UNITED STATES HISTORY CP—MOORE
H314
SYLLABUS
Topic/Theme: Civics & Government Review
Essential Questions
- What defines a good American citizen?
Content
- Constitution (reaction to Articles of Confederation, Great Compromise, 3/5 Compromise), Bill of Rights
- Three Branches of Government (Legislative, Executive, Judicial) and qualifications, terms, resposibilities
- Philosophers and Founding Fathers
- Montesquieu (theory of checks and balances)
- Hobbes (social contract theory)
- Locke (social contract theory and response to Hobbes)
- Jefferson
- Madison
- Hamilton
Topic/Theme: The Age of Roosevelt
Essential Questions
- In what ways, under the leadership of TR and expansionist influence, did the USA become a lasting world power?
- How did the Progressive ideals change American society and government?
Content
- immigration
- old vs. new
- causes
- nativism
- Ellis Island
- reactions
- industrialization/unionization
- rise of monopolies/trusts
- working conditions
- mass production
myth of laissez-faire
- social darwinism
- gospel of wealth
- Homestead Strike
- Pullman Strike
- Haymarket Riot
- scabs
- blacklists
- Eugene Debs
- socialism
- urbanization
- tenements
- ghettos
- political machines
- populism
- cross of gold speech
- William Jennings Bryan
- gold vs. silver standard
- grange
- progressivism
- muckraking
- Wisconsin plan
- Square Deal
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Taft
- Wilson
- Amendments 16-19
- Election of 1912
- New Freedom
- women's suffrage
- Triangle Fire
- The Jungle
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Jane Addams
- conservationism
- Muir
- national parks
- government corruption
- political machines
- Tammany Hall
- Tweed
- Plunkett
- Nast
- expansionism/imperialism
- Monroe Doctrine
- Roosevelt Corollary
- White Man's Burden
- Philippine Insurrection
- Spanish-American War
- USS Maine
- Rough Riders
- Dewey
- DeLome letter
- Panama Canal
- Hawaii
- Platt Amendment
- Cuba
- Emilio Aquinaldo
- dollar diplomacy
- yellow journalism
- Hearst
- Pulitzer
Topic/Theme: World War I
Essential Questions
- How did America's influence in World War One Europe foreshadow the role of the US as a prominent world power of the 20th Century?
Content
- Causes
- militarism
- alliances
- imperialism
- nationalism
- economics
- emperors
- assassination of Franz Ferdinand
- trench warfare
- Schlieffen plan
- Western Front
- Russian Revolution
- U.S. Involvement
- Lusitania
- Zimmerman Note
- Sussex Pledge
- unrestricted submarine warfare
- George Creel
- Wilson
- doughboys
- homefront activities
- effect on women's movement
- Pershing
- AEF
- fourteen points
- Treaty of Versailles
- League of Nations
Topic/Theme: The Roaring 20’s
Essential Questions
- How can individuals and advancements shape the personality of a decade?
Content
- Cultural
- Harlem Renaissance
- Jazz
- KKK
- race riots
- Red Scare
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Scopes Trial
- radio
- Hollywood
- sports
- flappers
- Prohibition
- Capone
- Volstead Act
- Lost Generation
- Political
- Harding
- Coolidge
- Hoover
- Return to Normalcy
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- corruption
- republican decade
Topic/Theme: The Great Depression
Essential Questions
- How did the American system and society survive unprecedented economic collapse?
Content
- The Great Depression
- causes
- stock market crash
- Hoover
- Hoover's reaction
- Hoovervilles
- Bonus Army
- election of 1932
- Dust Bowl
- FDR
- New Deal
- FDIC
- Social Security
- SEC
- TVA
- CCC
- inauguration
- Keynesian Economics
- court packing
- New Deal Critics
- Huey Long
- Charles Coughlin
- American Liberty League
- Francis Townsend
- 1936 Election
- Woody Guthrie
- Dorothea Lange
- Joe Louis
- Lindbergh kidnapping
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- rise of fascism
- Munich Pact
Topic/Theme: World War II
Essential Questions
- How was American society transformed by World War II?
Content
- rise of fascism
- Munich Pact
- Appeasement
- Italy
- Japan
- Germany
- Spanish Civil War
- Kristallnacht
- Invasion of Poland
- Blitzkreig
- German conquests: 1939-1941
- Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact
- Neutrality Acts
- Lend-Lease
- Destroy for Bases
- Atlantic Charter
- Battle of the Atlantic
- Pearl Harbor
- Mobilization
- Executive Order 9066
- Island Hopping
- Battles of the Pacific Theater (i.e., Iwo Jima)
- Battles of European Theater (i.e., D-Day)
- Home Front
- Rosie the Riviter
- War time conferences
- Holocaust
- Final Solution
- Wansee Conference
- Death of F.D.R. and Hitler
- Bombing of Germany
- Manhattan Project
- Fall of Germany (V-E Day)
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- V-J Day
Topic/Theme: Post-war
Essential Questions
- When is it appropriate to challenge or uphold the beliefs of a society in order to strengthen a nation as a whole?
Content
- G.I.Bill
- De-Moblilization
- Industrial unrest
- civil rights
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Montgomery Bus boycott
- poor people's march
- rise of suburbia (e.g., Levittown)
- Culture
- On the Road
- folk songs
- movies
- conformity
- McCarthyism
- Interstate Highway Systerm
- St. Lawrence Seaway
- Rise of Consumer Culture
- Election of JFK
- Camelot
- New Frontier
- Space
- Peace Corps
- Assassination
- Great Society
- Medicare
- Civil Rights Act
- Voting Rights Act
- Assassination of RFK
- MLK
- Malcolm X
- Democratic National Convention of 1968
- SDS
- Chicago Seven
- Election of RMN
- EPA
- revisions to Social Security
- Watergate
- Media
Topic/Theme: The Cold War
Essential Questions
- In what ways did the Cold War shape American foreign policy?
Content
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- Containment (Kenan)
- Rosenbergs
- Berlin Airlift
- United Nations
- Formation of Israel
- Chinese Revolution
- Korean War
- MAD
- Brinksmanship
- Involvement in VietNam (Dien Bien Phu)
- Suez Crisis
- Nuclear Arms Race
- Sputnik and the Space Race
- U-2 incident
- Domino Theory
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- Cuban Revolution
- Bay of Pigs
- Cuban Missle Crisis
- JFK in Berlin
- Escalation of VietNam
- Gulf of Tonkin Revolution
- Khe San
- Tet Offensive
- My Lai
- Vietnamization
- Invasion of Cambodia
- Kent State
- Jackson State
- draft lottery
- opening to China (Ping-Pong Diplomacy)
- OPEC
- Detente (SALT I and SALT II)
- Camp David
- Iran Hostage Incident
- Soviets in Afghanistan
- Iran-Contra
- end of Cold War
- Gorbachav
- Glastnost
- Perestroka
- Fall of USSR
- end of Berlin Wall
Topic/Theme: Contemporary History
Essential Questions
- How does America continue to develop and change in an increasingly interdependent world?
Content
- Desert Storm
- NAFTA
- Bosnia & Kosovo Peacekeeping
- 9/11 and rise of terrorism
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