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California History-Social Science Standards NHD-CA Topic
Possibilities - Grade Eleven
Students in grade eleven study the major turning points in American history in the twentieth century.
Following a review of the nation's beginnings and the impact of the Enlightenment on U.S. democratic
ideals, students build upon the tenth grade study of global industrialization to understand the emergence
and impact of new technology and a corporate economy, including the social and cultural effects. They
trace the change in the ethnic composition of American society; the movement toward equal rights for
racial minorities and women; and the role of the United States as a major world power. An emphasis is
placed on the expanding role of the federal government and federal courts as well as the continuing
tension between the individual and the state. Students consider the major social problems of our time and
trace their causes in historical events. They learn that the United States has served as a model for other
nations and that the rights and freedoms we enjoy are not accidents, but the results of a defined set of
political principles that are not always basic to citizens of other countries. Students understand that our
rights under the U.S. Constitution are a precious inheritance that depends on an educated citizenry for
their preservation and protection.
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The general topic possibilities
below provide a springboard
for teacher, parent, and
student thinking, and are not
intended to be exhaustive.
11.1 Students analyze the
significant events in the founding
of the nation and its attempts to
realize the philosophy of
government described in the
Declaration of Independence.
11.2 Students analyze the
relationship among the rise of
industrialization, large-scale
rural-to-urban migration, and
massive immigration from
Southern and Eastern Europe.
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Baruch Spinoza, Enlightenment Thinker
John Locke, Enlightenment Thinker
Pierre Bayle, Enlightenment Thinker
Isaac Newton and the Principia
Benjamin Franklin
Anthony Benezet
Constitutional Convention
1866 Congressional Elections
Radical Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
President Grant and the KKK
Panic of 1873
Democratic “Redeemers”
Reconstruction Programs of Freedmen, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags
“Eight Box” Law
Grandfather Clause
Poll Taxes and Disenfranchisement
Spanish-American War
Treaty of Paris
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Upton Sinclair: Author of The Jungle, Founder of the California
Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Politician, Founder of
Helicon Home Colony, Social Reformer
Aimee Semple McPherson: Founder of the International Church of the
Foursquare Gospel, Founder of the Angeles Temple, Evangelist,
Integrationist
Lincoln Steffens: Muckraker and Reformer
Jacob Riis: Social Reformer, Photographer of New York Slums,
Muckraking Journalist, Discoverer of Flash Photography
Ida Tarbell: The journalist who “took on” Standard Oil
Theodore Dreiser: Author, Socialist, Journalist, “Naturalist” Pioneer
Joseph Mayer Rice: American education reformer
Frank Norris and The Octopus
Mussel Slough: Farmers v. Southern Pacific Railroad
Americanization Movement
Indian Boarding Schools
Dawes Act of 1887
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 (Snyder Act)
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Phoenix Indian School
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
Treaty of New Echota
Code of Indian Offenses (1883)
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (U.S. Supreme Court case)
Talton v. Mayes (U.S. Supreme Court case)
Winters v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court case)
Cherokee Nation v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court case)
Panama Canal
Boxer Uprising
President McKinley and the Boxer Rebellion: Increasing the
president’s war powers
Industrial Revolution and the Malthusian Catastrophe
Francis Galton and Social Darwinism
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Child Labor
Hull House
J.H. Kellogg and the Race Betterment Foundation in Battle Creek,
Michigan
Eugenics and the American Breeders Association
Eugenic Marriage Criteria
Immigration Restriction League
William Jennings Bryan
Billy Sunday, Evangelical Christian
Dwight Moody and the Moody Church
Samuel Gompers
Anti-Trust Laws
John Dewey and Progressive Education
Clarence Birdseye and Frozen Food
1927: Year of the Model A
“Talkies”
The “Electronic Invasion”: Radio Unites the States
Children’s Bureau
Sixteenth Amendment
Hiram Johnson
Theodore Roosevelt
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11.3 Students analyze the role
religion played in the founding
of America, its lasting moral,
social, and political impacts, and
issues regarding religious
liberty.
11.4 Students trace the rise of
the United States to its role as a
world power in the twentieth
century.
11.5 Students analyze the major
political, social, economic,
technological, and cultural
developments of the 1920s.
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Fisk Jubilee Singers
Second Great Awakening
Second Vatican Council
Social Gospel Movement
Richard Ely
General Order No. 11 (Civil War)
Lynching of Leo Frank and the Founding of the Anti-Defamation
League
Johnson-Reed Act
Charles Coughlin and Social Justice
Silvershirt Legion of America
SS St. Louis
Open Door Policy
Spanish-American War
Panama Canal
William Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
Woodrow Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy”
Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Diplomacy
Warren Harding: Worst President in American History?
Calvin Coolidge: Anti-regulation President
Herbert Hoover and the Efficiency Movement
Luigi Galleani and the Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Hindu-German Conspiracy Trial
The Black Star Line
Marcus Garvey and the “Back to Africa” Movement
The Second Ku Klux Klan
Sacco and Vanzetti
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis: Defender of Freedom of
Speech and Right to Privacy
Schenck v. United States: Test of free speech
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: “Clear and Present
Danger”
Crystal Eastman: Co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
Roger Baldwin, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Scopes
Trial
Walter Nelles: Co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP): "To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic
equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial
discrimination".
Volstead Act
Wayne Wheeler and the Anti-Saloon League
Al Capone
Tom Dennison
Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Suffrage
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay
James Weldon Johnson
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Ridgeley Torrence
Hubert Harrison, The Liberty League, and The Voice
The Harlem Hellfighters AKA Black Rattlers
Roland Hayes
The Cotton Club
Duke Ellington
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11.6 Students analyze the
different explanations for the
Great Depression and how the
New Deal fundamentally
changed the role of the federal
government.
11.7 Students analyze America's
participation in World War II.
11.8 Students analyze the
economic boom and social
transformation of post-World
War II America.
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Establishment of the Federal Reserve
Herbert Hoover’s Attempts to Combat the Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Efforts to Combat the Great Depression
U.S. Soil Erosion Service
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
Farm Security Administration
California’s “Okie” Subculture
National Labor Relations Board
Social Security Act
Works Progress Administration
New Deal
Rockwell’s Four Freedoms
Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech
Tennessee Valley Authority
California Central Valley Project
Bonneville Dam
American Federation of Labor
United Farm Workers in California
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Ben Shahn, Photographer of the Great Depression
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Japanese Internment
Italian / German Internment
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway
Battle of Normandy
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of the Bulge
Tuskegee Airmen
The Berlin Airlift
Montford Point Marines
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Navajo code Talkers
Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech
Fred Korematsu v. United States of America
S.S. Saint Louis
Rosie the Riveter
Atomic Bomb
Wagner Rogers Bill
Roosevelt and the Creation of the War Refugee Board
Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Marshall Plan
Bracero Program
California Master Plan
Cold War
Great Depression
Chevy Corvette and the All Fiberglass Body
Polypropylene
Solar Power
Sputnik
Hydrogen Bomb
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Passenger Jets
Polio Vaccine
Transcontinental Television Service
Rock and Roll
Jackson Pollock
Willem de Kooning
Pop Art
Figurative Art
Andy Warhol
Military Industrial Complex and the Cold War
Moving to the Suburbs
Growth of the Sun Belt
Women’s Liberation Movement
Eisenhower & Interstate Highways
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11.9 Students analyze U.S.
foreign policy since World War
II.
11.10 Students analyze the
development of federal civil
rights and voting rights.
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United Nations
International Declaration of Human Rights
International Monetary Fund
World Bank
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
NATO
SEATO
Cold War
Mc Carthyism
Alger Hiss
Blacklisting
Truman Doctrine
The Berlin Blockade
The Korean War
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
“Mutual Assured Destruction” Doctrine
Vietnam War
Cambodian Genocide
U.S. Middle East Policy
Deposing Mohammed Mosaddegh
U.S. and the Suez Crisis
Camp David Accords
U.S. Iran Hostage Crisis
1954 Guatemalan Coup d’Etat
1973 Chilean Coup d’Etat
Iran-Contra Affair
Oliver North
Good Neighbor Policy
Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance
Embargo of Iran
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President Roosevelt Bans Racial Discrimination in Defense Industries
in 1941
Executive Order 9981: Truman ends military segregation
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Proposition 209
Mendez v. Westminster
A. Philip Randolph
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
James Armstrong
Thurgood Marshall
James Farmer
Rosa Parks
Little Rock Nine
1964 Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Emmett Till
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11.11 Students analyze the major
social problems and domestic
policy issues in contemporary
American society.
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Nat King Cole’s Racism Battle
Equal Rights Amendment
March on Birmingham
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Immigration Act of 1965
Watergate
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Americans with Disabilities Act
Glass Ceiling
Roe v. Wade
Title IX
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Head Start
Propostition 13
Robert LaFollette
Initiative, Referendum, Reform
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