COURSE TITLE: AP US History
PREREQUISITES: World History A & Economics
LENGTH: 3 Trimesters
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is an accelerated comprehensive survey course which will prepare students to take the Advanced Placement Test in May. The course will focus on the following areas: Colonial America (Chesapeake vs New England), mercantilism and English law, revolution and the Articles of Confederation, political parties, Jacksonian democracy, slavery and the Civil War, industrialization and westward expansion, populism, American Indian removal, growth of cities and immigration, World War One, prosperity of the 20’s, the depression, World War Two, and the Cold War.
TEXTBOOK: American History Connecting With the Past (Alan Brinkley)
LENGTH: 3 Trimesters
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is an accelerated comprehensive survey course which will prepare students to take the Advanced Placement Test in May. The course will focus on the following areas: Colonial America (Chesapeake vs New England), mercantilism and English law, revolution and the Articles of Confederation, political parties, Jacksonian democracy, slavery and the Civil War, industrialization and westward expansion, populism, American Indian removal, growth of cities and immigration, World War One, prosperity of the 20’s, the depression, World War Two, and the Cold War.
TEXTBOOK: American History Connecting With the Past (Alan Brinkley)