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1. SSUSH1: The student will describe European settlement in North America during the
17th century.
a. Explain Virginia’s development; include the Virginia Company, tobacco cultivation,
and relationships with Native Americans such as Powhatan, development of the
House of Burgesses, Bacon’s Rebellion, and the development of slavery.
i. What was the Virginia Company?
ii. How did Virginia develop into a colony?
iii. What was the significance of tobacco cultivation? How did it effect such
settlements like Jamestown?
iv. Who was Powhatan? Why was he important?
v. What was the House of Burgesses? What was its significance?
vi. What was Bacon’s Rebellion? Why was it significant? What changes did it
cause?
vii. How did slavery develop in the New World? What events led to slavery being
introduced into the colonies?
b. Describe the settlement of New England; include religious reasons, relations with
Native Americans (e.g., King Phillip’s War), the establishment of town meetings and
development of a legislature, religious tensions that led to colonies such as Rhode
Island, the half-way covenant, Salem Witch Trials, and the loss of the Massachusetts
charter.
i. What events led to the development of the New England Colonies?
ii. How did religion effect the development of each region?
iii. What were the different types of relationships between tribes in each region?
iv. What was King Phillips War? Why was it significant?
v. What was the purpose of town meetings? What was the purpose of a
legislature?
vi. What events led to the development of Rhode Island?
vii. What was the Half-Way Covenant?
viii. What were the Salem Witch Trials? How were they significant?
ix. What caused the loss of the Massachusetts Charter?
c. Explain the development of the mid-Atlantic colonies; include the Dutch settlement
of New Amsterdam and subsequent English takeover, and the settlement of
Pennsylvania.
i. Why did the mid-Atlantic Colonies develop? What were the major reasons?
ii. How was New Amsterdam created? Why was it important?
iii. Why did the English take New Amsterdam?
iv. How and why was Pennsylvania developed?
d. Explain the reasons for French settlement of Quebec.
i. What were the main reasons for the French settling Quebec?
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2. SSUSH2: The student will trace the ways that the economy and society of British North
America developed.
a. Explain the development of mercantilism and the trans-Atlantic trade.
i. What is Mercantilism? Who benefits from it?
ii. What was the trans-Atlantic trade system?
b. Describe the Middle Passage, growth of the African population, and AfricanAmerican culture.
i. What was the middle passage?
ii. What was shipped through the middle passage?
iii. How did the African American population grow during this time?
c. Identify Benjamin Franklin as a symbol of social mobility and individualism.
i. Who was Ben Franklin?
ii. How did he develop into an American Icon?
iii. What is Social Mobility? Individualism?
d. Explain the significance of the Great Awakening.
i. What was the Great Awakening?
ii. How did it affect American society?
iii. How did it affect religion?
3. SSUSH3: The student will explain the primary causes of the American Revolution.
a. Explain how the end of Anglo-French imperial competition as seen in the French and
Indian War and the 1763 Treaty of Paris laid the groundwork for the American
Revolution.
i. What was the French and Indian War? Who won? How did it affect colonists?
ii. What were the terms of the Treaty of Paris 1763? How did it affect the
colonists?
iii. How did the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?
b. Explain colonial response to such British actions as the Proclamation of 1763, the
Stamp Act, and the Intolerable Acts as seen in Sons and Daughters of Liberty and
Committees of Correspondence.
i. What were the following acts? How did the colonists respond?
1. Proclamation of 1763
2. Stamp Act
3. Intolerable Acts
ii. Who were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
iii. Who were the Committees of Correspondence?
c. Explain the importance of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense to the movement for
independence.
i. Who was Thomas Payne?
ii. What was Common Sense? How did it effect the independence movement?
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4. SSUSH4: The student will identify the ideological, military, and diplomatic aspects of
the American Revolution.
a. Explain the language, organization, and intellectual sources of the Declaration of
Independence; include the writing of John Locke and Montesquieu, and the role of
Thomas Jefferson.
i. What was the Declaration of Independence?
ii. Why are its language, organization, and intellectual resources important?
iii. Who was John Locke? What did he write? How did it affect the DOI?
iv. Who was Montesquieu? What did he write? How did it affect the DOI?
v. What was Thomas Jefferson’s role in writing the DOI?
b. Explain the reason for and significance of the French alliance and foreign assistance
and the roles of Benjamin Franklin and the Marquis de Lafayette.
i. Explain the significance of the colonist alliance with France during the
Revolution.
ii. How did Ben Franklin and Lafayette help this alliance?
c. Analyze George Washington as a military leader; include the creation of a
professional military and the life of a common soldier, and describe the significance
of the crossing of the Delaware River and Valley Forge.
i. How effective of a leader was George Washington as a military leader
ii. How did the Continental Army become a professional fighting force?
iii. What was life like at Valley Forge?
iv. What was the significance of the crossing of the Delaware River and the
victory at Trenton?
d. Explain Yorktown, the role of Lord Cornwallis, and the Treaty of Paris, 1783.
i. What happened at Yorktown?
ii. Who was General Lord Cornwallis?
iii. What was the Treaty of Paris 1783? What were the terms of the Treaty?
5. SSUSH5: The student will explain specific events and key ideas that brought about the
adoption and implementation of the United States Constitution.
a. Explain how weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation and Daniel Shays’
Rebellion led to a call for a stronger central government.
i. What were the Articles of Confederation?
ii. What were the weaknesses of the AOC?
iii. What was Shay’s Rebellion?
iv. How did the rebellion show the weaknesses of the AOC?
b. Evaluate the major arguments of the anti-Federalists and Federalists during the debate
on ratification of the Constitution as put forth in The Federalist concerning form of
government, factions, checks and balances, and the power of the executive, including
the roles of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
i. Who were Federalists? What did they believe?
ii. Who were anti-federalists? What did they believe?
iii. What did both sides feel about:
1. The form of government?
2. Factions?
3. Checks and Balances?
4. Powers of the executive branch?
5. How did James Madison and Alexander Hamilton influence the
creation of the Constitution?
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c. Explain the key features of the Constitution, specifically the Great Compromise,
separation of powers, limited government, and the issue of slavery.
i. What was the Great Compromise? How did satisfy both large and small
states?
ii. How did the Constitution deal with slavery?
iii. How did the Constitution deal with separation of powers?
iv. How did the Constitution deal with limited government?
d. Analyze how the Bill of Rights serves as a protector of individual and states’ rights.
i. What is the Bill of Rights?
ii. How do they protect individual freedoms?
iii. What rights do the first 10 amendments protect?
e. Explain the importance of the Presidencies of George Washington and John Adams;
include the Whiskey Rebellion, non-intervention in Europe, and the development of
political parties (Alexander Hamilton).
i. Why was George Washington’s presidency so important?
ii. How did John Adams change the office of President?
iii. What was the Whisky Rebellion?
iv. What was the policy of neutrality in Europe? What problems did it cause?
v. What caused the development of political parties?
6. SSUSH6: The student will analyze the nature of territorial and population growth and
the impact of this growth in the early decades of the new nation.
a. Explain the Northwest Ordinance’s importance in the westward migration of
Americans, and on slavery, public education, and the addition of new states.
i. What was the Northwest Ordinance?
ii. How did it affect westward expansion?
iii. How did it deal with:
1. Slavery?
2. Education?
3. New States?
b. Describe Jefferson’s diplomacy in obtaining the Louisiana Purchase from France and
the territory’s exploration by Lewis and Clark.
i. How did Jefferson obtain the Louisiana Purchase?
ii. What was the goal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
c. Explain major reasons for the War of 1812 and the war’s significance on the
development of a national identity.
i. What caused the War of 1812?
ii. What were the significant events of the war?
iii. How did the war affect national identity?
d. Describe the construction of the Erie Canal, the rise of New York City, and the
development of the nation’s infrastructure.
i. What is the importance of the Erie Canal
ii. What was the importance of New York City?
iii. How did national infrastructure develop?
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7. SSUSH7: Students will explain the process of economic growth, its regional and
national impact in the first half of the 19th century, and the different responses to it.
a. Explain the impact of the Industrial Revolution as seen in Eli Whitney’s invention of
the cotton gin and his development of interchangeable parts for muskets.
i. What was the Industrial Revolution? How did it effect the US
ii. What was the Cotton Gin?
iii. What is the significance of interchangeable parts?
b. Describe the westward growth of the United States; include the emerging concept of
Manifest Destiny.
i. What was the significance of interchangeable parts?
ii. What is manifest destiny? How did it affect westward expansion?
c. Describe reform movements, specifically temperance, abolitionism, and public
school.
i. What was the Temperance Movement?
ii. What was abolitionism?
iii. What efforts were made to change public schools?
d. Explain women’s efforts to gain suffrage; include Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the
Seneca Falls Conference.
i. What was the Women’s Suffrage Movement?
ii. Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
iii. What was the Seneca Falls Conference?
e. Explain Jacksonian Democracy, expanding suffrage, the rise of popular political
culture, and the development of American nationalism.
i. What is Jacksonian Democracy?
ii. How did he expand suffrage?
iii. What was popular political culture?
iv. What is the concept of nationalism?
8. SSUSH8: The student will explain the relationship between growing north-south
divisions and westward expansion.
a. Explain how slavery became a significant issue in American politics; include the
slave rebellion of Nat Turner and the rise of abolitionism (William Lloyd Garrison,
Frederick Douglas, and the Grimke sisters).
i. How did slavery affect American politics?
ii. What was the Nat Turner rebellion?
iii. Who were the following abolitionists?
1. William Lloyd Garrison?
2. Fredrick Douglas?
3. The Grimke sisters?
b. Explain the Missouri Compromise and the issue of slavery in western states and
territories.
i. What was the Missouri Compromise?
ii. How did it affect slavery in new states and territories?
c. Describe the Nullification Crisis and the emergence of states’ rights ideology; include
the role of John C. Calhoun and development of sectionalism.
i. Describe the Nullification Crisis?
ii. What is state’s rights ideology?
iii. Who was John C Calhoun?
iv. What is sectionalism?
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d. Describe the war with Mexico and the Wilmot Proviso.
i. What were the causes, events, and effects of the War with Mexico?
ii. What was the Wilmot Proviso? How did it try to effect slavery in the new
territory?
e. Explain the Compromise of 1850.
i. What were the major components of the compromise of 1850?
9. SSUSH9: The student will identify key events, issues, and individuals relating to the
causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War.
a. Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the failure of popular sovereignty, Dred Scott case,
and John Brown’s Raid.
i. What were the major components of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
ii. What was popular sovereignty? Why did it fail?
iii. What was the Dred Scott Case? How did it affect slavery?
iv. What was John Brown’s raid? How did it affect views on slavery?
b. Describe President Lincoln’s efforts to preserve the Union as seen in his second
inaugural address and the Gettysburg speech and in his use of emergency powers,
such as his decision to suspend habeas corpus.
i. Describe the main points in Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address
ii. Describe the main points and effects of the Gettysburg Address
iii. What are emergency powers? How did Lincoln use them?
iv. What is Habeas Corpus? Why did Lincoln suspend it?
c. Describe the roles of Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, “Stonewall” Jackson, William T.
Sherman, and Jefferson Davis.
i. What were the Civil War roles of:
1. General Grant
2. General Lee
3. General “Stonewall” Jackson
4. General Sherman
5. President Jefferson Davis (CSA)
d. Explain the importance of Fort Sumter, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and the
Battle for Atlanta.
i. What was the significance of the following places?
1. Fort Sumter?
2. Antietam?
3. Vicksburg?
4. Gettysburg?
5. Atlanta?
e. Describe the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
i. What was the Purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
ii. How did it change the purpose of the war?
f. Explain the importance of the growing economic disparity between the North and the
South through an examination of population, functioning railroads, and industrial
output.
i. What were the differences between the North and South in the following
areas:
1. Population
2. Railways
3. Industrial output
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10. SSUSH10: The student will identify legal, political, and social dimensions of
Reconstruction.
a. Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Radical Republican
Reconstruction.
i. What were the major differences between reconstruction plans coming from
the President and the Radical Republicans?
b. Explain efforts to redistribute land in the South among the former slaves and provide
advanced education (e.g., Morehouse College) and describe the role of the
Freedmen’s Bureau.
i. What methods were used to redistribute land to former slaves and provide
education
ii. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? What was its significance?
c. Describe the significance of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
i. What was the 13th amendment? How did it change America?
ii. What was the 14th amendment? How did it change America?
iii. What was the 15th amendment? How did it change America?
d. Explain Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, and other forms of resistance to racial
equality during Reconstruction.
i. What are the Black Codes? Why were they created?
ii. What was the KKK? What were their major objectives?
iii. What other forms of resistance were used to stop racial equality during
Reconstruction?
e. Explain the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in relationship to Reconstruction.
i. Why did congress attempt to impeach Johnson?
ii. Why did they fail to remove him from office?
11. SSUSH11: The student will describe the growth of big business and technological
innovations after Reconstruction.
a. Explain the impact of the railroads on other industries, such as steel, and on the
organization of big business.
i. How did the railroad expansion help industries?
ii. How did the railroad industry affect the steel industry
b. Describe the impact of the railroads in the development of the West; include the
transcontinental railroad, and the use of Chinese labor.
i. What events affected the development of the Transcontinental Railroad
ii. How did the use of Chinese labor lead to changes in immigration policy?
c. Identify John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company and the rise of trusts and
monopolies
i. Who was John D. Rockefeller?
ii. What was the Standard Oil Company?
iii. What are Trusts and Monopolies?
d. Describe the inventions of Thomas Edison; include the electric light bulb, motion
pictures, and the phonograph, and their impact on American life
i. Who was Thomas Edison?
ii. How these inventions affect Americans:
1. Light bulb
2. Motion pictures
3. Phonographs
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12. SSUSH12: The student will analyze important consequences of American industrial
growth.
a. Describe Ellis Island, the change in immigrants’ origins to southern and eastern
Europe and the impact of this change on urban America.
i. What was the purpose and Ellis Island?
ii. Where did immigrants during this time period come from?
iii. How did this change urban America?
b. Identify the American Federation of Labor and Samuel Gompers.
i. What was the American Federation of Labor? What was their purpose?
ii. Who was Samuel Gompers?
c. Describe the growth of the western population and its impact on Native Americans
with reference to Sitting Bull and Wounded Knee.
i. How did the Western US during this time in regards to Native Americans?
ii. What happened at Wounded Knee?
iii. Who was Sitting Bull?
d. Describe the 1894 Pullman strike as an example of industrial unrest.
i. What was the 1894 Pullman strike? Why did it happen?
ii. How did it signify industrial unrest during this time?
13. SSUSH13: The student will identify major efforts to reform American society and
politics in the Progressive Era.
a. Explain Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and federal oversight of the meatpacking
industry.
i. Who was Upton Sinclair?
ii. What affects did The Jungle have on federal oversight on food and drug
processing?
b. Identify Jane Addams and Hull House and describe the role of women in reform
movements.
i. Who was Jade Addams? What was the Hull House?
c. Describe the rise of Jim Crow, Plessey v. Ferguson, and the emergence of the
NAACP.
i. What are Jim Crow Laws?
ii. What was the ruling of Plessey v. Ferguson? How did it change America?
iii. Who is the NAACP? What is its mission?
d. Explain Ida Tarbell’s role as a muckraker.
i. Who was Ida Tarbell?
ii. What was a Muckraker?
iii. How did they change American society?
e. Describe the significance of progressive reforms such as the initiative, recall, and
referendum; direct election of senators; reform of labor laws; and efforts to improve
living conditions for the poor in cities.
i. What are the following political reforms:
1. Initiative
2. Recall
3. Referendum
4. Direct election of senators
5. Reform of labor laws
ii. What progressive reforms improved living conditions for poor people in
cities?
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14. SSUSH14: The student will explain America’s evolving relationship with the world at
the turn of the twentieth century.
a. Explain the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and anti-Asian immigration sentiment on
the west coast.
i. What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
ii. What did it say about anti-Asian sentiment on the West Coast?
b. Describe the Spanish-American War, the war in the Philippines, and the debate over
American expansionism.
i. What were the major events of the Spanish-American War? What did the US
gain from it?
ii. What happened during the war in the Philippines?
iii. What is expansionism? How did these events change America?
c. Explain U.S. involvement in Latin America, as reflected by the Roosevelt Corollary
to the Monroe Doctrine and the creation of the Panama Canal.
i. What is the Roosevelt Corollary? How did it affect Latin American relations?
ii. What is the Panama Canal? Why did the US create it?
15. SSUSH15: The student will analyze the origins and impact of U.S. involvement in
World War I.
a. Describe the movement from U.S. neutrality to engagement in World War I, with
reference to unrestricted submarine warfare.
i. What is the policy of neutrality?
ii. Why did the US stay neutral at the beginning of WWI?
iii. What is unrestricted submarine warfare? How did it affect the US?
b. Explain the domestic impact of World War I, as reflected by the origins of the Great
Migration, the Espionage Act, and socialist Eugene Debs.
i. What happened on the home front during WWI?
ii. What was the Great Migration?
iii. What was the Espionage Act?
iv. Who was Eugene Debs? What were his goals?
c. Explain Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the proposed League of Nations.
i. What were the major purposes of Wilson’s 14 Points?
ii. What was the League of Nations?
iii. What parts of the 14 Points plan were adopted?
d. Describe passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, establishing Prohibition, and the
Nineteenth Amendment, establishing woman suffrage.
i. What was the 18th amendment? Why was it passed?
ii. What is prohibition?
iii. What was the 19th amendment? What did it establish?
16. SSUSH16: The student will identify key developments in the aftermath of WW I.
a. Explain how rising communism and socialism in the United States led to the Red
Scare and immigrant restriction.
i. What is communism? Socialism?
ii. What was the Red Scare?
b. Identify Henry Ford, mass production, and the automobile.
i. Who was Henry Ford?
ii. What was mass production?
iii. How did Ford change industry and production?
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c. Describe the impact of radio and the movies.
i. How did radios affect Americans?
ii. How did movies affect Americans?
d. Describe modern forms of cultural expression; include Louis Armstrong and the
origins of jazz, Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Irving Berlin, and Tin
Pan Alley.
i. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
ii. How did the following people / places / events influence the renaissance?
1. Louis Armstrong
2. Jazz
3. Langston Hughes
4. Irving Berlin
5. Tin Pan Alley
17. SSUSH17: The student will analyze the causes and consequences of the Great
Depression.
a. Describe the causes, including overproduction, under-consumption, and stock market
speculation that led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.
i. Describe the following causes of the Great Depression
1. Overproduction
2. Under consumption
3. Speculation
ii. The Crash of 1929
b. Explain the impact of the drought in the creation of the Dust Bowl.
i. How did drought affect the depression?
ii. How did the Dust Bowl effect the depression?
c. Explain the social and political impact of widespread unemployment that resulted in
developments such as Hoovervilles.
i. How did unemployment affect Americans during this time?
ii. What were Hoovervilles?
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18. SSUSH18: The student will describe Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal as a response to the
depression and compare the ways governmental programs aided those in need.
a. Describe the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority as a works program and as
an effort to control the environment.
i. What was the TVA? What was it created to do?
b. Explain the Wagner Act and the rise of industrial unionism.
i. What was the purpose of the Wagner Act?
ii. What is industrial unionism?
c. Explain the passage of the Social Security Act as a part of the second New Deal.
i. What is the Social Security Act?
ii. What was the second New Deal?
d. Identify Eleanor Roosevelt as a symbol of social progress and women’s activism.
i. Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
ii. What did she do as a women’s activist?
e. Identify the political challenges to Roosevelt’s domestic and international leadership;
include the role of Huey Long, the “court packing bill,” and the Neutrality Act.
i. Who was Huey Long?
ii. What was the Court Packing Bill?
iii. What was the Neutrality Act?
19. SSUSH19: The student will identify the origins, major developments, and the domestic
impact of World War II, especially the growth of the federal government.
a. Explain A. Philip Randolph’s proposed March on Washington, D.C., and President
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response.
i. Who was A Philip Randolph? What did his March on Washington seek to do?
ii. How did FDR respond?
b. Explain the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the internment of JapaneseAmericans, German-Americans, and Italian-Americans.
i. How did Americans treat Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor
ii. How were German-Americans and Italian-Americans treated?
c. Explain major events; include the lend-lease program, the Battle of Midway, D-Day,
and the fall of Berlin.
i. What was the Lend-Lease program?
ii. Why was the Battle of Midway important?
iii. What was D-Day?
iv. What was the significance of the Battle of Berlin?
d. Describe war mobilization, as indicated by rationing, war-time conversion, and the
role of women in war industries.
i. What is War Mobilization?
ii. What is Rationing?
iii. What is war-time conversion?
iv. What was the role of women during the war?
e. Describe Los Alamos and the scientific, economic, and military implications of
developing the atomic bomb.
i. What was atomic bomb?
ii. How did it affect the US in scientific, economic, and military sectors?
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20. SSUSH20: The student will analyze the domestic and international impact of the Cold
War on the United States.
a. Describe the creation of the Marshall Plan, U.S. commitment to Europe, the Truman
Doctrine, and the origins and implications of the containment policy.
i. What was the Marshall Plan created to do?
ii. What are examples of the US commitment to Europe?
iii. What was the Truman Doctrine? Why was it created?
iv. What was the Containment Policy?
b. Explain the impact of the new communist regime in China and the outbreak of the
Korean War and how these events contributed to the rise of Senator Joseph
McCarthy.
i. How did China become Communists?
ii. What was the Korean War about? What did it represent?
iii. What was McCarthyism?
c. Describe the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs, and the Cuban missile crisis.
i. How did the Cuban Revolution affect the US?
ii. What happened at the Bay of Pigs?
iii. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
d. Describe the Vietnam War, the Tet offensive and growing opposition to the war.
i. What were the major events of the Vietnam War?
ii. What was the significance of the Tet offensive?
21. SSUSH21: The student will explain economic growth and its impact on the United
States, 1945-1970.
a. Describe the baby boom and its impact as shown by Levittown and the Interstate
Highway Act.
i. Who are the Baby Boomers?
ii. What are Levittowns?
iii. What was the Interstate Highway Act?
iv. How did all of these affect modern America?
b. Describe the impact television has had on American culture; include the presidential
debates (Kennedy/Nixon,1960) and news coverage of the Civil Rights Movement.
i. What was this significance of the Kennedy / Nixon debates?
ii. How did TV affect the Civil Rights Movement?
c. Analyze the impact of technology on American life; include the development of the
personal computer and the cellular telephone.
i. Describe the importance of the personal computer and the cell phone as
modern conveniences?
d. Describe the impact of competition with the USSR as evidenced by the launch of
Sputnik I and President Eisenhower’s actions.
i. What was the impact of Sputnik I to US-USSR relations?
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22. SSUSH22: The student will identify dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement, 19451970.
a. Explain the importance of President Truman’s order to integrate the U.S. military and
the federal government.
i. What effect did President Truman’s order to integrate the US troops have on
the Civil Rights Movement?
b. Identify Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball.
i. What were the social effects of Jackie Robinson and the integration of
Baseball?
c. Explain Brown v. Board of Education and efforts to resist the decision.
i. What court decision did Brown v. Board of education reverse? Why this
decision was resisted so much?
d. Describe the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail
and his I have a dream speech.
i. What issues did the Letters from a Birmingham Jail expose and address?
What was the significance of the “ I Have a Dream Speech”?
e. Describe the causes and consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting
Rights Act of 1965.
i. What was the affects of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
ii. What was the affects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
23. SSUSH23: The student will describe and assess the impact of political developments
between 1945 and 1970.
a. Describe the Warren Court and the expansion of individual rights as seen in the
Miranda decision.
i. Who was Earl Warren?
ii. What cases did his court hear and how did they affect America?
b. Describe the political impact of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy;
include the impact on civil rights legislation.
i. How did JFK’s assassination affect America?
ii. How did it affect Civil Rights legislation?
c. Explain Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society; include the establishment of Medicare.
i. What was the Great Society?
ii. What were Medicare / Medicaid?
d. Describe the social and political turmoil of 1968; include the assassinations of Martin
Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and the events surrounding the Democratic
National Convention.
i. Describe the significance of the following events
1. Assassination of Dr. King
2. Assassination of RFK
3. Democratic Convention of 1968
24. SSUSH24: The student will analyze the impact of social change movements and
organizations of the 1960s.
a. Compare and contrast the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) tactics; include sit-ins,
freedom rides, and changing composition.
i. What was the purpose of the SNCC and the SCLC? What are the differences
in their approaches to Civil Rights reforms?
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ii. What were sit-ins? Freedom rides?
b. Describe the National Organization of Women and the origins and goals of the
modern women’s movement.
i. What was the purpose of NOW?
ii. What were their main goals?
c. Analyze the anti-Vietnam War movement.
i. Where did the movement start?
ii. What happened at Kent State?
d. Analyze Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ movement.
i. Who was Chavez? What did he fight for?
ii. Who were the UFW?
e. Explain Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, Earth Day, the creation of the EPA, and the
modern environmentalist movement.
i. Who was Rachel Carson? What was Silent Spring?
ii. What is Earth Day?
iii. Who is the EPA? What are their responsibilities?
f. Describe the rise of the conservative movement as seen in the presidential candidacy
of Barry Goldwater (1964) and the election of Richard M. Nixon (1968).
i. Who was Barry Goldwater? What did he start?
ii. What is the significance of the election of Nixon?
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US History EOCT Study Guide
25. SSUSH25: The student will describe changes in national politics since 1968.
a. Describe President Richard M. Nixon’s opening of China, his resignation due to the
Watergate scandal, changing attitudes toward government, and the Presidency of
Gerald Ford.
i. Why did Nixon go to China?
ii. What was the Watergate Scandal?
iii. What was significant about President Ford?
b. Explain the impact of Supreme Court decisions on ideas about civil liberties and civil
rights; include such decisions as Roe v. Wade (1973) and the Bakke decision on
affirmative action.
i. What was significant about Roe v. Wade?
ii. What is Affirmative Action?
c. Explain the Carter administration’s efforts in the Middle East; include the Camp
David Accords, his response to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and the Iranian hostage
crisis.
i. What did Carter do during
1. The Camp David Accords?
2. The Iranian Revolution?
3. The Iranian Hostage Crisis?
d. Describe domestic and international events of Ronald Reagan’s presidency; include
Reaganomics, the Iran-contra scandal, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
i. What happened domestically and internationally during Reagan’s presidency?
ii. What was Reaganomics?
iii. What was the Iran-contra scandal?
iv. Why did the Soviet Union collapse?
e. Explain the relationship between Congress and President Bill Clinton; include the
North American Free Trade Agreement and his impeachment and acquittal.
i. What happened during the Clinton administration?
ii. What was NAFTA?
iii. Describe Clinton’s impeachment and acquittal.
f. Analyze the 2000 presidential election and its outcome, emphasizing the role of the
Electoral College.
i. What is the Electoral College?
ii. Who won the race of 2000?
g. Analyze the response of President George W. Bush to the attacks of September 11,
2001, on the United States, the war against terrorism, and the subsequent American
interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq
i. What were the reasons for the 9/11 attacks?
ii. How did President Bush respond?