OCG - AP United States History
School District of Oconee County
AP U.S. History
Course Number: 337200AW
The AP U.S. History course focuses on the development of historical thinking skills (chronological reasoning, comparing and contextualizing, crafting historical arguments using historical evidence, and interpreting and synthesizing historical narrative) and the development of students’ abilities to think conceptually about U.S. history from approximately 1491 to the present. Seven themes of equal importance – American and National Identity; Migration and Settlement; Politics and Power; Work, Exchange, and Technology; America in the World; Geography and the Environment; and Culture and Society – provide areas of historical inquiry for investigation throughout the course.These require students to reason historically about continuity and change over time and make comparisons among various historical developments in different times and places.The course also allows teachers flexibility across nine different periods of U.S. history to teach topics of their choice in depth.
South Carolina Standards: (List the standards students are expected to master in this course)
USHC-1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the conflicts between regional and national interest in the development of democracy in the United States.
USHC-2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of how economic developments and the westward movement impacted regional differences and democracy in the early nineteenth century.
USHC-3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of how regional and ideological differences led to the Civil War and an understanding of the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on democracy in America.
USHC-4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the industrial development and the consequences of that development on society and politics during the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.
USHC-5: The student will demonstrate an understanding of domestic and foreign developments that contributed to the emergence of the United States as a world power in the twentieth century.
USHC-6: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the conflict between traditionalism and progressivism in the 1920s and the economic collapse and the political response to the economic crisis in the 1930s.
USHC-7: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the impact of World War II on the United States and the nation’s subsequent role in the world.
USHC-8: The student will demonstrate an understanding of social, economic and political issues in contemporary America.
Other Standards: (List national or local standards students are expected to master in this course)
All themes and concepts outlined in the AP US History Curriculum Framework
(available online at the College Board website)
Required Instructional Materials and Resources: (List required materials including SDOC provided textbooks, including any fees that apply, etc.)
The Enduring Vision (SDOC Provided Textbook)
Other primary and secondary texts prescribed by the teacher
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