Chapter 20 An Industrial Society 1860-1914
The Growth of Industry

• To identify factors that nurtured the Industrial Revolution
• To explain how business cycles reflected rapid economic growth
• To describe the growth of the steel and electric-power industries
• To analyze how inventions changed American Life

Railroads Transform the nation

• To analyze the funding for the first transcontinental railroad
• To identify the groups that worked on the first transcontinental railroad
• To describe the linking together of the two railroads
• To evaluate the changes brought about by the railroads

The Rise of Big Business

• To analyze the growth of corporations
• To describe the monopolies and trusts and to evaluate their effects
• To summarize the positive and negative aspects of the Guilded Age
• To evaluate the development of the economy of the South

Workers Organize

• To describe working conditions in the late 1800s
• To trace the beginnings of the labor movement
• To evaluate union setbacks and significant strikes
• To describe the founding of the American Federation of Labor

Chapter 21: Changes in American Life1880-1914

Cities Grow and Change

• To explain how industrialization changed city life
• To understand how technology and the street car altered city life
• To describe urban living conditions and how reformers tried to improve them
• To analyze how political machines influenced city government

The New Immigrants

• To describe changes in immigration patterns in the late 1800s
• To understand where and how immigrants settled and the jobs they took
• To explain the process of assimilation and efforts to restrict immigration

Segregation and Discrimination

• To understand how racism caused discrimination and the spread of segregation
• To describe the impact of Plessy v. Ferguson and to explain why African Americans organized
• To understand the effects of violence and racism throughout the country

Society and Mass Culture

• To understand how education and publishing grew during this period
• To identify the impact of modern advertising and new products on people’s lives
• To trace the growth of leisure time activities
• To describe popular leisure activities

Chapter 22: The Progressive Era 1890-1920

Roosevelt and Progressivism

• To identify the goals of the Progressive movement
• To analyze Theodore Roosevelt’s “square deal”
• To evaluate Roosevelt’s qualities as an activist president
• To summarize Roosevelt’s conservation policies

Taft and Wilson as Progressives

• To evaluate Taft’s progressive policies
• To identify the progressive qualities of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth amendments
• To summarize Wilson’s record as a progressive president
• To analyze reasons for the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment

Women Win New Rights

• To identify changes in the lives of women during the Progressive Era
• To describe the contributions of women progressives
• To describe early actions in the movement for woman suffrage
• To analyze events that led to passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

Chapter 23: Becoming a World Power 1880-1917

The United States Continues to Expand

• To identify the factors that led to American imperialism
• To explain the role of William Seward in American expansion
• To describe the annexation of Hawaii

The Spanish-American War

• To identify the reasons for the Spanish-American War
• To trace the progress of the Spanish-American War in the Philippines and the Caribbean
• To analyze the results of the war
• To explain the goals of the Anti-Imperialist League

US Involvement Overseas

• To explain how the United States became a world power
• To describe the development of the Panama Canal
• To analyze US Involvement in Latin America
• To evaluate the use of “big stick diplomacy”

Chapter 24: World War I 1914-1920

War Breaks Out in Europe

• To identify the causes of World War I
• To describe the stalemate in the trenches and the new technology used in the conflict
• To explain why the United States decided to join the Allies
• To describe how the Russian Revolution affected the war effort

America Joins the Fight

• To describe how the United States developed and deployed its armed forces
• To summarize the effects of American entry into the war
• To explain how US troops helped the Allies push back the Germans
• To describe how the war ended

Life on the Home Front

• To describe how Americans mobilized for war
• To analyze the effects of wartime propaganda in the United States
• To explain the causes of the Great Migration
• To summarize the impact of the 1918 flu epidemic

The Legacy of World War I

• To summarize Wilson’s Fourteen Points
• To describe the Treaty of Versailles
• To identify the reasons for the Red Scare
• To explain why racial tensions increased in the postwar period

Chapter 25: The Roaring Twenties 1919-1929

The Business of America

• To summarize events of the Harding presidency
• To analyze economic policies of the Coolidge administration
• To describe US foreign policy during the 1920s
• To examine the changes resulting from technological advances

Changes in Socieity

• To identify changes in the roles of young people and women
• To analyze how Prohibition led to lawlessness
• To examine changes in the lifestyles of African Americans
• To explain how the changes of the 1920s caused conflict in society

The Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance

• To analyze characteristics of the popular culture of the 1920s
• To explain how sports figures became popular heroes
• To identify the achievements of the Harlem Renaissance
• To identify writers of the Lost Generation

Chapter 26: the Great Depression and New Deal 1929-1940

Hoover and the Crash

• To identify the problems of the US economy in the 1920s
• To summarize the causes of the stock market crash and the Great Depression
• To analyze how President Hoover responded to the Great Depression
• To explain why Hoover lost the 1932 election to Roosevelt

Roosevelt and The New Deal

• To describe Roosevelt’s immediate attempts to improve conditions for Americans
• To evaluate criticisms of the New Deal
• To identify the Social Security Act and other programs of the Second New Deal
• To explain Roosevelt’s efforts to change the Supreme Court

Life During the Depression

• To analyze the effects of the Dust Bowl
• To describe life during the Depression and the efforts of artists to portray that area
• To explain how women and minorities were affected by the Depression and the New Deal
• To summarize the gains made by unions during the Depression

The Effects of the New Deal

• To summarize the lasting effects of the Depression
• To explain the expansion of government in social and economic life
• To evaluate New Deal programs that are still important today
• To describe current political debates arising from the New Deal

Chapter 27: The Rise of Dictators and World War II 1931-1945

Steps to War

• To understand the rise of dictators before World War II
• To identify how dictators expanded their territories
• To describe how Germany began World War II
• To explain how the United States helped the Allies and why it entered the war

War in Africa and Europe

• To explain how the United States mobilized the war
• To identify major battles in Africa and Italy
• To trace the course of the war in Europe
• To describe the horrors of the Holocaust

War in the Pacific

• To explain how Japan expanded its empire before 1942
• To identify Midway as the turning point of the war in the Pacific
• To understand the strategy of island hopping and the purpose of invading Iwo Jima and Okinawa
• To describe how the use of atomic weapons ended the war

The Home Front

• To explain the wartime economy of the United States
• To identify opportunities for women and minorities during the war
• To describe the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II

The Legacy of the War

• To evaluate the costs of the war
• To identify ways in which the war changed American society
• To describe the purpose and outcome of the Nuremberg trials
• To describe the goals of the United Nations and to identify postwar international tensions

Chapter 28: The Cold War and the American Dream 1945-1960

Peacetime Adjustments and the Cold War

• To describe how the economy changed after World War II
• To evaluate Truman’s response to labor unrest and civil rights issues
• To analyze the origins of the Cold War and containment policies
• To explain how fear of communism affected international relations and domestic policies

The Korean War and McCarthyism

• To explain how the Korean War began
• To trace the course of the Korean War through the cease fire
• To evaluate the anticommunist campaign of Joseph McCarthy
• To describe the Cold War policies of President Eisenhower

The Fifties

• To identify the groups that were left out of the prosperity of the 1950s
• To summarize changes in American life during the 1950s
• To analyze the American Dream and how pop culture and rock-n-roll affected society
• To describe the outcome of the 1960 election

Chapter 29: The Civil Rights Era 1954-1975

Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

• To identify factors that contributed to the civil rights movement
• To explain the significance of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
• To analyze the effects of civil rights victories
• To describe the process of school desegregation in Little Rock and the numerous sit-ins throughout the South

Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights

• To evaluate the effects  of the 1960 election and the Birmingham protests
• To analyze the events that led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• To describe President Johnson’s role in the Civil Rights movement
• To explain divisions in the civil rights movement

The Equal Rights Struggle Expands

• To describe how Mexican Americans organized to promote reforms
• To compare the political differences among Hispanic Americans
• To describe the goals and successes of native American protests for rights and recognition
• To evaluate reasons for the women’s movement and to describe its efforts to win rights for women

Chapter 30: The Vietnam War Years 1954-1975

Cold War Roots of the Conflict

• To analyze the roots of the war
• To describe the domino theory and the division of Vietnam
• To identify the Viet Cong and their goals
• To describe the US responses to Communist threats around the world

War Expands in Vietnam

• To describe events that led to the United States to send combat troops to Vietnam
• To analyze the kind of war US troops faced
• To explain US Military tactics
• To describe the Tet offensive and sinking US morale

The Vietnam War Ends

• To analyze the growing antiwar movement in the US
• To describe the events that made 1968 a turning point of the war
• To explain Nixon’s Vietnam strategy and the US withdrawal from Vietnam
• To analyze the legacy of the Vietnam War

Chapter 31: Years of Doubt 1969-1981

Nixon Confronts Problems

• To identify domestic problems facing the nation in 1968
• To evaluate Nixon’s actions and to restore law and order
• To summarize American economic conditions in the early 1970s
• To describe how President Nixon pursued his foreign policy goals

Watergate Brings Down Nixon

• To analyze the 1972 presidential election
• To trace events leading to the Watergate scandal
• To describe the Watergate investigation and Nixon’s resignation
• To evaluate the effects of the Watergate scandal

Issues of the 1970s

• To summarize events of the Ford presidency
• To evaluate the Carter presidency
• To describe the environmental movement
• To analyze the 1980 presidential race

Chapter 32: Entering a New Millennium 1981-present

Conservatives Reshape Politics

• To identify Reagan’s conservative goals and his beliefs about communism
• To evaluate George H.W. Bush’s presidency
• To analyze Clinton’s conflicts with Congress
• To explain the causes of the war in Kosovo
• To analyze the 2000 presidential election
• To analyze the War on Terrorism
• To identify George W. Bush’s domestic policies

Technological and Economic Changes

• To analyze the impact of new technology on daily life and the economy
• To explain how economic change affected workers in the 1990s
• To describe the global economy
• To identify recent scientific breakthroughs

The New Americans

• To analyze the attitudes of Americans toward recent immigration
• To identify the contributions of immigrants to American society
• To describe some of the beliefs and values Americans share