Monday, August 4, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
11.11.7 - Demographic and Social Changes
Explain how the federal, state, and local governments have responded to demographic and social changes such as population shifts to the suburbs, racial concentrations in the cities, Frostbelt-to-Sunbelt migration, international migration, decline of family farms, increases in out-of-wedlock births, and drug abuse.
11.11.6 - Poverty
Analyze the persistence of poverty and how different analyses of this issue influence welfare reform, health insurance reform, and other social policies.
11.11.5 - Environmental Conservation
Trace the impact of, need for, and controversies associated with environmental conservation, expansion of the national park system, and the development of environmental protection laws, with particular attention to the interaction between environmental protection advocates and property rights advocates.
11.11.4 - Watergate Scandal
Explain the constitutional crisis originating from the Watergate scandal.
11.11.3 - Changing Role of Women
Describe the changing roles of women in society as reflected in the entry of more women into the labor force and the changing family structure.
11.11.2 - Domestic Policy
Discuss the significant domestic policy speeches of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton (e.g., with regard to education, civil rights, economic policy, environmental policy).
11.11.1 - Imigration
Discuss the reasons for the nation's changing immigration policy, with emphasis on how the Immigration Act of 1965 and successor acts have transformed American society.
11.11 - Social Problems and Domestic Policy Today
11.11 Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society.
11.10.7 - Women's Rights Movement
Analyze the women's rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s, including differing perspectives on the roles of women.
11.10.6 - 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965 and 24th Amendment
Analyze the passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (e.g., 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, with an emphasis on equality of access to education and to the political process.
11.10.5 - Civil Rights Spreads from African American Churches... Effects Other Minorities as Well
Discuss the diffusion of the civil rights movement of African Americans from the churches of the rural South and the urban North, including the resistance to racial desegregation in Little Rock Birmingham
11.10.4 - Civil Rights Leaders of the 50s-60s
Examine the roles of civil rights advocates (e.g., A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, James Farmer, Rosa Parks), including the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr. 's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and "I Have a Dream" speech.
11.10.3 - Legal Strategy to End Segregation in Higher Education
Describe the collaboration on legal strategy between African American and white civil rights lawyers to end racial segregation in higher education.
11.10.2 - Evolution of Civil Rights
Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson University of California
11.10.1 - African Americans Fight for Civil Rights from 1930s-40s
Explain how demands of African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rights, including President Roosevelt's ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in 1941, and how African Americans' service in World War II produced a stimulus for President Truman's decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948.
11.10 - Civil Rights and Voting Rights
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
11.9.7 - US and Mexico Relations
Examine relations between the United States Mexico
11.9.6 - Middle East Policy (Including Gulf War)
Describe U.S. Middle East policy and its strategic, political, and economic interests, including those related to the Gulf War.
11.9.5 - Reagan Wins the Cold War
Analyze the role of the Reagan administration and other factors in the victory of the West in the Cold War.
11.9.4 - Foreign and Domestic Policies Effect on One Another
List the effects of foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa (e.g., protests during the war in Vietnam
11.9.3 - The Cold War and Containment Policy
Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment policy, including the following:
- The era of McCarthyism, instances of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and blacklisting
- The Truman Doctrine
- The
- The Korean War
- The
- Atomic testing in the American West, the "mutual assured destruction" doctrine, and disarmament policies
- The Vietnam War
- Latin American policy
11.9.2 - Military Alliances
Understand the role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring communist aggression and maintaining security during the Cold War.
11.9.1 - Establishing International Bodies
Discuss the establishment of the United Nations and International Declaration of Human Rights, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and their importance in shaping modern Europe and maintaining peace and international order.
11.8.8 - Popular Culture: Orgins and Geographic Diffusion
Discuss forms of popular culture, with emphasis on their origins and geographic diffusion (e.g., jazz and other forms of popular music, professional sports, architectural and artistic styles).
11.8.7 - Technological Developments Since 1945
Describe the effects on society and the economy of technological developments since 1945, including the computer revolution, changes in communication, advances in medicine, and improvements in agricultural technology.
11.8.6 - The North American Evironment
Discuss the diverse environmental regions of North America , their relationship to local economies, and the origins and prospects of environmental problems in those regions.
11.8.5 - Increased Powers of the Presidency: Great Depression, WWII and Cold War
Describe the increased powers of the presidency in response to the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War.
11.8.4 - Government Spending
Analyze new federal government spending on defense, welfare, interest on the national debt, and federal and state spending on education, including the California Master Plan.
11.8.2 - Mexican Immigration
Describe the significance of Mexican immigration and its relationship to the agricultural economy, especially in California
11.8.1 - Jobs: Service Sector, White Collar and Professional Sector
Trace the growth of service sector, white collar, and professional sector jobs in business and government.
11.8 - Post WWII America
11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post-World War II America.
11.7.8 - Marshall Plan
Analyze the effect of massive aid given to Western Europe under the Marshall Plan to rebuild itself after the war and the importance of a rebuilt Europe to the U.S.
11.7.7 - Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Discuss the decision to drop atomic bombs and the consequences of the decision (Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
11.7.6 - Advancements in Aviation, Weaponry, Communication and Medicine
Describe major developments in aviation, weaponry, communication, and medicine and the war's impact on the location of American industry and use of resources.
11.7.5 - Constitutional Issues: Minority Groups During WWII
Discuss the constitutional issues and impact of events on the U.S. home front, including the internment of Japanese Americans (e.g., Fred Korematsu v. United States of America) and the restrictions on German and Italian resident aliens; the response of the administration to Hitler's atrocities against Jews and other groups; the roles of women in military production; and the roles and growing political demands of African Americans.
11.7.4 - FDR during WWII
Analyze
11.7.3 - Sacrifices of American Soldiers
Identify the roles and sacrifices of individual American soldiers, as well as the unique contributions of the special fighting forces (e.g., the Tuskegee Airmen, the 442nd Regimental Combat team, the Navajo Code Talkers).
11.7.2 - Allied Wartime Strategy
Explain U.S. Normandy Iwo Jima , Okinawa , and the Battle
11.7.1 - Pearl Harbor
Examine the origins of American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events that precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor .
11.6.5 - Organized Labor
Trace the advances and retreats of organized labor, from the creation of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations to current issues of a postindustrial, multinational economy, including the United Farm Workers in
11.6.4 - The New Deal: Expanding the Role of the Federal Government
Analyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy since the 1930s (e.g., Works Progress Administration, Social Security, National Labor Relations Board, farm programs, regional development policies, and energy development projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, California Central Valley Project, and Bonneville Dam).
11.6.3 - The Great Depression, Natural Disasters and the Dust Bowl
Discuss the human toll of the Depression, natural disasters (i.e Florida), and unwise agricultural practices and their effects on the depopulation of rural regions and on political movements of the left and right, with particular attention to the Dust Bowl refugees and their social and economic impacts in California
11.6.2 - The Great Depression: Causes and Steps Taken to Combat the Crisis
Understand the explanations of the principal causes of the Great Depression and the steps taken by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and Presidents Herbert Hoover
11.6.1 - Monetary issues at the Turn of the Century
Describe the monetary issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that gave rise to the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the weaknesses in key sectors of the economy in the late 1920s.
11.6 - Great Depression and the New Deal's Impact on Federal Government
11.6 Students analyze the different explanations for the Great Depression and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal government.
11.5.7 - Mass Production, Cities and Prosperity in America
Discuss the rise of mass production techniques, the growth of cities, the impact of new technologies (e.g., the automobile, electricity), and the resulting prosperity and effect on the American landscape.
11.5.6 - Radio and Movies and Diffusion of Popular Culture
Trace the growth and effects of radio and movies and their role in the worldwide diffusion of popular culture.
11.5.5 - Harlem Renaissance and New Trends
Describe the Harlem Renaissance and new trends in literature, music, and art, with special attention to the work of writers (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes).
11.5.4 - 19th Amendment and Women in Society
Analyze the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the changing role of women in society.
11.5.3 - 18th Amendment and Volstead Act
Examine the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act (Prohibition).
11.5.2 - 1920s: Attacks on Civil Liberties
Analyze the international and domestic events, interests, and philosophies that prompted attacks on civil liberties, including the Palmer Raids, Marcus Garvey's "back-to-Africa" movement, the Ku Klux Klan, and immigration quotas and the responses of organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Anti-Defamation League to those attacks.
11.5.1 - Harding, Coolidge and Hoover
Discuss the policies of Presidents Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.
11.5 - 1920's
11.5 Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s.
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114.6 - Great Britain Delines... US Expands in World Affairs!!!
Trace the declining role of
11.4.5 - WWI: Home Front
Analyze the political, economic, and social ramifications of World War I on the home front.
11.4.4 - Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson
Explain Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick diplomacy, William Taft's Dollar Diplomacy, and Woodrow Wilson's Moral Diplomacy, drawing on relevant speeches.
11.4.3 - Panama Canal
Discuss America Panama Canal .
11.4.2 - Spanish-American War
Describe the Spanish-American War and U.S.
11.4 - US and the Rise to World Super Power
11.4 Students trace the rise of the
11.3.5 - Religious Liberty: Establishmen and Free Exercise Clauses
Describe the principles of religious liberty found in the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment, including the debate on the issue of separation of church and state.
11.3.4 - Religious Pluralism in US and CA
Discuss the expanding religious pluralism in the United States California
11.3.3 - Religious Intolerance
Cite incidences of religious intolerance in the
11.3.2 - Religious Revivals and their Leaders
Analyze the great religious revivals and the leaders involved in them, including the First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening, the Civil War revivals, the Social Gospel Movement, the rise of Christian liberal theology in the nineteenth century, the impact of the Second Vatican Council, and the rise of Christian fundamentalism in current times.
11.3.1 - Religious Contributions to America
Describe the contributions of various religious groups to American civic principles and social reform movements (e.g., civil and human rights, individual responsibility and the work ethic, antimonarchy and self-rule, worker protection, family-centered communities).
11.3 - Religion in America
11.3 Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of
11.2.9 - Progressives
Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives (e.g., federal regulation of railroad transport, Children's Bureau, the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson).
11.2.7 - Social Darwinism and Social Gospel
Analyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Social Darwinism and Social Gospel (e.g., using biographies of William Graham Sumner, Billy Sunday, Dwight L. Moody).
11.2.6 - Economic Development of US Towards Major Industrial Power
Trace the economic development of the United States
11.2.5 - Trusts, Cartels and Industrial Leaders
Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders.
11.2.4 - Urban Political Machines
Analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class reformers.
11.2.2 - The Changing Landscape of Cities
Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and trade, and the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class.
11.2.1 - Industrialization: Living and Working Conditions
Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
11.2 Industrialization, Urbanization, Migratino and Immigration
11.2 Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe .
GRADES:Grades are based off of your addition to the Collective Knowledge Bank. You also can comment, add to or edit other people's additions. I would suggest for a full grade you plan on analyzing/adding a significant amount of new events and commenting on (either editing or reacting to) others entries a significant amount as well.
11.1.4 - The Civil War and Reconstruction, the Industrial Revolution and US World Power
Examine the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the industrial revolution, including demographic shifts and the emergence in the late nineteenth century of the
11.1.3 - Costitution after 1787 (Federal vs. States Rights)
Discuss the history of the Constitution after 1787 with emphasis on federal versus state authority and growing democratization.
11.1.2 - American Revolution, the Founding Fathers and Constitution
Analyze the ideological origins (thoughts/beliefs) of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers' philosophy of divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights, the debates on the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights.
11.1.1 - Enlightenment
Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was founded.
11.1 Collective Knowledge Bank
11.1 Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.
DIRECTIONS:The direction is to analyze (break it apart and look into it) which means you have to also identify (find) the events which are significant leading all the way up to the 1776 Declaration of Independence.
GRADES:
Grades are based off of your addition to the Collective Knowledge Bank. You also can comment, add to or edit other people's additions. I would suggest for a full grade you plan on analyzing/adding a significant amount of new events and commenting on (either editing or reacting to) others entries a significant amount as well.
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