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Month Content Skills August I. The Role of American Government Compare John Locke and Thomas Hobbes political philosophy. A. What is the purpose of government? Recognize Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. 1. Philosophical Foundation a. Locke Identify classroom procedures and grading b. Hobbes standards.

’ 2. Maslow s Hierarchy

3. Procedures a. Grading b. Binders c. Group Work

September B. What are the different approaches to Compare different types of government systems. government? Compare major economic systems. 1. Types of Governments a. Republic Identify the role of special interest groups. b. Democracy b. Dictatorship Explain the impact of the industrial revolution had c. Totalitarian on America d. Monarchy e. Anarchy Identify the role that the federal government played during the post civil war years. 2. . Economic Models a. Mercantilism Analyze the Federalist and Democratic arguments b. Capitalism for and against a national bank. c. Socialism d. Communism Explain the impact that Jackson's bank veto had on the American economy. 3. The Uniqueness of the Democratic Describe how progressives were able to use the Vision Federal Government to bring about corporate a. Special Interest Groups regulation. b. Equal Voice c. Checks and Balances List and explain the New Deal programs designed to bring about financial reform. C. What is the responsibility of government? Compare Hoover's economic philosophy to Ronal ’ Reagan s. 1. Promote Financial Stability a. Pre-Revolutionary Restrictions Describe how progressives were able to use the b. Tariff and Trade (War of 1812) Federal Government to bring about social changes c. Industrialization d. Compare T.R.'s conservation efforts to modern day e. Populist Movement environmental protection efforts. f. Federalists/Republicans Bank debate Compare the Square Deal, New Freedom, and New g. Andrew Jackson Veto of 2nd Nationalism programs of Roosevelt and Wilson. Bank h. Progressive Movement Analyze the social impact that Roosevelt's New - Corporate Regulation Deal had on the average American. i. New Deal - Banking Reform

1 of 14 Month Content Skills - Farm Reforms Compare the Fair Deal, New Frontier, and Great - Financial Reforms Society. j . Reaganomics Differentiate between the Mayflower Compact, 2. Provide for Social Well-being Articles of Confederation, and Constitution. a. Progressive Movement - Conservation - Food - Work Conditions b. Square Deal, New Freedom & New Nationalism (Woodrow Wilson) c. New Deal - Welfare d. Fair Deal e. New Frontier f. Great Society g. National Health Insurance

3. Creating and Enforcing the Law of the Land a. Mayflower Compact b. Articles of Confederation c. Constitutional Convention

October 4. Protect Citizens from Threats Identify and summarize the first ten amendments to a. Bill of Rights the U.S. constitution. b. War between England and France - Compare the Alien and Sedition Acts, Removal of Alien and Sedition Acts Habeas Corpus during the Civil War, the Espionage c. Civil War Lincolns actions and Sedition Acts, Japanese Internment, Second regarding Red Scare, Vietnam Era wiretapping, the Patriot Habeas Corpus and Voting Act, and FISA. d. Woodrow Wilson Espionage and Sedition Acts Weigh the constitutionality of the federal ’ e. FDR Japanese internment. government s restrictions on civil liberties between f. The Second Red Scare 1798 and the present. f. Vietnam Era wiretapping g. Post 9/11 Patriot Act, Abu Identify the role that political machines have played Ghraib, FISA Court throughout American politics

D. What are the strengths and pitfalls of Compare corporate scandals throughout American democracy? history and consider the effectiveness of the federal government in prosecuting corporate lawlessness. 1. What role do special interest groups play in government? Analyze and explain the impact of Marbury v. a. Political Machines Madison on the American judicial system. ’ b. Durant s Scam c. Tea Pot Dome Scandal Examine the impact of the breakdown of the system d. Tobacco Industry of checks and balances. e. Dan Abrahms Identify and list the reasons for why people 2. Checks and Balances emigrate to the U.S. a. Marbury v. Madison b. Watergate Categorize reasons for why people emigrate into c. Iran Contra push and pull factors.

Identify the effects of immigration on immigrants.

2 of 14 Month Content Skills II. Changes in Americas Demographics Explain the impact of indentured servitude on the settlement of North America. A. What does it mean to be an American? Identify the different forms of slave labor

1. Breaking down boundaries & Explain the shift from indentured servitude to constructs African slavery in the U.S. a. Introductory Activity Identify limits placed upon groups within the U.S. 2. Reasons People Emigrate a. Push/Pull Identify the causes behind nativism. b. Impact of Migration c. Potato Famine Analyze the impact of undocumented immigration on the American economy B. What shapes American immigration ’ policy? Identify how America s refugee policy has evolved. 1. Labor Shortages a. Indentured Servants - colonization b. Importation of Slave Labor forced immigration c. Irish and Germans 1840s/1850s RR Building d. Chinese 1860s RR building and mines e. Southern and Eastern immigrants Growth of Urban America f. Japanese 1890s 1910s g. Mexican immigration - 1940s/1950s h. Latin American, Caribbean, & SE Asian Immigration 1970s present i. Immigration Laws/Policies

2. Nativism a. Catholics vs. Protestants 1840s b. Chinese Exclusion 1880s c. Roosevelt and Japanese School children d. KKK and SE Europeans 1920s e. Operation Wet Back 1950s f. Undocumented Immigration 1980s - Present

3. Refugees a. Puritans b. Quakers c. Georgia Penal Colony d. Cubans e. Haitians f. Vietnamese g. Jews h. Sudan i. Iraq

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’ November C. What has created American Evaluate the U.S. government s policy regarding migration? Indian removal.

1. Forced Government Migration Identify how Native Americans resisted removal. a. Colonial seizure of Native Lands b. Trail of Tears - Removal of Compare the Reservation System to the Dawes Act. Native Americans Analyze the impact of the gold rush on the west c. Reservation system & Dawes Act Describe the social and economic factors that instigated African American migration north. 2. Desire for a Better Living Standards Evaluate the impact that the Harlem renaissance had a. Gold Rush RR on American culture. b. Growth of Cities turn of the Century Evaluate how population shifts within America have c. Great migration WWI & Harlem impacted the American economy, social systems Renaissance and political representation. d. Great Migration WWII e. Move to the Sunbelt States Identify the impact of natural disasters on the f. Growth of Suburbia GI Bill and demographics of a region. Interstate Highway System g. Outsourcing ghost-town; Detroit, MI; manufacturing

3. Natural Disasters a. Dust Bowl b. Galveston Hurricane b. Hurricane Katrina

D. What is the impact of the changing demographics on American society?

1. Agrarian to Industrial a. Teddy Roosevelt Nature Parks b. Reliance on imported goods c. Pollution Analyze and critique the concepts associated with stratification of groups within society. 2. Cultural Infusion a. Holiday traditions Identify the major elements of the southern b. Language economy. c. Dress

3. Retirees Identify and critique the compromise reached at the a. Baby Boomers constitutional convention regarding the issue of slavery (3\5ths compromise).

III. The Stratification of American Compare the Missouri Compromise, Compromise Society of 1850, and Compromise of 1854 and their role in dealing with the issue of slavery. A. How does America group its citizens? Identify and critique the Supreme Court ruling in 1. Traditional Dred Scott v. Sandford a. Ethnic b. Religious Analyze the arguments presented by Lincoln and Douglass regarding the issue of slavery.

4 of 14 Month Content Skills 2. Non-traditional a. Developing Stereotypes Compare African American stereotypes.

B. What factors have determined the Compare the role that African Americans played placement of groups within American throughout history in defending democratic society? principles during times in which their own rights were being violated. C. How has America addressed issues of stratification between groups? Identify laws passed to restrict the rights of African Americans. 1.Legal Discrimination of African Americans List and explain the reconstruction Amendments a. Plantation System (B) - Barbados Slave Codes (B) Consider the effectiveness of Civil Rights - Cotton Gin/King Cotton legislation passed during the 1960's. b. 3/5ths Compromise (B) c. Missouri Compromise (1820) (B) d. Compromise of 1850 (B) . e. Compromise of 1854 (B) - Lincoln Douglass Debates f. Dred Scott Case (B) g. Sambo/Nat Stereotype (B) h. African Americans in the Military (B) i. 13th Amendment (C) j. Sharecropping (B) k. Black Codes (B) l. KKK (B) m. 14th Amendment (C) n. Plessy vs. Ferguson (B) o. Lynchings/NAACP (C) p. Scottsboro Boys (B) q. Civil Rights Act of 1964 (C) - Affirmative Action (C) r. Civil Rights Act of 1968 (C)

December s. Inequality of judicial system Identify ways in which states infringed upon the (B) voting rights of African Americans. t. Racial Profiling (B) u. Death Row Inequality (B) Consider the effectiveness of Voting Rights legislation passed during the 1960's. 2. Political Discrimination of African Americans Analyze and explain the socio-economic inequality a. Jim Crow (B) that has resulted from institutionalized racism in - Literacy test(B) America. - Poll taxes(B) b. 15th Amendment (C) Judge the effectiveness of Brown v. Board of c. Civil Rights Act of 1965 (C) education decision. d. Political Representation (C) Judge the effectiveness of Affirmative Action. 3. Educational Discrimination of African Americans Compare passive and active resistance and create a a. Slave Codes (limits) (B) list of ways in which African Americans fought b. Segregation of schools (B) against the institution of slavery. c. Tuskegee Institute(C) d. Booker T. Compare the philosophy of Civil Rights Leaders Washington/W.E.B. Dubois(C) throughout history that has promoted African

5 of 14 Month Content Skills e. Black Universities (C) American equality. f. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (C) Indentify and explain the five non-violent tactics of g. Little Rock Nine(C) the modern day civil rights movement. h. Regents of University of California v. Bakke (C) Identify the significant Civil Rights organizations of i. University of Michigan Law the 20th Century. School Consider the causes of urban rioting D. How have individuals responded to discrimination? Differentiate between gender and sex.

1. Passive slave resistance Identify the changing role of women throughout a. Work stoppages American history. b. Nat Turner (1800 1831) c. Underground Railroad Compare the Cult of Domesticity I and II - Harriet Tubman Identify the role that women played during WWII 2. Second Great Awakening a. Abolitionist Movement Describe the key events that led to Women's gaining - Frederick DouglasWilliam suffrage Lloyd Garrison Evaluate the impact that the modern day African 3. African Americans in Sports American civil rights movement had on the women's rights movement. 4. Civil Rights Movement a. Five Non-Violent Tactics Recognize the impact that the Second Great - Boycotts Awakening had on women and their involvement in - Sit-ins social issues. - Marches - Freedom Rides Evaluate the effectiveness of legislation intended to - Voter Registration protect the rights of women. b. Organizations - SCLC/SNCC/CORE/NAACP Point out the impact that individual women had in - Black Power securing equal rights. - Nation of Islam - Black Panthers c. 1960's Riots & LA Riot - Kerner Report - Rodney King d. O.J. Simpson Trial

A. How does America group its citizens?

1. Gender roles

B. What factors have determined the placement of groups within American society?

’ 1. Colonies Woman s role in North ’ vs. Woman s role in South

2. Republican Motherhood

3. Industrialization ’ a. Lowell s Mill

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4. Cult of Domesticity I (1800's)

5. The Great Depression & WWII a. Family values b. Rosie the Riveter

6. Cult of Domesticity II (1950's)

C. How has America addressed issues of stratification between groups?

1. Progressive Movement a. Social Reforms - Child Labor - Mental Health (Nelly Bly) b. Political Reform

c. Suffrage - Seneca Falls Convention - 19th Amendment

2 Civil Rights Movement a. Civil Rights Act 1964 b. "Bra Burning" c. Equal Rights Amendment d. Title 9 e. Women in the Workplace ceiling) - glass ceiling - Sexual Harassment

D. How have individuals responded to discrimination?

1. The Second Great Awakening a. Abolitionism (1800s)

2. Temperance Movement (1800s)

3. Flappers

4. Influential Women a. Jeanette Rankin b. Eleanor Roosevelt c. Birth Control (Margaret Sanger) d Abortion e. Roe v. Wade f. Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique)

January IV. Insurrection in America Relate how the growth of the Virginia Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony affected relations A. What issues have caused between American Indians and settlers. insurrection? Explain how the Puritans implementation of ’ 1. Basic Needs Maslow s hierarchy Christian doctrine negatively impacted Native

7 of 14 Month Content Skills a. Loss of tangible goods American culture. b. Freedom c. Racism (slavery) Explain how the colonists responded to the Stamp Act. B. How have Americans expressed their discontent with government policy? Summarize the events that led to the Boston Massacre. C. How has American government responded to insurrections? Analyze why the colonists in Massachusetts staged the Boston Tea Party. 1. Assembly vs. Terrorism (group originates the violence) Identify the use of Colonial propaganda. a. Native uprisings in VA and MA - King Phillips War (T) Explain why Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts. - Powhattan Uprising (T) b. Sons of Liberty (T) Compare the decisions made by the first and second - Response to the Stamp Act (T) continental congress c. Boston Massacre (T) d. Tea Party (T) Compare American business and labor relations e. 1st Continental Congress (A) during the late 19th and early 20th century. f. 2nd Continental Congress (A) g. Declaration of Independence (A) Evaluate the impact of Vietnam Era protests on h. Shays Rebellion (T) shaping government policy. i. Great Railroad Strike (A) j. Pullman Strike (A) k. Haymarket Riot (A) l. Homestead Strike (A) m. Labor Unions (A) n. Sacco and Vanzetti (T) o. Organized Crime (T) p. Bonus March (A) q. United Farm Workers (A) s. Protest (A) - Kent State (A) - Democratic Convention (A)

February t. American Indian Movement Identify and explain the goals of AIM. - Alcatraz (Terrorism) - Wounded Knee (Part II) Compare recent acts of domestic terrorism to (Terrorism) colonial acts of domestic terrorism. u. Persian Gulf I (Assembly) v. Oklahoma City Bombing Compare the Vietnam Era protests to the protests (Terrorism) involving America's involvement in Iraq. w. Unabomber (Terrorism) x. War in Iraq (Assembly) Explain how the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions supported the idea of states rights 2. Secession a. Kentucky/Virginia Resolutions Identify the significance of the Hartford Convention b. Hartford Convention in its relation to the concept of secession and c. Nullification Crisis- Jackson and explain why it failed. SC d. John Browns Raid Explain how the federal government responded to e. Civil War South Carolinas threat to secede

’ V. American Expansionism Explain John Brown s role in widening the rift between the north and the south. A. How has territorial expansion been justified? Explain the impact of the 1860 Presidential Election

8 of 14 Month Content Skills on the 1. Acquisition of resources 2. Spread of religion Identify the main reason given by the confederate 3. Racial Supremacy states for secession.

B. What factors promote continental Explain how Lincolns decision regarding Fort expansion? Sumter set the tone for the course of the war.

1. Acquisition of resources/ Religious Compare the strengths and weaknesses (military, and Racial Entitlement economic, political) of the Union and Confederacy. a. Treaty of Paris b. Northwest Ordinance Explain the significance of Antietam, Gettysburg, c. Adams Onis Treaty and Vicksburg. d. Webster Ashburton Treaty e. Louisiana Purchase Compare Grants military strategy to his f. Texas Independence predecessors g. Manifest Destiny - Oregon Territory Analyze and interpret Lincolns Second Inaugural - Mexican/American War Address.

Compare Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction.

Explain the Compromise of 1877.

’ Explain how Jefferson s strict constructionists view of the Constitution contradicted the Louisiana Purchase

Identify the main goal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Identify the Four main goals of James K. Polk s Presidency

Infer how difficult life was for early pioneers by analyzing primary source documents

Locate the Texas territory on their continental expansionism map.

Identify key individual and battles associated with Texas independence.

Identify the causes of the Mexican American War.

List the key features of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Explain how government legislation impacted the settlement of the West.

Explain the impact of the American cowboy on the settlement of the West.

March C. What factors promote overseas Compare Manifest Destiny and Imperialism. expansion? Distinguish between Ant-Imperialism and

9 of 14 Month Content Skills 1. Southern Expansion of Slavery Imperialism arguments. a. Cuba & Nicaragua 2. Alaska purchase Analyze and interpret the role that A.T. Mahan 3. Imperialism played in shaping American Imperialistic policy. a. Annexation of Hawaii b. Spanish American War Analyze and interpret the role that Josiah Strong c. Philippine American War played in shaping American Imperialistic policy. d. Roosevelt Corrolary - TR e. Panama Canal Explain why the Monroe Doctrine remained f. Woodrow Wilson in Mexico obsolete until the 1890s? f. Good Neighbor Policy - FDR Explain the role that American businessmen played D. What responsibility does America in the Annexation of Hawaii have towards the inhabitants of a newly Evaluate if the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands ’ acquired territory? contradicts America s philosophical and constitutional principles. 1. Florida Native Americans 2. Mexican American War - Identify the significance of the Venezuela Border Mexicans dispute. 3. Oregon British 4. Nicaragua Identify the specific causes that drove the 5. Hawaii people U.S. into the Spanish American War. 6. Cubans, Puerto Ricans 7. Fillipinos Explain the conditions set forth in the 1898 Treaty 8. Panamanians of Paris. 9. Louisiana Purchase Spanish and French Compare pro and anti arguments related to the annexation of the Philippines.

VI. The Mobilization of America Evaluate if the annexation of the Philippine Islands contradicts Americas philosophical and A. What motivates American constitutional principles. engagement in military conflict? Compare the Monroe Doctrine to Roosevelt's B. How does war impact Americans on Corollary the home front? Judge the morality and legality of the U.S. C. What factors determine the outcome acquisition of the Panama Canal. of the war? ’ ’ Compare Roosevelt s, Taft s, and Wilsons Foreign 1. War of 1812 policies a. Causes of War - neutrality Identify the causes behind the deteriorating - impressment relationship between Mexico and the United States b. Propaganda in the early 20th Century c. News Media d. Raising Funds & Troops List the Cause of the War of 1812 e. Rationing f. Intelligence Gathering Identify the U.S. military failures and successes g. Military Engagements during the War of 1812. - Washington DC - Fort McHenry Identify the role that Andrew Jackson played during - New Orleans the battle of New Orleans and infer the impact it h. Outcomes of War will have on his future. - Nationalism

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April A. What motivates American engagement Identify the causes of World War I. in military conflict? Locate the main Central and Allied Powers on a B. How does war impact Americans on map of Europe. the home front? Compare the events that drew America into the War C. What factors determine the outcome of 1812 to the events that drew America into WWI. of the war? Explain the role that unrestricted submarine warfare 2. World War I played in gradually convincing America to enter the a. Causes of War war in Europe. - Secret alliances - Increase in armaments Analyze the Zimmerman telegram and decipher the - Archduke Ferdinand content of the message. - Neutrality Rights b. Propaganda & News Media Explain the role that George Creels Committee on - Committee on Public Public Information played in shaping war opinion. Information c. Raising Funds & Troops Identify and explain the significance of Schenck v. - Liberty Bonds United States - 16th Amendment - Selective Service Act Explain the efforts undertaken by the American d. Rationing government to promote rationing and increased - Food Administration production in industry. Victory Gardens e. Intelligence Gathering Compare the First Selective Service Act of 1917 - Zimmerman Telegram with the current Selective Service process. f. Military Engagements - Argonne Offensive Compare the military tactics used by the allies and h. Outcomes of War central powers in the European theatre of the war. - Wilson's 14 Points - Treaty of Versailles Weigh the need for rules in warfare.

3. World War II Compare the use of chemical and biological a. Causes of War weapons throughout world history. - German Aggression - Japanese Aggression Identify the U.S. rationale for providing chemical b. Propaganda & News Media and biological weapons to Saddam Hussein - Germany vs. Japan - Cartoons go to War Explain the role that the U.S. played in the war in c. Raising Funds & Troops Europe - Liberty Bonds - Selective Service Distinguish between Wilsons 14 Points - Government Price Controls d. Rationing Identify the limitations of the Versailles Peace - Booklets Treaty - Victory Gardens - Gas Explain why the Influenza outbreak of 1918 was so - Steel deadly - Rubber - Daylight savings Explain how Hitler used the Treaty of Versailles f . Intelligence Gathering and the Weimar Republic (German government -RADAR established after WWI) to take control of Germany. - Enigma Machine ’ - MAGIC Compare Hitler s ideological beliefs with his future - Navajo Code Talkers war aims. g. Military Engagements

11 of 14 Month Content Skills - Pearl Harbor Explain the rationale for the U.S. isolationist policy - Midway between the WWI and WWII. - Stalingrad - Battle of Bulge Identify the negative consequences of American - Okinawa & Iwo Jima isolationism leading up to WWII. - Hiroshima & Nagasaki h. Genocide Compare American neutrality policy prior to the - Einsatzgruppen War of 1812, WWI, and WWII. - Concentration Camps, Mass Executions, Gas Vans, Death Identify the steps taken by FDR to aid England Camps against Germany.

Locate Japans imperialistic conquests throughout the Far East.

Explain the factors that motivated Japanese Imperialism.

Compare the Nazis and Japans Master Race beliefs.

Identify the significance of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Identify the impact that the attack on Pearl Harbor had on unifying Americans.

Compare FDR's December 7th Address to Congress and George W. Bushs 9-11 Address to the nation.

Explain the significance of intelligence gathering during wartime.

Evaluate the effectiveness on wartime propaganda on shaping American pubic opinion during WWII.

Compare rationing efforts undertaken during WWI and WWII.

Compare the Selective Service Acts implemented during WWI and WWII

Identify the role that the U.S. government played in controlling private industry during WWII.

Explain the different methods the U.S. used to finance WWII.

Locate significant N. African and European battles involving the U.S. allies against the Axis powers in N. Africa and Europe.

Locate the significant battles involving American troops in North Africa, Europe, and the Pacific

Judge the relevancy of the holocaust to the present day.

12 of 14 Month Content Skills May i. Outcomes of War Compare the League of Nations to the United - United Nations Nations - War Crimes Trials (Nuremberg & Tokyo) Compare the Nuremberg and Japanese War Crimes - Bataan Death March Trials - Creation of Israel Identify the rationale behind the creation of Israel. VII. Americas Relationship with the World

A. How has Americas role in the world changed over time?

1. Isolationist (Review) a. Washington and entangling alliances ’ b. Jefferson s Embargo c. Post WWI - 1920s 1940s

2. Neutrality (Review) a. War between France and England XYZ Affair b. War of 1812 Impressment c. Pre-WWI Wilsons Presidency

iii. Police Power a. Monroe Doctrine a. Venezuela b. Mexico b. Big Stick and Dollar Diplomacy a. Dominican Republic c. Serbia d. Somalia e. Rawanda f. Libya g. Panama h. Korea i. Persian Gulf II

iv. Promoting Democracy a. b. WWI Involvement c. Good Neighbor Policy d. WWII Involvement e. Cold War a. Truman Doctrine b. Marshall Plan c. Berlin Airlift d. Korea e. Cuba f. Vietnam g. Iran h. Nicaragua i. El Salvador f. Persian Gulf I g. Post 9-11

13 of 14 Month Content Skills B. What should Americas role be in the world?

i. Isolationist ii. Nation Builder iii. Peace Keeper Police Force iv. Coalition Builder v. Pre-emptive Approach c. Should American self interest take priority over the interests of the world? i. 13 Colonies vs. England ii. Monroe Doctrine iii. Neutrality during WWII iv. Isolationism pre-WWII v. Containment vi. Post 9-11

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