IB-History of Americas



IB-History of Americas SyllabusHenri NaylorUnit One: Causes of Civil WarDuration: 1st & 2nd 6 weeks IB History of Americas Curriculum Objectives:United States Civil War: causes, course, and effects 1840-77Cotton economy and slavery: conditions of enslavement, adaptation and resistanceOrigins of the Civil war: political issues, states’ rights, modernization, sectionalism, the nullification crisis, economic differences between the North and SouthAbolitionist debate: ideologies and arguments for and against slavery and their impactReasons for, and effects of, westward expansion and the sectional debatesUnion versus Confederate: strengths and weaknesses, economic resources, leadersReconstruction: economic, social, and political successes and failures, economic expansionAfrican Americans in the Civil War and in the New South: legal, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws Notes Included in this Unit:Origins of SlaveryBackground to Civil WarWestward ExpansionGrowing Section StrifeEvents Leading to Civil WarUnit Two: Civil War thru the End of ReconstructionDuration: 3rd 6 weeks IB History of Americas Curriculum Objectives:United States Civil War: causes, course, and effects 1840-77Cotton economy and slavery: conditions of enslavement, adaptation and resistanceOrigins of the Civil war: political issues, states’ rights, modernization, sectionalism, the nullification crisis, economic differences between the North and SouthAbolitionist debate: ideologies and arguments for and against slavery and their impactReasons for, and effects of, westward expansion and the sectional debatesUnion versus Confederate: strengths and weaknesses, economic resources, leadersReconstruction: economic, social, and political successes and failures, economic expansionAfrican Americans in the Civil War and in the New South: legal, Black Codes, Jim Crow LawsNotes Included in this Unit:Course of Civil WarReconstructionUnit Three: Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs 1880-1913Duration: Last 3 wks. of the 4th Six Wks through 3rd wk of 5th Six WksIB History of Americas Curriculum Objectives:Emergence of the Americas is Global Affairs 1880-1929United States’ expansionist foreign policies: political, economic, and social and ideological reasonsSocial DarwinismSpanish-American War: causes and effects (1898)United States’ expansionist foreign policies: political, economic, and social and ideological reasonsUnited States’ foreign policies: Big Stick, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy, applications and impact on the regionNotes Included in this Unit:Emergence of US Power in Global Affairs(1880-1913)US Foreign Policy: 1900-1913Wilson & Moral DiplomacyUnit Three: Civil RightsDuration: 6th 6 weeksIB History of Americas Curriculum Objectives:The Development of Modern Nations 1865-1929Development and impact of ideological currents including Progressivism and Social Darwinism Social, economic and legal conditions of African Americans between 1865 and 1929; Harlem Renaissance; the search for civil rights and the ideas, aims and tactics of Booker T. Washington, WEB DuBois, and Marcus GarveyCivil Rights and Social Movements in the AmericasAfrican Americans and the Civil Rights Movement: origins, tactics and organizations; the US Supreme Court and legal challenges to segregation in education; ending of the segregation in the South (1955-65)Role of Dr. Martin Luther King in the Civil Rights Movement; the rise of radical African American activism (1965-68): Black Panthers; Black Muslims; Black Power and Malcolm XRole of the governments in civil rights movements in the Americas Notes Included in this Unit:US Civil Rights Movement ................
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