Iowa

Examine Factors that Led to Continuity and Change in Human and Group Behavior

• SS-US.9-12.13 Analyze how diverse ideologies impacted political and social institutions during eras such as Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, and the Civil Rights movement.

  • Presidential Reconstruction (US-F.1)
  • Cities in the Gilded Age (US-G.2)
  • The Jim Crow system (US-G.3)
  • The rise of U.S. imperialism (US-H.1)
  • The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (US-H.2)
  • Prohibition (US-J.1)
  • Source analysis: the Great Migration (US-J.2)
  • The presidency of John F. Kennedy (US-N.1)
  • Civil rights movement: school desegregation (US-O.1)

Recognize the Interaction Between Individuals and Various Groups

• SS-US.9-12.14 Evaluate the impact of gender roles on economic, political, and social life in the U.S.

  • World War I: the home front and battlefront (US-I.2)

Apply Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles

• SS-US.9-12.15 Assess the impact of individuals and reform movements on changes to civil rights and liberties. (21st century skills)

  • Presidential Reconstruction (US-F.1)
  • Civil rights movement: school desegregation (US-O.1)

Evaluate the National Economy

• SS-US.9-12.16 Examine labor and governmental efforts to reform and/or maintain a capitalistic economic system in the Great Depression.

  • Causes of the Great Depression (US-K.1)
  • Identify New Deal agencies (US-K.2)
  • Source analysis: fireside chats (US-K.3)

Analyze Human Population Movement and Patterns

• SS-US.9-12.17 Explain the patterns of and responses to immigration on the development of American culture and law.

  • Cities in the Gilded Age (US-G.2)

• SS-US.9-12.18 Analyze the effects of urbanization, segregation, and voluntary and forced migration within regions of the U.S. on social, political, and economic structures.

  • Cities in the Gilded Age (US-G.2)
  • The Jim Crow system (US-G.3)
  • Source analysis: the Great Migration (US-J.2)
  • Japanese American internment (US-L.2)
  • Civil rights movement: school desegregation (US-O.1)

Analyze Global Interconnections

• SS-US.9-12.19 Examine how imperialism changed the role of the United States on the world stage prior to World War I.

  • The rise of U.S. imperialism (US-H.1)
  • The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (US-H.2)
  • World War I: causes and U.S. entry (US-I.1)

• SS-US.9-12.20 Analyze the growth of and challenges to U.S. involvement in the world in the post-World War II era.

  • Introduction to the Cold War (US-M.1)

Analyze Change, Continuity, and Context

• SS-US.9-12.21 Analyze change, continuity and context across eras and places of study from civil war to modern America.

  • Causes of the Civil War: compromises (US-E.2)
  • Presidential Reconstruction (US-F.1)
  • Industry in the Gilded Age (US-G.1)
  • Cities in the Gilded Age (US-G.2)
  • The Jim Crow system (US-G.3)
  • The rise of U.S. imperialism (US-H.1)
  • The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (US-H.2)
  • World War I: causes and U.S. entry (US-I.1)
  • World War I: the home front and battlefront (US-I.2)
  • Prohibition (US-J.1)
  • Source analysis: the Great Migration (US-J.2)
  • Causes of the Great Depression (US-K.1)
  • Causes of World War II (US-L.1)
  • Japanese American internment (US-L.2)
  • Introduction to the Cold War (US-M.1)
  • The presidency of John F. Kennedy (US-N.1)
  • Civil rights movement: school desegregation (US-O.1)

• SS-US.9-12.22 Evaluate the impact of inventions and technological innovations on the American society and culture.

  • Industry in the Gilded Age (US-G.1)
  • World War I: the home front and battlefront (US-I.2)

Critique Historical Sources and Evidence

• SS-US.9-12.23 Analyze the relationship between historical sources and the secondary interpretations made from them.

  • Source analysis: the Great Migration (US-J.2)
  • Source analysis: fireside chats (US-K.3)
  • Identify primary and secondary sources (US-Q.1)

• SS-US.9-12.24 Critique primary and secondary sources of information with attention to the source of the document, its context, accuracy, and usefulness such as the Reconstruction Amendments, Emancipation Proclamation, Treaty of Fort Laramie, Chinese Exclusion Act, Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Wilson's Fourteen Points, New Deal Program Acts, Roosevelt's Declaration of War, Executive Order 9066, Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower's Farewell Speech, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Test Ban Treaty of 1963, Brown vs. Board of Education decision, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, and the Voting Act of 1965.

  • Presidential Reconstruction (US-F.1)
  • The rise of U.S. imperialism (US-H.1)
  • The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (US-H.2)
  • Japanese American internment (US-L.2)
  • Introduction to the Cold War (US-M.1)
  • Civil rights movement: school desegregation (US-O.1)

Compare Perspectives

• SS-US.9-12.25 Analyze how regional, racial, ethnic and gender perspectives influenced American history and culture.

  • The Jim Crow system (US-G.3)
  • Source analysis: the Great Migration (US-J.2)

Justify Causation and Argumentation

• SS-US.9-12.26 Determine multiple and complex causes and effects of historical events in American history including, but not limited to, the Civil War, World War I and II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

  • Causes of the Civil War: compromises (US-E.2)
  • Presidential Reconstruction (US-F.1)
  • The rise of U.S. imperialism (US-H.1)
  • World War I: causes and U.S. entry (US-I.1)
  • World War I: the home front and battlefront (US-I.2)
  • Causes of World War II (US-L.1)
  • Japanese American internment (US-L.2)

Iowa History

• SS-US.9-12.27 Evaluate Iowans or groups of Iowans who have influenced U.S. History.