American Studies II – Grade 10

District 2853

Month

Content

Performance Standards Addressed

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

 

 

·         Political Spectrum

 

·         Understand the range of political attitudes on the various issues in the U.S. today

 

 

·         Review Civil War

 

·         Describe the causes, outcome, and affects of the Civil War

 

 

·         Western Expansion

 

·         Describe how conflict between the plains peoples and settlers led to the destruction of Native American Society

·         Explain why national expansion developed on the Great Plains

·         Discover the role the railroads played in Great Plains settlement

·         Identify the factors involved in the rise and fall of the Long Drive

 

 

·         Rise of Industry

 

·         Identify and explain the factors that encouraged industrial growth

·         Know how government restrictions affected economic development

·         Discover how Carnegie and Rockefeller became industrial giants

 

 

·         Urbanization

 

·         Describe  working conditions during the late 1800’s

·         List the problems faced by labor unions during this period

·         Name two major labor unions of the late 1800’s

·         List reasons why immigrants came to the U.S.

·         Identify the reasons cities grew in the late 1800’s

·         Describe the problems resulting from an increase in urban population

 

 

·         Gilded Age

 

·         Understand how the spoils system and lobbyists fostered corruption in government

·         Evaluate how important the free press worked to end political corruption

·         List the reforms made during the 1870’s and 1880’s

·         Discuss developments in art, literature, and higher education

 

 

·         Politics and Protest

 

·         Explain why economic inequity between farmers and urban workers

·         Identify the problems American farmers faced in the 1800’s

·         Name the major goals of the populist party

·         Trace women’s involvement in the temperance and suffrage movement

 

 

Grade 10

·         Imperialism

 

·         Discuss the emergence of the U.S. from isolation

·         List the events that led to the Spanish-American War

·         Provide examples of Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” diplomacy

·         Describe the goals and results of the “open door” policy in China

 

 

·         Progressive Era

 

·         Understand the role of muckrakers in identifying social ills and promoting social change

·         Describe the reforms that protected adult and child workers

·         Evaluate progressive attitudes about immigrants and racial minorities

 

 

·         Whitehouse Reformers

 

·         Discuss Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy to the U.S.

·         Analyze the reactions of Roosevelt and the public to Taft’s leadership

·         Explain how a split Republican Party led to Woodrow Wilson’s election in 1912

·         Identify the accomplishments of Wilson’s domestic program

 

 

·         WW I

 

·         Describe the causes of WW I

·         List the reasons why it was difficult for the U.S. to remain neutral during WW I

·         Analyze the events that led the U.S. to enter WW I

·         Describe the U.S. role in helping the Allies with WW I

·         Explain how public opinion was shaped by the government

·         Understand how the war was financed

·         List the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles

·         Explain why the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles

·         Discuss the domestic problems that arose after WW I

 

 

·         1930’s

 

·         Describe foreign policy issues after WW I

 

·         Identify the provisions of the National Origins Act

·         Discuss the changes to industry that Henry Ford introduced

·         Outline the problems farmers faced and the government’ s response

·         Explain how women’s lives changed during the 1920’s