Gr. 11
Economic Policies: Cultural/Societal Changes of 1920s-present)
Grade 11- US II Pacing Guide
September/October
November/December
January/February
March/April
May/June
Topic 1: The role of
economics in modern United
States History
Topic 2: Modernity in the
United States: Ideologies &
Economies
Topic 3: Defending
Democracy: Responses to
Fascism & Communism
Topic 4: Defending Democracy:
Cold War & Civil Rights at home
Topic 5: United States &
Globalization
Scarcity and Economic Reasoning
Supporting Question: How do
individuals and corporations
make choices about saving or
spending?
Supporting Question: How did
the United States respond to
new ideas about society?
Supporting Question: What
kind of role should the U.S. play
in world affairs?
Supporting Question: How did the
U.S. government respond to
challenges to freedom at home
during the Cold War?
Topics:
Topics:
Topics:
Supporting Question: How
does globalization affect the
United States? How can
Americans use the
Constitution to unite the
nation?
Supply and Demand
Societal, Cultural, and
Economical Change of the
1920s: Traditionalism vs
Modernism (Red Scare, Harlem
Renaissance, women’s changing
role, immigration responses,
race relations, Prohibition,
Scopes Trial, Consumerism)
Rise of Fascism & Prelude to
WWII
Domestic Policy of McCarthyism
Topics:
Civil Rights Movement: Origins,
evolution, and goals (review Plessy v.
Ferguson, NAACP dev., Jim Crow)
(Brown v. Board, Little Rock, Sit-Ins,
Birmingham, Selma, MLK, Malcolm X)
Economic liberalism on mid20th century society
Supporting Question: What
factors affect the prices of goods
and services?
Financial Investing
Supporting Question: What are
the benefits and drawbacks of
investments?
Money and the Role of Financial
Institutions
Supporting Question: Why are
banks and stock markets
regulated by the government?
The Great Depression
The New Deal programs of the
1930s
Documents
FDR’s Fireside Chats
National Economic Performance
Supporting Question: What
factors affect the success of the
economy of the United States?
The Role of Government
Supporting Question: How large a
role should government have in
regulating the economy?
U.S. Response to WWII (1939 –
1945) (Social Impact on
Women, Blacks, Japanese),
Economic Impact
Impact of Communism on U.S.
foreign affairs and economic
policy (Marshall Plan, Truman
Doctrine, Korean War, Arms
Race, Space Race, Cuban
Missile Crisis, Vietnam War)
Documents
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Four
Freedoms” speech (1941)
Harry S. Truman, Address Before
the Joint Session of Congress
(The Truman Doctrine) (1947)
Eleanor Roosevelt Letter on
Desegregation(Gilder Lehrman
doc)
The impact of the Civil Rights
Movement on proceeding social and
political movements (Civil Rights Act,
Voting Rights Act, Counterculture,
Feminism, Anti-War Movement)
The Reagan Presidency and
Rise of Conservativism in
Politics
Major Technological and
Social Trends of the Late 20th Early 21st Century
Documents
The U.S. Response to
International Terrorism
Brown v. the Board of Education of
Topeka (1954)
Documents
Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a
Dream” speech (1963)
*George W. Bush, Address to
the Joint Session of the 107th
Congress (September, 2001)
“Letter from Birmingham City Jail”
(1963)
*Suggested
Lyndon Johnson, “And We Shall
Overcome”, (1965)
Barack Obama, “A More Perfect
Union” (2008)
Unit 1: The role of economics in modern United States History
Content Standards
History and Social Science Practice Skills
Literacy Standards for History/Social Science
Unit 2: Modernity in the United States: Ideologies & Economies
Content Standards
History and Social Science Practice Skills
Literacy Standards for History/Social Science
Unit 3: Defending Democracy: Responses to Fascism & Communism
Content Standards
History and Social Science Practice Skills
Literacy Standards for History/Social Science
Unit 4: Defending Democracy: The Cold War & Civil Rights at home
Content Standards
History and Social Science Practice Skills
Literacy Standards for History/Social Science
Unit 5: United States & Globalization
Content Standards
Literacy Standards for History/Social Science
History and Social Science Practice Skills