department social studies course: a.p. united states history...

DEPARTMENT Social Studies COURSE: A.P. United States History II

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1 Summer Assignment (Ch.23/24) 21 FDR and the Shadow of War

2 Summer Assignment (Ch.23/24) 22 FDR and the Shadow of War

3 America Moves to the City 23 America in World War II

4 America Moves to the City 24 America in World War II

5 The Great West/The Agricultural Revolution 25 The Cold War Begins

6 The Great West/The Agricultural Revolution 26 The Cold War Begins

7 Empire and Expansion 27 The Eisenhower Era

8 Empire and Expansion 28 The Eisenhower Era

9 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 29 The Stormy Sixties

10 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 30 The Stalemated Seventies

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11 Wilsonian Progressivism 31 The Resurgence of Conservatism

12 Wilsonian Progressivism 32 The Post-Cold War Era

13 The War to End War 33 The New Century

14 The War to End War 34 APUSH Exam Review/A.P. Exam

15 American Life in the ‘Roaring Twenties’ 35 Research Project (Final Project)

16 American Life in the ‘Roaring Twenties’ 36 Research Project (Final Project)

17 The Politics of Boom and Bust 37 Research Project (Final Project)

18 The Politics of Boom and Bust 38 Research Project (Final Project)

19 The Great Depression and the New Deal 39 Research Project (Final Project)

20 The Great Depression and the New Deal 40 Final Exam

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Time Frame Week 1-2 – SUMMER WORK

Topic Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

Essential Questions • Why did politics in the Gilded Age seemingly sink to such a low level? Did the Gilded Age

party system have any strengths to compensate for its weaknesses?

• Was the Compromise of 1877 another cynical political deal of the era or a wise adjustment

to avoid a renewal of serious sectional conflict?

• What were the short-term and long-term results of the “Jim Crow” system in the South? Why was the sharecropping system so hard to overcome? Were blacks worse off or better off after the Civil War?

• Why was the political system so slow to respond to the economic grievances of farmers and workers, especially during the hard economic times of the 1890s? Were the Populists and

others more effectively addressing the real problems that America faced, or was their

approach fatally crippled by their nostalgia for a simpler, rural America?

Enduring Understandings • Even as post-Civil War America expanded and industrialized, political life in the Gilded

Age was marked by ineptitude, stalemate, and corruption. Despite their similarity at the

national level, the two parties competed fiercely for offices and spoils.

• The serious issues of monetary and agrarian reform, labor, race, and economic fairness were

largely swept under the rug by the political system, until revolting farmers and a major

economic depression beginning in 1893 created a growing sense of crisis and demands for

radical change.

• The Compromise of 1877 made reconstruction officially over and white Democrats resumed

political power in the South. Blacks, as well as poor whites, found themselves forced into

sharecropping and tenant farming; what began as an informal separation of blacks and whites in the immediate postwar years evolved into systematic state-level legal codes of segregation known as Jim Crow laws

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.5.a-c; 6.1.12.B.5.b-c; 6.1.12.D.5.d

Key Concepts and Skills

• Identify social, political and economic aspects of the Gilded Age.

• Discuss troubles facing farmers and blacks after Reconstruction.

Learning Activities

• Read Chapter 23 and Chapter 24 and take notes on the reading • Class discussion/Question and answer

Assessments

• DBQ 7 – The Role of Capitalists

• Reading Assignment – ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Told You and Got Wrong’

• Unit test

21st

Century Skills

X Creativity X Critical Thinking X Communication X Collaboration

X Life and Career Skills

X Information Literacy

X Media Literacy


Interdisciplinary Connections RH/11-12/1-10;WHST/11-12/1-10 LA.9-10.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1

LA.9-10.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2


LA.11-12.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.11-12.4


TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C

Technology Integration Chromebook

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Streaming Facts on File


Time Frame Week 1-2 – SUMMER WORK

Topic Industry Comes of Age

Essential Questions • What were the costs and benefits of the industrial transformation of the post–Civil War era?

• Should industrialists like Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and Rockefeller be viewed as “robber barons” or “captains of industry”?

• Was the growing class division of the time a threat to American democracy? Why or why not?

• Why did American workers have such trouble responding to the new industrial conditions

of labor? Why were business and the middle-class public generally hostile to allowing

workers to organize as industry did? Why did the AF of L survive while the Knights of

Labor failed?

• Does the government regulation of the economy disprove the belief that capitalism is a morally superior economic theory? Why or why not?

Enduring Understandings

• America accomplished heavy industrialization in the post-Civil War era. Spurred by the transcontinental rail network, business grew and consolidated into giant corporate trusts, as epitomized by the oil and steel industries.

• Industrialization radically transformed the practices of labor and the condition of the

American working people. Despite frequent industrial strife and the efforts of various

reformers and unions, workers failed to develop effective labor organizations to match the

corporate forms of business.

• With the concentration of capital in the hands of a few, new moralities arose to advance

justifications for this social and economic phenomenon. A “survival of the fittest” theory

emerged, along with another theory known as the “Gospel of Wealth.”

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.5.a-c; 6.1.12.C.5.a-c;6.1.12.D.a-d

Key Concepts and Skills • Identify and discuss the factors related to the rapid industrialization in the United States in

the post-Civil War period.

• Discuss how industrialization changed the United States politically, socially and economically.

Learning Activities • Read Chapter 23 and Chapter 24 and take notes on the reading

• Class discussion/Question and answer

Assessments

• DBQ 7 – The Role of Capitalists

• Reading Assignment – ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Told You and Got Wrong’

• Unit test

21st

Century Skills




X Media Literacy







TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C


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Time Frame Week 3-4

Topic America Moves to the City

Essential Questions • Did the development of American cities justify Jefferson’s claim that “when we get piled up

in great cities we will become as corrupt as Europe”?

• Compare the “heroic” story of immigration, as illustrated in the Statue of Liberty, with the historical reality. What explains the ambivalence toward the New Immigrants reflected in Lazarus’s poem?

• Did urban life cause a decline in American religion or just an adjustment to new forms?

• Why did urban life alter the condition of women and bring changes like birth control and rising divorce rates to the family?


• In the late nineteenth century, American society was increasingly dominated by large urban

centers. Explosive urban growth was accompanied by often disturbing changes, including

the New Immigration, crowded slums, new religious outlooks, and conflicts over culture

and values. While many Americans were disturbed by the new urban problems, cities also

offered opportunities to women and expanded cultural horizons.

• African Americans suffered the most as the south lagged behind other regions of the country with regard to educational improvements and opportunities. Two schools of thought emerged as to the best way to handle this problem. Booker T. Washington advocated that blacks should gain knowledge of useful trades. With this would come self-respect and

economic security – Washington avoided the issue of social equality. W.E.B. Du Bois

demanded complete equality for blacks, both social as well as economic.

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.B.5.a-b; 6.1.12.C.5.b; 6.1.12.D.5.d; 6.1.12.A.6.a-c; 6.1.12.D.6.a; 6.1.12.D.6.c

Key Concepts and Skills • Identify the factors that led to the urbanization of America and discuss how urbanization

impacted the United States.

Learning Activities

• Lectures/PowerPoints/Class discussions

• Notes/Graphic organizers/Collaborative activities

• Worksheets/Guidebook pages

• Quote and cartoon analyses

• Additional readings

Assessments

• ‘Examining the Evidence’ excerpt

• The American Spirit, Ch.25

• DBQ – Reactions to Jim Crow (textbook supplement)

• Reading quiz

• Chapter test

21st

Century Skills




X Media Literacy







TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C


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Time Frame Week 5-6

Topic The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution

Essential Questions

• Why has the Plains Indians’ resistance to white encroachment played such a large part in the

popular American view of the West? How is that mythical past related to the Indians’ actual

history?

• What was “romantic” about the final phases of frontier settlement, and what was not?

• Why was the “passing of the frontier” in 1890 a disturbing development for many Americans?

• Was the frontier more important as a particular place or as an idea?

• Was the federal government biased against farmers and workers in the late nineteenth century? Why or why not?

• Was McKinley’s election really a “conservative” one, or was it Bryan and the Populists who represented the agrarian past resisting a progressive urban American future?


• After the Civil War, whites overcame the Plains Indians’ fierce resistance and settled the Great West, bringing to a close the long frontier phase of American history.

• The farmers who populated the West found themselves the victims of an economic revolution in agriculture. Trapped in a permanent debtor dependency, in the 1880s they finally turned to political action to protest their condition. Their efforts culminated in the Populist Party’s attempt to create an interracial farmer/labor coalition in the 1890s, but William Jennings Bryan’s defeat in the pivotal election of 1896 signaled the triumph of urbanism and the middle class.

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.5.c; 6.1.12.B.5.a; 6.1.12.C.5.a-c; 6.1.12.D.5.a-d; 6.1.12.D.6.a; 6.1.12.C.6.a-c


• Identify and discuss the plight of the Plains Indians.

• Discuss the importance of westward expansion in the post-Civil War period.

Learning Activities

• Lectures/PowerPoints/Class discussions

• Notes/Graphic organizers/Collaborative activities

• Worksheets/Guidebook pages

• Quote and cartoon analyses

• Additional readings

Assessments



• DBQ #8 – ‘The Farmers’ Movement’

• Reading quiz and/or Chapter Assessment

• AP Review Questions

21st

Century Skills




X Media Literacy







TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C


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Time Frame Week 7-8

Topic Empire and Expansion

Essential Questions

• What were the causes and consequences of the Spanish-American War? Did the results of

the war (particularly the acquisition of the Philippines) flow from the nature of the war, or

were they unexpected?

• How was American expansionism overseas similar to previous continental expansion westward, and how was it different?

• Was the taking of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines really a violation of fundamental American ideals of self-government and democracy?

• What were the elements of “idealism” and “realism” in American expansionism in the 1890s? How have Americans incorporated both of these seemingly contradictory philosophies in their foreign policy?

• Why was the Philippine-American War such a brutal affair, and why is it not as well remembered as the less costly Spanish-American War?

• Did Roosevelt more often “speak softly” or use the “big stick”? Was his approach to foreign policy aggressive or simply energetic?

• How did the Roosevelt Corollary distort the Monroe Doctrine? What were the consequences of the Roosevelt Corollary for American relations with Latin America?

• Was the United States essentially acting as a “white, Western imperialist” power, or did American democratic ideals substantially restrain the imperialist impulse?


• In the 1890s a number of economic and political forces sparked a spectacular burst of

imperialistic expansionism for the United States that culminated in the Spanish-American

War—a war that began over freeing Cuba and ended with the highly controversial

acquisition of the Philippines and other territories. • In the wake of the Spanish-American War, President Theodore Roosevelt pursued a bold

and sometimes controversial new policy of asserting America’s influence abroad, particularly in East Asia and Latin America.

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.D.6.b

Key Concepts and Skills • Identify and discuss the causes and consequences of the Spanish-American War.

• Analyze and discuss the motives behind American imperialism

Learning Activities

• Lecture and notes

• Class discussion/Collaborative activities

• Graphic organizers and worksheets

• Guidebook pages

• Quote and cartoon analysis

• ‘Makers of America’ excerpt

• ‘Varying Viewpoints’ excerpt

• The American Spirit, Ch.29-30 • Video – ‘A Man, a Plan, a Canal’


Assessments

• Project – Imperialism Debate

• DBQ #9 – The United States as a World Power

• Reading quiz and/or Chapter assessment


21st

Century Skills


X Skills X Information Literacy

X Media Literacy






TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C


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Time Frame Week 9-10

Topic Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

Essential Questions

• Why did the progressives believe that strong government action was the only way to tackle

the social and economic problems of industrialization? How did this approach differ from

traditional American emphasis on voluntary solutions to social problems?

• Why were women so critical to the successes of the progressive movement? Were there any weaknesses in their ideas and approaches to social reform?

• Why was Roosevelt such a popular progressive leader? In what ways did he sound like a more ardent reformer than he really was?

• To what extent was progressivism really a “middle class” reform effort that did not really

reflect the interests or concerns of the poor and working classes it claimed to benefit? How

did some of the progressive concern for conservation and environment reflect the

perspectives of more affluent Americans?

• Did the progressive movement make any long lasting contributions to American society?


• The strong progressive movement successfully demanded that the powers of government be

applied to solving the economic and social problems of industrialization. Progressivism first

gained strength at the city and state level, and then achieved national influence in the

moderately progressive administrations of Theodore Roosevelt.

• Roosevelt’s hand-picked successor, William H. Taft, aligned himself with the Republican Old Guard, causing Roosevelt to break away and lead a progressive third-party crusade.

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.6.a-c; 6.1.12.C.6.a; 6.1.12.D.6.c


• Identify and discuss the goals of the progressive movement and its leaders.

• Analyze and discuss the progressive presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.

Learning Activities • Lecture and notes

• Class discussion


• Guidebook pages





Assessments



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TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C


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Topic Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad

Essential Questions • Were Wilson’s progressive legislative achievements in his first term consistent with his

New

• Freedom campaign? Why or why not?

• How Wilson’s progressive presidency was similar to Theodore Roosevelt’s, and how was it different? Were the differences ones of personality or policy?

• Why did Wilson fail in his attempt to develop a more “moral,” less imperialistic policy in

Latin America? Were his involvements really an attempt to create a new mutual relationship

between the United States and the neighboring republics, or was it just an alternative form of American domination?

• Was the United States genuinely neutral during the first years of World War I, or was it biased in favor of the Allies and against Germany? Was it possible for the U.S. to remain neutral? Why or why not?


• After winning a three-way election focused on different theories of progressivism,

Woodrow Wilson successfully pushed through a sweeping program of domestic economic

and social reform in his first term. • Wilson’s attempt to promote an idealistic progressive foreign policy failed, as dangerous

military involvements threatened in both Latin America and the North Atlantic.

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.D.6.b; 6.1.12.A.7.a-b; 6.1.12.B.7.a

Key Concepts and Skills • Compare the presidency of Woodrow Wilson to that of Theodore Roosevelt, analyzing the

changes in the progressive platform, etc.

• Identify the causes of World War I and the reasons for early American neutrality.

Learning Activities




• Guidebook pages




Assessments



21st

Century Skills




X Media Literacy







TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C


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Video excerpts

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Topic The War to End War

Essential Questions • What were the ideological results of Wilson’s proclamation of World War I as a “war to end

all wars” and “a war to make the world safe for democracy”?

• Was it necessary to suppress dissent in order to win the war?

• Was the Treaty of Versailles a violation of Wilson’s high wartime ideals or the best that could have been achieved under the circumstances?

• What was the fundamental reason America failed to join the League of Nations?


• Entering World War I in response to Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare, Wilson

turned America’s participation into a fervent ideological crusade for democracy that

successfully stirred the public to a great voluntary war effort, but at some cost to traditional

civil liberties.

• After America’s limited but important contribution to the Allied victory, a triumphant

Wilson attempted to construct a peace based on his idealistic Fourteen Points. But European

and senatorial opposition, and especially his own political errors, doomed American

ratification of the Versailles Treaty and participation in the League of Nations.

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.7.b-c; 6.1.12.C.7.a-b 6.1.12.D.7.a-c


• Identify and discuss the role(s) of the United States in World War I.

• Analyze the effects of World War I on domestic policy.

• Address the significance of the Treaty of Versailles and Wilson’s Fourteen Points.

Learning Activities




• Guidebook pages



• ‘Varying Viewpoints’ excerpt • The American Spirit, Ch.33

Assessments



21st

Century Skills




X Media Literacy

Interdisciplinary Connections


RH/11-12/1-10;WHST/11-12/1-10 LA.9-10.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1





TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C


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Topic American Life in the ‘Roaring Twenties’

Essential Questions

• Why did the United States, which had welcomed so many millions of immigrants for nearly

a century, suddenly become so fearful of immigration in the 1920s that it virtually ended

mass immigration for two decades?

• To what extent was the Scopes Trial only about competing theories of human origins, and to

what extent was it a focal point for deeper concerns regarding the role of religion and

traditional moral authorities in American life and the new cultural power of science?

• Was the new “mass culture” as reflected in Hollywood films and radio a source of moral

and social change, or did it really reinforce the essentially conservative business and social

values of the time?

• Were the intellectual critics of the 1920s really disillusioned with the fundamental character

of American life, or were they actually loyal to a vision of a better America, and only hiding

their idealism behind a veneer of disillusionment and irony?


• A disillusioned America turned away from idealism and reform after World War I and

toward isolationism in foreign affairs, domestic social conservatism and the pleasures of

prosperity.

• New technologies, mass-marketing techniques, and new forms of entertainment fostered

rapid cultural change along with a focus on consumer goods. But the accompanying changes

in moral values and uncertainty about the future produced cultural anxiety as well as sharp

intellectual critiques of American life.

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.8.a-c; 6.1.12.C.8.b


• Identify the causes and effects of America’s changing attitudes toward immigrants/immigration.

• Analyze and discuss the culture changes endemic in the ‘Roaring Twenties.’

Learning Activities




• Guidebook pages



• ‘Examining the Evidence’ excerpt • The American Spirit, Ch.34

Assessments

• Project – ‘The Roaring Twenties’


• AP review questions


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Century Skills




X Media Literacy






TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C


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Topic The Politics of Boom and Bust

Essential Questions

• In what ways were the 1920s a reaction against the progressive era?

• Was the American isolationism of the 1920s linked to the rise of movements like the Ku

Klux Klan? In what ways did movements like fundamentalism reflect similar “anti-modern”

outlooks, and in what ways did they reflect more basic religious disagreements?

• To what extent did the policies of the booming 1920s contribute to the depression? Was the depression inevitable, or could it have been avoided? Why or why not?

• How did the depression challenge the traditional belief of Hoover and other Americans in “rugged individualism”?

Enduring Understandings • The Republican administrations of the prosperous 1920s pursued conservative, pro-business

policies at home and economic unilateralism abroad. • The great crash of 1929 led to a severe, prolonged depression that devastated the American

economy and spirit, and resisted Hoover’s limited efforts to correct it.

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.8.a-c; 6.1.12.B.8.a; 6.1.12.C.8.a-b; 6.1.12.D.8.a-b; 6.1.12.A.9.a; 6.1.12.B.9.a


• Continue developing themes from the previous chapter.

• Identify the causes for the rise of nativist groups.

• Discuss potential causes of the Great Depression.

Learning Activities




• Guidebook pages


• Examining the Evidence


Assessments

• DBQ #10 – ‘Foreign Policy’



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X Media Literacy







TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C


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Topic The Great Depression and the New Deal

Essential Questions • Which of Roosevelt’s measures were most effective in fighting the depression? Why?

• How did Roosevelt alter the role of the federal government in American life? Was this necessary for American survival?

• How did ordinary workers and farmers effect social change in the 1930s?

• What were the positive and negative effects of the New Deal’s use of the federal government as an agency of social reform?

Enduring Understandings • Roosevelt’s New Deal tackled the Great Depression with massive federal programs

designed to bring about relief, recovery, and reform.

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.9.a; 6.1.12.B.9.a; 6.1.12.C.a-d; 6.1.12.D.9.a-b; 6.1.12.A.10.a-c; 6.1.12.B.10.a; 6.1.12.c.10.a-b; 6.1.12.D.10.a-d


• Identify and discuss the different approaches FDR took to combat the Great Depression.

• Discuss popular reaction to the Great Depression and the New Deal.




• Guidebook pages





Assessments

• Reading quiz

• Chapter test

21st

Century Skills X Creativity X Critical Thinking X Communication X Collaboration

X Life and Career

Skills

X Information

Literacy

X Media Literacy

Interdisciplinary Connections RH/11-12/1-10;WHST/11-12/1-10






TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B

TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C

Technology Integration • Chromebook

• Teacher laptop

• Teacher website

• PowerPoint/Google Presentation

• Elmo/Projector

• Video excerpts

• Google maps

• Streaming Facts on File



Topic Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War

Essential Questions • Why did the neutrality laws fail to prevent America’s growing involvement with the

military conflicts in Europe and Asia?

• How did the process of American entry into World War II compare with the entry into World War I?

• Would it have been more straightforward of Roosevelt to have openly called for a

declaration of war against Hitler rather than increasing involvement gradually while

claiming that he did not want war?

• Would the United States have entered World War II even if the Japanese had not attacked Pearl Harbor?

Enduring Understandings • In the early and mid-1930s, the United States attempted to isolate itself from foreign

involvements and wars. But by the end of the decade, the spread of totalitarianism and war

in Europe forced Roosevelt to provide more and more assistance to desperate Britain,

despite strong isolationist opposition.

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.11.a-b


• Identify and analyze the factors that determined American isolationism in the 1930s.

• Discuss the impact of American isolation on foreign and domestic affairs.

Learning Activities




• Guidebook pages





Assessments



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X Media Literacy






TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C



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Topic America in World War II

Essential Questions • How did America’s domestic response to World War II differ from its reaction to World

War I?

• What was the wisest strategic decision in World War II, and what was the most questionable?

• How were the European and Pacific wars similar, and how were they different?

• What was the significance of the dropping of the atomic bomb, then and now?

Enduring Understandings • Unified by Pearl Harbor, America effectively carried out a war mobilization effort that

produced vast social and economic changes within American society.

• Following its “get Hitler first” strategy, the United States and its Allies invaded and

liberated conquered Europe from Fascist rule. The slower strategy of “island-hopping”

against Japan also proceeded successfully until the atomic bomb brought a sudden end to

World War II.

• *Incorporate unit on the Holocaust (state mandate).

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.11.c-e; 6.1.12.B.11.a; 6.1.12.C.11.a-b; 6.1.12.D.a-e; 6.1.12.D.12.c

Key Concepts and Skills • Identify the factors that led the U.S. into World War II.

• Identify and discuss how American involvement changed the course of the war.

• Analyze the impact of World War II on the home-front.

Learning Activities




• Guidebook pages






Assessments • Project – WWII mini-lessons

• Video – ‘Genocide’



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Interdisciplinary Connections


RH/11-12/1-10;WHST/11-12/1-10 LA.9-10.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1





TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C


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Topic The Cold War Begins

Essential Questions

• Which development caused the greatest change in American society in the immediate

postwar years: increased affluence, the migration to the suburbs, the entry of women into

the workforce, or the “baby boom”?

• Was the primary threat from the Soviet Union military or ideological—that is, was the

danger that the Soviet army would invade Western Europe or that more and more people in

Europe and elsewhere would be attracted to communist ideas?

• Were there any legitimate concerns behind the “red-hunting” anticommunism of the late 1940s and early 1950s? How were McCarthy and others able to turn the search for spies and subversives into an assault on freethinkers, adulterers, homosexuals, and others deemed “different” in some way?

• Was Truman right to fire MacArthur when and how he did? What would have happened if MacArthur had gotten his way and expanded the conflict with the Chinese?


• America emerged from World War II as the world’s strongest economic power, and

commenced a postwar economic boom that lasted for two decades. A bulging population

migrated to the suburbs and Sunbelt, leaving the cities increasingly to minorities and the

poor.

• The end of World War II left the United States and the Soviet Union as the two dominant

world powers, and they soon became locked in a Cold War confrontation. The Cold War

spread from Europe to become a global ideological conflict between democracy and

communism. Among its effects were a nasty hot war in Korea and a domestic crusade

against “disloyalty.”

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.12.a-b; 6.1.12.B.12.a;6.1.12.D.a-b


• Identify the causes of the Cold War.

• Analyze the effects of the Cold War on foreign and domestic policy.

• Discuss how the Cold War led to ‘red-hunting’ and a general fearfulness among Americans.

Learning Activities




• Guidebook pages






Assessments

• DBQ #11 – ‘Conformity and Turbulence’




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Topic The Eisenhower Era

Essential Questions • How does Eisenhower’s political leadership compare with that of other general-presidents:

Washington, Jackson, Taylor, and Grant?

• Was Eisenhower’s seeming caution and inactivity a lack of vigorous leadership or a wise prudence in the exercise of power?

• Was the 1950s a time of American triumph abroad and affluence at home, or was it a period that actually suppressed many problems of race, women’s roles, and cultural conformity?

• Which writers and artists best expressed the concerns of American culture in the 1950s? Was there a connection between the rise of pop-culture figures like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe and the changes in art and writing (like the Beats and the new southern writers)?

• Compare and contrast the literary outpouring of WWI with that of WWII. What caused the shift from a realism in literature to a more fantasized and psychedelic prose?

Enduring Understandings • The Eisenhower years were characterized by prosperity and moderate conservatism at home

and by the tensions of the Cold War abroad.

• The 1950s witnessed a huge expansion of the middle class and the blossoming of a consumer culture. Crucial to the development of a new lifestyle of leisure and affluence was the rise of the new technology of television.

• While Dwight Eisenhower and the majority of Americans held to a cautious, family-oriented

perspective on domestic social questions, an emerging civil rights movement and the influence of

television and popular music presented challenges to the spirit of national “consensus.”

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.C.12.a-d; 6.1.12.B.13.a 6.1.12.C.13.b; 6.1.12.D.13.d&f


• Identify and discuss important aspects of Eisenhower’s presidency. • Analyze and discuss significant components of the 1950s, such as consumerism, pop

culture, etc.

Learning Activities




• Guidebook pages





Assessments

• Reading quiz and/or Chapter test



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Time Frame Week 29

Topic The Stormy Sixties

Essential Questions

• Did Kennedy fulfill his promise to “get America moving again”? Why or why not?

• Was the nonviolent civil rights movement of the 1960s a success? Why or why not? Can it

be argued that the violent protests of the civil rights movement were more successful than

the nonviolent protests?

• What were the causes of the Vietnam War?

• Was America justified going into Vietnam? What if the Communist countries invaded a

country to ‘contain the spread of Democracy,’ would this be justified? What is the

difference between the two situations?

• Were the cultural upheavals of the 1960s a result of the political crisis, or were

developments like the sexual revolution and the student revolts inevitable results of

affluence and the “baby boom”?

Enduring Understandings • The Kennedy administration’s “flexible response” doctrine to combat Third World communism bore

ill fruit in Cuba and especially Vietnam. Johnson’s massive escalation of the war failed to defeat the

Communist Vietnamese forces, while growing domestic opposition finally forced him from power.

• The Kennedy administration’s domestic stalemate ended in the mid-1960s, as Johnson’s Great

Society and the black civil rights movement brought a tide of liberal social reform. But the diversion

of resources and the social upheavals caused by the Vietnam War wrecked the Great Society.

• *Review important Supreme Court cases

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.12.a-b; 6.1.12.D.12d&e; 6.1.12.A.13.a-c; 6.1.12.B.13.b; 6.1.12.C.13.a&c; 6.1.12.D.13.a- f; 6.1.12.A.14.a-d; 6.1.12.A.f-h;


• Identify and analyze how the Kennedy and Johnson administrations responded to the Cold War.

• Define and discuss the foreign and domestic agendas/policies of both administrations.




• Guidebook pages




• The American Spirit, Ch.41 • Video – ‘A Time for Justice’

Assessments • Supreme Court quiz




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Time Frame Week 30

Topic The Stalemated Seventies

Essential Questions • Could any of Nixon’s achievements in office compensate for his Watergate crimes? What

should history say about the Nixon presidency?

• What were the short-term and long-term consequences of the communists’ victory in Vietnam? How do these affect an assessment of the war? What could America have done differently to win the war in Vietnam?

• How was the civil rights movement affected by federal policies in the 1970s, especially affirmative action?

• What were the consequences of America’s new economic vulnerability? How did it affect politics at home and abroad during the 1970s?


• As the war in Vietnam finally came to a disastrous conclusion, the United States struggled

to create a more stable international climate. Détente with the two communist powers

temporarily reduced Cold War tensions, but trouble in the Middle East threatened

America’s energy supplies and economic stability.

• Weakened by political difficulties of their own and others’ making, the administrations of

the 1970s had trouble coping with America’s growing economic problems. The public also

had trouble facing up to a sharp sense of limits and a general disillusionment with society.

With the notable exception of the highly successful feminist movement, the social reform

efforts of the 1960s fractured and stalled, as the country settled into a frustrating and

politically divisive stalemate.

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12.A.15.a-f; 6.1.12.B.15.a; 6.1.12.C.15.a-b; 6.1.12.D.15.a-d; 6.1.12.B.15.a; 6.1.12.A.16.a-c; 6.1.12.B.16.a; 6.1.12.C.16.a-c; 6.1.12.D.16.a-c


• Identify and discuss various factors that led to the disillusionment of Americans in the 1970s.

Learning Activities




• Guidebook pages



• ‘Examining the Evidence’ excerpt • The American Spirit, Ch.42

Assessments • Reading quiz and/or Chapter assessment


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Time Frame Week 31

Topic The Resurgence of Conservatism

Essential Questions

• To what extent was the election of Reagan an endorsement of his conservative ideology,

and to what extent was it a repudiation of the perceived failures of federal government

policies in the stalemated 1970s?

• 1In what ways might the 1980s and 1990s be compared with the 1920s in economic, social,

and foreign policies? Did the economic boom of each period represent a genuine revival of

American innovation, or was it fundamentally marred by the growing gap between rich and

poor?

• What were the successes and failures of American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era? Was the use of American military power in the Persian Gulf War and the Balkans a model for how American power could be effectively brought to bear, or did it demonstrate the limits of even the sole superpower’s ability to resolve regional conflicts?

• What was the real cause of the end of the Cold War? Did America win the Cold War, or did the Soviets lose the Cold War – is there a difference?

• Compare and contrast the rise of the “Moral Majority” in the 1980’s with that of the “Beats” of the 1950’s and the “Hippies” of the 1960’s and 70’s. What commonalities do they have with each other?

• How should history view the presidency of Ronald Reagan? Was he a great, good, fair, or bad president and why?


• Leading a conservative movement to power in Washington, Ronald Reagan vigorously

pursued “new right” economic and social policies. Under Reagan and his successor George

Bush, these policies brought both economic growth and massive budget deficits that put

severe constraints on the federal government.

• Religion pervaded American politics in the 1980’s; especially conspicuous was a coalition

of conservative, evangelical Christians known as the religious right – led by Jerry Falwell,

an evangelical from Virginia. An organization called the “Moral Majority” rose to oppose

what they viewed as the moral deterioration of American values.

• The 1980s saw a revival of Cold War confrontation, but the decade ended with the collapse

of Communism, first in Eastern Europe and then in the Soviet Union itself. With the end of

the Cold War and the U.S.-led victory over Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, America remained

the world’s only superpower. A series of relatively small military interventions in the

Caribbean, Africa, and the Balkans raised questions about the proper use of American force

in the underdeveloped world.


Key Concepts and Skills • Identify and discuss the factors that led to a resurgence of conservatism in America and

analyze how this shift impacted popular culture and politics.

Learning Activities





• Guidebook pages


• ‘Varying Viewpoints’ excerpt • The American Spirit, Ch.43

Assessments



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Time Frame Week 32

Topic The Post-Cold War Era

Essential Questions

• What is likely to be the enduring legacy of Bill Clinton in American politics? Did the focus

on his personality and the scandals leading to impeachment drastically alter the way he is

likely to be viewed by future historians, or will his economic policies and his political

success in steering the Democratic party toward the political center be viewed as substantive

achievements outweighing the weaknesses?

• Compare and contrast American foreign policy at the beginning of the twentieth century to

that of the beginning of the twenty-first century. What differences are there? Are there any

similarities?

• What similarities are there to the spread of Communism during the post-World War II era to

the spread of Democracy in the post-Cold War era? If America was justified in intervening

in halting the spread of communism in Asia, would Iraqi insurgents be justified in

intervening in halting the spread of democracy in Iraq? Why or why not?

• How successful was America in punishing the attackers of 9/11? Was America’s “war on terror” a success or failure? Why or why not?

• What is likely to be the enduring legacy of George W. Bush in American politics? How

will American history view his presidency; great, good, fair, or poor? Justify and support

your answers.


• Elected as the first baby-boom president, Bill Clinton tried to turn the Democratic party in a

more centrist direction. Ideological conflicts and sharp partisan battles in the 1990s were

partly overshadowed by a booming economy, a balanced federal budget, and America’s

search to define its role in the increasingly global economy and system of international

relations.

• The 2000 election and the subsequent events that followed it would deeply divide the nation and alienate the United States from traditional allies in the world community.



• Identify and discuss key aspects of the post-Cold War United States.

• Analyze and discuss how political policies (foreign and domestic) have changed since the end of the Cold War.

Learning Activities




• Guidebook pages • Quote and cartoon analysis

Assessments

• DBQ #12 – ‘The Resurgence of Conservatism’

• Reading quiz and/or chapter test

• AP Review questions


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Time Frame Week 33

Topic The New Century

Essential Questions

• Was the growing inequality in American wealth and incomes the result of “natural”

economic market forces, or was it encouraged by deliberate political policies, especially the

tax cuts and trade policies of the 1980s?

• Has the American family been in “decline,” or has it simply changed forms while

developing different kinds of strengths? What causes the fears of a “generational war”

between the expanding numbers of elderly and younger Americans?

• Has the nature of American race relations been substantially altered since the 1960s civil

rights movement, or are relations between whites and African Americans fundamentally the

same? Has African American society itself undergone substantial changes?

• Why has “culture” become the focus of a series of “wars” between different intellectuals and social groups in the past ten years? Why are many of these “wars” over issues fought in American colleges and universities?

• What lies in America’s future? What kinds of cultural, economic, and foreign dilemmas will future American politicians face? What will be the defining moment in the twenty-first century?


• The United States underwent drastic economic and social change in the final decades of the

twentieth century. The economic transformation from an “industrial age” to an “information

age” produced new economic advances as well as a rapidly increasing income gap between

the wealthy and the poor. Changes in women’s roles, the family, and the arrival of new

immigrant groups substantially altered the ways Americans live and work.

• Despite the weaknesses of television and problems in U.S. education, American culture,

literature, and art remained the most dynamic and influential in the world. The new diversity

of gender, ethnic, and racial voices contributed to the vital energy that made American

democracy not simply a political system but an ever-changing source of fresh ideas and

popular images.


Key Concepts and Skills • Identify and discuss key characteristics of the 21

st century and analyze how politics and

popular culture have changed.

Learning Activities




• Guidebook pages


• ‘Makers of America’ excerpt • The American Spirit, Ch.44

Assessments

• Reading quiz and/or chapter assessment

• FRQ and/or DBQ writing exercises


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TEC.9-12.8.1.12.B TEC.9-12.8.1.12.C


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Time Frame Week 34

Topic APUSH Exam Review/Exam

Essential Questions Cumulative

Enduring Understandings Cumulative

Alignment to NJCCCS Cumulative

Key Concepts and Skills Cumulative

Learning Activities Cumulative

Assessments Cumulative/College Board A.P. United States History Exam

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Time Frame Week 35-39 (MP4)

Topic Research Project/Final

Essential Questions TBD by student(s)

Enduring Understandings TBD by student(s)

Alignment to NJCCCS 6.1.12

Key Concepts and Skills TBD by student(s)

Learning Activities

• Project proposal

• Preliminary outline/bibliography

• Thesis/Introductory paragraph

• Rough draft

• Research/Use of library resources

Assessments

• Research paper (final draft)

• Presentation

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Time Frame Week 40

Topic FINAL ASSESSMENT

Essential Questions Cumulative

Enduring Understandings Cumulative

Alignment to NJCCCS Cumulative

Key Concepts and Skills Cumulative

Learning Activities Cumulative

Assessments FINAL EXAM - multiple choice, short answer, FRQ, DBQ

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