Ms. Nielsen

US History II - CP & Honors
AP US History

Contact Info:
Room 465
wnielsen@fallriverschools.org
Phone ext. 2257

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Announcements for US II:

• Keep your binders organized!
• Term 3 ends April 5.  Term 4 will be a fresh start for everyone.

Announcements for AP:

• The AP Exam is May 15: Don't forget to keep up your notes and AP exam prep
• Keep working on your research papers!  Tentative bibliographies have been completed, as have note cards, so creating an outline is your next step.

• US History II Course Outline:

  • Unit 1: Industrialization, Immigration & Urbanization
  • Unit 2: Empire at Home & Abroad
  • Unit 3: Progressives & Reformers
  • Unit 4: World War I & its aftermath
  • Unit 5: Boom & Bust
  • Unit 6: Great Depression & the New Deal
  • Unit 7: WWII & its Impact
  • Unit 8: Early Cold War (Atomic Age, Korean War, Space Race, etc)
  • Unit 9: Nonviolent Civil Rights Era
  • Unit 10: The 1960s (Kennedy, Johnson & the Vietnam War) 
  • Unit 11: Counterculture & More Civil Rights 
  • Unit 12: Nixon & Cultural Changes
  • ?Unit 13: Rise of Conservatism 
  • ?Unit 14: Modern Life 
  
  

  AP US History Course Outline: 

   

  Unit 1: Colonial Beginnings (1450 – 1650)
  Unit 2: The Colonies Grow Up (1650 – 1750s)
  Unit 3: Causes of Revolution & the Revolutionary War
  Unit 4: The New Nation & the Constitution
  Unit 5: The Early Republic (1789 – 1815)
  Unit 6: Antebellum America
  Unit 7: Manifest Destiny, Territorial Expansion & Rising Sectionalism
  Unit 8/9: Slavery, Sectionalism,  the Civil War & Reconstruction
  Unit 10: The Gilded Age
  Unit 10.5: Changes in the West 
  Unit 11: Imperialism at Home and Abroad
  Unit 12: Progressive Era
  Unit 13: Modern War & Modern Life (1914 – 1920s)
  Unit 14: Boom & Bust
  Unit 15: the New Deal
  Unit 16: Causes & Course of World War II
  Unit 17: Aftermath of WWII and the Truman & Eisenhower Administrations
  Unit 18: Kennedy Administration 
  Unit 19: Lyndon Johnson's Presidency 
  Unit 20: More Civil Rights
  Unit 21: Nixon Administration
  Unit 22: Resurgence of Conservatism 
  Unit 23: Modern America 

• Useful Links and Resources:

  Google

• Our schooltube channel with videos to review major topics.  
  Review Questions to accompany videos... 
  a) Causes of the Civil War questions  
  b) Early Cold War questions
  c) More to come soon!
   

• US Constitution - Text and Images of the US Constitution

• PBS Eyes on the Prize - Resources about the Civil Rights Movement from PBS

• The Great War - Resources about World War I from PBS

• Digital Archives of Historical Music - Copyright-free historical music mostly from the early 1900s.  If you explore the website, it also has articles, historical newspapers and digital photograph exhibits 

• Ken Burns' The War (PBS) - Great website about World War II with photographs, videos and information about how real Americans experienced World War II. 

• World War II Propaganda from the US Archives

• History lectures from the Khan Academy - Good resources for 20th century US History and many economics concepts, but not much for early history. 

   

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AP Resources: We're a small class so let's be honest-- we get the worst spot on the website.  There are still resources for us to use, though.  Any of the US II PowerPoints/notes (on the right side) might be helpful for the second half of our course.  The links above may also be helpful.  Here are a few items just for us. 

Research Paper: 

• Assignment sheet (with instructions, tips & due dates)
  

Units 1 and 2: Early Colonies

• Salem Witch Trials
  

Unit 3: Revolutionary War

• Boston Massacre Trial

Units 6 & 7: Culture, Economics, etc. in Antebellum America

Unit 8: Manifest Destiny & Rising Sectionalism

Unit 9: Causes of the Civil War