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Hand-Broadnax APUSH 1

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Quarter Curriculum Mapping Guide
Week 1
Students will review historical thinking skills as they relate to the APUSH Curriculum Framework.
Students will learn the content learning objectives which are organized under seven themes for the APUSH Curriculum
Framework.
Students will learn the different periods for the APUSH Curriculum Framework.

HISTORICAL THINKING SKILLS
SKILL TYPE Historical Thinking Skill
I. Chronological Reasoning 1. Historical Causation
2. Patterns of Continuity and Change Over Time
3. Periodization
II. Comparison and Contextualization 4. Comparison
III. Crafting Historical Arguments 5. Contextualization
6. Historical Argumentation
7. Appropriate Use of Relevant Historical Evidence
IV. Historical Interpretation and Synthesis 8. Interpretation
9. Synthesis

THEMES
Identity
How and why have debates over American national identity changed over time?
How have gender, class, ethnic, religious, regional, and other group identities changed in different eras?
Work, Exchange, and Technology
How have changes in markets, transportation, and technology affected American society from colonial times to the present day?
Why have different labor systems developed in British North America and the United States, and how have they affected U.S.
society?
How have debates over economic values and the role of government in the U.S. economy affected politics, society, the economy,
and the environment?

Peopling
Why have people migrated to, from, and within North America?
How have changes in migration and population patterns affected American life?

Politics and Power
How and why have different political and social groups competed for influence over society and government in what would become
the United States?
How have Americans agreed on or argued over the values that guide the political system, as well as who is a part of the political
process?

America in the World
How have events in North America and the United States related to contemporary developments in the rest of the world?
How have different factors influenced U.S. military, diplomatic, and economic involvement in international affairs and foreign
conflicts, both in North America and overseas?



Environment and Geography Physical and Human
How did interactions with the natural environment shape the institutions and values of various groups living on the North American
continent?
How did economic and demographic changes affect the environment and lead to debates over use and control of the environment
and natural resources?

Ideas, Beliefs, and Culture
How and why have moral, philosophical, and cultural values changed in what would become the United States?
How and why have changes in moral, philosophical, and cultural values affected U.S. history?

PERIODSWXT)
PERIOD 1: 1491-1607
On a North American continent controlled by American Indians, contact among the peoples of Europe,
the Americas, and West Africa created a new world.
PERIOD 2: 1607-1754
Europeans and American Indians maneuvered and fought for dominance, control and security in North America,
and distinctive colonial and native societies emerged.

PERIOD 3: 17541800
British imperial attempts to reassert control over its colonies and the colonial reaction to these attempts produced
a new American republic, along with struggles over the new nations social, political and economic identity.
PERIOD 4: 18001848

The new republic struggled to define and extend democratic ideals in the face of rapid economic,
territorial and demographic changes.

PERIOD 5: 1844-1877
As the nation expanded and its population grew, regional tensions, especially over slavery, led to a civil war the
course and aftermath of which transformed American society.
PERIOD 6: 18651898
The transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society
brought about significant economic, political, diplomatic, social, environmental and cultural changes.
PERIOD 7: 18901945
An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound domestic and global challenges, debated the proper
degree of government activism, and sought to define its international role.
PERIOD 8: 19451980
After World War II, the United States grappled with prosperity and unfamiliar international responsibilities, while
struggling to live up to its ideals.
PERIOD 9: 1980-present
As the United States transitioned to a new century filled with challenges and possibilities, it experienced renewed
ideological and cultural debates, sought to redefine its foreign policy, and adapted to economic globalization and
revolutionary changes in science and technology
Week 2 Periods 1 and 2
Week 3 Period 3
Week 4 Period 3 and 4
Week 5 Period 4
Week 6 Period 4 and 5
Week 7 Period 5
Week 8 DBQ
Week 9 Quarter Review


The following are specific terms that are included in the curricular framework and
may therefore appear on the AP U.S. History Exam.

Period 1 Term
maize cultivation Great Basin Great Plains
hunter-gatherer economy agricultural economy permanent villages
Western Hemisphere Spanish exploration Portuguese exploration
West Africa encomienda system slave labor
plantation-based agriculture empire building feudalism
capitalism white superiority political autonomy cultural
autonomy
Period 2 Terms
Spanish colonization French colonization Dutch colonization
British colonization intermarriage cross-racial sexual unions
indentured servants Atlantic slave trade overt resistance
covert resistance New England colonies Puritans
homogeneous society diverse middle colonies staple crops
Pueblo Revolt English view of land ownership and gender roles
Atlantic World African slave trade Anglicization
Enlightenment ideas British imperial system mercantilist economies

Period 3 Terms
French-Indian fur trade encroachment Seven Year War
colonial elites artisans loyalists
patriots French Revolution George Washington
Washingtons farewell address republican government natural rights
Thomas Paine Common Sense legislative branch
Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation property qualifications
Constitution separation of powers Bill of Rights
federalism ratification process American Revolution
multi-ethnic multi-racial backcountry
mission settlements trans-Appalachian west Northwest Ordinance
Republican Motherhood free navigation of the Mississippi


Period 4 Terms
participatory democracy constituencies Federalists
Democratic-Republicans Democrats Whigs
Second Great Awakening human perfectibility (perfectibility of man)
secular reforms international slave trade free African Americans
xenophobia steam engines interchangeable parts
canals railroads agricultural inventions textile
machinery telegraph arable land
semi-subsistence agriculture urban entrepreneurs the American System
market revolution national bank tariffs
internal improvements Louisiana Purchase Missouri Compromise

Period 5 Terms

Manifest Destiny Mexican-American War intensified sectionalism
slave-based agriculture abolitionists nullification
slavery as a positive good secession Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott case Kansas-Nebraska Act Republican Party
Second American party system Abraham Lincoln free-soil
Confederacy Union radical Republicans
Emancipation Proclamation 13
th
Amendment sharecropping system
14
th
Amendment 15
th
Amendment

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