1 st Quarter : America s early history directs the nation s course in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Note: The first standard of the U.S. History II core is designed to apply 8 th grade content in more depth by connecting students prior knowledge to the last two centuries of U.S. History. Teachers should resist the temptation to re-teach the 8 th grade curriculum; instead, emphasis should be placed on Reconstruction to present day. The complete battery of U.S. History I, 8 th Grade Benchmark Assessments can be used as a course pre-assessment. 1.1 Examine the American colonial experience. 1.2 Investigate the development of the United States government, its institutions and its politics. 1.3 Analyze the growth and division of the United States from 1820 through 1877. -identify reasons for the establishment of colonies in America -examine the rise of American culture in the colonies -identify the philosophies that influenced the Constitution -analyze the Constitution s creation and impact on the U.S. -trace development of American government and politics -trace U.S. expansion -recognize the sectional differences that developed during the antebellum period -evaluate the cause, course, and consequences of the Civil War -analyze success and failures of reconstruction -examine the U.S. policies relating to American Indians -colonization -separation of powers -balance of power -elastic clause -John Locke -federalism -Representative Democracy -state s rights -slavery -representation -civil war -reconstruction -Manifest Destiny Pre-assess students background knowledge of exploration through expansion using the full battery of 8 th Grade Benchmark Assessments. Read and participate in the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution program. www.civiced.org Create an imaginary television talk show around the topic How did the colonies shape American Culture. Guest should include early colonists that represent Southern, Middle and New England Colonies and should speak to the economy, culture and life in their region. Students act as the audience and generate questions for the panel. Process by having students write a five paragraph essay answering the first essential question with evidence from all three areas. Conduct a Four Corners debate on the causes of the Civil War. (For example: Slavery caused the Civil War, States Rights caused of the Civil War, Sectionalism caused the Civil War, If there was no Slavery then States Rights would not be an Issue. In cooperative groups assign students to take the role of a U.S. Indian Agent, Tribal Chief of one of the western American Indian Tribes, Railroad executive and homesteader to negotiate a peaceful, fair resolution to the conflicts over westward expansion. 1. Why did America s colonial experience define our culture? 2. How are our beliefs reflected in the creation and evolution of our government? 3. In what ways did conflict direct events and policy in the 19 th century? Teaching & Learning Department, 2009 Page 1
1 st Quarter : Growth of industry changed the United States and its people. 2.1 Assess how transportation, communication, and marketing improvements and innovations transformed the American economy in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. 2.2 Evaluate the prominent business leaders and the business organizations that influenced the growth of industrialization in the United States. 2.3 Assess how the growth of industry affected the movement of people into and within the United States. 2.4 Investigate the challenges presented to urban inhabitants. -identify major American inventions and how they affected the U.S. -explain the expansion of transportation and communication following the Civil War -determine the impact of industrialization on society and the economy -examine how the market revolution affected retail distribution in cities and rural areas -examine the roles of American industrialists -evaluate the growth and influences of monopolies and trusts -determine demographic changes in the population from 1890s to present -investigate influences that affected various immigrant groups -examine working conditions of immigrant workers -identify how American cities spawned American architecture -examine living conditions in tenements -inventions: telephone, car, electricity, motion pictures -John D. Rockefeller -J.P. Morgan -Andrew Carnegie -Vanderbilt -Henry Ford -scientific management - nativism --Monopoly -Trusts -Moving Assembly Line -Factories -Tenements -Child Labor -Immigrant Labor -Social Darwinism 1. What impact do improvements and innovations have on a society? 2. How did improvements and innovations transform the American economy in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries? 3. What role did business leaders and organizations play in the growth of United States industrialization? 4. How did the growth of industry affect the movement of people into and within the United States? 5. How are the challenges presented to urban inhabitants during industrialization similar to/different from the challenges in urban America today? Suggested Assessments and Learning Strategies Teaching & Learning Department, 2009 Page 2
2 nd Quarter : United States industrialization was a catalyst for social reform at the turn of the 20 th century. 2.4c Compare the attitudes of Social Darwinism with those of Social Gospel believers 3.1 Investigate reform movements and their prominent leaders. 3.2 Assess the growth and development of labor unions and their key leaders. -compare the attitudes of Social Darwinism with those of Social Gospel believers -examine problems faced by American farmers created by the new market and rise of Populist Party -analyze the growth and influence of political machines -investigate the emerging civil rights movement for women and Afro-Americans -trace the development of national labor unions -determine impact of collective bargaining -analyze the development of socialism in the U.S. -AFL -The Great Railroad Strike -Knights of Labor -Haymarket Square -Tammany Hall -Temperance Crusade -Social Darwinism -Social Gospelites -Populist Party -Muckrakers -Progressives -Anti-Lynching campaigns (Ida B. Wells) -suffrage -NAACP -national labor unions -collective bargaining -socialism 1. What conditions spark reform movements? 2. How did turn of the century movements attempt to reform politics, economics, and society? 3. How did labor union leadership transform politics, economics, and society? 4. Where in modern society can you find the impact of turn of the century reform? Extension Activities Teaching & Learning Department, 2009 Page 3
2 nd Quarter : Imperialism was a major factor in early 20 th century conflict. 4.1 Investigate how the United States became involved in imperialism and the Spanish-American War. 4.2 Examine how World War I affected the military and the home front of the United States. -determine the economic, social, and military affects of U.S. imperialism -examine the cause, course, and consequences of the Spanish-American War -assess how America s imperialism altered relationships with the Far East and Latin America -identify major causes of WWI and U.S. influence on the war -determine reasons U.S. Senate refused to join League of Nations -examine impact WWI had on U.S. -Yellow Journalism -Big Stick Policy -militarism -nationalism -imperialism -isolationism -neutrality -League of Nations 1. Why do powerful nations seek to extend their influence? 2. How did the United States emerge as a world power? 3. What role did imperialism play as a cause of world conflict in the early 20 th century? 4. How did World War I impact the United States? 5. In what ways does imperialism continue to influence global interactions? Teaching & Learning Department, 2009 Page 4
3 rd Quarter : Reaction to rapid change resulted in the Great Depression and the New Deal, both of which impacted life in the United States. 5.1 Analyze how the United States coped with rapid economic and technological advances. 5.2 Examine the experiences of black Americans and women in the early 20 th century. 6.1 Investigate the impact of the Great Depression on the United States. 6.2 Analyze the long-term effects of the New Deal on the United States. --investigate how mass media affected American society -assess how new inventions and consumerisms influenced daily life -explain how the automobile affected the business and landscape of America -account for the sudden growth of black consciousness -describe the changes in women s attitudes and roles in society -analyze the major causes of the Great Depression -examine the social effects of the Great Depression -explore the purposes and effectiveness of the New Deal -investigate the shift of power from state to federal government tent -Great Migration -Roaring Twenties -Black Tuesday, Crash of 1929 -stock market -buying on margin -Oklahoma Dust Bowl -Okies -Eleanor Roosevelt -Federal Welfare State -New Deal Alphabet Soup -Harlem Renaissance -Black Consciousness 1. How do people react to rapid changes in society? 2. How did the role of women change during the 1920 s? 3. How did 1920 attitudes impact Black American consciousness? 4. What impact did the Great Depression have on the U.S? 5. Why is the New Deal significant today? Teaching & Learning Department, 2009 Page 5
3 rd Quarter : The causes, course and consequences of World War II were altered by the United States role in the conflict. 7.1 Determine how America shifted from isolationism to intervention. 7.2 Examine the impact World War II had on the American home front. 7.3 Evaluate how the rules and weapons of war changed during World War II. -analyze factors that led to militarism and fascist aggression in the world -determine how the attack on Pearl Harbor force d the U.S. out of isolationism -examine how the alliance systems led the U.S. into World War II -investigate the major campaigns of the U.S. in the European and Pacific theaters -identify the impact of WWII on minority groups in America -examine the role women played in the wartime workforce -trace American mobilization for war -assess how the war expanded beyond military targets to civilian centers -evaluate how technology changed the weapons used in World War II and introduced the atomic age -Treaty of Versailles -alliance -isolationism -intervention -rise of dictatorships -fascism -militarism -nationalism -Nazism -war technology -Pearl Harbor -Manhattan Project, Atomic Age -women in the workforce -war efforts -propaganda -Japanese Interment -Navajo Code Talkers - Island Hopping -Pacific Theater -Doolittle s Raids -Hiroshima, Nagasaki -European Theater -Segregated Military -NATO -Executive Order 9981, Desegregation of Military -GI Bill -Rosa Parks -rise of American world military power 1. Why did the United States enter World War II? 2. How did World War II impact life on the American home front? 3. How did the United States and its allies change the course of World War II? 4. How did World War II change the United States and alter its place in the world? Teaching & Learning Department, 2009 Page 6
4 th Quarter : The Cold War Era redefined the United States domestic and international positions. 8.1 Investigate how postwar goals and actions of the United States and the Soviet Union were manifested throughout the world. 8.2 Analyze the Cold War ideology of the United States involvement in Asia. 8.3 Summarize the political, social, and economic reactions to the Cold War in the United States. 8.4 Investigate the end of the Cold War and examine America s role in the changing world. 10.1 Analyze the economy of the contemporary United States. 10.2 Determine how politics was changed by the end of the Cold War. -analyze the organization and operation of the United Nations -evaluate the effectiveness of American post-war foreign policy in Europe and the Soviet reaction -examine the world s reaction to nuclear weapons -explain America s reaction to the fall of China to communism -trace American and United Nations involvement in the Korean War -examine the various factors that drew the U.S. into conflict with North Vietnam -examine successes and failures of various political administrations in reaction to the Cold War -analyze Great Society programs aimed at ending poverty -examine the impact of McCarthyism and Watergate on citizens attitudes toward government -trace the development of space exploration -compare different reactions to overseas military involvement -trace events that resulted in breakup of the USSR -examine the superpower status of the U.S. in the world -examine the effects of economics on modern society -trace the development of computer technology and its impact on American -United Nations -Berlin Air Lift -Truman Doctrine -Nuclear weapons, escalation and de-escalation of tensions and nuclear arsenals -McCarthyism -Cuban Missile Crisis -Domino Theory -Great Society -Space Race -Watergate -United States as world Super Power - Reagan Revolution -failure of U.S.S.R. -2008 Financial Crisis -expansion of federal power -globalization -September 11, 2001 -international terrorism 1. How did U.S. and Soviet postwar policies cause the Cold War? 2. Why did Cold War ideology draw the U.S. into conflict in Asia? 3. What were the United States political, social and economic reactions to the Cold War? 4. How were U.S. politics changed by the end of the Cold War? 5. How did the end of the Cold War alter the United States role in the world? Teaching & Learning Department, 2009 Page 7
business and globalization -examine the goals, success, and failures of Reagan Revolution -analyze the impact of international terrorism on the United States Teaching & Learning Department, 2009 Page 8
4 th Quarter : The on-going struggle for human and civil rights continues to impact American society. 3.1 Investigate reform movements and their prominent leaders. 5.2 Examine the experiences of black Americans and women in the early 20 th century. 7.2 Examine the impact World War II had on the American home front. 9.1 Analyze how the civil rights movement affected United States society 9.2 Analyze the impact of the counter culture of the 1960s. -identify the causes and consequences of civil rights legislation and court decisions -investigate the fight for the political, economic, and social equality of women -analyze how the black civil rights movement utilized both social and political actions to achieve its goals -investigate the gains in civil rights made American Indian nations, Mexican Americans, and other ethnic groups up through the present day -trace the development of the counter-culture from the anti- Vietnam movement -assess the development of mass media as the voice of the counter-culture -examine the impact of drugs on the counter-culture and the United States -Plessey vs. Fergusson -Brown Vs. Board of Education -Segregation -Desegregation -boycott -civil disobedience -war protest -March on Washington -Martin Luther King Jr. -Montgomery Bus Boycott -Birmingham Children s March and bombings -Voting Rights Act of 1965 -Civil Rights Act of 1964 -Malcolm X -Counter Culture -Indian Civil Rights Movement -Caesar Chavez -Miranda Vs. Arizona -National Organization of Women -ERA -Affirmative Action -21 st Century Civil Rights 1. How can protest cause change? 2. What are the causes and consequences of civil rights legislation and court decisions? 3. Why does full participation in American society continue to elude some citizens? Teaching & Learning Department, 2009 Page 9