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Core Content and Skills
Social Studies 8
2007-2008
BOE Approved

Civil War 7th Grade  Content   Skills  Sectionalism Economic, political and social interests that split our nation   Reading and writing critically Writing Evaluating, compare and contrast     Civil war  Content   Skills  Battles of the Civil War What development in the US led to the Civil War? Who won and why?   Chart: input various information Reading for point of view (southern culture) b   Southern and Northern Cultures, Economies, Strengths, Weaknesses The Events Leading to Civil War   Reading for point of view (southern culture)

Reconstruction 1-2  Content   Skills  Results and Impact of the Civil War What were differing views about reconstruction? Assassination of Lincoln What was the impact of the Reconstruction on the South's government, society, and culture? Freed slaves in America Civil War Amendments Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Changes in the South   Demonstrate an understanding of terminolgy of the Reconstruction Era Slide Interpretation Interpretation of Events Analyzing Applying vocabulary DBQ process     Westward Expansion  Content   Skills  What were the catalysts of westward movement? Challenges in politics, economics, and territorial expansion Contribution of Louisiana Purchase to American independence. What were the consequences of the westward movement? Importance of the Louisiana Territory to the United States. Success of Lewis and Clark expedition Various methods used by settlers to move westward. Impact of westward expansion on Native American population.   Analyze the impact of the Louisiana Purchase on the country. Compare explorations of the trans-Mississippi West following the Louisiana Purchase. Identify the experiences of settlers on the overland trails to the West. Understand the hardships of the Native Americans because of the United States government. ........................................................................

Industrial Growth and Expansion (1860-1900)  Content   Skills  Laissez-Faire Capitalism What are the eight major factors of industrialization and how do they apply to the United States from 1865-1900? Business Organizations (Monopoly, Pool, Trust Holding Company) Captains of Industry/Robber Barons (Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Social Darwinism, Philanthropy) Interstate Commerce Act Sherman Antitrust Act What were the major positive and negative impacts of industrialization in the United States in the period 1865 to 1900? Populist Party Referendum, Initiative, Recall, Secret Ballot, Direct Election of U.S. Senators How effective were the changes to the United States brought about by Populism? Homestead Act Pacific Railway Act How effective were the changes to the United States brought about by the Labor Movement? Indian (Plains) Wars: Chivington Massacre, Bull Run, Wounded Knee Dawes Act Collective Bargaining Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor Terrence Powderly, Samuel Gompers Great Railway Strike, Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike Urbanization: Positive and Negative Effects Colonial Immigration, Old Immigration, New Immigration Melting Pot vs. Salad Bowl (Pluralism) Assimilation Nativism Know-Nothing (American) Party Chinese Exclusion Act and “Gentlemen’s Agreement” Emergency Quota Act and National Origins Acts Civil Service Reform Pendleton Act   01. Define the eight factors of industrialization (Entrepreneurs, Surplus Agricultural Production, Inventions, Mobile Work Force, Cheap/Efficient Transportation, Favorable Government Policies, Abundant Natural Resources, Surplus Capital). 02. Explaining the roles played by entrepreneurs in and assessing their positive and/or negative effects on the development of the United States economy. (Robber Barons or Captains of Industry). 03. Identify the economic policies of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the United States government and assessing their impact on the development of the economy. (Tariff, immigration, land grants, patents corporations, policies on ‘Indians’). 04. Explain how surplus capital was accumulated through European investment and the development of new forms of business organization. 05. Identify the sources of the new mobile labor force and explaining their impact on United States industry. 06. Describe the role played by the railroads in the development of United States society. 07. Categorize the positive and negative impacts of industrialization socially, politically, and economically. 08. Compare/contrast the social, political, and economic categories of industrialization in order to determine whether impacts were more positive or more negative. 09. Explain the impact on the sovereignty of the Native American lands and nations as well as their culture. 10. List the causes and conditions brought about by industrialization that led to the Populist movement. 11. Identify the agrarian community as the principle group to embrace the Populist movement. 12. Analyze the Populist Party platform to determine the goals of the movement. 13. Assess the outcome of the movement in the 1890’s. 14. Assess the impact of the Populist movement on the four basic principles of the United States Constitution. (Examples for each of the basic principles should be drawn from proposals which were later included in the Progressive Movement) 15. Describe the factors which brought about the rise of labor unions. 16. Identify the key labor unions and leaders, and compare and contrast their goals, objectives and strategies. 17. Explain the evolving relationship among government, big business and labor unions. 18. Assess the impact of the labor movement on the society of the United States. 19. Explain the concept of ‘manifest destiny’ and its impact on the development of the United States including the native ‘Indian’ populations. ..............................................................................

Immigration and Urbanization  Content   Skills  Rise of big business during Second Industrial Revolution Effects of Immigration on American society   Vocabulary building Note-taking Guided reading questions Identify effects of big business on rise of urban culture/problems Identify people and terms by their significance to the rise of U. S. industry Complete Chart - Factors that influenced big business Comparison chart - "Old Immigration"/"New Immigration" Explain cause/effect relationships Outline of main ideas and details from text information Link past and present DBQ process

Progressive Era: Results of Industrialization  Content   Skills  What were early examples of foreign policy and how did they affect the United States? What was the policy of imperialism and what was its impact during the late 19th century and early 20th century? Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug Act Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall Jane Addams and Hull House Temperance Movement Margaret Sanger NAACP City Reforms: Commissions and City Managers State Reforms: Secret Ballot, Initiative, Referendum, Recall, Direct Primary T. Roosevelt and Square Deal Hepburn Act Elkins Act Anthracite Coal Strike 16th Amendment 17th Amendment 18th Amendment 19th Amendment Standard Oil v. United States Progressive (Bull Moose) Party Underwood Tariff Act Federal Reserve Act U.S. Joins WWI (Lusitania, Zimmerman Note, Sussex Pledge, Russian Revolution) Selective Service Act Espionage and Sedition Acts Schenck v. United States Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Sacco and Vanzetti   Explain the term “progressive”. Explain how the impacts of industrialization which created a need for reform. Identify the groups and individuals who made up the Progressive Movement. Identify groups and individuals who made attempts to gain greater political, economic, and social equality for African-Americans and women during the Progressive period. Describe the degree to which Native Americans were ignored by the Progressive Movement and their status during the period 1890-1920. Identify major goals/objectives of the Progressive Movement. Describing the methods used by the Progressive Movement to achieve these goals. Compare and contrast the origin and reasons why major groups immigrated to the United States in the period prior to and after 1890, and explaining government policies towards them. Identify the major results of the Progressive Movement and assess the impact of the movement on the United States. Assess the impact of the Progressive Movement on the four basic principles of the United States Constitution. (Flexibility: Amendments 16, 17, 18, 19; Federalism: Role of State/Local/National government in reform movements; Separation of Powers: Executive leadership, Legislative actions; Equal Rights: Amendment 17 and 19).

US becomes a world power  Content   Skills  Colonization: European, Latin America Spanish American War Roosevelt Corollary: Panama Canal, Monroe Doctirne, Open Door Policy Review of early foreign policy and actions (neutrality, Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine, Mexican Cession...) Commodore Perry in Japan Open Door Policy Boxer Rebellion Hawaii Spanish-American War (jingoism, yellow journalism, sinking of the Maine, Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico) Roosevelt Corollary Panama Canal Dollar Diplomacy Good Neighbor Policy Muckrakers (Thomas Nast, Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Frank Norris)   Differentiate between foreign policy motives before and after the adoption of Social Darwinism Judge appropriateness of US actions in several theaters. Rank. Construct a timeline showing US actions abroad Formulate an analogy for colonialism Define foreign policy as an expression of a nation's (vital) interests. Identify the cornerstones of traditional foreign policy [i.e. trading rights, neutrality, expansionism, isolationism], and review applications of each of them in the early part of the 19th century [Proclamation of Neutrality, War of 1812, Monroe Doctrine, annexation of Texas, Mexican War]. Distinguish between isolationism and neutrality as applications of our foreign policy. Define the concept: imperialism. Describe the major political, economic, and social reasons for U.S. imperialism [military power, jingoism, trade, markets, natural resources, Social Darwinism, Turner Thesis, 'white man's' burden, new technology]. Explain how the Spanish-American War contributed to the development of the U.S. policy of imperialism. Explain how U.S. involvement in East Asia [China, Japan, Philippines] demonstrates an expansion of U.S. imperialism beyond our hemisphere.

World War I  Content   Skills  Understanding point of view Entangling Alliances League of Nations Battles, Events, and Outcomes 14 points Treaty of Versailles Neutrality Lusitania   Understanding point of view DBQ process     US History Consensus The Twenties  Content   Skills  Reactions to the World War I peace treaties U.S. social changes after World War I Roaring Twenties The president in the 1920's and related issues Personalities of the 1920's   Identify the reaction of the U.S. people to the Versailles treaty Identify the positive and negative influences on 1920's society Conduct research on assigned topics relating to the 1920's Identify the cause and effect of the stock market crash     Stock Market Crash & Great Depression  Content   Skills  Causes of the Great Depression Hoover's response Depression's effects on American culture The Dust Bowl Great Depression's impact on the world Alphabet soup   Explain the causes of the Great Depression Understand President Hoover's response to the Great Depression and pose the question: What if he would have done more to stop it? Identify the effects of the Great Depression on American Culture Demonstrate knowledge of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression Era Analyze the impact of the Great Depression on the global economy of the 1920's and 30's and the effects it had on totalitarian regimes

World War II & Holocaust  Content   Skills  Failure of the League of Nations, intense Nationalism and worldwide depression. Where does anti-semitism come from? Background information on Mussolini and Hitler What was the U.S. during the Holocaust: role model, bystander, sympathizer? Examples of 2,000 years of anti-semitism How were the Nazis able to get all of Germany to accept the policy of genocide? Germany's isolation and humiliation of Jews, segregation laws, Kristallnacht How did the rest of the world respond to Fascist aggression in the 1930s and 1940s? Evian Conference, Voyage of the St. Louis, Eugenics, Jan Karski & Father Coughlin What were the big events and strategies of the war in Europe? Nuremburg Laws, killing squads, Wannsee Conference & "Final Solution" and genocide What were the big events and strategies of the war in the Pacific? Ineffectiveness of League of Nations, Neutrality Acts ( updates) , Appeasement, Lend-Lease Policy What is a war crime? How were the Jews persecuted, segregated and discriminated against? Blitzkreig, Battle of Britain, Atlantic Charter, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Yalta Conference, V-E Day, Potsdam Conference Attack on Pearl Harbor, "Beachheads to Tokyo", timeline of War in Pacific, kamikaze, dropping of atomic bombs Nuremburg Trials, creation of United Nations, Japanese internment camps, Truman guilty of crimes against humanity? Holocaust museum and survivor testimony   Analyze charts & graphs Analyze political cartoons Analyze primary documents Cause & effect Essay writing Analyze documents Apply principles & goals to modern examples Evaluate the presidents Compare & contrast Analyze survivor testimony Debate: Japanese internment & dropping the atomic bombs Learning in a non-school setting Maps: Europe & Pacific DBQ process

Post-War America  Content   Skills  Causes and effects of the Red Scare What were the causes and effects of the Cold War? Living during the Red Scare Civil Rights Movement How did the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's try to improve the lives of African Americans? Major Cold War events U.S. space program How did the Cold War lead to mass hysteria in the U.S.? How did JFK's decisions during the Cuban Missile Crisis prevent a nuclear holocaust? What were some of the successes and failures in the early days of the U.S. space program?   Critical analysis Critical thinking skills Identify bias Point of view Historical context Decision making Cause and effect