H-SS Framework and standards: 11th Grade US History

1. The 1920's and how they changed America

2. Activity:Assess whether you believe these programs benefitted the US. Long term. What aspects did leaders anticipate?

3. Activity: Discuss these questions in groups: Did the Civil Rights Movement Succeed ? How so? In what areas does it have a way to go?

4. Movements for Equality

4.1. Goals and Strategies of the Civil Rights Movement

4.2. Important court cases

4.3. How were different movements connected?

5. The Rise of the US as a world power

5.1. Foreign Policies between 1870's and 1910's

5.2. World War 1

6. The Great Depression and the New Deal

6.1. Causes of the Depression

6.2. The effects of the Great depression on the US and world

6.3. The New Deal

6.4. Additional programs created

7. Cold War

7.1. Why was 1946-1990 known as the Cold War

7.2. Creation of United Nations

7.3. American politics and society

7.4. Contemporary American Society

7.4.1. Shifting from the Cold War

7.4.2. Changing roles of the government

7.4.3. Globilization

7.4.4. America's Current Diversity

8. Amendments

9. The Civil War

9.1. Reconstruction

10. The Nation's Beginnings

10.1. The Constitution

10.1.1. Ideology of new government

11. Industrialization, Urbanization, Immigration and Progressive Reform

11.1. Social Changes related to industrial revolution

11.2. New technology

11.3. Impact of farming

11.4. Impact on farming

11.5. Issues with conditions for immigrants, children, etc. addressed

12. Activity: Connect amendments during reconstruction to Civil Rights Era

13. World War II

13.1. Treatment of immigrants and minorities

13.2. How America became involved

13.3. Differences in mobilization and fighting in different locations

13.4. How the war advanced the civil rights movement in US

13.5. Post War America