Below are the ESSENTIAL skills and knowledge that students will be expected to master.
Chapter 3 The Progressive Era
****How did Americans benefit from progressive reforms?
Chapter 4 Becoming a World Power
****How did America's growing power affect its relationship with other nations?
Chapter 5 World War I & the Jazz Age
****How did WWI Impact and transform Europe?
Chapter 6 The Roaring 20's
***How did American society change during the 1920's?
Chapter 7 The Great Depression and the New Deal
****How did the government react to the crisis of the Great Depression?
Chapter 8 The Rise of Dictators and World War II
****How did WWII transform America and the world?
Chapter 3 The Progressive Era
****How did Americans benefit from progressive reforms?
- What problems did reformers seek to solve?
- What was Roosevelt's Square Deal?
- What was Roosevelt civil rights dilemma?
- How did Taft continue Roosevelt's progressive policies?
- What did Wilson contribute to the progressive movement?
- How did women's lives change in the late 1800's?
- On what social issues did Jane Addams and other women work?
- How did women finally obtain the right to vote?
Chapter 4 Becoming a World Power
****How did America's growing power affect its relationship with other nations?
- Why did some Americans support imperialistic policies?
- Why did America want to acquire Alaska and Hawaii?
- How did Americans respond to the Cuban Revolution?
- What was the outcome of the Spanish-American War?
- How did Americans view their nations new power?
- What steps increased American influence in East Asia and the Pacific?
- Why did the US get involved in Latin America?
Chapter 5 World War I & the Jazz Age
****How did WWI Impact and transform Europe?
- Why might one country decide to join in a war fought among other countries or another continent?
- Why was the U.S. reluctant to join the war?
- What social changes occurred because of the war?
- What were the causes of the war?
- Why did the U.S. join in the war?
- How did American civilians contribute to the war?
- How did American troops help win the war?
- What were the human costs of the War and of the 1918 flue epidemic?
- Why did Woodrow Wilson hope to achieve world peace?
Chapter 6 The Roaring 20's
***How did American society change during the 1920's?
- What did women and Harding offer Americans as President?
- What economic developments affected life in the 1900's?
- What challenges did Calvin Coolidge face as President?
- How did the US culture change during the 1920's?
- How did Harlem become a center of African culture?
Chapter 7 The Great Depression and the New Deal
****How did the government react to the crisis of the Great Depression?
- How did the New Deal policies impact American society?
- What are some legacies of Roosevelt's New Deal?
- How did American culture reflect the Great Depression?
- How did the 1920's prosperity affect different social groups?
- What caused the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?
- Why did American people lose faith in Hoover?
- What were the goals of the New Deal?
- How did the Social Security Act reflect Roosevelt goals in the Second New Deal?
- What led to the slowdown of the Second New Deal?
- What hardships did the great Depression bring to Americans?
Chapter 8 The Rise of Dictators and World War II
****How did WWII transform America and the world?
- What brought dictators to power?
- How did dictators demonstrate their power in the 1930's?
- What events led to WWII?
- What social changed did the war bring about in the U.S.?
- What happened to Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor?
- How did Allies turn the tide in Europe and North Africa?
- What events helped put Germany on the defensive?
- What crimes did the Allies discover as they advanced toward Berlin?
- How did the Allies stop the Japanese advance?
- How was the US able to make progress in the Pacific?
- Why did the US decide to drop the atomic bomb?
- What were the costs of WWII?
- What did the international community do to protect world peace?
- What changes did the war bring about?