American History II Curriculum Map 2015-2016
Unit 3: America Becomes a World Power(10 Days)Key Concepts: International Affairs, Foreign Policy, War, Impact, Conflict, Compromise, Power, Crisis
Students will Understand
- Foreign policy decisions may be a source of national pride or tension.
- Economic and political interests guide foreign policy decisions.
- Threats to a nation's economic and political interests can lead to war.
- The political will and popular support for a war can shift between government policies or thoughts of isolationism, neutrality, and interventionism.
- War influences political decisions, and foreign and domestic policy.
- Governments often assume more authority during times of war.
- Wars and their outcomes are often unsettling and have enduring international consequences for nations and civilians
- Civilians and their governments will economically sacrifice and suffer because of war.
- How did the desire for new trade markets by industrialized countries impact the distribution of global power and authority at the turn of the century?
- How did Americans use religion, race, and nationalism to both defend and object to US imperialism?
- How did the Spanish American War represent a turning point in US foreign policy? How did the US become involved in the Spanish American War?
- Read and interpret excerpts from the following documents: (R)
- Monroe Doctrine
- Influence of Sea Power on World History
- American Anti-Imperialist League Platform
- De Lome Letter
- White Man’s Burden (Kipling)
- Our Country (Strong)
- 1897 Petition Against Annexation of Hawaii
- Draw political cartoons for or against imperialism Examine headlines from the papers of Hearst and Pulitzer concerning the USS Maine
- What economic and political aims led to the US involvement in the Spanish American War?
- How and why did the US gain territory and influence in the Pacific in the years preceding and following the Spanish American War?
- How did leaders and citizens of other nations react to US expansion and influence in their nations?
- How did American political leaders use foreign aggression as opportunities to prepare for and request war (e.g. USS Maine)?
- How did the desire for new trade markets by industrialized countries impact the distribution of global power and authority at the turn of the century?
- What were the foreign policies of T. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson at the turn of the century and how was each implemented?
- How did leaders and citizens of other nation react to US expansion and influence in their nations?
- How did trade and commercial interests in East Asia lead to the development of the Open Door Policy in China?
- How did economic interests in Latin America and the Caribbean guide the foreign policies of T. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson?
- How did US imperial policy impact American commerce and industry?
Essential Questions
- How America and the world change as the US increased its role in world affairs?
- To what extent have the effects of US actions and policies been beneficial or detrimental to other countries?
- Why was the U. S. unable to maintain a policy of neutrality during World War I?
- What factors combined to draw the world and ultimately the US into World War I?
- To what extent did the military, political, and diplomatic turning points of World War I help to determine the outcome of the war?
- How did the war impact America’s social, economic, political, and cultural institutions?
- How did the industrial and technological advancements in this era impact America and the rest of the global community?
Priority Standards / Learning Outcomes (DO) / Materials/Resources / Critical Content & Vocabulary by Strand
AH2.H.1 Apply the four interconnected dimensions of historical thinking to the American History Essential Standards in order to understand the creation and development of the United States over time.
AH2.H.2 Analyze key political, economic, and social turning points in American History using historical thinking.
AH2.H.3 Understand the factors that led to exploration, settlement, movement, and expansion and their impact on United States development over time.
AH2.H.4 Analyze how conflict and compromise have shaped politics, economics, and culture in the U.S.
AH2.H.5 Understand how tensions between freedom, equality, and power, have shaped the political, economic, and social development of the U.S.
AH2.H.8 Analyze the relationship between progress, crisis and the "American Dream" within the U.S. /
- I will analyze the motivations for American imperialism.
- I will be able to explain how the U.S. made various land acquisitions at the turn of the 20th Century
- I will be able to analyze how economic, and political interests influenced the policies of Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson.
- I will be able to explain the motives for US involvement in WWI
- I will be able to describe the economic, political, and social changes that took place as a result of WWI.
- I will be able to analyze the reasons that the U.S. shifted back to a policy of isolation after WWI.
- Students will read the poem “White Man’s Burden” and relate the poem to the causes of US Imperialism.
- Students will analyze examples of yellow journalism and then attempt to identify modern examples of it as well.
- Students will take the position of either for or against US Imperialism and then defend their position based on the actions of the US during the period.
- Students will create a time capsule for the period of WWI using PowerPoint or some other technology. They will assemble pictures relating to the homefront of the US and include rationale for why the objects are important.
- Complete a WWI webquest that shows the effects of war, which will guide them through primary sources concerning the war.
- Listen to “Over There” & read the poem Dolce Et Decorum Est and write a 1 page paper on how the attitudes of Americans changed after the Great War.
- Create a children’s book that discusses some aspect of WWI. This should include real events and names.
- Influence of Sea Power on History by Mahan
- “Seward’s Folly”
- Annexation of Hawaii
- Spanish American War
- USS Maine
- Rough Riders
- Boxer Rebellion
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- “unrestricted submarine warfare”
- Zimmermann Telegram
- Trench warfare
- “No Man’s Land”
- Mechanized warfare
- Fourteen Points (1-5, 14)
- Treaty of Versailles
- League of Nations
- “sphere of influence
- Open Door Policy
- Big Stick Diplomacy
- Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
- Dollar Diplomacy
- Moral Diplomacy
- Imperialism
- Nationalism
- Militarism
- Isolationism
- Selective Service Act
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- Schenck v. US
- Isolationism
- Rejection of Treaty of Versailles
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- Washington Naval Conference
- New markets for industrial goods
- War Industries Board
- Food Administration
- rationing
- Reparations
- Alaska
- Hawaii
- Philippines
- Cuba
- Puerto Rico
- Guam
- Panama Canal
- Serbia
- Central Powers
- “Western Front”
- Social Darwinism
- “White Man’s Burden”
- Jingoism
- Yellow Journalism
- Anti-Imperialist League
- Great Migration
- Women/Factories
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