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Enduring
Skills/Understandings
Using Evidence to
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Unit Topic
Standards
The English Arrive
in America
Identify the reasons for colonization, evaluate its
impacts, and analyze the success or failure of
settlements in North America Analyze religious
development and its significance in colonial
America (e.g., religious settlements, the Great
Awakening) Describe significant aspects of the
variety of social structures of colonial
America Compare the economies of the various
colonies, and analyze the development and
impact of indentured servitude and African
slavery in North America (e.g., social, political,
and economic) Explain the origins and
development of colonial governments, Evaluate
the influence of Enlightenment ideas on the
development of American government as
embodied in the Declaration of
Independence Identify and evaluate the ideas
and events that contributed to the outbreak of the
American Revolution, and determine the key
turning points of the war .
The U.S. Constitution, Identify the impetus for the Constitutional
Early Political Parties, Convention (limitations of government under the
Antebellum
Articles of Confederation), and analyze the
events and outcomes of the Convention (i.e., the
“bundle of compromises”) Interpret the ideas
and principles expressed in the U.S.
Constitution Explain the development of the
Bill of Rights, and assess various debates of the
day
Essential Vocabulary
New England, Middle,
Southern Colonies,
Great Awakening,
Puritans, Act of
Toleration, End of
Salutary Neglect, Am.
Rev.
Articles, Amendments,
Separation of Powers,
Federalism, Bill of Rights
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Manifest Destiny, War of
Identify and evaluate the political and territorial
1812, Star Spangled
changes resulting from westward expansion of
Banner, Louisiana
the United States in the early nineteenth
Taking Action
Purchase, Indian Removal
century Analyze and evaluate federal and state
policies toward American Indians in the first half Act, Mexican War
of the nineteenth century
Using Evidence to support
a claim
Using Evidence to Support
a claim
2 weeks
Sectionalism, The
Civil War, and
Reconstruction
Compare and contrast the economic, social, and
cultural differences of the North and South
during the antebellum period Identify and
analyze the technological, social, and strategic
aspects of the Civil War Explain the influence
of Abraham Lincoln’s philosophy of the Union
and his executive actions and leadership on the
course of the Civil War Describe the basic
provisions and immediate impact of the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution Evaluate
different Reconstruction plans and their social,
economic, and political impact on the South and
the rest of the United States Analyze the
immediate and long-term influences of
Reconstruction on the lives of African
Americans and U.S. society as a whole
Kansas-Nebraska Act,
Sectionalism, Election of
1860, Dred Scott Case,
Wilmot Proviso,
Compromise of 1850,
secession, Civil War,
Reconstruction, Radical
Republicans, 13th, 14th,
and 15th amendments,
10% Plan, Tenure of
Office Act, impeachment,
Election of 1876,
Compromise of 1877
Compelling Questions:
UNIT Compelling Questions:
 What caused the sectional conflicts that
divided the United States?
 Was slavery the primary cause of the Civil
War?
 Was the Civil War inevitable?
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 Why did the Union win the Civil War?
 Does it Matter Who Freed the Slaves?
 Was Reconstruction successful at achieving its
goals?
 Did Industrialization make life better for
everyone?
 Did the American Dream come true for
Immigrants coming into the United States?
Using Evidence to support
a claim
4 weeks
Settling of the West,
Industrialization,
urbanization,
Populism, Gilded Age
Evaluate, take, and defend positions on the
development of U.S. foreign policy during the
early nineteenth century (e.g., Embargo Act,
Monroe Doctrine) Describe and evaluate the
impacts of the First Industrial Revolution during
the nineteenth century (e.g., the Lowell system,
immigration, changing technologies,
transportation innovations) Identify and evaluate
the major events and issues that promoted
sectional conflicts and strained national
cohesiveness in the antebellum period Identify
significant religious, philosophical, and social
reform movements of the nineteenth century and
their impact on American society
Embargo Act, Monroe
Doctrine, Lowell Girls,
Dawes Act, immigration,
luddites, changing
technologies ,abolition ,
temperance, gender roles
Identify the major characteristics of the
abolition movement in the antebellum period, its
achievements, failures, and Southern opposition
to it Compare and contrast the economic, social,
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and cultural differences of the North and South
during the antebellum period
Using Evidence to Support
a claim
Evaluating Sources
Taking Action
Evaluate the impact of new inventions and
technologies of the late nineteenth
century Identify and evaluate the influences on
business and industry in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries Identify labor and
workforce issues of the late nineteenth century,
including perspectives of owners/managers and
Social Darwinists Explain the challenges and
contributions of immigrants of the late
nineteenth century Explain the causes and
impact of urbanization in the late nineteenth
century Compare and contrast the experiences
of African Americans in various U.S. regions in
the late nineteenth century Identify and evaluate
the influences on the development of the
American West Analyze significant events for
Native American Indian tribes, and their
responses to those events, in the late nineteenth
century Identify and explain significant issues
and components of the Populist movement and
their impacts Explain the origins and
accomplishments of the Progressive
movement Analyze the efforts to achieve
women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century.
Populism, Graduated
Income Tax,
Progressivisim, Gilded
Age, Mark Twain,
urbanization, Jacob Riis,
Jane Addams, Ethnic
neighborhoods, nativism,
women’s suffrage,
Wabash v. Illinois,
Wisconsin, Robert
Lafollette, Teddy
Roosevelt, William Howard
Taft, William McKinley,
William Jennings Bryan
Compelling Questions
 “Did the American Dream Come true for
Immigrants?”
Juxtapose the views of immigration over time.
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Using Evidence to support
a claim
American
Imperaialism and
Progressivism
Evaluate, take, and defend positions on the
various U.S. foreign policies in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries Analyze the causes and consequences
of the Spanish-American War; Identify and
evaluate the factors that influenced U.S.
imperialism in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries and the ensuing debate over
imperialism
Imperialism (MAING)
Spanish American War,
Yellow Journalsim, Platt
Amendment, U.S.S.
Maine, Jose Marti,
Emiliano Aguinaldo,
Rough Riders,
UNIT Compelling Questions:
 Was American expansion abroad justified?
3 weeks
 Did the press cause the Spanish American
War?
 Were Progressives successful in making
government more responsive to the will of the
people?
 Is Muckraking an effective tool to reform
American politics and society?
 Was Theodore Roosevelt a progressive
president?
 Why did the United States enter WWI?
 Can peace lead to war? (Treaty of Versailles)
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 Were the 1920’s a time of prosperity for
everyone?
1 week
Using Evidence to support
a claim
Evaluating Sources
World War I
Identify and analyze the causes and significant
events of World War I and their impact; evaluate
the impact of the Treaty of Versailles
Causes of World War I,
new war technologies,
Versaiiles Treaty,
isolationism
Using Evidence to support
a claim
The 1920’s
Describe and evaluate the impact of scientific
and the technological innovations of the
1920s Identify and evaluate the impact of new
cultural movements on American society in the
1920s Identify the characteristics of social
conflict and social change that took place in the
early 1920s
Henry Ford, Jazz Age,
Harlem Renaissance,
Prohibition, Scopes Trial,
Flappers, Nativism
Using Evidence to support
a claim
The Great Depression
Identify and explain the economic factors that
contributed to the stock market crash of 1929
and the Great Depression Explain the economic,
environmental, and social impact of the Great
Depression on American society Evaluate the
impact of the New Deal on various elements of
American society (e.g., social, political,
environmental, economic)
Dust Bowl, Stock Market
Crash, Keynesian
economics, Court Packing
Plan, 1st and 2nd New
Deal, Fireside Chats,
Shantytowns, FDR
1 week
2 weeks
UNIT Compelling Questions:
 Were the Causes of the Great Depression
inevitable?
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 Was the New Deal a Good Deal?
 Why was the United States on the Winning
side of WWII?
 Was the Cold War inevitable?
 Was containment an effective policy to thwart
communist expansion?
 Did the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s
effectively Change the nation?
 Have Civil Rights ever been achieved?
Using Evidence to support
a claim
World War II
Describe circumstances at home and abroad prior
to U.S. involvement in World War II Identify
the significant military and political aspects of
World War II Analyze dimensions of the
Holocaust and the Allies’ response to the
Holocaust and war crimes Evaluate the social,
political, and economic impacts of World War II
on the home front Identify and evaluate the
scientific and technological developments in
America during and after World War II
Versailles Treaty, Lend
Lease Act, Dec. 7, 1941,
Rosie the Riveter, Antisemitism, Hitler, Mussolini,
Stalin, Tuskegee Airmen,
Code talkers, Nuremberg
Trials
Using Evidence to support
a claim
The Cold War
Analyze the social, cultural, and economic
changes at the onset of the Cold War
era Analyze the origins of the Cold War, foreign
policy developments, and major events of the
administrations from Truman to
present Describe and evaluate the political and
social impact of the Vietnam War Analyze
major domestic issues and responses of the
Cold War, Berllin Airlift.
McCarthyism, Space
Race, Cuban Missile
Crisis, Korean Conflcit,
Vietnam Conflict, Berlin
Wall, Fidel Castro, New
Frontier, Great Society
2 weeks
2 weeks
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administrations from Truman to
present Evaluate the impact of innovations in
technology and communication on American
society
Unit Compelling Questions:
 Was the policy of Containment a success?
 Did the United States Win the Cold War?
 Should Nixon have resigned his Presidency?
 Is Protest Patriotic?
 Were the domestic policies of Kennedy and
Johnson successful?
 Is national security worth restricting privacy?
Dates
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Essential
Skills/Understandings
Using Evidence to
support a claim
Unit Topic
1950’s and 60’s
Standards
Essential Vocabulary
Identify the events and influential individuals of
the civil rights, human rights, and counterculture
movements and assess their impact Evaluate the
impact of changes in the national economy on
contemporary American society
Civil Rights Movement,
Beats, counterculture,
Generation Gap, Rock-nRoll, Sexual Revolution,
The Feminine Mystique
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Détente, Salt I, Clean Air
1970’s
Evaluate the impact of changes in the national
Act, Roe v. Wade, EPA,
economy on contemporary American
Love Canal, OPEC, Iran
society Identify the major contemporary social,
Hostage Crisis, Fall of
environmental, and political issues (e.g.,
Saigon, Watergate,
immigration, global warming, terrorism), the
Impeachment, Pardoning,
groups involved, and the controversies
Kent State and Jackson
engendered by those issues
State University
Using Evidence to support
a claim
1 week
Using Evidence to support
a claim
1980’s and 90’s
Evaluate the impact of changes in the national
economy on contemporary American
society Identify the major contemporary social,
environmental, and political issues (e.g.,
immigration, global warming, terrorism), the
groups involved, and the controversies
engendered by those issues
The Reagan Revolution,
AIDS, SDI, Berlin Wall,
PC’s, MTV, Iran Contra
Affair, Challenger, 1st Gulf
War, Bill Clinton,
Impeachment, Exxon
Valdez
Using Evidence to support
a claim
2000’s
Evaluate the impact of changes in the national
economy on contemporary American
society Identify the major contemporary social,
environmental, and political issues (e.g.,
immigration, global warming, terrorism), the
groups involved, and the controversies
engendered by those issues
9/11, AlQuaida, Obama’s
election, George W. Bush,
Oklohoma City Bombing
1 week
1 week
Review
1 week
EOC test
1 week
Finals
1 week
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