Social Studies with Mrs. Girbino

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Chapter 5: Changes on the Western Frontier

Essential Learning

Explain why Native Americans were displaced from their homeland and how the government mistreated them.
Explain the impact of industrialization on agriculture, including new technology on the farm.
Describe early movements such as the farmers alliance and the populist party led to the rise of the progressive movement.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
A Clash of Cultures ~ Binder Handout
The Closing of the Western Frontier ~ Binder Handout

Historical Movies
Tombstone
Wyatt Earp
Dances with Wolves
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Geronimo: An American Legend
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
There will be Blood

Related Links
National Museum of the American Indian
The Gold Rush (simulation)
New Perspectives on the West
The Northern Great Plains
Early Advertising in the West

Chapter 6: The Age of Industry

Essential Learning

Analyze how new technology allowed America to become industrialized.
Understand new forms of business consolidation: corporations, monopolies and trusts.
Explain the relevance of government policy (tariffs and laissez-faire) on the rise of Big Business.
Explain how the factory transformed American society, including working and living conditions.
Analyze reasons for the rise and growth of labor unions and evaluate the government's response.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
The Making of An Industrial Giant ~ Binder Handout
The Rise of Big Business ~ Binder Handout
19th Century Economic Philosophy ~ Binder Handout
The Labor Movement ~ Binder Handout

Just how big is Big Business?
Check out the Corporations listed below. If you are having a hard time locating products, you can usually find them at the top under brands.

Historical Movies About Unions
Norma Rae
Matewan
American Dream
On the Waterfront

Related Links
American Memory: Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Bicentennial Online: Historical Highlights

Chapter 7 & 8: Cities, Immigrants and the Middle Class

Essential Learning

Explain how the factory transformed American society, including working and living conditions.
Analyze how immigrants transformed American society including housing patterns, working conditions, and cultural diffusion.
Analyze the problems and subsequent solutions to rapid urbanization.
Describe the growing middle class, including their rise in the standard of living and movement out of the city center.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
The New Immigrant ~ Binder Handout
Life in the Industrialized City
Challenges of Urbanization ~ Binder Handout
Politics in the Gilded Age ~ Binder Handout
Cultural Life in the Gilded Age ~ Binder Handout

Historical Movies
Far and Away
Titanic
The God Father II

Related Links
CastleGarden - search database of immigrants to New York between 1820-1892.
Ellis Island - search database of immigrants to New York between 1892-1924.
Immigration Explorer - This New York Times interactive map shows how immigrants settled in the U.S. over time.
Harvard University: Immigration in America
The Great Chicago Fire
The History of Vaudeville
The Chinese in California

Chapter 9: The Progressive Era

Essential Learning

Describe how capitalism, urbanization, and political corruption led to the Progressive Era.
Describe how progressives expanded democracy at the national, state, and local level.
Describe how the Progressives improved the quality of life for most Americans.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
The Progressives ~ Binder Handout
The Progressive Presidents ~ Binder Handout
The Federal Reserve Board ~ Binder Handout

Historical Movies
Iron Jawed Angels
Ragtime

Related Links
Modern Meat
The Jungle, Chapter 9 exert
The Battle for Women's Suffrage
Timeline of Suffrage Movement
The Progressive Era: The Great Age of Reform
The National Women's History Museum: Women in the Progressive Era
Federal Reserve Board

Chapter 10: America Claims an Empire

Essential Learning

Evaluate the causes of American imperialism; including New markets, raw materials, Social Darwinism, global competition, Imperialism, ethnocentrism, yellow journalism.
Evaluate the effects of American imperialism both at home and around the world.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
Imperialism ~ Binder Handout
U.S. Imperialism ~ Binder Handout
Visual Review

Historical Movies
Viva Zapata!
The Ghost and the Darkness

Related Links
Crucible of Empire: Spanish American War
American Experience: Hawaii's Last Queen
The World of 1898: The Spanish American War
Official Panama Canal Site
The Great White Fleet

Chapter 11: The First World War

Essential Learning

Describe why the United States entered the war and how they helped the allies achieve victory.
Explain why civil liberties are relative during times of war or crisis.
Compare and contrast the United States with European Countries after the war.
Explain the impact of the United States returning to a policy of isolationism by rejecting the Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
The War in Europe ~ Binder Handout
America Enters the War ~ Binder Handout
Civil Liberties During War ~ Binder Handout
The Treaty of Versailles ~ Binder Handout
Propaganda ~ Binder Handout

Historical Movies
Laurence of Arabia
All is Quiet on the Western Front
Johnny Got His Gun
Legends of the Fall
Flyboys
A Farewell to Arms
Reds
Doctor Zhivago

Related Links
Firstworldwar.com
Trench Warfare
Encyclopedia of World War I
The Great War
National Archives
Eye Witness to History
Influenza Outbreak of 1918
World War I Cartoons

Chapter 12 & 13: The Roaring Twenties

Essential Learning

Understand the factors that led to the Red Scare in the 1920s and how civil liberties are relative during times of crisis or war.
Describe the impact of mass media on popular culture and consumerism.
Explain the conflict of cultures between the new urban consumer driven culture and rural fundamentalists.
Explain how the automobile transformed America and led to the growth of suburbs.
Explain how the Great Migration transformed northern cities economically and culturally.
Describe how the standard of living increased for many Americans after WWI during the roaring 20s.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
Domestic and Foreign Policy ~ Binder Handout
The Immigration Debate ~ Binder Handout
Consumerism ~ Binder Handout
The Roaring Twenties ~ Binder Handout

Historical Movies
The Untouchables
Amelia
The Spirit of Saint Louis
Splendor in the Grass (one of my favorite movies)
The Great Gatsby
The Road to Perdition
Chicago
The Inherit the Wind
A River Runs Though It

Related Links
Clash of Cultures in the 1920's
Jazz
The Coolidge Era and Consumer Economy
Consumer Culture Advertisements
Jazz Age Culture
The Scopes Trial
Harlem Renaissance
The Car: Americans on the Move
Immigration 1789-1930
Temperance and Prohibition

Chapter 14 & 15: The Great Depression and New Deal

Essential Learning

Describe the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Understand the impact of the Dust Bowl on migrant communities.
Explain how the role of the federal government was greatly expanded following the Great Depression following FDR's new deal.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
The Great Depression ~ Binder Handout
The New Deal ~ Binder Handout

Historical Movies
The Grapes of Wrath
Splendor in the Grass (one of my favorite movies)
Bonnie and Clyde
Annie
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Color Purple

Related Links
America in the 1930's
Depression Art Gallery
FDR Presidential Library and Museum
The New Deal Network
American Life Stories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project

Chapter 16 & 17: World War II

Essential Learning

Trace the movement of US isolation to entry into WWII including Monroe doctrine, neutrality acts, cash and carry, lend-lease acts, to full involvement.
Analyze how total war impacted the lives of US citizens economically and socially.
Analyze how citizenship rights are relative in times of crisis.
Summarize how atomic weapons have changed the nature of war, altered the balance of power and began the nuclear age.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
The Rise of Dictators
War in Europe
U.S. Involvement in War
The End of War

Historical Movies
Saving Private Ryan
Pearl Harbor
Tora, Tora, Tora
Patton
The Big Red One
Schindler's List
The Diary of Ann Frank
The Pianist
The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas
Kelly's Heros
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Thin Red Line
The Dirty Dozen
The Guns of Navarone
Sophie's Choice

Related Links
History Channel: World War II Interactive
BBC Online: WWII
Recollections of WWII
The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
American Profile: Celebrating the American Spirit
WWII Sound and Image Archive
Spartacus Educational: WWII

Chapter 18: Cold War Conflicts

Essential Learning

Describe how the spread of communism in China and the Soviet takeover of eastern Europe led to the US policy of containment in the 1940s.
Describe key cold war events that show the rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union.
Explain how the second red scare and McCarthyism reflected cold war fears in American society.
Analyze how citizenship rights are relative in times of crisis.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
Origins of the Cold War ~ Binder Handout
The Cold War at Home ~ Binder Handout

Historical Movies
K12: Widow Maker
The Hunt for Red October
The Manchurian Candidate
The Day After
Doctor Strangeglove
Little Nikita
Red Dawn
Thirteen Days
Seven Days in May

Related Links
American Experience: The Super Bomb
Soviet Archives Exhibit
The Korean War Project
Cuban World Travel Guide
PBS: Stories Since the War in Vietnam
American Experience: Vietnam Online

Chapter 19: The Post War Boom

Essential Learning

Describe the reasons for prosperity and economic growth following WWII.
Describe how the post-war economic boom impacted life for the average American.
Understand how conformity and gender expectations created problems in suburbia.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
American Society During the 1950's ~ Binder Handout

Historical Movies
Pleasantville
Rebel Without a Cause
La Bamba
Elvis
American Graffiti

Related Links
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Rock and Roll
American Cultural History, 1950-1959
Television History
Gender and Television
Women and Work
National Association of Baby Boomers

Chapter 20: The New Frontier and Great Society

Essential Learning

Compare and contrast modern suburbia with the inner city.
Evaluate the impact of liberal social programs both fiscally and socially.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
The Presidency of John F. Kennedy
The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

Historical Movies
JFK
The End of Poverty?
Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
Apollo 13

Related Links
JFK Presidential Library
We Chose the Moon
The Kennedys
JFK Speeches
History Matters JFK Assassination
LBJ Presidential Library
LBJ (PBS)
People Like Us: Social Class in America

Chapter 21: Civil Rights

Essential Learning

Describe how racial discrimination was institutionalized with the passage of Jim Crow and the supreme court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Evaluate the struggle for equality by African Americans, Mexicans, Native Americans, and Women following WWII to the present.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
The Idea of Race
The Civil Rights Movement

Historical Movies
Mississippi Burning
Malcolm X
Boycott
Ghosts of Mississippi
The Jackie Robinson Story
The Long Walk Home
Guess Who is Coming to Dinner?
Hairspray
Remember the Titans
Milk

Related Links
The MLK Research and Education Institute
PBS: Eyes on the Prize
Seattle Times MLK Exhibit
The National Civil Rights Museum
PBS: The History of Jim Crow
The Two Nations of Black America
Spartacus Educational: The Black Panthers
Life Magazine

Chapter 22: The Vietnam Years

Essential Learning

Describe how the Vietnam war created division, social unrest, and caused citizens to question the actions of their government.

Presentations and Binder Handouts
The Vietnam War

Historical Movies
The Fog of War
Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Casualties of War
The Dear Hunter
Good Morning Vietnam
Born on the Fourth of July
Across the Universe
Taking Woodstock
Forest Gump
Helter Skelter
Easy Rider

Related Links
Vietnam Online
The Wars for Vietnam
Vietnam Stories Since the War
Spartacus Educational - Vietnam
Battlefield Vietnam
VIetnam Picture Archives

Chapter 24: The Age of Limits

Essential Learning

Trace the decline of the American public’s trust in government.
Trace the development of the environmental movement on political, social and economic policy.

Presentation and Binder Handouts
The Nixon Years ~ Binder Handout
Watergate

Historical Movies
All the Presidents Men
Frost / Nixon
Not Without my Daughter
Persepolis
Munich
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
The China Syndrome
Erin Brockovich
An Inconvenient Truth
A Civil Action
The Day After Tomorrow
A Crude Awakening – The Oil Crash
GasLand
Fuel
Crude Impact

Related Links
Time Magazine Top 10 Environmental Disasters
The Nixon Library
Watergate Exhibit Evidence
The Watergate Files
Nixon (PBS)
Muslims (PBS)
Global Connections, The MidEast
History in the News, the Middle East
BBC News; Israel and Palestine

Chapter 25: The Conservative Tide

Essential Learning

Describe the impact of the modern media and new forms of technology on politics.
Compare and contrast liberal and conservative views on the role of government, the environment, social welfare, and national security issues.
Trace the events that led to the collapse of the soviet union and their domination in Eastern Europe.

Presentation and Binder Handouts
The Conservative Resurgence

Historical Movies
Reagan
Three Kings
Jarhead
Kill the Irishman

Related Links
Ronald Reagan
How Stuff Works: Trickle Down Economics
George Bush Presidential Library
The Gulf War (PBS)
The Persian Gulf War
Sadaam Hussein

Chapter 26: The United States in the World Today

Essential Learning

Describe demographic changes in the United States beginning in the 1960s to the present.
Understand how imperialism has impacted the view of Western society.
Analyze how fundamental Islam has lead to conflict with the United States.
Describe the events leading to 9/11 and the U.S. response.
Differentiate between the wars in the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Analyze the continuous threats to U.S. security.

Presentation and Binder Handouts
The Modern Era
The Changing Face of America
Conflict in the Middle East
September 11, 2001

Historical Movies
Primary Colors
Peacemaker
The Kingdom
United 93
Fahrenheit 9/11
World Trade Center
Reign Over Me
The Hurt Locker
Rendition
Traitor

Related Links
The Clinton Years
Clinton Accused (Washington Post)
Roots of Terrorism
September 11 Digital Archive
The Avalon Project: 9/11 Collection of Primary Source Documents
CNN War Against Terror
Iraq Body Count