PASSAIC COUNTY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE. U.S. History II Honors

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1 PASSAIC COUNTY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE U.S. History II Honors 2011

2 I. COURSE DESCRIPTION United States History II Honors is a full-year, five credit course usually taken by 12 th grade students that aims to increase the student s knowledge of American history s most salient socioeconomic, political, historical, geographical and cultural aspects. The course will cover the historical time when U.S. foreign policy contributed to expansionist pressures leading to the Spanish-American War in 1898 through present day. In order to be prepared for post-secondary education and/or the workforce students must be informed and flexible. In this course students will learn more than static knowledge, that they learn to interpret and evaluate information clearly, solve problems, work collaboratively, and present oral and documented reports. One of the major goals of the course is to develop conceptualization and critical thinking skills. Nevertheless, this course will address the people, places, and events of importance in US History and current events. Concepts and ideas such as examining and evaluating the desire to match European imperial expansion, progressivism, war, various economic and political systems such as capitalism, communism and socialism, democracy and others will be discussed and studied in depth. Students will be expected to synthesize and evaluate such information, as well as consider the development and impact of economics, technology, geography, and human rights on US history. As well, the course will explore United States foreign policy and students will develop personal conclusions and formulate policy statements. In doing so, students will make connections between the past and present and learn to make informed decisions as productive citizens in local, national, and global communities. In addition, students will strengthen their appreciation for the diversity of this nation and the world by analyzing and evaluating the various discriminatory and genocidal experiences that cultural groups have experienced in the United States and throughout the globe such as the Holocaust. This will encourage students to defend the human rights and democratic values that our nation espouses. Students will learn to work collaboratively by completing a series of activities that involve group interaction and dynamics. Formal and informal cooperative groups will be used in various lesson plans mixed with guided discussions and lectures. During the course students will analyze, interpret, and evaluate historical and current information about the United States and the World by writing, at a minimum, one research paper. Student research will include reading related books, journals, newspapers and magazines. Throughout the course, students will be expected to use the technological tools offered at PCTI s media center including, but not limited to, the educational subscription websites, Internet, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Prezi and computer encyclopedia programs. Students will be expected to create newsletters, research papers and presentations by using these, and other, technological tools. 2

3 II. COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTLINE EXPANSIONIST STIRRINGS AND AMERICAN IMPERIALISM Analyze the roots of expansionist sentiment. ( A.7.a, A.3.a) Summarize America s Pacific expansion. ( A.7.a) Describe the crisis in Cuba. ( C.6.c) Evaluate and summarize the causes, events and consequences of the Spanish-American War. ( B.6.a) Evaluate the War in the Philippines and its consequences. ( A.3.c) Assess American reaction to a U.S. empire. ( imperialism) ( C.6.c) THE PROGRESSIVE ERA Trace the roots of Progressivism. ( D.6.a, A.5.a, B.5.b) Analyze the different forms of progressivism. ( A.5.a,c) Evaluate the impact of progressivism on government and business. ( A.6.a,b) Evaluate the impact of progressivism on women. ( A.6.b, D.6.c) Analyze the relationship of progressivism to social control and racism. ( A.6.c) Describe various efforts to regulate concentrated corporate power. ( A.6.a) Discuss Theodore Roosevelt s interest in environmental conservation. ( B.6.b) Compare and contrast the Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson administrations. (( D.6.b) Evaluate the legacy of the Progressive Movement. ( D.6.c) GLOBAL INVOLVEMENTS AND WORLD WAR I Examine the Open Door policy. ( D.6.b,c) Determine the strategic importance of a canal across Central America. ( B.6.a) Compare and contrast the Monroe doctrine with the Roosevelt Corollary. ( D.6.b) Describe conditions in Europe prior to the start of World War I. ( B.7.a) Explain how global competition by nations for land and resources led to increased militarism. ( B.7.a) Evaluate the reasons for the outbreak of war. ( B.7.a) Analyze the reasons for the U.S. policy of neutrality during the war and explain why the U.S. eventually entered the war. ( A.7.a) Determine how technological advancements affected the nature of World War I on land, in the water and in the air. ( C.7.a) Determine the extent to which propaganda, the media, and special interest groups shaped American public opinion and American foreign policy during World War I. ( C.7.b) 3

4 Evaluate the impact of government policies designed to promote patriotism and to protect national security during times of war on individual rights. ( A.7.b) Assess the immediate and long-term impact of women and African Americans entering the work force in large numbers during World War I. ( C.7.b) Analyze the push-pull factors that led to the Great Migration. ( C.8.a) Analyze the factors contributing to the overthrow of the Czar and the rise of communism in Russia. ( D.7.c) Explain Wilson s fourteen points. ( D.7.a) Evaluate the effectiveness of Woodrow Wilson s leadership during and immediately after World War I. ( D.7.a) Determine why the years brought new racial violence and anti-radical hysteria. ( A.8.c) COPING WITH CHANGE, THE 1920s Evaluate the major socioeconomic changes of the 1920s. ( A.8.a) Assess the major political changes of the 1920s. ( A.8.a) Relate social, cultural and technological changes in the interwar period to the rise of a consumer economy and the changing role and status of women. ( C.8.b) Assess the impact of artists, writers and musicians of the 1920s on American culture and values. ( D.8.b) Relate social intolerance, xenophobia, and fear of anarchists to government policies restricting immigration, advocacy, and labor organizations. ( A.8.c) THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL, Compare and contrast the causes and outcomes of the stock market crash in ( C.9.d) Determine how the actions and policies of the United States government contributed to the Great Depression ( A.9.a, b) Explore the global context of the Great Depression and the reasons for the worldwide economic collapse. ( D.9.a) Determine what strategy guided the early New Deal and what problems and challenges arose in ( B.9.a, C.9.a-c) Compare and contrast the leadership abilities of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and those of past and recent presidents. ( D.10.b) Evaluate the effectiveness of economic regulations and standards established during this time period in combating the Great Depression. ( C.10.a) Assess the effectiveness of governmental policies enacted during the New Deal period (i.e., the FDIC, NLRB, and Social Security) in protecting the welfare of individuals. ( A.10.b, D.9.b) 4

5 Explain how and why conflict developed between the Supreme Court and other branches of government over aspects of the New Deal. ( A.10.a) Describe the key measures and setbacks which marked the course of the New Deal from 1935 onward. ( B.9.a, C.9.a-c) Compare and contrast the economic ideologies of the two major political parties regarding the role of government during the New Deal and today. ( C.10.b) Analyze how the depression and the New Deal affected specific social groups in the United States and their attitude toward the role of government. ( D.9.b) Explain how key individuals, including minorities and women (Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Mary McLeod Bethune), shaped the core ideologies and policies of the New Deal. ( D.10.c) Examine the key developments which shaped American culture in the 1930s. ( D.9.b) Determine the extent to which New Deal public works and arts programs impacted New Jersey and the nation. ( D.10.d) AMERICANS AND A WORLD IN CRISIS, Analyze the factors contributing to a rise in authoritarian forms of government and ideologies after World War I. ( D.9.b) Determine how the American people and government responded to the international crisis of the 1930s. ( D.11.a, b) Explain the relationship of geography and raw materials to World War II. ( B.11.a) Assess the responses of the United States and other nations to the violation of human rights that occurred during the Holocaust and other genocides. ( A.11.e) Compare the varying perspectives of victims, survivors, bystanders, rescuers, and perpetrators during the Holocaust. ( D.11.d) Trace the events that led to increasing tensions, and ultimately war, between the United States and Japan. ( D.11.a) Determine how war mobilization transformed the American economy and government. ( C.11.a, b) Determine if American policies regarding Japanese internment and actions against other minorities were a denial of civil rights. ( A.11.c) Describe Allied military strategy in Europe and Asia. Evaluate the major effects of World War II on American society, including minorities and women. ( D.11.c, A.11.c) Analyze the decision to use the atomic bomb and the consequences of doing so. ( A.11.d) Explain how World War II and the Holocaust led to the creation of international organizations (i.e., the United Nations) to protect human rights, and describe the subsequent impact of these organizations. ( D.11.e) 5

6 THE COLD WAR ABROAD AND AT HOME, Explain how the policies of both the United States and the Soviet Union led to the start of the Cold War. ( A.12.a) Analyze the ideology differences and other factors that contributed to United States involvement in conflicts intended to contain communism. ( A.12.b) Assess the relationship between decolonization and the Cold War. ( D.12.a-c) Assess the effect of the Cold War on domestic programs of the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. ( C.12.a) Describe the domestic and international events that led to the Second Red Scare. ( D.12.b) Compare and contrast Eisenhower s and Truman s foreign policy. ( D.12.a, c) Analyze efforts to eliminate communism. ( D.12.b) AMERICA AT MIDCENTURY Identify the main sources of the postwar economic expansion and affluence. ( C11.a; C.12.a-d; C.13.d) Explain Truman s and Eisenhower s domestic agendas.( a.14.d,e, f; D.14.a)) Assess changes to the American family that took place during the 1950s. ( D.13.f; D.14.d) Explain the reasons for, and the effects of, suburbanization. ( B.14.c, D.14.b) Analyze America s reaction to the launch of Sputnik. ( C.12.a,c, C.14.d) Describe popular culture of the 1950s. ( D.13.d; D.14.c-f) Identify the factors that contributed to the poverty that was endemic among various groups. ( C.14.b-d) Describe the innovative strategies developed by the civil rights movement. ( A- D.13.a-f; D.14.d,e) Assess the reasons for the increasing success of the civil rights movement. ( A.13.a,b; A.14.b, e-g) LIBERALISM, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND WAR IN VIETNAM Compare Kennedy s domestic policy with his administration s liberal rhetoric. ( A.14.d; C.14.b) Describe Kennedy s efforts to contain communism. ( A.12.a, c; C.12.a; D.12.a,c; D.13.e) Analyze the continuing struggle for civil rights for Blacks, Native-Americans, Hispanic- Americans and other groups from ( B.14.a; C.13.a; D.13.a, c; D.14.a-e) 6

7 Compare and contrast various approaches to attaining civil rights. ( D.13.b; A.14.d-g) Determine how Lyndon Johnson s Great Society program exemplified the new liberalism of the 1960s. ( A.14.c; C.13.c) Analyze how the Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution to define the rights of the individual, and evaluate the impact on public policies. ( A.14.b) Trace America s early role in Vietnam. ( A.12.a) Determine how and why Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon deepened America s involvement in the war in Indochina. ( A.12.a, b; D.12.a, b, d) Analyze the role that media played in bring information to the American public and shaping public attitudes toward the Vietnam War. ( D.12.e) A TIME OF UPHEAVAL Explain how the student movement and counterculture shaped the 1960s and 1970s.( D.13.e; D.14.e,f) Describe the major successes and failures of the Women s Movement. ( A.13.b; D.13.c,f; D.14.d) Describe the turbulence of 1968 and its results.(6.12.d.13.b) Identify and define the conservative resurgence. ( A.14.d; D.14.e) Determine if Richard Nixon s political strategy reflected the racial upheavals and radicalism of the period. ( A.14.d; B14.c; Assess Nixon s foreign policy. ( A.12.a; D.14.a; A.15.b,c) Outline the causes and consequences of the Watergate scandal. ( A.14.a,e,f, h) Compare and contrast the Ford and Carter presidencies determining if there were any successes and listing the major failures. ( A.12.c; A.15.b,c,f, D.15.b,c; A.16.a, c) A CONSERVATIVE REVIVAL AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR, Identify Ronald Reagan s core beliefs.( a.16.b; D.16.c) Describe Reagan s economic agenda ( Reaganomics ) ( C.15.b; C.12.d; C.14.a,c,d; A.16.c) Assess Reagan s conservative domestic agenda. ( B.13.b; D.14.e; B.16.a Assess Reagan s various policies toward the Soviet Union and their results. ( A.12.a; A.15.a,c) Explain the Ian-Contra Scandal. ( A.15.b, f) Explain the domestic challenges facing the George H.W. Bush administration. ( A- D.14.a-h) Determine why the United States was involved in the Persian Gulf War and its outcome. ( C.15.a, D.15.a) 7

8 Describe the policy issues, political events and economic trends which influenced the Clinton presidency. ( A-D.14.a-h) Analyze Bill Clinton s response to economic and political developments abroad. ( A-D.15. a-f) Describe how the computer evolved from a scientific tool to a household appliance.( c.14.d) Evaluate how the technological innovations have revolutionized, science, medicine, and communications. ( C.14.d; A-D.16.a-c)) Discuss U.S. involvement in world affairs during the Clinton presidency. ( A-D.15. a-f) Compare and contrast the Nixon and Clinton impeachment processes. ( A.2.b, e) Describe the circumstances surrounding the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. ( A.14.a,b) GLOBAL DANGERS, GLOBAL CHALLENGES, 2001 TO THE PRESENT Analyze the reasons for terrorism. ( D.15.d) Describe the development of Middle East terrorism. ( D.15.c, d) Determine how the George W. Bush administration responded to the September 11 attacks, internationally and domestically. ( D.15.d) Examine the economic reverses and corporate scandals of G.W. Bush s presidency. ( A-D.15. a-f) Explain the G.W. Bush administration s domestic agenda. ( A-D.15. a-f) Analyze social and economic trends in contemporary America. ( A-D.15. a-f) Evaluate the election of Barack Obama and his administration s policies. ( A.14.c ; C.14.c; D.15.c) III. EVALUATION (ASSESSMENT) Students will be evaluated in accordance with school policies. Specifically within the U.S. History II honors class, students will be evaluated using the following guidelines: Class participation Attendance Tests minimally 3-5 each marking period Quizzes Research projects oral and written Reports oral and written Web based activities and presentations Charts and Graphs Maps/ Diagrams/ Political Cartoons Debate/Simulations Daily notebook to be checked periodically 8

9 Role playing activities. Presentations Cooperative Investigations Use of Primary Source Documents Newspapers, magazines, current events, videos, etc. Use of citations (MLA or APA) for all work. IV. TEXTBOOKS, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, SOFTWARE Boyer, Paul S. et al. The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People. Boston: Wadsworth, Kennedy, David. M. et al. The American Pageant. Boston: Wadsworth, PCTI Circulation Library and Computer Labs. PCTI DVD library. V. INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES In order to meet the individual needs of our students, differential instruction is utilized. This involves the use of a variety of instructional strategies, including but not limited to: Readings and exercises from the approved text(s) and related supplemental materials Individual and group research projects Cooperative group activities Teacher generated handouts Lecture in conjunction with class discussion and notes Debates Role playing activities Document Based questions Oral and written reports Simulations Multimedia presentations Related field trips Internet and ITV presentations and conferences. The use of technology to retrieve information and present it after it has been analyzed is an important component of the class. VI. VII. SCOPE AND SEQUENCE PACING CHART 9

10 I=Introduced D=Developed in Depth R=Reinforced UNITED STATES HISTORY II HONORS Chapter(s) Weeks Objective ½ EXPANSIONIST STIRRINGS AND AMERICAN IMPERIALISM List the factors that led the United States to turn toward imperialism. Evaluate the causes of the Spanish-American War THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, Determine who and what inspired the Progressive Movement. Explain how state and local progressives sought to reform cities and the new industrial order. Analyze progressive attempts to control morality. Explain the Progressive s view of immigrants and African Americans. Describe strategies used by Progressives to improve people s lives. Determine the most important Progressive issues GLOBAL INVOLVEMENTS AND WORLD WAR I, Explain the Open Door Policy. Determine reasons for U.S. involvements in Asia and Latin America in the early 20 th century. Explain the causes of World War I. Determine why the U.S. entered the war. Explain America s mobilization for war. Analyze the role of U.S. troops in World War I. Examine the war s impact on the American home front. Characterize American response to the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations. List reasons the Senate rejected U.S. membership in the League of Nations ½ COPING WITH CHANGE, Describe economic innovations of the 1920s. Analyze the effects of economic innovations 10

11 on various social groups. Chapter(s) Weeks Objective Explain the political and social ideas that shaped the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Describe changes in mass culture and determine their effects on American life and leisure. Examine cultural creativity and conflicts of the 1920s. Determine how Herbert Hoover s social and political thought differed from that of Harding and Coolidge THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL, Identify the causes of the Great Depression. Describe Hoover s response to the depression. Discuss strategies that guided the early New Deal. List and explain programs enacted during the Hundred Days. Determine what problems and challenges arose in Identify the key measures and setbacks which marked the New Deal from Analyze the effects of the Depression and the New Deal on various social groups in the United States. Describe the key developments which shaped American culture in the 1930s AMERICANS AND A WORLD IN CRISIS, Describe conditions which contributed to the rise of totalitarian governments in Europe and Asia after World War I. Explain why many Americans supported isolationism. Describe the government s response to international crises of the 1930s. Determine how war mobilization transformed the American economy and government. Analyze the Allied military strategy in Europe and Asia. Examine the major effects of World War II on American society, including minorities and women. Cite the issues the U.S. government confronted in defeating Germany and Japan in

12 Chapter(s) Weeks Objective THE COLD WAR ABROAD AND AT HOME, Determine how the policies of both the United States and the Soviet Union led to the start of the Cold War. Examine the effects of the Cold War on the domestic programs of Truman and Eisenhower. Discuss the domestic and international events that led to the Second Red Scare. Compare and contrast the foreign policy of Truman and Eisenhower. Determine if Eisenhower could be classified as a centrist or moderate politician AMERICA AT MIDCENTURY Identify the main sources of the postwar economic expansion and affluence. Determine if there were any negative consequences of the era s preoccupation with economic growth and prosperity. Describe the factors that led to the growth of suburbs in postwar America. Analyze life in the 1950s suburbs. Discuss the actions of minorities and youth which foretold the movements for social change to come in the 1960s. Identify creative strategies developed by the civil rights movement in this era. Examine reasons for the increasing success of the civil rights movement LIBERALISM, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND WAR IN VIETNAM, Determine if the Kennedy administrations domestic record reflected its liberal rhetoric. Trace the major successes and failures of the civil rights movement from 1960 to Determine the effects of protest movements on the shift from the goals and tactics of Martin Luther King Jr. to those of Black Power. Determine how Lyndon Johnson s Great Society exemplified the new liberalism of the 1960s. Analyze America s deepening involvement in Indochina A TIME OF UPHEAVAL,

13 Chapter(s) Weeks Objective Examine the ways in which the counterculture and student movement shaped the 1960s and 1970s. Discuss the major successes and failures of the Women s Liberation Movement. Examine the causes and consequences of the Watergate scandal. Describe the major successes and failures of the Ford and Carter presidencies A CONSERVATIVE REVAL AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR Identify the core beliefs which guided Ronald Reagan s presidency. Examine George H.W. Bush s principal achievements and failures as president. Examine the domestic policy issues, political events and economic trends that most influenced Bill Clinton s presidency. Determine how the Clinton administration responded to political and economic developments abroad. Identify the economic trends, technological innovations, and cultural trends which shaped American life in the 1990s GLOBAL DANGERS, GLOBAL CHALLENGES, 2001 TO THE PRESENT Describe the response of the Bush administration to the September 11 attacks, internationally and domestically. Identify the economic and social issues addressed during Bush s first term. Analyze the challenges that faced the United States in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world after Cite the demographic and economic trends that have most shaped contemporary America. Discuss the domestic challenges that confronted the nation in Bush s second term and beyond. Examine the domestic policy issues, political events and economic trends that have ID influenced the Obama administration. Determine how the Obama administration has responded to political and economic ID developments abroad. 13

14 VIII. STUDENT HANDOUT/PROFICIENCIES COURSE DESCRIPTION The United States History II Honors program is a full-year course that aims to increase the student s knowledge of American history s most salient socioeconomic, political, historical, geographical, and cultural aspects. The course will cover the historical period from the Spanish American War to the present. The U.S. History II Honors program is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with issues in United States history. Students will be required to master skills such as: historical and analytical skills, historical research and interpretation, and chronological and special thinking. Students will analyze documents and determine their reliability and importance. The U.S. History II Honors course should thus develop skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format. The course is equivalent to an introductory college class, thus preparing students for intermediate and advanced college courses. PROFICIENCES Upon completion of the requirements for this course, students will be able to: 1. List the factors that led the United States toward imperialism. 2. Describe the causes and effects of the Spanish-American War. 3. Explain Progressivism including its causes and effects. 4. Describe early 20 th century American foreign policy. 5. List and explain the direct and indirect causes of World War I. 6. Examine the technology and military strategies that were developed during World War I. 7. Evaluate the major socioeconomic, political, and cultural changes of the 1920s. 8. Explain the causes of the Great Depression. 9. Analyze the impact of the Depression and New Deal on various groups within America. 10. Analyze the role of propaganda as used by various countries to promote hate and to manipulate the masses. 11. Compare the treatment of Japanese Americans to other minority or suspect groups within the United States during World War II. 12. Identify and explain attitudes and behaviors that lead to genocide. 13. Evaluate the role of mass media and propaganda on both sides in World War II. 14. Assess the effectiveness of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. 15. Analyze Truman s Cold War policies, such as the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, to contain communism from the perspective of various historians. 16. Outline the organization of the United Nations and evaluate its purpose and impact on world events. 17. List the major causes of the Korean conflict. 14

15 18. Explain the major historical, economic, political, and social causes of Fidel Castro s Cuban Revolution of 1959 and its impact on U.S.-Cuban relations. 19. Understand the fundamental democratic principles behind the civil rights movement and the consequences to individuals of that movement. 20. Distinguish the difference between human rights and civil rights. 21. Evaluate the development and efforts of the Women s Movement as the role of women changed during the 1960s. 22. Describe the major domestic and international political, economic and social accomplishments and problems of the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, G.H W. Bush, Clinton, G.W. Bush and Obama administrations. 23. Examine the War on Terrorism and its domestic and international impact. 15