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US History syllabus, dot point by dot point
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Module 5: The Cold War and Civil Rights
Module overview →- What laws and amendments ended legal discrimination and protected voting rights?Analyze the major civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Twenty-fourth Amendment, and the federal government's role in protecting rights (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).12 min answer →
- How did the Cold War turn into real conflicts in Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam?Analyze the major Cold War conflicts, including the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War, and the arms race and space race (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC4 Science, Technology, and Society).12 min answer →
- How did other groups build on the civil rights movement to expand their own rights?Analyze the rights movements that followed the African American civil rights movement, including the women's movement, the Latino and Chicano movement led by figures such as Cesar Chavez, and the American Indian movement (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC3 Government and Citizenship).12 min answer →
- How did fear of communism at home affect Americans during the Cold War?Analyze the second Red Scare and McCarthyism, including loyalty investigations and the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the resulting tension between national security and civil liberties (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).11 min answer →
- How did the Cold War begin, and what was the American policy of containment?Analyze the origins of the Cold War, the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the policy of containment, including the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC3 Government and Citizenship).12 min answer →
- How did African Americans fight to end segregation and win equal rights?Analyze the African American civil rights movement, including Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, nonviolent protest, and leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).13 min answer →
Module 1: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
Module overview →- How did workers respond to industrial conditions, and what was the relationship between business and government in the Gilded Age?Analyze the rise of the labor movement, major strikes and unions such as the American Federation of Labor under Samuel Gompers, and the laissez-faire relationship between business and government in the Gilded Age (TEKS US History RC4 Economics; RC3 Government and Citizenship).12 min answer →
- How did the new immigration and rapid urbanization reshape American society between 1877 and 1914?Analyze the causes of the new immigration after 1880, the growth of cities, the responses of nativism and the political machine, and the cultural changes that resulted (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC1 History).12 min answer →
- How did industrialization and the rise of big business transform the United States economy after 1877?Analyze the causes and effects of late nineteenth century industrialization, the rise of big business and entrepreneurs such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and the free enterprise system (TEKS US History RC4 Economics, Science, Technology, and Society; RC1 History).12 min answer →
- How did Progressive reformers try to fix the problems created by industrialization and big business?Analyze the goals and achievements of the Progressive movement, including the muckrakers, reform of business and government, and the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC4 Economics; RC1 History).13 min answer →
- Why did farmers organize politically in the late 1800s, and what did the Populist movement demand?Analyze the economic grievances of farmers, the rise of the Grange and the Populist (People's) Party, its platform including free silver, and its long-term influence (TEKS US History RC4 Economics; RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).12 min answer →
- How did American women win the right to vote, and why is the suffrage movement a key part of expanding democracy?Analyze the woman suffrage movement, the leadership of Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt, the strategies used, and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).12 min answer →
Module 2: Imperialism and World War I
Module overview →- Why did the United States become an imperial power around 1900, and how did Americans debate expansion overseas?Analyze the causes of American imperialism, the acquisition of overseas territories, and the debate between imperialists and anti-imperialists (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC2 Geography and Culture; RC4 Economics).12 min answer →
- What caused the Spanish-American War, and how did it make the United States a world power?Analyze the causes of the Spanish-American War, including yellow journalism and the USS Maine, the outcomes of the war, and its significance for American power (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC2 Geography and Culture).12 min answer →
- Why did the United States abandon neutrality and enter World War I in 1917?Analyze the causes of World War I, US neutrality, and the reasons the United States entered the war in 1917, including unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann Telegram (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC4 Science, Technology, and Society).12 min answer →
- How did World War I end, and why did the United States reject the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations?Analyze Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles, the debate over the League of Nations, and the US return to isolationism (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).12 min answer →
- How did World War I change life on the American home front and test civil liberties?Analyze the effects of World War I on the home front, including mobilization, propaganda, the Great Migration, opportunities for women, and limits on civil liberties such as the Espionage and Sedition Acts and Schenck v. United States (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC2 Geography and Culture).12 min answer →
Module 6: The Modern United States
Module overview →- What demographic, political, and social changes define the contemporary United States?Analyze the demographic, political, and social changes of the contemporary United States, including immigration and the growth of the Sunbelt, the continuing expansion of rights, and ongoing political debates (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC3 Government and Citizenship).12 min answer →
- How did the September 11 attacks change American foreign and domestic policy?Analyze the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the war on terror including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the tension between national security and civil liberties (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC3 Government and Citizenship).11 min answer →
- How have the computer, the internet, and globalization reshaped the modern American economy?Analyze the impact of the technological revolution (the computer and the internet) and globalization on the American economy and society from the late twentieth century to today (TEKS US History RC4 Economics, Science, Technology, and Society; RC2 Geography and Culture).12 min answer →
- How did conservatism rise in the 1970s and 1980s, and what changes did the Reagan era bring?Analyze the rise of modern conservatism, the Watergate scandal and its effect on trust in government, and the policies of the Reagan era (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC4 Economics).12 min answer →
- How and why did the Cold War end?Analyze the end of the Cold War, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the resulting position of the United States in the world (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC3 Government and Citizenship).11 min answer →
Module 3: The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
Module overview →- What caused the Great Depression, and how did it affect ordinary Americans?Analyze the causes of the Great Depression, including the stock market crash of 1929, overproduction, bank failures, and uneven wealth, and its effects on American life (TEKS US History RC4 Economics; RC1 History).12 min answer →
- What social and cultural conflicts divided Americans during the 1920s?Analyze the social tensions of the 1920s, including Prohibition, nativism and immigration restriction, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, and the clash between modernism and fundamentalism in the Scopes Trial (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC3 Government and Citizenship).12 min answer →
- How did Americans debate the New Deal, and what was its lasting impact on the role of government?Analyze the debate over the New Deal, including criticism from the left and right, the Supreme Court conflict, and the New Deal's lasting impact on the relationship between citizens and the federal government (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).12 min answer →
- What was the Dust Bowl, and how did geography and human activity combine to displace thousands of families?Analyze the causes of the Dust Bowl, including drought and farming practices, and its effects, including migration from the Great Plains, as an example of human-environment interaction (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC4 Science, Technology, and Society).11 min answer →
- How did Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal respond to the Great Depression?Analyze the New Deal under Franklin D. Roosevelt, including relief, recovery, and reform programs such as the CCC, WPA, and Social Security, and the expansion of the federal government's role (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC4 Economics).12 min answer →
- What made the 1920s a decade of economic prosperity and cultural change?Analyze the economic prosperity and consumer culture of the 1920s, new technology, the Harlem Renaissance and jazz, and changing roles for women (TEKS US History RC4 Economics, Science, Technology, and Society; RC2 Geography and Culture).12 min answer →
Module 4: World War II
Module overview →- What caused World War II, and why did the United States stay neutral at first?Analyze the causes of World War II, including the rise of totalitarian and fascist regimes, the failure of the Treaty of Versailles and the policy of appeasement, and American isolationism (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC3 Government and Citizenship).12 min answer →
- How was the war in the Pacific won, and why did the United States drop the atomic bomb?Analyze the Pacific theater, the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the consequences of the war, including the founding of the United Nations (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC4 Science, Technology, and Society).12 min answer →
- How was the war in Europe won, and what was the Holocaust?Analyze the major turning points of the war in Europe, including D-Day, and the Holocaust as a genocide carried out by Nazi Germany (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC3 Government and Citizenship).11 min answer →
- How did the attack on Pearl Harbor bring the United States into World War II?Analyze the end of American neutrality, the attack on Pearl Harbor, US entry into World War II, and the country's role in the Allied war effort (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC4 Science, Technology, and Society).11 min answer →
- How did World War II transform the American home front and test the rights of citizens?Analyze the effects of World War II on the home front, including economic mobilization, new roles for women and minorities, the Bracero Program, and the internment of Japanese Americans and Korematsu v. United States (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC4 Economics).12 min answer →