Download Competency Goal 1: The New Nation (1789-1820)

Competency Goal 1: The New Nation (1789-1820) – How effective were the
institutions established in the United States as they dealt with emerging political and
diplomatic issues?
Objectives
1.01: What were the major domestic issues and conflicts experienced by the nation
during the Federalist Period?
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The establishment of federal power and supremacy over the states.
 Rulings of Marshall Court, i.e. Marbury v. Madison
 Judicial review
 Whiskey Rebellion
The development of a two-party system
 Democratic-Republican Party (Jefferson)
 Federalist Party (Hamilton, Washington)
Strict and loose interpretation of the Constitution
 Hamilton vs. Jefferson
 Establishment of a national bank
 Alien and Sedition Acts
 Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions: nullification
 Louisiana Purchase
1.02: What political freedoms were available to the following groups prior to 1820:
women, wage earners, landless farmers, American Indians, African Americans, and
other ethnic groups?
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Voting rights of different groups
 Eligibility requirements of voting
Status of African Americans
 Citizens?
 Some free, some slave
Status of American Indians
 Citizens?
 Conflicting belief systems
Status of women
 What is their place in society?
1.03: What were the commercial and diplomatic relationships with Britain, France,
and other nations?
Major concepts:
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Early foreign policy
 U.S. opposition/support for French Revolution
 Pinckney’s Treaty: opens Mississippi River valley
 Jay’s Treaty: opens Ohio River valley
 Washington’s Farewell Address: no permanent alliances
 Britain and France seize U.S. ships
 British impressments of American sailors
 War of 1812: Britain vs. United States
 Turning point: Jackson @ New Orleans
 Treaty of Ghent ends war
Competency Goal 2: Expansion Reform (1801-1850)- The learner will assess the
competing forces of expansionism.
Objectives
2.01 Analyze the effects of territorial expansion and the admission of new states to the
Union 1801 to 1850.
Major Concepts:
 The rationale for and the consequence of Manifest Destiny
 Lewis and Clark
 Missouri Compromise
 The Alamo
 Texas Annexation
 Federal Indian policy before the Civil War
 The Indian Removal Act
 Worchester v. Georgia
 Trail of Tears
 The Political and Economic importance of the West
 “54-40 or Fight!”
 Wilmot Provisio
 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
 Election of 1844
2.02 Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art,
literature, and language.
 Cultural expressions of patriotism
 Hudson River School of Artists
 Neoclassical Architecture
 Celebrating the common man and the American way of life
 Washington Irving
 Noah Webster
 Nathaniel Hawthorne
 Influence of the Transcendentalist Movement
 Ralph Waldo Emmerson
 Henry David Thoreau
 Edgar Allen Poe
2.03 Distinguish between the economic and social issues that led to sectionalism and
nationalism.
 Transformation of life in the early industrial revolution
o Eli Whitney
o John Deere
o Robert Fulton
o Erie Canal
o 1st industrial revolution
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Cultural Polarization of Antebellum America
o Natives
o Know-Nothings
o Frederick Douglas
o William Lloyd Garrison
2.04 Asses political events, issues, and personalities that contributed to sectionalism and
nationalism.
 Political agendas of antebellum leaders
o Tariff of Abomination
o Election of 1840
 Concepts of Jackson Ian Democracy
o Election of 1824
o Spoils System
o Pet Banks
o Whig Party
 Slave Revolts
o Nat Turner’s rebellion
o John Brown
 States’ Rights
o South Carolina Exposition and Protest
o South Carolina Nullification Crisis
o John Calhoun
 Era of Good Feelings
o McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819
o American System
o Monroe Doctrine
2.05 Identify the major reform movements and evaluate their effectiveness.
 Women’s Rights
o Susan B. Anthony
o Seneca Falls Convention
o Elizabeth Cady Stanton
 Improvement of social institutions
o Utopian communities
 Brook Farm
 Oneida
 New Harmony
o Rehabilitation
o Prison reform
o Dorteha Dix
2.06 Evaluate the role of religion in the debate over slavery and other social issues.
 Second Great Awakening
o What led to the revival?
 Moral Dilemma of Slavery/ Abolitionist Movement
o William Lloyd Garrison, David Walker, Frederick Douglas
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Competency Goal 3: Crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction- What issues led to the Civil
War? What were the effects of the war? What impact did the Reconstruction period
have on the nation?
Objectives
3.01 What were the major economic, social and political events from the Mexican
American War to the outbreak of the Civil War?
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The debate over the expansion of slavery into the new territories.
 Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act
 Popular Sovereignty
 Lincoln Douglas Debates
 Fugitive Slave Act
Growing sectionalism, violence, and new political parties
 Abolition Movement/Underground railroad
 Bleeding Kansas/Sumner Brooks Incident
 John Brown’s Raid
 Free Soil Party
 Republican Party
3.02 What were the causes of the Civil War?
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Slavery and the lives of slaves
 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
 Fugitive Slave Act
Economies of the North and South
States Rights
Immediate Causes
 Election of 1860
 Abraham Lincoln
 Secession of the Southern states/Fort Sumter
 Confederate States of America
3.03 What were the major political and military turning points of the Civil War and how
did they affect the outcome of the War?
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Key turning Points
 Antietam
 Gettysburg/Vicksburg
 Sherman’s capture of Atlanta
Strategies—Political and Military
 Anaconda Plan
 Defensive War
 Cotton Diplomacy
 Total war
 Lincoln’s suspension of habeus corpus
 Copperheads
Major Poltical and Military Leaders
 Abraham Lincoln
 Jefferson Davis
 George McClellen
 Robert E. Lee
 Stonewall Jackson
 Ulysses S. Grant
 William T. Sherman
3.04 What was the social, political, and economic impact of Reconstruction on the nation
and why did it come to an end?
Major Concepts
 Conflict over responsibility for Reconstruction
 Lincoln’s Plan/Johnson’s Plan (Presidential Reconstruction)
 Radical Republicans’ Plan (Congressional Reconstruction)
 Radical Reconstruction/Military Rule
 Johnson’s Impeachment trial
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Changes in southern social, economic, and political systems
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Reconstruction Governments
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Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
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Freedmen’s Bureau
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Sharecropping
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13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
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Resistance and decline
 Black Codes
 Ku Klux Klan
 Redemption
 Compromise of 1877
3.05 To what degree was the supremacy of the federal government tested by the Civil
War and Reconstruction?
 Covered in 3.04
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.
Objectives
4.01 Compare and contrast the different groups of peoples who migrated to the West and
describe the problems they experienced.
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Westward movement motivation
 Mormons (religious freedom)
 Land (Homestead Act, Oklahoma Land Rush)
 Fortune (California Gold Rush, social mobility)
Westward movement challenges
 Role of women
 Role of immigrants (Irish, Chinese)
 Role of African Americans (Exodusters)
4.02 Evaluate the impact that settlement in the West had upon different groups of people
and the environment.
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Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad
 Built by immigrants
 Start of the end of the west
Cattle, Ranching, and Mining
 Mexican culture influenced (cowboy lifestyle)
 Technology increase
Impact on Native Americans
 Destruction of Buffalo
 Sand Creek Massacre
 Battle of Wounded Knee
 Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
 A Century of Dishonor
4.03 Describe the causes and effects of the financial difficulties that plagued the
American farmer and trace the rise and decline of Populism.
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Discontent of the western farmer
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 Price of transportation and equipment (growing debt)
Laws and Court Cases impacting farmers
 Munn v. Illinois
 Wabash v. Illinois
Populism
 The Grange
 Gold Standard v. Bimetallism
 “Cross of Gold” Speech
 Future Progressive Movement initiatives!
4.04 Describe innovations in agricultural technology and business practices and assess
their impact on the West.
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Technological farming improvements
 Steel Plow
Ranching/cattle improvements
 Barbed Wire
 Refrigerator Car
Dependence on the railroads
 Corruption/Monopolies (rebates or unequal treatment)
 Interstate Commerce Act
Competency Goal 5: Becoming an Industrial Society (1877-1900)
How did innovations in technology and business practices impact economic,
political, and social life in America?
Objectives
5.01: What influence did immigration and rapid industrialization have on urban life?
Major concepts:
 Immigrants flood in
 Growth of cities
 Ellis Island, NYC and Angel Island, San Francisco
 Chinese Exclusion Act
 Jane Addams and settlement houses
 Rise of ethnic neighborhoods
 Rise of nativism
 Idea of America as a melting pot
 Dealing with housing, sanitation, and transportation
 Dumbbell tenements
 Skyscrapers, elevators
 Poverty, crime, homelessness, pollution
 Electric trolleys
 Photographs of Jacob Riis
 New inventions lead to more leisure time
 Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison
 Telephone, typewriters, electricity
 Amusement parks and spectator sports
5.02: How did business and industrial leaders accumulate wealth and wield political
and economic power?
Major concepts:
 New industries emerge
 Steel: Andrew Carnegie uses Bessemer process
 Oil: John Rockefeller monopolizes the industry
 Railroads: Cornelius Vanderbilt leads
 Monopolies and trusts form that limit competition
 Criticism of how big businesses and their leaders operate
 Robber barons
 Captains of industry
 Politics corrupted by influence of businesses and their leaders
 Social Darwinism
 “The strong survive and the weak fall by the wayside”
 Gospel of Wealth: “man who dies rich, dies disgraced”
 Period came to be called The Gilded Age
5.03: What impact did labor unions have on industry and the lives of workers?
Major concepts:
 Labor unions form to fight for more pay and better working conditions
 Different unions form in different industries
 Craft unions (only skilled workers) and trade unions (all workers)
 Samuel Gompers leads American Federation of Labor (craft union)
 Eugene Debs leads American Railway Union (trade union)
 Tactics of labor unions
 Collective bargaining
 Famous strikes
 The Great Strike (railroads)
 Homestead Strike (Pittsburgh—steel)
 Pullman Strike (Chicago—rail)
 Opposition to labor unions
 Use of government force to break strikes
 Sherman Antitrust Act used to prevent labor unions from striking
 Union members and their leaders labeled as radicals and socialists
5.04: How did the role of government change in economic and political affairs?
 Rise of political machines
 Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
 Thomas Nast uses political cartoons to attack political machines & leaders
 For a while government adopts a hands-off (laissez-faire) attitude
 Reluctant to interfere in economic matters
 Political corruption and scandals
 Credit Mobilier scandal
 Assassination of President Garfield
 Reforms implemented
 Populist movement leads to Sherman Antitrust Act
 Use of secret ballot when voting
 Patronage/spoils system loses its popularity
 Pendleton Act leads to civil service system
 Many government employees had to be qualified, take an exam
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.
Objectives
6.01 Examine the factors that led to the United States taking an increasingly active role in
world affairs.
 Global and military competition
o Alfred T. Mahan
 Increased demands for resources and markets
o Imperialism
 Closing the frontier
o Cowboy era ends
 Exploitation of nations, and resources
o Compare and contrast continental expansion and expansion abroad.
o Political cartoons
6.02 Identify the areas of the United States military, economic, and political involvement
and influence.
 Causes and conduct of the Spanish-American War
o Treaty of Paris 1898
o Platt Amendment
o Rough Riders
o USS Maine
o Joseph Pulitzer
o Philippines
o Theodore Roosevelt
 United States interventions in Hawaii, Latin America, Caribbean,
Asia/Pacific
o Queen Liluokalani
o Seward’s Folly
o Social Darwinism
o Panama Canal
o Pancho Villa Raids
6.03 Describe how the policies and actions of the United States government impacted the
affairs of other countries.
 Intervention and Isolation
o Jingoism
o Boxer Rebellion
 Support for and opposition to United States economic intervention
o Dollar Diplomacy
o Roosevelt Corollary
 Perception of the United States as a world power
o Open Door Policy
o nnexation of Hawaii
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Competency Goal 7: The Progressive Movement in the United States
(1890-1914) – What were some political reforms? How was society
reformed during the Progressive Period?
7.01 What were the conditions that led to the rise of Progressivsm?
Major concepts:
Corruption and ineffective government
 Political machines, graft, spoils system
 Muckraking
 Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis
 Problems of urbanization
 Urban slums
 Immigration
 Poor working conditions
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Social Gospel Movement
 Settlement Houses
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Unequal distribution of wealth
7.02 How did different groups of Americans made economic and political gains in
the Progressive Period?
Major concepts:
 Roles of the Progressive Presidents:
 Roosevelt
 Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food & Drug Act,
Trustbusting, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Northern
Securities Company- broke monopoly over
northwestern railroads, 1902 Coal Strike, Conservation
(set up national parks), Progressive/ Bull Moose Party –
“New Nationalism” and caring for “the welfare of the
people”
 Taft
 Payne-Aldrich Tariff
 Took lands off of conservation list
 Wilson
 1912—attack big business and better distribute wealth
to average citizens
 Made good attempts at reform BUT failed to ameliorate
civil rights for African Americans
 Wilson’s New Freedom (Economic Reforms): Triple
wall of privilege: Trusts, Tariffs, and High Finance,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to put an end to
unfair business, Federal Income Tax (16th Amendment),
Federal Reserve System (Divided the nation into 12
districts and established a regional central bank in each
district)
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Progressive Amendments
 16th Amendment (created a federal income tax)
 17th Amendment (Senators elected by popular vote)
 18th Amendment (Liquor abolished, Prohibition created)
 19th Amendment (Women Suffrage)
 Changing roles of women
 WCTU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union) sought
Prohibition
 Carrie Nation, the Anti-Saloon League, “Demon Rum”
 Florence Kelley, advocate for women and children (inspected
factories, helped pass child labor laws)
 NAWSA: Women’s Suffrage Movement
 The changing nature of state and local governments
 Reform mayors and governors, election reform, city
commissioner form
7.03 What were the effects of racial segregation on different regions and segments
of the United States' society?.
Major concepts:
 SEGREGATED society and African American Discrimination
…WHY? To weaken African American political power and hurt their
morale
 Jim Crow Laws to racially segregation public and private
facilities
 Plessy v. Ferguson (“Separate but equal”)
 Lynchings
 Voting Restrictions
 Literacy tests, Poll tax, Grandfather clause
 African American responses to Jim Crow
 Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Dubois
 The NAACP, Niagara Movement, Great Migration
7.04 Examine the impact of technological changes on economic, social, and
cultural life in the United States.
Major concepts:
 Industrial innovations
 Wright Brothers
 Movie camera
 Coca Cola
 Urban planning (skyscrapers, Brooklyn Bridge, trolleys,
subway cars)
 Photography, Kodak cameras
 Advertising & Consumerism
 Ford’s Innovations ($5 day, Assembly line, Model T)
 Electricity
 Mail order catalogs
 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.
Objectives
8.01 How did the United States go from being neutral at the beginning of World War
I to being a participant on the Allied side?
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Causes of World War I in Europe
o MAIN: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
o Assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian Nationalist
Gavrilo Princip
o Triple Entente (Allies): France, Britain, Russia (later U.S.)
o Triple Alliance (Central Powers): Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Use of and effects of propaganda
o British propaganda against Central Powers
o Committee on Public Information led by George Creel (former muckraker)
promoted U.S. war effort
U.S. anti-war sentiment
o Pacifism
o Isolationism and Neutrality
o Conscientious objector
o Election of 1916: Wilson reelected because he “Kept Us Out of War”
o Wilson’s attempted “peace without victory… peace between equals”
Reasons for U.S. entry into the Great War
o Unrestricted (U-boat) submarine warfare including sinking of Lusitania
o US banks and businesses invested in Allied Powers
o Zimmerman Telegram
o Wilson’s war resolution: Make the world “safe for democracy”
8.02 What were the political and military turning points of the war? What was their
significance to the outcome of the conflict?
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Importance of United States involvement in World War I
o Convoy system
o Mobilization and the Selective Service Act
o American Expeditionary Force (AEF) and General John J. Pershing
o Fresh troops and supplies from U.S. were key to Allies’ success
Modernization of warfare
o Trench warfare, “Over the top”, and “No man’s land”
o New weapons: submarines, tanks, airplanes, machine guns, and poison gas
Changing nature of United States foreign policy
o Neutrality and Isolationism
o Wilson’s Fourteen Points—Germany believes they will be treated fairly
o League of Nations
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Failure of the United States to ratify the Treaty of Versailles
o Big Four: Wilson (U.S.), Clemenceau (France), George (Britain), Orlando (Italy),
but not Russia
o Treaty of Versailles: war-guilt clause, reparations, new nations and boundaries,
ignored self-determination
o League of Nations threatened U.S. isolationism (Henry Cabot Lodge)
8.03 What were the political, economic, social, and cultural effects of the war on the
United States and other nations?
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Government bureaucracy in the United States
o War Industries Board led by Bernard Baruch oversaw industrial production
o Food Administration led by Herbert Hoover helped produce and conserve food
Postwar economic challenges
o No plan for adjustment from a wartime to a peacetime economy
o Wave of strikes leads to fear of communist revolution (Red Scare)
Postwar political and military changes
o Washington Naval Conference
o Kellogg-Briand Pact
o Dawes Plan
o Isolationism
Social changes in the United States
o Great Migration of Southern African Americans to Northern cities
o Increased racial tensions in the North over competition for jobs and housing
o Women, the war effort, and the 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage)
o Labor unrest and decline of the Labor Movement
Anti-immigration sentiment and the first Red Scare
o Propaganda encouraged hatred of foreigners (especially Germans) and fears of
communism
o Nativism and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
o Red Scare: Palmer Raids, Sacco and Vanzetti, Immigration quota system
Restrictions on civil liberties during wartime
o Espionage and Sedition Acts punished interference with the war effort or
criticism of the government
o Violations of 1st Amendment (free speech)
o Schenck v. United States (1919)
Competency Goal 9: What was the extent of the economic, social, and political changes of
the 1920s and 30s?
Objectives
9.01: What were the economic conditions of the 1920s and 30s?
Major concepts:
 Republican presidents of 1920s support business interests
 Prosperous times for many, but not all, in the 1920s
 Farmers and minority groups among less prosperous
 Greater amount of consumer goods available, production soars
 Use of assembly line greatly increases availability of cars
 Radios and household appliances become cheaper, more available
 Consumers use credit and installment plans to buy new products
 Increasing inability of consumers to repay debts
 Investors speculate in the stock market, buying on margin is commonplace
 Demand for goods declines, factories lay off workers
 Panic leads to crash of stock market in 1929: Black Tuesday
 Depression starts, FDR elected president in 1932
9.02: What was the extent of prosperity for different groups during this period?
Major concepts:
 Widespread prosperity during 1920s, widespread despair during 1930s
 Presidents Hoover’s response to Depression seen as inadequate, heartless
 Rough treatment of Bonus Army
 Charities and local gov’t., not national, gov’t., should be helping
 Hoovervilles go up in cities
 Soup kitchens and breadlines are commonplace
 Bank failures wipe out peoples’ savings, ruin many lives
 25% unemployment rate
 Dust Bowl ruins farmers on Great Plains
9/03: What was the significance of the social, intellectual and technological changes of
lifestyle in the United States during this time period?
Major concepts:
 Social changes
 Leisure time, spectator sports, acts of daring
 1920s known as Roaring 20s and Jazz Age
 Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic
 Babe Ruth and others become famous sports stars
 Widespread resistance to Prohibition: bootleggers
 Speakeasies and flappers
 Jazz music: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, and others
 Popularity of automobiles leads to greater mobility
 Cities spread out
 Young people get away from parental supervision
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Intellectual changes
 Lost Generation: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway
 Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes
Technological changes
 Radio becomes popular
 talking films introduced: The Jazz Singer
 mass media leads to more of a shared, common culture
 Widespread use of automobiles
 FDR uses fireside chats during the Depression
9.04: What were the challenges to traditional practices in religion, race, and gender?
Major concepts:
 Religion
 Fundamentalism vs. scientific knowledge
 Scopes trial
 Race
 Back to Africa movement; Marcus Garvey
 African-Americans switch allegiance from Republicans to Democrats in 1930s
 Black cabinet as part of Roosevelt’s administration
 Gender
 Women gain right to vote
 Women have more freedom and independence, i.e. flappers
 Eleanor Roosevelt paves way for women in 1930s
9.05: How did the programs and reforms of the New Deal enlarge the role of the federal
government in American life?
Major concepts:
 Three R’s of the New Deal: relief, recovery, reform
 Alphabet agencies
 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
 Public Works Administration (PWA)
 Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
 Works Progress Administration (WPA)
 National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
 Social Security, minimum wage help elderly and poor
 Conservatives think New Deal too much like socialism
 Too much gov’t. interference and power in economic matters
 Liberals think New Deal does not do enough
 Critics include Huey Long (Share the Wealth program), Frances Perkins
 FDR pacifies these critics by coming up with new programs
 FDR tries packing the Supreme Court to change court’s rulings on his programs
 Deficit spending to pay for New Deal programs
 Legacy of the New Deal: federal government takes a greater role in the lives of the
American people and in the functioning of the U.S. economy
 Competency Goal 10: World War II and the beginning of the Cold War (19301963) – The learner will analyze the United States Involvement in World War II
and the war’s influence on international affairs in the following decades.
Objective 10.1: Identify military, political, and diplomatic turning points of the war and
determine their significance to the outcome and aftermath of the conflict.
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Appeasement
Isolationism
Reparations
Totalitarian Governments
Treaty of Versailles
Worldwide Depression
Objective 10.2: Identify military =, political, and diplomatic turning points of the war
and determine their significance to the outcome and aftermath of the conflict.
 The United States at War
 The influence of Propaganda at Home and Abroad
 Designs for Peace
Objective 10.3: Describe and analyze the effects of the war on American economic,
social, political, and cultural life.
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The Home front
Suspension of Civil Liberties
Suburbanization
Transition to Peacetime
Objective 10.4: Elaborate on changes in the direction of foreign policy related to the
beginnings of the Cold War.
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U.S. Military Intervention
Containment
The Cold War
The Domino Theory
Objective 10.5: Asses the role of organizations established to maintain peace and
examine their continuing effectiveness.
 Balance of Power
 Organizations for Peace
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Competency Goal 11: Recovery, Prosperity, and Turmoil – What were the major
eocnomic, political, and social developments of the post-World War II period and what
impact did they have on the lives of Aemricans?
Objectives
11.01 How was the economic, political, and social life of America affected by the Cold
War?
Major concepts:
 The Red Scare
 HUAC, Hollywood Ten, blacklisting
 Spy cases: Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs
 McCarthyism
 Army McCarthy Hearings
 Democrats “lose” China
 Economy, technology
 Research and development
 Computer technology
 Space race
 Interstate Hgwy System, St. Lawrence Seaway
 Suburbanization
 Bomb shelters, duck and cover
 Effect of Cold War on movies, tv, etc.
o Foreign policy
 Domino theory
 Nixon in China and Soviet Union
 Dentente

11.02 What were the major events of the Civil Rights Movement and what impact did
they have on American society?
Major concepts:
 end of de jure segregation
 Brown v. Board of Education
 Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock 9,Sit ins, Freedom Rides,
Birmingham Campaign, March on Washington
 Civil Rights Bill
 Voting Rights
 Mississippi Freedom Summer, Selma Campaign
 Voting Rights Act, 24th Amendment
 Civil Rights Organizations, leaders

SCLC, SNCC, CORE

Non-violent direct action

Martin Luther King, Jr.
 Federal Government intervention
 Black Power Movement, Malcolm X
11.03 What impact did the various social movements of the 1960’s and 70’s have on
American society?
Major concepts:
 Women’s Rights/Women’s Lib
 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
 NOW
 ERA
 Title IX
 Roe v. Wade
 American Indian Movement
 Environmentalism, Clean Air and Water Acts, EPA
 Hispanic American rights, Cesar Chavez
 Social movments
 Rock and roll
 The beats
 The counterculture
11.04 How and why did the United States become involved in the Vietnam War and how did this
involvement affect American society?
Major Concepts
 US Involvement Truman through Ford
 Domino theory
 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/escalation
 Vietcong/jungle, guerrilla war
 Vietnamization
 Withdrawal
 Growing discontent

Student protests—major protests

Living Room War

Vietcong

Tet Offensive

Bombing and invasion of Cambodia

Kent State
11.05 What impact have the technological innovations of the post-WWII period had on American life?
 Techonological changes

Military industrial complex/research and development

SPUTNIK/impact on education

Space race/NASA

computers

population shifts

advances in medicine, consumer products
11.06 What were the major political trends of the 60’s and 70’s years?
Major Concepts
 Presidential initiatives
 New Frontier
 Great Society
 Law and Order
 Events/trends, consequences

Watergate Scandal

Voter apathy

Great Society programs

White flight/urban renewal
Competency Goal 12: 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.
Objective 12.01: Summarize significant events in foreign policy since the Vietnam War.
Major Concepts
 Problems in the Third World – Famine in Somalia and Ethiopia, Foreign Dept,
Apartheid
 Modern-day genocide - Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans, Rwanda
 AIDS and Pandemics
 Politics of Oil - U.S. invasion of Lebanon, Yom Kipper War, Camp David
Accords, An war el-Sadat, Menachem Begin, Shah of Iran, Persian Gulf Wars
 Rise of Religious and Political Radicalism - Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian Hostage
Crisis, Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat-Palestine, Iran-Contra Affair
 Collapse of Communism - Fall of the Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, Strategic
Defense Initiative (Star Wars), , INF Treaty, Mikhail Gorbachev, Helsinki
Accords
 Changing roles of International Organizations
Objective 12.02: Evaluate the impact of recent constitutional amendments, court rulings,
and federal legislation on United States’ citizens.
Major Concepts
 Role of lobbyists and special interest groups – Microsoft, Political Action
Committees (PAC)
 The Supreme Court:
o Minority rights - Title IX, Texas v Johnson, Swan v Charlotte
Mecklenburg Schools, Americans with Disabilities Act
o Privacy rights
o Conservative judges - William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O’Connor,
Clarence Thomas
Objective 12.03: Identify and assess the impact of economic, technological, and
environmental changes in the United States.
Major Concepts
 Recession: Economic Boom and Bust - Energy Crisis, National Energy Act, Solar
Energy
 Benefits and conflicts of continued globalization - Computer revolution, Internet,
Bill Gates, NAFTA
 Conservation Measures - “Trickle-down” theory, Supply-Side economics, Airline
deregulation, National debt
 Impact of economics on:
o Lifestyle
o Stock market - NASDAQ
o Job market
Objective 12.04: Identify and assess the impact of social, political, and cultural changes
in the United States.
Major Concepts

Changing Society
o Social - Graying of America
o Political - New Right Coalition, New Federalism, New Democrat,
Republican Election of 2000
o Cultural
o Demographic - Immigration Policy Act, Amnesty

Presidential Troubles - Presidential pardon, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Ronald
Reagan

Major Issues
o Health Care
o Welfare reform
o Medicare
o AID