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American History I and II
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American History I & II
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American History I & II
Standard Objective Location Comments
AMERICAN HISTORY I
1. Students will
expand their
knowledge of pre-
Reconstruction
America.
1. Examine the American
colonial experience.
Chapters have factual,
conceptual, chronological, and
map/graph questions, each
with a mini-lesson answer.
Chapters also have
associated with them maps,
graphs, images, primary
source documents, a
chronology, glossaries,
Notable People biographies,
projects, case studies,
tutorials, and guided essay-
writing activities (see the
Curriculum Guide & Teacher's
Guide). Use the "Search"
feature to look up keywords.
a. Identify reasons for the
establishment of colonies in
America.
Chapter 2: Europeans Explore the New World
- Overview: Sections:
- "Exploration and Discovery"
- "The Spanish in the New World"
- "The French in the New World"
- "The English in the New World"
- Case Study: Christopher Columbus
- Essay: New World Exploration
- Project: Early Colonies
To access Chapters and
related resources, click the
"Chapters icon." Hover over
select titles (Tutorials, Case
Studies, Documents, Art,
Maps, Graphs/Charts, Essays,
Projects, and Internet
Projects) then click the title
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To access Resources only,
click on Resources icon.
Chapter Glossary definitions
are chapter specific; Master
Glossary definitions are more
generalized.
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b. Examine the rise of
American culture in the
New England, Middle, and
Southern
colonies.
Chapter 3: Emergence of a Unique American Culture
- Overview
- Case Study: New Amsterdam
- Case Study: Salem Witch Trials
- Document: Ordinance for Virginia
- Document: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
God
- Document: Benjamin Franklin
- Project: Differences among Northern,
Middle, and Southern Colonies
2. Investigate the
development of the United
States’ form of government,
a compound
constitutional republic, and
its institutions and politics.
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a. Identify the philosophies
which influenced the
development of the
Constitution:
- separation of powers
- balance of power
- the elastic clause.
Chapter 4: Colonial Conflicts with Great Britain
- Overview: Sections:
- "Colonial Reaction to the Stamp Act"
- "The Rhetoric of Resistance"
- "The Tea Act of 1773"
- "The Coercive Acts of 1774"
Chapter 7: The Creation and Adoption of a New
Constitution
- Overview: Sections
- "The Constitutional Convention"
- "James Madison and the Virginia Plan for the
Constitution"
- "The New Jersey Plan"
- "Constitutional Compromises
- "The Final Version of the Constitution
- Tutorial: Creation of the Constitution
- Case Study: The Constitutional Convention
Chapter 8: Understanding the United States
Constitution
- Overview
- Document: U.S. Constitution
- Document: Federalist #10
- Graph/Chart: Separation of Powers
- Glossary: "separation of powers"; "elastic
clause"
Resource:
- Master Glossary: "balance of power"
- Internet Project: Enlightenment Philosophers
- Notable People:
- Locke, John; Montesquieu, Baron de La
Master Glossary can only be
accessed by clicking the
"Resources" icon.
To access the Master
Glossary, click Resources
icon, "Glossaries," "Master
Glossary," then the "Browse
Glossary" button.
To access Internet Projects
from the Resources Menu,
click the "Resources" icon,
"Internet Projects," the title you
want to view, then click "Start
Project."
Notable People can be
accessed from any Chapter as
well from the Resources
Menu.
To access Notable People
from the Resources Menu,
click the "Resources" icon,
then "Notable People."
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b. Analyze the
Constitution’s creation and
impact on the new United
States.
Chapter 9: Leadership under Washington and the
Federalists
- Overview
- Case Study: The Washington Administration
- Essay: Early Political Parties
- Project: Partisanship in the Early Republic
Chapter 10: America's Domestic and Foreign Policies
- Overview: Sections:
- "Jefferson's Administration"
- "A New Nationalism"
- Document: Marbury v. Madison
- Map: The Louisiana Purchase
Chapter 11: The Age of Jackson
- Narrative Overview
- Graph/Chart: Election of 1824
- Map: The Election of 1828
- Essay: President Andrew Jackson
c. Trace the development
of American government
and politics from the
Federalist period through
Jacksonian democracy.
Chapter 9: Leadership under Washington and the
Federalists
- Overview
- Case Study: The Washington Administration
- Document: Washington's Farewell Address
- Essay: Early Political Parties
Chapter 10: America's Domestic and Foreign Policies
- Overview
- Case Study: The Monroe Doctrine
- Document: Marbury v. Madison
- Document: Monroe Doctrine
- Map: The Louisiana Purchase
- Map: Missouri Compromise
Chapter 11: The Age of Jackson
- Overview
- Case Study: The Trail of Tears
- Document: South Carolina Ordinance of
Nullification
Resource:
- Chronology: 1828 through 1854
The Chronology can be
accessed from any Chapter as
well from the "Resources"
icon.
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3. Analyze the growth and
division of the United States
from 1820 through 1877.
a. Trace the United States’
expansion and growth from
the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Chapter 13: Sectional Problems Grow as America
Expands
- Overview
- Tutorial: Manifest Destiny
- Case Study: The Texas Revolution
- Map: United States Expansion
- Essay: United States Expansion
AMERICAN II
Chapter 1: The Western Frontier Is Settled
- Overview: Sections:
- "America's Expansion"
- "Western Settlement"
b. Recognize the sectional
differences that developed
during the antebellum
period.
Chapter 13: Sectional Problems Grow as America
Expands
- Overview
- Tutorial: Splitting of the Union
- Case Study: The Compromise of 1850
- Document: Fugitive Slave Act
- Document: Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Document: Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Map: Compromise of 1850
- Map: Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Essay: States' Rights Movement
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c. Evaluate the causes,
course, and consequences
of the Civil War.
Chapter 13: Sectional Problems Grow as America
Expands
- Overview
- Tutorial: Splitting of the Union
- Case Study: The Compromise of 1850
- Document: Fugitive Slave Act
- Document: Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Document: Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Map: Compromise of 1850
- Map: Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Essay: States' Rights Movement
Chapter 14: North and South Fight a Civil War
- Overview
- Document: South Carolina Declaration
of Secession
- Document: Emancipation Proclamation
- Graph/Chart: Military Casualties in the Civil
War
- Map: The Election of 1860
- Map: Civil War Division
- Map: Civil War Battles
Chapter 15: Reconstruction
- Overview
- Tutorial: Reconstruction
- Document: The First Reconstruction Act
- Document: 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
- Graph/Chart: Northern Movement of Blacks
- Map: Reconstruction
d. Analyze the successes
and failures of the
Reconstruction period
following the Civil War.
Chapter 15: Reconstruction
- Overview
- Tutorial: Reconstruction
- Art: Military Support for Carpetbaggers
- Document: The First Reconstruction Act
- Document: 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
- Document: Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Graph/Chart: Northern Movement of Blacks
- Map: Reconstruction
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AMERICAN HISTORY II
e. Examine the United
States’ policies relating to
American Indians.
Chapter 1: The Western Frontier Is Settled
- Overview: Sections:
- "Native Americans"
- "The "Trail of Tears"
- "Development of Reservations"
- "Broken Agreements and Armed Conflict"
- "The Dawes Severalty Act"
- Tutorial: Collapse of Native American
Resistance
- Document: Chief Joseph versus the U.S.
Government
- Document: Dawes Severalty Act
Theme: Native Americans
To access Themes, click
Themes icon, then the title
you want to view.
2. Students will
understand how the
growth of industry
changed the United
States.
1. Assess how
transportation,
communication, and
marketing improvements and
innovations transformed the
American economy in the
late 19th and early 20th
centuries.
a. Identify major American
inventions and how they
affected the United States;
e.g.,
telephone, electricity, car,
motion pictures.
Chapter 2: Industrializing America
- Overview: Sections
- "Patents"
- "Inventions"
- "Manufacturing Innovations"
- Tutorial: Revolution of Industry
- Case Study: Thomas Edison
- Art: Corliss Steam Engine
- Graph/Chart: Model T's
- Project: Technological Changes
Standard Objective Location Comments
b. Explain the expansion of
transportation and
communication in the
United States following the
Civil War.
AMERICAN I
Resource:
- Map: Sources of Transportation
AMERICAN II
Chapter 2: Industrializing America
- Overview: Section - "Inventions"
- Tutorial: Revolution of Industry
- Case Study: Thomas Edison
- Document: "The West and the Railroads"
- Art: Corliss Steam Engine
- Graph/Chart: Model T's
- Project: Technological Changes
To access Maps from the
Resources Menu, click the
"Resources" icon, "Maps,"
here you can either click on
the image or select the title
from the pulldown menu.
c. Determine the impact of
industrialization on the
American economy and
society.
Chapter 2: Industrializing America
- Overview
- Tutorial: Revolution of Industry
- Case Study: Haymarket Affair
- Document: Carnegie's "Wealth"
- Document: Sherman Antitrust Act
- Document: "The West and the Railroads"
- Graph/Chart: Urban vs. Rural Areas
- Project: Technological Changes
- Internet Project: Impact of Mass Production
Resource:
- Master Glossary: "industrialization"
d. Examine how the market
revolution affected retail
distribution of goods in the
cities and in rural areas.
Chapter 2: Industrializing America
- Overview
- Case Study: Thomas Edison
- Graph/Chart: Urban vs. Rural Areas
- Internet Project: Impact of Mass Production
2. Evaluate the prominent
business leaders and the
business organizations that
influenced the growth of
industrialization in the United
States.
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a. Examine the roles of
American industrialists;
e.g., Rockefeller, Morgan,
Carnegie,
Vanderbilt, Ford.
Chapter 2: Industrializing America
- Narrative Overview (5th paragraph)
- Extended Overview: Section - "Manufacturing
Innovations"
- Document: Carnegie's "Wealth"
- Graph/Chart: Model T's
- Notable People:
- Rockefeller, John D.
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Vanderbilt, Cornelius
- Ford, Henry
- Morgan, J.P.
b. Evaluate the growth and
influences of monopolies
and trusts on capitalism.
Chapter 2: Industrializing America
- Overview: Sections
- "Pools, Trusts, and Holding Companies"
- "Vertically and Horizontally Integrated
Combinations"
- Document: Sherman Antitrust Act
- Glossary: "monopoly"; "trust"; "capitalism"
Chapter 5: Progressive Era
- Overview: Section - "Roosevelt and the Trusts"
- Document: Muller v. Oregon
3. Assess how the growth of
industry affected the
movement of people into and
within the United States.
a. Determine the
demographic changes in
population from the 1890s
to the present.
Chapter 4: The Making of Urban America
- Overview
- Case Study: Ellis Island
b. Investigate the
influences that affected
various immigrant groups
entering the United States.
Chapter 4: The Making of Urban America
- Overview
- Document: Ozawa v. United States
- Essay: U.S. Immigration Policy
Standard Objective Location Comments
c. Examine the working
conditions of immigrant
workers; e.g., factory, mine,
agriculture, transportation.
Chapter 4: The Making of Urban America
- Overview: Section - "The Old and the New
Immigration"
Resource:
- Case Study: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire:
Section - "The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory" (4th
sentence)
To access Case Studies,
from the Resources Menu,
click the Resources icon,
"Case Studies," the title you
want to view, then the "Begin
Case Study" button.
4. Investigate the challenges
presented to urban
inhabitants.
a. Identify how American
cities spawned American
architecture.
Chapter 4: The Making of Urban America
- Overview: Sections
- "City Life"
- "Modern Cities for a Modern Nation"
Resource:
- Art: New York City Skyline
- Notable People: Otis, Elisha
- Chronology: 1853 (Inventor, Elisha Otis)
To access Art from the
Resources Menu, click the
"Resources" icon, "Art," here
you can either click on the
image or select the title from
the pulldown menu.
b. Examine living conditions
in tenements.
Chapter 4: The Making of Urban America
- Overview: Section - "Increasingly Crowded Cities"
- Glossary: "tenement house"
- Notable People: Riis, Jacob
c. Compare the attitudes of
Social Darwinism with
those of Social Gospel
believers.
Chapter 2: Industrializing America
- Overview: Section - "Social Darwinism and
the Self-Made American"
- Document: Carnegie's "Wealth"
- Glossary: "social Darwinism"
Chapter 5: Progressive Era
- Overview: Section - "Social Gospel Movement"
- Document: Spargo's "The Bitter Cry of the
Children"
- Glossary: "Social Gospel movement"
Standard Objective Location Comments
3. Students will
recognize how social
reform occurred at
the turn of the
century.
1. Investigate reform
movements and their
prominent leaders.
a. Examine the problems
faced by American farmers
that were created by the
new market economy and
the rise of the Populist
Party.
Chapter 1: The Western Frontier Is Settled
- Overview: Sections
- "The Growth of Farming in the West"
- "Western Farmers and Railroad
Expansion"
- "Western Farmers and Favorable
Government Policies"
- "Farm Life"
- "The Granger Movement"
- "Populism"
- Glossary: "Populist Party"
Chapter 3: Politics of the Gilded Age
- Overview
- "Rise of Populism"
- "Formation of the National Populist Party"
- "Enduring Influence of the Populist Party"
- Document: Populist Party's Platform of 1892
- Art: Mary Lease
b. Analyze the growth and
influence of political
machines; e.g.,
muckrakers, Progressives.
Chapter 3: Politics of the Gilded Age
- Overview: for example: Section on
"Corruption"
- Art: Boss Ring
Chapter 5: Progressive Era
- Overview: for example: Sections:
- "Who Was a Progressive?"
- "Muckrakers"
- Document: Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
- Document: Spargo's "The Bitter Cry of the
Children"
- Glossary: "muckraker"; "political machine"
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c. Investigate the emerging
civil rights movements for
women and African
Americans.
AMERICAN I
Chapter 12: American Culture Continues to Change
- Overview: Section: "Women's Rights"
- Chronology: 1869, 1896 (Utah grants women
suffrage)
AMERICAN II
Chapter 5: Progressive Era
- Overview: Sections:
- "Women and the Vote"
- "The Status of African-Americans"
Resources:
- Document: Anthony and Stanton
Speeches
- Project: Civil Rights
- Master Glossary: "civil rights"
Theme: African Americans
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"Resources" icon,
"Documents," the title you
want to view, then the "Read
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Resources Menu, click the
"Resources" icon, "Projects,"
the title you want to view, then
click "Start Project."
2. Assess the growth and
development of labor unions
and their key leaders.
a. Trace the development
of national labor unions.
Chapter 2: Industrializing America
- Overview: Sections:
- "The Growth of the Labor Movement"
- "National Labor Union"
- "Knights of Labor"
- "American Federation of Labor"
- Glossary: "American Federation of Labor
(AFL)"; "labor union"; "Knights of Labor"
- Chronology: 1869, 1886
Theme: Labor Movement
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b. Determine the impact of
collective bargaining.
Chapter 2: Industrializing America
- Overview: Section - "American Federation of
Labor"
- Glossary: "collective bargaining"
Theme: Labor Movement
c. Analyze the development
of socialism in the United
States.
Chapter 5: Progressive Era
- Overview
- Art: Eugene Debs
- Glossary: "socialism"
- Notable People: Debs, Eugene V.
4. Students will
understand how war
affected the early 20th
century.
1. Investigate how the United
States became involved in
imperialism and the Spanish
American War
a. Determine the economic,
social, and military affects
of United States
imperialism.
Chapter 6: U.S. Involvement in the Pacific/Latin
America
- Overview
- Case Study: The Spanish-American War
- Document: "The Influence of Sea Power
Upon History"
- Document: First Open Door Note
- Document: Platt Amendment/Roosevelt
Corollary
- Map: U.S. in the Caribbean
- Essay: Turn-of-the-Century Foreign Policy
- Glossary: "imperialism"
Standard Objective Location Comments
b. Examine the cause,
course, and consequences
of the Spanish-American
War.
Chapter 6: U.S. Involvement in the Pacific/Latin
America
- Overview: Sections:
- "The Spanish-American War"
- "Significance of the Spanish-American War"
- "Supporters of U.S. Expansion"
- "Opponents of U.S. Expansion"
- "The U.S. Pursues an Expansionist Policy"
- Case Study: The Spanish-American War
- Document: Platt Amendment/Roosevelt
Corollary
c. Assess how America’s
imperialism altered
relationships with the Far
East and Latin America.
Chapter 6: U.S. Involvement in the Pacific/Latin
America
- Overview
- Document: "The Influence of Sea Power Upon
History"
- Document: Platt Amendment/Roosevelt
Corollary
- Map: U.S. in the Caribbean
- Essay: Turn-of-the-Century Foreign Policy
2. Examine how World War I
affected the military and the
home front of the United
States.
a. Identify major causes of
World War I and the United
States’ involvement and
influence in the war; e.g.,
Wilson's Fourteen Points,
the Versailles Treaty.
Chapter 7: America Becomes Involved in World War I
- Overview
- Tutorial: Isolationism to Internationalism and
Back
- Art: World War I Cartoon
- Case Study: Wilson's Fourteen Points
- Document: Germany's 1917 Note to the U.S.
- Document: Wilson's Fourteen Points Address
- Essay: The U.S. and World War I
- Glossary: "Treaty of Versailles (1919)"
Standard Objective Location Comments
b. Determine the reasons
the United States Senate
refused to join the League
of Nations.
Chapter 7: America Becomes Involved in World War I
- Overview: Section - "The Fate of the Treaty in
the U.S. Senate"
- Art: League of Nations Cartoon
- Glossary: "League of Nations (1920-1946)"
c. Examine the impact
World War I had on the
United States; e.g.,
government policy,
industrial might, civil
liberties.
Chapter 7: America Becomes Involved in World War I
- Overview
- Tutorial: Isolationism to Internationalism and
Back
- Document: United States v. Schenck
5. Students will
understand how
Americans reacted to
rapid social change
during the 1920s.
1. Analyze how the United
States coped with rapid
economic and technological
advances.
a. Investigate how mass
media affected American
society
Resources:
- Project: Bias in Advertisements
- Internet Project: American Television
- Art: Televised Army-McCarthy Hearings
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from the Resources Menu,
click the "Resources" icon,
"Internet Projects," the title you
want to view, then click "Start
Project."
b. Assess how new
inventions and
consumerism influenced
daily life.
Chapter 2: Industrializing America
- Overview: Section - "Inventions"
Chapter 8: America Changes during the Roaring 20s
- Overview: Section - "Consumerism"
Resources:
- Project: Technological Changes
- Graph/Chart: Model T's
To access Graphs/Charts
from the Resources Menu,
click the "Resources" icon,
"Graphs/Charts," here you can
either click on the image or
select the title from the
pulldown menu.
Standard Objective Location Comments
c. Explain how the
automobile affected the
business and landscape of
America.
Chapter 2: Industrializing America
- Overview: Section - "Manufacturing
Innovations"
- Graph/Chart: Model T's
Chapter 8: America Changes during the Roaring 20s
- Overview: Section - "Industrial Expansion"
Chapter 12: Cold War and the Truman Years
- Overview: Section: "Changing Lifestyles"
Chapter 13: The Eisenhower Years
- Overview: Section: "Modern Republicanism and
Eisenhower's Economic Policies"
2. Examine the experiences
of black Americans and
women in the early 20th
century.
a. Account for the sudden
growth of black
consciousness.
Chapter 4: The Making of Urban America
- Overview: Section - "Black Rural-to-Urban
Migration"
Theme: African Americans
b. Describe the changes in
women’s attitudes and
roles in society.
Chapter 8: America Changes During the Roaring 20s
- Overview: Sections:
- "Civil Rights are Expanded"
- "The New Morality"
- Document: Sanger's "Woman and the New
Race"
6. Students will
understand how the
Great Depression and
the New Deal
affected the United
States.
1. Investigate the impact of
the Great Depression on the
United States.
Standard Objective Location Comments
a. Analyze the major
causes of the Great
Depression.
Chapter 9: Great Depression and New Deal
- Overview: Section - "Extended Overview"
- Case Study: The Stock Market Crash of 1929
- Document: The Banking Crisis
- Graph/Chart: New York Stock Exchange
- Glossary: "Great Depression"
b. Examine the social
effects of the Great
Depression.
Chapter 9: Great Depression and New Deal
- Overview
- Art: Depression-Era Migrants
- Map: U.S. Population Changes
- Map: U.S. Welfare: 1933
- Essay: Life during the Great Depression
- Glossary: "Great Depression"
2. Analyze the long-term
effects of the New Deal on
the United States.
a. Explore the purposes
and effectiveness of the
New Deal; e.g., presidency,
economics,
politics.
Chapter 9: Great Depression and New Deal
- Overview
- Document: Social Security Act of 1935
- Art: Hoover Dam
- Glossary: "New Deal"
b. Investigate the shift of
power from state to federal
government.
Chapter 9: Great Depression and New Deal
- Overview: Section - "The Effects and Heritage
of the New Deal"
- Document: Social Security Act of 1935
- Art: Hoover Dam
7. Students will
understand the
causes, course, and
consequences of the
United States’ role in
World War II.
1. Determine how America
shifted from isolationism to
intervention.
Standard Objective Location Comments
a. Analyze the factors that
led to militarism and fascist
aggression in the world.
Chapter 10: U.S. Foreign Policy between the Two
World Wars
- Overview: Sections:
- "Germany and Italy: the Quest for Control of
Europe"
- "Japan: the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere"
- Glossary: "fascism"
Resource:
- Master Glossary: "militarism"
b. Determine how the
attack on Pearl Harbor
forced the United States
out of isolationism.
Chapter 10: U.S. Foreign Policy between the Two
World Wars
- Overview: Section - "The Sleepy Giant
Awakens"
- Map: Europe: 1920-1937
- Glossary: "isolationist"
Chapter 11: World War II and the Post-War Peace
- Overview: Sections:
- "U.S. Lend-Lease Act"
- "Invasion of the Soviet Union"
- "Pearl Harbor"
- "The United States Enters World War II"
Resource:
- Master Glossary: "isolationism"
Standard Objective Location Comments
c. Examine how the
alliance systems led the
United States into World
War II.
Chapter 10: U.S. Foreign Policy between the Two
World Wars
- Overview: Section - "The Sleepy Giant
Awakens"
- Document: Relations between U.S. and
U.S.S.R.
- Document: Lend-Lease Act
- Map: Naval Commitments: 1939-1941
Chapter 11: World War II and the Post-War Peace
- Overview: Sections:
- "U.S. Lend-Lease Act"
- "A Second Front in Western Europe, D-Day"
- "The Atlantic Charter"
- "Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks
Conferences"
- Document: Atlantic Charter
d. Investigate the major
campaigns of the United
States in the European and
Pacific theaters; e.g.,
Midway, D-Day, Battle of
the Bulge, island hopping,
and the bombing of
Japan.
Chapter 11: World War II and the Post-War Peace
- Overview: Sections:
- "The United States Enters World War II"
- "Midway: the Tide of War Turns in the Pacific"
- "Island Hopping"
- "A Second Front in Western Europe, D-Day"
- "The Japanese Islands are Bombed"
- Case Study: The Manhattan Project
- Art: Iwo Jima Memorial
- Art: Atomic Bomb Explosion
- Map: Europe: World War II
- Map: East Asia: 1942
- Glossary: "D-Day (June 6, 1944)"; "Battle of the
Bulge"; "island hopping"
2. Examine the impact World
War II had on the American
home front.
Standard Objective Location Comments
a. Identify the impact of
World War II on minority
groups in America.
Chapter 11: World War II and the Post-War Peace
- Overview: Sections:
- "New Patterns of Employment"
- "Mexican Workers"
- "Women in the Workforce"
- "African-Americans Move from South to
North"
- Graph/Chart: World War II: African Americans
- Essay: American Society during World War II
- Internet Project: America's World War II Effort
b. Examine the role women
played in the wartime
workforce.
Chapter 11: World War II and the Post-War Peace
- Overview: Section - "Women in the Workforce"
c. Trace American
mobilization for war.
Chapter 11: World War II and the Post-War
Peace
- Overview (All Sections)
- Chronology
3. Evaluate how the rules
and weapons of war
changed during World War
II.
a. Assess how the war
expanded beyond military
targets to civilian centers.
Chapter 11: World War II and the Post-War Peace
- Overview: Sections:
- "The Holocaust"
- "Dropping of the Atomic Bombs"
- Document: Japanese-American Internment
- Art: Atomic Bomb Explosion
- Graph/Chart: World War II Casualties
Standard Objective Location Comments
b. Evaluate how technology
changed the weapons used
in World War II and
introduced the atomic age.
Chapter 11: World War II and the Post-War Peace
- Overview: Sections:
- "The Potsdam Declaration"
- "Dropping of the Atomic Bombs"
- Case Study: The Manhattan Project
- Art: Atomic Bomb Explosion
Theme: Evolution of Warfare
8. Students will
understand the United
States’ domestic and
international
position in the Cold
War era.
1. Investigate how the
postwar goals and action of
the United States and the
Soviet Union were
manifested throughout the
world.
a. Analyze the organization
and operation of the United
Nations.
Chapter 11: World War II and the Post-War Peace
- Overview: Section - "Yalta Conference"
- Document: United Nations Charter
Resource:
- Master Glossary: "United Nations"
b. Evaluate the
effectiveness of American
post-war foreign policy in
Europe and the Soviet
Union’s reaction.
Chapter 12: Cold War and the Truman Years
- Overview: Sections
- "Cold War Politics"
- "Containment and the Truman Doctrine"
- "The Berlin Blockade and the Formation of
NATO"
- "The "Loss of China"
- "Occupation of Japan"
- "The Korean War"
- "Implications of the Korean War"
- Document: The Truman Doctrine
- Map: Partition of Germany
- Map: Korean War
Standard Objective Location Comments
c. Examine the world’s
reaction to nuclear
weapons.
Resources:
- Art: Atomic Bomb Explosion
- Case Study: The Manhattan Project
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from the Resources Menu,
click the "Resources" icon,
"Case Studies," the title you
want to view, then click "Begin
Case Study."
2. Analyze the Cold War
ideology of the United States’
involvement in Asia.
a. Explain America’s
reaction to the fall of China
to Communism under Mao
Zedong.
Chapter 12: Cold War and the Truman Years
- Overview: Section - "The "Loss" of China"
Resource:
- Document: The Domino Theory
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"Documents," the title you
want to view, then the "Read
Document" button.
b. Trace American and
United Nations involvement
in the Korean police action.
Chapter 12: Cold War and the Truman Years
- Overview: Section
- "The Korean War"
- "Implications of the Korean War"
- Chronology - 1950, 1953
c. Examine the various
factors that drew the United
States into conflict with
North Vietnam and Ho Chi
Minh.
Chapter 14: Vietnam and the Great Society
- Overview: Sections
- "Kennedy and South Vietnam"
- "Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam"
d. Investigate how the
Vietnam War changed the
nature of warfare.
Chapter 14: Vietnam and the Great Society
- Overview: Sections
- "Kennedy and 'Flexible Response'"
- "Kennedy and Cuba"
Theme: Evolution of Warfare
Standard Objective Location Comments
3. Summarize the political,
social, and economic
reactions to the Cold War in
the United States.
a. Examine the successes
and failures of the various
political administrations;
e.g.,
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon.
Chapter 14: Vietnam and the Great Society
- Overview
- Case Study: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Document: 1964 Civil Rights Act
- Chronology
Chapter 15: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Years
- Overview
- Case Study: The Watergate Scandal
- Chronology
Resource:
- Master Glossary: "Watergate"
b. Analyze the Great
Society programs aimed at
ending poverty.
Chapter 14: Vietnam and the Great Society
- Overview: Section - "Lyndon Johnson and
the Great Society"
- Glossary: "Great Society"
c. Examine the impact of
McCarthyism and
Watergate on citizens’
attitudes toward
government.
Chapter 12: Cold War and the Truman Years
- Overview: Section - "Fighting Communism at
Home"
- Case Study: McCarthyism
- Document: The Truman Doctrine
- Document: McCarran Internal Security Act
- Glossary: "McCarthyism"
Chapter 15: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Years
- Overview: Section - "Nixon and the
Watergate Scandal"
- Case Study: The Watergate Scandal
- Project: Supreme Court: Additional
Project #1
Resource:
- Art: Televised Army-McCarthy Hearings
Standard Objective Location Comments
d. Trace the development
of space exploration.
Chapter 14: Vietnam and the Great Society
- Overview: Section - "Kennedy and the Space
Program"
- Chronology
4. Investigate the end of the
Cold War and examine
America’s role in the
changing world.
a. Compare differing
American reactions to
overseas military
involvement.
Chapter 14: Vietnam and the Great Society
- Overview: Section
- "A Divided America"
- "Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam"
- Internet Project: Using Protest
b. Trace the events that
resulted in the breakup of
the USSR.
Chapter 16: Cold War Ends, Conservatives Rise
- Overview: Section - "The End of the Cold War"
- Chronology
c. Examine the superpower
status of the United States
in the world.
Chapter 12: Cold War and the Truman Years
- Overview: Sections
- "Cold War Politics"
- "Cold War Economics"
Chapter 16: Cold War Ends, Conservatives Rise
- Overview: Sections:
- "Reagan Vows to Make America Strong
Again"
- "Reagan's Foreign Policy"
- "Overtures to the Soviet Union"
- "Bush and Latin America"
9. The students will
understand the
emergence and
development of the
human rights and
culture in the modern
era.
1. Analyze how the civil
rights movement affected
United States society.
Standard Objective Location Comments
a. Identify the causes and
consequences of civil rights
legislation and court
decisions.
Chapter 14: Vietnam and the Great Society
- Overview: Sections:
- "Kennedy and Civil Rights"
- "Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights"
- "A Divided America"
Theme: African Americans
Resources:
- Document: University of California Regents
v. Bakke
- Document: Kerner Commission
- Document: Plessy v. Ferguson
- Document: Brown v. Board of Education
- Document: 1964 Civil Rights Act
- Additional Project #1
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icon, "Projects," scroll down
and click on "Additional
Projects"; the projects are in
numerical order.
b. Investigate the fight for
the political, economic, and
social equality of women.
Resources:
- Document: Anthony and Stanton
Speeches
- Document: Sanger's "Woman and the
New Race"
- Document: Civil Rights Act of 1991
- Master Glossary: "Equal Rights Amendment";
"Roe v. Wade" (1973)
- Notable people:
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Chisholm, Shirley
- Friedan, Betty
- Lease, Mary E.
- Sanger, Margaret
- Chronology: 1966 (NOW founded); 1971; 1985;
1994; 1996
c. Analyze how the black
civil rights movement
utilized both social and
political actions to achieve
its goals.
Theme: African Americans
Standard Objective Location Comments
d. Investigate the gains in
civil rights made by the
American Indian nations,
Mexican
Americans, and other
ethnic groups in the last
half of the twentieth
century.
Theme: African Americans
Theme: Native Americans
2. Analyze the impact of the
counter- culture since the
1960s.
a. Trace the development
of the counter-culture from
the anti-Vietnam
movement.
Chapter 14: Vietnam and the Great Society
- Overview: Section
- "Cultural Upheaval in the 1960s"
- "A Divided America"
- Art: Black Panthers
- Internet Project: Using Protest
- Glossary: "counter-culture"; "hippies"; "yippies"
Resource:
- Master Glossary: "racism"; "xenophobia"
b. Assess the development
of mass media as the voice
of the counter-culture.
Chapter 14: Vietnam and the Great Society
- Overview: Section - "Cultural Upheaval in the
1960s"
c. Examine the impact of
drugs on the counter-
culture and the United
States.
Chapter 13: The Eisenhower Years
- Overview: Section: "American Culture in the 1950s"
Chapter 14: Vietnam and the Great Society
- Overview: Sections:
- "Cultural Upheaval in the1960s"
Resources:
- Master Glossary: "counter-culture"
- Chronology: 1969 (entry on Woodstock)
Standard Objective Location Comments
10. The students will
understand economic
and political changes
in contemporary
America.
1. Analyze the economy of
the contemporary United
States.
a. Examine the effects of
economics on modern
society.
Chapter 18: The U.S. Adapts to a Post-9/11 World
- Overview: Sections:
- "Domestic Policy and Events"
- "Financial Crisis"
- "Obama's Domestic Policy"
b. Trace the development
of computers and the
Internet and their impact on
American business and
globalization.
Resource:
- Internet Project: Globalization
- Graph/Chart: Dow Jones
- Project: Technological Changes
- Chronology
2. Determine how politics
was changed by the end of
the Cold War.
a. Examine the “Reagan
Revolution,” its goals,
success, and failures.
Chapter 16: Cold War Ends, Conservatives Rise
- Overview: Sections
- "Reagan's Economic Policies"
- "Results of "Reaganomics"
- "Continuing Economic Problems"
- "Overtures to the Soviet Union"
- "The End of the Cold War"
- Essay: President Reagan and the Economy
Standard Objective Location Comments
b. Determine the impact of
environmentalism on the
United States.
Chapter 14: Vietnam and the Great Society
- Overview: Section - "Cultural Upheaval in the
1960s"
Chapter 15: The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Years
- Overview: Section - "Domestic Policies in
the Nixon Years"
Resources:
- Master Glossary: "global warming"
- Internet Project: Globalization
- Project: Additional Projects #17, #18
c. Analyze the impact of
international terrorism on
the United States.
Chapter 18: The U.S. Adapts to a Post-9/11 World
- Overview: Sections:
- "Foreign Policy and Events"
- "Iraq"
- "Bush's Foreign Policy"
- "The "Surge""
- "Obama's Foreign Policy"
- Document: Bush's Speech on Preventive War
- Tutorial: The War on Terror
- Essay: Responding to 9/11
- Glossary: "terrorism"
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