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U.S. History II: 11th Grade Curriculum Map
Core Standards/Objectives
Enduring Understanding
Enduring Understanding: America’s early history directs
the nation’s course in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Note: The first standard of the U.S. History II core is designed to apply 8th 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 8th grade curriculum; instead, emphasis should be
placed on Reconstruction to present day.
1st Quarter
The complete battery of U.S. History I, 8th 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.
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Skills
-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
Concepts/Content
Vocabulary
-colonization
-separation of powers
-balance of power
-elastic clause
-John Locke
-federalism
-Representative Democracy
-state’s rights
-slavery
-representation
-civil war
-reconstruction
-Manifest Destiny
Suggested Assessments and Learning Activities
Pre-assess students’ background knowledge of exploration through expansion using the full battery of 8th 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.
Teaching & Learning Department, 2009
Essential Questions
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 19th
century?
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1st Quarter
Core Standards/Objectives
Enduring Understanding
Enduring Understanding: 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 19th and
early 20th 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.
Skills
-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
Concepts/Content
Vocabulary
-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
Suggested Assessments and Learning Strategies
Teaching & Learning Department, 2009
Essential Questions
1.
What impact do improvements and
innovations have on a society?
2. How did improvements and
innovations transform the
American economy in the late 19th
and early 20th 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?
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Core Standards/Objectives
Enduring Understanding
Enduring Understanding: United States industrialization
was a catalyst for social reform at the turn of the 20th
century.
2nd Quarter
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.
Skills
-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.
Concepts/Content
Vocabulary
-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
Suggested Assessments and Learning Activities
Teaching & Learning Department, 2009
Essential Questions
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
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Core Standards/Objectives
Enduring Understanding
Enduring Understanding: Imperialism was a major factor
in early 20th century conflict.
2nd Quarter
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.
Skills
-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.
Concepts/Content
Vocabulary
-Yellow Journalism
-Big Stick Policy
-militarism
-nationalism
-imperialism
-isolationism
-neutrality
-League of Nations
Suggested Assessments and Learning Activities
Teaching & Learning Department, 2009
Essential Questions
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 20th
century?
4. How did World War I impact the
United States?
5. In what ways does imperialism
continue to influence global
interactions?
Learning Extensions
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3rd Quarter
Core Standards/Objectives
Enduring Understanding
Enduring Understanding: 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 20th 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.
Skills
--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
Concepts/Content
Concepts/Content
Vocabulary
-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
Suggested Assessments and Learning Activities
Teaching & Learning Department, 2009
Essential Questions
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?
Learning Extensions
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Core Standards/Objectives
Enduring Understanding
Enduring Understanding: The causes, course and
consequences of World War II were altered by the United
States’ role in the conflict.
3rd Quarter
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.
Skills
Concepts/Content
Vocabulary
-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
Suggested Assessments and Learning Activities
Teaching & Learning Department, 2009
Essential Questions
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?
Learning Extensions
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Core Standards/Objectives
Enduring Understanding
Enduring Understanding: The Cold War Era redefined the
United States’ domestic and international positions.
4th Quarter
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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.
Teaching & Learning Department, 2009
Skills
Concepts/Content
Vocabulary
-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
Essential Questions
1.
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3.
4.
5.
How did U.S. and Soviet postwar
policies cause the Cold War?
Why did Cold War ideology draw
the U.S. into conflict in Asia?
What were the United States’
political, social and economic
reactions to the Cold War?
How were U.S. politics changed by
the end of the Cold War?
How did the end of the Cold War
alter the United States’ role in the
world?
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business and globalization
-examine the goals, success,
and failures of “Reagan
Revolution”
-analyze the impact of
international terrorism on the
United States
Suggested Assessments and Learning Activities
Teaching & Learning Department, 2009
Learning Extensions
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4th Quarter
Core Standards/Objectives
Standards/Objectives
Enduring Understanding
Enduring Understanding: 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 20th
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.
Skills
-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 antiVietnam 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
Concepts/Content
Vocabulary
-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
-21st Century Civil Rights
Suggested Assessments and Learning Activities
Teaching & Learning Department, 2009
Essential Questions
1.
2.
3.
How can protest cause change?
What are the causes and
consequences of civil rights
legislation and court decisions?
Why does full participation in
American society continue to elude
some citizens?
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