11th Grade U.S. History

1. Connecting with Past Studies: The Nation's Beginnings

1.1. HSS 11.1.1-Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was founded.

1.2. HSS 11.1.2- Analyze the ideological origins of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers’ philosophy of divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights, the debates on the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights.

1.3. HSS 11.1.3- Understand the history of the Constitution after 1787 with emphasis on federal versus state authority and growing democratization.

1.4. HSS 11.1.4- Examine the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the industrial revolution, including demographic shifts and the emergence in the late nineteenth century of the United States as a world power

1.4.1. ACTIVITY #1- Students work in groups to discuss the challenges faced by newly freed slaves after the civil war in the South. How were they treated? With the ratification of the 13th Amendment, did slaves go from "property" to citizens who could freely choose their own way of life? Why or why not?

2. Industrialization, Urbanization, Immigration, and Progressive Reform

2.1. HSS 11.2.1- Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.

2.2. HSS 11.2.2- Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and trade, and the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class.

2.3. HSS 11.2.3- Trace the effect of the Americanization movement.

2.4. HSS 11.2.4- Analyze the effect of urban political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class reformers.

2.5. HSS 11.2.5- Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of industrial leaders.

2.6. HSS 11.2.6- Trace the economic development of the United States and its emergence as a major industrial power, including its gains from trade and the advantages of its physical geography.

2.7. HSS 11.2.7- Analyze the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Social Darwinism and Social Gospel (e.g., using biographies of William Graham Sumner, Billy Sunday, Dwight L. Moody).

2.8. HSS 11.2.8- Examine the effect of political programs and activities of Populists.

2.9. HSS 11.2.9- Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives (e.g., federal regulation of railroad transport, Children’s Bureau, the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson).

3. America’s Participation in World War II

3.1. HSS 11.7.1- Examine the origins of American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events that precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor.

3.2. HSS 11.7.2- Explain U.S. and Allied wartime strategy, including the major battles of Midway, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Battle of the Bulge.

3.3. HSS 11.7.3- Identify the roles and sacrifices of individual American soldiers, as well as the unique contributions of the special fighting forces (e.g., the Tuskegee Airmen, the 442nd Regimental Combat team, the Navajo Code Talkers).

3.3.1. ACTIVITY #3- Students break off into small groups of no more than 4-5. Each group is given a special fighting forces unit (Tuskegee Airmen, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Navajo Code Talkers). Student groups will discuss and research their units and learn why the units were important, what they did, and what were their contributions. Lastly, students will present to the class their findings and explore the question of "Did the roles of Black soldiers, Japanese American soldiers, and Navajo Code talkers during World War II change Americans’ perceptions of these ethnic groups of Americans after the war?"

3.4. HSS 11.7.4- Analyze Roosevelt’s foreign policy during World War II (e.g., Four Freedoms speech).

3.5. HSS 11.7.5- Discuss the constitutional issues and impact of events on the U.S. home front, including the internment of Japanese Americans (e.g., Fred Korematsu v. United States of America) and the restrictions on German and Italian resident aliens; the response of the administration to Hitler’s atrocities against Jews and other groups; the roles of women in military production; and the roles and growing political demands of African Americans.

3.6. HSS 11.7.6- Describe major developments in aviation, weaponry, communication, and medicine and the war’s impact on the location of American industry and use of resources.

3.7. HSS 11.7.7- Discuss the decision to drop atomic bombs and the consequences of the decision (Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

3.8. HSS 11.7.8- Analyze the effect of massive aid given to Western Europe under the Marshall Plan to rebuild itself after the war and the importance of a rebuilt Europe to the U.S. economy.

4. Postwar America

4.1. HSS 11.8.1- Trace the growth of service sector, white collar, and professional sector jobs in business and government.

4.2. HSS 11.8.2- Describe the significance of Mexican immigration and its relationship to the agricultural economy, especially in California.

4.3. HSS 11.8.3- Examine Truman’s labor policy and congressional reaction to it.

4.4. HSS 11.8.4- Analyze new federal government spending on defense, welfare, interest on the national debt, and federal and state spending on education, including the California Master Plan

4.5. HSS 11.8.5- Describe the increased powers of the presidency in response to the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War.

4.6. HSS 11.8.6- Discuss the diverse environmental regions of North America, their relationship to local economies, and the origins and prospects of environmental problems in those regions.

4.7. HSS 11.8.7- Describe the effects on society and the economy of technological developments since 1945, including the computer revolution, changes in communication, advances in medicine, and improvements in agricultural technology.

4.8. HSS 11.8.8- Discuss forms of popular culture, with emphasis on their origins and geographic diffusion (e.g., jazz and other forms of popular music, professional sports, architectural and artistic styles).

5. The Rise of the United States as a World Power

5.1. HSS 11.4.1- List the purpose and the effects of the Open Door policy.

5.2. HSS 11.4.2- Describe the Spanish-American War and U.S. expansion in the South Pacific.

5.3. HSS 11.4.3- Discuss America’s role in the Panama Revolution and the building of the Panama Canal

5.4. HSS 11.4.4- Explain Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick diplomacy, William Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy, and Woodrow Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy, drawing on relevant speeches.

5.5. HSS 11.4.5- Analyze the political, economic, and social ramifications of World War I on the home front.

5.6. HSS 11.4.6- Trace the declining role of Great Britain and the expanding role of the United States in world affairs after World War II.

6. Cold War Struggles Abroad and at Home

6.1. HSS 11.9.2- Understand the role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring communist aggression and maintaining security during the Cold War

6.2. HSS 11.9.3- Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment policy, including the following: • The era of McCarthyism, instances of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and blacklisting • The Truman Doctrine • The Berlin Blockade • The Korean War • The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis • Atomic testing in the American West, the “mutual assured destruction” doctrine, and disarmament policies • The Vietnam War • Latin American policy

6.3. HSS 11.9.4- List the effects of foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa (e.g., protests during the war in Vietnam, the “nuclear freeze” movement).

6.4. HSS11.9.5- Analyze the role of the Reagan administration and other factors in the victory of the West in the Cold War.

7. The 1920s

7.1. HSS 11.5.1- Discuss the policies of Presidents Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover

7.2. HSS 11.5.2- Analyze the international and domestic events, interests, and philosophies that prompted attacks on civil liberties, including the Palmer Raids, Marcus Garvey’s “back-to-Africa” movement, the Ku Klux Klan, and immigration quotas and the responses of organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Anti-Defamation League to those attacks.

7.3. HSS 11.5.3- Examine the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act (Prohibition).

7.4. HSS 11.5.4- Analyze the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the changing role of women in society.

7.4.1. Activity #2- Class discussion of what was the 19th Amendment. Students break into groups to discuss the importance of Women's Suffrage, and answer essential questions- "Why did so many states deny women the right to vote? Why was women's suffrage legal in some states and not others. What strategies did women use to with their right to vote?"

7.5. HSS 11.5.5- Describe the Harlem Renaissance and new trends in literature, music, and art, with special attention to the work of writers (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes).

7.6. HSS 11.5.6- Trace the growth and effects of radio and movies and their role in the worldwide diffusion of popular culture.

7.7. HSS 11.5.7- Discuss the rise of mass production techniques, the growth of cities, the impact of new technologies (e.g., the automobile, electricity), and the resulting prosperity and effect on the American landscape.

8. Movements for Equality

8.1. HSS 11.10.1- Explain how demands of African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rights, including President Roosevelt’s ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in 1941, and how African Americans’ service in World War II produced a stimulus for President Truman’s decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948.

8.2. HSS 11.10.2- Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, and California Proposition 209.

8.3. HSS 11.10.3- Describe the collaboration on legal strategy between African American and white civil rights lawyers to end racial segregation in higher education.

8.4. HSS 11.10.4- Examine the roles of civil rights advocates (e.g., A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, James Farmer, Rosa Parks), including the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “I Have a Dream” speech.

8.5. HSS 11.10.5- Discuss the diffusion of the civil rights movement of African Americans from the churches of the rural South and the urban North, including the resistance to racial desegregation in Little Rock and Birmingham, and how the advances influenced the agendas, strategies, and effectiveness of the quests of American Indians, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities.

8.6. HSS 11.10.6- Analyze the passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (e.g., 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, with an emphasis on equality of access to education and to the political process.

8.7. HSS 11.10.7- Analyze the women’s rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s, including differing perspectives on the roles of women

9. Contemporary American Society

9.1. 11.11.1- Discuss the reasons for the nation’s changing immigration policy, with emphasis on how the Immigration Act of 1965 and successor acts have transformed American society.

9.2. HSS 11.11.2- Discuss the significant domestic policy speeches of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton (e.g., with regard to education, civil rights, economic policy, environmental policy).

9.3. HSS 11.11.3- Describe the changing roles of women in society as reflected in the entry of more women into the labor force and the changing family structure.

9.4. HSS 11.11.4- Explain the constitutional crisis originating from the Watergate scandal.

9.5. 11.11.5- Trace the impact of, need for, and controversies associated with environmental conservation, expansion of the national park system, and the development of environmental protection laws, with particular attention to the interaction between environmental protection advocates and property rights advocates.

9.6. HSS 11.11.6- Analyze the persistence of poverty and how different analyses of this issue influence welfare reform, health insurance reform, and other social policies.

9.7. HSS 11.11.7- 7. Explain how the federal, state, and local governments have responded to demographic and social changes such as population shifts to the suburbs, racial concentrations in the cities, Frostbelt-to-Sunbelt migration, international migration, decline of family farms, increases inout-of-wedlock births, and drug abuse.

10. The Great Depression and the New Deal

10.1. HSS 11.6.1- Describe the monetary issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that gave rise to the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the weaknesses in key sectors of the economy in the late 1920s.

10.2. HSS 11.6.2- Understand the explanations of the principal causes of the Great Depression and the steps taken by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat the economic crisis.

10.3. HSS 11.6.3- Discuss the human toll of the Depression, natural disasters, and unwise agricultural practices and their effects on the depopulation of rural regions and on political movements of the left and right, with particular attention to the Dust Bowl refugees and their social and economic impacts in California.

10.4. HSS 11.6.4- Analyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy since the 1930s (e.g., Works Progress Administration, Social Security, National Labor Relations Board, farm programs, regional development policies, and energy development projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, California Central Valley Project, and Bonneville Dam).

10.5. HSS 11.6.5- Trace the advances and retreats of organized labor, from the creation of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations to current issues of a postindustrial, multinational economy, including the United Farm Workers in California

11. Religion and its role in the Founding of America

11.1. HSS 11.3.1- Describe the contributions of various religious groups to American civic principles and social reform movements (e.g., civil and human rights, individual responsibility and the work ethic, antimonarchy and self-rule, worker protection, family-centered communities).

11.1.1. HSS 11.3.2- Analyze the great religious revivals and the leaders involved in them, including the First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening, the Civil War revivals, the Social Gospel Movement, the rise of Christian liberal theology in the nineteenth century, the impact of the Second Vatican Council, and the rise of Christian fundamentalism in current times.

11.1.1.1. HSS 11.3.3- Cite incidences of religious intolerance in the United States (e.g., persecution of Mormons, anti-Catholic sentiment, anti-Semitism).

11.1.1.1.1. HSS 11.3.4- Discuss the expanding religious pluralism in the United States and California that resulted from large-scale immigration in the twentieth century.