United States History and Government
Grade:
11th Grade
Credit: One
Pre-Requisite: Successful Completion of Global II
Course Description
A chronological survey of American History with efforts to include (equitably) “voices” and
perspectives of people within U.S. society that have been traditionally ignored, downplayed or
omitted from the curriculum, i.e., women, Native, African, Hispanic and Asian Americans.
Final Assessment
New York State Regents
Exam in United States
History
Format: 50 Multiple Choice Questions
Thematic Essay
Document Based Essay
Course Textbook
Pathways to Present 2007
Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Textbook Website
http://www.phschool.com/
United States History- Pacing Chart
Month
Unit
September
1. Three Worlds
Meet (beginnings- 1600)
2. Colonial America
October
Week
2
(1492-1753)
2
3. Revolution and
Constitution (1753-
2
Pathways to Present 2007
Chap 1The Atlantic World
Chap 2 European Colonization
Chap 3 Growth of American Colonies
Chap 4 Road to Independence
Chap 5 Constitution
1800)
4. An Emerging
New Nation (17831855)
November
2
5. Civil War and
Reconstruction
(1846-1877)
(1850-1920)
December
Chap 6 Origins of American Politics
Chap 7 Life in New Nation
Chap 8 The Growth of National Economy
Chap 9 Religion and Reform
3
Chap 10 The Coming of the Civil War
Chap 11 The Civil War
Chap 12 Reconstruction
5
Chap 13 Expansion of American Industry
Chap 14 Looking to the West
Chap 15 Politics Immigration +Urban
6. Expansion:
Rewards and Costs
Brief
Review
in US
History
Chap
Chap
Life
16 Life at the turn of 20th Century
18 Progressive Era
African American History
Chap 1 Africa
Chap 2 Middle Passage
Unit 1Unit 2Sec 1
Unit 2Sec 2
Unit 2Sec 2
Unit 3Sec 1
Unit 3Sec 2
Unit 3Sec 3
Unit 4Sec 1
Chap 3 Black People in Colonial
North America
Chap 4 African Americans and the
Struggle for Independence
Chap 5 A. A. in the New Nation
Chap 6 Life in the Cotton Kingdom
Chap 7 Free Black People in
Chap
Chap
Chap
Chap
Chap
Chap
Chap
Chap
Chap
Antebellum America
8 Opposition to Slavery
9 Let Your Motto Be Resistance
10 The United States Disunites
over Slavery
11 A. A. and the Civil War
12 The Promise Reconstruction
13 The Failure of Reconstruction
14 A.A. in the South in the Late
19th Century
15 Black Southerners Challenge
White Supremacy
16 African Americans in the
Early 20th Century
January
7. Becoming A
World Power (1890-
2
Chap 17 Becoming a World Power
Chap 19 World War I Era
1920)
Review
Unit 4Sec 2
1
MIDTERM
February
8. Boom Times to
Hard Times (19201941)
6
March
9. Hot and Cold
War (1931-1960)
4
Chap 20 Postwar Social Change
Chap 21 Politics and Prosperity
Chap 22 Crash and Depression
Chap 23 The New Deal
Chap 24 and 25 World War II
Chap 26 Cold War
Chap 27 Postwar Years at Home
April
10. A Period of
Turmoil and
Change (1950-1975)
4
11. Continuity and
Change (1969-present)
1
May
June
12. REVIEW
Chap 28 Civil Rights Movement
Chap 29 Kennedy and Johnson Years
Chap 30 The Era of Activism
Chap 31 Vietnam War
Chap 32 Nixon, Ford and Carter
Chap 33 The Conservative Revolution
Chap 34 Entering the New Era
Unit 5Sec 1
Unit 5Sec 2
Unit 6Sec 1 + 2
Unit 7Sec 1
Unit 7Sec 2
Unit 7Sec 3
Unit 7Sec 4
Unit 7Sec 5
Chap 17 A.A. and the 1920’s
Chap 18 Black Protest, The Great
Depression and the New Deal
Chap 19 Culture and Society in the
1930’s and 1940’s
Chap 20 The World War II Era and the
Seeds of the Revolution
Chap 21 Freedom Movement
Chap 22 The Struggle Continues
Chap 23 Black Politics
Chap 24 A.A. in the New Millennium
UNIT 1 - Three Worlds Meet (beginnings- 1600)
(Recommended time – 2 weeks)
RESOURCESPathways to Present 2007
Chap 1- The Atlantic World
Chap 2 - European Colonization (1492- 1754)
African-American History Prentice Hall 2006
Chap 1- Africa
Chap 2- Middle Passage
TOPICSA. Africa
1. Birthplace of Humanity (AAH7)
2. Ancient Civilizations (AAH9-13)
a. Egypt, Kush, Meroe, Axum
3. West African Civilizations (AAH14-23) (PP 19-21)
a. Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Senegambia, Benin
4. West African Society and Culture (AAH24-28) (PP 17-18)
B. North America
1. Settlement of Americas (PP 4-5)
2. North American Life (PP 5-10)
C. Europe
1. Greeks and Romans
2. Early Middle Ages (PP 10-11)
3. Late Middle Ages (PP 11-13)
4. The Renaissance (PP 13-16)
D. Three Worlds Collide
1. European Exploration and Colonization
a. Africa (AAH37-44) (PP 17)
b. North and South America (PP 22-28)
People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary
For the Regents
North America
Iroquois Confederacy
Europe
Greece-Democracy
Roman Republic
Magna Carta (1215)
Petition of Right (1628)
English Bill of Rights (1689)
John Locke
Baron De Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire
UNIT 2 – Colonial America (1492-1754)
(Recommended time – 2 week)
RESOURCESPathways to Present 2007
Chap 2 - European Colonization (1492- 1754)
Chap 3 – Growth of American Colonies (1689-1754)
Brief Review in United States History and Government
Unit 1- Introduction- Geography and the Development of the US
African-American History Prentice Hall 2006
Chap 2- Middle Passage
Chap 3- Black People in Colonial North America (1526-1763)
ExamGen Chapter and Topics
Chap 1 US Geography and Demographics (59 questions)
TOPICS-
A. The Physical Setting
B. European Colonization of the Americas(1492-1752)
1. Spanish Explorers (PP 36-41)
2. Jamestown (PP 42-48)
3. New England Colonies (PP 49-57)
4. Middle and Southern Colonies (PP 59-63)
C. Middle Passage
1. Slave Trade (AAH37-44)
2. Capture of Africans (AAH45-47)
3. Middle Passage (AAH47-57)
4. Landing and Sale in West Indies (AAH59-62)
5. Africans Arrive in Chesapeake (AAH75-79)
D. Growth of Colonies (1689-1754)
1. An Empire and Its Colonies (PP 70-75)
2. Life in Colonial America (PP 77-82)
3. African Americans in the Colonies (PP 83-88)
a. Africans Arrive in the Chesapeake (AAH 75-80)
b. Plantation Slavery 1700-1750 (AAH 81-87)
c. Origins of African-American Culture (AAH 88-94)
d. Slavery in Colonial America (AAH 95-102)
4. Emerging Tensions (PP 89-93)
People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary
For the Regents
The Physical Setting
Great Plains
Central Plains
Mississippi River
Appalachian Mountains
Rocky Mountains
Great Lakes
European Colonization of the Americas (1492-1752)
New England
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
House of Burgesses
Indentured servant
Mayflower Compact
Middle Passage
Triangular Trade
Growth of Colonies (1689-1754)
John Peter Zenger (1735)
UNIT 3 – Revolution and Constitution (1753-1800)
(Recommended time – 2 weeks)
RESOURCESPathways to Present 2007
Chap 4 Road to Independence (1753-1783)
Chap 5 Constitution (1776-1800)
Brief Review in United States History and Government
Unit 2 Constitutional Foundations - Section 1- The Constitution
African-American History Prentice Hall 2006
Chap 4- African Americans and the Struggle for Independence (1763-1783)
ExamGen Chapter and Topics
Chap 2: United States Constitution (616 questions)
TOPICS-
A. The Road to Independence (1753-1783)
1. The French and Indian War (PP104-108)
2. Issues Behind the Revolution (PP 109-116)
3. Ideas Behind the Revolution (PP 118-122)
a. The Declaration of Independence and AA (AAH 115-118)
b. Black Enlightenment (AAH 119-122)
4. Fighting for Independence (PP 127-132)
a. African Americans in the War for Independence (AAH 123-126)
5. Winning Independence (PP 133-137)
a. Revolution and Emancipation (AAH 127-132)
B. The Constitution of the United States (1776-1800)
1. Government by the States (PP 144-149)
2. The Constitutional Convention (PP 150-157)
3. Ratifying the Constitution (PP 158-163)
People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary
For the Regents
The Road to Independence (1753-1776)
Salutary Neglect
Albany Plan
Proclamation of 1763
mercantilism
Stamp Act (1765)
First Continental Congress (1774)
Second Continental Congress (1775)
Common Sense (1776)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
The Constitution of the United States (1776-1800)
Articles of Confederation (17811789)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Land Ordinance (1785)
Northwest Ordinance
Constitutional Convention (1787)
Great Compromise
3/5 Compromise
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Popular sovereignty
Limited government
Separation of powers
Checks and Balances
Elastic clause
Amendment Process
Federalism
Delegated powers
Implied powers
Denied powers
Concurrent powers
Reserved powers
Judicial Review
Bill of Rights
Federal Government
State Government
Electoral College
Impeachment
UNIT 4 – Emerging New Nation (1783-1855)
(Recommended time – 2 weeks)
RESOURCESPathways to Present 2007
Chap 6 Origins of American Politics (1789-1820)
Chap 7 Life in New Nation (1783-1850)
Chap 8 The Growth of National Economy (1790-1850)
Chap 9 Religion and Reform (1815-1855)
Brief Review in United States History and Government
Unit 2 Constitutional Foundations Sec. 2- The Constitution Tested
African-American History Prentice Hall 2006
Chap 5- African Americans in the New Nation (1783-1820)
Chap 6- Life in the Cotton Kingdom
Chap 7- Free Black People in Antebellum America (1820-1861)
Chap 8- Opposition to Slavery (1800-1833)
Chap 9- Let Your Motto Be Resistance (1833-1850)
TOPICS
A. The Origins of American Politics (1789-1820)
1. New Government (PP 165-169)
2. Liberty versus Order in 1790’s (PP 200-206)
a. Forces for Freedom (AAH 141-148)
b. Forces for Slavery (AAH 149-153)
3. The Election of 1800 (PP 207-212)
4. The Jefferson Administration (PP 213-218)
5. Native American Resistance (PP 220-223)
6. War of 1812 (PP 224-229)
B. An Emerging Nation (1783-1855)
1. Culture, Social, and Religious Life (PP 240-248)
a. Emergence of Free Black Communities (AAH 154-159)
b. Black Leaders and Choices (AAH 160-164)
2. Trails West (PP 249-256)
3. Great Plain and the Southwest (PP 258-263)
C. Growth of a National Economy (1790-1850)
1. Inventions and Innovations (PP 272-279)
2. The Northern Section (PP 280-284)
a. Limits to Freedom (AAH 221-226)
b. Black Communities in Urban North (AAH 227)
c. African-American Institutions (AAH 235-239)
d. Free African Americans (AAH 240-246)
3. The Southern Section (PP 285-289)
a. Expansion of Slavery (AAH 181-185)
b. Slave Labor in Agriculture (AAH 186-189)
c..Other Types of Slave Labor (AAH 190-197)
d. Slave Life (AAH 198-204)
e. Socialization of Slaves (AAH 205-208)
4. The Growth of Nationalism (PP 290-295)
5. The Age of Jackson (PP 297-303)
D. Religion and Reform (1815-1855)
1. Reforming Society (PP 310-316)
2 The Antislavery Movement (PP 318-325)
a. Abolitionism Begins in America (AAH 259-262)
b. Colonization (AAH 263-266)
c. Black Abolitionists (AAH 267-274)
d. A Rising Tide of Violence (AAH 283-285)
e. The Response of Antislavery Movement (AAH 286-290)
f. Black Community Institutions (AAH 291-292)
g. Changing abolitionist movement (AAH 293-299)
h. Resistance and Nationalism (AAH 300-304)
3. The Movement for Women’s Rights (PP326-331)
4. Growing Divisions (PP 332-335)
People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary
For the Regents
The Origins of American Politics (1789-1820)
Proclamation of Neutrality
Washington’s Farewell Address
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
National Bank
Whiskey Rebellion
Alien and Sedition Acts
Federalist Party vs. DemocraticGeorge Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Judicial Review
Marbury v Madison
An Emerging Nation (1783-1855)
Tariff of 1828
Indian removal Act
Trail of Tears
War of 1812
Monroe Doctrine
American System
Tariff of Abominations
Force Bill
Bank War Manifest Destiny
Louisiana Purchase
Growth of a National Economy (1790-1850)
“King Cotton”
Spoils system
Religion and Reform (1815-1855)
Abolition
Underground railroad
Seneca Falls Convention
Declaration of Sentiments
UNIT 5 – Civil War and Reconstruction (1846-1877)
(Recommended time – 3 weeks)
RESOURCESPathways to Present 2007
Chap 10 The Coming of the Civil War (1846-1861)
Chap 11 The Civil War (1861-1865)
Chap 12 Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Brief Review in United States History and Government
Unit 2 Constitutional Foundations Sec 2- The Constitution Tested
Unit 3 Industrialization Sec 1- The Reconstructed Nation
African-American History Prentice Hall 2006
Chap 10- The United States Disunites over Slavery (1846-1861)
Chap 11- African Americans and the Civil War (1861-1865)
Chap 12- The Promise of Reconstruction (1865-1868)
Chap 13- The Failure of Reconstruction (1868-1877)
ExamGen Chapter and Topics
Chap 3- The Reconstruction Era (48 questions)
TOPICS-
A. The Coming of the Civil War (1846-1861)
1.
Two Nations (PP 346-350)
a. Uncle Toms Cabin (AAH 324)
2. New Political Parties (PP 355-361)
a. Fugitive Slave Laws (AAH 316-322)
b. Rochester Convention (AAH 323)
c. Kansas-Nebraska Act (AAH 324-327)
3. The System Fails (PP 363-368)
a. Dred Scott Decision (AAH 327-329)
b. Lincoln-Douglas Debates (AAH331-332)
c. John Brown’s Raid (AAH 332-335)
4. A Nation Divided Against Itself (PP 369-373)
B. The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865)
1.
2.
3.
4.
From Bull Run to Antietam (PP 380-389)
Life Behind the Lines (PP 390-400)
a. Lincoln and Emancipation (AAH 354-361)
b. Black Men Fight for the Union (AAH 362-375)
c. Opposition to Black People (AAH 376- 382)
The Tide of the War Turns (PP 402-409)
Devastation and New Freedom (PP 410-417)
C. Reconstruction (1865-1877)
1.
2.
3.
Presidential Reconstruction (PP 424-429)
Congressional Reconstruction (PP 430-435)
a. The End of Slavery (AAH 391-399)
b. Life after Slavery (AAH 400-406)
Birth of the “New South” (PP 436-440)
a..
4.
The Crusades for Political and Civil Rights
(AAH 407-411)
The End of Reconstruction (PP 442-445)(AAH 426- 448)
People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary
The Coming of the Civil War (1846-1861)
Expansion of Slavery:
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Case
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
John Brown’s Raid
Bloody Kansas
Harper’s Ferry
Whig Party
The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865)
Secession
Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Gettysburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation
Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Lincoln’s Plan
Radical Republican Plan
Tenure of Office Act
Andrew Johnson
Scalawags Carpetbaggers
Ulysses S Grant
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Election of 1876
Compromise of 1877
Rutherford Hayes
Black Codes
Ku Klux Klan
Disenfranchisement
Literacy
Test; Poll Tax; Grandfather Clause
Jim Crow Laws
Freedmen Bureau
UNIT 6 – Expansion:Rewards and Costs (1850-1920)
(Recommended time – 5 weeks)
RESOURCESPathways to Present 2007
Chap 13 The Expansion of American Industry(1850-1900)
Chap 14 Looking to the West (1860-1900)
Chap 15 Politics Immigration and Urban Life (1870-1915)
Chap 16 Life at the turn of 20th Century (1870-1915)
Chap 18 Progressive Era (1890-1920)
Brief Review in United States History and Government
Unit 3- Section 2 and 3
Unit 4- Section 1
African-American History Prentice Hall 2006
Chap 14- A. A. in the South in the Late 19th Century (1875-1900)
Chap 15- Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy (1867-1917)
Chap 16- African Americans in the Early 20th Century (1895-1928)
ExamGen Chapter and Topics
Chap 4- Age of Corporations (212 questions)
Chap 5- Progressive Movement (83 questions)
Topic A- Pressures for reform
Topic B- Progressivism and government action
TOPICS-
A. The rise of U.S. business and labor (1865-1920)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
A Technological Revolution (PP 456-465)
Growth of Big Business (PP 467-472)
Black Businesspeople and Entrepreneurs (AAH 521-527)
Industrialization and Workers (PP 473-476)
The Great Strikes (PP 477-483)
B. Looking West (1860-1900)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
C.
Politics, Immigration and Urban Life (1870-1915)
1.
2.
3.
4.
D.
Moving West (PP 488-490)
Conflict with Native Americans (PP 491-497)
Mining, Ranching and Farming (PP 498 -506)
Migration (AAH 481-487)
Populism (PP 507-512)
Politics in Gilded Age (PP 520-526) (AAH 461-466)
Immigration (PP 527-533)
Challenges of the City (PP 534-539)
Ideas of Reform (PP 541-545)
Life at the Turn of the Century (1870-1915)
1. Expansion of Education (PP 552-557)
a. Educating African Americans (AAH 499-504)
2. New Forms of Entertainment (PP 559-563)
a. Music and Sports (AAH 528-532)
3. The World of Jim Crow (PP 564-568)
a. Disfranchisement (AAH 467-469)
b. Segregation (AAH 470-475)
c. Violence (AAH 476-480)
d. African Americans and the Southern Courts (AAH 488-490)
4. The Changing Roles of Women (PP 569-573)
5. Church and Religion (AAH 505-510)
E.
The Progressive Reform Era (1890-1920)
1. Origins of Progressivism (PP 614-619)
2. Progressive Legislation (PP 621-627)
3.
4.
3.
6.
4.
Race and Social Change (AAH 541-549)
New Black Organizations (AAH 550-560)
Progressivism Under Taft and Wilson (PP 628-634)
Racial Violence (AAH 567-574)
Suffrage at Last (PP635-639)
People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary
For the Regents
The rise of U.S. business and labor (1865-1920)
Entrepreneurs
Corporations
Monopoly
Conglomerate
Merger
Trust
Andrew Carnegie
John D Rockefeller
J. Pierpont Morgan
Henry Ford
Assembly line
Laissez-faire
Horatio Alger
Adam Smith Wealth of a
Nation(1776)
Charles Darwin
Social Darwinism
Robber Baron
Philanthropist
Munn v Illinois (1877)
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad
v Illinois (1886)
Interstate Commerce Act (1886)
Sherman anti-trust act (1890)
US v EC Knight Company (1895)
Labor unions
Collective bargaining
Knights of Labor
Haymarket Riot (1886)
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Great Railway Strike (1877)
Homestead Strike (1892)
Pullman Strike (1894)
Lawrence Textile Strike (1912)
Looking West (1860-1900)
Transcontinental Railroad
Homestead Act (1862)
Indian Wars
Dawes Act (1887)
The grange
Populist Party
Politics, Immigration and Urban Life (1870-1915)
Tenements
Political machines
Nativism
Melting pot theory
Assimilation
Pluralism
Know-nothing party
Chinese exclusion Act (1882)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1907)
Life at the Turn of the Century (1870-1915)
The Progressive Reform Era (1890-1920)
Jane Addams
Settlement Houses
Upton Sinclair The Jungle (1906)
Jeannette Rankin
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul
Booker T Washington
Web Dubois
Marcus Garvey
Ida b Wells-Barnett
Muckrakers
Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives
(1890)
Lincoln Steffens- Shame of the Cities
(1906)
Temperance movement
Susan b Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
National American Women’s
Suffrage Association
Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
NAACP
Secret ballot
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Direct primary
Hepburn Act (1906)
Pure food and drug act (1906)
Meat inspection act (1906)
16th amendment (1913)
17th amendment (1913)
National Park service (1916)
18th amendment (1919)
Employers Liability Act (1906)
Lochner v New York (1905)
Muller v Oregon (1908)
Standard Oil of New Jersey v United
States (1911)
Federal reserve system (1913)
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
UNIT 7 – Becoming a World Power (1890-1920)
(Recommended time – 2 weeks)
RESOURCESPathways to Present 2007
Chap 17 Becoming a World Power (1890-1915)
Chap 19 World War I Era (1914-1920)
Brief Review in United States History and Government
Unit 4- Section 2
Unit 5- Section 1
African-American History Prentice Hall 2006
Chap 15- Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy (1867-1917)
Chap 16- African Americans in the Early 20th Century (1895-1928)
ExamGen Chapter and Topics
Chap 5- The Progressive Movement (101 questions)
Topic C- Expansion of US power overseas
Topic D- WWI and US involvement
TOPICS-
A. Becoming a World Power (1890-1915)
1. The Pressure to Expand (PP 584-588)
2. Spanish-American War (PP 589-596)
a. Black Troops (AAH 511-520)
3. A New Foreign Policy (PP 598-603)
4. Debating America’s New Role (PP 604-607)
B. The World War I Era (1914-1920)
1. The Road to War (PP 646-651)
2. The United States Declares War (PP 653-656)
a. Politics and the Military (AAH 561-566)
3. Americans on the European Front (PP 657-663)
4. Americans on the Home Front (PP 664-668)
5. Global Peacemaker (PP 669-673)
People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary
For the Regents
Becoming a World Power (1890-1915)
Social Darwinism
Missionary spirit
Open door policy
Boxer rebellion
Jingoism
Yellow journalism
William Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
De lome letter
Sinking of the Maine
Teller amendment
Imperialism
Foraker act (1900)
Platt Amendment (1902)
Roosevelt corollary
Big stick policy
Dollar diplomacy
Good neighbor policy
Panama canal
The World War I Era (1914-1920)
Causes of war
Central powers
Allies
Propaganda
German submarine warfare
Lusitania (1915)
Zimmerman note
Selective service act (1917)
Espionage and sedition act (1917 +
1918)
Schenck v United States (1918)
Red Scare (1918-1920)
Fourteen points (1918)
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
League of Nations
reparations
UNIT 8 – Boom Times to Hard Times (1920-1941)
(Recommended time – 6 weeks)
RESOURCESPathways to Present 2007
Chap 20 Postwar Social Change (1920-1929)
Chap 21 Politics and Prosperity (1920-1929)
Chap 22 Crash and Depression (1929-1933)
Chap 23 The New Deal (1933-1941)
Brief Review in United States History and Government
Unit 5- Section 1 + 2
African-American History Prentice Hall 2006
Chap 17- African Americans and the 1920’s (1915-1928)
Chap 18- The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1941)
Chap 19- Culture and Society in the 1930’s and 1940’s (1930- 1949)
ExamGen Chapter and Topics
Chap 6- Roaring 20’s & Depression (143 questions)
TOPICS-
A. Postwar Social Change (1920-1929)
1. Society in 1920’s (PP 684-690)
a. The Great Migration (AAH 575-582)
2. Mass Media and the Jazz Age (PP 691-697)
a. The Harlem Renaissance (AAH 606-615)
b. Sports (AAH 617-618)
3. Cultural Conflicts (PP 699-705)
a. Fighting Racism (AAH 591-593)
b. Black Organizations of the 1920s (AAH 594-601)
c. Uniting Black Workers (AAH 602-605)
B. Politics and Prosperity (1920-1929)
1. A Republican Decade (PP 712-721)
2. A Business Boom (PP 723-729)
3. The Economy in the Late 1920’s (PP 730-733)
C. Crash and Depression (1929-1933)
1. The Stock Market Crash (PP 740-744)
2. Social Effects of the Depression (PP 745-750)
a. Blacks during the Great Depression (AAH 631-637)
b. Black Protest (AAH 638-643)
3. Surviving the Great Depression (PP 752-755)
a. Black Culture (AAH 671-675)
b. Popular Culture for the Masses (AAH 676-680)
c. The Black Chicago Renaissance (AAH 681-687)
d. Black Art and Literature (AAH 688-692)
e. African Americans in Sports (AAH 693-695)
f. Black Religious Culture (AAH 696-698)
4. The Election of 1932 (PP 756-761)
D. The New Deal (1933-1941)
1. Forging a New Deal (PP 768-776)
a. African Americans and the New Deal (AAH 644-656)
2. The New Deal’s Critics (PP 777-783)
3. Last Days of the New Deal (PP 785-791)
People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary
For the Regents
Postwar Social Change (1920-1929)
Great migration
Return to normalcy
Teapot dome scandal
Harlem renaissance
Flappers
Jazz age
Kkk
Sacco and Vanzetti
Prohibition
Scopes monkey trial
Quotas
Politics and Prosperity (1920-1929)
Crash and Depression (1929-1933)
Causes of depression
Bonus army
Hoovervilles
Dust bowl
The New Deal (1933-1941)
Relief, Recovery and Reform
UNIT 9 – Hot and Cold War (1931-1960)
(Recommended time – 4 weeks)
RESOURCESPathways to Present 2007
Chap 24 and 25 World War II (1931-1945)
Chap 26 Cold War (1945-1960)
Chap 27 Postwar Years at Home (1945-1960)
Brief Review in United States History and Government
Unit 6- Section 1 + 2
Unit 7- Section 1
African-American History Prentice Hall 2006
Chap 20- The World War II Era and the Seeds of the Revolution (1936-1948)
ExamGen Chapter and Topics
Chap 7- America’s move from isolation to world leader (153 questions)
TOPICS-
A. Road to War (1931-1941)
1.
2.
3.
4.
The Rise of Dictators (PP 800-806)
Europe Goes to War (PP 807-811)
Japan Builds an Empire (PP 813-816)
From Isolationism to War (PP 817-821)
a. On the Eve of War (AAH 707-711)
B. Americans at War (1941-1945)
1. Mobilization (PP 826-831)
a. Race and the US Armed Forces (AAH712-716)
b. The Beginning of Military Desegregation (AAH 717-722)
c. Black People on the Home Front (AAH 723-728)
2. Retaking Europe (PP 832-840)
3. The Holocaust (PP 841-845)
4. The War in the Pacific (PP 846-853)
5. The Social Impact of the War (PP 855-861)
C. The Cold War (1945-1960)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Origins of the Cold War (PP 868-874)
The Cold War Heats Up (PP 876-883)
The Korean War (PP 884-888)
The Continuing Cold War (PP 889-893)
D. Postwar Years at Home (1945-1960)
1. The Postwar Economy (PP 900-906)
2. Mood of the 1950’s (PP 907-911)
3. Domestic Politics and Policy (PP 912-918)
a. The Transition to Peace (AAH 729-734)
People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary
For the Regents
Road to War (1931-1941)
Isolationism
Neutrality
Totalitarianism
Adolph Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Fascism
1938 Munich Agreement
Appeasement
Lend-Lease Act
Americans at War (1941-1945)
Pearl Harbor
Allies
Winston Churchill
Harry S Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Charles de Gaulle
Axis Powers
Emperor Hirohito
Atlantic Charter Meeting (1941)
Casablanca (1943)
Cairo (1943)
Tehran Conference (1943)
Yalta (1945)
Potsdam (1945)
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Holocaust
Nuremberg Trials
Rosie the Riveter
Wartime Relocation Authority
Korematsu v United States 1944
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
Employment Act of 1946
Taft-Hartley Act
The Cold War (1945-1960)
United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
Containment
Iron curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Blockade
Berlin airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Korean War
38th parallel
Sputnik
Domino Theory
Eisenhower Doctrine
U-2 incident
Postwar Years at Home (1945-1960)
HAUC
McCarthyism
Growth of suburbs
Jackie Robinson
Warren Court
Brown v Board of Education 1954
Little Rock
Civil Rights Movement
Montgomery bus boycott
Freedom rides
James Meredith
March on Washington (1963)
UNIT 10 – A Period of Turmoil and Change (19501975)
(Recommended time – 4 weeks)
RESOURCES-
Pathways to Present 2007
Chap 28 Civil Rights Movement (1950-1968)
Chap 29 Kennedy and Johnson Years (1961-1969)
Chap 30 The Era of Activism (1960-1975)
Chap 31 Vietnam War (1954-1975)
Brief Review in United States History and Government
Unit 7- Section 2 + 3
African-American History Prentice Hall 2006
Chap 21- Freedom Movement (1954-1965)
Chap 22- The Struggle Continues (1965-1980)
ExamGen Chapter and Topics
Chap 8- 1950- 1981 (236 questions)
TOPICS-
A. The Civil Rights Movement (1950-1968)
1. Demands for Civil Rights (PP 930-935)
a. The 1950’s (AAH 747-755)
b. The Montgomery Bus Boycott ( AAH 756-761)
2. Leaders and Strategies (PP 936- 940)
a. Martin Luther King (AAH 814-816)
3. The Struggle Intensifies (PP 941-946)
a. No Easy Road to Freedom (AAH 762-767)
4. The Political Response (PP 948-953)
a. The Movement at High Tide (AAH 768-778)
b. A Hard Victory (AAH 778-784)
5. The Movement Takes a New Turn (PP 954-959)
a. Racial Integration (AAH 793-802)
B. The Kennedy and Johnson Years (1961-1969)
1. The New Frontier (PP 968-973)
2. The Great Society (PP 975-981)
a. The Great Society (AAH 803-813)
3. Foreign Policy in early 1960’s (PP 983-991)
C. An Era of Activism (1960-1975)
1. The Women’s Movement (PP 996-1001)
2. Ethnic Minorities Seek Equality (PP 1003-1008)
a. The Black Arts Movement (AAH 817-824)
3. Counterculture (PP 1009-1012)
4. Environmental and Consumer Movement (PP 1013-1017)
D. The Vietnam War (1954-1975)
1. The War Unfolds (PP 1024-1029)
2. Fighting the War (PP1030-1036)
3. Political Divisions (PP 1037-1043)
4. The End of the War (PP 1044-1049)
People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary
For the Regents
The Civil Rights Movement (1950-1968)
Civil disobedience
James Meredith
Medgar Evers
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
The Kennedy and Johnson Years (1961-1969)
New Frontier
Great Society
Space program
Peace corps
VISTA program
Office of Economic Opportunity (1964)
The Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (1965)
Medicare
Department of Housing and Urban
Development
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall
An Era of Activism (1960-1975)
Betty Frieden- The Feminine Mystique
(1963)
Title VII- of Civil Rights Act
NOW
Equal Rights Ammendment
Title IX of the Educational
Amendments Act
Roe v Wade (1973)
Affirmative action
Feminism
Sexism
Glass ceiling
Regents of the University of California
v Bakke (1979)
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers
American Indian Movement
Ralph Nader
The Vietnam War (1954-1975)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
Hawks and Doves
Students for Democratic Society
Vietnamization
War Powers Act
UNIT 11 – Continuity and Change (1960-present)
(Recommended time – 1 weeks)
RESOURCESPathways to Present 2007
Chap 32 Nixon, Ford and Carter (1969-1981)
Chap 33 The Conservative Revolution (1980-1992)
Chap 34 Entering the New Era (1992- present)
Brief Review in United States History and Government
Unit 7- Section 4 + 5
African-American History Prentice Hall 2006
Chap 23- Black Politics (1980-2004)
Chap 24- African Americans in the New Millennium
ExamGen Chapter and Topics
Chap 9- 1981-Present (195 questions)
TOPICS-
A. Nixon, Ford and Carter (1969-1981)
1. Nixon’s Domestic Policy (PP 1058-1063)
a. Politics (AAH 825-829)
2. Nixon’s Foreign Policy (PP 1064-1069)
3. Watergate Scandal (PP 1070-1076)
4. The Ford Administration (PP 1078-1082)
5. The Carter Administration (PP 1083-1089)
a. Black Elected Officials (AAH 830-836)
B. The Conservative Revolution (1980-1992)
1. Roots of New Conservatism (PP 1096-1100)
a. The Conservative Reaction (AAH 845-849)
2. Reagan Revolution (PP 1102-1107)
3. Reagan’s Second Term (PP 1108-1113)
4. George HW Bush Presidency (PP 1114-1119)
C. Entering a New Era (1992-Present)
1. Politics in Recent Years (PP 1126-1131)
a. Civil Rights (AAH 850-855)
b. Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition (AAH 856-858)
c. Policing the Black Community (AAH 859-862)
d. The Clinton Years (AAH 863-865)
e. The Bush Years (AAH 868-876)
2. The United States in a New World (PP 1133-1141)
3. Americans in the New Millennium (PP 1142-1149)
a. Progress and Poverty (AAH 885-892)
b. Art and Culture (AAH 893-901)
c. Religion (AAH 902-908)
d. Black Identity (AAH 909-914)
People, Events, Documents and Vocabulary
For the Regents
Nixon, Ford and Carter (1969-1981)
Détente
OSHA
Clean Air Act (1970)
Drug Enforcement Agency (1973)
New federalism
Watergate
Amnesty Plan
Inflation
OPEC
Stagflation
Camp David Accords
Hostage Crisis
The Conservative Revolution (1980-1992)
Supply-side economics
Star Wars
Farm Aid
Iran Contra Affair
Savings and Loan Scandal
End of Cold War
Persian Gulf War
Entering a New Era (1992-Present)
Health Care Reform
Welfare Reform
N.A.F.T.A.
New World Order: Somalia;
Bosnia; Kosovo
Clinton v. Jones
Clinton’s Impeachment Trial
New York State Core Curriculum can be found at http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/sscore2.pdf
The following concepts and themes in United States history are also emphasized in this curriculum:
Change
Citizenship
Civic Values
Constitutional Principles
Culture and Intellectual Life
Diversity
Economic Systems
Environment
Factors of Production
Foreign Policy
Government
Human Systems
Immigration and Migration
Individuals, Groups, Institutions
Interdependence
Physical Systems
Places and Regions
Reform Movements
Presidential Decisions and Actions
Science and Technology
Since this curriculum emphasizes government and basic constitutional principles, students should understand the importance of key United
States Supreme Court decisions. The following Supreme Court decisions have had significant impact on our nation’s history:
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
Dred Scot v. Sanford (1857)
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R.R. v. Illinois ( 1 8 8 6 )
United States v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)
In Re Debs (1895)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Northern Securities Co. v. United States (1904)
Lochner v. New York (1905)
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Watkins v. United States (1957)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Engle v. Vitale (1962)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
New York Times v. United States (1971)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
United States v. Nixon (1974)
New Jersey v. TLO (1985)
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990)
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania, et. al. v. Casey (1992)
Vernonia School District v. Acton (1995)