.
3. Lesson 31: The War in Iraq: HO 57: Instructions on handout.
4. History Now: Issue 7, March, 2006. Women in American Politics in the Twentieth
Century.
Map Studies:
1. In your map studies book, for each chapter, read through the objectives as these
are the things you should know when you complete each chapter. Pay attention to
the overall themes as many AP DBQs and FRQs are thematic. Scan the questions
to see if you can mentally answer them. Read any documents provided and the

summary. Finally, take the multiple-choice/true-false; Ill give you the answers in
class.
2. Complete chapters 1, 2, and 34 during the summer.
3. All other chapters will be completed during the year.
AP Achiever:
1. The Achiever is a condensed version of your text book. In addition to a chapter a
week in your text book, please read the companion chapter in the Achiever.
2. Pay attention to the AP Themes and the chapter summary.
3. Mentally take the practice test; check your answers at the end of the chapter.