Review Materials
There is no substitue for reading the American Pageant. However, after you have read these are some good tools to review.
- The Cram Packet
- Giant AP Review
- READ American Pageant Online here
Alternative Textbooks
If you don't connect with the American Pageant try reading one of these books. Remember the AP exam, and therefore the unit tests, are on not based on any one textbook. They are on US History. The American Pageant is a tool but it is not the only source of information.
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Movies
HERE ARE MOVIES TO WATCH THAT CONNECT TO WHAT WE ARE LEARNING! Colonial Period (1607-1763): The Crucible* , Last of the Mohicans , The Scarlett Letter, Roots I & Roots II , Black Robe Revolution/The Early Republic: The Patriot , Johnny Tremain, 1776, John Adams, The Crossing, Roots III 1830s-1860 The Alamo, Amistad, Roots IV & Roots V, The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn, Jeremiah Johnson Civil War: Gods and Generals, Gettysburg, Gone with the Wind, North and South , Glory, Gangs of New York, Cold Mountain, The Red Badge of Courage, Shenandoah, Outlaw Josey Wales, Andersonville, Ride with the Devil, The Blue and the Gray, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, USS Hunley, Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny Post Civil War / Gilded Age: Far and Away, The Molly Maguires, Newsies, The Age of Innocence, Dances with Wolves, Heaven's Gate, Birth of the Nation* , Son of the Morning Star, Rough Riders, Heaven and Hell, The Color Purple, Open Range, I will Fight No More Forever Progressive Era/WWI: The Lost Battalion, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Johnny Get your Gun, Farewell to Arms, Flyboys, Sergeant York, The Ballad of Little Jo, Shane1920s: Inherit the Wind, The Great Gatsby, Mobsters, The Untouchables, Chicago, Capone, Godfather II Depression: Grapes of Wrath, The Black Legion, Mr. Deeds goes to Town, All the King's Men, The Great DebatorsWWII: Memphis Belle, Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day, Saving Private Ryan, From here to Eternity, Pearl Harbor, Tora Tora Tora, Patton, Tuskegee Airmen, Band of Brothers, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, To End All Wars, From here to Eternity, U-571, The Great Escape, A Bridge too Far, MacArthur, The English Patient, Jakob the Liar, Enemy at the Gates, Uprising, Hart's War, Windtalkers, The Great Raid, Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of our Fathers, Come See Paradise 1950s: Pleasantville, October Sky, The Hudsucker Proxy Korean War: Pork Chop Hill, MASH, The Bridge at Toko Ri, The Manchurian Candidate, Steel Helmet, Inchon 1960s: The Right Stuff , Hair, Thirteen Days, Mississippi Burning, Forrest Gump, American Graffiti, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Nothing But a Man, The Hanoi Hilton, Tigerland The Cold War: Dr. Strangelove, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Failsafe, The Hunt for Red October, Red Dawn, War Games, Seven Days in May
*Should be viewed with both the era it is listed in and the era it was released/written in mind as it is applicable as both.
*Should be viewed with both the era it is listed in and the era it was released/written in mind as it is applicable as both.