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AP U.S. History Pacing Guide
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Two-week summary of major instructional content and skills • 36 instructional weeks
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Weeks 1–2APUSH - Test Format; Unit 6: Ch. 16 - Industrial AmericaAPUSH test format; Industrial Age conditions, problems, and immigration; primary-source study of Jewish immigrants in the industrial economy.Describe the Industrial Age, its problems, and immigrants’ role; analyze “Jewish Immigrants in the Industrial Economy” as a primary source.
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Weeks 3–4Unit 6: Ch. 16 - Industrial America; Unit 6: Ch. 17 - Making Modern American CultureIndustrial labor and capitalist power; Summer Reading Assessment; Industrial Age culture; Plessy v. Ferguson.Analyze Terence Powderly’s “Industrial Brotherhood Counters Excesses of Capitalist Power”; demonstrate understanding of the Tuskegee Airmen’s role in World War and of the Industrial Age; describe Industrial Age culture; explain Plessy v. Ferguson and its impact.
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Weeks 5–6Unit 6: Ch. 17 - Making Modern American Culture; Unit 6: Ch. 18 - ProgressivismSocial Darwinism; worker hardships and the Depression of 1893; Industrial Age culture; Progressive reforms and responses to industrial problems.Explain Social Darwinism and its impact on U.S. society; analyze worker hardships; demonstrate understanding of Industrial Age culture; analyze Progressive reforms and efforts to improve conditions for Americans and immigrants.
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Weeks 7–8Unit 6: Ch. 18 - Progressivism; Unit 6: Ch. 19 - Politics, Populists, and ProgressivesTriangle Fire and The Jungle as reform catalysts; the Progressive Movement; U.S. political climate, 1877–1917; the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.Explain how the Triangle Fire and The Jungle catalyzed reform; demonstrate understanding of Progressivism; describe the 1877–1917 political climate; examine whether the Gilded Age and Progressive Era were separate; demonstrate understanding of related people, organizations, platforms, and laws.
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Weeks 9–10Unit 7: Ch. 20 - An Emerging World PowerU.S. expansion; Open Door Policy; Roosevelt Corollary; Spanish-American War; causes of World War I and U.S. entry; Zimmermann Telegram.Explain U.S. acquisition of Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines; explain the Open Door Policy and Roosevelt Corollary; explain the Spanish-American War, the causes of World War I, and U.S. entry into the war; analyze the Zimmermann Telegram.
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Weeks 11–12Unit 7: Ch. 20 - An Emerging World Power; Unit 7: Ch. 21 - Unsetlled Prosperity: From War to DepressionWilson’s Fourteen Points; the 1920s; “The Century: America’s Time - Boom to Bust”; chapter test.Analyze Wilson’s Fourteen Points; describe, evaluate, and analyze the 1920s; complete the “Boom to Bust” Edpuzzle; assessment: test.
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Weeks 13–14Unit 7: Ch. 22 - Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New DealThe Great Depression.Describe, evaluate, and analyze the Great Depression.
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Weeks 15–16Unit 7: Ch. 22 - Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New DealNew Deal effects on citizens; Great Depression primary-source footage and interviews; Dust Bowl; New Deal impact on the landscape; 1933 Banking Crisis; unit understanding.Analyze New Deal effects on citizens and FDR’s response to the 1933 Banking Crisis; analyze Great Depression primary sources; describe Dust Bowl and New Deal impacts on the U.S. landscape; demonstrate understanding of the Great Depression and New Deal.
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Weeks 17–18Unit 7: Ch. 23 - The World at War: 1937-1945; MidtermsU.S. participation in World War II; midterm review; midterms.Describe and analyze U.S. participation in World War II; complete midterm review and midterm assessments.
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Weeks 19–20Unit 7: Ch. 23 - The World at War: 1937-1945World War II causes; Korematsu v. U.S.; European and Pacific Theaters; Manhattan Project; Holocaust.Describe and analyze U.S. participation in World War II; analyze Korematsu v. U.S. and Japanese internment, the European and Pacific Theaters, the Manhattan Project, and the Holocaust.
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Weeks 21–22Unit 8: Ch. 24 - The Cold War Dawns; Unit 8: Ch. 25 - Triumph of the Middle Class; AP Test PrepEarly Cold War; HUAC testimony; postwar Europe and U.S. primary sources; American society in the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s; AP test prep.Describe and analyze the early Cold War; analyze HUAC testimony; demonstrate understanding of key people, events, policies, ideologies, conflicts, and laws; observe and describe postwar primary-source accounts and footage; describe and analyze mid-century American society; practice AP test-prep skills.
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Weeks 23–24Unit 8: Ch. 25 - Triumph of the Middle Class; Unit 8: Ch. 26 - Civil Rights MovementMid-century American society, laws, and cultural trends; GI Bill and The Feminine Mystique; racial discrimination leading to the Civil Rights Movement; Civil Rights review and test.Describe and analyze American society in the late 1940s–early 1960s; analyze primary sources on the GI Bill and The Feminine Mystique; describe racial discrimination leading to the Civil Rights Movement; review and demonstrate understanding of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Weeks 25–26Unit 8: Ch. 27 - Vietnam War; Ch. 28: The Search for Order in an Era of LimitsCauses and conduct of the Vietnam War; key people, policies, and battles; PSATs; U.S. in the 1970s; Ch. 28 test.Describe and analyze Vietnam War causes and how the war was fought; demonstrate understanding of key people, causes, policies, and battles; describe and analyze the U.S. in the 1970s; assessment: Ch. 28 test.
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Weeks 27–28AP Exam PrepAP Exam multiple-choice questions; short essay questions.Use reasoning and content knowledge to answer questions that could appear on the AP Exam, including multiple-choice and short essay questions.
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Weeks 29–30AP Exam PrepLong essay questions; DBQs.Use reasoning, content knowledge, and textual evidence to answer long essay questions and DBQs that could appear on the AP Exam.
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Weeks 31–32AP Exam Prep; APUSH Exam; APUSH Debrief; Vietnam WarU.S. history timelines; APUSH Exam; exam debrief; causes of the Vietnam War.Review key people, events, conflicts, laws, and court cases across U.S. history; demonstrate understanding on the APUSH Exam; evaluate exam performance and identify strengths and weaknesses; describe and analyze the causes of the Vietnam War.
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Weeks 33–34Vietnam WarU.S. involvement under Eisenhower and Kennedy; Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Resolution; Selective Service Act and the draft; Vietnam War controversies.Discuss U.S. involvement under Eisenhower and Kennedy; explain 1965 combat-troop deployment through the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and subsequent Resolution; discuss the Selective Service Act and draft controversies; describe and analyze Vietnam War controversies.
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