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Competency Goal 1:
Objective 1.01:
The New Nation (1789-1820) - The learner will identify, investigate, and assess the
effectiveness of the institutions of the emerging republic.
Identify the major domestic issues and conflicts experienced by the nation during the Federalist
Period.
Major Concepts
Terms
Establishment of
Judiciary Act of 1789
Bill of Rights
federal power and
Hamilton’s Economic Plan
Whiskey Rebellion
supremacy over the
Democratic-Republican Party
Federalist Party
states
Election of 1800
“Midnight Judges”
Laissez-faire
Marbury v. Madison, (1803)
Development of the
first two-party
John Marshall
Louisiana Purchase
system
Alien & Sedition Acts
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
Strict & Loose
Hartford Convention (1814)
Interpretation of
Constitution
Objective 1.02:
Analyze the political freedoms available to the following groups prior to 1820: women, wage earners,
landless farmers, American Indians, African Americans, and other ethnic groups.
Terms
Major Concepts
Conflicts with American
Indians
The status of slavery during
The Federalist Era
The place of women in the
society during
The disparities between
classes in the new nation
Objective 1.03:
Suffrage requirements
Cotton Gin
“Necessary Evil”
Treaty of Greenville 1796
Tecumseh
Eli Whitney
Emancipation
Assess commercial and diplomatic relationships with Britain, France, and other nations
Major Concepts
Early Foreign Policy
The failure of peaceful
coercion
Freedom of the high seas
and shipping rights
The impact of European
events on United States
foreign policy
Terms
XYZ Affair
Convention of 1800
Impressment of seamen
Embargo Act 1807
President Washington’s
Proclamation Neutrality
President Washington’s Farewell Address
War Hawks
War of 1812
Battle of New Orleans
Treaty of Ghent
Adams-Onis Treaty
Jay’s Treaty
Pinckney’s Treaty
Competency Goal 2:
Expansion and Reform (1801-1850) - The learner will assess the competing forces of
expansionism.
Objective 2.01:
Analyze the effects of territorial expansion and the admission of new states to the Union 1801 to
1850.
Major Concepts
Terms
The rationale for and the
Missouri Compromise
The Indian Removal Act 1830
consequences of
Sequoyah
Worchester v. Georgia, 1832
Manifest Destiny
Trail of Tears
White man suffrage
Election of 1844
Federal Indian policy before The Alamo
Texas Annexation
“54-40 or Fight!”
The Civil War
Mexican War
Wilmot Proviso
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
49ers
The political and economic
Stephen Austin
Gadsden Purchase
importance of the West
Lewis and Clark
Oregon Trail
Objective 2.02:
Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art, literature, and
language.
Major Concepts
Cultural expressions of
patriotism
Celebrating the common man
and the American way of
life
Influence of the
Transcendentalist
Movement
Terms
Noah Webster
Henry David Thoreau
Washington Irving
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neoclassical Architecture
Edgar Allen Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
James Fennimore Cooper
Hudson River School of Artists
Alex de Tocqueville
Objective 2.03:
Distinguish between the economic and social issues that led to sectionalism and nationalism.
Major Concepts
Transformation of life in
the early industrial
revolution
Cultural polarization of
Antebellum America
Objective 2.04:
Concepts of “Jacksonian
Democracy”
States’ Rights
Era of Good Feelings
Eli Whitney
Cyrus McCormick
Erie Canal
1 st Industrial Revolution
Know-Nothings
Frederick Douglass
Assess political events, issues, and personalities that contributed to sectionalism and nationalism.
Major Concepts
Political agendas of
antebellum leaders
Slave Revolts
Terms
Samuel Morse
John Deere
Robert Fulton
Cotton Kingdom
Nativism
William Lloyd Garrison
Terms
Henry Clay
Panic of 1819
Election of 1824
Suffrage
Tariff of Abomination
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
American System
McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819
“corrupt bargain”
spoils system
South Carolina Nullification Crisis
Election of 1832
Pet Banks
Whig Party
Election of 1840
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Monroe Doctrine
Objective 2.05:
Identify the major reform movements and evaluate their effectiveness.
Major Concepts
Women’s Rights
Temperance Movement
Improvement of social
institutions (prisons,
mental health, education)
Development of Utopian
Communities
Objective 2.06:
Terms
Dorothea Dix
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention
Susan B. Anthony
Utopian Communities
 Brook Farm
 Oneida
 New Harmony
Rehabilitation
Prison Reform
Horace Mann
Lucretia Mott
Sojourner Truth
Evaluate the role of religion in the debate over slavery and other social movements and issues.
Major Concepts
Second Great Awakening
Moral Dilemma of Slavery
The Abolitionist Movement
Terms
William Lloyd Garrison
David Walker
Charles G. Finney
Grimke Sisters
Frederick Douglass
Competency Goal 3:
Crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction (1848-1877) - The learner will analyze the issues that led
to the Civil War, the effects of the war, and the impact of Reconstruction on the nation.
Objective 3.01:
Trace the economic, social, and political events from the Mexican War to the outbreak of the Civil
War.
Major Concepts
The debate on the
expansion of Slavery
Weak Presidential
Leadership
Growing Sectionalism
Rise of the Republican Party
Objective 3.02:
Major Concepts
The role of slavery
Terms
Anti-slavery movement
Underground Railroad
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party
Summer-Brooks Incident
Slave codes
Harriet Tubman
Bleeding Kansas
Popular Sovereignty
Freeport Doctrine
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Compromise of 1850
Free Soil Party
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
John Brown and Harper’s Ferry
Fugitive Slave Act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Analyze and assess the causes of the Civil War.
Terms
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Economics and expansion of
Fugitive Slave Law
the geographic regions
Election of 1860
Secession
th
Interpretations of the 10
Fort Sumter, S.C.
Amendment
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Immediate causes of the
Confederation
war
Objective 3.03:
Identify political and military turning points of the Civil War and assess their significance to the
outcome of the conflict.
Major Concepts
Terms
Key turning points of the
First Battle of Bull Run/ Manassas
John Wilkes Booth
war
Antietam
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
New military technology
Writ of Habeas Corpus
Election of 1864
Strategies of both sides
William Sherman’s March
Anaconda Plan
Major political and military
Copperheads
Emancipation Proclamation
leaders
African-American participation
Appomattox Court House
European support
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Executive Powers
George McClellan
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Resistance to the war
effort
Objective 3.04:
Analyze the political, economic, and social impact of Reconstruction on the nation and identify the
reasons why Reconstruction came to an end.
Major Concepts
Effects of Military
occupation
Limits on presidential and
congressional power
Development of a new labor
system
Reconstruction: resistance
and decline
Enfranchisement and Civil
Rights
Reorganization of southern
social, economic, and
political systems
Terms
Freedman’s Bureau
Reconstruction plans
Andrew Johnson
Tenure of Office Act
Scalawags
Black Codes
Sharecroppers
Jim Crow laws
Solid South
Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Compromise of 1877
Johnson’s impeachment
Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
Tenant farmers
The Whiskey Ring
Objective 3.05:
Evaluate the degree to which the Civil War and Reconstruction proved to be a test of the supremacy
of the national government.
Major Concepts
Supremacy of The federal
government
The question of secession
Dwindling support for civil
rights
Terms
Military reconstruction
14th amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Compromise of 1877 (repeat)
13th amendment
15th amendment
Election of 1876
Competency Goal 4:
The Great West and the Rise of the Debtor (1860-1896) - The learner will evaluate the great
westward movement and assess the impact of the agricultural revolution on the nation.
Objective 4.01:
Compare and contrast the different groups of peoples who migrated to the West and describe the
problems they experienced.
Major Concepts
Challenges of Westward
Movement
Motivation for Westward
Movement
Objective 4.02:
Terms
Joseph Smith
Mormons
Roles of women
Roles of Chinese
Comstock Lode
Sod houses
Brigham Young
Homestead Act
Roles of African Americans
Roles of Irish
Morrill Land Grant Act 1862
Oklahoma Land Rush
Evaluate the impact that settlement in the West had upon different groups of people and the
environment.
Terms
Dawes Severalty Act
Chief Joseph
Major Concepts
Impact of the
Transcontinental
Railroad
Development of cattle,
ranching, and mining
industries
Mexican influence on the
West
Western Movement Impact
on Indians:
Destruction of:
Buffalo
Reservation
System
Cattle drives
Indian wars
Nez Perce
Battle of Little Big Horn
Sand Creek Massacre
Helen Hunt Jackson’s
Buffalo Soldiers
Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese immigrants
Wounded Knee
Century of Dishonor
Promontory Point, Utah
Irish immigrants
Objective 4.03:
Describe the causes and effects of the financial difficulties that plagued the American farmer and
trace the rise and decline of Populism.
Major Concepts
Terms
Rise and fall of Populism
The Grange
National Farmer Alliances
Impact of laws and court
Southern Alliance
Colored Farmers Alliance
cases on the farmer
Omaha Platform
Interstate Commerce Act
Growing discontent of the
Rebates
William Jennings Bryan
farmer
“Cross of Gold Speech”
Greenbacks
Gold Standard vs.
Bimetallism
Objective 4.04:
Describe innovations in agricultural technology and business practices and assess their impact on the
West.
Major Concepts
Terms
Technological
Barbed wire
Refrigerator car
improvements on
Windmill
Farmer’s Cooperatives
farming
Steel Plow
Vertical/horizontal integration
Changing nature of farming Interlocking directorates
as a business
Increased dependence on
the railroads
Competency Goal 5: Becoming an Industrial Society (1877-1900) - The learner will describe innovations in technology
and business practices and assess their impact on economic, political, and social life in America.
Objective 5.01:
Evaluate the influence of immigration and rapid industrialization on urban life.
Major Concepts
Terms
Urban Issues
Elevator
Electric trolleys
 Housing
Jacob Riis
Ellis Island
 Sanitation
Culture shock
Settlement houses
 Transportation
Jane Addams
Dumbbell tenements
Chinese Exclusion Act Telephone
The rise of ethnic
Alexander Graham Bell
neighborhoods
Thomas Edison
Typewriter
Sweatshops
Amusement parks
Spectator sports
Frederick Olmstead
New forms of leisure
Cultural pluralism
Urbanization
Nativism
Melting pot
Objective 5.02:
Explain how business and industrial leaders accumulated wealth and wielded political and economic
power.
Major Concepts
Terms
Emergence of new
Bessemer Process
Andrew Carnegie
industries: Railroads
John Rockefeller
J. P. Morgan
Steel
Oil
Vanderbilt family
Edwin Drake
Changes in the ways
Standard Oil Company
U. S. Steel
businesses formed and
George Westinghouse
Gospel of Wealth
consolidated power
Horatio Alger
Social Darwinism
Influence of business
Trust
Monopoly
leaders as “captains of
Gilded Age
industry” or as “robber
barons”
Relationship of big business
to the government
Influence of Darwinism,
Social Darwinism and the
Gospel of Wealth
Objective 5.03:
Assess the impact of labor unions on industry and the lives of workers.
Major Concepts
Formation of labor unions
Types of unions
Tactics used by labor
unions
Opposition to labor unions
Objective 5.04:
Terms
Working conditions
Child labor
Trade unions
Haymarket Riot
Samuel Gompers
Strike
Mediation
Arbitration
Closed shop
The Great Strike (1877)
Homestead Strike
Wages
Craft unions
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Eugene Debs
Negotiation
Collective bargaining
Yellow-dog contract
Sherman Antitrust Act
Pullman Strike
Describe the changing role of government in economic and political affairs.
Major Concepts
Impact of law and court
decisions
“Laissez-Faire” government
policies
Operation of political
machines
Patronage vs. the civil
service system
Impact of corruption and
scandal in the government
The Election of 1896 (see
also Goal 4.03)
Terms
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Political machines
Tammany Hall
Credit Mobilier scandal
Whiskey Ring scandal
Secret ballot (Australian)
Referendum
Mugwumps
Pendleton Act
Boss Tweed
Thomas Nast
Graft
Populism
Initiative
Recall
Competency Goal 6:
The emergence of the United States in World Affairs (1890-1914) – The learner will analyze
causes and effects of the United States emergence as a world power.
Objective 6.01:
Examine the factors that led to the United States taking an increasingly active role in world affairs.
Major Concepts
Terms
Global and military
Alfred T. Mahan
Josiah Strong
competition
Frederick Jackson Turner
Imperialism
Increased demands for
Spheres of influence
resources and markets
Closing of the Frontier
Exploitation of nations,
peoples, and resources
Objective 6.02:
Identify the areas of the United States military, economic, and political involvement and influence.
Major Concepts
Causes and conduct of the
Spanish-American War
United States
Interventions in
Hawaii
Latin America
Caribbean
Asia/Pacific
Objective 6.03:
Terms
Queen Liliuokalani
Treaty of Paris 1898
“Splendid Little War”
Philippines
Theodore Roosevelt
William Randolph Hearst
USS Maine
Pancho Villa Raids
Seward’s Folly
Platt Amendment
Social Darwinism
Commodore George Dewey
Rough Riders
Joseph Pulitzer
Panama Canal
Describe how the policies and actions of the United States government impacted the affairs of
other countries.
Major Concepts
Terms
Intervention vs. Isolation
“Jingoism”
Dollar Diplomacy
Support for and opposition
Platt Amendment
Roosevelt Corollary
to United States
Anti-Imperialism League
Missionary (Moral) Diplomacy
economic intervention
Boxer Rebellion
Open Door Policy
Annexation of Hawaii
Perception of the United
Annexation of Hawaii
States as a world power
Competency Goal 7:
Objective 7.01:
The Progressive Movement in the United States (1890-1914) – The learner will analyze the
economic, political, and social reforms of the Progressive Period.
Explain the conditions that led to the rise of Progressivism.
Major Concepts
Corruption and
ineffectiveness of
government
Immigration and urban poor
Working conditions
Emergence of Social Gospel
Unequal distribution of
wealth
Objective 7.02:
Terms
Muckraking
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Urban slums
Analyze how different groups of Americans made economic and political gains in the Progressive
Period.
Major Concepts
Terms
The roles of the
Jane Addams/Hull House
16th Amendment
Progressive presidents:
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
Roosevelt
(Volstead Act)
19th Amendment
Taft
Carrie A. Nation
Anthracite Coal Strike
Sherman Anti-Trust Act North
Northern Securities v U.S., 1904
Wilson
American
Tobacco
v
U.S.,
1911
US v EC Kight &Co, 1895
The growing power of the
electorate
Payne Aldrich Tariff, 1909
Mann Elkins Act
The changing roles and
Robert LaFollette
Election of 1912
influence of women
Progressive/Bull Moose Party
Federal Reserve Act
The impact of political and
economic changes on the
working class
The changing nature of
state and local
governments
Objective 7.03:
Major Concepts
Disenfranchisement
Evaluate the effects of racial segregation on different regions and segments of the United States’
society.
Terms
Plessey v Ferguson, 1896
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Dubois
Ida Wells Barnett
African-American
Great Migration
Niagara Movement
responses to Jim Crow
Atlanta Compromise Speech
The NAACP
Nationwide lynching
Disenfranchisement
Segregated Society
Literacy test
Poll taxes
Grandfather clauses
Objective 7.04:
Examine the impact of technological changes on economic, social, and cultural life in the United
States.
Major Concepts
Terms
Industrial innovations
Wright brothers
Movie Camera
Coca Cola
Emergence of advertising
Ford’s Innovations:
and consumerism
$5 day
Assembly line
Model T
Workers as consumers
Electricity
Mail order catalogs
Skyscrapers
Kodak cameras
Airline service
Sewing machine
Competency Goal 8:The Great War and Its Aftermath (1914-1930) - The learner will analyze United States involvement in World
War I and the war’s influence on international affairs during the 1920s.
Objective 8.01:
Examine the reasons why the United States remained neutral at the beginning of World War I, but later became invo
Major Concepts
Terms
Causes of World War I in
Nationalism
Militarism
Europe
Alliances
Archduke Francis Ferdinhand
U-Boat submarine warfare
Serbia
Use of and effects of
Allies
Central Powers
propaganda
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Contraband
Zimmerman Telegram
Lusitania
U. S. anti-war Sentiment
Mobilization
Election of 1916
Woodrow Wilson
Isolationists
Reasons for U. S. entry into Selective Service Act
Jeanette Rankin
The Great War
“Make the world safe for democracy”
Idealism
(The first 13 terms should have been introduced in World History and are reviewed here.)
Objective 8.02:
Identify political and military turning points of the war and determine their significance to the outcome of
the conflict.
Major Concepts
Terms
The importance of United
John J. Pershing
American Expeditionary Force
States involvement in
Trench warfare
“No Man’s Land”
World War I
Mustard gas
Doughboys
Modernization of warfare
Armistice
Fourteen Points (1-5, 14)
The changing nature of
“The Big Four”
“Peace without victory”
United States foreign
Russian and Bolshevik Revolutions
Treaty of Versailles
policy
League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
th
Key factors in the Allies’
17 Amendment
18th Amendment
success
19th Amendment
Failure of the United
(Repeats on amendments)
States to ratify the
(again, review of key
Treaty of Versailles
world history events)
Objective 8.03:
Major Concepts
Assess the political, economic, social and cultural effects of the war on the United States and other nations.
Terms
Adjustment from wartime
to a peacetime economy
Government bureaucracy in
the United States
Anti-immigration sentiment
and the first Red Scare
Restrictions on civil
liberties during wartime
Political changes in Europe
and the near East
Impact of isolationism on
American foreign policy
Competency Goal 9:
Objective 9.01:
Industrial workers of the World
Self-determination
Committee on Public Information/George Creel Food Administration/
Herbert Hoover
War Industries Board/Bernard Baruch
Ku Klux Plan
Palmer/Palmer Raids
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Eugene V. Debs
Schenck v United States, 1919
Sacco and Vanzetti
John L. Lewis (United Mine Workers)
Washington Naval Conference
Dawes Plan
Prosperity and Depression (1919-1939) - The learner will appraise the economic, social, and political chang
of the decades of “The Twenties” and “The Thirties”.
Elaborate on the cycle of economic boom and bust in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
Major Concepts
The impact of presidential
policies on economic
activity (Harding,
Coolidge, Hoover, and
Roosevelt)
Rise and/or decline of
major industries in the
United States
Factors leading to the
stock market crash and
the onset of the Great
Depression
Terms
“Return to Normalcy”
laissez-faire
Teapot Dome scandal
Albert Fall
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Speculation
Buying on the margin
Mechanization
“Black Tuesday”
Rugged individualism
Direct relief
Objective 9.02:
Analyze the extent of prosperity for different segments of society during this period.
Major Concepts
Terms
Consumer spending
Easy credit
habit and trends
Installment plan
Difficulties of farmers
Overproduction
Response to Prosperity: Hoovervilles
the stock market
Soup kitchens
crash, Dust Bowl,
Breadlines
Bonus Army march
and bank failures on
various groups of the
population
Objective 9.03:
Analyze the significance of social, intellectual and technological changes of lifestyle in the United States.
Major Concepts
Terms
The impact of mass
Radio
Market/advertising
media
Jazz
Silent and “talkies” films
Public response to the
“The Jazz Singer”
Lost Generation
Great Depression
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
The Harlem Renaissance F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Prohibition
Sinclair Lewis
Speakeasies
Leisure time and
Bootleggers
Babe Ruth
spectator sports
Charles Lindbergh
Automobiles
FDR’s “Fireside Chats”
Objective 9.04:
Major Concepts
The “Back to Africa”
movement and PanAfricanism
The Fundamentalist
versus Freethinking
movement
Religion in politics
The changing role of
women
Describe challenges to traditional practices in religion, race, and gender.
Terms
Zora Neal Hurston
United Negro Improvement Association
Fundamentalism
Aimee Semple McPherson
Margaret Sanger
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. Dubois (repeat)
Scopes Trial
Billy Sunday
Objective 9.05:
Assess the impact of the New Deal reforms in enlarging the role of the federal government in American life.
Major Concepts
Terms
Responses to the New
Deficit spending
Deal program
Social Security
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The Three R’s (Relief,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Recovery, Reform)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Expansion of the role
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
of federal
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
government
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
Fair Labor Standards Act
Father Charles Coughlin
Huey P. Long
Frances Perkins
Competency Goal 10:
Objective 10.01:
Major Concepts
Appeasement
Isolationism
Reparations
Totalitarianism
Governments
Treaty of Versailles
Worldwide depression
Objective 10.2:
Major Concepts
The United States at
war
The influence of
propaganda at home
and abroad
Designs for peace
World War II and the Beginning of the Cold War (1930-1963) - The learner will analyze the United Stat
involvement in World War II and the war’s influence on international affairs in the following decades.
Identify military, political, and diplomatic turning points of the war and determine their significance to the outco
and aftermath of the conflict.
Terms
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Emperor Hirohito
Winston Churchill
Fascism
Joseph Stalin
Munich Pact
Third Reich
Four Freedoms
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Lend-Lease Act
Neutrality Acts
Non-Aggression Pact
Pearl Harbor
Quarantine Speech
(The terms in the top of the column are review from World History)
Identify military, political, and diplomatic turning points of the war and determine their significance to
the outcome and aftermath of the conflict.
Terms
Atomic bomb
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Bulge
Blitzkrieg
Chester Nimitz
D-Day (Operation Overlord)
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Holocaust
Newsreels
Pamphlets
Airdrops
War posters
Iwo Jima
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Manhattan Project
Midway
Island hopping
Nuremberg Trials
Okinawa
Pearl Harbor
Stalingrad
Tehran
V-E Day, V-J Day
Casablanca, Potsdam
Objective 10.3:
Major Concepts
The Homefront
Suspension of Civil
Liberties
Suburbanization
Transition to
Peacetime
Objective 10.04:
Major Concepts
U. S. Military
Intervention
Containment
The Cold War
The Domino Theory
Describe and analyze the effects of the war on American economic, social, political, and cultural
life.
Terms
War bonds
Fair Deal
Korematsu v United States 1944
Northern Migration
Rosie the Riveter
AFL-CIO
WACS
Japanese Internment Sites
Japanese Internment Rationing
Baby boomers
G.I. Bill
Levittown
Middle class
Selective Services Act
Taft-Hartley Act
War Production Board
Japanese American Museum
Elaborate on changes in the direction of foreign policy related to the beginnings of the Cold War.
Terms
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Eisenhower Doctrine
Geneva Accords
Iron Curtain
Test Ban Treaty
Israel
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Airlift
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Douglas MacArthur
Fidel Castro
Hydrogen Bomb
Police Action
Chinese Civil War
Korean War
Nikita Khrushchev
U-2 Incident
Objective 10.05:
Major Concepts
Balance of Power
Organizations for
peace
Competency Goal 11:
Objective 11.01:
Major Concepts
Effects of Cold War
On America’s Home
life
Domino Theory and
geopolitics
McCarthyism
Spread of Suburbia
Effects of Nixon’s
visits to China and
Moscow
Carter’s Human Rights
Foreign policy and
the collapse of
detente
The Military
Industrial Complex
Assess the role of organizations established to maintain peace and examine their continuing
effectiveness.
Terms
Alliance for Progress
N.A.T.O.
O.A.S.
S.E.A.T.O.
Security Council
United Nations
Warsaw Pact
Recovery, Prosperity, and Turmoil (1945-1980) –The learner will trace economic, political,
and social developments and assess their significance for the lives of Americans during this
time period.
Describe the effects of the Cold War on economic, political, and social life in America.
Terms
“Duck and cover”
Fallout Shelters
National Security Act, 1947
House on Un-American
Activities Committee
Alger Hiss
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Hollywood Blacklist
The National Highway Act
Selective Service System
New Left
Détente
S.A.L.T. I and II
Objective 11.02:
Major Concepts
The Civil Rights
Movement
 De jure and
 De facto
Segregation
 Affirmative
Action
 Turning points
Changes in state and
federal
Legislation
Executive actions
 Harry S.
Truman
 Dwight D.
 Eisenhower
 John F. Kennedy
 Lyndon Johnson
Trace major events of the Civil Rights Movement and evaluate its impact.
Terms
Montgomery bus boycotts
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Black Panthers
Black Power Movement
Stokley Carmichael
C.O.R.E.
S.N.C.C.
March on Washington
James Meredith
Little Rock Nine
George Wallace
Brown v Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, 1954
Thurgood Marshall
24th amendment
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Earl Warren
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Objective 11.03:
Major Concepts
Cultural Movements
 Feminists
 Indian
 Latino
Labor Movements
Environmental
Movements
Social Movements
 Pop Culture
 Counter Culture
Socio-economic
Status: Jobs:
 White collar
 Blue collar
Pink collar
Objective 11.04:
Major Concepts
Significance of the
domino theory
U. S. Involvement in
Vietnam:Eisenhower,Kenne
dy, Johnson,
Nixon, Ford
Vietnam’s effect on
U. S. politics and
society
Vietnamization
Role of the media
Identify major social movements including, but not limited to, those involving women, young people, and
the environment, and evaluate the impact of these movements in the United States’ society.
Terms
Women’s Liberation
National Organization for Women
Gloria Steinem
Phyllis Schafly
The Feminine Mystique
Equal Rights Amendment
Roe v. Wade, 1973
British Invasion-Beatles
Elvis Presley
Haight-Ashbury
Woodstock
Cesar Chavez
American Indian Movement
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Environmental Protection Agency
Betty Friedan
Identify the causes of the United States’ involvement in Vietnam and examine how this involvement
affected society.
Terms
Tet Offensive
Robert McNamara
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
War Powers Act 1973
Ho Chi Minh
My Lai Incident
Agent Orange
Napalm
Vietcong
Pentagon Papers
26th Amendment
General William Westmoreland
Kent State
Cambodia/Laos
Fall of Saigon, 1975
Paris Peace Accords
Operation Rolling Thunder
Objective 11.05:
Major Concepts
The Impact of the
Space Race on
education
Technological Changes:
 Mass media
 Communication
 Military
 Science
 Medicine
 Electronics
 Data storage
 Transportation
 Energy
Connection of
population shifts to
technological
changes in society
Objective 11.06:
Major Concepts
Actions and reactions
to political
platforms:
Voter Apathy
1968
Watergate Scandal
Changing relationship
of the federal
government
Urban renewal
programs
Examine the impact of technological innovations that have impacted American life.
Terms
Radio in 1950’s
Sputnik
NASA
National Defense Education Act
Space Programs
Neil Armstrong
John Glenn
Computers
Calculators
Silicon Valley
ICBMs
Hydrogen bombs
Color television
Microwave technology
Nuclear power
Commercial jet travel
Identify political events and the actions and reactions of the government official and citizens, and
assess the social and political consequences.
Terms
HUD
Head Start
VISTA
Medicare
Peace Corps
National Endowment for the Humanities
New York Times v U.S. 1971
United States v Nixon 1974
Sam Ervin/Senate Watergate Committee
John Dean
Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein
Democratic National Convention 1968 25th Amendment
Students for a Democratic Society (SD
Competency Goal 12:
Objective 12.01:
The United States since the Vietnam War (1973-present) – The learner will identify and analyze trends
in domestic and foreign affairs of the United States during this time period.
Summarize significant events in foreign policy since the Vietnam War.
Major Concepts
Problems in the Third
World
Modern-day genocide
AIDS and Pandemics
Politics of Oil
Rise of Religious and
Political Radicalism
Collapse of Communism
European Union
Changing roles of
International
Organizations
Terms
Yasser Arafat-Palestine Nationalism (PLO)
Yom Kipper War
Anwar el-Sadat
Shah of Iran
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Famine/Somalia and Ethiopia
Apartheid
Helsinki Accords
Iran-Contra Affair
Mikhail Gorbachev
Persian Gulf Wars
Tiananmen Square
Objective 12.02:
Evaluate the impact of recent constitutional amendments, court rulings, and federal legislation on United
States’ citizens.
Terms
Sandra Day O’Connor
Clarence Thomas
Microsoft
27th Amendment
Flag burning
Americans with Disabilities Act
Political Action Committees
Geraldine Ferraro
Title IX
Texas v Johnson
Major Concepts
Role of lobbyists and
special interest
groups
The Supreme Court:
 Minority rights
 Privacy rights
 Conservative
judges
Swan v Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools
William Rehnquist
U.S. invasion of Lebanon
Camp David Accords
Menachem Begin
Ayatollah Khomeini
Jimmy Carter
Foreign debt
Nelson Mandela
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
INF Treaty
Saddam Hussein
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Objective 12.03:
Major Concepts
Recession: Economic
Boom and Bust
Benefits and conflicts
of continued
globalization
Conservation Measures
Impact of economics
on:
- Lifestyle
- Stock market
- Job market
Impact of technology
on way of life
Changes from
industrial economy
to service economy
Objective 12.04:
Major Concepts
Changing Society
Social
Political
Cultural
Demographic
Presidential Troubles
Major Issues
Health Care
Welfare reform
Medicare
AIDS
Identify and assess the impact of economic, technological, and environmental changes in the United
States.
Terms
WIN (Ford)
Stagflation
NAFTA
Department of Energy
Airline deregulation
Three Mile Island
Energy Crisis
National Energy Act
Solar Energy
Computer revolution
Bill Gates
Food stamps
“Trickle-down” theory
Supply-Side economics
Internet
National debt
NASDAQ, 1990’s
Challenger disaster
Identify and assess the impact of social, political, and cultural changes in the United States.
Terms
Presidential pardon
1976 election
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Amnesty
Elections of 1980-2000
New Right Coalition
New Federalism
Graying of America
New Democrat
Ross Perot
Bill Clinton
Al Gore
Joe Lieberman
John McCain
Newt Gingrich
Immigration Policy Act
Republican Election of 2000
Objective 12.05:
Major Concepts
Growing Cultural
Diversity in the
United States
Questions of Race
Population Changes and
new demographics
Objective 12.06:
Major Concepts
Restrictions on Civil
Liberties
The challenge t o the
American Spirit
The U. S. government’s
policy toward
terrorism
Impact of terrorist
threats on U. S.
foreign policy
Assess the impact of growing racial and ethnic diversity in American society.
Terms
Regents of UC v Bakke 1978
Reverse discrimination
Affirmative action
Minorities in politics
Multiculturalism
Green Card
Nativist
Bilingual education
ESEA-No Child Left Behind
Assess the impact of twenty-first century terrorist activity on American society.
Terms
Patriot Act
September 11, 2001
Colin Powell
Taliban Regime
George W. Bush
War on Iraq
Department of Homeland Security
Airport security
“Axis of Evil”
Embassy bombings
Al-Quaeda
Osama bin Laden
Terrorist network
World Trade Center
Afghanistan
Nuclear proliferation
Pre-emptive strikes