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Federal Indian Policy Period 1879–Present

  • 9-12.US2.1 Analyze how federal policies established the relationship between the United States government and American Indian tribes, and the intended and unintended outcomes. Including: Allocation and Assimilated Period 1879–1934, Tribal Reorganization Period, 1934–1958, Termination and Relocation Period, 1953–1971, Self-Determination Period, 1968–present.

Progressivism and Imperialism 1890–1920

  • 9-12.US2.2 Evaluate Progressivism's impact on circumstances and policies. These may include: exploitation of labor, child labor, spoils systems of government hiring, machine politics, corruption, immigration tension, women's suffrage, prohibition, race relations, eugenics.

  • 9-12.US2.3 Evaluate the impact of racial, economic, moral, political, and strategic motives for the United States becoming an imperialist power.

  • 9-12.US2.4 Analyze the origins and the impacts of the Spanish-American War and American involvement in Latin America, Hawaii, the Philippines, China, and Japan.

World War I 1915–1919

The Roaring 20s 1920–1929

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929–1939

  • 9-12.US2.11 Analyze the causes of the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.

  • 9-12.US2.12 Analyze the impact of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl on farmers, businesses, workers, and racial and ethnic minorities.

  • 9-12.US2.13 Evaluate the effectiveness of New Deal programs in addressing economic issues underlying the Great Depression.

  • 9-12.US2.14 Evaluate the social tensions of the era, including: race, labor, domestic migration, changing social values, the rise of political extremism.

World War II 1939–1945

  • 9-12.US2.15 Explain the events and actions that led to World War Two, including the rise of fascism and totalitarianism, appeasement, and European and Japanese Imperialism.

  • 9-12.US2.16 Analyze American participation in the international response to the Holocaust.

  • 9-12.US2.17 Describe the strategies, events, and turning points that shaped the outcomes of World War Two.

  • 9-12.US2.18 Compare and contrast the experience of Americans on the Pacific and European battle fronts during World War Two.

  • 9-12.US2.19 Evaluate the factors that influenced the decision to employ atomic weapons against Japan.

  • 9-12.US2.20 Analyze the impact of events and policies on the Homefront during World War Two.

  • 9-12.US2.21 Evaluate Supreme Court and executive decisions to limit civil liberties and to relocate Japanese Americans and others to internment camps.

Affluence, Cold War, and Social Revolutions 1945–1974

  • 9-12.US2.22 Evaluate the impact of postwar demobilization and the GI Bill on economic growth, culture, and lifestyle.

  • 9-12.US2.23 Describe the ways the United States competed with the Soviet Union culturally, economically, and politically during the Cold War, and how this competition affected postwar military and economic growth.

  • 9-12.US2.24 Analyze various foreign policy events through the lens of the Cold War, military engagements, and covert actions during this period. These may include: Berlin Blockade, rise of the Communist regime in China, Korean War, Central Intelligence Agency's support of coups in Iran and Guatemala, Cuban Missile Crisis, U2 incident, Berlin Wall, Vietnam War.

  • 9-12.US2.25 Compare various ways the United States and the Soviet Union built and strengthened economic, political, and military alliances with countries during this period. These may include: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), occupation and rebuilding of Japan and West Germany, Warsaw Pact, occupation and rebuilding of Eastern Europe.

  • 9-12.US2.26 Examine the influence of the Cold War on United States politics and society. Including: the House of Un-American Activities Committee, McCarthyism, the Alger Hiss Case, the Rosenberg Case.

  • 9-12.US2.27 Describe the causes and effects on American society and culture of widespread growing affluence in the post-war period, as well as groups and geographic areas that were largely left out of it.

  • 9-12.US2.28 Analyze the American Labor Movement during the post-war period.

  • 9-12.US2.29 Analyze the motives, strategies, methods, organizations, and impacts of various Civil Rights Movements.

  • 9-12.US2.30 Analyze the experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam and their experiences upon returning home including how these experiences compared to previous conflicts.

  • 9-12.US2.31 Describe the relationships between the Vietnam War, the counterculture movement, and the anti-war movement.

  • 9-12.US2.32 Examine the various ways the counterculture critiqued United States society.

  • 9-12.US2.33 Analyze the major features of the Great Society policy. This may include: war on poverty, Medicare/Medicaid, Head Start and education reform, urban renewal, support for the arts and humanities, immigration reform, environmental initiatives.

  • 9-12.US2.34 Examine the causes and consequences of the constitutional crisis that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

  • 9-12.US2.35 Analyze how Vietnam and Watergate reduced American faith in government and the military and led to significant political, constitutional, and legislative reforms.

Economic, Political, and Social Reorganization 1974–1992

  • 9-12.US2.36 Evaluate the causes and impacts on public confidence and trust in the government's ability to solve economic and social problems, such as: deindustrialization, urban decline, migration, stagflation, deficit spending, energy crisis, racial tensions.

  • 9-12.US2.37 Evaluate the factors that impacted relationships and policies with China, Russia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

  • 9-12.US2.38 Analyze the rise of the New Right and the Reagan Revolution including the social, cultural, and economic policies it advocated for.

  • 9-12.US2.39 Evaluate the factors that contributed to the end of the Cold War. These may include: American diplomacy, military build-up, treaties, Iran-Contra affair, Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars), support of Afghanistan, fall of the Berlin Wall, collapse of the USSR.

  • 9-12.US2.40 Explain the causes and consequences of the American response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

Globalization, Information Technology, Terrorism, Political and Social Polarization 1992–Present

  • 9-12.US2.41 Analyze the effects of globalization, free trade agreements, financial market deregulation, and the computer revolution on the economic boom of the 1990s.

  • 9-12.US2.42 Describe some effects of key changes on United States society and labor. These may include: outsourcing, robotic automation, income disparities, shift toward a service-based economy.

  • 9-12.US2.43 Evaluate the motivations behind domestic and non-state aligned terrorism, assess governmental responses including those after September 11, 2001, and analyze the causes, progression, and aftermath of the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  • 9-12.US2.44 Evaluate how the rise of alternative media, social media, and technology, including smartphones, have affected United States culture, society, and politics.

  • 9-12.US2.45 Examine United States policy on environmental issues.

  • 9-12.US2.46 Evaluate the progress of civil rights and immigration issues in recent United States history.

  • 9-12.US2.47 Evaluate the causes and consequences of the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession.

  • 9-12.US2.48 Evaluate the causes and impact of increasing political polarization on American politics.

Historical Thinking Skills