Download AP US History

AP US History
VW1LQH:HHNV7KHVWXGHQWLVH[SHFWHGWR
Weeks 1-2: Colonial America
AP
• Pre-Columbian Societies (AP 1)
• Early inhabitants of the Americas (AP 1.a)
• American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley (AP 1.b)
• American Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contact (AP 1.c)
• Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492–1690 (AP 2)
• First European contacts with American Indians (AP 2.a)
• Spain’s empire in North America (AP 2.b)
• French colonization of Canada (AP 2.c)
• English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the South (AP 2.d)
• From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region (AP 2.e)
• Religious diversity in the American colonies (AP 2.f)
• Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt (AP 2.g)
• Colonial North America, 1690–1754 (AP 3)
• Population growth and immigration (AP 3.a)
• Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports (AP 3.b)
• The eighteenth-century back country (AP 3.c)
• Growth of plantation economies and slave societies (AP 3.d)
• The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening (AP 3.e)
• Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America (AP 3.f)
Essential Questions
• What were the motives for exploration?
• How did Native American culture clash with European?
• What made the colonies different?
Weeks 3-4: American Revolution
AP
• The American Revolutionary Era, 1754–1789 (AP 4)
• The French and Indian War (AP 4.a)
• The Imperial Crisis and resistance to Britain (AP 4.b)
• The War for Independence (AP 4.c)
• State constitutions and the Articles of Confederation (AP 4.d)
• The federal Constitution (AP 4.e)
TEKS
• analyze and evaluate the text, intent, meaning, and importance of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S.
Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and identify the full text of the first three paragraphs of the Declaration of
Independence.[1A]
• analyze and evaluate the application of these founding principles to historical events in U.S. history.[1B]
• explain the contributions of the Founding Fathers such as Benjamin Rush, John Hancock, John Jay, John
Witherspoon, John Peter Muhlenberg, Charles Carroll, and Jonathan Trumbull Sr.[1C]
• discuss the meaning and historical significance of the mottos "E Pluribus Unum" and "In God We Trust".[26E]
Essential Questions
• Did new liberal ideology drive the American Revolution?
• Why change the articles of confederation?
Weeks 5-7: Confederation, Federalists, and Jeffersonian Eras
AP
• The Early Republic, 1789–1815 (AP 5)
• Washington, Hamilton, and shaping of the national government (AP 5.a)
• Emergence of political parties: Federalists and Republicans (AP 5.b)
• Republican Motherhood and education for women (AP 5.c)
• Beginnings of the Second Great Awakening (AP 5.d)
• Significance of Jefferson’s presidency (AP 5.e)
• Expansion into the trans-Appalachian West; American Indian resistance (P 5.f)
• Growth of slavery and free Black communities (AP 5.g)
• The War of 1812 and its consequences (AP 5.h)
Essential Questions
• Who were the leaders of the federalists, democrats, and republicans? And what did they believe in as people &
political parties?
Weeks 8-9: Nationalism, Economics Development, and the Age of Jackson
AP
• Transformation of the Economy and Society in Antebellum America (AP 6)
• The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy (AP 6.a)
• Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures (AP 6.b)
• Immigration and nativist reaction (AP 6.c)
• Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South (AP 6.d)
• The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum America (AP 7)
• Emergence of the second party system (P 7.a)
• Federal authority and its opponents: judicial federalism, the Bank War, tariff controversy, and states’ rights
debates (AP 7.b)
• Jacksonian democracy and its successes and limitations (AP 7.c)
Essential Questions
• Was the election of Jackson a true shift of power to the “Common” American and the newly expanded “West”?
QG1LQH:HHNV7KHVWXGHQWLVH[SHFWHGWR
Weeks 10-12: Reform, Territorial and Economic Expansion, and Sectionalism
AP
• Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in Antebellum America (AP 8)
• Evangelical Protestant revivalism (AP 8.a)
• Social reforms (AP 8.b)
• Ideals of domesticity (AP 8.c)
• Transcendentalism and utopian communities (AP 8.d)
• American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions (AP 8.e)
• Territorial Expansion and Manifest Destiny (AP 9)
• Forced removal of American Indians to the trans-Mississippi West (AP 9.a)
• Western migration and cultural interactions (AP 9.b)
• Territorial acquisitions (AP 9.c)
• Early U .S . imperialism: the Mexican War (AP 9.d)
• The Crisis of the Union (AP 10)
• Pro- and antislavery arguments and conflicts (AP 10.a)
• Compromise of 1850 and popular sovereignty (AP 10.b)
• The Kansas–Nebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party (AP 10.c)
• Abraham Lincoln, the election of 1860, and secession (AP 10.d)
TEKS
• discuss Alexis de Tocqueville's five values crucial to America's success as a constitutional republic: liberty,
egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire.[22A]
• describe how the American values identified by Alexis de Tocqueville are different and unique from those of
other nations.[22B]
• describe U.S. citizens as people from numerous places throughout the world who hold a common bond in
standing for certain self-evident truths.[22C]
Essential Questions
• What role did transportation play in the growth of the U.S. economy?
• Was the Abolitionist Movement connected to other reformist?
• Why were there so many views of slavery?
• Did war with Mexico uncover deep rooted sectional differences?
• What were the political ramifications of Dred Scott?
• Was it necessary for the South to secede based on Lincoln’s election?
Weeks 13-15: The Civil War
AP
• Civil War (AP 11)
• Two societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissent (AP 11.a)
• Military strategies and foreign diplomacy (AP 11.f)
• Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war (AP 11.g)
• Social, political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West (AP 11.h)
Essential Questions
• Assess the outcome of the Civil War based on the relative strengths, of the North and South going in?
Weeks 16-18: Reconstruction and the New South
AP
• Reconstruction (AP 12)
• Presidential and Radical Reconstruction (AP 12.a)
• Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures (AP 12.b)
• Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy (AP 12.c)
• Compromise of 1877 (AP 12.d)
• Impact of Reconstruction (AP 12.e)
• The Origins of the New South (AP 13)
• Reconfiguration of southern agriculture: sharecropping and crop-lien system (AP 13.a)
• Expansion of manufacturing and industrialization (AP 13.b)
• The politics of segregation: Jim Crow and disfranchisement (AP 13.c)
Essential Questions
• Did the North forgive or punish the South during reconstruction?
UG1LQH:HHNV7KHVWXGHQWLVH[SHFWHGWR
Weeks 1-2: The Gilded Age
AP
• Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century (AP 14)
• Expansion and development of western railroads (AP 14.a)
• Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians (AP 14.b)
• Government policy toward American Indians (AP 14.c)
• Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West (AP 14.d)
• Environmental impacts of western settlement (AP 14.e)
• Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth Century (AP 15)
• Corporate consolidation of industry (AP 15.a)
• Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace (AP 15.b)
• Labor and unions (AP 15.c)
• Migration and immigration: the changing face of the nation (AP 15.d)
• Proponents and opponents of the new order, e .g., Social Darwinism and Social Gospel (AP 15.e)
• Urban Society in the Late Nineteenth Century (AP 16)
• Urbanization and the lure of the city (AP 16.a)
• City problems and machine politics (AP 16.b)
• Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment (AP 16.c)
TEKS
• analyze political issues such as Indian policies, the growth of political machines, civil service reform, and the
beginnings of Populism.[3A]
• analyze economic issues such as industrialization, the growth of railroads, the growth of labor unions, farm
issues, the cattle industry boom, the rise of entrepreneurship, free enterprise, and the pros and cons of big
business.[3B]
• analyze social issues affecting women, minorities, children, immigrants, urbanization, the Social Gospel, and
philanthropy of industrialists.[3C]
• describe the optimism of the many immigrants who sought a better life in America.[3D]
• analyze the impact of physical and human geographic factors on the settlement of the Great Plains, the
Klondike Gold Rush, the Panama Canal, the Dust Bowl, and the levee failure in New Orleans after Hurricane
Katrina.[12A]
• analyze the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from migration within the United
States, including western expansion, rural to urban, the Great Migration, and the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt.[13A]
• analyze the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from legal and illegal immigration to
the United States.[13B]
• identify the effects of population growth and distribution on the physical environment.[14A]
• understand the effects of governmental actions on individuals, industries, and communities, including the impact
on Fifth Amendment property rights.[14C]
• describe how the economic impact of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Homestead Act contributed to the
close of the frontier in the late 19th century.[15A]
• describe the changing relationship between the federal government and private business, including the costs
and benefits of laissez-faire, anti-trust acts, the Interstate Commerce Act, and the Pure Food and Drug Act.[15B]
• describe qualities of effective leadership.[24A]
• evaluate the contributions of significant political and social leaders in the United States such as Andrew
Carnegie, Thurgood Marshall, Billy Graham, Barry Goldwater, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Hillary Clinton.[24B]
• explain actions taken by people to expand economic opportunities and political rights, including those for racial,
ethnic, and religious minorities as well as women, in American society.[26A]
• discuss the Americanization movement to assimilate immigrants and American Indians into American culture.
[26B]
Essential Questions
• Did government help or hinder the development of Carnegie & Rockefeller?
• What is the connection between industrial growth and selected industry like railroads?
• Do immigration and urbanization go hand and hand with industrialization?
• How much of an effect did the growth of farming, ranching and mining have on the native people of Western
U.S.?
Week 3: Foreign Policy in the Gilded Age
AP
• The Emergence of America as a World Power (AP 18)
• American imperialism: political and economic expansion (AP 18.a)
TEKS
• explain why significant events, policies, and individuals such as the Spanish-American War, U.S. expansionism,
Henry Cabot Lodge, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, Sanford B. Dole, and missionaries moved the
United States into the position of a world power.[4A]
• evaluate American expansionism, including acquisitions such as Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto
Rico.[4B]
• identify and explain reasons for changes in political boundaries such as those resulting from statehood and
international conflicts.[12B]
• explain how foreign policies affected economic issues such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the Open
Door Policy, Dollar Diplomacy, and immigration quotas.[15C]
• describe the economic effects of international military conflicts, including the Spanish-American War and World
War I, on the United States.[15D]
Essential Questions
• What factors made it different and which factors made it a success, to go from an isolationist nation to an
imperialist nation?
Weeks 4-5: The Progressive Era
AP
• Populism and Progressivism (AP 17)
• Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late nineteenth century (AP 17.a)
• Origins of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and national (AP 17.b)
• Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive presidents (AP 17.c)
• Women’s roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reform (AP 17.d)
• Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives (AP 17.e)
TEKS
• evaluate the impact of Progressive Era reforms, including initiative, referendum, recall, and the passage of the
16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th amendments.[5A]
• evaluate the impact of muckrakers and reform leaders such as Upton Sinclair, Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells,
and W. E. B. DuBois on American society.[5B]
• evaluate the impact of third parties, including the Populist and Progressive parties.[5C]
• describe the changing relationship between the federal government and private business, including the costs
and benefits of laissez-faire, anti-trust acts, the Interstate Commerce Act, and the Pure Food and Drug Act.[15B]
• analyze the effects of landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including Brown v. Board of Education, and
other U.S. Supreme Court decisions such as Plessy v. Ferguson, Hernandez v. Texas, Tinker v. Des Moines,
Wisconsin v. Yoder, and White v. Regester.[21A]
• discuss historical reasons why the constitution has been amended.[21B]
• evaluate constitutional change in terms of strict construction versus judicial interpretation.[21C]
• explain actions taken by people to expand economic opportunities and political rights, including those for racial,
ethnic, and religious minorities as well as women, in American society.[26A]
Essential Questions
• Was the progressive era a success?
• How did Taft, Wilson and Roosevelt differ?
Week 6: World War I
AP
• The Emergence of America as a World Power (AP 18)
• War in Europe and American neutrality (AP 18b)
• The First World War at home and abroad (AP 18.c)
• Treaty of Versailles (AP 18.d)
• Society and economy in the postwar years (AP 18.e)
• The Emergence of America as a World Power (AP 19)
• American imperialism: political and economic expansion (AP 19.a)
• War in Europe and American neutrality (AP 19.b)
• The First World War at home and abroad (AP 19.c)
• Treaty of Versailles (AP 19.d)
• Society and economy in the postwar years (AP 19.e)
TEKS
• identify the causes of World War I and reasons for U.S. entry.[4C]
• understand the contributions of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) led by General John J. Pershing.[4D]
• analyze the impact of significant technological innovations in World War I such as machine guns, airplanes,
tanks, poison gas, and trench warfare that resulted in the stalemate on the Western Front.[4E]
• analyze major issues such as isolationism and neutrality raised by U.S. involvement in World War I, Woodrow
Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the Treaty of Versailles.[4F]
• analyze significant events such as the Battle of Argonne Forest.[4G]
• analyze the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from migration within the United
States, including western expansion, rural to urban, the Great Migration, and the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt.[13A]
• analyze the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from legal and illegal immigration to
the United States.[13B]
• describe the economic effects of international military conflicts, including the Spanish-American War and World
War I, on the United States.[15D]
• discuss the importance of congressional Medal of Honor recipients, including individuals of all races and
genders such as Vernon J. Baker, Alvin York, and Roy Benavidez.[26F]
Essential Questions
• Did Wilson and the U.S. help win WWI but lose the peace thru the Versailles Treaty?
Weeks 7-8: The 1920s
AP
• The New Era: 1920s (AP 20)
• The business of America and the consumer economy (AP 20.a)
• Republican politics: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover (AP 20.b)
• The culture of Modernism: science, the arts, and entertainment (AP 20.c)
• Responses to Modernism: religious fundamentalism, nativism, and Prohibition (AP 20.d)
• The ongoing struggle for equality: African Americans and women (AP 20.e)
TEKS
• analyze causes and effects of events and social issues such as immigration, Social Darwinism, eugenics, race
relations, nativism, the Red Scare, Prohibition, and the changing role of women.[6A]
• analyze the impact of significant individuals such as Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, Henry Ford,
Glenn Curtiss, Marcus Garvey, and Charles A. Lindbergh.[6B]
• describe the emergence of monetary policy in the United States, including the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and
the shifting trend from a gold standard to fiat money.[15E]
• analyze causes of economic growth and prosperity in the 1920s, including Warren Harding's Return to
Normalcy, reduced taxes, and increased production efficiencies.[16A]
• identify and analyze methods of expanding the right to participate in the democratic process, including lobbying,
non-violent protesting, litigation, and amendments to the U.S. Constitution.[23A]
• evaluate various means of achieving equality of political rights, including the 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments
and congressional acts such as the American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.[23B]
• explain how participation in the democratic process reflects our national ethos, patriotism, and civic
responsibility as well as our progress to build a "more perfect union."[23C]
• describe how the characteristics and issues in U.S. history have been reflected in various genres of art, music,
film, and literature.[25A]
• describe both the positive and negative impacts of significant examples of cultural movements in art, music, and
literature such as Tin Pan Alley, the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat Generation, rock and roll, the Chicano Mural
Movement, and country and western music on American society.[25B]
• identify the impact of popular American culture on the rest of the world over time.[25C]
• analyze the global diffusion of American culture through the entertainment industry via various media.[25D]
Essential Questions
• What’s important about the roaring 20’s era?
Week 9: The 1930s
AP
• The Great Depression and the New Deal (AP 21)
• Causes of the Great Depression (AP 21.a)
• The Hoover administration’s response (AP 21.b)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal (AP 21.c)
• Labor and union recognition (AP 21.d)
• The New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the Left (AP 21.e)
• Surviving hard times: American society during the Great Depression (AP 21.f)
TEKS
• analyze the impact of physical and human geographic factors on the settlement of the Great Plains, the
Klondike Gold Rush, the Panama Canal, the Dust Bowl, and the levee failure in New Orleans after Hurricane
Katrina.[12A]
• identify the causes of the Great Depression, including the impact of tariffs on world trade, stock market
speculation, bank failures, and the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve System.[16B]
• analyze the effects of the Great Depression on the U.S. economy and society such as widespread
unemployment and deportation and repatriation of people of European and Mexican heritage and others.[16C]
• compare the New Deal policies and its opponents' approaches to resolving the economic effects of the Great
Depression.[16D]
• describe how various New Deal agencies and programs, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Social Security Administration, continue to affect the lives of
U.S. citizens.[16E]
• describe the economic effects of World War II on the home front such as the end of the Great Depression,
rationing, and increased opportunity for women and minority employment.[17A]
Essential Questions
• What were the causes of the stock market to crash and how did Hoover address the depression that followed?
• What was the ideology of the new deal and the opposition it received?
WK1LQH:HHNV7KHVWXGHQWLVH[SHFWHGWR
Weeks 10-11: World War II
AP
• The Second World War (AP 22)
• The rise of fascism and militarism in Japan, Italy, and Germany (AP 22.a)
• Prelude to war: policy of neutrality (AP 22.b)
• The attack on Pearl Harbor and United States declaration of war (AP 22.c)
• Fighting a multifront war (AP 22.d)
• Diplomacy, war aims, and wartime conferences (AP 22.e)
• The United States as a global power in the Atomic Age (AP 22.f)
• The Home Front During the War (AP 23)
• Wartime mobilization of the economy (AP 23.a)
• Urban migration and demographic changes (AP 23.b)
• Women, work, and family during the war (AP 23.c)
• Civil liberties and civil rights during wartime (AP 23.d)
• War and regional development (AP 23.e)
• Expansion of government power (AP 23.f)
TEKS
• identify reasons for U.S. involvement in World War II, including Italian, German, and Japanese dictatorships and
their aggression, especially the attack on Pearl Harbor.[7A]
• evaluate the domestic and international leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman during World
War II, including the U.S. relationship with its allies and domestic industry's rapid mobilization for the war effort.
[7B]
• analyze the function of the U.S. Office of War Information.[7C]
• analyze major issues of World War II, including the Holocaust; the internment of German, Italian, and Japanese
Americans and Executive Order 9066; and the development of conventional and atomic weapons.[7D]
• analyze major military events of World War II, including the Battle of Midway, the U.S. military advancement
through the Pacific Islands, the Bataan Death March, the invasion of Normandy, fighting the war on multiple
fronts, and the liberation of concentration camps.[7E]
• evaluate the military contributions of leaders during World War II, including Omar Bradley, Dwight Eisenhower,
Douglas MacArthur, Chester A. Nimitz, George Marshall, and George Patton.[7F]
• explain the home front and how American patriotism inspired exceptional actions by citizens and military
personnel, including high levels of military enlistment; volunteerism; the purchase of war bonds; Victory Gardens;
the bravery and contributions of the Tuskegee Airmen, the Flying Tigers, and the Navajo Code Talkers; and
opportunities and obstacles for women and ethnic minorities.[7G]
• describe the economic effects of World War II on the home front such as the end of the Great Depression,
rationing, and increased opportunity for women and minority employment.[17A]
• identify the causes of prosperity in the 1950s, including the Baby Boom and the impact of the GI Bill
(Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944), and the effects of prosperity in the 1950s such as increased
consumption and the growth of agriculture and business.[17B]
• describe the economic impact of defense spending on the business cycle and education priorities from 1945 to
the 1990s.[17C]
• identify actions of government and the private sector such as the Great Society, affirmative action, and Title IX
to create economic opportunities for citizens and analyze the unintended consequences of each.[17D]
• describe the dynamic relationship between U.S. international trade policies and the U.S. free enterprise system
such as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil embargo, the General Agreement of
Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).[17E]
• discuss the importance of congressional Medal of Honor recipients, including individuals of all races and
genders such as Vernon J. Baker, Alvin York, and Roy Benavidez.[26F]
Essential Questions
• How do you explain U.S. aid to Brittan and unpreparedness in the pacific before Pearl Harbor?
• In what ways did the European Theatre differ from the Pacific Theatre for the allies?
Weeks 12-13: The 1950s
AP
• The United States and the Early Cold War (AP 24)
• Origins of the Cold War (AP 24a)
• Truman and containment (AP 24b)
• The Cold War in Asia: China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan (AP 24c)
• Diplomatic strategies and policies of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations (AP 24d)
• The Red Scare and McCarthyism (AP 24e)
• Impact of the Cold War on American society (AP 24f)
• The 1950s (AP 25)
• Emergence of the modern civil rights movement (AP 25a)
• The affluent society and “the other America” (AP 25b)
• Consensus and conformity: suburbia and middle-class America (AP 25c)
• Social critics, nonconformists, and cultural rebels (AP 25d)
• Impact of changes in science, technology, and medicine (AP 25e)
TEKS
• describe U.S. responses to Soviet aggression after World War II, including the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall
Plan, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Berlin airlift, and John F. Kennedy's role in the Cuban Missile
Crisis.[8A]
• describe how Cold War tensions were intensified by the arms race, the space race, McCarthyism, and the
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), the findings of which were confirmed by the Venona Papers.
[8B]
• explain reasons and outcomes for U.S. involvement in the Korean War and its relationship to the containment
policy.[8C]
• explain reasons and outcomes for U.S. involvement in foreign countries and their relationship to the Domino
Theory, including the Vietnam War.[8D]
• analyze the major issues and events of the Vietnam War such as the Tet Offensive, the escalation of forces,
Vietnamization, and the fall of Saigon.[8E]
• describe the responses to the Vietnam War such as the draft, the 26th Amendment, the role of the media, the
credibility gap, the silent majority, and the anti-war movement.[8F]
• analyze the effects of landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including Brown v. Board of Education, and
other U.S. Supreme Court decisions such as Plessy v. Ferguson, Hernandez v. Texas, Tinker v. Des Moines,
Wisconsin v. Yoder, and White v. Regester.[21A]
• explain the effects of scientific discoveries and technological innovations such as electric power, telephone and
satellite communications, petroleum-based products, steel production, and computers on the economic
development of the United States.[27A]
• explain how specific needs result in scientific discoveries and technological innovations in agriculture, the
military, and medicine, including vaccines.[27B]
Essential Questions
• How did the League of Nations compare to the UN?
• Was the Cold War avoidable?
• Was the Korean War an extension of the Containment Policy?
• To what extent did Brown v. Board of Education Rights Movement and reverse Plessy v. Ferguson?
Weeks 14-15: The 1960s
AP
• The Turbulent 1960s (AP 26)
• From the New Frontier to the Great Society (AP 26a)
• Expanding movements for civil rights (AP 26b)
• Cold War confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe (AP 26c)
• Beginning of Détente (AP 26d)
• The antiwar movement and the counterculture (AP 26e)
TEKS
• trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including the
13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments.[9A]
• describe the roles of political organizations that promoted civil rights, including ones from African American,
Chicano, American Indian, women's, and other civil rights movements.[9B]
• identify the roles of significant leaders who supported various rights movements, including Martin Luther King
Jr., Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, Hector P. Garcia, and Betty Friedan.[9C]
• compare and contrast the approach taken by some civil rights groups such as the Black Panthers with the
nonviolent approach of Martin Luther King Jr..[9D]
• discuss the impact of the writings of Martin Luther King Jr. such as his "I Have a Dream" speech and "Letter
from Birmingham Jail" on the civil rights movement.[9E]
• describe presidential actions and congressional votes to address minority rights in the United States, including
desegregation of the armed forces, the Civil Rights acts of 1957 and 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.[9F]
• describe the role of individuals such as governors George Wallace, Orval Faubus, and Lester Maddox and
groups, including the Congressional bloc of southern Democrats, that sought to maintain the status quo.[9G]
• evaluate changes and events in the United States that have resulted from the civil rights movement, including
increased participation of minorities in the political process.[9H]
• describe how litigation such as the landmark cases of Brown v. Board of Education, Mendez v. Westminster,
Hernandez v. Texas, Delgado v. Bastrop I.S.D., Edgewood I.S.D. v. Kirby, and Sweatt v. Painter played a role in
protecting the rights of the minority during the civil rights movement.[9I]
• describe the economic impact of defense spending on the business cycle and education priorities from 1945 to
the 1990s.[17C]
• identify actions of government and the private sector such as the Great Society, affirmative action, and Title IX
to create economic opportunities for citizens and analyze the unintended consequences of each.[17D]
• describe the dynamic relationship between U.S. international trade policies and the U.S. free enterprise system
such as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil embargo, the General Agreement of
Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).[17E]
• analyze how scientific discoveries, technological innovations, and the application of these by the free enterprise
system, including those in transportation and communication, improve the standard of living in the United States.
[28A]
• explain how space technology and exploration improve the quality of life.[28B]
Essential Questions
• How did the U.S. fail to reach its goals in Viet Nam?
Weeks 16-18: The 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s
AP
• Politics and Economics at the End of the Twentieth Century (AP 27)
• The election of 1968 and the “Silent Majority” (AP 27a)
• Nixon’s challenges: Vietnam, China, and Watergate (AP 27b)
• Changes in the American economy: the energy crisis, deindustrialization, and the service economy (AP 27c)
• The New Right and the Reagan revolution (AP 27d)
• End of the Cold War (AP 27e)
• Society and Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century (AP 28)
• Demographic changes: surge of immigration after 1965, Sunbelt migration, and the graying of America (AP 28a)
• Revolutions in biotechnology, mass communication, and computers (AP 28b)
• Politics in a multicultural society (AP 28c)
• The United States in the Post–Cold War World (AP 29)
• Globalization and the American economy (AP 29a)
• Unilateralism vs . multilateralism in foreign policy (AP 29b)
• Domestic and foreign terrorism (AP 29c)
• Environmental issues in a global context (AP29d)
TEKS
• describe Richard M. Nixon's leadership in the normalization of relations with China and the policy of détente.
[10A]
• describe Ronald Reagan's leadership in domestic and international policies, including Reaganomics and Peace
Through Strength.[10B]
• compare the impact of energy on the American way of life over time.[10C]
• describe U.S. involvement in the Middle East such as support for Israel, the Camp David Accords, the
Iran-Contra Affair, Marines in Lebanon, and the Iran Hostage Crisis.[10D]
• describe the causes and key organizations and individuals of the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and
1990s, including Phyllis Schlafly, the Contract with America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the
National Rifle Association.[10E]
• describe significant societal issues of this time period.[10F]
• describe U.S. involvement in world affairs, including the end of the Cold War, the Persian Gulf War, the Balkans
Crisis, 9/11, and the global War on Terror.[11A]
• identify significant social and political advocacy organizations, leaders, and issues across the political spectrum.
[11B]
• evaluate efforts by global organizations to undermine U.S. sovereignty through the use of treaties.[11C]
• analyze the impact of third parties on presidential elections.[11D]
• discuss the historical significance of the 2008 presidential election.[11E]
• discuss the solvency of long-term entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.[11F]
• analyze the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from migration within the United
States, including western expansion, rural to urban, the Great Migration, and the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt.[13A]
• analyze the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from legal and illegal immigration to
the United States.[13B]
• identify the effects of population growth and distribution on the physical environment.[14A]
• identify the roles of governmental entities and private citizens in managing the environment such as the
establishment of the National Park System, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Endangered
Species Act.[14B]
• understand the effects of governmental actions on individuals, industries, and communities, including the impact
on Fifth Amendment property rights.[14C]
• discuss the role of American entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Sam Walton, Estée Lauder, Robert Johnson,
Lionel Sosa, and millions of small business entrepreneurs who achieved the American dream.[18A]
• identify the impact of international events, multinational corporations, government policies, and individuals on
the 21st century economy.[18B]
• evaluate the impact of New Deal legislation on the historical roles of state and federal government.[19A]
• explain constitutional issues raised by federal government policy changes during times of significant events,
including World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the 1960s, and 9/11.[19B]
• describe the effects of political scandals, including Teapot Dome, Watergate, and Bill Clinton's impeachment, on
the views of U.S. citizens concerning trust in the federal government and its leaders.[19C]
• discuss the role of contemporary government legislation in the private and public sectors such as the
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, and the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009.[19D]
• evaluate the pros and cons of U.S. participation in international organizations and treaties.[19E]
• describe the impact of events such as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the War Powers Act on the relationship
between the legislative and executive branches of government.[20A]
• evaluate the impact of relationships among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government,
including Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempt to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices and the
presidential election of 2000.[20B]
• evaluate constitutional change in terms of strict construction versus judicial interpretation.[21C]
• describe qualities of effective leadership.[24A]
• evaluate the contributions of significant political and social leaders in the United States such as Andrew
Carnegie, Thurgood Marshall, Billy Graham, Barry Goldwater, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Hillary Clinton.[24B]
• describe how the characteristics and issues in U.S. history have been reflected in various genres of art, music,
film, and literature.[25A]
• identify the impact of popular American culture on the rest of the world over time.[25C]
• analyze the global diffusion of American culture through the entertainment industry via various media.[25D]
• identify the political, social, and economic contributions of women such as Frances Willard, Jane Addams,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Dolores Huerta, Sonia Sotomayor, and Oprah Winfrey to American society.[26D]
• discuss the importance of congressional Medal of Honor recipients, including individuals of all races and
genders such as Vernon J. Baker, Alvin York, and Roy Benavidez.[26F]
• explain the effects of scientific discoveries and technological innovations such as electric power, telephone and
satellite communications, petroleum-based products, steel production, and computers on the economic
development of the United States.[27A]
• understand the impact of technological and management innovations and their applications in the workplace
and the resulting productivity enhancements for business and labor such as assembly line manufacturing,
time-study analysis, robotics, computer management, and just-in-time inventory management.[27C]
• understand how the free enterprise system drives technological innovation and its application in the marketplace
such as cell phones, inexpensive personal computers, and global positioning products.[28C]
Essential Questions
• In what ways did the 60’s upheaval help elect Nixon?
• How did Nixon’s foreign policy accomplishments life détente, become destroyed by his domestic failure,
Watergate?
&RQFHSWV7DXJKW$OO<HDU7KHVWXGHQWLVH[SHFWHGWR
TEKS
• identify the major characteristics that define an historical era.[2A]
• identify the major eras in U.S. history from 1877 to the present and describe their defining characteristics.[2B]
• apply absolute and relative chronology through the sequencing of significant individuals, events, and time
periods.[2C]
• explain the significance of the following years as turning points: 1898 (Spanish-American War), 1914-1918
(World War I), 1929 (the Great Depression begins), 1939-1945 (World War II), 1957 (Sputnik launch ignites U.S.
-Soviet space race), 1968-1969 (Martin Luther King Jr. assassination and U.S. lands on the moon), 1991 (Cold
War ends), 2001 (terrorist attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon), and 2008 (election of first black
president, Barack Obama).[2D]
• use a variety of both primary and secondary valid sources to acquire information and to analyze and answer
historical questions.[29A]
• analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing and
contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations, making predictions, drawing inferences,
and drawing conclusions.[29B]
• understand how historians interpret the past (historiography) and how their interpretations of history may change
over time.[29C]
• use the process of historical inquiry to research, interpret, and use multiple types of sources of evidence.[29D]
• evaluate the validity of a source based on language, corroboration with other sources, and information about the
author, including points of view, frames of reference, and historical context.[29E]
• identify bias in written, oral, and visual material.[29F]
• identify and support with historical evidence a point of view on a social studies issue or event.[29G]
• use appropriate skills to analyze and interpret social studies information such as maps, graphs, presentations,
speeches, lectures, and political cartoons.[29H]
• create written, oral, and visual presentations of social studies information.[30A]
• use correct social studies terminology to explain historical concepts.[30B]
• use different forms of media to convey information, including written to visual and statistical to written or visual,
using available computer software as appropriate.[30C]
• create thematic maps, graphs, and charts representing various aspects of the United States.[31A]
• pose and answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns shown on maps, graphs, charts, and
available databases.[31B]
• use a problem-solving process to identify a problem, gather information, list and consider options, consider
advantages and disadvantages, choose and implement a solution, and evaluate the effectiveness of the solution.
[32A]
• use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, identify
options, predict consequences, and take action to implement a decision.[32B]
.