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ADVANCED PLACEMENT (AP) U.S. HISTORY
BISHOP VEROT HIGH SCHOOL
FT. MYERS, FLORIDA
Signing the Declaration of Independence
WHAT YOU CAN FIND ON THIS WEB PAGE:
ABOUT AP U.S. HISTORY
AP United States History is a challenging course that is meant to be the equivalent of a freshman college course and can earn students college credit. It is a two-semester survey of United States history from the colonial period to the present. Solid reading and writing skills, along with a willingness to devote considerable time to homework and study, are necessary to succeed. Emphasis is placed on critical and evaluative thinking skills, essay writing, and interpretation of original documents. A college textbook is used in the course and an average assignment consists of 10 to 12 pages. Students will also be trained in note-taking skills as most of the classes are lectures. Throughout the year, students will be introduced to typical questions used on the AP Exam which is administered in May. Several weeks are spent in intensive review preparing students to take the exam. All students enrolled in the course are required to take the AP Exam. A final exam is also given at the end of the course. A practice exam is administered on a Saturday morning prior to the actual exam. There is a charge for the AP Exam (approximately $80.00) but when you consider a passing grade may earn college credit, the cost is minimal. Even if a student fails to achieve a passing score on the AP Exam, the experience of taking a college course is immeasurable.
FORMAT OF THE AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM
Each AP U.S. History Examination is three hours and ten minutes in length and has both a multiple choice and a free-response section. Fifty-five minutes are allotted for Part I, the multiple choice section, which contains 80 questions and accounts for 50 percent of the composite score. Part II, the free-response section, consists of a required 15-minute reading period, a required document-based question for which 45 minutes are recommended, and an essay section in which students select one question from each of two groups of questions. Thirty-five minutes are allotted for each of the essays. The DBQ and the essays account for 50 percent of the composite score.
DBQ INFORMATION
Beginning with the 2003 exam, ETS will no longer announce the time period for the DBQ.
SOME RECENT DBQ TOPICS
2008: Vietnam War, Social, Economic and Political Tensions, 1964-1975
2007: Changes in American Agriculture in the Period 1865-1900
2006: Changing Ideals of American Womanhood, 1770s-1861
2005: The American Revolution and Changes to American Society
2004: The French and Indian War Alters the Relationship
Between Britain
and her American Colonies
2003: Responses of President Roosevelt to the Great Depression
2002: Reform Movements, 1825-1850
2001: The Cold War and the Eisenhower Administration
2000: Organized Labor from 1875-1900
1999: Colonial America on the Eve of the Revolution
1998: Jeffersonian Republicans and Federalists with
Respect to the Constitution
1997: American Women, 1890-1925
1996: Constitutional and Social Developments, 1860-1877
1995: Civil Rights Movement, 1960s
1994: U.S. Expansionism
1993: New England and Chesapeake Colonies Compared
1992: The Effects of the Environment on Western Development
from the 1840s through the 1890s
DBQ Help (Sample DBQs created by students)
IMPORTANT DATES
2008 AP U.S. HISTORY EXAM: FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008, 8:00 A.M. EDT
LINKS TO USEFUL SITES
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GENERAL U.S. HISTORY SITES
HISTORY NOW (An online journal for history teachers and students)
ICUE: U.S. HISTORY (NBC-TV Source for Students)
TEACHING HISTORY ONLINE (Many, many resources.)
THE CONCORD REVIEW: HISTORY PAPERS WRITTEN BY STUDENTS
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY ON LINE
Perspectives in American Literature
THE AMERICAN CURRENCY EXHIBIT: STUDY HISTORY THROUGH CURRENCY
DISTINGUISHED WOMEN OF PAST AND PRESENT
ROADS FROM SENECA FALLS: WOMEN'S HISTORY
WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1775-2000
PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMERICAN WEST
A CHRONOLOGY OF U.S. HISTORY DOCUMENTS
THE AVALON PROJECT: DOCUMENTS IN LAW, HISTORY AND DIPLOMACY
SELECTED SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, 1860-1884
HISTORY MATTERS: A GREAT RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY ONLINE
AMERICAN HISTORY AT ABOUT.COM: MANY LINK
FAMOUS TRIALS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT: PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY RESOURCES
FEDERALISM IN THE UNITED STATES
CASES AND MATERIALS ON AMERICAN FEDERALISM (An excellent site from Purdue Unv.)
WHAT IS A DOLLAR WORTH? A SITE TO CALCULATE INFLATION
DON MABRY'S HISTORICAL TEXT ARCHIVE
A WEB SITE ON DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER
ESSAYS ON SEVERAL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
PRESIDENTIAL OUTLINES (Useful outlines of Presidents created by a student)
U.S. HISTORY ON THE WEB (Many links to other sites)
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND THE OLD WEST
PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS AND DOCUMENT BASED QUESTIONS
EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY (Eyewitness accounts of historical events)
HISTORY LINKS FROM TENNESSEE TECH (Many U.S. History links)
ANIMATED ATLAS: GROWTH OF A NATION
HOTGRADES.COM Links to many subject resources
U.S. HISTORY ON THE WEB Alexander Hamilton High School, J. Nelsen
COLONIAL AMERICA TO 1775
THE PILGRIMS AND PLYMOUTH COLONY
SALEM WITCH TRIALS, A CHRONOLOGY
SALEM WITCH TRIALS: AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE
THE EARLY REPUBLIC, 1775-1820
THE HISTORY PLACE:THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
LIBERTY: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: THE COMPLETE HISTORY
THE FOUNDING FATHERS: DELEGATES TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
THE WORK OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
THE DEBATES IN THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, 1787
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1787
ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION
THE RISE AND FALL OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON
COMMON-PLACE: AN INTERACTIVE JOURNAL OF EARLY AMERICAN LIFE
THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION: A PBS PRESENTATION
LEWIS & CLARK, AN INTERNET ARCHIVE (National Geographic)
TECUMSEH AND THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE CREEK
Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention
THE MARSHALL SUPREME COURT CASES
EXPANSION AND REFORM, 1820-1860
John Quincy Adams, a Biography
THE CHEROKEE TRAIL OF TEARS -1838-1839
Chief Blackhawk, an Autobiography
PBS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMERICAN WEST
MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE FUR TRADE
Expansion, Reform and Economic Growth: Links
The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848
WOMEN AND SOCIAL REFORM, 1820-1940
United States Utopian Communities
The American Immigration Homepage
Internet History Sourcebook: The Industrial Revolution
Early Nineteenth Century American Literature
SLAVERY AND ABOLITIONISM
Pathways to Freedom: Maryland and the Underground Railroad
The Slave Trade and the Abolitionist Movement
Uncle
Tom's Cabin AND AMERICAN CULTURE
THE UNION IN PERIL, 1820-1860
An Outline of American History: Sectional Conflict
Politics and Sectionalism in the 1850s
POLITICS AND SECTIONALISM IN THE 1850s
THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 and the FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1861-1877
CIVIL WAR WEB RING: A VIRTUAL ARCHIVE
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (Dakota State University)
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW: TWO COMMUNITIES IN THE CIVIL WAR
HISTORY ONLINE GUIDE TO CIVIL WAR PRISONS
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HOMEPAGE
LETTERS TO HOME FROM AN IOWA SOLDIER IN THE CIVIL WAR
THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1861-1877
RECONSTRUCTION AND ITS AFTERMATH
THE ROANOKE ISLAND FREEDMEN'S COLONY
THE WIZARD OF OZ: PARABLE ON POPULISM
HAYES VS. TILDEN: THE 1876 ELECTORAL CONTROVERSY
THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA, 1877-1920
RISE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA, 1876-1900
THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE
PROGRESSIVE ERA TO NEW ERA, 1900-1929
CHILD LABOR IN THE EARLY 1900s
WEBSITES FOR THE GILDED AGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
URBAN EXPERIENCE: HULL HOUSE AND ITS NEIGHBORHOODS
THE 1886 HAYMARKET SQUARE RIOT
FIVE POINTS (Locale of the film, "Gangs of New York")
BLACK PARTICIPATION IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
ANTI-IMPERIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES , 1898-1935
THE GREAT MOLASSES DISASTER, 1919
PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION AND WAR, 1920-1945
BETWEEN
THE WARS: THE RED SCARE
THE SAD TALE OF THE BONUS MARCHERS
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S FIRESIDE CHATS
MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK: THE YALTA CONFERENCE
AMERICA SINCE 1945
THE ALGER HISS STORY: THE EARLY COLD WAR
DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLD WAR
COLD
WAR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PROJECT
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND ITS AFTERMATH
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1955-1965
GREENSBORO SIT INS: LAUNCH OF A CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
THE ROSA PARKS PORTAL (Web sites about Rosa Parks)
VIETNAM WAR INTERNET PROJECT (Many links to web sites on the war.)
THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: VIETNAM
JFK / THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE 1970s
AN INTRODUCTION TO LOVE CANAL: THE LOVE CANAL COLLECTION
LOVE
CANAL, A HISTORY (A toxic waste disaster)
WATERGATE: THE WASHINGTON POST
WATERGATE: THE SCANDAL THAT DESTROYED PRESIDENT NIXON
AFTER SEPTEMBER 11: AN ONLINE READER (Excellent readings about September 11, 2001)
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SITES USEFUL FOR REVIEW
MR. TERRY JORDAN'S REVIEW QUESTIONS
THE AMERICAN NATION, STUDENT RESOURCES
CHAFFEY HIGH SCHOOL: MR. STEPHEN MERCADO
AMERICAN HISTORY 102: CIVIL WAR TO PRESENT: LECTURE NOTES
POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL, MR. GREG FELDMETH
U.S. HISTORY OUTLINES AND CHARTS (MR. GREG FELDMETH)
HIGH SCHOOL RESOURCE PAGE FROM SJSU
AP US NOTES ( Notes from The American Pageant)
COLLEGE BOARD ON LINE (INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXAM AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS)
THE CORNELL NOTE TAKING SYSTEM: A USEFUL STRATEGY FOR NOTE TAKING AND REVIEW
GUIDES FOR WRITING ESSAYS
ESSAY WRITING: THE WRITING DENA GUIDE TO WRITING A BASIC ESSAY
CITING INTERNET SOURCES IN HISTORY
READING, WRITING, AND RESEARCHING FOR HISTORY
ESSAY WRITING--THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE (An site from U.K. but some good guide)
TEACHER CREATED WEB SITES
CHAFFEY HIGH SCHOOL, MR. STEVEN MERCADO
ORANGE HIGH SCHOOL, MR. TERRY JORDAN
AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL, MR. ANTHONY PERNO
MURRAY HIGH SCHOOL, MR. K. WOOD
HEMPFIELD AREA HIGH SCHOOL, MR. T. JOYNER
ALEXANDER HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL, MR J. NELSEN (Great links)
MARY REGINA HIGH SCHOOL, SUSAN POJER
WINSTON CHURCHILL HS, MR. GRANT CONWAY (Many useful resources)
MENTOR HIGH SCHOOL, MRS. ROBERTS (Excellent lecture notes for The American Pageant)
WISE COUNTY, VA. ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM, MS. JUDITH ABBOTT
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