Teacher: Coach Laird ([email protected]) Phone Number: 770-310-5000
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Text: The American Pageant: Bailey, Kennedy and Cohen.
IB Course Topics: Reading – You will read an all-inclusive textbook in order to gain the basic facts and knowledge necessary to proceed with other activities and readings. In 8: United States’ Civil War: Causes, course and effects addition, you will read primary source documents and (1840–1877) other selected readings in history. This section focuses on the United States’ Civil War between the North and the South (1861–1865), which Discussion/Lecture – You will be asked to is often perceived as the great watershed in the history of the United States. It transformed the country participate in this activity in two important ways. From forever, but the war created a new set of problems: how would time to time, you will present material to the class. the country be reunited? How would the Also, you should always be prepared to take an active South rebuild its society and economy? How would the four role in discussion. million freed former slaves fit into society?
• Slavery: cotton economy and slavery; conditions of Tests – Three types of exams will be utilized to help enslavement; adaptation and resistance; you prepare to become an critically thinking young abolitionist debate—ideological, legal, religious and economic scholar: Objective (multiple choice) exams will be arguments for and against slavery, and their impact administered periodically (about every week to ten days). Document-Based Essay Questions (DBQ’s) and • Origins of the Civil War: the Nullification Crisis; states’ rights; free response exams will be written (approx. 2 per sectionalism; slavery; political issues; month). economic differences between the North and South
• Reasons for, and effects of, westward expansion and the Written Work –As stated above, document analysis sectional debates; the crises of the 1850s; and writing will be a consistent component of class. In compromise of 1850; political developments, including the addition to formal essays, you will be asked to write Lincoln–Douglas debates and the routinely as checks of comprehension of reading presidential election of 1860 assignments. • Union versus Confederate: strengths and weaknesses; economic resources; role and significance of Quizzes- Reading assignments will generally be given leaders during the Civil War; role of Lincoln; significant military battles/campaigns for each class. There will generally be a quiz for each of the reading assignments. Please see the reading • Factors affecting the outcome of the Civil War; the role of schedule that accompanies this syllabus. foreign relations; the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and participation of African Americans in the Civil War Tutoring- I am available Monday through Friday beginning at 7:30 AM • Reconstruction: presidential and congressional plans; methods of southern resistance; economic, social and political successes and failures Grading- Tests =40%, Quizzes= 15% (F) 10% (S), Papers= 25%, HW/CW= 10% (F) 5% (S), Final • African Americans in the New South: legal issues; the black Exam= 10% (F) EOC= 20% (S) codes; Jim Crow laws
13: The Second World War and the Americas (1933–1945) Exam Exemption Policy- You may exempt the As the world order deteriorated in the late 1930s, resulting in final exam (not the EOC) when qualified based on the outbreak of war in Europe and Asia, the the school’s policy. Exemption will lock your countries of the region reacted in different ways to the grade as is at the time and it will not change. challenges presented. This section focuses on the changing policies of the countries in the region as a result of growing political and diplomatic tensions prior to, and during, the Second World War. It also examines the impact of the war upon the Americas.
• Hemispheric reactions to the events in Europe and Asia: after 1945. Causes of some of these movements may be pre- inter-American diplomacy; cooperation and 1945. These movements represented the neutrality; Franklin D Roosevelt’s Good Neighbour policy—its attempts to achieve equality for groups that were not application and effects recognized or accepted as full members of society, and they challenged established authority and attitudes. • Involvement and participation of any two countries of the Americas in the Second World War • Indigenous peoples and civil rights in the Americas
• Social impact of the Second World War; impact on women • African Americans and the civil rights movement: origins, and minorities; conscription tactics and organizations; the US Supreme Court and legal challenges to segregation in education; ending • Treatment of Japanese Americans, Japanese Latin Americans of segregation in the south and Japanese Canadians (1955–1980)
• Reasons for, and significance of, US use of atomic weapons • Role of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in the civil rights movement; against Japan the rise of radical African American activism (1965–1968): Black Panthers; Black Power and • Economic and diplomatic effects of the Second World War in Malcolm X; role of governments in civil rights any two countries of the Americas movements in the Americas
16: The Cold War and the Americas (1945–1981) • Feminist movements in the Americas; reasons for emergence; This section focuses on the development and impact of the impact and significance Cold War on the region. Most of the second half of the 20th century was dominated by the global conflict of • Hispanic American movement in the United States; Cesar the Cold War. Within the Americas, some Chavez; immigration reform countries were closely allied to the United States and some took sides reluctantly. Many remained neutral • Youth culture and protests of the 1960s and 1970s: or sought to avoid involvement in Cold War struggles. A few, characteristics and manifestation of a counterculture influenced by the Cuban Revolution, instituted socialist governments. No nation, however, escaped the 18: The Americas (1980–2005) pressures of the Cold War, which had a significant This section focuses on changing trends in foreign and impact on the domestic and foreign policies of the countries of domestic policies in the Americas. In the latter the region. decades of the 20th century, the region experienced significant political, social, cultural and economic • Truman: containment and its implications for the Americas; changes. The section also considers the transitions to the rise of McCarthyism and its effects on democracy in Latin America and the challenges domestic and foreign policies of the United States; social and encountered. cultural impact of the Cold War • The United States: domestic policies of presidents Reagan, • Korean War, the United States and the Americas: reasons for GHW Bush and Clinton; challenges; effects participation; military developments; on the United States; impact upon the hemisphere; continuities diplomatic and political outcomes and changes in US foreign policy: Reagan, GHW Bush and Clinton; from bipolar to unilateral • Eisenhower and Dulles: New Look and its application; power; impact on the region characteristics and reasons for the policy; repercussions for the region • Canadian domestic policies: Mulroney governments (1984– 1993), collapse of the Progressive • United States’ involvement in Vietnam: the reasons for, and Conservative Party; Chrétien in power (1993–2003), Quebec nature of, the involvement at different and separatism stages; domestic effects and the end of the war; Canadian non- support of the war; Latin American • Transition to democracy in two countries of Latin America: protest against the war reasons for democratization; role of internal and external factors • United States’ foreign policies from Kennedy to Carter: the characteristics of, and reasons for, policies; • Post-transition challenges in two countries of Latin America: implications for the region: Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress; economic challenges and debt; justice Nixon’s covert operations and Chile; and reconciliation; political parties and the role of the military Carter’s quest for human rights and the Panama Canal Treaty (1977) • Violent and non-violent movements in two countries of Latin America: causes, aims and impact; role • Cold War in either Canada or one Latin American country: of religion, including liberation theology reasons for foreign and domestic policies and their implementation • Economic and political cooperation in the Americas: reasons for and impact 17: Civil rights and social movements in the Americas post ‑1945 • Terrorism; 9/11 and response: domestic impact This section examines the origins, nature, challenges and achievements of civil rights and social movements