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CURRICULUM COVER SHEET Aligned to the 2009 New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards
ENGAGING STUDENTS • FOSTERING ACHIEVEMENT • CULTIVATING 21ST CENTURY GLOBAL SKILLS
Content Area: Social Studies
Course Title: US History I Honors Grade Level: 10
Unit 1
Colonial America
2 Weeks
Unit 2
Imperial Crisis
2 Weeks
Unit 3
Constitution & Early Republic
3 Weeks
Unit 4
Jeffersonian Age
2 Weeks
Unit 5
Jacksonian Democracy
2 Weeks
Unit 6
Antebellum Reform 2 Weeks
Unit 7
Westward Expansion 2 Weeks
Unit 8
Civil War & Reconstruction 4 Weeks
Unit 9
Industrialization and The New Order 5 Weeks
Unit 10
Rise Progressivism & Urban Order 4 Weeks
Unit 11
American Imperialism 4 Weeks
Unit 12
America Becomes A Global Power 4 Weeks
Date Created:
Board Approved: August 26. 2013
Unit 1: Colonial America
Essential Questions
1. What impact did European background have on American colonization?
2. What was the impact of large scale international exchange of ideas, peoples, crops,
animals, and diseases?
3. What role did religious dissent play in the creation of the American colonies?
Enduring Understandings
1. Distinct differences existed between the Southern, Middle, and New England colonies
contributing to a slow evolution to unification.
2. The colonial economy came to depend upon indentured servitude and slavery.
Key Terms
1. Jamestown
2. Mayflower Compact
3. Plymouth Colony
4. Pilgrims
5. Puritans
6. “City on a Hill”
7. Proprietorship
8. Headright System
9. Indentured Servitude
10. Antinomianism
11. Quakers
12. Triangle Trade
13. Navigation Acts
14. Bacon’s Rebellion
15. Act of Toleration
16. Mercantilism
17. First Great Awakening
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
North American Colonial societies adapted European governmental, economic, and cultural institutions and ideologies to meet their needs in the New World.
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
6.1.12.A.1.a
Explain how British North American colonies adapted the British governance structure to fit their ideas of individual rights, economic growth, and participatory government.
B. Geography, People, and the Environment
6.1.12.B.1.a Relate regional geographic variations (e.g., climate, soil conditions, and other natural resources) to economic development in the New World.
C. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
6.1.12.C.1.a 6.1.12.C.1.b
Explain how economic ideas and the practices of mercantilism and capitalism conflicted during this time period. Determine the extent to which natural resources, labor systems (i.e., the use of indentured servants, African slaves, and immigrant labor), and entrepreneurship contributed to economic development in the American colonies.
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Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary
RH.9-10.5
sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Document Stations- colonial newspaper
2. Philosophical Chairs (Debate over slavery and indentured servitude)
3. Press Conference- oral presentation
A. Roger Williams
B. George Calvert
Unit 2: Imperial Crisis
Essential Questions
1. What was the impact of the colonial wars on the colonies and on their relationship with
Britain?
2. How had the 13 separate colonies become similar by the time of the Revolution?
3. Was the Revolution avoidable?
Enduring Understandings
1. The Revolution was fomented by changes in British colonial policy in the 1763-1776
period.
2. The Revolution was brought on by tight economic controls and loose political controls.
3. The American Revolution was based on a question of home rule and who should rule at
home.
Key Terms
1. Proclamation of 1763
2. Sugar Act (1764)
3. Virtual Representation
4. Stamp Act (1765)
5. Quartering Act (1765)
6. Sons of Liberty
7. Writs of Assistance
8. Declaratory Acts (1766)
9. Townshend Acts (1767)
10. Boston Massacre
11. Committees of Correspondence
12. Boston Tea Party
13. Intolerable Acts
14. First Continental Congress
15. Second Continental Congress
16. Articles of Confederation
17. Declaration of Independence
18. Patriot
19. Common Sense
20. Poor Richard’s Almanac
21. Wealth of Nations
22. Loyalist
23. Shay’s Rebellion
24. Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
The war for independence was the result of growing ideological, political, geographic, economic, and religious tensions resulting from Britain’s centralization policies and practices.
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
6.1.12.A.2.a Analyze the intellectual origins of the major ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
B. Geography, People, and the Environment
6.1.12.B.2.a 6.1.12.B.2.b
Analyze how the United States has attempted to account for regional differences while also striving to create an American identity. Evaluate the effectiveness of the Northwest Ordinance in resolving disputes over Western lands and the expansion of slavery.
D. History, Culture, and Perspectives
6.1.12.D.2.c Relate events in Europe to the development of American trade and American foreign and domestic policies.
RH.9-10.1. RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5 RH.9-10.6 RH.9-10.9
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis. Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in the respective accounts. Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Document Stations- Historians interpret the American Revolution
A. Was the revolution a radical or conservative movement?
2. Philosophical Chairs
A. Patriots or Terrorists?
B. Who should rule at home?
3. Press Conference- oral presentation – (Founding Fathers- Why Revolution?)
A. State Representatives- highlight what factors compelled key states to sue for
Revolution
Unit 3: Constitution & Early Republic
Essential Questions
1. How did Enlightenment concepts impact the Constitution?
2. How did the failures of the Construction lead to the evolution of political parties?
Enduring Understandings
1. The origins of the idea of separation of powers, written constitutions, and federalism
were rooted in the Enlightenment.
2. Differences in attitude towards strong federal government, individual rights, and slavery
led to the creation of the Democratic Republicans and the Federalists.
Key Terms
1. Philadelphia Convention
2. James Madison
3. Alexander Hamilton
4. Thomas Jefferson
5. Bill of Rights
6. Virginia Plan
7. New Jersey Plan
8. Connecticut Plan
9. 3/5 Compromise
10. Federalists
11. Anti-Federalists
12. Strict constructionist
13. Loose constructionist
14. Federalist Papers
15. Judiciary Act
16. Report on Public Credit
17. Report on Manufacturers
18. Whiskey Rebellion
19. Washington’s Farewell Address
20. XYZ Affair
21. Alien & Sedition Acts
22. Revolution of 1800
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
The United States Constitution and Bill of Rights were designed to provide a framework for the American system of government, while also protecting individual rights. Debates about individual rights, states’ rights, and federal power shaped the development of the political institutions and practices of the new Republic.
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
6.1.12.A.2.c 6.1.12.A.2.d 6.1.12.A.2.f
Compare and contrast state constitutions, including New Jersey’s 1776 constitution, with the United States Constitution, and determine their impact on the development of American constitutional government. Compare and contrast the arguments of Federalists and Anti-Federalists during the ratification debates, and assess their continuing relevance. Examine the emergence of early political parties and their views on centralized government and foreign affairs, and compare these positions with those of today’s political parties.
B. Geography, People, and the Environment
6.1.12.B.2.a Analyze how the United States has attempted to account for regional differences while also striving to create an American identity.
C. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
6.1.12.C.2.b Explain the effects of inflation, debt, and attempts by new state and national governments to rebuild the economy
by addressing issues of foreign and internal trade, banking, and taxation.
D. History, Culture, and Perspectives
6.1.12.D.2.b Explain why American ideals put forth in the Constitution (i.e., due process, rule of law, and individual rights) have been denied to different groups of people throughout time
RH.9-10.1. RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Philosophical Chairs (Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists); Liberty vs. Law & Order
2. Modern Topics- Amendment Issues; Strict interpretation vs. loose interpretation of
Constitution
3. Press Conference- oral presentation – (Alexander Hamilton vs. Thomas Jefferson);
George Washington- duties and office of President
Unit 4: Jeffersonian Age
Essential Questions
1. What caused Jeffersonian Democracy to develop?
2. How did Hamilton’s economic programs create political issues for the next 50 years?
3. How did foreign policy unite and divide Americans?
Enduring Understandings
1. The Decline and death of the Federalist Party ushered in the new age of Jeffersonian
Democracy.
2. Hamilton’s discussion of tariffs, banking, internal improvements, expansion, and
slavery fueled political conflict for the next 50 years.
3. Jeffersonian democracy both vilified and celebrated expansion overseas and into the
West.
Key Terms
1. Louisiana Purchase
2. Judiciary Act (1801)
3. Judicial Review
4. Embargo Act (1807)
5. War of 1812
6. “Era of Good Feeling”
7. Tariff of 1816
8. Panic of 1819
9. Missouri Compromise of 1820
10. Monroe Doctrine
11. Erie Canal
12. Eli Whitney
13. Thomas Jefferson
14. James Madison
15. James Monroe
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
Multiple political, social, and economic factors caused American territorial expansion. The rapid expansion and transformation of the American economy contributed to regional tensions, social reform, political compromises, and an expansion of democratic practices.
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
6.1.12.A.3.b 6.1.12.A.3.c
Determine the extent to which America’s foreign policy (i.e., Tripoli pirates, the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, the Monroe Doctrine, the War with Mexico, and Native American removal) was influenced by perceived national interest. Assess the role of geopolitics in the development of American foreign relations during this period.
C. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
6.1.12.C.3.b Relate the wealth of natural resources to the economic development of the United States and to the quality of life of individuals.
RH.9-10.1. RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Philosophical Chairs
A. Expansion vs. Isolation
2. Press Conference- oral presentation
A. Jefferson
B. Madison
C. Monroe
Unit 5: Jacksonian Democracy
Essential Questions
1. What caused Jacksonian Democracy to develop?
2. Was this an era of the common man?
Enduring Understandings
1. The new Democratic party centered upon ordinary farmers and workers, opposing the
special privileges of economic elite, and offering affordable western land to ordinary
white Americans.
2. Although declared an, “Era of the Common Man”, the Jacksonian Age was plagued by
social and racial tensions resulting in a major slave rebellion and genocide of the Native
American population.
Key Terms
1. “Corrupt Bargain”
2. Tariff of Abomination
3. “Age of the Common Man”
4. “King Andrew”
5. Spoils System
6. Genocide
7. Indian Removal Act
8. “Trail of Tears”
9. Nullification
10. Second Bank of the U.S.
11. Two-Party System
12. “Pet banks”
13. Nat Turner
14. Panic of 1837
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
Multiple political, social, and economic factors caused American territorial expansion. The rapid expansion and transformation of the American economy contributed to regional tensions, social reform, political compromises, and an expansion of democratic practices.
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
6.1.12.A.3.b 6.1.12.A.3.e 6.1.12.A.3.h
Determine the extent to which America’s foreign policy (i.e., Tripoli pirates, the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, the Monroe Doctrine, the War with Mexico, and Native American removal) was influenced by perceived national interest. Judge the fairness of government treaties, policies, and actions that resulted in Native American migration and removal. Analyze the various rationales provided as a justification for slavery.
D. History, Culture, and Perspectives
6.1.12.D.3.a
Determine how expansion created opportunities for some and hardships for others by considering multiple perspectives
RH.9-10.1. RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Philosophical Chairs
A. Native American removal- Expansion at what cost?
B. Was it truly the “Era of Common Man”?
2. News Reports- Genocide- Indian Removal Policy
A. Modern Examples-Research report
3. Press Conference- oral presentation
A. John Q. Adams
B. Jackson
C. Van Buren
Unit 6: Antebellum Reform
Essential Questions
1. What impact did transcendentalism have on political and social issues?
2. What events contributed to a religious revival in the United States?
3. What were the strengths and weaknesses of democracy as illustrated by abolitionism
and the women’s movement?
Enduring Understandings
1. Reform characterized by perfectionism emphasized a distrust of established institutions
and led to an uncompromising impatience with social inequalities of the time.
Key Terms
1. Second Great Awakening
2. Romanticism
3. Transcendentalism
4. Temperance
5. Joseph Smith
6. Brigham Young
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. Henry David Thoreau
9. James Fennimore Cooper
10. Dorothea Dix
11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
12. Seneca Falls Convention
13. Susan B. Anthony
14. Frederick Douglas
15. The Liberator
16. Harriet Tubman
17. Sojourner Truth
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
6.1.12.A.3.g 6.1.12.A.3.f
Determine the extent to which state and local issues, the press, the rise of interest-group politics, and the rise of party politics impacted the development of democratic institutions and practices. Compare and contrast the successes and failures of political (i.e., the 1844 State Constitution) and social (i.e., abolition, women’s rights, and temperance) reform movements in New Jersey and the nation during the Antebellum period.
D. History, Culture, and Perspectives
6.1.12.D.3.d 6.1.12.D.3.e
Analyze the role education played in improving economic opportunities and in the development of responsible citizens Determine the impact of religious and social movements on the development of American culture, literature, and art.
RH.9-10.1. RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Newscast- Frederick Douglas
2. Graphic Novel- Nat Turner
3. Research report
A. Mormonism
Unit 7: Westward Expansion
Essential Questions
1. What was the impact of Manifest Destiny on both foreign affairs and domestic policies?
2. How did Westward Expansion lead to increased sectionalism?
3.
Enduring Understandings
1. Manifest Destiny utilized religious fervor as a justification for militarism and expansion.
2. The addition of Western territories brought the debate of slavery to the forefront of
American politics leading to increased tension between North and South.
Key Terms
1. Whigs
2. Manifest Destiny
3. Monroe Doctrine
4. Gold Rush
5. Compromise of 1850
6. Fugitive Slave Law
7. Underground Railroad
8. Bleeding Kansas
9. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
10. John Brown
11. Harper’s Ferry Raid
12. Know-Nothings
13. Abolitionism
14. Free-soilers
15. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
16. Dred Scott
17. Freeport Doctrine
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
Multiple political, social, and economic factors caused American territorial expansion. The rapid expansion and transformation of the American economy contributed to regional tensions, social reform, political compromises, and an expansion of democratic practices.
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
6.1.12.A.3.a 6.1.12.A.3.b 6.1.12.A.4.a
Assess the influence of Manifest Destiny on foreign policy during different time periods in American history. Determine the extent to which America’s foreign policy (i.e., Tripoli pirates, the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, the Monroe Doctrine, the War with Mexico, and Native American removal) was influenced by perceived national interest. Analyze the ways in which prevailing attitudes, socioeconomic factors, and government actions (i.e., the Fugitive Slave Act and Dred Scott Decision) in the North and South (i.e., Secession) led to the Civil War.
B. Geography, People, and the Environment
6.1.12.B.3.a Assess the impact of Western settlement on the expansion of United States political boundaries.
RH.9-10.1. RH.9-10.4
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the
RH.9-10.5
date and origin of the information. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
6.
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Philosophical Chairs
a. Free Soliers vs. Abolitionists
b. Merits of Manifest Desttiny
2. Mock Trial- John Brown (Hero or Terrorist)
3. Lincoln Douglas Debates- Document Station
4. Lincoln-Douglas Debates- Press Conference
a. Lincoln
b. Douglas
Unit 8: Civil War & Reconstruction
Essential Questions
1. When and why did the Civil War become inevitable?
2. What causes of the Civil War were resolved by the Civil War itself and Reconstruction?
Enduring Understandings
1. Northerners objected not to slaves but to the political and economic power and
influence slavery gave slaveholders in the national government.
2. North-South economic differences before the Civil War continued unresolved after the
war.
3. The issues of the Civil War were similar to the American Revolution.
4. Despite the promises made by the Reconstruction government, rights existed only on
paper for newly freed slaves.
Key Terms
1. Jefferson Davis
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Gettysburg
5. 13th Amendment
6. Emancipation Proclamation
7. 10% Plan
8. Wade-Davis Bill
9. Freedmen’s Bureau
10. Black Codes
11. Radical Reconstruction
12. Presidential Reconstruction
13. Civil Rights Act 1866
14. 14th Amendment
15. 15th Amendment
16. Carpetbagger
17. Sharecropping
18. Crop lien system
19. Panic of 1873
20. KKK
21. Compromise of 1877
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
The Civil War was caused by ideological, economic, and political differences about the future course of the nation. Efforts to reunite the country through Reconstruction were contested, resisted, and had long-term consequences.
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
6.1.12.A.4.d Judge the effectiveness of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments in obtaining citizenship and equality for African Americans.
B. Geography, People, and the Environment
6.1.12.B.4.a 6.1.12.B.4.b
Use maps and primary sources to assess the impact that geography, improved military strategies, and new modes of transportation had on the outcome of the Civil War. Analyze the impact of population shifts and migration patterns during the Reconstruction period.
C. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
6.1.12.C.4.a 6.1.12.C.4.b 6.1.12.C.4.c
Assess the role that economics played in enabling the North and South to wage war. Compare and contrast the immediate and long-term effects of the Civil War on the economies of the North and South. Explain why the Civil War was more costly
to America than previous conflicts were.
D. History, Culture, and Perspectives
6.1.12.D.4.c 6.1.12.D.4.d 6.1.12.D.4.e
Analyze the debate about how to reunite the country, and determine the extent to which enacted Reconstruction policies achieved their goals. Relate conflicting political, economic, social, and sectional perspectives on Reconstruction to the resistance of some Southern individuals and states. Analyze the impact of the Civil War and the 14th Amendment on the development of the country and on the relationship between the national and state governments.
RH.9-10.1. RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Philosophical Chairs
A. Lincoln: Racist or Reformer? – Document Activity
B. Lincoln: Hero or Tyrant? – Document Activity
2. Map Activity- Stratalogica
A. Creating visuals to examine conflict
B. Manufacturing centers
Unit 9: Industrialization and the New Order
Essential Questions
1. What factors promoted industrialization?
2. What new attitudes emerged to justify immoral business practices?
3. To what extent did the government intervene in the economy?
Enduring Understandings
1. Changes in the economy, specifically in transportation, agriculture, labor force, and
technology, led to industrialization.
2. This period was one of increased government regulation, not of laissez-faire.
3. New concepts that included a blending of science and religion were utilized to justify
poor working condition, mistreatment of workers, and an increased need to accumulate
wealth.
Key terms
1. Gilded Age
2. Robber barons
3. Captains of Industry
4. Carnegie
5. Rockefeller
6. Vanderbilt
7. Horizontal Integration
8. Vertical Integration
9. Trust
10. Bessemer Process
11. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
12. Social Darwinism
13. Gospel of Wealth
14. Yellow-dog shop
15. Open shop
16. Closed shop
17. Haymarket Riot
18. Homestead Strike
19. Pullman Strike
20. “Cross of Gold”
21. Pendleton Act
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
Technological developments and unregulated business practices revolutionized transportation, manufacturing, and consumption and changed the daily lives of Americans. The Industrial Revolution and immigration had a powerful impact on labor relations, urbanization, the environment, and cultural values and created tensions between ethnic and social groups.
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
6.1.12.A.5.a Relate industrial growth to the need for social and governmental reforms.
B. Geography, People, and the Environment
6.1.12.B.5.a Explain how the Homestead Act, the availability of land and natural resources, and the development of transcontinental railroads and waterways promoted the growth of a nationwide economy and the movement of populations.
C. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
6.1.12.C.5.a Analyze the economic practices of various business organizations (i.e., corporations and monopolies) regarding the production and marketing of goods, and explain the
positive or negative impact of these practices on the nation and on individuals.
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Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Philosophical Chairs
A. Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? (Connection with today)
B. Why are people poor? Document Activity (Connection with today)
C. Should the government get involved in business? (Outsourcing debate)
D. What should be the role of unions? (Unions and labor movements)
Unit 10: Rise of Progressivism & Urban Order
Essential Questions:
1. To what extent and in what ways were the new immigrants and African-Americans
assimilated into society?
2. Did the closing of the Western frontier destroy the American character?
3. What factors contributed to the rise of Progressivism? Were these reforms embraced?
Enduring Understandings
1. African-Americans as well as new immigrant groups struggled during the Post-Civil War
era as native born whites’ reestablished political and economic control after
Reconstruction and modernized the economy.
2. The closing of the frontier was seen by many as the symbolic closing of economic
opportunities that traditionally had propelled many Americans up the social ladder.
3. Although reformers attempted to address problems of poverty, housing, and health
within cities, local government backed by private interest resisted progressive reforms.
Key Terms
1. Assimilation
2. Boss Tweed
3. Graft
4. Settlement Movement
5. Progressivism
6. Jacob Riis
7. Muckrakers
8. Jane Addams
9. Social Gospel Movement
10. Booker T. Washington
11. W.E.B. DuBois
12. “Melting Pot”
13. Nativism
14. Upton Sinclair
15. Pure Food and Drug Act
16. Meat Inspection Act
17. Square Deal
18. Socialist Party
19. Lincoln Steffens
20. Tammany Hall
21. Tenements
22. Chinese Exclusion Act
23. Jim Crow Laws
24. Frederick Jackson Turner
25. Frontier Thesis
26. Plessy v. Ferguson
27. Granger Law
28. Grandfather Clause
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
Progressive reform movements promoted government efforts to address problems created by rapid industrialization, immigration, and unfair treatment of women, children, and minority groups.
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
6.1.12.A.5.b 6.1.12.A.6.b 6.1.12.A.6.c
Assess the impact of governmental efforts to regulate industrial and financial systems in order to provide economic stability. Evaluate the ways in which women organized to promote government policies (i.e., abolition, women’s suffrage, and the temperance movement) designed to address injustice, inequality, workplace safety, and immorality. Relate the creation of African American advocacy organizations (i.e., the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) to United States Supreme Court decisions (i.e., Plessy v. Ferguson) and state and local governmental policies.
B. Geography, People, and the Environment
6.1.12.B.5.b Assess the impact of rapid urbanization on the environment and on the quality of life in cities.
D. History, Culture, and Perspectives
6.1.12.D.5.d 6.1.12.D.6.c
Relate varying immigrants’ experiences to gender, race, ethnicity, or occupation.
Analyze the successes and failures of efforts to expand women’s rights, including the work of important leaders (i.e., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, and Lucy Stone) and the eventual ratification of the 19th Amendment.
RH.9-10.1. RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Philosophical Chairs
A. Turner’s Frontier Thesis- Does it hold true today?
B. Assimilation (Modern Examples)
C. Reforming the Election Process
2. Tag Team Debate
A. Washington vs. DuBois- how do we create the changes we wish to see?
3. Jacob Riis- photo assignment- identifying bias in media (Connection to current media
situations)
Unit 11: American Imperialism
Essential Questions
1. What was the primary cause of US expansion overseas?
2. What factors contributed to rapid expansion?
3. To what extent was late 19th century and early 20th century expansionism a continuation
of past United States expansion and to what extent was it a departure?
Enduring Understandings
1. The closing of the Western frontier, coupled with stricter business regulations and a
desire for new markets, forced Americans to seek new territories outside of the US.
2. Industrialization and new technology made it possible for the US to rapidly build an
empire in the Pacific Ocean.
3. The Roosevelt Corollary represented the continuation of the work of the Monroe
Doctrine and original goals of Manifest Destiny; however, it soon evolved to embody a
broader desire of the US to become a major player in global affairs.
Key Terms
1. Yellow Journalism
2. Alfred Thayer Mahan
3. Commodore Perry
4. Queen Liliokalani
5. Treaty of Paris (1898)
6. Platt Amendment
7. Open Door Notes
8. “Big Stick Policy”
9. Great White Fleet
10. Theodore Roosevelt
11. Roosevelt Corollary
12. Rough Riders
13. Pan-Americanism
14. Jingoism
15. USS Maine
16. Commodore Dewey
17. Teller Amendment
18. Protectorate
19. Gentleman’s Agreement
20. White Man’s Burden
21. Spanish American War
22. Open Door Policy
23. Panama Canal
24. Boxer Rebellion
25. Dollar Diplomacy
26. Moral Diplomacy
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
An expanding market for international trade promoted policies that resulted in America emerging as a world power.
B. Geography, People, and the Environment
6.1.12.B.6.a Determine the role geography played in gaining access to raw materials and finding new global markets to promote trade.
C. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
6.1.12.C.6.b Determine how supply and demand influenced price and output during the Industrial Revolution.
D. History, Culture, and Perspectives
6.1.12.D.6.b Compare and contrast the foreign policies of American presidents during this time period, and analyze how these presidents contributed to the United States becoming a world power.
RH.9-10.1. RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5 RH.9-10.6 RH.9-10.9
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or
analysis. Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in the respective accounts. Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Philosophical Chairs
A. Does the US have a duty to fight for freedom in neighboring countries?
B. When should the US intervene in the affairs of foreign countries?
2. Media activity (tied to current events)
A. In what ways do dramatic headlines influence American opinion?
B. Examining news headlines (then & now)- how are these similar and different?
3. Perspective Activity (Sinking of the USS Maine)- textbook selections from around the
world
A. US perspective vs. Cuba, Philippines, and Spain – what accounts for the differences
in these textbooks?
Unit 12: America Becomes a Global Power
Essential Questions
1. What factors contributed to US involvement in the Great War?
2. What were the long term and short term consequences of US involvement in the Great
War?
Enduring Understandings
1. Despite popular support for neutrality, US foreign policy and economic interests
demanded US involvement into a global European conflict.
2. War may have been inevitable because of alliances, growing militarism, the competition
of imperialism, and powerful nationalism.
3. America's involvement in the war led to America's end to isolationism.
4. The effects of World War I on America and the world led to economic depression and a
second world conflict
Key Terms
1. Neutral
2. Isolationism
3. Nationalism
4. Imperialism
5. Militarism
6. Lusitania
7. Espionage Act 1917
8. Selective Service Act
9. Versailles Treaty
10. Red Scare
11. Triple Entente
12. Central Powers
13. Zimmerman Note
14. Sedition Act 1918
15. Fourteen Points
16. Big Four
17. Federal Reserve Act 1913
18. Inflation
19. War Industries Board
20. Propaganda
Objectives
Content Statement Strand CPI# Cumulative Progress Indicator
United States involvement in World War I affected politics, the economy, and geopolitical relations following the war.
A. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
6.1.12.A.7.a 6.1.12.A.7.b 6.1.12.A.7.c
Analyze the reasons for the policy of neutrality regarding World War I, and explain why the United States eventually entered the war. Evaluate the impact of government policies designed to promote patriotism and to protect national security during times of war (i.e., the Espionage Act and the Sedition Amendment) on individual rights. Analyze the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations from the perspectives of different countries.
B. Geography, People, and the Environment
6.1.12.B.7.a Explain how global competition by nations for land and resources led to increased militarism.
C. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
6.1.12.C.7.a 6.1.12.C.7.b
Determine how technological advancements affected the nature of World War I on land, on water, and in the air. Assess the immediate and long-term impact of women and African Americans entering the work force in large numbers during
World War I.
D. History, Culture, and Perspectives
6.1.12.D.7.b Determine the extent to which propaganda, the media, and special interest groups shaped American public opinion and American foreign policy during World War I.
RH.9-10.1. RH.9-10.4 RH.9-10.5
Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
Assessment (Summative)
1. Free Response Questions
2. Document Based Questions
3. Oral Presentations
4. Test
5. Quiz
Assessment (Formative)
1. Four Corners
2. Exit tickets
3. Discussions
4. Think Pair Share
Suggested Learning Activities
1. Philosophical Chairs-
A. Isolationism vs. US involvement (Key events: Lusitania, Zimmerman Note)
B. How should Germany be punished? Fourteen Points vs. Treaty of Versailles
C. War and Anti-Immigration sentiment- making connections with the present (Middle
East)
2. Propaganda Analysis – examining propaganda posters from the war- what does this tell
us about social, political, religious, and economic issues?
3. Research Project- Federal Reserve
A. What was its original purpose? What is its purpose now?
B. How has the FED evolved over time?
C. What role does banking play in global conflicts?