Unit 1: The American Identity - Survey of American History



Essential Questions:How have major historical events changed the flow of immigrants into America, thereby changing the overall development of the American identity? What defines America and an American? How has the diversity of the American population impacted who is included and excluded from being an "American"?Unit Objectives:Explain the factors and ideas that brought people to the American colonies in the 1700’s?Describe how the ideas of John Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, influenced the core beliefs of American society?Summarize the factors that led to conflict between Native Americans and Settlers. Describe the United States government’s Dawes Act and the impacts it had (both positive and negative) on Native pare the experience of European immigrants with that of Asian immigrants. What factors account for the differences in treatment between these two groups?Identify three reasons why some Americans blamed immigrants for the nation’s problems (In the late 19th c. and early 20th c.).Evaluate the idea of Social Darwinism as it relates to the idea that the strong endure while the weak die off. Should governments support people who are struggling to make a living, or should these people be left to fend for themselves?Describe the conditions African Americans in the south lived in after Reconstruction.Evaluate how successful women were in lobbying for their right to pare the reasons many Americans had for opposing immigration after World War I with immigration policies today. How are they similar/different?Criticize or defend the idea that immigration to the United States is more harmful than beneficial. Vocabulary:John LockeGreat AwakeningSand Creek MassacreIndian Peace CommissionChief JosephAssimilateDawes ActSteerageEllis IslandAngel IslandNativismChinese Exclusion ActGilded AgeIndividualismSocial DarwinismAmericanizationSegregationJim Crow LawsPlessy v. FergusonLynchingBooker T. WashingtonW.E.B. Du BoisSuffrageEmergency Quota ActNational Origins ActPoverty LineBracero ProgramTermination PolicyJuvenile DelinquencyImmigration Act of 1965Migration ChainsRefugeesImmigration Reform and Control Act of 1986Illegal Immigration Reform & Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996Chapter/Section References1.2-Early Immigrants4.3-Native Americans6.1-Immigration in the 19th c.6.3-Social Darwinism (pg. 230-232 & 237-239)6.5-Segregation Begins8.1- Women’s Suffrage (pg. 296-297)10.3-1920’s Immigration & Nativism16.3-The Other Side of 1950’s Culture23.3-Recent Immigration ................
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