Sioux Falls School District
20th Century American History
Fall 2003
I. Mission Statement
We believe that the study of Social Studies helps students understand their roots, see their connections to the past, comprehend their context, recognize the commonality of people across time, appreciate the balance of rights and responsibilities in society, and develop habits of thoughtful analysis and reflective thinking.
II. Course/Content Description
Although the focus of this yearlong course is the 20th century, a review of American history from the Civil War to the turn of the century is included. The major units encompass foreign and domestic policy. The emphasis on foreign issues relates to the world wars, the Cold War, Vietnam and terrorism. Domestic policy stresses the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, Civil Rights, and the Counter Culture. Most of the class is devoted to modern history.
III. Learning Standards
South Dakota Social Studies Content Standards / Sioux Falls School District Learning Standards7 / I. Identify the causes and effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction
· Causes and effects of the Civil War
· Significance of Reconstruction
1, 7 / II. Analyze the Gilded Age and Reform
· Settlement of West
· Native Americans
· Industrialization
· Populism & Progressivism
2, 7 / III. Examine Imperialism and relate its effects on WWI
· Manifest Destiny and expansion
· Empire building
· Spanish-American War
· Causes, Effects, and Results of WWI
3, 7 / IV. Describe the significance of the Twenties
· Social Transitions
· Economic Changes affecting business, industry and agriculture
3, 7 / V. Evaluate causes and effects of the Great Depression
· Changes in Business Cycle
· Weaknesses in economy
· Hoover’s response
3, 7 / VI. Understand the phonics of the New Deal and the expanded role of the government
· FDR
· Impact on American people
· Impact of New Deal
4, 6, 7 / VI. Assess the causes and effects of America’s involvement in WWII
· Causes of WWII
· Impact of mobilization
· Contributions on homefront
· Crimes against humanity
· Theatres of war
· Major battles and turning points
· Major leaders and events
· Global impact of atomic bomb
5, 6 / VII. Identify and evaluate conditions that lead to the Cold War in the 1950’s
· Rebuilding of war-torn countries
· United Nations
· Cold War, containment and Korean War
· McCarthyism
· Domestic policies and cultural changes
5, 6 / VIII. Compare and contrast the Civil Rights strategies and their impact on the 1960’s
· Civil Rights Movement
· Warren Court and Judicial Activism
· Challenges of the Kennedy Era
· Johnson and the Great Society
5, 6, 7 / IX. Examine causes and consequence of Vietnam War and the counterculture
· Vietnam War
· Causes and Consequences of Vietnam War
· The War at Home
5, 6, 7 / X. Develop an understanding of the changing role of U.S. in today’s world
· Political, social and economic turning points
· New challenges to America’s role in the world
IV. Instructional Delivery
Teachers will use a variety of instructional delivery methods to teach the objectives.
A. Cooperative groups
B. Independent reading (Primary source readings)
C. Student projects/presentations
D. Writing activities
E. Teacher guided practice
F. Classroom discussion
G. Technology
V. Instructional Materials
A. The Americans, copyright 2003, McDougal Littell Publishing
Teacher resource package – ancillary materials
VI. Assessment/Evaluation
Will include the following assessment methods
A. Written exams using objective/essay questions
B. Reaction papers
C. Individual and group projects
D. Assignments, quizzes
E. Semester tests
VI. Standards for Passing
A. Point values will be assigned to above assessments depending on the amount of time spent and difficulty involved.
B. At the end of each grading period, scores will be added and percentages determined.
93-100% = A
85-92% = B
76-84% = C
65-75% = D
0-64% = F
Essentials
(1ST Semester)
I. Civil War & Reconstruction (3 weeks) (Chapters 10, 11, 12)
A. Enduring Understanding: Causes and Effects of the Civil War
1. Sectionalism
2. Westward expansion
3. States’ rights
a. Secession
b. Dred Scott v. Sandford
4. Slavery
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. Emancipation Proclamation
B. Important to Know: Civil War
1. Major battles
a. Bull Run
b. Antietam
c. Gettysburg
d. Vicksburg
2. Civil War Personalities
a. Jefferson Davis
b. U.S. Grant
c. Robert E. Lee
C. Enduring Understanding: Reconstruction
1. Civil War Amendment
a. 13th, 14th, 15th
2. Post-War South
a. Freedman’s Bureau
b. Black Codes
3. Impeachment of Andrew Jackson
D. Important to Know and Do: Reconstruction
1. Plans for Reconstruction
a. Lincoln’s Plan
b. Johnson’s Plan
c. Congressional Plan
2. Reconstructing Society
a. Scallywags/Carpetbaggers
b. Sharecroppers/tenant farmers
3. Collapse of Reconstruction (12-3)
II. Migration & Industrialization (5 weeks) (Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16)
A. Enduring Understanding: Westward Expansion (13-1)
1. Native American Life (enhancement – later date)
a. Indian Life
b. Cultures clash
1. Little Big Horn/Wounded Knee
2. Sitting Bull/Crazy Horse
3. George Custer
c. Dawes Act/Reservation System
Assimilation
2. Railroads enhance expansion
a. Trails
b. Farming
c. Mining
B. Important to Know: Westward Expansion (13-1)
1. Native American Life
Horse and Buffalo
2. Cultures clash
Sand Creek
3. Railroads
a. Chisholm Trail
b. Long Drive
C. Enduring Understanding: Settling & Farming the Great Plains
1. Homestead Act
2. Politics on the Plains
a. Grange
b. Populism – William Jennings Bryan
D. Important to Know: Settling & Farming the Great Plains
1. Exodusters
2. Sod
3. Bonanza
4. Farmers Alliance
5. Economic issues
a. Gold/Silver
b. Greenbacks
II. Migration & Industrialization - Continued
E. Enduring Understanding: Industrial Age
1. Industry
a. Oil
b. Steel
c. Electricity
2. Railroads
Transcontinental
3. Business
a. Andrew Carnegie/John D. Rockefeller
Vertical/horizontal integration
b. Labor and Unions
Strikes
F. Important to Know: Industrial Age
1. Industry
a. Bessemer Process
b. Alexander Graham Bell
c. Thomas A. Edison
2. Railroads
a. Immigrant Labor
b. Railroad Reform
3. Business
a. IWW/AFL
b. Samuel Gompers
c. Eugene Debs
d. Mother Jones
G. Enduring Understanding: Immigrants (15-1)
1. Opportunity/labor
2. Nativism
H. Important to Know: Urbanization (15-2)
Ellis Island
I. Important to Know: Urbanization (15-2)
1. Urban problem
2. Reformers
J. Important to Know: Politics in the Gilded Age (15-3)
1. Political machines
2. Corruption
Boss Tweed
3. Patronage
4. Reform
II. Migration & Industrialization - Continued
K. Enduring Understanding: Turn of the Century Changes (Chapter 16)
1. Booker T. Washington
2. W.E.B. DuBois
3. Jim Crow
4. Plessy vs. Ferguson
L. Important to Know: Turn of the Century Changes
1. City Planning
2. Ida B. Wells
III. Modern America (3 weeks) (Chapters 17-19)
A. Enduring Understanding: Progressivism & Reform
1. Social/Moral Reforms
Prohibition/18th Amendment
2. Economic
a. Muckrackers
b. Trustbusting
3. Political
a. Women’s Suffrage/19th
B. Important to Know: Progressivism & Reform
1. Social
Temperance
2. Economic
a. Ida Tarbell
b. Upton Sinclair/The Jungle
3. Political
a. Initiative
b. Referendum
c. Recall
d. 17th Amendment
e. Susan B. Anthony
C. Enduring Understanding: Progressive Presidents
1. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
D. Enduring Understanding: Imperialism
1. Hawaii, Philippines, Puerto Rico
2. Spanish American War
3. Panama Canal
4. Roosevelt Corollary
III. Modern America (Continued)
E. Important to Know: Imperialism
1. Yellow Journalism/Hearst/Pulitzer
2. USS Maine
3. Open Door Policy
4. Boxer Rebellion
5. Great White Fleet
6. Dollar Diplomacy
F. Enduring Understanding: World War I
1. Causes of the War
a. Nationalism
b. Militarism
c. Imperialism
d. Alliance System
2. American Neutrality
3. Reasons for US involvement
a. Unrestricted submarine warfare
b. Zimmerman Note
4. Trench warfare and new technology
5. America mobilizes for work
6. The Armistice & Peace
a. Wilson’s 14 points
b. Treaty of Versailles
G. Important to Know: World War I
1. Assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand
2. Lusitania, Sussex, Arabic
3. Great Migration
4. Role of Women
5. League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
IV. The Twenties (3 weeks) (Chapter 20 and 21)
A. Enduring Understanding: Politics of the Twenties
1. Communism & Red Scare
2. Nativism/Immigration
3. Labor unrest
B. Important to Know: Politics of the Twenties
1. Sacco & Vanzetti
2. KKK
3. Political Scandals
a. Teapot Dome
4. Automobile
IV. The Twenties (Continued)
C. Enduring Understanding: Life of the Twenties
1. Prohibition, 18th & 21st Amendments
2. Science & Religion Clash
3. Role of Women, 19th Amendment
4. Popular Culture
5. The Harlem Renaissance
D. Important to Know: Life of the Twenties
1. Speakeasies
2. Jazz
3. Sports Figures
4. The Arts
V. The Great Depression (3 weeks) (Chapter 22)
A. Enduring Understanding: Causes of the Great Depression
1. Overproduction/Underconsumption
2. Living on Credit
3. Unequal distribution of wealth
4. Bank/Business Failure
5. Economic effects of World War I
a. Tariffs and war debt
6. Stock market speculation
7. Stock market crash
B. Important to Know: Causes of the Great Depression
1. Margin-buying
2. Hawley-Smoot
3. Black Tuesday
C. Enduring Understanding: Life and Politics During the Depression
1. Dust Bowl & Okies
2. Hoover’s Philosophy
a. “rugged individualism”
b. Bonus Army
D. Important to Know: Life and Politics During the Great Depression
Shantytowns/Hooverville
Essentials
(2nd Semester)
I. The New Deal (1-1/2 to 2 weeks) (Chapter 23)
A. Enduring Understanding
1. FDR and the New Deal
a. 1st New Deal
b. 2nd New Deal
2. Supreme Court Rulings and Constitutional Crisis
3. Social Impact of the Great Depression
4. The impact of the New Deal
B. Important to Know
1. First New Deal: The First 100 Days; FDIC; NRA; AAA; TVA
2. Second New Deal: The Second 100 Days; WPA; Wagner Act; Social Security
3. “Court Packing”
4. Personalities
a. Eleanor Roosevelt
b. Huey Long
c. Mary McLeod Bethune
d. John Collier
5. Personalities
6. Culture during the Depression
a. Motion Pictures
b. Radio
c. The Arts
d. Literature
II. World War II (3-1/2 to 4 weeks) Chapter 24 – World War Looms
Chapter 25 – The United States in World War II
A. Enduring Understanding
1. Rise of Dictators
a. Adolph Hitler
b. Benito Mussolini
c. Joseph Stalin
2. Appeasement: Munich Conference
3. Non-aggression Pact
a. Poland and the German ‘Blitzkrieg’
b. Germany attacks the Soviet Union
4. Major Events
a. Pearl Harbor
b. Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
c. D-Day
d. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
II. World War II (Continued)
5. Major Personalities
a. Eisenhower
b. Churchill
c. FDR
d. Truman
e. MacArthur
1.) Mobilizing for War: The Home front
A. Population shifts
B. Social Issues (Racial tensions)
2.) Internment Camps
JACL (Japanese American Citizens League)
B. Important to Know
1. Personalities
a. Hideki Tojo
b. Francisco Franco
c. Neville Chamberlain
d. Charles de Gaulle
e. A. Phillip Randolph
2. United States Involvement and Response
a. Lend-Lease Act
b. Atlantic Charter
c. Japanese aggression
3. Major Events
a. North African and European Campaigns
b. Operations
1.) Torch
2.) Overlord
c. Battles
1.) Stalingrad
2.) Coral Sea
3.) Midway
4.) Battle of the Bulge
d. Conferences
1.) Yalta
2.) Casablanca
The Manhattan Project
4. War Productions: The Home Front
a. Controls on the Economy
b. Raising an Army and the role of women
5. War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg
III. The Early Cold War and the 1950’s (2 weeks) Chapter 26 Cold War Conflicts
Chapter 27 – The Postwar Boom
A. Enduring Understanding
1. Allied Occupation of Germany and Japan
2. The United Nations
3. Containment Policy
4. The Cold War (defined)
5. The Korean War
a. Harry Truman
b. General MacArthur
1.) The Red Scare and McCarthyism
2.) Sputnik and the Space Race
3.) Brinksmanship
B. Important to Know
1. Potsdam Conference
2. Events of the Cold War
a. Berlin Blockade and Airlift
b. NATO and the Warsaw Pact
c. Communist Revolution in China
3. The Home front
a. The ‘Iron Curtain’
b. The CIA
c. G.I. Bill of Rights
d. Taft-Hartley Act
4. Cold War Personalities
a. Joseph Stalin
b. Mao Tse-Tung
c. Chang Kai-Shek
d. Alger Hiss
e. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
5. Important Events
a. The Eisenhower Years
b. The Hydrogen Bomb
c. The U-2 Incident
d. The Interstate Highway Act
e. Consumerism
f. Television
g. Rock ‘n’ Roll
IV. The Kennedy Years and Civil Rights (2 weeks)
Chapter 28 – The New Frontier and the Great Society
Chapter 29 – Civil Rights
A. Enduring Understanding
1. The Kennedy Years
a. The Bay of Pigs
b. Cuban Missile Crisis
c. The New Frontier
d. JFK Assassination
2. The Johnson Years
a. The Great Society
b. The Warren Court
3. The Civil Rights Movement Defined
4. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
5. Martin Luther King Jr.
6. Civil Rights Act of 1964
B. Important to Know
1. The Kennedy Years
a. 1960 Election
b. Camelot Years
c. Fidel Castro
d. Peace Corps
e. Berlin Wall Crisis
f. Nikita Khrushchev
2. The Johnson Years
a. War on Poverty
b. Medicaid and Medicare
c. Landmark Court Cases
3. Landmark Events
a. Montgomery Bus Boycott
b. Non-violent Resistance
c. Sit ins
d. Freedom Riders
e. March on Washington, D.C.
f. Freedom Summer
g. Voting Rights Act of 1965
h. Civil Rights Act of 1968
i. Affirmative Action
4. Important People and Organizations
a. Thurgood Marshall
b. Rosa Parks
c. James Meredith
d. Malcolm X
e. Nation of Islam
f. Black Power
g. Black Panthers
V. The Vietnam War and the Counter Culture (2 weeks)
Chapter 30 – The Vietnam War Years
Chapter 31 – An Era of Social Change
A. Enduring Understanding
1. Domino Theory
2. Tonkin Gulf Resolution
3. The Television War
4. The Draft and Escalation of the War
5. The TET Offensive
6. The Anti-War Protests: Hawks and Doves
7. The 1968 Election
8. The Counterculture
9. Movements
a. Latino
b. Native American
c. Women’s
B. Important to Know
1. Vietnam