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Competency Goal 1: The New Nation (1789-1820) – How effective were the institutions established in the United States as they
dealt with emerging political and diplomatic issues?
Objectives
1.01: What were the major domestic issues and conflicts experienced by the nation during the Federalist Period?
Major concepts:
The establishment of federal power and supremacy over the states.
Rulings of Marshall Court, i.e. Marbury v. Madison
Judicial review
Whiskey Rebellion
The development of a two-party system
Democratic-Republican Party (Jefferson)
Federalist Party (Hamilton, Washington)
Strict and loose interpretation of the Constitution
Hamilton vs. Jefferson
Establishment of a national bank
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions: nullification
Louisiana Purchase
1.02: What political freedoms were available to the following groups prior to 1820: women, wage earners, landless farmers,
American Indians, African Americans, and other ethnic groups?
Major concepts:
Voting rights of different groups
Eligibility requirements of voting
Status of African Americans
Citizens?
Some free, some slave
Status of American Indians
Citizens?
Conflicting belief systems
Status of women
What is their place in society?
1.03: What were the commercial and diplomatic relationships with Britain, France, and other nations?
Major concepts:
Early foreign policy
U.S. opposition/support for French Revolution
Pinckney’s Treaty: opens Mississippi River valley
Jay’s Treaty: opens Ohio River valley
Washington’s Farewell Address: no permanent alliances
Britain and France seize U.S. ships
British impressments of American sailors
War of 1812: Britain vs. United States
Turning point: Jackson @ New Orleans
Treaty of Ghent ends war
Competency Goal 2: Expansion Reform (1801-1850)- The learner will assess the competing forces of expansionism.
Objectives
2.01 Analyze the effects of territorial expansion and the admission of new states to the Union 1801 to 1850.
Major Concepts:
The rationale for and the consequence of Manifest Destiny
Lewis and Clark
Missouri Compromise
The Alamo
Texas Annexation
Federal Indian policy before the Civil War
The Indian Removal Act
Worchester v. Georgia
Trail of Tears
The Political and Economic importance of the West
“54-40 or Fight!”
Wilmot Provisio
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Election of 1844
2.02 Describe how the growth of nationalism and sectionalism were reflected in art, literature, and language.
Cultural expressions of patriotism
Hudson River School of Artists
Neoclassical Architecture
Celebrating the common man and the American way of life
Washington Irving
Noah Webster
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Influence of the Transcendentalist Movement
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allen Poe
2.03 Distinguish between the economic and social issues that led to sectionalism and nationalism.
Transformation of life in the early industrial revolution
o Eli Whitney
o John Deere
o Robert Fulton
o Erie Canal
o 1st industrial revolution
Cultural Polarization of Antebellum America
o Natives
o Know-Nothings
o Frederick Douglas
o William Lloyd Garrison
2.04 Asses political events, issues, and personalities that contributed to sectionalism and nationalism.
Political agendas of antebellum leaders
o Tariff of Abomination
o Election of 1840
Concepts of Jackson Ian Democracy
o Election of 1824
o Spoils System
o Pet Banks
o Whig Party
Slave Revolts
o Nat Turner’s rebellion
o John Brown
States’ Rights
o South Carolina Exposition and Protest
o South Carolina Nullification Crisis
o John Calhoun
Era of Good Feelings
o McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819
o American System
o Monroe Doctrine
2.05 Identify the major reform movements and evaluate their effectiveness.
Women’s Rights
o Susan B. Anthony
o Seneca Falls Convention
o Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Improvement of social institutions
o Utopian communities
Brook Farm
Oneida
New Harmony
o Rehabilitation
o Prison reform
o Dorteha Dix
2.06 Evaluate the role of religion in the debate over slavery and other social issues.
Second Great Awakening
o What led to the revival?
Moral Dilemma of Slavery/ Abolitionist Movement
o William Lloyd Garrison, David Walker, Frederick Douglas
Competency Goal 3: Crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction- What issues led to the Civil War? What were the effects of the war? What impact did the Reconstruction period have
on the nation?
3.01 What were the major economic, social and political events from the Mexican American War to the outbreak of the Civil War?
Major concepts:
The debate over the expansion of slavery into the new territories.
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act
Popular Sovereignty
Lincoln Douglas Debates
Fugitive Slave Act
Growing sectionalism, violence, and new political parties
Abolition Movement/Underground railroad
Bleeding Kansas/Sumner Brooks Incident
John Brown’s Raid
Free Soil Party
Republican Party
3.02 What were the causes of the Civil War?
Major concepts:
Slavery and the lives of slaves
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Fugitive Slave Act
Economies of the North and South
States Rights
Immediate Causes
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Secession of the Southern states/Fort Sumter
Confederate States of America
3.03 What were the major political and military turning points of the Civil War and how did they affect the outcome of the War?
Major concepts:
Key turning Points
Antietam
Gettysburg/Vicksburg
Sherman’s capture of Atlanta
Strategies—Political and Military
Anaconda Plan
Defensive War
Cotton Diplomacy
Total war
Lincoln’s suspension of habeus corpus
Copperheads
Major Poltical and Military Leaders
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
George McClellen
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
3.04 What was the social, political, and economic impact of Reconstruction on the nation and why did it come to an end?
Major Concepts
Conflict over responsibility for Reconstruction
Lincoln’s Plan/Johnson’s Plan (Presidential Reconstruction)
Radical Republicans’ Plan (Congressional Reconstruction)
Radical Reconstruction/Military Rule
Johnson’s Impeachment trial
Changes in southern social, economic, and political systems
Reconstruction Governments
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Freedmen’s Bureau
Sharecropping
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Resistance and decline
Black Codes
Ku Klux Klan
Redemption
Compromise of 1877
3.05 To what degree was the supremacy of the federal government tested by the Civil War and Reconstruction?
Competency Goal 4: The Great West and the Rise of the Debtor (1860-1896) - The learner will evaluate the great westward
movement and assess the impact of the agricultural revolution on the nation.
4.01 Compare and contrast the different groups of peoples who migrated to the West and describe the problems they experienced.
Westward movement motivation
Mormons (religious freedom)
Land (Homestead Act, Oklahoma Land Rush)
Fortune (California Gold Rush, social mobility)
Westward movement challenges
Role of women
Role of immigrants (Irish, Chinese)
Role of African Americans (Exodusters)
4.02 Evaluate the impact that settlement in the West had upon different groups of people and the environment.
Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad
Built by immigrants
Start of the end of the west
Cattle, Ranching, and Mining
Mexican culture influenced (cowboy lifestyle)
Technology increase
Impact on Native Americans
Destruction of Buffalo
Sand Creek Massacre
Battle of Wounded Knee
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
A Century of Dishonor
4.03 Describe the causes and effects of the financial difficulties that plagued the American farmer and trace the rise and decline of
Populism.
Discontent of the western farmer
Price of transportation and equipment (growing debt)
Laws and Court Cases impacting farmers
Munn v. Illinois
Wabash v. Illinois
Populism
The Grange
Gold Standard v. Bimetallism
“Cross of Gold” Speech
Future Progressive Movement initiatives!
4.04 Describe innovations in agricultural technology and business practices and assess their impact on the West.
Technological farming improvements
Steel Plow
Ranching/cattle improvements
Barbed Wire
Refrigerator Car
Dependence on the railroads
Corruption/Monopolies (rebates or unequal treatment)
Interstate Commerce Act
Competency Goal 5: Becoming an Industrial Society (1877-1900)
How did innovations in technology and business practices impact economic, political, and social life in America?
Objectives
5.01: What influence did immigration and rapid industrialization have on urban life?
Major concepts:
Immigrants flood in Growth of cities
Ellis Island, NYC and Angel Island, San Francisco
Chinese Exclusion Act
Jane Addams and settlement houses
Rise of ethnic neighborhoods
Rise of nativism Idea of America as a melting pot
Dealing with housing, sanitation, and transportation
Dumbbell tenements Skyscrapers, elevators
Poverty, crime, homelessness, pollution
Electric trolleys
Photographs of Jacob Riis
New inventions lead to more leisure time
Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison
Telephone, typewriters, electricity
Amusement parks and spectator sports
5.02: How did business and industrial leaders accumulate wealth and wield political and economic power?
Major concepts:
New industries emerge
Steel: Andrew Carnegie uses Bessemer process
Oil: John Rockefeller monopolizes the industry Railroads: Cornelius Vanderbilt leads
Monopolies and trusts form that limit competition
Criticism of how big businesses and their leaders operate
Robber barons
Captains of industry
Politics corrupted by influence of businesses and their leaders
Social Darwinism
“The strong survive and the weak fall by the wayside” Gospel of Wealth: “man who dies rich, dies disgraced”
Period came to be called The Gilded Age
5.03: What impact did labor unions have on industry and the lives of workers?
Major concepts:
Labor unions form to fight for more pay and better working conditions
Different unions form in different industries Craft unions (only skilled workers) and trade unions (all workers)
Samuel Gompers leads American Federation of Labor (craft union)
Eugene Debs leads American Railway Union (trade union)
Tactics of labor unions
Collective bargaining
Famous strikes
The Great Strike (railroads)
Homestead Strike (Pittsburgh—steel)
Pullman Strike (Chicago—rail)
Opposition to labor unions Use of government force to break strikes
Sherman Antitrust Act used to prevent labor unions from striking
Union members and their leaders labeled as radicals and socialists
5.04: How did the role of government change in economic and political affairs?
Rise of political machines
Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall
Thomas Nast uses political cartoons to attack political machines & leaders
For a while government adopts a hands-off (laissez-faire) attitude
Reluctant to interfere in economic matters
Political corruption and scandals Credit Mobilier scandal
Assassination of President Garfield
Reforms implemented Populist movement leads to Sherman Antitrust Act
Use of secret ballot when voting
Patronage/spoils system loses its popularity
Pendleton Act leads to civil service system
Many government employees had to be qualified, take an exam
Competency Goal 6: The emergence of the United States in World Affairs (1890- 1914) The learner will analyze causes and effects
of the United States emergence as a world power.
Objectives
6.01 Examine the factors that led to the United States taking an increasingly active role in world affairs.
Global and military competition
o Alfred T. Mahan
Increased demands for resources and markets
o Imperialism
Closing the frontier
o Cowboy era ends
Exploitation of nations, and resources
o Compare and contrast continental expansion and expansion abroad.
o Political cartoons
6.02 Identify the areas of the United States military, economic, and political involvement and influence.
Causes and conduct of the Spanish-American War
o Treaty of Paris 1898
o Platt Amendment
o Rough Riders
o USS Maine
o Joseph Pulitzer
o Philippines
o Theodore Roosevelt
United States interventions in Hawaii, Latin America, Caribbean, Asia/Pacific
o Queen Liluokalani
o Seward’s Folly
o Social Darwinism
o Panama Canal
o Pancho Villa Raids
6.03 Describe how the policies and actions of the United States government impacted the affairs of other countries.
Intervention and Isolation
o Jingoism
o Boxer Rebellion
Support for and opposition to United States economic intervention
o Dollar Diplomacy
o Roosevelt Corollary
Perception of the United States as a world power
o Open Door Policy
o Annexation of Hawaii
Competency Goal 7: The Progressive Movement in the United States (1890-1914) – What were some political reforms? How was society reformed during the
Progressive Period?
7.01 What were the conditions that led to the rise of Progressivism?
Corruption and ineffective government
Political machines, graft, spoils system
Muckraking
Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis
Problems of urbanization Urban slums
Immigration Poor working conditions
Social Gospel Movement Settlement Houses
Unequal distribution of wealth
7.02 How did different groups of Americans made economic and political gains in the Progressive Period?
Roles of the Progressive Presidents:
Roosevelt
Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food & Drug Act, Trustbusting, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Northern Securities Company-
broke monopoly over northwestern railroads, 1902 Coal Strike, Conservation (set up national parks), Progressive/
Bull Moose Party –“New Nationalism” and caring for “the welfare of the people”
Taft Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Took lands off of conservation list
Wilson
1912—attack big business and better distribute wealth to average citizens
Made good attempts at reform BUT failed to ameliorate civil rights for African Americans Wilson’s New Freedom (Economic Reforms): Triple wall of privilege: Trusts, Tariffs, and High Finance, Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) to put an end to unfair business, Federal Income Tax (16th Amendment), Federal Reserve System (Divided the nation into 12 districts and established a regional central bank in each district)
Progressive Amendments
16th Amendment (created a federal income tax) 17th Amendment (Senators elected by popular vote)
18th Amendment (Liquor abolished, Prohibition created)
19th Amendment (Women Suffrage)
Changing roles of women
WCTU (Women’s Christian Temperance Union) sought Prohibition Carrie Nation, the Anti-Saloon League, “Demon Rum”
Florence Kelley, advocate for women and children (inspected factories, helped pass child labor laws)
NAWSA: Women’s Suffrage Movement
The changing nature of state and local governments
Reform mayors and governors, election reform, city commissioner form
7.03 What were the effects of racial segregation on different regions and segments of the United States' society?.
SEGREGATED society and African American Discrimination …WHY? To weaken African American political power and hurt their
morale
Jim Crow Laws to racially segregation public and private facilities Plessy v. Ferguson (“Separate but equal”)
Lynchings
Voting Restrictions Literacy tests, Poll tax, Grandfather clause
African American responses to Jim Crow Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Dubois
The NAACP, Niagara Movement, Great Migration
7.04 Examine the impact of technological changes on economic, social, and cultural life in the United States.
Industrial innovations
Wright Brothers Movie camera
Coca Cola
Urban planning (skyscrapers, Brooklyn Bridge, trolleys, subway cars) Photography, Kodak cameras
Advertising & Consumerism
Ford’s Innovations ($5 day, Assembly line, Model T) Electricity
Mail order catalogs
Airline service Sewing machine
Competency Goal 8: The Great War and Its Aftermath (1914-1930) – The learner will analyze United States involvement in World War I and the
war’s influence on international affairs during the 1920s.
8.01 How did the United States go from being neutral at the beginning of World War I to being a participant on the Allied side?
Causes of World War I in Europe
o MAIN: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
o Assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian Nationalist Gavrilo Princip
o Triple Entente (Allies): France, Britain, Russia (later U.S.)
o Triple Alliance (Central Powers): Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Use of and effects of propaganda
o British propaganda against Central Powers
o Committee on Public Information led by George Creel (former muckraker) promoted U.S. war effort
U.S. anti-war sentiment
o Pacifism
o Isolationism and Neutrality
o Conscientious objector
o Election of 1916: Wilson reelected because he “Kept Us Out of War”
o Wilson’s attempted “peace without victory… peace between equals”
Reasons for U.S. entry into the Great War
o Unrestricted (U-boat) submarine warfare including sinking of Lusitania
o US banks and businesses invested in Allied Powers
o Zimmerman Telegram
o Wilson’s war resolution: Make the world “safe for democracy”
8.02 What were the political and military turning points of the war? What was their significance to the outcome of the conflict?
Importance of United States involvement in World War I
o Convoy system
o Mobilization and the Selective Service Act
o American Expeditionary Force (AEF) and General John J. Pershing
o Fresh troops and supplies from U.S. were key to Allies’ success
Modernization of warfare
o Trench warfare, “Over the top”, and “No man’s land”
o New weapons: submarines, tanks, airplanes, machine guns, and poison gas
Changing nature of United States foreign policy
o Neutrality and Isolationism
o Wilson’s Fourteen Points—Germany believes they will be treated fairly
o League of Nations
Failure of the United States to ratify the Treaty of Versailles
o Big Four: Wilson (U.S.), Clemenceau (France), George (Britain), Orlando (Italy), but not Russia
o Treaty of Versailles: war-guilt clause, reparations, new nations and boundaries, ignored self-determination
o League of Nations threatened U.S. isolationism (Henry Cabot Lodge)
8.03 What were the political, economic, social, and cultural effects of the war on the United States and other nations?
Government bureaucracy in the United States
o War Industries Board led by Bernard Baruch oversaw industrial production
o Food Administration led by Herbert Hoover helped produce and conserve food
Postwar economic challenges
o No plan for adjustment from a wartime to a peacetime economy
o Wave of strikes leads to fear of communist revolution (Red Scare)
Postwar political and military changes
o Washington Naval Conference
o Kellogg-Briand Pact
o Dawes Plan
o Isolationism
Social changes in the United States
o Great Migration of Southern African Americans to Northern cities
o Increased racial tensions in the North over competition for jobs and housing
o Women, the war effort, and the 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage)
o Labor unrest and decline of the Labor Movement
Anti-immigration sentiment and the first Red Scare
o Propaganda encouraged hatred of foreigners (especially Germans) and fears of communism
o Nativism and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
o Red Scare: Palmer Raids, Sacco and Vanzetti, Immigration quota system
Restrictions on civil liberties during wartime
o Espionage and Sedition Acts punished interference with the war effort or criticism of the government
o Violations of 1st Amendment (free speech)
o Schenck v. United States (1919)
Competency Goal 9: What was the extent of the economic, social, and political changes of the 1920s and 30s?
9.01: What were the economic conditions of the 1920s and 30s?
Republican presidents of 1920s support business interests
Prosperous times for many, but not all, in the 1920s
Farmers and minority groups among less prosperous
Greater amount of consumer goods available, production soars
Use of assembly line greatly increases availability of cars
Radios and household appliances become cheaper, more available
Consumers use credit and installment plans to buy new products
Increasing inability of consumers to repay debts
Investors speculate in the stock market, buying on margin is commonplace
Demand for goods declines, factories lay off workers
Panic leads to crash of stock market in 1929: Black Tuesday
Depression starts, FDR elected president in 1932
9.02: What was the extent of prosperity for different groups during this period?
Widespread prosperity during 1920s, widespread despair during 1930s
Presidents Hoover’s response to Depression seen as inadequate, heartless
Rough treatment of Bonus Army
Charities and local gov’t., not national, gov’t., should be helping
Hoovervilles go up in cities
Soup kitchens and breadlines are commonplace
Bank failures wipe out peoples’ savings, ruin many lives
25% unemployment rate
Dust Bowl ruins farmers on Great Plains
9/03: What was the significance of the social, intellectual and technological changes of lifestyle in the United States during this time period?
Social changes
Leisure time, spectator sports, acts of daring
1920s known as Roaring 20s and Jazz Age
Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic
Babe Ruth and others become famous sports stars
Widespread resistance to Prohibition: bootleggers
Speakeasies and flappers
Jazz music: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, and others
Popularity of automobiles leads to greater mobility
Cities spread out
Young people get away from parental supervision
Intellectual changes
Lost Generation: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway
Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes
Technological changes
Radio becomes popular
talking films introduced: The Jazz Singer
mass media leads to more of a shared, common culture
Widespread use of automobiles
FDR uses fireside chats during the Depression
9.04: What were the challenges to traditional practices in religion, race, and gender?
Religion
Fundamentalism vs. scientific knowledge
Scopes trial
Race
Back to Africa movement; Marcus Garvey
African-Americans switch allegiance from Republicans to Democrats in 1930s
Black cabinet as part of Roosevelt’s administration
Gender
Women gain right to vote
Women have more freedom and independence, i.e. flappers
Eleanor Roosevelt paves way for women in 1930s
9.05: How did the programs and reforms of the New Deal enlarge the role of the federal government in American life?
Three R’s of the New Deal: relief, recovery, reform
Alphabet agencies
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Social Security, minimum wage help elderly and poor
Conservatives think New Deal too much like socialism
Too much gov’t. interference and power in economic matters
Liberals think New Deal does not do enough
Critics include Huey Long (Share the Wealth program), Frances Perkins
FDR pacifies these critics by coming up with new programs
FDR tries packing the Supreme Court to change court’s rulings on his programs
Deficit spending to pay for New Deal programs
Legacy of the New Deal: federal government takes a greater role in the lives of the American people and in the functioning of the U.S. economy
Competency Goal 10: World War II and the beginning of the Cold War (1930-1963) – The learner will
analyze the United States Involvement in World War II and the war’s influence on international affairs in
the following decades.
Objective 10.1: Identify military, political, and diplomatic turning points of the war and determine their
significance to the outcome and aftermath of the conflict.
Appeasement
Isolationism
Reparations
Totalitarian Governments
Treaty of Versailles
Worldwide Depression
Objective 10.2: Identify military =, political, and diplomatic turning points of the war and determine their
significance to the outcome and aftermath of the conflict.
The United States at War
The influence of Propaganda at Home and Abroad
Designs for Peace
Objective 10.3: Describe and analyze the effects of the war on American economic, social, political, and
cultural life.
The Home front
Suspension of Civil Liberties
Suburbanization
Transition to Peacetime
Objective 10.4: Elaborate on changes in the direction of foreign policy related to the beginnings of the Cold
War.
U.S. Military Intervention
Containment
The Cold War
The Domino Theory
Objective 10.5: Asses the role of organizations established to maintain peace and examine their continuing
effectiveness.
Balance of Power
Organizations for Peace
Competency Goal 11: Recovery, Prosperity, and Turmoil – What were the major economic, political, and social developments of the post-World War II period and what impact did they have
on the lives of Americans?
11.01 How was the economic, political, and social life of America affected by the Cold War?
The Red Scare
HUAC, Hollywood Ten, blacklisting
Spy cases: Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs
McCarthyism
Army McCarthy Hearings
Democrats “lose” China
Economy, technology
Research and development
Computer technology
Space race
Interstate Hgwy System, St. Lawrence Seaway
Suburbanization
Bomb shelters, duck and cover
Effect of Cold War on movies, tv, etc.
o Foreign policy
Domino theory
Nixon in China and Soviet Union
Dentente
11.02 What were the major events of the Civil Rights Movement and what impact did they have on American society?
end of de jure segregation
Brown v. Board of Education
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Little Rock 9,Sit ins, Freedom Rides, Birmingham Campaign, March on Washington
Civil Rights Bill
Voting Rights
Mississippi Freedom Summer, Selma Campaign
Voting Rights Act, 24th Amendment
Civil Rights Organizations, leaders
SCLC, SNCC, CORE
Non-violent direct action
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Federal Government intervention
Black Power Movement, Malcolm X
11.03 What impact did the various social movements of the 1960’s and 70’s have on American society?
Women’s Rights/Women’s Lib
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
NOW
ERA
Title IX
Roe v. Wade
American Indian Movement
Environmentalism, Clean Air and Water Acts, EPA
Hispanic American rights, Cesar Chavez
Social movments
Rock and roll
The beats
The counterculture
11.04 How and why did the United States become involved in the Vietnam War and how did this involvement affect American society?
US Involvement Truman through Ford
Domino theory
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/escalation
Vietcong/jungle, guerrilla war
Vietnamization
Withdrawal
Growing discontent
Student protests—major protests (Kent State)
Living Room War
Vietcong
Tet Offensive
Bombing and invasion of Cambodia
11.05 What impact have the technological innovations of the post-WWII period had on American life?
Techonological changes
Military industrial complex/research and development
SPUTNIK/impact on education
Space race/NASA
computers
population shifts
advances in medicine, consumer products
11.06 What were the major political trends of the 60’s and 70’s years?
Presidential initiatives
New Frontier
Great Society
Law and Order
Events/trends, consequences
Watergate Scandal
Voter apathy
Great Society programs
White flight/urban renewal
Competency Goal 12: The United States since the Vietnam War (1973-present) – The learner will identify and analyze trends in
domestic and foreign affairs of the United States during this time period.
Objective 12.01: Summarize significant events in foreign policy since the Vietnam War.
Problems in the Third World – Famine in Somalia and Ethiopia, Foreign Dept, Apartheid
Modern-day genocide - Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans, Rwanda
AIDS and Pandemics
Politics of Oil - U.S. invasion of Lebanon, Yom Kipper War, Camp David Accords, An war el-Sadat, Menachem Begin,
Shah of Iran, Persian Gulf Wars
Rise of Religious and Political Radicalism - Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat-
Palestine, Iran-Contra Affair
Collapse of Communism - Fall of the Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), , INF Treaty,
Mikhail Gorbachev, Helsinki Accords
Changing roles of International Organizations
Objective 12.02: Evaluate the impact of recent constitutional amendments, court rulings, and federal legislation on United
States’ citizens.
Role of lobbyists and special interest groups – Microsoft, Political Action Committees (PAC)
The Supreme Court:
o Minority rights - Title IX, Texas v Johnson, Swan v Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, Americans with Disabilities
Act
o Privacy rights
o Conservative judges - William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O’Connor, Clarence Thomas
Objective 12.03: Identify and assess the impact of economic, technological, and environmental changes in the United States.
Recession: Economic Boom and Bust - Energy Crisis, National Energy Act, Solar Energy
Benefits and conflicts of continued globalization - Computer revolution, Internet, Bill Gates, NAFTA
Conservation Measures - “Trickle-down” theory, Supply-Side economics, Airline deregulation, National debt
Impact of economics on:
o Lifestyle
o Stock market - NASDAQ
o Job market
Objective 12.04: Identify and assess the impact of social, political, and cultural changes in the United States.
Changing Society
o Social - Graying of America
o Political - New Right Coalition, New Federalism, New Democrat, Republican Election of 2000
o Cultural
o Demographic - Immigration Policy Act, Amnesty
Presidential Troubles - Presidential pardon, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan
Major Issues
o Health Care
o Welfare reform
o Medicare
o AID