Global History and Geography I



United States History and Government | |

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|Grade: 11th Grade |Credit: One |

|Pre-Requisite: Successful Completion of Global II |

|Course Description |

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|A chronological survey of American History with efforts to include (equitably) “voices” and perspectives of people within U.S. society that |

|have been traditionally ignored, downplayed or omitted from the curriculum, i.e., women, Native, African, Hispanic and Asian Americans. |

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|Final Assessment |

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|New York State Regents Exam in United States|Format: 50 Multiple Choice Questions |

|History |Thematic Essay |

| |Document Based Essay |

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|Course Textbook |

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|Pathways to Present 2007 | |

|Prentice Hall |Textbook Website |

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United States History- Pacing Chart

|Month |Unit | Week |Pathways to Present 2007 |Brief Review in|African American History |

| | | | |US History | |

| |2. Colonial America (1492-1753) |2 |Chap 2 European Colonization |Unit 1- |Chap 3 Black People in Colonial |

| | | |Chap 3 Growth of American Colonies | |North America |

|October |3. Revolution and Constitution |2 |Chap 4 Road to Independence |Unit 2-Sec 1 |Chap 4 African Americans and the |

| |(1753-1800) | |Chap 5 Constitution | |Struggle for Independence |

| |4. An Emerging New Nation |2 |Chap 6 Origins of American Politics |Unit 2- Sec 2 |Chap 5 A. A. in the New Nation |

| |(1783-1855) | |Chap 7 Life in New Nation | |Chap 6 Life in the Cotton Kingdom |

| | | |Chap 8 The Growth of National Economy | |Chap 7 Free Black People in |

| | | |Chap 9 Religion and Reform | |Antebellum America |

| | | | | |Chap 8 Opposition to Slavery |

| | | | | |Chap 9 Let Your Motto Be Resistance |

|November |5. Civil War and Reconstruction |3 |Chap 10 The Coming of the Civil War |Unit 2- Sec 2 |Chap 10 The United States Disunites |

| |(1846-1877) | |Chap 11 The Civil War |Unit 3- Sec 1 |over Slavery |

| | | |Chap 12 Reconstruction | |Chap 11 A. A. and the Civil War |

| | | | | |Chap 12 The Promise Reconstruction |

| | | | | |Chap 13 The Failure of Reconstruction |

| |6. Expansion: Rewards and Costs |5 |Chap 13 Expansion of American Industry |Unit 3- Sec 2 |Chap 14 A.A. in the South in the Late |

| |(1850-1920) | |Chap 14 Looking to the West |Unit 3- Sec 3 |19th Century |

| | | |Chap 15 Politics Immigration +Urban |Unit 4- Sec 1 |Chap 15 Black Southerners Challenge |

| | | |Life | |White Supremacy |

| | | |Chap 16 Life at the turn of 20th Century | |Chap 16 African Americans in the |

| | | |Chap 18 Progressive Era | |Early 20th Century |

|December | | | | | |

|January |7. Becoming A World Power |2 |Chap 17 Becoming a World Power |Unit 4- Sec 2 | |

| |(1890-1920) | |Chap 19 World War I Era | | |

| |Review |1 | | | |

|MIDTERM |

|February |8. Boom Times to Hard Times |6 |Chap 20 Postwar Social Change |Unit 5- Sec 1 |Chap 17 A.A. and the 1920’s |

| |(1920-1941) | |Chap 21 Politics and Prosperity |Unit 5- Sec 2 |Chap 18 Black Protest, The Great |

| | | |Chap 22 Crash and Depression | |Depression and the New Deal |

| | | |Chap 23 The New Deal | |Chap 19 Culture and Society in the |

| | | | | |1930’s and 1940’s |

|March | | | | | |

| |9. Hot and Cold War (1931-1960) |4 |Chap 24 and 25 World War II |Unit 6- Sec 1 +|Chap 20 The World War II Era and the Seeds of the |

| | | |Chap 26 Cold War |2 |Revolution |

| | | |Chap 27 Postwar Years at Home |Unit 7- Sec 1 | |

|April | | | | | |

| |10. A Period of Turmoil and Change|4 |Chap 28 Civil Rights Movement |Unit 7- Sec 2 |Chap 21 Freedom Movement |

| |(1950-1975) | |Chap 29 Kennedy and Johnson Years |Unit 7- Sec 3 |Chap 22 The Struggle Continues |

| | | |Chap 30 The Era of Activism |Unit 7- Sec 4 | |

| | | |Chap 31 Vietnam War | | |

|May | | | | | |

| |11. Continuity and Change |1 |Chap 32 Nixon, Ford and Carter |Unit 7- Sec 5 |Chap 23 Black Politics |

| |(1969-present) | |Chap 33 The Conservative Revolution | |Chap 24 A.A. in the New Millennium |

| | | |Chap 34 Entering the New Era | | |

|June |12. REVIEW | |

UNIT 1 - Three Worlds Meet (beginnings- 1600)

(Recommended time – 2 weeks)

RESOURCES-

Pathways to Present 2007

Chap 1- The Atlantic World

Chap 2 - European Colonization (1492- 1754)

African-American History Prentice Hall 2006

Chap 1- Africa

Chap 2- Middle Passage

TOPICS-

A. Africa

1. Birthplace of Humanity (AAH7)

2. Ancient Civilizations (AAH9-13)

a. Egypt, Kush, Meroe, Axum

3. West African Civilizations (AAH14-23) (PP 19-21)

a. Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Senegambia, Benin

4. West African Society and Culture (AAH24-28) (PP 17-18)

B. North America

1. Settlement of Americas (PP 4-5)

2. North American Life (PP 5-10)

C. Europe

1. Greeks and Romans

2. Early Middle Ages (PP 10-11)

3. Late Middle Ages (PP 11-13)

4. The Renaissance (PP 13-16)

D. Three Worlds Collide

1. European Exploration and Colonization

a. Africa (AAH37-44) (PP 17)

b. North and South America (PP 22-28)

People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary

For the Regents

North America

Iroquois Confederacy

Europe

Greece-Democracy

Roman Republic

Magna Carta (1215)

Petition of Right (1628)

English Bill of Rights (1689)

John Locke

Baron De Montesquieu

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Voltaire

UNIT 2 – Colonial America (1492-1754)

(Recommended time – 2 week)

RESOURCES-

Pathways to Present 2007

Chap 2 - European Colonization (1492- 1754)

Chap 3 – Growth of American Colonies (1689-1754)

Brief Review in United States History and Government

Unit 1- Introduction- Geography and the Development of the US

African-American History Prentice Hall 2006

Chap 2- Middle Passage

Chap 3- Black People in Colonial North America (1526-1763)

ExamGen Chapter and Topics

Chap 1 US Geography and Demographics (59 questions)

TOPICS-

A. The Physical Setting

B. European Colonization of the Americas(1492-1752)

1. Spanish Explorers (PP 36-41)

2. Jamestown (PP 42-48)

3. New England Colonies (PP 49-57)

4. Middle and Southern Colonies (PP 59-63)

C. Middle Passage

1. Slave Trade (AAH37-44)

2. Capture of Africans (AAH45-47)

3. Middle Passage (AAH47-57)

4. Landing and Sale in West Indies (AAH59-62)

5. Africans Arrive in Chesapeake (AAH75-79)

D. Growth of Colonies (1689-1754)

1. An Empire and Its Colonies (PP 70-75)

2. Life in Colonial America (PP 77-82)

3. African Americans in the Colonies (PP 83-88)

a. Africans Arrive in the Chesapeake (AAH 75-80)

b. Plantation Slavery 1700-1750 (AAH 81-87)

c. Origins of African-American Culture (AAH 88-94)

d. Slavery in Colonial America (AAH 95-102)

4. Emerging Tensions (PP 89-93)

People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary

For the Regents

The Physical Setting

Great Plains

Central Plains

Mississippi River

Appalachian Mountains

Rocky Mountains

Great Lakes

European Colonization of the Americas (1492-1752)

New England

Middle Colonies

Southern Colonies

House of Burgesses

Indentured servant

Mayflower Compact

Middle Passage

Triangular Trade

Growth of Colonies (1689-1754)

John Peter Zenger (1735)

UNIT 3 – Revolution and Constitution (1753-1800)

(Recommended time – 2 weeks)

RESOURCES-

Pathways to Present 2007

Chap 4 Road to Independence (1753-1783)

Chap 5 Constitution (1776-1800)

Brief Review in United States History and Government

Unit 2 Constitutional Foundations - Section 1- The Constitution

African-American History Prentice Hall 2006

Chap 4- African Americans and the Struggle for Independence (1763-1783)

ExamGen Chapter and Topics

Chap 2: United States Constitution (616 questions)

TOPICS-

A. The Road to Independence (1753-1783)

1. The French and Indian War (PP104-108)

2. Issues Behind the Revolution (PP 109-116)

3. Ideas Behind the Revolution (PP 118-122)

a. The Declaration of Independence and AA (AAH 115-118)

b. Black Enlightenment (AAH 119-122)

4. Fighting for Independence (PP 127-132)

a. African Americans in the War for Independence (AAH 123-126)

5. Winning Independence (PP 133-137)

a. Revolution and Emancipation (AAH 127-132)

B. The Constitution of the United States (1776-1800)

1. Government by the States (PP 144-149)

2. The Constitutional Convention (PP 150-157)

3. Ratifying the Constitution (PP 158-163)

People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary

For the Regents

The Road to Independence (1753-1776)

Salutary Neglect

Albany Plan

Proclamation of 1763

mercantilism

Stamp Act (1765)

First Continental Congress (1774)

Second Continental Congress (1775)

Common Sense (1776)

Declaration of Independence (1776)

The Constitution of the United States (1776-1800)

Articles of Confederation (1781-1789)

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Land Ordinance (1785)

Northwest Ordinance

Constitutional Convention (1787)

Great Compromise

3/5 Compromise

Federalists

Anti-Federalists

Popular sovereignty

Limited government

Separation of powers

Checks and Balances

Elastic clause

Amendment Process

Federalism

Delegated powers

Implied powers

Denied powers

Concurrent powers

Reserved powers

Judicial Review

Bill of Rights

Federal Government

State Government

Electoral College

Impeachment

UNIT 4 – Emerging New Nation (1783-1855)

(Recommended time – 2 weeks)

RESOURCES-

Pathways to Present 2007

Chap 6 Origins of American Politics (1789-1820)

Chap 7 Life in New Nation (1783-1850)

Chap 8 The Growth of National Economy (1790-1850)

Chap 9 Religion and Reform (1815-1855)

Brief Review in United States History and Government

Unit 2 Constitutional Foundations Sec. 2- The Constitution Tested

African-American History Prentice Hall 2006

Chap 5- African Americans in the New Nation (1783-1820)

Chap 6- Life in the Cotton Kingdom

Chap 7- Free Black People in Antebellum America (1820-1861)

Chap 8- Opposition to Slavery (1800-1833)

Chap 9- Let Your Motto Be Resistance (1833-1850)

TOPICS

A. The Origins of American Politics (1789-1820)

1. New Government (PP 165-169)

2. Liberty versus Order in 1790’s (PP 200-206)

a. Forces for Freedom (AAH 141-148)

b. Forces for Slavery (AAH 149-153)

3. The Election of 1800 (PP 207-212)

4. The Jefferson Administration (PP 213-218)

5. Native American Resistance (PP 220-223)

6. War of 1812 (PP 224-229)

B. An Emerging Nation (1783-1855)

1. Culture, Social, and Religious Life (PP 240-248)

a. Emergence of Free Black Communities (AAH 154-159)

b. Black Leaders and Choices (AAH 160-164)

2. Trails West (PP 249-256)

3. Great Plain and the Southwest (PP 258-263)

C. Growth of a National Economy (1790-1850)

1. Inventions and Innovations (PP 272-279)

2. The Northern Section (PP 280-284)

a. Limits to Freedom (AAH 221-226)

b. Black Communities in Urban North (AAH 227)

c. African-American Institutions (AAH 235-239)

d. Free African Americans (AAH 240-246)

3. The Southern Section (PP 285-289)

a. Expansion of Slavery (AAH 181-185)

b. Slave Labor in Agriculture (AAH 186-189)

c..Other Types of Slave Labor (AAH 190-197)

d. Slave Life (AAH 198-204)

e. Socialization of Slaves (AAH 205-208)

4. The Growth of Nationalism (PP 290-295)

5. The Age of Jackson (PP 297-303)

D. Religion and Reform (1815-1855)

1. Reforming Society (PP 310-316)

2 The Antislavery Movement (PP 318-325)

a. Abolitionism Begins in America (AAH 259-262)

b. Colonization (AAH 263-266)

c. Black Abolitionists (AAH 267-274)

d. A Rising Tide of Violence (AAH 283-285)

e. The Response of Antislavery Movement (AAH 286-290)

f. Black Community Institutions (AAH 291-292)

g. Changing abolitionist movement (AAH 293-299)

h. Resistance and Nationalism (AAH 300-304)

3. The Movement for Women’s Rights (PP326-331)

4. Growing Divisions (PP 332-335)

People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary

For the Regents

The Origins of American Politics (1789-1820)

Proclamation of Neutrality

Washington’s Farewell Address

Hamilton’s Financial Plan

National Bank

Whiskey Rebellion

Alien and Sedition Acts

Federalist Party vs. Democratic-

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Judicial Review

Marbury v Madison

An Emerging Nation (1783-1855)

Tariff of 1828

Indian removal Act

Trail of Tears

War of 1812

Monroe Doctrine

American System

Tariff of Abominations

Force Bill

Bank War Manifest Destiny

Louisiana Purchase

Growth of a National Economy (1790-1850)

“King Cotton”

Spoils system

Religion and Reform (1815-1855)

Abolition

Underground railroad

Seneca Falls Convention

Declaration of Sentiments

UNIT 5 – Civil War and Reconstruction (1846-1877) (Recommended time – 3 weeks)

RESOURCES-

Pathways to Present 2007

Chap 10 The Coming of the Civil War (1846-1861)

Chap 11 The Civil War (1861-1865)

Chap 12 Reconstruction (1865-1877)

Brief Review in United States History and Government

Unit 2 Constitutional Foundations Sec 2- The Constitution Tested

Unit 3 Industrialization Sec 1- The Reconstructed Nation

African-American History Prentice Hall 2006

Chap 10- The United States Disunites over Slavery (1846-1861)

Chap 11- African Americans and the Civil War (1861-1865)

Chap 12- The Promise of Reconstruction (1865-1868)

Chap 13- The Failure of Reconstruction (1868-1877)

ExamGen Chapter and Topics

Chap 3- The Reconstruction Era (48 questions)

TOPICS-

A. The Coming of the Civil War (1846-1861)

1. Two Nations (PP 346-350)

a. Uncle Toms Cabin (AAH 324)

2. New Political Parties (PP 355-361)

a. Fugitive Slave Laws (AAH 316-322)

b. Rochester Convention (AAH 323)

c. Kansas-Nebraska Act (AAH 324-327)

3. The System Fails (PP 363-368)

a. Dred Scott Decision (AAH 327-329)

b. Lincoln-Douglas Debates (AAH331-332)

c. John Brown’s Raid (AAH 332-335)

4. A Nation Divided Against Itself (PP 369-373)

B. The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865)

1. From Bull Run to Antietam (PP 380-389)

2. Life Behind the Lines (PP 390-400)

a. Lincoln and Emancipation (AAH 354-361)

b. Black Men Fight for the Union (AAH 362-375)

c. Opposition to Black People (AAH 376- 382)

3. The Tide of the War Turns (PP 402-409)

4. Devastation and New Freedom (PP 410-417)

C. Reconstruction (1865-1877)

1. Presidential Reconstruction (PP 424-429)

2. Congressional Reconstruction (PP 430-435)

a. The End of Slavery (AAH 391-399)

b. Life after Slavery (AAH 400-406)

3. Birth of the “New South” (PP 436-440)

a.. The Crusades for Political and Civil Rights

(AAH 407-411)

4. The End of Reconstruction (PP 442-445)(AAH 426- 448)

People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary

The Coming of the Civil War (1846-1861)

Expansion of Slavery:

Missouri Compromise

Compromise of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Dred Scott Case

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

John Brown’s Raid

Bloody Kansas

Harper’s Ferry

Whig Party

The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865)

Secession

Suspension of Habeas Corpus

Gettysburg Address

Emancipation Proclamation

Reconstruction (1865-1877)

Lincoln’s Plan

Radical Republican Plan

Tenure of Office Act

Andrew Johnson

Scalawags Carpetbaggers

Ulysses S Grant

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

Election of 1876

Compromise of 1877

Rutherford Hayes

Black Codes

Ku Klux Klan

Disenfranchisement

Literacy

Test; Poll Tax; Grandfather Clause

Jim Crow Laws

Freedmen Bureau

UNIT 6 – Expansion:Rewards and Costs (1850-1920) (Recommended time – 5 weeks)

RESOURCES-

Pathways to Present 2007

Chap 13 The Expansion of American Industry(1850-1900)

Chap 14 Looking to the West (1860-1900)

Chap 15 Politics Immigration and Urban Life (1870-1915)

Chap 16 Life at the turn of 20th Century (1870-1915)

Chap 18 Progressive Era (1890-1920)

Brief Review in United States History and Government

Unit 3- Section 2 and 3

Unit 4- Section 1

African-American History Prentice Hall 2006

Chap 14- A. A. in the South in the Late 19th Century (1875-1900)

Chap 15- Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy (1867-1917)

Chap 16- African Americans in the Early 20th Century (1895-1928)

ExamGen Chapter and Topics

Chap 4- Age of Corporations (212 questions)

Chap 5- Progressive Movement (83 questions)

Topic A- Pressures for reform

Topic B- Progressivism and government action

TOPICS-

A. The rise of U.S. business and labor (1865-1920)

1. A Technological Revolution (PP 456-465)

2. Growth of Big Business (PP 467-472)

3. Black Businesspeople and Entrepreneurs (AAH 521-527)

4. Industrialization and Workers (PP 473-476)

5. The Great Strikes (PP 477-483)

B. Looking West (1860-1900)

1. Moving West (PP 488-490)

2. Conflict with Native Americans (PP 491-497)

3. Mining, Ranching and Farming (PP 498 -506)

4. Migration (AAH 481-487)

5. Populism (PP 507-512)

C. Politics, Immigration and Urban Life (1870-1915)

1. Politics in Gilded Age (PP 520-526) (AAH 461-466)

2. Immigration (PP 527-533)

3. Challenges of the City (PP 534-539)

4. Ideas of Reform (PP 541-545)

D. Life at the Turn of the Century (1870-1915)

1. Expansion of Education (PP 552-557)

a. Educating African Americans (AAH 499-504)

2. New Forms of Entertainment (PP 559-563)

a. Music and Sports (AAH 528-532)

3. The World of Jim Crow (PP 564-568)

a. Disfranchisement (AAH 467-469)

b. Segregation (AAH 470-475)

c. Violence (AAH 476-480)

d. African Americans and the Southern Courts (AAH 488-490)

4. The Changing Roles of Women (PP 569-573)

5. Church and Religion (AAH 505-510)

E. The Progressive Reform Era (1890-1920)

1. Origins of Progressivism (PP 614-619)

2. Progressive Legislation (PP 621-627)

3. Race and Social Change (AAH 541-549)

4. New Black Organizations (AAH 550-560)

3. Progressivism Under Taft and Wilson (PP 628-634)

6. Racial Violence (AAH 567-574)

4. Suffrage at Last (PP635-639)

People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary

For the Regents

The rise of U.S. business and labor (1865-1920)

Entrepreneurs

Corporations

Monopoly

Conglomerate

Merger

Trust

Andrew Carnegie

John D Rockefeller

J. Pierpont Morgan

Henry Ford

Assembly line

Laissez-faire

Horatio Alger

Adam Smith Wealth of a Nation(1776)

Charles Darwin

Social Darwinism

Robber Baron

Philanthropist

Munn v Illinois (1877)

Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad v Illinois (1886)

Interstate Commerce Act (1886)

Sherman anti-trust act (1890)

US v EC Knight Company (1895)

Labor unions

Collective bargaining

Knights of Labor

Haymarket Riot (1886)

American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers

Great Railway Strike (1877)

Homestead Strike (1892)

Pullman Strike (1894)

Lawrence Textile Strike (1912)

Looking West (1860-1900)

Transcontinental Railroad

Homestead Act (1862)

Indian Wars

Dawes Act (1887)

The grange

Populist Party

Politics, Immigration and Urban Life (1870-1915)

Tenements

Political machines

Nativism

Melting pot theory

Assimilation

Pluralism

Know-nothing party

Chinese exclusion Act (1882)

Gentleman’s Agreement (1907)

Life at the Turn of the Century (1870-1915)

The Progressive Reform Era (1890-1920)

Jane Addams

Settlement Houses

Upton Sinclair The Jungle (1906)

Jeannette Rankin

Carrie Chapman Catt

Alice Paul

Booker T Washington

Web Dubois

Marcus Garvey

Ida b Wells-Barnett

Muckrakers

Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives (1890)

Lincoln Steffens- Shame of the Cities (1906)

Temperance movement

Susan b Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

National American Women’s Suffrage Association

Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

NAACP

Secret ballot

Initiative

Referendum

Recall

Direct primary

Hepburn Act (1906)

Pure food and drug act (1906)

Meat inspection act (1906)

16th amendment (1913)

17th amendment (1913)

National Park service (1916)

18th amendment (1919)

Employers Liability Act (1906)

Lochner v New York (1905)

Muller v Oregon (1908)

Standard Oil of New Jersey v United States (1911)

Federal reserve system (1913)

Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)

UNIT 7 – Becoming a World Power (1890-1920)

(Recommended time – 2 weeks)

RESOURCES-

Pathways to Present 2007

Chap 17 Becoming a World Power (1890-1915)

Chap 19 World War I Era (1914-1920)

Brief Review in United States History and Government

Unit 4- Section 2

Unit 5- Section 1

African-American History Prentice Hall 2006

Chap 15- Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy (1867-1917)

Chap 16- African Americans in the Early 20th Century (1895-1928)

ExamGen Chapter and Topics

Chap 5- The Progressive Movement (101 questions)

Topic C- Expansion of US power overseas

Topic D- WWI and US involvement

TOPICS-

A. Becoming a World Power (1890-1915)

1. The Pressure to Expand (PP 584-588)

2. Spanish-American War (PP 589-596)

a. Black Troops (AAH 511-520)

3. A New Foreign Policy (PP 598-603)

4. Debating America’s New Role (PP 604-607)

B. The World War I Era (1914-1920)

1. The Road to War (PP 646-651)

2. The United States Declares War (PP 653-656)

a. Politics and the Military (AAH 561-566)

3. Americans on the European Front (PP 657-663)

4. Americans on the Home Front (PP 664-668)

5. Global Peacemaker (PP 669-673)

People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary

For the Regents

Becoming a World Power (1890-1915)

Social Darwinism

Missionary spirit

Open door policy

Boxer rebellion

Jingoism

Yellow journalism

William Hearst

Joseph Pulitzer

De lome letter

Sinking of the Maine

Teller amendment

Imperialism

Foraker act (1900)

Platt Amendment (1902)

Roosevelt corollary

Big stick policy

Dollar diplomacy

Good neighbor policy

Panama canal

The World War I Era (1914-1920)

Causes of war

Central powers

Allies

Propaganda

German submarine warfare

Lusitania (1915)

Zimmerman note

Selective service act (1917)

Espionage and sedition act (1917 + 1918)

Schenck v United States (1918)

Red Scare (1918-1920)

Fourteen points (1918)

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

League of Nations

reparations

UNIT 8 – Boom Times to Hard Times (1920-1941)

(Recommended time – 6 weeks)

RESOURCES-

Pathways to Present 2007

Chap 20 Postwar Social Change (1920-1929)

Chap 21 Politics and Prosperity (1920-1929)

Chap 22 Crash and Depression (1929-1933)

Chap 23 The New Deal (1933-1941)

Brief Review in United States History and Government

Unit 5- Section 1 + 2

African-American History Prentice Hall 2006

Chap 17- African Americans and the 1920’s (1915-1928)

Chap 18- The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1941)

Chap 19- Culture and Society in the 1930’s and 1940’s (1930- 1949)

ExamGen Chapter and Topics

Chap 6- Roaring 20’s & Depression (143 questions)

TOPICS-

A. Postwar Social Change (1920-1929)

1. Society in 1920’s (PP 684-690)

a. The Great Migration (AAH 575-582)

2. Mass Media and the Jazz Age (PP 691-697)

a. The Harlem Renaissance (AAH 606-615)

b. Sports (AAH 617-618)

3. Cultural Conflicts (PP 699-705)

a. Fighting Racism (AAH 591-593)

b. Black Organizations of the 1920s (AAH 594-601)

c. Uniting Black Workers (AAH 602-605)

B. Politics and Prosperity (1920-1929)

1. A Republican Decade (PP 712-721)

2. A Business Boom (PP 723-729)

3. The Economy in the Late 1920’s (PP 730-733)

C. Crash and Depression (1929-1933)

1. The Stock Market Crash (PP 740-744)

2. Social Effects of the Depression (PP 745-750)

a. Blacks during the Great Depression (AAH 631-637)

b. Black Protest (AAH 638-643)

3. Surviving the Great Depression (PP 752-755)

a. Black Culture (AAH 671-675)

b. Popular Culture for the Masses (AAH 676-680)

c. The Black Chicago Renaissance (AAH 681-687)

d. Black Art and Literature (AAH 688-692)

e. African Americans in Sports (AAH 693-695)

f. Black Religious Culture (AAH 696-698)

4. The Election of 1932 (PP 756-761)

D. The New Deal (1933-1941)

1. Forging a New Deal (PP 768-776)

a. African Americans and the New Deal (AAH 644-656)

2. The New Deal’s Critics (PP 777-783)

3. Last Days of the New Deal (PP 785-791)

People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary

For the Regents

Postwar Social Change (1920-1929)

Great migration

Return to normalcy

Teapot dome scandal

Harlem renaissance

Flappers

Jazz age

Kkk

Sacco and Vanzetti

Prohibition

Scopes monkey trial

Quotas

Politics and Prosperity (1920-1929)

Crash and Depression (1929-1933)

Causes of depression

Bonus army

Hoovervilles

Dust bowl

The New Deal (1933-1941)

Relief, Recovery and Reform

UNIT 9 – Hot and Cold War (1931-1960)

(Recommended time – 4 weeks)

RESOURCES-

Pathways to Present 2007

Chap 24 and 25 World War II (1931-1945)

Chap 26 Cold War (1945-1960)

Chap 27 Postwar Years at Home (1945-1960)

Brief Review in United States History and Government

Unit 6- Section 1 + 2

Unit 7- Section 1

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Chap 20- The World War II Era and the Seeds of the Revolution (1936-1948)

ExamGen Chapter and Topics

Chap 7- America’s move from isolation to world leader (153 questions)

TOPICS-

A. Road to War (1931-1941)

1. The Rise of Dictators (PP 800-806)

2. Europe Goes to War (PP 807-811)

3. Japan Builds an Empire (PP 813-816)

4. From Isolationism to War (PP 817-821)

a. On the Eve of War (AAH 707-711)

B. Americans at War (1941-1945)

1. Mobilization (PP 826-831)

a. Race and the US Armed Forces (AAH712-716)

b. The Beginning of Military Desegregation (AAH 717-722)

c. Black People on the Home Front (AAH 723-728)

2. Retaking Europe (PP 832-840)

3. The Holocaust (PP 841-845)

4. The War in the Pacific (PP 846-853)

5. The Social Impact of the War (PP 855-861)

C. The Cold War (1945-1960)

1. Origins of the Cold War (PP 868-874)

2. The Cold War Heats Up (PP 876-883)

3. The Korean War (PP 884-888)

4. The Continuing Cold War (PP 889-893)

D. Postwar Years at Home (1945-1960)

1. The Postwar Economy (PP 900-906)

2. Mood of the 1950’s (PP 907-911)

3. Domestic Politics and Policy (PP 912-918)

a. The Transition to Peace (AAH 729-734)

People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary

For the Regents

Road to War (1931-1941)

Isolationism

Neutrality

Totalitarianism

Adolph Hitler

Benito Mussolini

Joseph Stalin

Fascism

1938 Munich Agreement

Appeasement

Lend-Lease Act

Americans at War (1941-1945)

Pearl Harbor

Allies

Winston Churchill

Harry S Truman

Dwight Eisenhower

Douglas MacArthur

Charles de Gaulle

Axis Powers

Emperor Hirohito

Atlantic Charter Meeting (1941)

Casablanca (1943)

Cairo (1943)

Tehran Conference (1943)

Yalta (1945)

Potsdam (1945)

Manhattan Project

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

Holocaust

Nuremberg Trials

Rosie the Riveter

Wartime Relocation Authority

Korematsu v United States 1944

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act

Employment Act of 1946

Taft-Hartley Act

The Cold War (1945-1960)

United Nations

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Containment

Iron curtain

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin Blockade

Berlin airlift

NATO

Warsaw Pact

Korean War

38th parallel

Sputnik

Domino Theory

Eisenhower Doctrine

U-2 incident

Postwar Years at Home (1945-1960)

HAUC

McCarthyism

Growth of suburbs

Jackie Robinson

Warren Court

Brown v Board of Education 1954

Little Rock

Civil Rights Movement

Montgomery bus boycott

Freedom rides

James Meredith

March on Washington (1963)

UNIT 10 – A Period of Turmoil and Change (1950-1975)

(Recommended time – 4 weeks)

RESOURCES-

Pathways to Present 2007

Chap 28 Civil Rights Movement (1950-1968)

Chap 29 Kennedy and Johnson Years (1961-1969)

Chap 30 The Era of Activism (1960-1975)

Chap 31 Vietnam War (1954-1975)

Brief Review in United States History and Government

Unit 7- Section 2 + 3

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Chap 21- Freedom Movement (1954-1965)

Chap 22- The Struggle Continues (1965-1980)

ExamGen Chapter and Topics

Chap 8- 1950- 1981 (236 questions)

TOPICS-

A. The Civil Rights Movement (1950-1968)

1. Demands for Civil Rights (PP 930-935)

a. The 1950’s (AAH 747-755)

b. The Montgomery Bus Boycott ( AAH 756-761)

2. Leaders and Strategies (PP 936- 940)

a. Martin Luther King (AAH 814-816)

3. The Struggle Intensifies (PP 941-946)

a. No Easy Road to Freedom (AAH 762-767)

4. The Political Response (PP 948-953)

a. The Movement at High Tide (AAH 768-778)

b. A Hard Victory (AAH 778-784)

5. The Movement Takes a New Turn (PP 954-959)

a. Racial Integration (AAH 793-802)

B. The Kennedy and Johnson Years (1961-1969)

1. The New Frontier (PP 968-973)

2. The Great Society (PP 975-981)

a. The Great Society (AAH 803-813)

3. Foreign Policy in early 1960’s (PP 983-991)

C. An Era of Activism (1960-1975)

1. The Women’s Movement (PP 996-1001)

2. Ethnic Minorities Seek Equality (PP 1003-1008)

a. The Black Arts Movement (AAH 817-824)

3. Counterculture (PP 1009-1012)

4. Environmental and Consumer Movement (PP 1013-1017)

D. The Vietnam War (1954-1975)

1. The War Unfolds (PP 1024-1029)

2. Fighting the War (PP1030-1036)

3. Political Divisions (PP 1037-1043)

4. The End of the War (PP 1044-1049)

People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary

For the Regents

The Civil Rights Movement (1950-1968)

Civil disobedience

James Meredith

Medgar Evers

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Voting Rights Act (1965)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Malcolm X

The Kennedy and Johnson Years (1961-1969)

New Frontier

Great Society

Space program

Peace corps

VISTA program

Office of Economic Opportunity (1964)

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965)

Medicare

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Berlin Wall

An Era of Activism (1960-1975)

Betty Frieden- The Feminine Mystique (1963)

Title VII- of Civil Rights Act

NOW

Equal Rights Ammendment

Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act

Roe v Wade (1973)

Affirmative action

Feminism

Sexism

Glass ceiling

Regents of the University of California v Bakke (1979)

Cesar Chavez

United Farm Workers

American Indian Movement

Ralph Nader

The Vietnam War (1954-1975)

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)

Hawks and Doves

Students for Democratic Society

Vietnamization

War Powers Act

UNIT 11 – Continuity and Change (1960-present)

(Recommended time – 1 weeks)

RESOURCES-

Pathways to Present 2007

Chap 32 Nixon, Ford and Carter (1969-1981)

Chap 33 The Conservative Revolution (1980-1992)

Chap 34 Entering the New Era (1992- present)

Brief Review in United States History and Government

Unit 7- Section 4 + 5

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Chap 23- Black Politics (1980-2004)

Chap 24- African Americans in the New Millennium

ExamGen Chapter and Topics

Chap 9- 1981-Present (195 questions)

TOPICS-

A. Nixon, Ford and Carter (1969-1981)

1. Nixon’s Domestic Policy (PP 1058-1063)

a. Politics (AAH 825-829)

2. Nixon’s Foreign Policy (PP 1064-1069)

3. Watergate Scandal (PP 1070-1076)

4. The Ford Administration (PP 1078-1082)

5. The Carter Administration (PP 1083-1089)

a. Black Elected Officials (AAH 830-836)

B. The Conservative Revolution (1980-1992)

1. Roots of New Conservatism (PP 1096-1100)

a. The Conservative Reaction (AAH 845-849)

2. Reagan Revolution (PP 1102-1107)

3. Reagan’s Second Term (PP 1108-1113)

4. George HW Bush Presidency (PP 1114-1119)

C. Entering a New Era (1992-Present)

1. Politics in Recent Years (PP 1126-1131)

a. Civil Rights (AAH 850-855)

b. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition (AAH 856-858)

c. Policing the Black Community (AAH 859-862)

d. The Clinton Years (AAH 863-865)

e. The Bush Years (AAH 868-876)

2. The United States in a New World (PP 1133-1141)

3. Americans in the New Millennium (PP 1142-1149)

a. Progress and Poverty (AAH 885-892)

b. Art and Culture (AAH 893-901)

c. Religion (AAH 902-908)

d. Black Identity (AAH 909-914)

People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary

For the Regents

Nixon, Ford and Carter (1969-1981)

Détente

OSHA

Clean Air Act (1970)

Drug Enforcement Agency (1973)

New federalism

Watergate

Amnesty Plan

Inflation

OPEC

Stagflation

Camp David Accords

Hostage Crisis

The Conservative Revolution (1980-1992)

Supply-side economics

Star Wars

Farm Aid

Iran Contra Affair

Savings and Loan Scandal

End of Cold War

Persian Gulf War

Entering a New Era (1992-Present)

Health Care Reform

Welfare Reform

N.A.F.T.A.

New World Order: Somalia;

Bosnia; Kosovo

Clinton v. Jones

Clinton’s Impeachment Trial

New York State Core Curriculum can be found at

The following concepts and themes in United States history are also emphasized in this curriculum:

Change

Citizenship

Civic Values

Constitutional Principles

Culture and Intellectual Life

Diversity

Economic Systems

Environment

Factors of Production

Foreign Policy

Government

Human Systems

Immigration and Migration

Individuals, Groups, Institutions

Interdependence

Physical Systems

Places and Regions

Reform Movements

Presidential Decisions and Actions

Science and Technology

Since this curriculum emphasizes government and basic constitutional principles, students should understand the importance of key United States Supreme Court decisions. The following Supreme Court decisions have had significant impact on our nation’s history:

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Worcester v. Georgia (1832)

Dred Scot v. Sanford (1857)

Civil Rights Cases (1883)

Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R.R. v. Illinois ( 1 8 8 6 )

United States v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)

In Re Debs (1895)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Northern Securities Co. v. United States (1904)

Lochner v. New York (1905)

Muller v. Oregon (1908)

Schenck v. United States (1919)

Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)

Korematsu v. United States (1944)

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

Watkins v. United States (1957)

Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

Baker v. Carr (1962)

Engle v. Vitale (1962)

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)

New York Times v. United States (1971)

Roe v. Wade (1973)

United States v. Nixon (1974)

New Jersey v. TLO (1985)

Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990)

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, et. al. v. Casey (1992)

Vernonia School District v. Acton (1995)

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