Social Science Department

 

Jeanelle French

528-5260 ext 6601

Periods 1, 2, 4, & 6: Academic US History

Period 3: Sheltered US History

Course Description & Course Goals:

This United States History course is designed to increase your awareness and understanding of United States history from the Civil War to present. We will begin with an overview of the eighth grade curriculum by looking at the Declaration of Independence, and the role that religion played in the founding of America. We will also study the rise of the United States as a world power, the 1920s & 1930s, our role in and how World War II affected us, foreign policy making, civil rights and domestic policy. Students will listen, watch, draw, discuss and otherwise participate in many activities throughout the year in an effort to achieve these designed goals:

1.)             Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration      of Independence.

2.)             Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and   Eastern Europe.

3.)             Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting moral, social, and political impacts, and issues regarding religions liberty.

4.)             Students trace the rise of the United States to its role as a world power in the twentieth century.

5.)             Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s.

6.)             Students analyze the different explanations for the Great Depression and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal government.

7.)             Students analyze America’s participation in World War II.

8.)             Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post-WWII America.

9.)             Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.

10.)    Students the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.

11.)    Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society.