Unit Two: The Constitution
Section I - Foundation of American Society (Topics)
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Enlightenment
Colonial Experience – Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, Albany Plan of Union
Revolutionary War and Declaration of Independence
New York State Constitution
Articles of Confederation
Northwest Ordinance
Constitutional Convention – Representation, Process, Conflict and Compromise, Structure
of Government, Ratification (Federalist Papers)
8. Bill of Rights
9. Three Branches of Government – (Structure, Function, Power)
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National Power
Federalism
Judiciary (Supreme Court)
Civil Liberties/ Criminal Procedures
Rights of Minorities (Gender, Ethnic, Racial)
Presidential Power (Wartime/ Foreign Affairs)
Separation of Powers/ Representation (census)
Property Rights/ Economic Policy
Amendment Process (Flexibility and Change)
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
Unwritten Constitution (Cabinet, Political Parties, Judicial Review)
Federalist and Republican Parties (Whiskey Rebellion, Alien and Sedition Acts)
Neutrality/ National Security
War of 1812
Monroe Doctrine
Section II – The Constitution Tested: Nationalism and Sectionalism
1. Factors of Unity (1789-1861) – Two Party System, Market Economy/Interstate Commerce, Marshall Court
2. Development of Sectional Difference/ Philosophies of Government
3. Patterns of Northern Urban and Industrial Growth (Patterns)
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Transportation Revolution (Erie Canal, Rise of New York as a Port City)
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Factory System (Working Conditions, Women Labor, Urban Problems)
4. Immigration and Nativism (Know-Nothing Party)
5. Patterns of Southern Development (Growth of Cotton Cultivation, Westward Expansion, Slavery)
6. Expansion of Slavery/ Abolitionist Movement/ Underground Railroad/ Native American Territory
7. Indian Removal Policy – Worcester v. Georgia 1832
8. Constitutional Debate: Nullification (States’ Rights versus Federal Supremacy)
9. Efforts to Address the Slavery Issue
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Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
Motives/ Implications for Expansion and Western Settlement
Manifest Destiny, Annexation of Texas, Mexican War
Kansas-Nebraska Act, Rise of Republican Party, John Brown Raid
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Election of 1860
Secession/ Fort Sumter
The Civil War
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Military Strategy and Major Battles
Impact of War on Homefront (Civil Liberties)
Government Policy During War (National Currency, Transcontinental Railroad, Homestead Act)
Emancipation Proclamation/ Gettysburg Address/ African-American Participation in War)
13th Amendment
Unit Three: Industrialization of the United States
Section I – The Reconstructed Nation
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Reconstruction Plans (Lincoln and Radical Republicans)
Congressional Reconstruction
Post-Civil War Amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th)
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Reconstructed Nation – Shifting Relationship Between Federal Government, State Government, Individuals
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Economic and Technological impact of Civil War
Expanding World Markets
Growing Demand for Labor
7. “The New South”
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Agriculture: Land and Labor (Sharecropping/ Tenant Farming)
Status of Freedmen (economic, political, and social experiences)
Political Control
Supreme Court Interpretations of 13th and 14th Amendments
8. End of Reconstruction/ End of Military Occupation/ Disputed Election of 1876/ Restoration of White Control in South
9. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896: ‘Separate But Equal”
10. Impact of Civil War and Reconstruction: (Summary)
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Political Alignments, Nature of Citizenship, Federal-State Relations, Development of North as an Industrial Power
Section II – The Rise of American Business, Industry, and Labor, 1865-1920
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Economic Transformation
Big Business Organizational/ Structural Purposes (proprietorshippartnershiprise of monopolies
Capital Concentration and Consolidation
Expanding National and International Markets
Merchandizing changes, department stores, mail order catalogs
Transportation: Railroads, automobiles, urban transportation systems
Building Materials (coal) and Energy Sources (Coal, Oil, Electricity)
Communications (Telegraph, Telephone)
Rockefeller (oil), Carnegie (steel), Ford (auto)
Laissez Faire Capitalism – Government Support
Railroad “pooling”, rate inequities, railroad regulation
Mergers and Trusts (Sherman Antitrust Act)
Organized Labor
Grange Movement
Populism – Political Response
16. Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
Section III – Adjusting Society to Industrialism: American People and Places
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Urbanization (Attraction to City, Problems with, Description of Transformation)
Social Darwinism
Patterns of Immigration and Migration
“Wage Slavery”
Company Towns and Urban Slums
The Great Migration
Women and Child Labor
Rising Consumerism and Growing Middle Class
Mark Twain and the Gilded Age
“The New Immigrants”
Americanization, Cultural Pluralism, Melting Pot
Nativist Reaction to New Immigrants
“Yellow Peril”
The Red Scare (1917)
Quota Acts of 1921 and 1924
The Homestead Act of 1862 and the Settlement of the Western Frontier
The Indian Wars: 1850-1900
18. The Dawes Act (1887)
Unit Four: The Progressive Movement: Responses to the Challenges
Brought About by Industrialization and Urbanization
Section I – Reform in America
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Social, Political, Economic Pressures to Reform
Muckrakers and Reform
Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Poverty
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Black Movement and Reform
Temperance and Prohibition
Progressive Movement (Political)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal
Railroad Regulation and Consumer Protection
“Trust Busting” Court Cases and the Rule of Reason
Conservation Movement
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
Election of 1912
The Underwood Tariff, Graduated Income Tax, Clayton Anti Trust Act, Federal Trade Commission
Federal Reserve System (Monetary Controls)
Women’s Suffrage Amendments
World War I Effect on Domestic Reform
Section II – The Rise of American Power
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Communications Technology and Growth of Naval Power
“Opening” of Japan – Perry
Boxer Rebellion
The Open-Door Policy
Acquisition of Hawaii and Naval Bases (Samoa)
Spanish American War (Causes, results)
American Imperialism (Platt Amendment)
Roosevelt Corollary
“Big Stick”
Panama Canal
Taft and Dollar Diplomacy
World War I
Wartime Constitutional Issues
Treaty of Versailles – Fourteen Points
League of Nations Rejected by Senate (Henry Cabot Lodge)
Reparations and War Debts
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
Establishment of World Court
Unit Five: At Home and Abroad: Prosperity and Depression, 1917-1941
Section I – War and Prosperity: 1917-1929
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Impact of World War I on Gender Roles, Minorities Groups
Return to “Normalcy” 1918-1921
Post World War I Economic Recession
Teapot Dome Scandal
Farm/ Agricultural Problems
Speculative Boom – “Big Bull Market”
Mass Consumption
The Automobile
Real Estate Boom
Entertainment, Advertising, Cultural Homogenization
Constitutional Issues – Red Scare, KKK, Sacco and Vanzetti
Prohibition – 18th Amendment, repeal – 21st Amendment
Scopes Trial (1925)
Restrictions on Immigration
Flappers
Changing Role of Women
Literary Scene
Harlem Renaissance
Section II – The Great Depression
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Stock Market Crash
Hoover’s Response
Unemployment, Bonus Army, Hoovervilles, Impact on Women and Minorities
FDR’s New Deal – Relief, Recovery, Reform Programs
Bank Holiday; Emergency Banking Act
Recovery of U.S. Economy, NRA, FHA, AAA
FDIC, SEC, Social Security, Wagner Act, Labor Standards Act
Labor Response - Formation of CIO
Constitutional Controversies Aspects of New Deal Programs (Supreme Court Cases)
1936 Election “Mandate”
FDR’s Court Packing Proposal: Failure and Success
1940 Third Term Controversy – Unwritten Constitution
Passage of the 22nd Amendment (1951)
FDR’s Use of Radio – Fireside Chats
Eleanor Roosevelt – President’s Eyes and Ears
Dust Bowl and Oakies
Francis Perkins
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Culture of the Great Depression (literature, music, arts WPA, Hollywood, Wizard of Oz
Opposition to the New Deal – Huey Long, Dr. Townsend, Father Coughlin, Norman Lewis, Al Smith
Unit Six: The United States in an Age of Global Crisis: Responsibility and Cooperation
Section One – Peace in Peril: 1933-1950
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Isolation and Neutrality (Causes of Disillusion and Pacifism)
Neutrality Acts of 1935-37
FDR’s “Quarantine” Speech
Japanese, German, Italian Military Aggression
Appeasement: The Munich Conference (1938)
German Invasion of Poland – World War II Begins
Progression of U.S. Involvement: Cash and Carry, Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter
Pearl Harbor
“Arsenal of Democracy”
Role of Women
Mobilization, War Bonds, Hollywood goes to War
Allied Strategy and Leadership
Two-Front War
Atomic Bomb/ Manhattan Project/ Decision to Drop Bomb
Japanese Surrender – US Occupation – “MacArthur Constitution”
Japanese War Crime Trials
Japanese Internment
Nazi Holocaust
Nuremberg Trials
Demobilization
G.I. Bill
Truman’s Fair Deal
Election of 1948 – Truman Upsets Dewey
Truman and Civil Rights
Section II – Peace with Problems: 1945-1960
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United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Eleanor Roosevelt’s Role)
Yalta Conference
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Formation of NATO
Reconstruction of Japan
Chinese Communist Revolution
Soviet Union Acquisition of Atomic Bomb
Korean War
Alger Hiss and the Rosenberg Trial
McCarthyism
Unit Seven: World in Uncertain Times: 1950-Present
Section One – Toward a Post-Industrial World: Living in a Global Age
1. Nuclear Power
2. Nature of Employment - AgriculturalIndustry Service
3. Problems – Oil Dependency, Nuclear Waste, etc.
Section II – Containment and Consensus: 1945-1960
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Bipolar Global Balance of Power (Superpowers)
Domino Theory and Massive Retaliation
H-Bombs/ Atoms for Peace
Aswan Dam and Suez Canal
Polish/Hungarian Uprisings
Eisenhower Doctrine – Intervention in Lebanon
Sputnik/ NASA – Space Race Begins
Interstate Highway Act (1956)
Suburbanzation- Levittowns
Warren Court
Jackie Robinson
Brown v. Board of Education/ Rosa Parks
Civil Right Act of 1957
Postwar Consumption
Baby Boom and its Effects
New Immigration Patterns
Section III – Decade of Change: 1960’s
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The Kennedy Years
MLK/ March on Washington
Bay of Pigs
Vienna Summit/ Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Peace Corp
Race to the Moon
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963, 1967
Right of the Disabled
JFK Assassination
LBJ and the Great Society
Medicare/ Federal Aid to Education/ War on Poverty
Moon Landing
Civil Rights Movement
NAACP/ Black Panthers/ Black Muslims
Assassination of Malcolm X
Civil Rights Act of 1964
24th Amendment
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Fair Housing Act, 1968
Women’s Rights and Feminist Movement
Roe v. Wade
Cesar Chavez
Right of the Accused – Supreme Court Decisions
Section IV – The Limits of Power: Turmoil at Home and Abroad, 1965-1972
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Assassination of MLK
Democratic National Convention
Impact of the Vietnam War on Society
Section V – The Trend Toward Conservatism, 1972-1985
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Title IX
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Nixon Doctrine
Opening to China
Détente/ SALT
Watergate
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Appointment of Ford
Oil Crisis
Camp David Accords
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Reaganomics – Supply-Side Economics
Trade Imbalances – Japan
Gorbachev and Soviet Relations
“Star Wars”
VI – Approaching the Next Century, 1986-1999
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Persian Gulf War
Clinton Presidency Domestic Issues
Impeachment
Israeli-PLO Agreement
NAFTA
GATT
Globalization
Intervention in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo
U.S. and the European Union