Instructor: Mark Taylor
Room Number: CDC #140
Tutoring hours: Mondays 3:50-5:00 pm
School: Alliance LL-ESAT
Classes: Periods 2 & 4
Email: [email protected]
APUSH Second Semester Schedule
Advanced Placement U.S. History (APUSH) is a college level survey course in United States History beginning in the time of colonial America (1491) to the present. The course is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge to deal critically with the problems and issues in United States History. The course incorporates both a chronological pacing and a thematic understanding of the history of the United States.
The course prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands equivalent to those made by full year introductory college courses. Students will learn to assess historical materials – their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance, and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship.
Period 1: 1491 – 1607
This unit examines the Americas and the world prior to the “discovery” of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the exploration/conquest of the Americas by the Europeans.
Period 2: 1607 – 1754
This unit investigates the colonization of North America starting with the founding of the Jamestown colony, the interactions between colonists and Native Americans, and how colonies developed in different regions.
Period 3: 1754 - 1800
This unit explores the English colonists push for independence as well as their attempts to create a “more perfect union” with the Constitution and presidents George Washington and John Adams.
Period 4: 1800 – 1848
This unit explores challenges involved in defining what the United States would be including political party divisions, religious revivals, and understanding social structure in America.