Anna+D+2014

[|Great Depression and the New Deal]toc Anna D.

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 One of the neatest things about having laptops is that displaying my work has never been easier. See the list below of all the assignments, projects, and other work we've done this year in History. Every assignment is aligned with our curriculum for high school U.S. History, according to the High School Content Expectations (HSCE). The content expectations are established by the state and guide our curriculum through the year. Below is a list of our content expectations. To the left of each expectation, under "Performance", is a link to the work I have completed that demonstrates my understanding of it. [|Click here to download a PDF of the HSCEs].


 * ~ Performance ||~ Grade Level Content Expectation ||
 * Foundations in U.S. History and Geography: Below is a summary of the content that has been addressed in grades 5-8. We review these before beginning the high school content expectations. ||
 * My Work || F1 - Political and Intellectual Transformations of America to 1877
 * F1.1 Identify the core ideals of American society as reﬂected in the documents below and analyze the ways that American society moved toward and/or away from its core ideals
 * Declaration of Independence
 * The U.S. Constitution (including the Preamble)
 * The Bill of Rights
 * the Gettysburg Address
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">F1.2 Using the American Revolution, the creation and adoption of the Constitution, and the Civil War as touchstones, develop an argument/narrative about the changing character of American political society and the roles of key individuals across cultures in prompting supporting the change by discussing
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the birth of republican government, including the rule of law, inalienable rights, equality, and limited government
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the development of governmental roles in American life
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">and competing views of the responsibilities of governments (federal, state, and local)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">changes in suffrage qualiﬁcations
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the development of political parties
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">America’s political and economic role in the world ||
 * Presentation || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">F2 - Geographic, Economic, Social, and Demographic Trends in America to 1877
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">F2.1 Describe the major trends and transformations in American life prior to 1877 including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">changing political boundaries of the United States
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">regional economic differences and similarities, including goods produced and the nature of the labor force
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">changes in the size, location, and composition of the population
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">patterns of immigration and migration
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">development of cities
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">changes in commerce, transportation, and communication
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">major changes in Foreign Affairs marked by such events as the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and foreign relations during the Civil War ||
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The high school content expectations begin with United States History and Geography (USHG) in the 6th era. Below, you'll see each expectation preceded by an annotation, used for easy reference. The left number represents the era, the next number represents the HSCE, and if there is another number, it stands for a more defined aspect of the HSCE. USHG ERA 6 - THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDUSTRIAL, URBAN, AND GLOBAL UNITED STATES (1870-1930). ||
 * || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.1 Growth of an Industrial and Urban America: Explain the causes and consequences – both positive and negative – of the Industrial Revolution and America’s growth from a predominantly agricultural, commercial, and rural nation to a more industrial and urban nation between 1870 and 1930. ||
 * 6.1.1 || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.1.1 Factors in the American Industrial Revolution – Analyze the factors that enabled the United States to become a major industrial power, including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">gains from trade
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">organizational “revolution”
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">advantages of physical geography
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">increase in labor through immigration and migration
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">economic polices of government and industrial leaders (including Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">technological advances ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.1.2 Labor’s Response to Industrial Growth – Evaluate the different responses of labor to industrial change including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">development of organized labor, including the Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, and the United Mine Workers
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">southern and western farmers’ reactions, including the growth of populism and the populist movement (e.g., Farmers Alliance, Grange, Platform of the Populist Party, Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech) ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.1.3 Urbanization – Analyze the changing urban and rural landscape by examining
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the location and expansion of major urban centers
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the growth of cities linked by industry and trade
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the development of cities divided by race, ethnicity, and class
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">resulting tensions among and within groups
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">different perspectives about immigrant experiences in the urban setting ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.1.4 Population Changes – Use census data from 1790-1940 to describe changes in the composition, distribution, and density of the American population and analyze their causes, including immigration, the Great Migration, and urbanization. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.1.5 A Case Study of American Industrialism ­– Using the automobile industry as a case study, analyze the causes and consequences of this major industrial transformation by explaining
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the impact of resource availability
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">entrepreneurial decision making by Henry Ford and others
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">domestic and international migrations
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the development of an industrial work force
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the impact on Michigan
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the impact on American society ||
 * || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.2 Becoming a World Power - Describe and analyze the major changes – both positive and negative – in the role the United States played in world affairs after the Civil War, and explain the causes and consequences of this changing role. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.2.1 Growth of U.S. Global Power – Locate on a map the territories (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Hawaii, Panama Canal Zone) acquired by the United States during its emergence as an imperial power between 1890 and 1914, and analyze the role the Spanish American War, the Philippine Revolution, the Panama Canal, the Open Door Policy, and the Roosevelt Corollary played in expanding America’s global inﬂuence and redeﬁ ning its foreign policy. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.2.2 WWI – Explain the causes of World War I, the reasons for American neutrality and eventual entry into the war, and America’s role in shaping the course of the war. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.2.3 Domestic Impact of WWI – Analyze the domestic impact of WWI on the growth of the government (e.g., War Industries Board), the expansion of the economy, the restrictions on civil liberties (e.g., Sedition Act, Red Scare, Palmer Raids), and the expansion of women’s suffrage. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.2.4 Wilson and His Opponents – Explain how Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” differed from proposals by others, including French and British leaders and domestic opponents, in the debate over the Versailles Treaty, United States participation in the League of Nations, the redrawing of European political boundaries, and the resulting geopolitical tensions that continued to affect Europe. ||
 * || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.3 Progressivism and Reform - Select and evaluate major public and social issues emerging from the changes in industrial, urban, and global America during this period; analyze the solutions or resolutions developed by Americans, and their consequences (positive/negative – anticipated/unanticipated) including, but not limited to, the following: ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.3.1 Social Issues – Describe at least three signiﬁcant problems or issues created by America’s industrial and urban transformation between 1895 and 1930 (e.g., urban and rural poverty and blight, child labor, immigration, political corruption, public health, poor working conditions, and monopolies). ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.3.2 Causes and Consequences of Progressive Reform – Analyze the causes, consequences, and limitations of Progressive reform in the following areas major changes in the Constitution, including 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">new regulatory legislation (e.g., Pure Food and Drug Act, Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the Supreme Court’s role in supporting or slowing reform
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">role of reform organizations, movements and individuals in promoting change (e.g., Women’s Christian Temperance Union, settlement house movement, conservation movement, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Eugene Debs, W.E.B. DuBois, Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">efforts to expand and restrict the practices of democracy as reﬂected in post-Civil War struggles of African Americans and immigrants ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6.3.3 Women’s Suffrage – Analyze the successes and failures of efforts to expand women’s rights, including the work of important leaders (e.g., Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton) and the eventual ratiﬁ cation of the 19th Amendment. ||
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Below begins a new era in U.S. History and Geography: ERA 7 - THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II (1920-1945). The United States has grown to become a leading industrialized nation and a major contributor to a more global economy. This Era demonstrates the responsibilities and pitfalls that accompany such a status. ||
 * || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.1 Growing Crisis of Industrial Capitalism and Responses: Evaluate the key events and decisions surrounding the causes and consequences of the global depression of the 1930s and World War II. ||
 * [|Download] || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.1.1 The Twenties – Identify and explain the signiﬁcance of the cultural changes and tensions in the “Roaring Twenties” including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">cultural movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance and the “lost generation”
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the struggle between “traditional” and “modern” America (e.g., Scopes Trial, immigration restrictions, Prohibition, role of women, mass consumption) ||
 * Great Depression and the New Deal || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.1.2 Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression – Explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the political, economic, environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression including ﬁscal policy, overproduction, under consumption, and speculation, the 1929 crash, and the Dust Bowl
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental conditions that affected farmers, industrial workers and families
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hoover’s policies and their impact (e.g., Reconstruction Finance Corporation) ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.1.3 The New Deal – Explain and evaluate Roosevelt’s New Deal Policies including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">expanding the federal government’s responsibilities to protect the environment (e.g., Dust Bowl and the Tennessee Valley), meet challenges of unemployment, address the needs of workers, farmers, poor, and elderly
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">opposition to the New Deal and the impact of the Supreme Court in striking down and then accepting New Deal laws
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">consequences of New Deal policies (e.g., promoting workers’ rights, development of Social Security program, and banking and ﬁnancial regulation conservation practices, crop subsidies) ||
 * || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.2 World War II: Examine the causes and course of World War II, and the effects of the war on United States society and culture, including the consequences for United States involvement in world affairs. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.2.1 Causes of WWII – Analyze the factors contributing to World War II in Europe and in the Paciﬁc region, and America’s entry into war including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the political and economic disputes over territory (e.g., failure of Versailles Treaty, League of Nations, Munich Agreement)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the differences in the civic and political values of the United States and those of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">United States neutrality
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the bombing of Pearl Harbor ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.2.2 U.S. and the Course of WWII – Evaluate the role of the U.S. in ﬁghting the war militarily, diplomatically and technologically across the world (e.g., Germany First strategy, Big Three Alliance and the development of atomic weapons). ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.2.3 Impact of WWII on American Life – Analyze the changes in American life brought about by U.S. participation in World War II including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">mobilization of economic, military, and social resources
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">role of women and minorities in the war effort
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">role of the home front in supporting the war effort (e.g., rationing, work hours, taxes)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">internment of Japanese-Americans ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.2.3 Impact of WWII on American Life – Analyze the changes in American life brought about by U.S. participation in World War II including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">mobilization of economic, military, and social resources
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">role of women and minorities in the war effort
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">role of the home front in supporting the war effort (e.g., rationing, work hours, taxes)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">internment of Japanese-Americans ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">7.2.4 Responses to Genocide – Investigate development and enactment of Hitler’s “ﬁnal solution” policy, and the responses to genocide by the Allies, the U.S. government, international organizations, and individuals (e.g., liberation of concentration camps, Nuremberg war crimes tribunals, establishment of state of Israel). ||
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Below begins a new era in U.S. History and Geography: ERA 8 – POST-WORLD WAR 11 UNITED STATES (1945 -1989). The decades following WWII were anything but peaceful. America had solidified its place in the global community and was the beacon for the superiority of democracy. However, the socialist and communist ideologies were strengthening and challenged the ideals upon which our nation was founded and created the perception of a threat to our way of life. ||
 * || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.1 Cold War and the United States: Identify, analyze, and explain the causes, conditions, and impact of the Cold War Era on the United States. ||
 * [|Does it Explode] || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.1.1 Origins and Beginnings of Cold War – Analyze the factors that contributed to the Cold War including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">differences in the civic, ideological and political values, and the economic and governmental institutions of the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">diplomatic decisions made at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences (1945)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">actions by both countries in the last years of and years following World War II (e.g., the use of the atomic bomb, the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, North American Treaty Alliance (NATO), and Warsaw Pact) ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.1.2 Foreign Policy during the Cold War – Evaluate the origins, setbacks, and successes of the American policy of “containing” the Soviet Union, including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the development of a U.S. national security establishment, composed of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the intelligence community
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the armed struggle with Communism, including the Korean conﬂict
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">direct conﬂicts within speciﬁc world regions including Germany and Cuba
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and the foreign and domestic consequences of the war (e.g., relationship/conﬂicts with U.S.S.R. and China, U.S. military policy and practices, responses of citizens and mass media)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">indirect (or proxy) confrontations within speciﬁc world regions (e.g., Chile, Angola, Iran, Guatemala)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the arms race ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.1.3 End of the Cold War – Evaluate the factors that led to the end of the cold war including détente, policies of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. and their leaders (President Reagan and Premier Gorbachev), the political breakup of the Soviet Union, and the Warsaw Pact. ||
 * [[file:8.2assessmentanna14de.pages]] || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.2 Domestic Policies: Examine, analyze, and explain demographic changes, domestic policies, conﬂicts, and tensions in Post- WWII America. ||
 * [[file:History Final Exam Essay.pdf]] || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.2.1 Demographic Changes – Use population data to produce and analyze maps that show the major changes in population distribution, spatial patterns and density, including the Baby Boom, new immigration, suburbanization, reverse migration of African Americans to the South, and the ﬂow of population to the “Sunbelt.” ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.2.2 Policy Concerning Domestic Issues – Analyze major domestic issues in the Post-World War II era and the policies designed to meet the challenges by
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">describing issues challenging Americans such as domestic anticommunism (McCarthyism), labor, poverty, health care, infrastructure, immigration, and the environment
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">evaluating policy decisions and legislative actions to meet these challenges (e.g., G.I. Bill of Rights (1944), Taft-Hartley Act (1947), Twenty-Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1951), Federal Highways Act (1956), National Defense Act (1957), E.P.A. (1970) ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.2.3 Comparing Domestic Policies – Focusing on causes, programs, and impacts, compare and contrast Roosevelt’s New Deal initiatives, Johnson’s Great Society programs, and Reagan’s market-based domestic policies. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.2.4 Domestic Conﬂicts and Tensions – Using core democratic values, analyze and evaluate the competing perspectives and controversies among Americans generated by U.S. Supreme Court decisions (e.g., Roe v Wade, Gideon, Miranda, Tinker, Hazelwood), the Vietnam War (anti-war and counter-cultural movements), environmental movement, women’s rights movement, and the constitutional crisis generated by the Watergate scandal. ||
 * || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.3 Civil Rights in the Post-WWII Era: Examine and analyze the Civil Rights Movement using key events, people, and organizations. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.3.1 Civil Rights Movement – Analyze the key events, ideals, documents, and organizations in the struggle for civil rights by African Americans including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the impact of WWII and the Cold War (e.g., racial and gender integration of the military)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Supreme Court decisions and governmental actions (e.g., Brown v. Board (1954), Civil Rights Act (1957), Little Rock schools desegregation, Civil Rights Act (1964), Voting Rights Act (1965))
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">protest movements, organizations, and civil actions (e.g., integration of baseball, Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956), March on Washington (1963), freedom rides, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Nation of Islam, Black Panthers)
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">resistance to Civil Rights ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.3.2 Ideals of the Civil Rights Movement – Compare and contrast the ideas in Martin Luther King’s March on Washington speech to the ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the Seneca Falls Resolution, and the Gettysburg Address. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.3.3 Women’s Rights – Analyze the causes and course of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s (including role of population shifts, birth control, increasing number of women in the work force, National Organization for Women (NOW), and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)). ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.3.4 Civil Rights Expanded – Evaluate the major accomplishments and setbacks in civil rights and liberties for American minorities over the 20th century including American Indians, Latinos/Latinas, new immigrants, people with disabilities, and gays and lesbians. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">8.3.5 Tensions and Reactions to Poverty and Civil Rights – Analyze the causes and consequences of the civil unrest that occurred in American cities by comparing the civil unrest in Detroit with at least one other American city (e.g., Los Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Newark). ||
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Below begins a new era in U.S. History and Geography: ERA 9 – AMERICA IN A NEW GLOBAL AGE. As modern living advanced America, societal norms and values stretch and bend to fit cultural needs. Domestic events and policies have an increasing impact as technology and communication advance. ||
 * || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9.1 The Impact of Globalization on the United States: Explain the impact of globalization on the United States’ economy, politics, society and role in the world. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9.1.1 Economic Changes – Using the changing nature of the American automobile industry as a case study, evaluate the changes in the American economy created by new markets, natural resources, technologies, corporate structures, international competition, new sources and methods of production, energy issues, and mass communication. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9.1.2 Transformation of American Politics – Analyze the transformation of American politics in the late 20th and early 21st centuries including
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">growth of the conservative movement in national politics, including the role of Ronald Reagan
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">role of evangelical religion in national politics
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">intensiﬁcation of partisanship
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">partisan conﬂict over the role of government in American life
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">role of regional differences in national politics ||
 * || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9.2 Changes in America’s Role in the World: Examine the shifting role of United States on the world stage during the period from 1980 to the present. ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9.2.1 U.S. in the Post-Cold War World – Explain the role of the United States as a super-power in the post-Cold War world, including advantages, disadvantages, and new challenges (e.g., military missions in Lebanon, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Gulf War). ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9.2.2 9/11 and Responses to Terrorism – Analyze how the attacks on 9/11 and the response to terrorism have altered American domestic and international policies (including e.g., the Ofﬁce of Homeland Security, Patriot Act, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, role of the United States in the United Nations, NATO). ||
 * || <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9.3 Policy Debates ||
 * || * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">9.3.1 Compose a persuasive essay on a public policy issue, and justify the position with a reasoned argument based upon historical antecedents and precedents, and core democratic values or constitutional principles.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">role of the United States in the world
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">national economic policy
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">welfare policy
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">energy policy
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">health care
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">education
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">civil rights ||

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">METS
<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> In addition, the state of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Education adopted the Michigan Education Technology Standards (METS). These standards state the needs students have meet prior to exiting 8th grade (there is a set for each grade level). See how we measured up by clicking here for the [|9-12 Grade METS].