Title: AP/DC U.S. HISTORY 1302
Headings: AP/DC U.S. HISTORY 1302
AP/DC U.S. HISTORY 1302
Chapter 16: Big Business and Organized Labor, 1860-1900
1. Explain the primary factors that stimulated unprecedented industrial and agricultural growth in the late nineteenth century.
2. Describe the entrepreneurs who pioneered the growth of Big Business, the goals they aimed to achieve, and the strategies they used to dominate their industries.
3. Evaluate the role of the federal government in the nation's economic development during this period.
4. Analyze the ways in which the social class structure and the lives of women changed in the late nineteenth century.
5. Evaluate the efforts of workers to organize unions to promote their interests during this era.
Chapter 17: The South and the West Transformed, 1865-1900
1. Analyze the ways in which a "New South" emerged economically in the late nineteenth century AND describe the crop-lien system that emerged in the South and explain how it shaped the region after the Civil War.
2. Explain how and why white southerners took away African Americans' right to vote and adopted "Jim Crow" segregation laws at the end of the nineteenth century.
3. Identify the various groups of migrants to the West after the Civil War and the reasons they went there.
4. Describe the experiences of miners, farmers, ranchers, and women in the West in the late nineteenth century.
5. Evaluate the impact on Native Americans of the federal government's policies in the West after the Civil War.
6. Describe how the South and West had changed by 1900.
Chapter 18: Society and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900
1. Understand the effects of urban growth during the Gilded Age, including the problems it created.
2. Describe the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century and how they were viewed by American society.
3. Explain how urban growth and the increasingly important role of science influenced leisure activities, cultural life, and social policy in the Gilded Age.
4. Assess how the nature of politics during the Gilded Age contributed to political corruption and stalemate.
5. Evaluate the effectiveness of politicians in developing responses to the major economic and social problems of the Gilded Age.
6. Analyze why the money supply became a major political issue during the Gilded Age and describe its impact on American politics.
Chapter 19: Seizing an American Empire, 1865-1913
1. Describe the factors that motivated America's new imperialism after the Civil War.
2. Explain why and how America expanded its influence in the Pacific before the Spanish-American War (War of 1898).
3. Explain the causes of the Spanish-American War (War of 1898), and describe its major events.
4. Analyze the consequences of the Spanish-American War (War of 1898) for American foreign policy.
5. Describe the reasons for Theodore Roosevelt's rapid rise to the presidency, and evaluate the main elements of his foreign policies.
Chapter 20: The Progressive Era, 1890-1920
1. Explain the varied motives of progressive reformers.
2. Explain the various sources of thought and activism that contributed to the progressive movement.
3. Identify the specific goals of progressive reformers and the ways that they advanced these public goals.
4. Describe the contributions of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft to the progressive movement, and explain how and why the two men came to disagree.
5. Describe the progressive policies of President Woodrow Wilson, and explain why and how they differed from those of Presidents Roosevelt and Taft.
Chapter 21: America and the Great War (World War I), 1914-1920
1. Describe the outbreak of the Great War and the distinctive nature of the fighting on the Western Front, and explain why the United States was drawn into the war.
2. Explain how the Wilson administration mobilized the home front, and analyze how mobilization efforts shaped American society.
3. Describe the major events of the war after U.S. entry, and explain the U.S. contribution to the defeat of the Central Powers.
4. Evaluate Wilson's efforts to promote his plans for a peaceful world order as outlined in his Fourteen Points.
5. Analyze the consequences of the war at home and abroad.
Chapter 22: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929
1. Describe the consumer culture that emerged in America during the 1920s, and explain the factors that contributed to its growth.
2. Describe the other major new social and cultural trends and movements that became prominent during the twenties, and explain how they challenged traditional standards and customs.
3. Explain what "modernism" means in intellectual and artistic terms and how the modernist movement influenced American culture in the early twentieth century.
4. Identify important examples of reactionary conservatism in the decade, and analyze their impact on government policies.
5. Trace the Republican party's dominance of the federal government during the twenties, and analyze the extent to which its policies were a rejection of progressivism.
Chapter 23: New Deal America, 1929-1939
1. Identify the major causes of the Great Depression.
2. Describe the impact of the Great Depression on the American people.
3. Explain the response of the Hoover administration to the Great Depression.
4. Assess the goals and accomplishments of the early New Deal.
5. Analyze the major criticisms of the early New Deal.
6. Evaluate the ways the New Deal evolved and how it transformed the role of federal government.
Chapter 24: The Second World War, 1933-1945
1. Assess how German and Japanese actions led to the outbreak of war in Europe and in Asia.
2. Evaluate how President Roosevelt and Congress responded to the outbreak of wars in Europe and Asia between 1933 and 1941.
3. Analyze the effects of the Second World War on American society.
4. Explain the major factors that enabled the United States and its allies to win the war in Europe.
5. Describe how the Japanese were defeated in the war in the Pacific.
6. Evaluate the efforts of President Roosevelt and the Allies to shape the postwar world.
Chapter 25: The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952
1. Explain why and how the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union developed after the Second World War.
2. Analyze the impact of American efforts to contain the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism during Truman's presidency.
3. Describe Truman's efforts to expand the New Deal, and evaluate the effectiveness of his own "Fair Deal" agenda.
4. Assess the major international developments during 1940-1950, including the outbreak of the Korean War, and explain how they altered U.S. foreign policy.
5. Examine the emergence of the Red Scare, after the Second World War, and explain its impact on American politics and society.
Chapter 26: Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age, 1950-1959
1. Explain President Eisenhower's political philosophy and priorities.
2. Identify the factors that contributed to postwar prosperity, and analyze to what extent all Americans benefited from it.
3. Examine the criticism of postwar American society and culture, and describe the various forms of dissent and anxiety.
4. Evaluate the goals, strategies, and impact of the civil rights movement that emerged in the 1950s.
5. Assess President Eisenhower's priorities in conducting the nation's foreign policy and his influence on global affairs.
Chapter 27: New Frontiers, 1960-1968
1. Assess President John F. Kennedy's efforts to contain communism abroad and pursue civil rights and other social programs at home.
2. Describe the strategies and achievements of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, and explain the divisions that emerged among its activists during the decade.
3. Analyze Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty and Great Society initiatives, and evaluate their impact on American society.
4. Explain Presidents Kennedy and Johnson's motivations for deepening America's military involvement in the Vietnam War and appraise their efforts to preserve a noncommunist South Vietnam.
5. Examine the presidential election of 1968 and explain the issues that propelled Richard Nixon to victory.
Chapter 28: Rebellion and Reaction, The 1960s and 1970s
1. Analyze the origins of the youth revolt, and compare the responses of the New Left and the counterculture.
2. Assess the influence of the youth revolt and the early civil rights movement on other protest movements and how new protest movements affected social attitudes and public policy.
3. Analyze how Richard Nixon's election strategy and domestic policies were affected by the political environment of the late sixties.
4. Analyze how and why Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger changed military and political strategies to end America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
5. Examine the world order that evolved after the Vietnam War from Richard Nixon's and Henry Kissinger's diplomacy and foreign policies.
6. Explain how the Watergate scandal unfolded, and assess its political significance.
Chapter 29:Conservative Revival, 1977-1990
1. Analyze why Jimmy Carter had such limited success as America's thirty-ninth president.
2. Identify the factors that led to the election of Ronald Reagan, the rise of the conservative movement, and the resurgence of the Republican Party.
3. Define "Reaganomics" and evaluate its effects on American society and economy.
4. Explain how Reagan's Soviet strategy helped end the Cold War.
5. Characterize the social and economic issues and innovations that emerged during the 1980s.
6. Appraise the impact of the end of the Cold War and the efforts of President George H.W. Bush to create a post-Cold War foreign policy.
Chapter 30: Twenty-First Century America, 1993-Present
1. Describe the major population trends (demographics) in the United States during the twenty-first century, and assess their impact on the nation's politics.
2. Evaluate the accomplishments and setbacks of Bill Clinton's presidency.
3. Summarize the impact of global terrorism on the United States during the presidency of George W. Bush, and evaluate the effectiveness of his "war on terror."
4. Assess the issues and developments during Bush's second term that helped lead to Barack Obama's historic victory in the 2008 presidential election.
5. Identify President Obama's priorities at home and abroad, and assess his efforts to pursue them.

Content: Evaluate the impact on Native Americans of the federal government's policies in the West after the Civil War. By 1900, Native Americans in the West were no longer free to roam the plains, as the influx of miners, ranchers, farmers, and soldiers had curtailed their traditional way of life. Instances of armed resistance, such as the Great Sioux War, were crushed. Initially, Indian tribes were forced to sign treaties and were confined to reservations. Beginning in 1887, with the Dawes Severalty Act, the American government's Indian policy shifted. It now forced Indians to relinquish their traditional culture and adopt the "American way" of individual land ownership. 6. Describe how the South and West had changed by 1900. In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner, a prominent historian, declared that the frontier era was over. He argued that the western moving frontier of white settlement had been the nation's primary source of democratic politics and rugged individualism.