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1 Reconstruction (1865–1877)

  • 9-12.US.13 Evaluate the long-term consequences of the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow on formerly enslaved people and their descendants in all regions of the country.

  • 9-12.US.14 Analyze the short- and long-term effects of the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction period.

  • 9-12.US.15 Evaluate how the events of Reconstruction impacted people from diverse groups.

  • 9-12.US.16 Explore African American economic, political, and sociocultural (educational, artistic, literary) responses to emancipation and Reconstruction.

  • 9-12.US.17 Identify the ways in which gender roles were changing and remained unchanged during the 19th century.

  • 9-12.US.18 Explore the efforts of the federal government, African Americans, and civil society reformers to create a new political and social order after emancipation.

  • 9-12.US.19 Investigate how identity groups and society address systemic inequity through individual actions, individual champions, social movements, and local community, national, and global advocacy.

  • 9-12.US.20 Identify and explore how current traditions, rights, and norms of identity groups have changed or are changing over time.

  • 9-12.US.21 Assess how social, economic, political, and environmental developments at global, national, regional, and local levels affect the sustainability of modern and traditional cultures.

2 Rebuilding the United States: Industry and Immigration (1865–1920)

  • 9-12.US.22 Examine immigration policy in the United States.

  • 9-12.US.23 Evaluate the following concerning the economic system of the United States: efficiency, equity, equality, and justice.

  • 9-12.US.24 Examine labor struggles and populist movements in the United States and compare to other movements around the world.

  • 9-12.US.25 Examine the impact of the end of the Civil War on the settlement of the West and on the relationships between the United States and the Indigenous nations in the West.

  • 9-12.US.26 Explain the various causes of the Industrial Revolution.

  • 9-12.US.27 Evaluate the consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

  • 9-12.US.28 Analyze social, political, and economic reasons groups migrated to and within the United States, including push and pull factors.

  • 9-12.US.29 Evaluate the effects of the entry of women into the workforce after the Civil War and analyze women's political organizations.

  • 9-12.US.30 Analyze the consequences of the continuing westward expansion of the American people after the Civil War.

  • 9-12.US.31 Evaluate the impact of the 14th Amendment on Indigenous people and Asian and European immigrant men and women.

  • 9-12.US.32 Examine the ways that the Great Migration changed America, exploring the ways that African Americans adapted and resisted.

  • 9-12.US.33 Compare and contrast the various origins (indigenous, forced, voluntary) of identity groups in the United States.

  • 9-12.US.34 Examine the role assimilation plays in the loss of cultural, ethnic, racial, and religious identities and language between 1865 and 1920.

  • 9-12.US.35 Analyze and predict how locations, places, and regions impact the evolution of human perspective and identity.

3 Imperialism (1890–1920)

4 Progressivism and World War I

5 Conflicts and Transitions (1920–1929)

6 The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929–1941)

7 World War II

  • 9-12.US.75 Analyze the similarities, differences, and connections between the racial social order in the United States, Germany, and other countries during World War II.

  • 9-12.US.76 Analyze the influence of cultural, literary, and artistic movements during World War II.

  • 9-12.US.77 Explore the legacy of "othering" in the United States, including boarding schools, internment camps, and detention centers.

  • 9-12.US.78 Explain the reasons for U.S. involvement in World War II and the key actions and events leading up to declarations of war against Japan and Germany.

  • 9-12.US.79 Explain the rise of fascism and the forms it took in Germany and Italy, including ideas and policies that led to the Holocaust, also known as Shoah.

  • 9-12.US.80 Analyze the events that led to World War II, the major battles of the war, use of nuclear weapons, and the Holocaust, also known as Shoah.

  • 9-12.US.81 Analyze the consequences of World War II, including the conferences of Allied leaders following the war and the development of human rights.

  • 9-12.US.82 Assess the social, political, and economic transformation of the United States during World War II.

  • 9-12.US.83 Evaluate how the events during World War II impacted people from diverse groups.

  • 9-12.US.84 Examine the ways in which gender roles changed and stayed the same during World War II.

  • 9-12.US.85 Examine the impact of historical, cultural, economic, political, religious, and social factors that resulted in unequal power relations among identity groups during World War II.

  • 9-12.US.86 Assess how social policies and economic forces offer privilege or systemic inequity in accessing social, political, and economic opportunity for identity groups in education, government, healthcare, industry, and law enforcement.

  • 9-12.US.87 Predict future social, political, economic, cultural, religious, spiritual, and environmental opportunities as well as obstacles associated with movement, population, decision making, and perspectives in World War II.

  • 9-12.US.88 Describe how particular historical events and developments shaped human processes and systems in World War II.

8 The Cold War (1945–1975)

  • 9-12.US.89 Examine the short- and long-term effects of Central Intelligence Agency involvement in Latin America.

  • 9-12.US.90 Analyze the impact of Cold War rhetoric and ideology on social movements and activists in the United States.

  • 9-12.US.91 Analyze the causes, conflicts, and consequences of the Cold War.

  • 9-12.US.92 Evaluate the policy of containment as a response by the United States to Soviet expansionist policies.

  • 9-12.US.93 Analyze how U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War shaped conflicts in Asia and the Americas.

  • 9-12.US.94 Analyze the roots of domestic communism and anti-communism in the 1950s as well as the origins and consequences of and the resistance to McCarthyism.

  • 9-12.US.95 Evaluate how the events during the Cold War impacted people from diverse groups.

  • 9-12.US.96 Examine the ways in which gender roles changed and stayed the same between 1945 and 1975.

  • 9-12.US.97 Summarize U.S. diplomatic and military policies during the Cold War.

  • 9-12.US.98 Predict future social, political, economic, cultural, religious, spiritual, and environmental opportunities as well as obstacles associated with movement, population, decision making, and perspectives between 1945 and 1975.

  • 9-12.US.99 Describe how particular historical events and developments shaped human processes and systems between 1945 and 1975.

  • 9-12.US.100 Analyze how the forces of cooperation and conflict within and among people, nations, and empires influence the division and control of Earth's surface and resources.

9 Civil Rights and People Power Movements

  • 9-12.US.101 Examine how evolving global and domestic understanding of and respect for universal human rights affected the development of the civil rights movement in the United States.

  • 9-12.US.102 Analyze issues related to race relations in the United States since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

  • 9-12.US.103 Evaluate the role of McCarthyism on the civil rights movement.

  • 9-12.US.104 Evaluate the influence of 1960s cultural and artistic movements from past to present day.

  • 9-12.US.105 Analyze the origin, goals, and outcomes of civil rights groups in the 1950s and the 1960s and their influence on contemporary civil rights movements.

  • 9-12.US.106 Evaluate resistance to integration in white communities, protests to end segregation, and Supreme Court decisions on civil rights.

  • 9-12.US.107 Evaluate how the events of the civil rights movement impacted people from diverse groups.

  • 9-12.US.108 Analyze the causes, course, and impact on U.S. politics and society of new social and political movements, including consideration of the role of protest, advocacy organizations, and active citizen participation.

  • 9-12.US.109 Analyze the important policies and events that took place during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

  • 9-12.US.110 Investigate how identity groups and society address systemic inequity through individual actions, individual champions, social movements, and local community, national, and global advocacy.

10 Rise of Conservatism and Liberalism (1968–2008)

  • 9-12.US.111 Assess the short- and long-term social and political impacts of conservatism and liberalism in the United States.

  • 9-12.US.112 Examine the short- and long-term impacts of criminal justice policy implemented during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

  • 9-12.US.113 Examine the push-pull relationship between liberalism and conservatism in the United States over time.

  • 9-12.US.114 Evaluate whether the Cold War definitively ended in 1991.

  • 9-12.US.115 Analyze the social, political, and economic conditions of the 1960s and 1970s that led to a rise in Conservatism and its overall impact on society.

  • 9-12.US.116 Analyze how Communist economic policies and U.S.-sponsored resistance to Soviet military and diplomatic initiatives contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

  • 9-12.US.117 Evaluate how major world events between 1968 and 2008, such as 9/11, and the rise of global terrorism impacted people from diverse groups.

  • 9-12.US.118 Examine the ways in which gender roles changed and stayed the same between 1968 and 2008.

  • 9-12.US.119 Evaluate the significance of the federal 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.

  • 9-12.US.120 Examine the experiences, activism, and legislation impacting the LGBTQIA+ community.

  • 9-12.US.121 Analyze the rise of conservatism and liberalism in U.S. politics and society.

  • 9-12.US.122 Examine historical and contemporary cultural, economic, intellectual, political, and social contributions to society by individuals or groups within an identity group.

11 The United States in a Global Age (2008–Present)

  • 9-12.US.123 Analyze the influence of cultural, literary, and artistic movements between 2008 and the present.

  • 9-12.US.124 Analyze major trends, issues, and advances to address healthcare disparities in the past, present, and future.

  • 9-12.US.125 Evaluate how the events between 2008 and the present impact people from diverse groups.

  • 9-12.US.126 Examine the ways in which gender roles changed and stayed the same between 2008 and the present.

  • 9-12.US.127 Investigate how identity groups and society address systemic inequity through individual actions, individual champions, social movements, and local community, national, and global advocacy.

  • 9-12.US.128 Evaluate the role of racial social constructs in the structure and function of 21st-century U.S. society.

  • 9-12.US.129 Assess how social, economic, political, and environmental developments at global, national, regional, and local levels affect the sustainability of modern and traditional cultures.

  • 9-12.US.130 Evaluate the role of the United States in contemporary global issues.

  • 9-12.US.131 Evaluate the impacts of contemporary global issues on the United States.

  • 9-12.US.132 Analyze the current state and health of U.S. democracy.

  • 9-12.US.133 Analyze some of the major technological and social trends and issues of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

  • 9-12.US.134 Evaluate the effectiveness of the federal government's response to international and domestic terrorism in the 21st century.

  • 9-12.US.135 Examine contemporary civil and human rights struggles and successes.

  • 9-12.US.136 Analyze U.S. government policies to reduce climate disruption.