id15274984 pdfMachine by Broadgun Software - a great PDF writer! - a great PDF creator! - http://www.pdfmachine.com http://www.broadgun.com US History 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. Gilded Age 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 3 of 14 Month Content Skills ’ 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.