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AP U.S. History

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Cain AP US History Syllabus 2019-20.docx

Classroom Documents

In this section you can find class-related handouts and information that doesn't correspond with a specific unit or time period.

Primary & Secondary Sources.pdf
Key Term Example.pdf
HIPPO Worksheet (APUSH).pdf
Writing in APUSH Guidelines.pdf
APUSH DBQ Peer Review Scoring Guide (updated Fall 2017).pdf
APUSH DBQ Pro Tips.pdf
APUSH DBQ HIPP Starters & Examples.pdf
APUSH Long Essay Peer Review Scoring Guide (updated Fall 2017).pdf

Unit 1 - Exploration & Colonization of America (1491-1754)

APUSH Unit 1 Outline (2019-20).pdf
Pre-Columbian Societies & Exploration notes.pdf
Early English Colonies notes.pdf
Bacon's Rebellion Context & Significance.pdf
First Great Awakening Context & Primary Sources.pdf
Colonial Society in the 18th Century notes.pdf

Unit 2 - American Revolution & the Constitution (1754-1791)

APUSH Unit 2 Outline.pdf
Road to the Revolution Timeline (APUSH).pdf
Fighting the American Revolution notes.pdf
Enlightenment & Declaration of Independence.pdf
Building a New Nation notes.pdf
Articles of Confederation & Constitution (Transcripts).pdf
Shays's Rebellion Source Analysis & Ratifying the Constitution.pdf

Unit 3 - The New Nation (1789-1824)

APUSH Unit 3 Outline.pdf
Comparing Hamilton & Jefferson (APUSH).pdf
Washington's Farewell Address Context & Analysis.pdf
Adams & Jefferson Presidencies notes (APUSH).pdf
War of 1812 notes.pdf
Era of Good Feelings notes.pdf

Unit 4 - Jacksonian Democracy & the Antebellum Period (1824-1848)

APUSH Unit 4 Outline.pdf
Andrew Jackson Rise to Power Notes.pdf
Andrew Jackson Stations (APUSH).pdf
The Market Revolution Notes.pdf
Reforms in Antebellum Era notes & document analysis.pdf
Manifest Destiny notes & primary source analysis.pdf

Unit 5 - Sectionalism to Reconstruction (1848-1877)

APUSH Unit 5 Outline (2019).pdf
Slavery in Antebellum America (Images & Firsthand Accounts).pdf
Slavery & Abolitionism in the US notes.pdf
Fighting the Civil War Notes & Emancipation Proclamation Analysis.pdf
Reconstruction Stations (AP).pdf
Reconstruction Stations Review.pdf

Unit 6 - The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era (1865-1920)

APUSH Unit 6 Outline (2019).pdf
Industrial Expansion (APUSH) notes.pdf
Industrial Tycoons Evaluation & Mini-Biographies (APUSH).pdf
New Immigrants & Urbanization Notes & Political Cartoons.pdf
Settling the West notes.pdf
Farmers & Populism notes.pdf
Progressive Era Reforms notes (APUSH).pdf

Unit 7 - Imperialism & World War I (1890-1920)

APUSH Unit 7 Outline (2019-20).pdf
Causes & Early Examples of US Imperialism notes.pdf
Spanish-American War Stations (AP).pdf
Anti-Imperialism Primary Source Analysis (AP).pdf
US as a Global Power notes.pdf
WWI Homefront Notes + CPI Poster Analysis.pdf
Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations Debate (AP).pdf

Unit 8 - The Roaring 20s, Great Depression, & New Deal (1920-1941)

APUSH Unit 8 Outline (2020).pdf
New Deal Cereal Box Project.pdf
First Red Scare notes & primary source analysis.pdf
Politics & Economy of Roaring 20s notes.pdf
Harlem Renaissance (AP) overview & primary sources.pdf
The Beginning of the Great Depression notes (AP).pdf
Great Depression & Dust Bowl Gallery Walk (AP).pdf
New Deal notes (AP).pdf
New Deal Agency Organizer (for Cereal Boxes).pdf
New Deal - Success or Failure Documents (AP).pdf

Unit 9 - World War II & the Early Cold War (1935-1954)

APUSH Unit 9 Outline (Modified 2019-2020).pdf
Lead-Up to U.S. in WWII notes.pdf
American Homefront in WWII notes.pdf
Japanese Interment Document Analysis.pdf
Ending WWII in Europe & the Pacific notes.pdf
Beginning of the Cold War notes.pdf
Cold War Historiography.pdf
Korean War & Truman-MacArthur Conflict notes.pdf
Truman & MacArthur Primary Document Analysis.pdf
U.S. Domestic Developments in the Early Cold War notes.pdf

Unit 10 - Modern America Since 1952

APUSH Unit 10 Outline (Modified, 2020).pdf
The Eisenhower Era (1950s) notes.pdf
The Stormy 1960s notes.pdf
The 1970s - Limits of a Superpower notes.pdf
The Vietnam War (1954-75) notes.pdf
The 1980s - Resurgence of Conservatism notes.pdf
The Post-Cold War Era (1990s-2000s) notes.pdf