US History II Unit 6: Social Change & Vietnam 1 Unit Topic: Social Change, Civil Rights, & Vietnam
Conceptual Lens: Conflict and Compromise
Unit Overview:
Essential Standards and Clarifying Objectives: AH2.H.2: Analyze key political, economic, and social turning points in American History using historical thinking. o AH2.H.2.1: Analyze key political , economic, and social turning points since Reconstruction in terms of causes and effects (e.g., conflicts, legislation, elections, innovations, leadership, movements, Supreme Court decisions, etc.) o AH2.H.2.2: Evaluate key turning points since Reconstruction in terms of their lasting impact. (e.g., conflicts, legislation, elections, innovations, leadership, movements, Supreme Court decisions, etc.) AH2.H.3: Understand the factors that led to exploration, settlement, movement, and expansion and their impact on United States development over time. o AH2.H.3.4: Analyze voluntary and involuntary immigration trends since Reconstruction in terms of causes, regions of origin, and destination, cultural contributions, and public and government response (e.g., new immigrants, port of entry, ethnic neighborhoods, settlement houses, immigration restrictions) AH2.H.4: Analyze how conflict and compromise have shaped politics, economics and culture in the United States. o AH2.H.4.1: Analyze the political issues and conflicts that impacted the United States since Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted (e.g., Populism, Progressivism, working conditions and labor unrest, New Deal, Wilmington Race Riots, Eugenics, Civil Rights Movements, Anti-War protests, Watergate, etc.) o AH2.H.4.2: Analyze the economic issues and conflicts that impacted the United States since Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted (e.g., currency policy, industrialization, urbanization, laissez-faire, labor unrest, New Deal, Great Society, supply side economics, etc.) o AH2.H.4.3: Analyze the social and religious conflicts, movements and reforms that impacted the United States since Reconstruction in terms of participants, strategies, opposition, and results (e.g., Prohibition, Social Darwinism, Eugenics, civil rights, anti-war protests, etc.) o AH2.H.4.4: Analyze the cultural conflicts that impacted the United States since Reconstruction and the compromises that resulted (e.g., nativism, Back to Africa movement, modernism, fundamentalism, black power movement, women’s movement, counterculture, Wilmington Race Riots, etc.) AH2.H.5: Understand how tensions between freedom, equality and power have shaped the political, economics, and social development of the United States. o AH2.H.5.1: Summarize how the philosophical, ideological and/or religious views on freedom and equality contributed to the development of American political and economic systems since Reconstruction (e.g., “separate but equal”, Social Darwinism, social gospel, civil service system, suffrage, Harlem Renaissance, the Warren Court, Great Society programs, American Indian Movement, etc.). o AH2.H.5.2: Explain how judicial, legislative and executive actions have affected the distribution of power between levels of government since Reconstruction (e.g., New Deal, Great Society, Civil Rights, etc.). AH2.H.6: Understand how and why the role of the United States in the world has changed over time. o AH2.H.6.1: Explain how national economic and political interests helped set the direction of United States foreign policy since Reconstruction (e.g., new markets, isolationism, neutrality, containment, homeland security, etc.). o AH2.H.6.2: Explain the reasons for United States involvement in global wars and the influence each involvement had on international affairs (e.g., Spanish- American War, WWI, WWII, Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraqi War, etc.). AH2.H.7: Understand the impact of war on American politics, economics, society and culture. o AH2.H.7.1: Explain the impact of wars on American politics since Reconstruction (e.g., spheres of influence, isolationist practices, containment policies, first and second Red Scare movements, patriotism, terrorist policies, etc.). US History II Unit 6: Social Change & Vietnam 2 o AH2.H.7.3: Explain the impact of wars on American society and culture since Reconstruction (e.g., relocation of Japanese Americans, American propaganda, first and second Red Scare movement, McCarthyism, baby boom, Civil Rights Movement, protest movements, ethnic, patriotism, etc.). AH2.H.8: Analyze the relationship between progress, crisis and the “American Dream” within the United States. o AH2.H.8.1: Analyze the relationship between innovation, economic development, progress and various perceptions of the “American Dream” since Reconstruction (e.g., Gilded Age, assembly line, transcontinental railroad, highway system, credit, etc.). o AH2.H.8.2: Explain how opportunity and mobility impacted various groups within American society since Reconstruction (e.g., Americanization movement, settlement house movement, Dust Bowl, the Great Migration, suburbia, etc.).
Conceptual Webbing:
Exploration, Settlement, Conflict and Compromise Freedom, Equality, and International Affairs and War Progress, Crises, and the Movement, and Expansion Power Foreign Policy American Dream
T Thematic Abstracts: Thematic Abstracts: Thematic Abstracts: Thematic Abstracts: Thematic Abstracts: Thematic Abstracts: Social turning points Political and Social Political and Social Political and Militaristic Turning The dream of suburbia turning points turning points diplomatic turning Points points Essential Vocab Essential Vocab Essential Vocab Essential Vocab Essential Vocab Suburbia; Levittowns; Civil Rights Movement; American Indian Essential Vocab Gulf of Tonkin Incident; Interstate Highway Immigration Act of Anti-War Protests; Great Movement (AIM); The Containment; Gulf of Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions; System; Suburbia; White 1965; Society; The Civil Rights Warren Court; Escobedo v Tonkin Resolutions; Tet Offensive; Fall of Flight; Decay of Urban Act of 1964; The Voting Illinois; Gideon v Vietnamization; Peace with Saigon; Search and Areas; Levittowns; Rights Act of 1965; The Wainwright; Miranda v Honor; Détente; Real Destroy; Battle of Dien Assassination of JFK; Civil Rights Act of 1968; Arizona; Mapp v Ohio; Politik; Nixon’s 1972 Visits Bien Phu; Vietnamization; Warren Commission; Election of 1960; Election Great Society Programs; to China and USSR; Geneva Peace with Honor; Impact Cultural Diffusion; Ralph of 1964; Election of 1968; Medicare; Medicaid; Accords; of Propaganda on war Ellison’s The Invisible Man; Post World War II Housing and Urban effort/support; John Kenneth Galbraith’s Consumerism; “War on Development; Food Counterculture; My Lai The Affluent Society; Poverty”; Stagflation; Stamps; Welfare; Massacre; Edward Hopper; Malcolm SNCC; SCLS; Congress of Unemployment Benefits; X; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Racial Equality (CORE); Head Start; Furman v Betty Friedan’s Feminine Black Panther Party; Georgia; Greg v Georgia; Mystique; National Septima Clark; Ella Baker; Brown v BOE; Swann v Organization of Women Daisy Bates; Little Rock 9; CMS; James Meredith; (NOW); Gloria Steinem; Children’s March 1963; Little Rock 9; “Dixiecrats”; JFK’s 1961 Inaugural 16th Street Baptist Church War Powers Act; Roe v Address; US History II Unit 6: Social Change & Vietnam 3 Bombing; Greensboro Wade; Equal Rights Four; Greensboro Sit Ins; Amendment; Montgomery Bus Boycotts; Freedom Riders; the Feminist Movement; Chicano Movement; American Indian Movement (AIM); Cesar Chavez; Betty Freidan; Gloria Steinem; Black Power Movement; Malcolm X; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Stokley Carmichael; Cult of Domesticity; Levittowns; Beatniks; Corporate Life; Youth Culture; Rock-n-Roll; 1968 Chicago DNC; Kent State; Asian American Civil Rights; the Draft;
Essential Questions:
Exploration, Settlement, Conflict and Compromise Freedom, Equality, and International Affairs and War Progress, Crises, and the Movement, and Expansion Power Foreign Policy American Dream
EQs: EQs: EQs: EQs EQs EQs 1. What social and 1. To what degree 1. How does a nation’s 2. What impact did the 1. How do 1. How did nativist political consequences has equality been involvement in Vietnam War have on technological changes attitudes impact resulted from the achieved in America? international conflicts the United States? alter the lives of federal immigration actions of the affect politics and individuals? laws? government during 2. To what extent society at home? 3. What political, social, this time period? did social movements and economic factors 2. How does 2. How did various in America impact led to US involvement innovation effect federal immigration 2. How did the Civil women, young in the Vietnam other changes in a laws affect specific Rights Movement people, and the conflict? nation? groups of immigrants change America? environment? since Reconstruction? 3. How did the 3. How does a philosophical shift government’s US History II Unit 6: Social Change & Vietnam 4 3. How did post World toward more militant response to political 3. What War II conditions tactics impact the events and situations technological contribute to the outcome of the Civil impact the nation? innovation has had growth of suburbia? Rights Movement? the greatest impact on 4. How does a American life? government’s 4. How effective are response to political challenges to events and situations 4. How is America authority in bringing affect the nation? different because of about change? the social movements of this era?
5. To what extent did social movements in America impact women, young people, and the environment?
6. How is America different because of the social movements which took place between 1945-1980?
7. Why is change so difficult for some people?
RESOURCES
1. McDougal-Littell Resources a. Textbook: The Americans b. Internet: www.Classzone.com 2. Other Internet Resources
3. Literature US History II Unit 6: Social Change & Vietnam 5
4. Audio/Visual Resources