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Standards |
Description |
Lessons |
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1
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Explain the transition of the United States
from an agrarian society to an industrial nation prior to World
War I. |
10 |
1.1 |
Describing the impact of Manifest Destiny on
the economic development of the post-Civil War West, including
mining, the cattle industry, railroads, Great Plains farming, and
the Grange |
6 |
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1.2 |
Contrasting arguments over currency issues,
including the silver issue, greenbacks, and the gold standard |
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1.3 |
Describing the impact of the Indian Removal
Act of 1830 and the Dawes Act on the United States between
Reconstruction and World War I |
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1.4 |
Comparing the volume, motives, and settlement
patterns of immigrants from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin
America |
6 |
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1.5 |
Describing the impact of entrepreneurship and
mutual aid on the lives of African Americans and immigrants |
4 |
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2 |
Describe social and political origins,
accomplishments, and limitations of Progressivism. |
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2.1 |
Explaining the Populist Movement as a
forerunner of Progressivism |
3 |
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2.2 |
Identifying the impact of the muckrakers on
public opinion during the Progressive Movement |
3 |
2.3 |
Analyzing political and social motives that
shaped the 1901 Constitution of Alabama to determine their
long-term effect on politics and economics in Alabama |
1 |
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2.4 |
Explaining Supreme Court decisions affecting
the Progressive Movement Example: Plessy v. Ferguson |
1 |
2.5 |
Determining the influence of the Niagara
Movement, Booker T. Washington, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.)
Du Bois, and Carter G. Woodson on the Progressive Era |
1 |
2.6 |
Comparing the presidential leadership of
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson in
obtaining the passage of measures regarding trust-busting, the
Hepburn Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, conservation, and
Wilson's foreign relations |
8 |
3 |
Explain the impact of American imperialism, including the
geographic changes due to the Open Door Policy and the Roosevelt
Corollary, on the foreign policy of the United States between
Reconstruction and World War I. |
5 |
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3.1 |
Describing causes and consequences of the
Spanish-American War, including yellow journalism |
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3.2 |
Identifying Alabama's significant
contributions to the United States between Reconstruction and
World War I, including those of William Gorgas, Joe Wheeler, and
John Tyler Morgan |
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4 |
Describe the causes and impact of the intervention
by the United States in World War I. |
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4.1 |
Identifying major events of World War I |
8 |
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4.2 |
Explaining how the mobilization of the United
States for World War I affected the population of the United
States |
8 |
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4.3 |
Describing economic, political, and social
changes on the home front during World War I |
8 |
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4.4 |
Explaining controversies over the Treaty of
Versailles (1919), Fourteen Points, and the League of Nations |
4 |
4.5 |
Comparing short- and long-term effects of
changing boundaries in pre- and post-World War I Europe on
European nations |
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5 |
Describe the impact of social changes and the
influence of key figures in the United States from World War I
through the 1920s, including Prohibition, the passage of the
Nineteenth Amendment, the Scopes Trial, immigration, the Red
Scare, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, W. C. Handy, the Jazz
Age, and Zelda Fitzgerald. |
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5.1 |
Comparing domestic policies of the Harding,
Coolidge, and Hoover Administrations |
1 |
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5.2 |
Describing the impact of American writers,
mass entertainment, and technological innovations on the culture
of the United States from the end of World War I through the 1920s |
6 |
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5.3 |
Describing the changing economic behavior of
American consumers |
1 |
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6 |
Describe social and economic conditions from the 1920s through the
Great Depression, factors leading to a deepening crisis, and
successes and failures associated with the programs and policies
of the New Deal. |
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6.1 |
Describing the impact of the Smoot-Hawley
Tariff Act on the global economy |
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6.2 |
Describing the impact of the TVA, the
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), and the Civilian
Conservation Corps (CCC) on Alabama and the Southeast |
7 |
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6.3 |
Analyzing conditions created by the Dust Bowl
for their impact on migration patterns during the Great Depression |
2 |
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6.4 |
Identifying notable authors of the period |
2 |
7 |
Explain the entry by the United States into World War II and major
military campaigns in the European and Pacific Theaters. |
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7.1 |
Identifying roles of significant leaders,
including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin,
and Adolph Hitler |
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7.2 |
Explaining the isolationist debate as it
evolved from the 1920s to Pearl Harbor |
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7.3 |
Describing the changing home front, including
wartime economic measures, population shifts, racial and ethnic
tensions, industrialization, science, and technology |
8 |
7.4 |
Explaining Alabama's participation in World
War II, including the Tuskegee Airmen, the Aliceville Prisoner of
War (POW) camp, the growth of the Port of Mobile, Birmingham
steel, and military bases |
2 |
7.5 |
Explaining events and consequences of war
crimes committed during World War II, including the Holocaust, the
Bataan Death March, and the Nuremberg Trials |
9 |
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7.6 |
Describing consequences of World War II on
the lives of American citizens |
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8 |
Describe the international role of the United States from 1945
through 1960 relative to the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan,
Berlin Blockade, and NATO. |
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8.1 |
Describing Cold War policies and issues,
including the domino theory and McCarthyism and their consequences
Examples: consequences-institution of loyalty
oaths under Harry Truman, Alger Hiss case, House Un-American
Activities Committee, executions of the Rosenbergs |
8 |
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8.2 |
Locating areas of conflict during the Cold
War from 1945 to 1960 |
3 |
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9 |
Describe major domestic events and issues of the Kennedy and
Johnson Administrations. |
5 |
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9.1 |
Explaining the impact of the New Frontier and
the Great Society on the people of the United States |
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9.2 |
Describing Alabama's role in the space
program under the New Frontier |
1 |
10 |
Describe major foreign events and issues of the Kennedy
Presidency, including the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Bay
of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
2 |
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11 |
Trace the course of the involvement of the United States in
Vietnam from the 1950s to 1975. |
3 |
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11.1 |
Locating divisions of Vietnam, the Ho Chi
Minh Trail, and major battle sites |
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11.2 |
Describing the creation of North and South
Vietnam |
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11.3 |
Describing strategies of the Viet Cong and
the North Vietnamese Army, including the Ho Chi Minh Trail |
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12 |
Trace events of the modern Civil Rights Movement from post-World
War II to 1970 that resulted in social and economic changes,
including the Montgomery bus boycott, the desegregation of Little
Rock Central High School, the march on Washington, and the Freedom
Rides. |
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12.1 |
Tracing the federal government's involvement
in the modern Civil Rights Movement, including the abolition of
the poll tax, the desegregation of the armed forces, the
nationalization of state militias, Brown versus Board of
Education, the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964, and the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 |
5 |
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12.2 |
Explaining contributions of individuals and
groups to the modern Civil Rights Movement. |
5 |
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12.3 |
Identifying people and events in Alabama that
influenced the modern Civil Rights Movement. |
4 |
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12.4 |
Describing the development of a Black Power
movement. |
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12.5 |
Describing the impact of African-American
entrepreneurs on the modern Civil Rights Movement |
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13 |
Describe the Women's Movement, the Hispanic Movement, and the
Native American Movement during the 1950s and 1960s. |
2 |
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13.1 |
Describing changing conditions in the United States
during the 1950s and 1960s that were influenced by music and
cultural and environmental concerns |
3 |
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14 |
Trace significant foreign policies and issues of
presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to the present. |
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14.1 |
Describing political and economic policies
that led to the collapse of Communism and the Cold War |
5 |
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14.2 |
Tracing significant domestic policies and
issues of presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to the
present |
6 |
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14.3 |
Describing technological, social, and
economic changes occurring in the United States from the 1970s to
the present |
4 |
