AP US History students receive a monthly calendar with homework
assignments and Test dates on the calendars. The assignments listed
on each calendar date are the assignments for THAT NIGHT.
All students must take the Fall Semester Exam (see
Mustang Manual).
Directions for writing an Essay Outline
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(your name)
APUSH - __p.
Ch. ___
(date)
Essay Prompt: (actually write the prompt here)
I. Intro Paragraph: (one or two sentences that explain the time period and the situation; you may
want to define a major term such as “mercantilism”, “egalitarianism” etc.)
Thesis Statement: ( this is YOUR judgment, your direction for the essay, your ideas)
II. 1st body Topic Sentence: (the direction for this paragraph)
a. (specific detail with explanation)
b. (specific detail with explanation)
c. (specific detail with explanation)
Concluding Sentence: (make a final judgment, tie to thesis)
III. 2nd body Topic Sentence:
a. (specific detail with explanation)
b. (specific detail with explanation)
c. (specific detail with explanation)
Concluding Sentence: (make a final judgment, tie to thesis)
IV. 3rd body (if necessary) Topic Sentence:
same as 1st & 2nd body paragraphs
V. Concluding Paragraph: Re-word your thesis, then write two or three sentences that finalize your
answer and may even predict what happened next-- this is easy after you have read the next
chapter, so look ahead. (did this situation bring about the next? i.e. Enlightenment - Independence
List of Eras
Colonial period 1607-1730
Great Awakening and Enlightenment
French and Indian War, 1754-1763
Pre-Revolution, before 1775
Revolution 1775-1783
Pre-U.S. Constitution 1783-1789
New Nation 1789-1800
Jeffersonianism
Nationalism 1809-1829
Jacksonianism 1828-1837
Antebellum period (pre Civil War) 1830s - 1860
Civil War 1861-1865
Reconstruction 1865-1877
Conquest of the West 1840s - 1890
The Gilded Age 1876-1900
The Industrial Revolution 1876-1900
Imperialism and the Spanish-Am. War 1890-1914
Progressivism / National Reform 1900-1920
World War I 1914-1918
The Roaring Twenties 1920-29
The Great Depression 1929-1941
World War II 1941-1945
The Cold War 1945-1988
Korean War 1950-53
The Affluent Fifties 1950-59
The Civil Rights Movement (1950s & 1960s)
The Sixties (but not Civil Rights or Vietnam)
The Vietnam War 1954-1973
The Seventies (but not Vietnam) 1970-79
The Reagon Years 1981-1989
