US HistoryQ&A by dot point

Describe the social and political changes of the postwar era, including the Great Society, the expansion of rights for women and other groups, the antiwar movement, and the changing role of government (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.12, VUS.13).

Explain the goals, leaders, methods, and achievements of the civil rights movement, including Brown v. Board of Education, nonviolent protest, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Virginia's Massive Resistance (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.12).

Explain the origins of the Cold War, the policy of containment, and key early events including the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the Berlin crises (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.11).

Describe the major Cold War conflicts and crises (the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War), the arms race and the space race, and the domestic Red Scare and McCarthyism (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.11).

Describe the conservative resurgence of the late 20th century, Reagan's policies, and the events that ended the Cold War, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.13).

Describe the United States since the end of the Cold War, including economic globalization and the technological revolution, the September 11 attacks and the war on terror, changing demographics, and the continuing relevance of founding constitutional principles (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.13, VUS.14).

Describe the three colonial regions (New England, Middle, Southern), how geography shaped their economies, the development of representative self-government, and the growth of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.3).

Explain how early European exploration and colonization, and the Columbian Exchange, produced cultural and biological interactions among Europeans, Africans, and American Indians (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.2).

Demonstrate historical and geographical analysis skills: analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources, evaluate the credibility of evidence, sequence events, use maps and charts, and communicate a supported argument (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.1).

Describe the founding of Jamestown and the Virginia colony, the role of the Virginia Company, the House of Burgesses (1619) as the first elected assembly, the arrival of the first Africans (1619), and the tobacco economy (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.2, VUS.3).

Describe the major events, turning points, and reasons for American victory in the Revolutionary War, including Washington's leadership, Saratoga, French aid, and Yorktown (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.4).

Explain the causes of the American Revolution: British policies after 1763, taxation without representation, the influence of Enlightenment ideas and Common Sense, and the Declaration of Independence (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.4).

Describe the antebellum reform movements, including abolitionism, the women's rights movement (Seneca Falls), the Second Great Awakening, temperance, and education reform (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.6).

Describe the era from 1801 to 1860, including the Louisiana Purchase, the expansion of suffrage, key features of Jacksonian democracy, the Bank War, and Indian removal (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.6).

Explain the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, the major compromises of the Constitutional Convention, and the roles of James Madison and George Washington (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.5).

Explain the principles of the Constitution (federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, popular sovereignty, limited government), the ratification debate between Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and how the Virginia Declaration of Rights and Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom shaped the Bill of Rights (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.5).

Describe the establishment of the new government under Washington, the precedents he set (the cabinet, two terms, neutrality), Hamilton's financial plan, the rise of political parties, and the early Supreme Court (Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland) (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.5, VUS.6).

Explain westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, including the major acquisitions of territory, the Mexican-American War, the impact on American Indians, and how expansion intensified the conflict over slavery (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.6).

Explain the goals and policies of Reconstruction, the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th), the Freedmen's Bureau, and the political conflicts of the era (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.7).

Explain the growth of sectionalism and the causes of the Civil War: the slavery debate, the failed compromises, key events (Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, John Brown), the election of 1860, and secession (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.6, VUS.7).

Describe the major events, leaders, and turning points of the Civil War, including the advantages of each side, Gettysburg and Vicksburg, key figures (Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Davis), and the war's end at Appomattox (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.7).

Describe the settlement of the West after the Civil War, the role of the railroads and the Homestead Act, the destruction of the bison, conflicts with American Indians, and federal policies of removal and assimilation including the Dawes Act (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.8).

Explain the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation and the principles expressed in the Gettysburg Address, and how they reframed the purpose of the Civil War (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.7).

Explain the end of Reconstruction (the Compromise of 1877), the rise of Jim Crow segregation, disenfranchisement, Plessy v. Ferguson, and African American responses including Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.7, VUS.8).

Explain the emergence of the United States as a world power, the causes and results of the Spanish-American War, the acquisition of overseas territories, and the foreign policies of the early 1900s (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.9).

Describe the new immigration of the late 1800s, the growth of cities, the experiences and challenges of immigrants, nativism, and the response to urban problems (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.8).

Explain the causes and effects of rapid industrialization after the Civil War, including new technologies, big business and the captains of industry, the rise of labor unions, and the response of government (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.8).

Describe the World War I home front (mobilization, propaganda, limits on civil liberties, the Great Migration) and the peace, including Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles, and the Senate's rejection of the League of Nations (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.9).

Explain the goals and achievements of the Progressive movement, including the muckrakers, regulation of business, political reforms, and the constitutional amendments of the era (16th, 17th, 18th, 19th) (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.8).

Explain the causes of World War I, the reasons for American entry (submarine warfare, the Lusitania, the Zimmermann Telegram), and the impact of American involvement on the war's outcome (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.9).

Explain the causes of the Great Depression, including the stock market crash of 1929, and its economic and social effects on the American people (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.10).

Explain the New Deal: its goals of relief, recovery, and reform, key programs, the expansion of the federal government's role, and the debate over the New Deal (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.10).

Explain the causes of World War II, the rise of totalitarian and fascist powers, American isolationism, and the events that drew the United States into the war, including Pearl Harbor (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.10).

Describe the political, social, and economic changes of the 1920s, including prosperity and consumerism, the Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition, and the cultural conflicts over immigration, race, and values (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.10).

Describe the impact of World War II on the American home front, including economic mobilization, the expanded roles of women and minorities, Japanese American internment (Korematsu v. United States), and the war's role in ending the Depression (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.10).

Describe the major theaters, turning points, and leaders of World War II, the strategy that defeated the Axis, the Holocaust, and the decision to use atomic weapons to end the war (Virginia 2015 History and Social Science SOL VUS.10).