US Survey Course Introduction I. Balancing Liberty and Order 1753 1820 (4 5 II. An Emerging New Nation 1783 1855 (6 9) III. Division and Uneasy Reunion 1846 1877(10 12) IV. Expansion: Rewards and Costs 1850 1915 (13 16) V. The United States on the Brink of Change 1890 1920 (17 19) VI. Boom Times to Hard Times 1920 1941 (20 23) VII. Hot and Cold War 1931 1960 (24 27) VIII. A Period of Turmoil and Change 1950 1975 (28 31) IX. Continuity and Change 1969 the Present (32 34) X. Conclusion Introduction Essential Questions I. Balancing Liberty and Order 1753 1820 (4 5) ( Essential Ques. 1 2) 1. Was the American War for Independence inevitable? French and Indian War (4.1) Proclamation of 1763 (4.2) Stamp Act (4.2) Boston Massacre (4.2) First Continental Congress (4.2) Lexington and Concord (4.2) Common Sense (4.2) Second Continental Congress/Olive Branch Petition (4.2) Declaration of Independence (4.3) 2. Is the Constitution a living document? (amendment process, elastic clause, judicial interpretation, legislative modifications, etc.) Articles of Confederation (5.1) Shays Rebellion (5.1) Constitutional Convention (5.2) US Constitution (5.2) The Great Compromise (5.2) Federalists (5.3) Anti Federalists (5.3) Bill of Rights (5.3) II. An Emerging New Nation 1783 1855 (6 9) ( Essential Ques. 3 6)
3. Are political parties good for our nation (Federalists v. Democratic Republicans) Strict Construction/Loose Construction (6.1) Whiskey Rebellion (6.1) Jeffersonian Republicans (6.1, 6.2) Alien and Sedition Act (6.2) Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (6.2) Louisiana Purchase (6.3) John Marshall (6.3) Marbury v. Madison (p.214) Dartmouth College v. Woodward (8.4) McCulloch v. Maryland (8.4) Gibbons v. Ogden (8.4) War of 1812 (6.5) 4. Was the age of Jackson an age of democracy? Tariff of 1828 (8.5) Indian Removal Act (8.5) Bank War (8.5) 5. Does the United States have a mission to expand freedom and democracy? (manifest destiny) Native American Resistance (6.4) Battle of Fallen Timbers/Tippecanoe (6.4) Treaty of Greenville (6.4) Manifest Destiny (7.2) Texas War for Independence (7.3) Mexican War (10.2) 6. Have reformers had a significant impact on the problems of American society to 1861? The Second Great Awakening (7.1) transcendentalism (9.1) reform movements (9.1 9.3) temperance prison/insane asylum abolitionism women s rights movement III. Division and Uneasy Reunion 1846 1877(10 12) ( Essential Ques. 7 8) 7. Was the Civil War inevitable?
Industrial Revolution (ch.8) Market Revolution (ch.8) free enterprise system (8.1) cotton belt (8.3) American System (8.4) Compromises Missouri Compromise 1820 (6.5, 10.3) Compromise of 1850 (10.3) Kansas Nebraska Act (10.3) Dred Scott v. Sanford John Brown Lincoln Douglas Debates Election of 1860 Civil War experience 8. Does racial equality depend upon government action? 13th,14th, 15th Amendments Reconstruction (ch.12) Indian Wars IV. Expansion: Rewards and Costs 1850 1915 (13 16) ( Essential Ques. 9 10) 9. To what extent did rapid industrialization shape social, political and economic transformations in the United States during the Gilded Age? technology (13.1) Robber Barons & Captains of Industry (13.2) monopolies (13.2) laissez faire (15.1) Haymarket (13.4) labor unions (13.4) tenements/city life (13.3 & 15.3) Populism (14.4) Reform Movement (15.4) Life at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (16) 10. To what degree has immigration been key to America s success? New vs. Old Immigration (9.4 &15.2) Nativism (15.2) Chinese Exclusion Act (15.2) V. The United States on the Brink of Change 1890 1920 (17 19) ( Essential Ques. 11 15) 11. Was American expansion overseas justified?
imperialism (17.1) Spanish American War (17.2) diplomacy [gunboat, dollar, moral] (17.3) 12. Did Theodore Roosevelt further the goals of Progressivism? Progressive Era (18.1) muckraker (18.1) Progressive presidents (18.2 &18.3) Progressive legislation (18.2) election of 1912 (18.3) constitutional amendments (18.2; pg. 626) 13. Was it possible for the US to maintain neutrality in World War I? causes (19.1/19.2) 14. To what extent did World War I have an impact on American society? home front (19.4) postwar social change (20) Great Migration (20.1) postwar gloom (20.2) culture conflicts (20.3) politics and prosperity (21) 15. Did the Nineteenth Amendment radically change women s role in American life? women s movement (16.4) suffrage (18.4) women s changing roles (20.1) VI. Boom Times to Hard Times 1920 1941 (20 23) ( Essential Ques. 16) 16. Was the New Deal an effective response to the depression? causes/stock market crash (22.1) Hoover policy (22.2) First and Second New Deal (22.4, 23.1, 23.3) critics (23.3) VII. Hot and Cold War 1931 1960 (24 27) ( Essential Ques. 17 19) 17. How important was the home front in the United States victory in World War II? mobilization (25.1) daily life on the homefront (25.1) 18. Was World War II a good war? rise of totalitarian leaders (24) neutrality (24.4) Holocaust (25.3)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki (25.4) racial discrimination (25.5) 19. To what extent did Cold War tensions influence the United States politically, economically and socially? containment (26.1) iron curtain (26.1) Marshall Plan (26.2) Truman Doctrine (26.1) McCarthyism (26.2, 26.4) NATO (26.2) Korean War (26.3) arms race (26.4) space race (26.4) military industrial complex (26.3) postwar years at home (ch. 27) VIII. A Period of Turmoil and Change 1950 1975 (28 31) ( Essential Ques. 20 21) 20. To what extent did the post war Civil Rights Movement impact the nation to 1975? Jim Crow (16.3) Plessy v. Ferguson (16.3) Brown v. Board (28.1) SNCC (28.2) bus boycott (28.1) March on Washington (28.4) Civil Rights Act 1964 (28.4) civil rights for all (32.2) women s movement (30.1) Voting Rights Act 1965 (28.4) MLK Jr. (28.5) Malcolm X (28.5) 21. How did the Vietnam War define America? Protest Movement (30.3) expanding presidential power (31.1) political divisions (31.1) My Lai Massacre (31.2) American withdrawal (31.4) IX. Continuity and Change 1969 the Present (32 34) ( Essential Ques.22 23) 22. Were Presidents Reagan and Bush responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War?
Carter s Foreign Policy (32.5) Reagan s Foreign Policy (33.2) Reagan Legacy (33.3) Cold War ends (33.4) Poland Berlin Wall Soviet Union 23. Can global terrorism be stopped? War on Terrorism (34.2) Attack on America Afghanistan Homeland Security Iraq Al Qaida ISIS X. Conclusion Course content synthesis: Debate of EQ??? or Finale...or???...reading days & final