8.3.7

Understand the functions and responsibilities of a free press

8.10.6

Describe critical developments and events in the war

11.5.6

Trace the growth and effects of radio and movies and their role in the wide world diffusion of popular culture.

11.8.7

Describe the effects on society and the economy of technological developments since 1945

11.9.6

Describe the strategic, political, and economic factors in Middle East policy, including those related to the Gulf War

8.3.6

Describe the basic law-making process and how the Constitution provides numerous opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process and to monitor and influence government

8.9.5

Analyze the significance of the States’ Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise, the Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay’s role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

11.10

Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights developments.

8.8.1

Discuss the election of Andrew Jackson as president in 1828, the importance of Jacksonian democracy, and his actions as president.

11.10.6

Analyze the passage and effect of civil rights and voting rights legislation (e.g. 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and the 24^th Amendment with an emphasis on equality of access to education and to the political process.

11.11.2

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

11.11.7

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 the family farm, increase in out-of-wedlock births, and drug abuse.

8.4.4

Discuss daily life, including traditions in art, music, and literature, of early national America

8.6.5

Trace the development of the American education system from its earliest roots, including the roles of religious and private schools and Horace Mann’s campaign for free public education and its assimilating role in American culture.

11.2.3

Trace the effect of the Americanization movement

11.10.5

Discuss the diffusion of the civil rights movement from the churches of the rural South and the urban North . . .

8.2.7

Describe the principles of federalism, dual sovereignty, separation of powers, checks and balances, the nature and purpose of majority rule, and the ways in which the American idea of constitutionalism preserves individual rights.

8.4.3

Analyze the rise of capitalism and the economic problems and conflicts that accompanied it (e.g. Jackson’s opposition to the National Bank; early decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that reinforced the sanctity of contracts and a capitalist economic system of law.

8.10.1

Compare the conflicting interpretations of state and federal authority as emphasized in the speeches and writings of statesmen such as Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun.

11.11.1

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

8.6.6

Examine the woman’s suffrage movement

11.2.2

Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and trade; the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class

11.2.9

Understand the effect of political programs and activities of the Progressives

11.10.7

Analyze the women’s rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony and the passage of the 19^th Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s, including differing perspectives on the role of women.