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?

Major concepts:

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?

Major concepts:

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:

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

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

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?

3.01 What were the major economic, social and political events from the Mexican American War to the outbreak of the Civil War?

Major concepts:

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?

Major concepts:

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?

Major concepts:

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

Changes in southern social, economic, and political systems

Reconstruction Governments

Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

Freedmen’s Bureau

Sharecropping

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

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?

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.

4.01 Compare and contrast the different groups of peoples who migrated to the West and describe the problems they experienced.

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.

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.

Discontent of the western farmer

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.

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 Annexation of Hawaii

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 Progressivism?

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

Social Gospel Movement Settlement Houses

Unequal distribution of wealth

7.02 How did different groups of Americans made economic and political gains in the Progressive Period?

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)

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?.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

9.01: What were the economic conditions of the 1920s and 30s?

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

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 (1930-1963) – 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.

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.

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.

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

Competency Goal 11: Recovery, Prosperity, and Turmoil – What were the major economic, political, and social developments of the post-World War II period and what impact did they have

on the lives of Americans?

11.01 How was the economic, political, and social life of America affected by the Cold War?

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?

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?

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?

US Involvement Truman through Ford

Domino theory

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/escalation

Vietcong/jungle, guerrilla war

Vietnamization

Withdrawal

Growing discontent

Student protests—major protests (Kent State)

Living Room War

Vietcong

Tet Offensive

Bombing and invasion of Cambodia

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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