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American History: From 1877 to the Present
The curriculum guide for American History is keyed to The American Vision by Glencoe, 2005. Teachers, administrators, and supervisors monitor
implementation of the guide, and lesson plans, grade books, and portfolios, provide validation for the teaching of the curriculum. At the
suggestion of classroom teachers, the curriculum guide may be revised by a committee of teachers and is rewritten with each new state course
of study.
TESTING AND GRADING PROCEDURES
Designated grade should include a variety of questions including at least one subjective measure.
Teachers should endeavor to remain within one week of the pacing chart with all designated grades being taught. It is suggested that provided
material from the adopted text be used in order to prepare the student for the designated grades. Teachers are to add grades of their choice
(quizzes, technology, homework, daily work, notebooks, projects, book reports, etc) These assignments should be given their proper weight
according to difficulty, time, and skill involved All designated grades are to be kept on file.
Each grading period, teachers must choose one activity for assessment from the Assessment options at the beginning of each chapter which is
not dependent on testing. Teachers are not limited to these choices and may design their own; however, activities must be creative and reflect
student diversity. A minimum of one assessment per grading period must be placed in the student portfolio. Written material, checklists, maps,
graphs, art, photographs, audio tapes, and video tapes may be used as portfolio material. For group activities, audio, video and photographs
may be kept in a separate portfolio.
Unit
5: The Birth of Modern America
6.: Imperialism and Progressivism
7: Boom and Bust
8: Global Studies
9: A Time of Upheaval
10: A Changing Society
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Scope and Sequence
Duration
6 weeks
6 weeks
8 weeks
9 weeks
4 weeks
3 weeks
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ALCOS Standard
1,2
2,3,4,5
5,6,7
8,9,10,11
12,13,14,15
16
Chapters
13,14,15,16
17,18,19
20,21,22,23
24,25,26,27
28,2,30,31
32,33,34
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What Chapter to Cover Based on the 9 Week System.
Pre and Post Tests are determined by these standards.
1st Nine Weeks
Settling the West
Industrialization
Urban America
Politics and Reform
Becoming a World Power
The Progressive Movement
Chapters 13,14,15,16,17,18
2nd 9 Weeks
World War I
The Jazz Age
Normalcy and Good Times
The Great Depression and the New Deal
Roosevelt and the New Deal
Chapters 19,20,21,22,23
3rd 9 Weeks
A World in Flames
America & WWII
The Cold War Begins
Postwar America
Chapters 24,25,26,27,28,29.30,31
4th 9 Weeks
The New Frontier and the Great Society
The Civil Rights Movement
The Vietnam War
The Politics of Protest
Politics and Economics
Resurgences of Conservatism
Into a New Century
Chapters 32,33,34
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Unit 5- The Birth of Modern America (Chapters. 13,14,15,16) - approx. 6 weeks
Standard-Based Questions:
-How did Manifest Destiny impact the American West in terms of mining, the cattle industry, and the transcontinental railroad.
- Discuss how the lives of American farmers were changed by the Grange and eventually the Populist movement.
-How were the lives of American Indians changed because of the Dawes Act?
-How did the patterns of immigration change during the Industrial Age?
-Trace the development of and the successes and failures of the union movement.
Standard-Based Conceptual Terms: (Don’t just know the meaning, but describe how that term fits into this era in American History)
Agrarian, nomadic, assimilation, quota
Unit 6: Imperialism and Progressivism (Chapters 17,18,19) -- approx. 6 weeks
Standard Based Questions:
- What were the causes of the Spanish American War?
- What role did Theodore Roosevelt play in the Spanish American War?
- Discuss the consequences of the Spanish American War.
- How did the United States imperialize Hawaii?
- What contributions did Alabamians make to the United States between Reconstruction and WWI?
- How did the Progressive movement impact public opinion and politics?
- Analyze how African Americans and other minorities affected the Progressive Era.
- How did Horace Mann’s philosophies affect America’s education system?
- Compare the presidencies of presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson.
- What is the significance of late 19th century foreign policy, such as Open Door policy, Dollar Diplomacy, Big Stick Diplomacy, and Moral
Diplomacy?
- What are the underlying or long range causes of World War I?
- What are the components of the Treaty of Versailles? How was the Treaty of Versailles received by Americans?
- How did the geography of Europe and the Middle East change after WWI?
Standard-Based Conceptual Terms: (Don’t just know the meaning, but describe how that term fits into this era in American History)
Imperialism, progressivism, diplomacy, militarism, nationalism
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Unit 7: Boom and Bust (Chapters 20,21,22,23) -- approx. 8 weeks
Standard Based Questions:
-What type of mass media was used in the 1920s?
- Who are some of the major writers and works of the post WWI era?
-What did people do with all of their leisure time of the 1920s?
-How did the following terms affect the pre Great Depression economy: overproduction, stock market speculation, &restrictive monetary policy?
-How did the Hawley -Smoot Tariff Act impact the world wide depression?
-How did the Great Depression impact the American family?
- What are the three R’s of the New Deal? What are some specific New Deal programs?
-What effect did the Dust Bowl have on patterns of migration during the Great Depression?
Standard-Based Conceptual Terms: (Don’t just know the meaning, but describe how that term fits into this era in American History)
Mass media, overproduction, speculation
Unit 8 – The Global Struggle (Chapters 24,25,26,27) -- approx. 9 weeks
Standard Based Questions:
-What impact did fascism, Nazism, and communism have on the conflicts in Europe leading up to WWII?
-Why did many Americans favor isolationism in the years leading up to WWII?
-Who were the major WWII leaders and why were they significant?
-What is appeasement? Why did it not work ?
-Where are the major battles of WWII located on a map?
- What were the military strategies of WWII?
-Why did the United States use the atom bomb? What were the results?
-What war crimes took place during WWII? What were the consequences of the war crimes?
-How did WWII change the lives of women, minorities, and other social aspects of American life?
-How did Alabama contribute to WWII?
-What were the major Cold War policies and issues?
-Where were there areas of conflict during the Cold War from 1945 to 1960?
Standard-Based Conceptual Terms: (Don’t just know the meaning, but describe how that term fits into this era in American History)
Fascism, Nazism, communism, isolationism, appeasement, containment, domino theory
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Unit 9: A Time of Upheaval (Chapters 28, 29,30 & 31)-- approx. 4 weeks
Standard Based Questions:
-What were the major initiatives of both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations?
-What role did Alabama play in the space race program?
-What are the major foreign events and issues of the Kennedy administration?
-Where are the major Vietnam battle sites?
-How did Alabama (both events & people) contribute to the Civil Rights movement?
-Who were some of the major people and organizations associated with the Civil Rights movement?
-Who were some of the major people and events involved in the Black Power movement?
-What economic impact did African American entrepreneurs have on the modern Civil Rights Movement?
Standard-Based Conceptual Terms: (Don’t just know the meaning, but describe how that term fits into this era in American History)
Due process, credibility gap, destabilization, Vietnamization
Unit 10: A Changing Society (Chapters 32,33 & 34)-- approx. 3 weeks
Standard Based Questions:
-What were the aspects of Nixon’s policy of détente?
-What were the major aspects of the Reagan administration?
-What were the major aspects of the George H.W. Bush administration?
-What were the major aspects of the Clinton administration?
-What were the major aspects of the George W. Bush administration?
Standard-Based Conceptual Terms: (Don’t just know the meaning, but describe how that term fits into this era in American History)
détente, conservatism, Reaganomics
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Quarter
Unit/Chapter
Theme
Alabama COS Standards & Objectives
Resources
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2. Evaluate social and political origins, accomplishments, and limitations of
Progressivism.
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Unit 5 & 6
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Explaining the impact of the Populist Movement on the role of the federal
government in American society
Assessing the impact of muckrakers on public opinion during the Progressive
movement, including Upton Sinclair, Jacob A. Riis, and Ida M. Tarbell
Explaining national legislation affecting the Progressive movement, including the
Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act
Determining the influence of the Niagara Movement, the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Booker T. Washington, W. E. B.
Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Carter G. Woodson on the Progressive Era
Assessing the significance of the public education movement initiated by Horace
Mann
Comparing the presidential leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard
Taft, and Woodrow Wilson in obtaining passage of measures regarding trustbusting, the Hepburn Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Federal Trade
Commission, the Federal Reserve Act, and conservation
The DBQ Project:
Progressivism:
Where will you
put your million
dollars?
Active Classroom:
Backwards
Planning PPT:
Progressivism and
the Age of Reform
Active Classroom:
How the other half
worked and lived –
US Readers
Active Classroom:
Tenement Reform:
Analyzing Visual
sources
Active Classroom:
The Jungle:
Document Based
Activities
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3. Explain the United States’ changing role in the early twentieth century as
a world power.
1
Unit 5 & 6
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Active Classroom:
Election of 1912:
Decision Making
Describing causes of the Spanish-American War, including yellow journalism, the
sinking of the Battleship USS Maine, and economic interests in Cuba
Identifying the role of the Rough Riders on the iconic status of President Theodore
Roosevelt
Describing consequences of the Spanish-American War, including the Treaty of
Paris of 1898, insurgency in the Philippines, and territorial expansion in the Pacific
and Caribbean
Analyzing the involvement of the United States in the Hawaiian Islands for
economic and imperialistic interests
Appraising Alabama’s contributions to the United States between Reconstruction
and World War I, including those of William Crawford Gorgas, Joseph Wheeler,
and John Tyler Morgan
Evaluating the role of the Open Door policy and the Roosevelt Corollary on
America’s expanding economic and geographic interests
Comparing the executive leadership represented by William Howard Taft’s Dollar
Diplomacy, Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick Diplomacy, and Woodrow Wilson’s
Moral Diplomacy
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Active Classroom:
Progressivism Goes
National: History
Unfolding
Active Classroom:
The Election of
1912: Analyzing
Visual sources
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Quarter
2
Unit/Chapter
Theme
Units 6 & 7
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Resources
4. Describe causes, events, and the impact of military involvement of the
United States in World War I, including mobilization and economic and
political changes.
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Identifying the role of militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism in World
War I
Explaining controversies over the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, Woodrow
Wilson’s Fourteen Points, and the League of Nations
Explaining how the Treaty of Versailles led to worsening economic and political
conditions in Europe, which provided opportunities for the rise of fascist states in
Germany, Italy, and Spain
Comparing short- and long-term effects of changing boundaries in pre- and postWorld War I in Europe and the Middle East, leading to the creation of new
countries
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Unit 6 & 7
5. Evaluate the impact of social changes and the influence of key figures in the United
States from World War I through the 1920s, including Prohibition, the passage of the
Nineteenth Amendment, the Scopes Trial, limits on immigration, Ku Klux Klan
activities, the Red Scare, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, W. C. Handy, the Jazz Age,
and Zelda Fitzgerald.
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Analyzing radio, movies, newspapers, and popular magazines for their impact on
the creation of mass culture
Analyzing works of major American artists and writers, including F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, and H. L. Mencken, to
characterize the era of the 1920s
Determining the relationship between technological innovations and the creation
of increased leisure time
6. Describe social and economic conditions from the 1920s through the Great
Depression regarding factors leading to a deepening crisis, including the collapse of
the farming economy and the stock market crash of 1929.
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Assessing effects of overproduction, stock market speculation, and restrictive
monetary policies on the pending economic crisis
Describing the impact of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act on the global economy and
the resulting worldwide depression
Identifying notable authors of the 1920s, including John Steinbeck, William
Faulkner, and Zora Neale Hurston
Analyzing the Great Depression for its impact on the American family
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Active Classroom: Backward
Planning PPT: The 1920s
Overview
Active Classroom: The First Red
Scare: Debating the documents
Active Classroom: Prohibition,
A Gangster’s Paradise:
Debating the documents
Active Classroom: The Harlem
Renaissance: History Unfolding
Active Classroom: The Ku Klux
Klan: Debating the documents
Active Classroom: What caused
the Great Depression: US
History Readers
Active Classroom: Great
Depression: 1929-1939:Digital
Atlas Lessons
Active Classroom: Hard Times:
History Unfolding
The DBQ: What Caused the
Great Depression?
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Unit 6 & 7
2
7. Explain strengths and weaknesses of the New Deal in managing problems of the
Great Depression through relief, recovery, and reform programs, including the
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Social Security Act.
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Analyzing conditions created by the Dust Bowl for their impact on migration
patterns during the Great Depression
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8. Summarize events leading to World War II, including the militarization of
the Rhineland, Germany’s seizure of Austria and Czechoslovakia, Japan’s
invasion of China, and the Rape of Nanjing.
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The DBQ Project:
Why Did Japan
Analyzing the impact of fascism, Nazism, and communism on growing conflicts in
Europe
 Explaining the isolationist debate as it evolved from the 1920s to the bombing of
Pearl Harbor and the subsequent change in United States’ foreign policy
 Identifying roles of significant World War II leaders
Examples: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S.
Patton, Sir Winston Churchill, Bernard Montgomery, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini,
Emperor Hirohito, Hedeki Tōjō, Erwin Rommel, Adolf Hitler
 Evaluating the impact of the Munich Pact and the failed British policy of
appeasement resulting in the invasion of Poland
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Bomb Pearl
Harbor?
The DBQ Project:
The Geography of
the Cold War:
What Was
Containment?
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9. Describe the significance of major battles, events, and consequences of
World War II campaigns, including North Africa, Midway, Normandy,
Okinawa, the Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima, and Yalta and Potsdam
Conferences.
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Active Classrooms “War in
Europe” US History Readers
Locating on a map or globe the major battles of World War II and the extent of the
Allied and Axis territorial expansion
Describing military strategies of World War II, including blitzkrieg, islandhopping, and amphibious landings
Explaining reasons for and results of dropping atomic bombs on Japan
Explaining events and consequences of war crimes committed during World War
II, including the Holocaust, the Bataan Death March, the Nuremberg Trials, the
post-war Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Genocide Convention
10. Describe the impact of World War II on the lives of American citizens, including
wartime economic measures, population shifts, growth in the middle class, growth of
industrialization, advancements in science and technology, increased wealth in the
African American community, racial and ethnic tensions, the G. I. Bill of Rights of
1944, and desegregation of the military.
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Active Classroom: The Long
Road to D-Day: History
Unfolding
Active Classroom: The War
in the Pacific: History
Unfolding
Active Classroom: Pulling
together: Mobilizing the
Population: History
Unfolding
Describing Alabama’s participation in World War II, including the role of the
Tuskegee Airmen, the Aliceville Prisoner of War (POW) camp, growth of the Port
of Mobile, production of Birmingham steel, and the establishment of military
bases
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11. Describe the international role of the United States from 1945 through 1960
relative to the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Blockade, and the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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Active Classroom: The
Balance of Power after
WWII, 1949-1955:Digital
Atlas lesson plans
Describing Cold War policies and issues, the domino theory, McCarthyism, and
their consequences, including the institution of loyalty oaths under Harry S.
Truman, the Alger Hiss case, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and
the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Locating areas of conflict during the Cold War from 1945 to 1960, including East
and West Germany, Hungary, Poland, Cuba, Korea, and China
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Active Classroom: The
Korean Crisis: Decision
Making
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Active Classroom:
Communism, guerillas and
falling dominoes US History
Readers
12. Describe major initiatives of the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
Administrations.
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Units 9 and 10
Describing Alabama’s role in the space program under the New Frontier
Describing major foreign events and issues of the John F. Kennedy
Administration, including construction of the Berlin Wall, the Bay of Pigs
invasion, and the Cuban missile crisis
13. Trace the course of the involvement of the United States in Vietnam from the
1950s to 1975, including the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,
the Tet Offensive, destabilization of Laos, secret bombings of Cambodia, and the fall
of Saigon.
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Locating on a map or globe the divisions of Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and
major battle sites
Describing the creation of North and South Vietnam
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Active Classroom: Exit Ngo
Dinh Dime/The Gulf of
Tonkin Incident: US history
readers
Active Classroom: American
Soldiers in Vietnam:
analyzing visual sources
Active Classroom: The Fall
and Aftermath: history
unfolding
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14. Trace events of the modern Civil Rights Movement from post-World War II to
1970 that resulted in social and economic changes, including the Montgomery Bus
Boycott, the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, the March on
Washington, Freedom Rides, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, and the
Selma-to-Montgomery March.
The DBQ Project:
Martin Luther King and
Malcolm X: Whose
Philosophy
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Tracing the federal government’s involvement in the modern Civil Rights
Movement, including the abolition of the poll tax, the nationalization of state
militias, Brown versus Board of Education in 1954, the Civil Rights Acts of 1957
and 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Explaining contributions of individuals and groups to the modern Civil Rights
Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr., James Meredith, Medgar Evers,
Thurgood Marshall, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP), and the civil rights foot soldiers
Appraising contributions of persons and events in Alabama that influenced the
modern Civil Rights Movement, including Rosa Parks, Autherine Lucy, John
Patterson, George C. Wallace, Vivian Malone Jones, Fred Shuttlesworth, the
Children’s March, and key local persons and events
Describing the development of a Black Power movement, including the change in
focus of the SNCC, the rise of Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael and the Black
Panther movement
Describing the economic impact of African-American entrepreneurs on the modern
Civil Rights Movement, including S. B. Fuller and A. G. Gaston
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Made the Most Sense
for America in the
1960s?
Active Classroom: A
New Day Dawning:
History Unfolding
Active Classroom: The
Civil Rights Act of 1964:
Document Based
Activities
Active Classroom: Race:
New opportunities,
New challenges: History
Unfolding
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15. Describe changing social and cultural conditions in the United States during the
1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
The DBQ
16. Describe significant foreign and domestic issues of presidential administrations
from Richard M. Nixon to the present.
Was the Equal
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Examples: Nixon’s policy of détente; Cambodia; Watergate scandal; pardon of
Nixon; Iranian hostage situation; Reaganomics; Libyan crisis; end of the Cold
War; Persian Gulf War; impeachment trial of William ―Bill‖ Clinton; terrorist
attack of September 11, 2001; Operation Iraqi Freedom; war in Afghanistan;
election of the first African-American president, Barack Obama
Project: Why
Rights
Amendment
Defeated?
Additional Resources: Nystrom US History Atlas with desk maps and class sets
Video set: 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed the World
History Unfolding
Primary Source Kits: African Americans, American Presidents, WWI, WWII, Great Depression,
Elections, Vietnam & the Cold War
Traveling Trunk: WWII era
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