Assignments for APUSH through the rest of the Year by Unit
Unit 5: Reconstruction and Westward
Expansion (1862-1877)
Timeframe: 2 weeks (January)
Topic 1: Reconstruction Era pwpt. and
related videos
Reading Assignments and Activities
Topic 2: Closing of the Western Frontier
1862-90 pwpt. and related videos
Read Chapter 17 and Chapter 18
pages 511-518 -choice between Cornell
Notes or completing analysis qs
Videos: Westward and Heartland, clips
from Dances w/ Wolves, Frontier House
Chapter 17 Quiz
FRQ: For whom and to what extent was
the American West a land of opportunity
from 1865-1890?
Unit 6: The Industrial (Gilded) Age
Timeframe: 3 weeks (January/Feb)
Topic 1: The Age of Industrialism pwpt
and related videos
Reading Assignments and Activities
Topic 2: The Great Migration and Urban
Society: 1890-1920 pwpt and related
videos
Read Chapter 19-choice between
Cornell Notes and Analysis qs
Videos: Cities, Our Century: America’s
Time: Seeds of Change
Chapter 18-19 quiz
Topic 3: Populism and Gilded Age
Politics: 1877-1900 pwpt.
Read Chapter 20-choice between
Cornell Notes or completing analysis qs
Chapter 20 Quiz
Read Chapter 16 and complete Cornell
notes
Examine Segregated Schools Documents
Chapter 16 quiz
Read Chapter 18 starting at page 511
and complete Cornell notes
Videos: Cities, Our Century: America’s
Time: Seeds of Change
DBQ: The Industrial Age
Topic 4: Economic and Social Problems
Progressivism 1890-1920
Read Chapter 22 and complete Cornell
Notes
Read Chapter 23-choice between
Cornell Notes or completing analysis qs
Gilded Age Debate Activity
Videos: Cities; Our Century: America’s
Time: Seeds of Change; Presidents:
Teddy Roosevelt
FRQ: Analyze the effectiveness of
Progressive Era reformers in addressing
problems of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. In your
answer, focus on reform efforts in TWO
of the following areas.
Industrial conditions
Urban life
Politics
Living conditions in cities
Videos: Presidents: Woodrow Wilson
Topic 5: How the Election of 1912
Changed America pwpt and related
videos
Unit 6 Test-includes DBQ
Unit 7: US Imperialism and WW I (18901918)
Timeframe: 3 weeks (February)
Topic 1: US Imperialism and the
Spanish-American War pwpt. And
related videos
Reading Assignments and Activities
Topic 2: The US in WW I pwpt and
related videos
Read Chapter 24-choice between
Cornell Notes or completing analysis qs
Analyzing WW I Propaganda activity
Videos: Our Century: America’s Time:
Shell Shock; film clips from “Fly Boys”
Read Chapter 21 and complete Cornell
notes
Foreign Policy Spectrum Activity
Videos: Our Century: America’s Time:
Seeds of Change; Presidents Video:
Teddy Roosevelt and Taft; film clips from
“The Rough Riders”
Chapter 21 quiz
DBQ: US Imperialism
and “War Horse”; complete film: “The
Lost Battalion”, presidents video:
Woodrow Wilson
Chapter 24 test and FRQ:
Unit 8: The Roaring 20s and the Great
Depression (1920-1941)
Timeframe: 3 weeks (March)
Topic 1: The Roaring 20s pwpt. And
related videos
Reading Assignments and Activities
Topic 2: The Great Depression pwpt and
related videos (1929-32)
Read Chapter 26-complete Cornell
Notes
Graphing the Great Depression and
analysis questions
Topic 3: FDR and the New Deal (193241)
Analyzing New Deal Political Cartoons
Economic Briefings Activity
Analyzing Entertainment of the Great
Depression Activity
Videos: Our Century: America’s Time:
Stormy Weather; presidents video: FDR;
The Three Stooges: Popeye
Unit 8 Test w/ DBQ: The New Deal
Read Chapter 25 and complete Cornell
notes
Legislating Morality Debate
Videos: Our Century: America’s Time:
Boom to Bust; Cities; Boom; film: “The
Great Debaters”
Chapter 25 quiz
FRQ: How did TWO of the following help
shape American national culture in the
1920’s?
Advertising
Entertainment
Mass Production
Unit 9: WW 2 to the Modern Age (19412008)
Timeframe: 5-6 weeks (March-Early
May)
Topic 1: From Versailles to Pearl Harbor
(Road to WW 2) 1921-41
Topic 2: The End of WW 2 and related
videos (1941-45)
Reading Assignments and Activities
Read Chapter 27 choice between
Cornell Notes or completing analysis qs
Videos: Our Century: America’s Time:
Over the Edge, Civilians @ War and
Homefront; film clips-Pearl Harbor,
Downfall
DBQ: WW 2 Homefront
Chapter 27 WW 2 Quiz and FRQ
Topic 3: The Early Cold War Years
(1946-60)
Read Chapter 28-complete Cornell
Notes
Videos: Our Century: America’s Time:
The Best Years
Chapter 28 quiz
Topic 4: The 1950s
Read Chapter 29- choice between
Cornell Notes or completing analysis qs
Videos: Our Century: America’s Time:
Happy Daze
Chapter 29 quiz
Topic 5: JFK and the Trouble w/ Castro
(1959-63)
Read Chapter 30 pages 857-866 and
869- complete Cornell Notes
Videos: Our Century: America’s Time:
Poisoned Dreams
JFK Quiz
Topic 6: The Civil Rights Movement
(1947-70)
Read Chapter 29 pages 849-854,
Chapter 30 pages 866-869 and “Black
Power” pages 882-884-complete
Cornell Notes
Videos: Our Century: America’s Time:
Happy Daze, Poisoned Dreams,
Unpinned; clips from “the 60s”
Civil Rights Quiz
Topic 7: The Vietnam War (1955-75)
Read Chapter 30 pages 870-889complete Cornell Notes
Videos: Our Century: America’s Time:
Happy Daze, Poisoned Dreams,
Unpinned; clips from “Forrest Gump”
and “the 60s”
Topic 8: The Later Cold War to Modern
Society pwpt and related videos
Read Chapters 31-33 choice between
Cornell Notes or completing analysis qs
Videos: Our Century: America’s Time:
Approaching Apocalypse, Starting Over,
A New World
The first 2 weeks of May will be spent reviewing the course, practicing DBQ and FRQ
questions and taking practice exams.