Fabric of a Nation
First Edition ©2020 Jason Stacy; Matthew J. Ellington
Authors
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Jason Stacy
Jason Stacy is Professor of U.S. History and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville. Before joining the history department at SIU-Edwardsville, Stacy taught AP® U.S. History for eight years at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Stacy has served as an AP® U.S. History reader, table leader, exam leader, consultant, senior auditor, and question author for the AP® U.S. History exam. Author and editor of multiple books on authors like Walt Whitman and Edgar Lee Masters, his research has appeared in Social Education, the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and American Educational History. Stacy is also a contributing editor for the Walt Whitman Archive, where he edits Whitman’s journalism. Recently, he published Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town with the University of Illinois Press. Stacy has served as the president of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies, the editor of The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies, and a reviewer for many academic journals and presses.
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Matthew J. Ellington
Matthew Ellington has taught AP® U.S. History at Ruben S. Ayala High School in Chino Hills, California, since 1998, where he has also served as an instructional coach, induction mentor for new teachers, social science department chairperson, and a member of his school district’s Teaching and Learning Taskforce. Ellington has been an active AP® U.S. History workshop consultant and exam reader for more than twenty years. He has also served as an AP® Mentor and as a member on the College Board’s Consultant Advisory Panel. Ellington coauthored The Survival Guide for AP® U.S. History and contributed to Teaching Ideas for AP® History: A Video Resource. Ellington and Stacy have been featured together on C-SPAN’s AP® U.S. History televised annual review sessions since 2020.
Table of Contents
Period 1 • till 1607 : Europeans Make Claims in the Americas
Module 1-1 • Diverse American Indian Societies Module
Module 1-2 • Portugal and Spain Expand Their Reach Module
Module 1-3 • The Columbian Exchange Module
Module 1-4 • Spanish Colonial Society
Period 1 Review • till 1607
AP® Exam Practice • through 1607
Period 2 • 1607-1754 : Colonial America amid Global Change
Module 2-1 • European Challengers to Spanish North America
Module 2-2 • Early British Colonies in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina
Module 2-3 • Religious Dissent, and Colonial Conflicts in New England
Module 2-4 • The British West Indies and South Atlantic Colonies
Module 2-5 • The Middle Colonies
Module 2-6 • The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Economy
Module 2-7 • Slavery Takes Hold in the South
Module 2-8 • Imperial Contests in Trade and War
Module 2-9 • Religious and Political Awakenings
Period 2 Review • 1607-1754
AP® Exam Practice • through 1754
Period 3 • 1754-1800 : A Revolutionary Era
Module 3-1 • International Conflicts Cause Colonial Tensions
Module 3-2 • Resistance to Britain Intensifies
Module 3-3 • The American Revolution Begins
Module 3-4 • Winning the War for Independence
Module 3-5 • Governing in Revolutionary Times, 1776-1787
Module 3-6 • Reframing the American Government
Module 3-7 • Legacies of the American Revolution
Module 3-8 • George Washington Unites a Nation
Module 3-9 • Political Parties in Years of Crisis
Period 3 Review • 1754-1800
AP® Exam Practice • through 1800
Period 4 • 1800-1848 : Democracy, Industrialization, and Reform
Module 4-1 • Political and Economic Transformations
Module 4-2 • Defending and Redefining the Nation
Module 4-3 • Transportation and Market Revolutions Change America
Module 4-4 • The Second American Party System
Module 4-5 • Conflicts of the Jacksonian Era
Module 4-6 • Slavery and Southern Society
Module 4-7 • Social Reform Movements
Module 4-8 • Abolitionism and Sectionalism
Period 4 Review • 1800-1848
AP® Exam Practice • through 1848
Period 5 • 1844-1877 : Expansion, Division, and Civil War
Module 5-1 • Manifest Destiny
Module 5-2 • Compromise and Conflict
Module 5-3 • From Sectional Crisis to Southern Secession
Module 5-4 • Disunion and War
Module 5-5 • Victory for the North
Module 5-6 • Reconstruction Begins
Module 5-7 • Reform and Resistance
Module 5-8 • Reconstruction Undone
Period 5 Review • 1844-1877
AP® Exam Practice • through 1877
Period 6 • 1865-1898 : A Gilded Age
Module 6-1 • Westward Expansion and American Indian Resistance
Module 6-2 • Industry in the West
Module 6-3 • The New South
Module 6-4 • American Industrializes
Module 6-5 • Working People Organize
Module 6-6 • A New Wave of Immigrants
Module 6-7 • Becoming an Urban Nation
Module 6-8 • Society and Culture in the Gilded Age
Module 6-9 • Gilded Age Ideologies
Module 6-10 • Politics and Protest
Period 6 Review • 1865-1898
AP® Exam Practice • through 1898
Period 7 • 1890-1945 : New Imperialism and Global Conflicts
Module 7-1 • Progressivism
Module 7-2 • Social and Political Reform
Module 7-3 • Foundations of U.S. Imperialism
Module 7-4 • Foreign Policy and World War I
Module 7-5 • Life in the Aftermath of World War I
Module 7-6 • The Transitional 1920s
Module 7-7 • Economic Instability and Depression
Module 7-8 • The New Deal
Module 7-9 • America Enters World War II
Module 7-10 • The Homefront
Module 7-11 • Victory in World War II
Period 7 Review • 1890-1945
AP® Exam Practice • through 1945
Period 8 • 1945-1980 : Cold War America
Module 8-1 • The Early Cold War
Module 8-2 • The Second Red Scare
Module 8-3 • The Post-World War II Economy
Module 8-4 • Cultural Shifts of the 1950s
Module 8-5 • Civil Rights in an Era of Conformity
Module 8-6 • The Cold War Continues Abroad and at Home
Module 8-7 • The Vietnam War
Module 8-8 • The New Frontier and Great Society
Module 8-9 • The Civil Rights Movement
Module 8-10 • Politics of the 1970s
Module 8-11 • Society and Culture of the 1970s
Period 8 Review • 1945-1980
AP® Exam Practice • through 1980
Period 9 • 1980 to the Present
Module 9-1 • Conservative Governance
Module 9-2 • The End of the Cold War
Module 9-3 • Toward the Twenty-First Century
Module 9-4 • The Global War on Terror and Political Conflict at Home
Period 9 Review • 1980 to the Present
AP® Exam Practice • through the Present
Practice AP® Exam
Glossary / Glosario
Product Updates
Authors
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Jason Stacy
Jason Stacy is Professor of U.S. History and Social Science Pedagogy at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville. Before joining the history department at SIU-Edwardsville, Stacy taught AP® U.S. History for eight years at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Stacy has served as an AP® U.S. History reader, table leader, exam leader, consultant, senior auditor, and question author for the AP® U.S. History exam. Author and editor of multiple books on authors like Walt Whitman and Edgar Lee Masters, his research has appeared in Social Education, the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and American Educational History. Stacy is also a contributing editor for the Walt Whitman Archive, where he edits Whitman’s journalism. Recently, he published Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town with the University of Illinois Press. Stacy has served as the president of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies, the editor of The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies, and a reviewer for many academic journals and presses.
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Matthew J. Ellington
Matthew Ellington has taught AP® U.S. History at Ruben S. Ayala High School in Chino Hills, California, since 1998, where he has also served as an instructional coach, induction mentor for new teachers, social science department chairperson, and a member of his school district’s Teaching and Learning Taskforce. Ellington has been an active AP® U.S. History workshop consultant and exam reader for more than twenty years. He has also served as an AP® Mentor and as a member on the College Board’s Consultant Advisory Panel. Ellington coauthored The Survival Guide for AP® U.S. History and contributed to Teaching Ideas for AP® History: A Video Resource. Ellington and Stacy have been featured together on C-SPAN’s AP® U.S. History televised annual review sessions since 2020.
Table of Contents
Period 1 • till 1607 : Europeans Make Claims in the Americas
Module 1-1 • Diverse American Indian Societies Module
Module 1-2 • Portugal and Spain Expand Their Reach Module
Module 1-3 • The Columbian Exchange Module
Module 1-4 • Spanish Colonial Society
Period 1 Review • till 1607
AP® Exam Practice • through 1607
Period 2 • 1607-1754 : Colonial America amid Global Change
Module 2-1 • European Challengers to Spanish North America
Module 2-2 • Early British Colonies in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina
Module 2-3 • Religious Dissent, and Colonial Conflicts in New England
Module 2-4 • The British West Indies and South Atlantic Colonies
Module 2-5 • The Middle Colonies
Module 2-6 • The Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Economy
Module 2-7 • Slavery Takes Hold in the South
Module 2-8 • Imperial Contests in Trade and War
Module 2-9 • Religious and Political Awakenings
Period 2 Review • 1607-1754
AP® Exam Practice • through 1754
Period 3 • 1754-1800 : A Revolutionary Era
Module 3-1 • International Conflicts Cause Colonial Tensions
Module 3-2 • Resistance to Britain Intensifies
Module 3-3 • The American Revolution Begins
Module 3-4 • Winning the War for Independence
Module 3-5 • Governing in Revolutionary Times, 1776-1787
Module 3-6 • Reframing the American Government
Module 3-7 • Legacies of the American Revolution
Module 3-8 • George Washington Unites a Nation
Module 3-9 • Political Parties in Years of Crisis
Period 3 Review • 1754-1800
AP® Exam Practice • through 1800
Period 4 • 1800-1848 : Democracy, Industrialization, and Reform
Module 4-1 • Political and Economic Transformations
Module 4-2 • Defending and Redefining the Nation
Module 4-3 • Transportation and Market Revolutions Change America
Module 4-4 • The Second American Party System
Module 4-5 • Conflicts of the Jacksonian Era
Module 4-6 • Slavery and Southern Society
Module 4-7 • Social Reform Movements
Module 4-8 • Abolitionism and Sectionalism
Period 4 Review • 1800-1848
AP® Exam Practice • through 1848
Period 5 • 1844-1877 : Expansion, Division, and Civil War
Module 5-1 • Manifest Destiny
Module 5-2 • Compromise and Conflict
Module 5-3 • From Sectional Crisis to Southern Secession
Module 5-4 • Disunion and War
Module 5-5 • Victory for the North
Module 5-6 • Reconstruction Begins
Module 5-7 • Reform and Resistance
Module 5-8 • Reconstruction Undone
Period 5 Review • 1844-1877
AP® Exam Practice • through 1877
Period 6 • 1865-1898 : A Gilded Age
Module 6-1 • Westward Expansion and American Indian Resistance
Module 6-2 • Industry in the West
Module 6-3 • The New South
Module 6-4 • American Industrializes
Module 6-5 • Working People Organize
Module 6-6 • A New Wave of Immigrants
Module 6-7 • Becoming an Urban Nation
Module 6-8 • Society and Culture in the Gilded Age
Module 6-9 • Gilded Age Ideologies
Module 6-10 • Politics and Protest
Period 6 Review • 1865-1898
AP® Exam Practice • through 1898
Period 7 • 1890-1945 : New Imperialism and Global Conflicts
Module 7-1 • Progressivism
Module 7-2 • Social and Political Reform
Module 7-3 • Foundations of U.S. Imperialism
Module 7-4 • Foreign Policy and World War I
Module 7-5 • Life in the Aftermath of World War I
Module 7-6 • The Transitional 1920s
Module 7-7 • Economic Instability and Depression
Module 7-8 • The New Deal
Module 7-9 • America Enters World War II
Module 7-10 • The Homefront
Module 7-11 • Victory in World War II
Period 7 Review • 1890-1945
AP® Exam Practice • through 1945
Period 8 • 1945-1980 : Cold War America
Module 8-1 • The Early Cold War
Module 8-2 • The Second Red Scare
Module 8-3 • The Post-World War II Economy
Module 8-4 • Cultural Shifts of the 1950s
Module 8-5 • Civil Rights in an Era of Conformity
Module 8-6 • The Cold War Continues Abroad and at Home
Module 8-7 • The Vietnam War
Module 8-8 • The New Frontier and Great Society
Module 8-9 • The Civil Rights Movement
Module 8-10 • Politics of the 1970s
Module 8-11 • Society and Culture of the 1970s
Period 8 Review • 1945-1980
AP® Exam Practice • through 1980
Period 9 • 1980 to the Present
Module 9-1 • Conservative Governance
Module 9-2 • The End of the Cold War
Module 9-3 • Toward the Twenty-First Century
Module 9-4 • The Global War on Terror and Political Conflict at Home
Period 9 Review • 1980 to the Present
AP® Exam Practice • through the Present
Practice AP® Exam
Glossary / Glosario
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In 2014, College Board rolled out a new AP® U.S. History course, which centered less on memorizing content and more on developing skills. Since then, the course has been modified here and there, but very little has changed in AP® textbooks—content is still king. Until now. Fabric of a Nation is the first book to truly embrace this dramatic shift in the AP® course and in how history is taught.
Built from the ground up by long-time AP® leaders Jason Stacy and Matt Ellington, this book offers a new approach to AP® US History by seamlessly integrating:
- A brief historical narrative
- AP® skills practice
- Primary source documents
- Exact alignment to the AP® course
Now, that’s revolutionary!
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