What are the roles of individuals, groups, and institutions in furthering better societal continuity and change over time?
What are the influence of groups and institutions on people and events in historical and contemporary settings?
Content
Recognize how the decisions of WWI affected WWII
Polarization
Spanish American War
20th Century Conflicts
Roosevelt Corollary
Big Stick
Open Door
Marshall Plan
Panama Canal
Cold War
Nuclear Proliferation
Movements of oppression (e.g., A.I.M., Holocaust, Japanese Internment, etc.)
Civil War
Apply critical thinking to examine historical theory
TIME, CONTINUITY & CHANGE
Essential Questions
How have the actions, movements, and priorities of citizens changed this nation in the 20th century?
What are various interpretations of what happened in the past and how are they supported?
Why is the past important to us today?
Content
Understand that there is a chronological framework for organizing the 20th century people, events and ideas.
Analyze events, issues, or problems
social, political, economic, scientific/technological, and cultural positions
Analyze the international and domestic events, interest, and philosophies, and interpretation of evidence, which is subject to change
Differentiate between historical interpretation and historical fiction:
20’s Movement
Equal & Civil Rights
Minority & Women’s Movements
Growth of a “middle class”
Music
Arts
Entertainment
Sports
Heroes
Resources
(.e.g., Pottsdam Treaty, Yalta Treaty, Civil Liberties Act, Great Society, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, development of NAACP)
discussion/repression of civil liberties
recognize that human experience is recorded in different voices representing different perspectives
PEOPLE, PLACES & ENVIRONMENT
Essential Questions
How do people and physical environment interact?
What are the benefits and problems with peoples’ interaction with the environment?
How do changes in the meaning, use and distribution of resources in this nation and others affect the quality of peoples’ lives?
Content
Understand and identify the effect of natural resources on people
Migration
Westward Movement
Urbanization
Emergence of a national identity
Creation of public lands
Environmental movement
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
Essential Questions
How does culture change to accommodate different ideas and beliefs?
How is unity developed within and among culture?
How do belief systems such as, religion or political ideals influence other parts of a culture?
Content
Identification and recognition of cultural diversity
Original cultures
Immigrants (current and past waves)
Women
Civil Rights Movement
GLOBAL ECONOMICS
Essential Questions
How has the American economy changed to interact with a more globally connected world?
How do institutions and groups deal with market failures?
How do markets work?
Content
Agrarian to post-industrial
Technology
Industrialization
Progressivism
Trust busting
Labor Movement
Labor Practices
Consumerism
Capitalism
Market
POWER, AUTHORITY, GOVERNANCE
Essential Questions
What is the relationship and obligation of the government and its citizens?
What conflicts exist among fundamental principles and values of constitutional democracy?
What is the proper scope and limits of authority?
Content
Isolationism
Depression leads to New Deal
Growth of government
Partisanship
Abuse of Power
The passage of various amendments and their effects on the country
Impact of various presidents had during their terms of office
Major eras in American politics
Resources
League of Nations, United Nations
(e.g., Bill of Rights, 18th, 19th, Civil War Amendments, 21st)
(e.g., Open Door Policy, Big Stick diplomacy, Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Great Depression and New Deal, Civil War and Reconstruction, Marshall Plan, Cold War, and World Wars)
