Students in grade eleven study the major turning points in American history in the twentieth century. Following a review of the nation’s beginnings and the impact of the Enlightenment on U.S. democratic ideals, students build upon the ninth grade study of global industrialization to understand the emergence and impact of new technology and a corporate economy, including the social and cultural effects. They trace the change in the ethnic composition of American society; the movement toward equal rights for racial minorities and women; and the role of the United States as a major world power. An emphasis is placed on the expanding role of the federal government and federal courts as well as the continuing tension between the individual and the state. Students consider the major social problems of our time and trace their causes in historical events. They learn that the United States has served as a model for other nations and that the rights and freedoms we enjoy are not accidents, but the results of a defined set of political principles that are not always basic to citizens of other countries. Students understand that our rights under the U.S. Constitution are a precious inheritance that depends on an educated citizenry for their preservation and protection.

1.  Students will 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. (SCORE Resources)

• Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was founded. (Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu)
• Analyze the ideological origins of the American Revolution, the divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights philosophy of the Founding Fathers, the debates on the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights. (Jefferson, Hamilton)
• Understand the history of the Constitution after 1787 with emphasis on federal versus state authority and growing democratization.
• 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 United States as a world power.

2.  Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe. (SCORE Resources)

• 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.
• 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.
• Trace the effects of nativism.(SCORE Resources on Immigration)
• Analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class reformers.
• Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders.
• Analyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Social Darwinism and Social Gospel.(SCORE Resources on Social Darwinism and the Social Gospel)
• Examine the effect of political programs and activities of Populists. (Gold & Silver debates).(SCORE Resources on Populists and Progressives)
• Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives (Federal Regulation of Railroad Transport, Children’s Bureau, the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt).

3.  Students will analyze the role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting moral, social, and political impacts, and issues regarding religious liberty. (Should be incorporated throughout the year) (SCORE Resources)
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4.  Students will examine the rise of the United States to its role as a world power in the twentieth century. (Should be started at the beginning of the 2^nd quarter) (SCORE Resources)

• List the purpose and the effects of the Open Door policy.
• Describe the Spanish-American War and U.S. expansion in the South Pacific.
• Discuss America’s role in the Panama Revolution and the building of the Panama Canal.
• Explain Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick diplomacy, William Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy, and Woodrow Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy, drawing on relevant speeches.
• Analyze the political, economic, and social ramifications of World War I on the home front. (SCORE WWI Resources)

5.  Students will analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s. (SCORE Resources)

• Discuss the policies of Presidents Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.
• 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.
• Examine the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act (Prohibition).
• Analyze the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the changing role of women in Society. (Stanton, Anthony).
• Describe the Harlem Renaissance and new trends in literature, music, and art. (Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong).
• Trace the growth and effects of radio and movies.
• Discuss the rise of mass production techniques, the growth of cities, the impact of new technologies (Leisure Activities, Automobile, Sports, Consumerism, Electricity), and the resulting prosperity and effect on the American landscape. (McDougal Littell Net Activities "Mass Entertainment")

• Understand the explanations of the principal causes of the Great Depression and the steps taken by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat the economic crisis.
• Discuss the human toll of the Depression, natural disasters, 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. (Dorthea Lange, Woody Guthrie).
• 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 (Works Progress Administration, Social Security, National Labor Relations Board, farm programs, regional development projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority).
• Trace the rise and struggle of organized labor, from the creation of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations to current issues of a postindustrial and multinational economy.
• Discuss the rise and struggle of the United Farm Workers in California.

7.  Students will analyze America’s participation in World War II. (Should be started at the beginning of the 3^rd quarter) (SCORE Resources) (AHS WWII Links)

• Explain U.S. and Allied wartime strategy.
• Identify the roles and sacrifices of individual American soldiers, as well as the unique contributions of the special fighting forces
• Examine role of the Tuskegee Airmen, 442^nd Regimental Combat team, and Navajo Code Talkers in World War II.
• Analyze Roosevelt’s foreign policy during World War II (Four Freedoms speech).
• Discuss the constitutional issues and impact of events on the U.S. home front, including the internment of Japanese Americans (Fred Korematsu v. United States of America) and the restrictions on German and Italian resident aliens; the response of the administration to Hilter’s atrocities against Jews and other groups; the roles of women in military production; and the roles and growing political demands of African Americans.
• Describe major developments in aviation, weaponry, communication, and medicine and the war’s impact on the location of American industry and use of resources.
• Discuss the decision to drop atomic bombs and the consequences of the decision (Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
• 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. economy.

8.  Students will analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post-World War II America. (SCORE Resources)

• Examine Truman’s labor policy and congressional reaction to it.
• Describe the increased powers of the presidency in response to the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War.
• 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.
• 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).

9.  Students will analyze U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II (SCORE Resources)

• 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.
• Understand the role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring communist aggression and maintaining security during the Cold War.
• 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 (SCORE Resources)
• The Truman Doctrine (SCORE Resources)
• The Berlin Blockade (SCORE Resources)
• The Korean War (SCORE Resources) ,AHS Korean War Links
• The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis (SCORE Resources)
• Atomic testing in the American West, "mutual assured destruction" doctrine,
            disarmament policies (SCORE Resources)
• The Vietnam War (SCORE Resources)AHS Vietnam War Links, The Americans,Class Zone
• Latin American policy (SCORE Resources)

• List the effects of foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa (e.g., protests during the war in Vietnam, the "nuclear freeze" movement).(SCORE Resources)
• Describe U.S. Middle East policy and its strategic, political, and economic interests, including those related to the Gulf War. (SCORE Resources)
• Examine relations between the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century, including key economic, political, immigration, and environmental issues.

10.  Students will analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights. (SCORE Resources)

• Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civil rights (Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, and California Proposition 209).
• Examine the roles of civil rights advocates, including the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and "I Have a Dream"speech.
• Analyze the passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment).
• 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 1960’s, including differing perspectives on the roles of women. (Friedan, Steinam) (SCORE Resources)
• Describe the increased civil rights activism of groups beyond African Americans (Hispanics, Women, Disabled, Aging, Homosexuals).

• Discuss the reasons for the nation’s changing immigration policy, and the transformation of the American society, e.g., Immigration Act of 1965.
• Discuss the significant domestic policy speeches of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.
• Discuss domestic policy speeches of Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, e.g., with regard to education, civil rights, economic policy, and environmental policy.
• 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.
• Explain the constitutional crisis originating from the Watergate scandal.
• 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. (McDougal Littell Net Activities "The Environment")
• Analyze the persistence of poverty and how different analyses of this issue influence welfare reform, health insurance reform, and other social policies.

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