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 * __US History II Curriculum Topics__**

USII.1 Explain the various causes of the Industrial Revolution. (H, E)
 * ** U.S. **** II Learning Standards ** ||
 * **__ Industrial America and Its Emerging Role in International Affairs, 1870-1920 __**
 * 1) the economic impetus provided by the Civil War
 * 2) important technological and scientific advances
 * 3) the role of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt

USII.2Explain the important consequences of the Industrial Revolution. (H, E)
 * 1) the growth of big business
 * 2) environmental impact
 * 3) the expansion of cities

USII.3 Describe the causes of the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans, Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and describe the major roles of these immigrants in the industrialization of America. (H) // Seminal Primary Documents to Read // : Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus” (1883) // Seminal Primary Documents to Consider: // Younghill Kang, //East Goes West// (1937)

USII.4 Analyze the causes of the continuing westward expansion of the American people after the Civil War and the impact of this migration on the Indians. (H) USII.5 Explain the formation and goals of unions as well as the rise of radical political parties during the Industrial era. (H, E)  USII.6 Analyze the causes and course of America’s growing role in world affairs from the Civil War to World War I. (H, E)  USII.7 Explain the course and significance of President Wilson’s wartime diplomacy, including his Fourteen Points, the League of Nations, and the failure of the Versailles treaty. (H) // Seminal Primary Documents to Read // : President Woodrow Wilson, “Peace Without Victory,” speech (1917) USII.8 Analyze the origins of Progressivism and important Progressive leaders, and summarize the major accomplishments of Progressivism. (H, E)   // People //
 * 1) the Knights of Labor
 * 2) the American Federation of Labor headed by Samuel Gompers
 * 3) the Populist Party
 * 4) the Socialist Party headed by Eugene Debs
 * 1) the influence of the ideas associated with Social Darwinism
 * 2) the purchase of Alaska from Russia
 * 3) America’s growing influence in Hawaii leading to annexation
 * 4) the Spanish-American War
 * 5) U.S. expansion into Asia under the Open Door policy
 * 6) President Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
 * 7) America’s role in the building of the Panama Canal
 * 8) President Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy
 * 9) President Wilson’s intervention in Mexico
 * 10) American entry into World War I
 * __ The Age of Reform: Progressivism and the New Deal, 1900-1940 __**
 * 1) Jane Addams
 * 2) William Jennings Bryan
 * 3) John Dewey
 * 4) Robert La Follette
 * 5) President Theodore Roosevelt
 * 6) Upton Sinclair
 * 7) President William H. Taft
 * 8) Ida Tarbell
 * 9) President Woodrow Wilson

// Policies // # bans against child labor // Seminal Primary Documents to Read: // President Theodore Roosevelt, “The New Nationalism,” speech (1910). USII.9 Analyze the post-Civil War struggles of African Americans and women to gain basic civil rights. (H)
 * 1) the initiative referendum and its recall
 * 2) the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
 * 3) the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
 * 4) the Meat Packing Act (1906)
 * 5) the Federal Reserve Act (1913)
 * 6) the Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
 * 7) the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920

// Seminal Primary Documents to Consider // : Booker T. Washington, the Atlanta Exposition Address (1895), and the Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles (1905) USII.10 Describe how the battle between traditionalism and modernity manifested itself in the major historical trends and events after World War I and throughout the 1920s. (H) USII.11 Describe the various causes and consequences of the global depression of the 1930s, and analyze how Americans responded to the Great Depression. (H, E) USII.12 Analyze the important policies, institutions, and personalities of the New Deal era. (H) // People // // Policies // the establishment of // Institutions // USII.13 Explain how the Great Depression and the New Deal affected American society. (H) USII.14 Explain the strength of American isolationism after World War I and analyze its impact on U.S. foreign policy. (H) USII.15 Analyze how German aggression in Europe and Japanese aggression in Asia contributed to the start of World War II and summarize the major battles and events of the war. On a map of the world, locate the Allied powers (Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States) and Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan). (H) // Seminal Primary Documents to Read // : President Franklin Roosevelt, “Four Freedoms,” speech (1941) // Seminal Primary Documents to Consider // : Justice Robert M. Jackson’s opinion for the Supreme Court in //West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette// (1943) and Learned Hand’s //The Spirit of Liberty// (1944) USII.16 Explain the reasons for the dropping of atom bombs on Japan and their short and long-term effects. (H) USII.17 Explain important domestic events that took place during the war. (H, E) USII.18 Analyze the factors that contributed to the Cold War and describe the policy of containment as America’s response to Soviet expansionist policies. (H) // Seminal Primary Documents to Read: // The Truman Doctrine (1947), and George Kennan, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” (1947) USII.19 Analyze the sources and, with a map of the world, locate the areas of Cold War conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. (H, G) USII.20 Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the Vietnam War and summarize the diplomatic and military policies of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. (H) USII.21 Analyze how the failure of communist economic policies as well as U.S.-sponsored resistance to Soviet military and diplomatic initiatives contributed to ending the Cold War. (H, E) // Seminal Primary Documents to Read: // President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961) // Seminal Primary Documents to Consider: // President Ronald Reagan, Speech at Moscow State University (1988) USII.22 Analyze the causes and consequences of important domestic Cold War trends. (H, E) USII.23 Analyze the following domestic policies of Presidents Truman and Eisenhower.(H) USII.24 Analyze the roots of domestic anticommunism as well as the origins and consequences of McCarthyism. (H) // People // // Institutions // USII.25 Analyze the origins, goals, and key events of the Civil Rights movement. (H) // People // // Institution // the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) // Events // // Seminal Primary Documents to Read // : Reverend Martin Luther King’s, “I Have A Dream” speech and his //Letter from Birmingham City Jail// (1963), President Lyndon Johnson, speech to Congress on voting rights (March 15, 1965) USII.26 Describe the accomplishments of the civil rights movement. (H, E) USII.27 Analyze the causes and course of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s. (H) USII.28 Analyze the important domestic policies and events that took place during the presidencies of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. (H)
 * 1) Carrie Chapman Catt
 * 2) W.E.B. Du Bois
 * 3) Marcus Garvey
 * 4) the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
 * 5) Alice Paul
 * 6) Booker T. Washington
 * 1) the Boston police strike in 1919
 * 2) the Red Scare and Sacco and Vanzetti
 * 3) racial and ethnic tensions
 * 4) the Scopes Trial and the debate over Darwin’s //On the Origins of Species//
 * 5) Prohibition
 * 1) restrictive monetary policies
 * 2) unemployment
 * 3) support for political and economic reform
 * 4) the influence of the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, and the critique of centralized economic planning and management by Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich von Hayek, and Milton Friedman
 * 1) President Herbert Hoover
 * 2) President Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * 3) Eleanor Roosevelt
 * 4) Huey Long
 * 5) Charles Coughlin
 * 1) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
 * 2) the Securities and Exchange Commission
 * 3) the Tennessee Valley Authority
 * 4) the Social Security Act, the National Labor Relations Act
 * 5) the Works Progress Administration
 * 6) the Fair Labor Standards Act
 * 1) the American Federation of Labor
 * 2) the Congress of Industrial Organizations
 * 3) the American Communist Party
 * 1) the increased importance of the federal government in establishing economic and social policies
 * 2) the emergence of a “New Deal coalition” consisting of African Americans, blue-collar workers, poor farmers, Jews, and Catholics
 * __ World War II, 1939-1945 __**
 * 1) Fascism in Germany and Italy
 * 2) German rearmament and militarization of the Rhineland
 * 3) Germany’s seizure of Austria and Czechoslovakia and Germany’s invasion of Poland
 * 4) Japan’s invasion of China and the Rape of Nanking
 * 5) Pearl Harbor, Midway, D-Day, Okinawa, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, and the Yalta and Potsdam conferences
 * 1) how war-inspired economic growth ended the Great Depression
 * 2) A. Philip Randolph and the efforts to eliminate employment discrimination
 * 3) the entry of large numbers of women into the workforce
 * 4) the internment of West Coast Japanese-Americans in the U.S. and Canada
 * __ The Cold War Abroad, 1945-1989 __**
 * 1) the differences between the Soviet and American political and economic systems
 * 2) Soviet aggression in Eastern Europe
 * 3) the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO
 * 1) the Korean War
 * 2) Germany
 * 3) China
 * 4) the Middle East
 * 5) the arms race
 * 6) Latin America
 * 7) Africa
 * 8) the Vietnam War
 * __ Cold War America at Home: Economic Growth and Optimism, Anticommunism, and Reform, 1945-1980 __**
 * 1) economic growth and declining poverty
 * 2) the baby boom
 * 3) the growth of suburbs and home-ownership
 * 4) the increase in education levels
 * 5) the development of mass media and consumerism
 * 1) Truman’s Fair Deal
 * 2) the Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
 * 3) Eisenhower’s response to the Soviet’s launching of Sputnik
 * 4) Eisenhower’s civil rights record
 * 1) Whittaker Chambers
 * 2) Alger Hiss
 * 3) Edgar Hoover
 * 4) Senator Joseph McCarthy
 * 5) Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
 * 1) the American Communist Party (including its close relationship to the Soviet Union)
 * 2) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
 * 3) the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
 * 1) Robert Kennedy
 * 2) Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * 3) Thurgood Marshall
 * 4) Rosa Parks
 * 5) Malcolm X
 * 1) // Brown v. Board of Education // (1954)
 * 2) the 1955-1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott
 * 3) the 1957-1958 Little Rock School Crisis
 * 4) the sit-ins and freedom rides of the early 1960s
 * 5) the 1963 civil rights protest in Birmingham
 * 6) the 1963 March on Washington
 * 7) the 1965 civil rights protest in Selma
 * 8) the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * 1) the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act
 * 2) the growth of the African American middle class, increased political power, and declining rates of African American poverty
 * 1) Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem
 * 2) the birth control pill
 * 3) the increasing number of working women
 * 4) the formation of the National Organization of Women in 1967
 * 5) the debate over the Equal Rights Amendment
 * 6) the 1973 Supreme Court case, //Roe v. Wade//
 * 1) the space exploration program
 * 2) the assassination of President Kennedy
 * 3) Johnson’s Great Society programs
 * 4) Nixon’s appeal to “the silent majority”
 * 5) the anti-war and counter-cultural movements
 * 6) the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970
 * 7) the Watergate scandal (including the Supreme Court case, //U.S. v. Nixon//) ||