U.s. history pacing guide 2011

U.S. HISTORY Pacing Guide 1st
4 ½ Weeks WEEK 1
Course Learning
Expectations CLEs
(State Standards)
Checks for
Understanding
Student Performance
Indicators SPIs
Resources
(Textbook, Videos,
Speakers, Etc.)
Assessments
(Formative/Summative)
Pre-Test
Standard 4.0: >Understand
the effects of the Civil War
and Reconstruction on the
United States politics.
>Understand the political
issues and problems that
affected the U. S. during the
last ½ of the 19th
century.
Standard 5.0:
>Investigate the dynamics
of the post-Reconstruction
era and the people and
events that influenced the
country.
Standard 6.0
>Appreciate the diversity of
various cultures and their
influences on the U. S.
Investigate the effect of big
business upon the lives of
farmers and wage earners.
RECONSTRUCTION
1. Explain the effect the Civil War
had on industry in the South.
2. Why was Lincoln in favor of a
more lenient punishment for the
south?
3. Explain the differences in
Lincoln’s 10% plan and Wade-
Davis’s proposal for readmitting
the South to the Union.
4. How were political cartoons
used to promote and gain support
for ideas and changes?
5. Explain the significance of the
13th
,14th
, and 15th
amendment.
6. Identify Black Codes and
describe their effect on the newly
freed slaves.
Freedmen’s Bureau to the
Reconstruction process.
8. What affect did Andrew
Johnson have on Lincoln’s
Reconstruction plans?
9. Explain where and why the Ku
Klux Klan was created.
10. In what ways did the KKK
hinder progress for the newly freed
slaves?
>6.2 Identify major
agricultural post- Civil
War American geographic
areas on a map.
>6.3 Identify major urban
areas of the U.S. on a map
(i.e., Northeast, upper
Midwest, Atlantic Coast,
California).
>6.6 Read and Interpret a
primary source document
reflecting the dynamics of
the Gilded Age American
society
>His Faith Never
Wavered video (L)
>song “Strangefruit” by
Billie Holiday (S)
>excerpts from book
Jubilee (S)
>clips from video 1 of
Reconstruction DVD set
(S)
>excerpts from Glory
education edition (L)
>Frederick Douglass
Biography video (L)
>Paul Laurence Dunbar’s
poem “Sympathy” (S)
>clips from last portion
of movie, Gone With the
Wind (W)
>Roots Episode 6 clip (W)
>The American President
Episode 2 (W)
>Rebuilding the
American Nation video
(L)
Pre-Test
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__Processed Food During
Civil War
__Textile Manufacturing
During Civil War
__Freedmen’s Bureau
__13th
Amendment
__Inflation
__Devastation of the South
__Reconstruction Plans
__Lincoln Assassination
__Labor Patterns
__Johnson Impeachment
__14th
Amendment
__15th
Amendment
__Redeemers
__Southern Governments
__Compromise of 1877
__New South
__Jim Crow
__Black Codes
__Sharecroppers
__KKK
__Post-Civil War
Agriculture Map
__Major Urban Areas Map
__Society in Gilded Age
Primary Source
Documents

WEEK 2
Standard 1.0
>Understand how industrial
development affected the
United States culture.
>Understand how the influx
of immigrants after 1880
affected the U. S. culture.
Standard 2.0
Investigate how the
modernization of agriculture
and capitalist industrial
economy of the United
States.
Standard 5.0:
country.
Standard 6.0
AGE OF INVENTIONS
1. Explain the importance of steel in
the Second Industrial Revolution.
2. Explain the significance of
Henry Bessemer’s Bessemer
Process.
3. Which cities were major centers
for steel production?
4. What effect did the
transcontinental RR have on trade
and travel?
5. Identify the inventors that are
responsible for the airbrake,
refrigerated freight cars,
passenger elevators, the telegraph
machine, the Remington
typewriter, and the telephone?
6. How did typing pools affect
women?
7. What type of things did women
begin to want once they were
allowed to work in the public
sphere?
8. What resources were in high
demand by the railroad industry?
9. What led to the growth of
textile manufacturing in the
Northern U.S. during the Civil
War?
10. Identify agricultural regions
on a map.
>6.1 Identify how the
effects of 19th
century
warfare promoted the
growth of industrialism
(i.e., railroads, iron versus
steel industry, textiles,
coal, rubber, processed
foods).
>6.7 Recognize the
technological and
industrial advancements in
mining, farming, or
ranching.
>6.8 Match innovators to
their industrial and
technological
contributions (i.e.,
Vanderbilt, Westinghouse,
Carnegie, Pullman,
Hershey, DuPont, Bell,
Edison, Rockefeller,
Swift, and Armour).
Thomas A. Edison:
Father of Invention
biography DVD (W)
Andrew Carnegie and
the Age of Steel
documentary DVD (L)
workbooks (W)
>political cartoons/
advertisements that use
racial stereotypes to
support the idea of
Social Darwinism (S)
>ads/political cartoons
from recent presidential
election that suggest
Marxism/ Socialism (S)
>Andrew Carnegie and
the Age of Steel DVD
(L)
>Milton Hershey: The
Chocolate King
Biography DVD (L)
>Henry Ford
Biography DVD (L)
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__Bessemer Process
__Major Cities for Steel
Production
__Andrew Carnegie
__Elijah McCoy
__Transcontinental Railroad
__Resources for railroads
__Phillip Armour
__Alexander Graham Bell
__Samuel F.B. Morse
__Gustavus Swift
__Barbed Wire
__ Steel Plow
__John Deere
__DuPont
__Thomas Edison
__Milton Hershey
__Immigration Patterns
__Gospel of Wealth
__Sojourner Truth
__Capitalism v. Socialism
__Laissez Faire Government
__Karl Marx
__Marxism and Socialism
Political Cartoons
__Herbert Spencer
__Social Darwinism
__Social Darwinism Political
Cartoons
__John D. Rockefeller
__Cornelius Vanderbilt
__George Westinghouse
__George Pullman
__Mass Marketing
__Economic Disparity

Standard 1.0
Standard 2.0
Investigate how the
modernization of agriculture
and capitalist industrial
economy of the United
States
Standard 5.0:
country.
Standard 6.0
farmers and wage earners
RISE OF CAPITALISM
1. How does capitalism differ
from socialism?
2. Would supporters of a laissez-
faire government be in favor of
“big” government? Why? Or
Why not?
3. Explain the difference between
Karl Marx’s theory on wealth and
Herbert Spencer’s.
4. How was the theory of Social
Darwinism applied to minorities
and the poor?
5. Interpret Carnegie’s Gospel
of Wealth.
6. Explain the difference between
vertical and horizontal integration.
7. Identify the factors that
contributed to Carnegie and
Rockefeller becoming the icons
that they were.
8. What effect did the inventions
of Vanderbilt, Westinghouse, and
Pullman have on travel/trade?
9. How did mass marketing affect
trade?
10. Interpret photographs of
manufacturing in tenements by
Jacob Riis.
11. Examine what led to the
growing income gap during the
Gilded Age.
>6.6 Read and interpret a
the Gilded Age of
American society
(Carnegie’s Gospel of
Wealth, “Ain’t I a
Woman,” Jane Addams’
Hull House Accounts,
Jacob Riis)
>6.9 Recognize the
economic disparity among
farmers, wage earners,
immigrants, or racial
groups when compared to
industrial capitalists.

WEEK 3
Standard 1.0
Standard 5.0:
country.
Standard 6.0
“OLD” vs. “NEW”
IMMIGRANTS
1. Explain the major differences
between the old and new
immigrants.
2. Name the major reasons that
immigrants chose to come to the
United States.
3. Describe the immigrants’
journey to the U. S.
4. List and describe the types of
inspection that the immigrants had
to pass in order to remain in the
U. S.
5. Define nativism. Explain why
the nativists resented the
immigrants.
6. Explain why there was a need
for unions. Name the 2 types of
unions. Name some of the issues
within the labor movement.
7. Explain what tenement
housing was.
8. What was the purpose of Jane
Addams’ Hull House? What type
of services were provided at the
Hull House?
9. Explain the relationship
between immigrants and political
bosses. Why was Boss Tweed so
unpopular?
10. Be able to recognize the
>6.4 Identify patterns of
immigration and the
causal factors that led to
immigration to the U.S.
(i.e., crop famines,
European social and
political unrest, religious
freedom).
>6.5 Distinguish the
differences in assimilation
of “old” vs. “new”
immigration (i.e.,
languages, settlement
patterns, education,
employment, housing,
Nativist reaction, religion,
geographic origin).
the Gilded Age of
American society (Booker
T. Washington’s “Atlanta
Compromise,” Carnegie’s
“Gospel of Wealth, “
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I
a Woman,” Jane Addams’
Hull House Accounts,
Jacob Riis photographs
and/or writings, a
sweatshop worker’s
>political cartoons (S)
>workbooks (W)
>excerpts from Jane
Addams’ Tenement
Housing readings (S)
>Jacob Riis photos (S)
>virtual tour of the 97
Orchard Street
Tenement Housing (S)
>pictures of leisure
activities from Coney
Island book (S)
>video Wobblies (L)
>political cartoons
about Boss Tweed (S)
>handouts comparing
the Populist Movement
to the Wizard of Oz (S)
>The Century:
America’s Time Vol. 1:
“The Beginning: Seeds
of Change” (L) (W)
Far and Away movie
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__Old v. New Immigrants
__Reasons Immigrants
Came to U.S.
__Immigrant Journey
__Ellis Island and Angel
Island
__Nativism
__ Booker T. Washington’s
“Atlanta Compromise”
__Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a
Woman?”
__Labor Movement Issues
__Tenements
__Jane Addams Hull House
Accounts
__Andrew Carnegie’s
“Gospel of Wealth”
__Jacob Riis photographs
and writings
__Boss Tweed
__National Board of Review
__YMCA
__NCAA
__Sherman Anti-Trust Act
__Populist Movement
__Grant’s Black Friday
__Credit Mobilier
__Graft
__Gilded Age political
Cartoon
__Whiskey Ring

definition for graft.
11.Explain why the National
Board of Review was created.
11. Explain why the Victorians
were against consumerism and
leisure activities?
for the YMCA and the NCAA.
13. Why was the Sherman Anti
trust Act ineffective?
Grange.
15. Explain why the Populist
movement was significant.
16. What economic factors made
the populist party popular with the
people?
17. List Grant’s Administration
Scandals.
18. Interpret Carnegie’s Gospel
of Wealth.
19. Describe the scandal
involving Credit Mobilier.
20. Describe the scandal called
the Whiskey Ring.
personal story).
>6.9 Recognize the
economic disparity among
farmers, wage earners,
immigrants, or racial
groups when compared to
industrial capitalists
>6.10 Interpret a political
cartoon which portrays the
controversial aspects of
the Gilded Age (e.g.,
Populist reaction to
politician and/or tycoons,
railroad development,
westward expansion,
Dawes Act, urban
developments).
>6.11Analyze the impact
of different forms of
corruption and its
consequences in American
politics during the later
half of the Age.(i.e.,
Grant's Black Friday,
Credit Mobilier, Whiskey
Ring Ring, Tammany
Hall, Boss System,
Garfield's assassination,
Civil Service Reform,
Granger laws, Interstate
Commerce Act).
clip (W)
The American
President Episode 7
(Ulysses S. Grant)

WEEK 4
Standard 1.0
>Understand social
tensions and their
consequences after the
turn of the century.
Standard 4.0
>Understand the
governmental policies that
affected America and the
world during the 1890s-
1930s.
Standard 5.0
>Understand the role of
the United States in world
affairs.
Imperialism and
Progressivism
U. S. imperialism.
2.Compare/contrast the theory of
Anglo-Saxonism with Manifest
Destiny.
3. What was the reasoning behind
the U. S.’s decision to force Japan
to becoming a trading partner?
4. Explain how the U. S. acquired
Hawaii as a territory.
5. Identify Jose Marti, William
Randolph Hearst, and Joseph
Pulitzer.
6. Define and give examples of
yellow journalism.
7. Why was Spain blamed for the
explosion of the USS Maine?
8. What was the significance of
the Platt Amendment?
9. Why were many Filipinos
distrustful of the U. S. government
after the Spanish- American War?
Open Door Policy.
11. Explain the factors that led to
the Boxer Rebellion.
dollar diplomacy.
13. Why did the United States
>7.1 Identify causes of
American imperialism (i.
e., raw materials,
nationalism, missionaries,
militarism, Monroe
Doctrine).
>7.2 Identify
consequences of
American imperialism (i.
e., Spanish American
War, expanding trade,
extractive economies,
Panama Canal, the idea of
superior Anglo-Saxon
culture, yellow
journalism, military
occupation)
>The American Vision:
Modern Times textbook
>Theodore Roosevelt:
Roughrider to
Rushmore documentary
DVD (W)
>Joseph Pulitzer
biography video (L)
>The Panama Canal
documentary video (L)
>Teddy Roosevelt: An
American Lion DVD
series (L)
>The Age of Theodore
Roosevelt video (L)
>The American
President Episode 9
(Theodore Roosevelt)
(W)
Weekly Assessment
4 ½ Week Assessment
CHECKLIST
__Imperialism
__Anglo-Saxonism and
Manifest Destiny
__U.S.-Japan Trade
__Hawaii
__Jose Marti
__William Randolph Hearst
__Joseph Pulitzer
__Yellow Journalism
__U.S.S. Maine
__Platt Amendment
__Spanish-American War
__Military Occupation
__Open Door Policy
__Boxer Rebellion
__Dollar Diplomacy
__Panama Canal
__Theodore Roosevelt
__Muckrakers
__Ida Tarbell
__Upton Sinclair
__The Jungle
__Suffrage Movement
__Initiative, Referendum,
and Recall
__Anti-Trust Supreme Court
Decisions
__Foreign Relations and
Collapse of U.S. Economy
__health and safety codes
__organized crime
__Al Capone
__Hepburn Act
__Meat Inspection Act

Standard 1.0
>Understand social
tensions and their
>Understand the cultural
changes in the early 20th
century.
decide to build a canal through
Panama? How did Roosevelt
assist Panama in becoming
independent?
14. Describe the term,
“militarism.”
Progressive Movement
1. Identify significant activists in
the Progressive movement.
muckraking journalists.
Woman Suffrage Movement.
4. Identify the significant
activists from the Suffrage
Movement.
for child labor laws as well as
health and safety codes.
6. Explain how prohibition led
to an increase in organized
crime.
Hepburn Act, the Meat Inspection
Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act,
and the Children’s Bureau.
8. Explain the effect Upton
Sinclair’s novel The Jungle had
on meat inspection.
9. Explain how Roosevelt used his
position to influence conservation.
10. Why was there a need for
>7.3 Recognize the
progress of political and
social reform in America
during this era (i.e.,
Women's Suffrage,
Regulation of food and
drug, Initiative,
Referendum, and Recall,
protection of workers'
rights, Antitrust Supreme
Court decisions,
Muckrakers).
>7.5 Recognize the new
trends, ideas, and
innovations of the 1920's
popular culture (i.e., radio,
automobile, phonograph,
Prohibition, birth control,
organized crime, sports).
Recognize the role of
Tennessee in the women's
suffrage movement. (i.e.,
"the perfect 36", Anne
Dallas Dudley, Harry
Burn, Governor Albert
>excerpts from The
Jungle (S)
>The Jungle (L)
>Al Capone biography
DVD (L)
>excerpts from the
Atlanta Compromise
(S)
>Ain’t I A Woman
handouts (S)
>advertisements for
medicine (many
include cocaine and
heroin as key
ingredients) and other
consumer products (S)
>pictures from the
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
(S)
>Progressive Era
Resume
__Pure Food and Drug Act
__Scopes Trial
__flappers
__W.E.B. DuBois
__Booker T. Washington
__Marcus Garvey

End of 1st
Mini Quarter
Wilson’s reform acts?
11. Why was there a need for the
NAACP?
12. Interpret Booker T.
Washington’s Atlanta
Compromise.
13. Compare and contrast the
views of Booker T. Washington,
Marcus Garvey, and W.E.B.
DuBois.
14. Describe the significance of
the Scopes Trial as an
illustration of the cultural
conflict in the 1920s.
15. Describe a flapper and how
they challenged traditional
attitudes.
16. Define initiative,
referendum, and recall as they
relate to removing public
officials from office.
17. Read and interpret passages
from Zora Neale Hurston and
Langston Hughes.
18. Why did members of the
Lost Generation leave the
United States?
19. What were important
political aims of the Progressive
Movement?
Roberts).
7.7 Read and interpret a
reflecting the social
dynamics of the 1920's.
(e.g. Harlem Renaissance,
Lost Generation, Upton
Sinclair).
>7.8 Compare and
contrast the philosophies
of DuBois, Washington
and Garvey.
>movie Iron-Jawed
Angels (L)
>excerpts from video A
Crusade for Justice
(Ida B. Wells) (S)
>lynch laws (handout)
(S)
>racial etiquette
handout (S)
>handout on origin of
NASCAR (S)
>video: Murder at the
Fair: The
Assassination of
President William Mc
Kinley (S)
>“I, Too” poem by
Langston Hughes
>The American
President series (W)
>The Progressive Era
video (L)

U.S. HISTORY Pacing Guide Second 4 ½ Weeks Week 1
Course Learning
Expectations CLEs
(State Standards)
Checks for
Understanding
Student Performance
Indicators SPIs
Resources
(Textbook, Videos,
Speakers, Etc.)
Assessments
Standard 1.0
>Understand social
tensions and their
century.
>Understand the effect of
the Great Depression upon
American society.
Standard 4.0
>Understand the reforms
and changes in American
politics and government as
a result of the Progressive
Movement.
>Understand the
1930s.
Standard 5.0
affairs.
Standard6.0
>Understand the moral,
social, and cultural
changes that occurred in
the 1920s.
World War I
militarism, alliances,
nationalism, and imperialism as
it relates to World War I.
Franz Ferdinand’s
assassination.
the sinking of the Lusitania.
4. Explain how the Sussex
Pledge and the Zimmermann
telegram led to the U. S.’s
involvement in WWI.
5. Why did Americans chose
to support Britain over
Germany?
the Wartime Agencies.
8. How was propaganda used
to gain support for this war?
9. Why was there a need for the
draft?
10. How did WWI bring
women out of the private
sphere?
11. What new forms of
technology were introduced by
the Allied powers in WWI?
>7.4 Identify the causes of
American involvement in
World War I (i.e., security
concerns, economic benefits,
Wilsonian diplomacy,
propaganda).
>Sergeant York
documentary (L)
>Sergeant York movie
clips (L)
>pictures of trench
warfare (S)
>video: Lusitania (S)
>clips from movie Fly
Boys (L)
>Woodrow Wilson:
Idealism and American
Democracy video (L)
>The American
President Episode 6
video (Woodrow
Wilson) (W)
>The Century:
America’s Time “1914-
1919: Shell Shock”
video (L) (W)
>America Over There:
The United States in
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__militarism
__WWI Alliances
__imperialism
__Franz Ferdinand
Assassination Impact
__Lusitania Sinking
__unrestricted submarine
warfare
__Sussex Pledge
__Zimmerman Telegram
__Wartime Agencies
__Propaganda
__Women’s Role in WWI
__WWI Technology
__Sergeant Alvin York
__Racial Tension
__WWI’s Affect on U.S.
Economy
__Versailles Treaty
__League of Nations
__Woodrow Wilson
__Red Scare

12. What effect did the Treaty
of Versailles have on Germany?
13. Why was the League of
Nations unsuccessful?
14. What effect did the war
have on the U. S. economy?
15. Why was there so much
racial tension at the end of
WWI?
the Red Scare.
World War I video (L)

Standard 1.0
>Understand social
tensions and their
century.
American society.
Standard 4.0
Movement.
>Understand the
1930s.
Standard 5.0
affairs.
Standard6.0
the 1920s.
Roaring ‘20s
1. Explain the theories of
isolationism and
interventionism.
2. Explain the effect mass
production had on the American
economy.
3. Explain why Henry Ford’s
Model T experienced the
success that it did.
4. Explain the effect credit had
on the consumer culture.
5. List the factors that
contributed to the resurgence of
nativism.
6. How did indoor plumbing
affect people’s lives?
7. How did electricity impact
U.S. factories?
8. Identify the arguments and
theories that led to the Scopes
Trial.
the Harlem Renaissance.
10. What was Tennessee’s
impact on women’s suffrage?
11. Describe how organized
crime grew during the
prohibition era.
radio on the popular culture.
13. What was the purpose of
prohibition?
14. What was the significance
of spectator sports on society?
>6.12 Assess the effect of
late 19th century
technological innovation on
the daily lives of American
people (i.e., electricity,
indoor plumbing,
communication,
transportation).
>7.5 Recognize the new
trends, ideas, and
innovations of the 1920's
popular culture (i.e., radio,
automobile, phonograph,
Prohibition, birth control,
organized crime, sports).
Recognize the role of
Tennessee in the women's
suffrage movement. (i.e.,
"the perfect 36", Anne Dallas
Dudley, Harry Burn,
Governor Albert Roberts).
reflecting the social
dynamics of the 1920s. (e.g.
Harlem Renaissance, Lost
Generation, Upton Sinclair).
>7.9 Analyze the American
isolationist position versus
interventionist arguments.
>audio of various Jazz
artists (S)
>excerpts from Flivver
King (S)
>excerpts from video
Scopes: The Battle
Over America’s Soul
(S)
>pictures of Model-T
(S)
>Henry Ford biography
video (L)
>The Reckless Years:
1919-1929 video (L)
>The Jazz Age DVD
(L)
>History of the 20th
Century: 1920-1929
video (L)
>The Century:
1929: Boom to Bust”
video (L) (W)
>The American
WEEK 2
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__isolationism
__interventionism
__mass production
__Hispanic Immigration
__Scopes Trial
__Harlem Renaissance
__Stock Market Crash
__Causes of Great Depression
__electricity for factories
__indoor plumbing
__communication
__transportation
__radio
__Henry Ford
__Prohibition
__Lost Generation
__birth control
__sports
__Babe Ruth
__18th
Amendment
__organized crime
__Al Capone
__Anne Dallas Dudley
__Governor Albert Roberts
__Harry Burn
__ “Perfect 36”
__ jazz

WEEK 3
Standard 1.0
>Understand social
tensions and their
century.
American society.
Standard 4.0
Movement.
>Understand the
1930s.
Standard 5.0
affairs.
Standard6.0
the 1920s.
GREAT
DEPRESSION
1. Explain how credit along
with the ability to buy on
margin helped contribute to
the stock market crash.
bank runs during the Great
Depression.
3. Explain how
overproduction led to massive
layoffs during the Great
Depression.
4. Why did many people
blame Herbert Hoover for the
Great Depression?
5. What environmental
changes affect agriculture?
6. Why did religious
revivalism occur during the
Great Depression?
7. Outline the causes of the
Great Depression.
8. Create a cause and effect
graphic organizer of the
economic cycle during the
Great Depression.
>7.6 Determine the possible
factors that led to the
economic collapse of 1929
(i.e., overproduction of
agriculture and industry,
expansion of credit, financial
speculation, agricultural
failures, tariff barriers,
laissez-faire).
>8.2 Recognize the negative
patterns of an economic
cycle (i.e., increase of
unemployment, decrease of
price level, excess inventory,
decrease of production,
repossession, increase of
business failure, and
bankruptcy).
>8.4 Identify the changes in
social and cultural life
caused by the Great
Depression and the Dust
Bowl (i.e., Hoovervilles,
Bonus Army, migrations,
worldwide economic
depression, Democrat victory
in 1932, widespread poverty,
unemployment, religious
revivalism).
>Jacob Riis photos (S)
>Inherit the Wind
movie (L)
>Grapes of Wrath
movie (L)
>Life in the Thirties
video (L)
>The Century:
1936: Stormy Weather”
video (L) (W)
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__overproduction
__unequal wealth
distribution
__speculation
__bank failures
__decrease in production
__unemployment increase
__repossess
__no relief for needy
__ Herbert Hoover
__Economic Cycle
__ laissez-faire
__Dust Bowl
__Hoovervilles
__Bonus Army
__Election of 1932
__religious revivalism
__speculation quote

Standard 1.0
American society.
Standard 2.0:
>Understand the economic
climate in the United
States during the
Depression Era.
Standard 4.0
>Recognize the effects of
the Great Depression on
the United States political
and judicial system.
Standard 5.0
>Investigate the causes,
effects and attempts to
deal with the Great
Depression.
Standard 6.0
>Understand the changes
in American life as a result
of the Great Depression.
NEW DEAL
1. List and describe the
different types of agencies and
initiatives that FDR used to
try and pull the country out of
the depression.
2. Interpret a New Deal
political cartoon.
3. What were the
contributions of Cordell Hull?
4. How did the establishment
of Camp/Fort Campbell affect
Tennessee during World War
II?
5. How did the TVA impact
the Tennessee Valley?
>8.6 Identify New Deal
Programs/Initiatives (i.e.
Social Security, WPA, TVA,
Indian Reorganization Act,
FDIC, CCC, Wagner/Fair
Labor Standards' Act).
>8.11 Interpret a political
cartoon involving the New
Deal.
>8.9 Recognize the effect of
the New Deal and World
War II on Tennessee (i.e, the
creation of Fort Campbell the
Clarksville Base, Tennessee
Valley Authority, Secretary
of State Cordell Hull, Oak
Ridge).
WEEK 4
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__Hundred Days
__ “fireside chats”
__ Social Security Act
__ SEC
__ AAA
__ NRA
__ WPA
__ TVA
__ Indian Reorganization Act
__ FDIC
__ CCC
__Wagner/Fair Labor
Standards Act
__ New Deal cartoon
__ Camp/Fort Campbell
__ Cordell Hull
__ Oak Ridge
__ Court-Packing Plan
__ Huey Long
End of MiniQuarter MIDTERM EXAM

Pacing Guide Third 4 ½ weeks WEEK 1
Course Learning
Expectations CLEs
(State Standards)
Checks for
Understanding
Student
Performance
Indicators SPIs
Resources
(Textbook, Videos,
Speakers, Etc.)
Assessments
Era 8
Standard Number 1.0:
Culture
Understand the effect of the
Great Depression upon
American society.
Understand the effects of
World War II upon American
society.
Economics
Understand the economic
climate in the United States
during the Depression Era.
Understand how World War II
affected the American
economy.
Geography
Identify the countries affected
by the totalitarian states and
their acts of aggression and
expansion considering
geographic location.
Identify the various theaters of
war during World War II.
Governance and Civics
Recognize the effects of the
WORLD WAR II
1. Explain how the
Treaty of Versailles
indirectly led to
WWII.
2. Explain how
Hitler’s quest for
world domination led
to the U. S.’s
involvement in WWII.
3. Explain the legal
issues that prevented
the Jews from being
able to escape the
Holocaust.
4. Explain the
significance of fascism
to Italy.
5. Explain the
significance of the 7
year plan in Russia.
6. Explain the effect
the Great Depression
had on Japan’s
economy.
7. Explain the factors
that led to Japan’s
decision to bomb
>8.1 Identify the causes
of World War II (i.e.,
Treaty of Versailles,
fascism, failure of the
League of Nations,
Japanese imperialism,
economic worldwide
difficulties).
>8.3 Recognize the
definitions of
totalitarianism, fascism,
communism,
nationalism, and anti-
Semitism.
>8.5 Interpret a
timeline of major
events from World War
II.
>8.7 Recognize World
War II alliances
>8.8 Analyze how
World War II affected
the American economy
(i.e., women in the
>virtual tour of
Auschwitz
>The Boy in the Striped
Pajamas DVD
>Schindler’s List DVD
>photos & PowerPoint
presentation from Mr.
Erwin (includes actual
footage of U. S. troops
going into liberate the
concentration camps)
>clips from the Tuskegee
Airmen
>The Century: America’s
Time “1936-1941: Over
the Edge” video (L) (W)
Time “1941-1945:
Civilians at War” video
(L) (W)
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__ Benito Mussolini
__ fascism
__ socialism
__ communism
__ totalitarianism
__ nationalism
__ anti-Semitism
__ Joseph Stalin
__ Adolf Hitler
__ Axis Powers
__ Allies
__ blitzkrieg
__ Maginot Line
__ Winston Churchill
__ Franklin D. Roosevelt
__ Nuremberg Laws
__ Kristallnacht
__ concentration camps
__ extermination camps
__ Lend-Lease Act
__ Atlantic Charter
__ Japanese imperialism
__ Pearl Harbor attack
__ War Production Board
__ Tuskegee Airmen
__ Douglas MacArthur
__ “Rosie the Riveter”
__ Office of Price Administration
__ rationing
__ victory gardens
__ D-Day

Great Depression on the United
States political and judicial
system.
Recognize the effects of
political policies on civil
liberties during World War II.
History
Investigate the causes, effects
and attempts to deal with the
Great Depression.
Understand the changing
dynamics of American life
during World War II.
Pearl Harbor.
8. Explain the
significance of the
bombing of Pearl
Harbor.
9. Explain the
significance of the
wartime agencies.
10. List and describe
consumer items that
were made popular
because of the war.
11. Explain the effect
of WWII on the U. S.
economy.
12. Explain the war’s
significance to
minorities and women.
13. Explain the
significance of Oak
Ridge.
14. Explain the
importance of Albert
Einstein to America’s
victory over Japan.
15. What led to the
decision to drop
atomic bombs on
Japan?
16. What were the
roles of women during
World War II?
17. Identify World
War II alliances.
18. Interpret a
timeline of World
War II.
workforce, movement
to urban centers,
minority employment,
post war G.I. Bill,
rationing, childcare).
>8.10 Evaluate the
impact of the
Manhattan Project. (i.e.,
the creation of Oak
Ridge, Tennessee,
nuclear proliferation,
espionage, ethical
debate, medical
experimentation,
Nagasaki, Hiroshima).
Time “1941-1945:
Homefront” video (L)
(W)
series (W)
>Harry S Truman: Man
of Decision video (L)
>Truman: A Self Portrait
video (L)
>Hiroshima: The
Decision to Drop the
Bomb video (L)
__ Battle of the Bulge
__ V-E Day
__ Harry S Truman
__ Manhattan Project
__ Oak Ridge
__ V-J Day
__ Truman’s atomic bomb announcement
__ Nuremberg Trials
__Cordell Hull
__United Nations

19. Define
totalitarianism,
fascism, communism,
nationalism, and anti-
Semitism.

Standard 1.0
>Investigate the impact of the
GI Bill of Rights on American
society.
Standard 2.0
>Understand how
demobilization and
conversion to a peacetime
economy affected the United
States.
Understand how sustained
growth led to an affluent
society.
Standard 3.0
>Identify countries dominated
and threatened by communism
after World War II.
>Identify the major areas of
the world in which the United
States was involved after
1945.
Standard 5.0
>Understand the causes,
course, and effects of the Cold
War.
>Investigate and understand
the active theaters of conflict
during the Cold War.
COLD WAR
1. Explain the
significance of the
Yalta Conference.
2. Explain how
Truman’s appointment
to the presidency
increased tension
between the U. S. and
the Soviets.
3. Explain the
significance of the
Marshall Plan and the
Truman Doctrine.
that led to the Korean
War.
5. On what position
did Kennedy and
Goldwater agree?
6. Compare and
contrast Kennedy and
Eisenhower’s foreign
policy strategy.
7. Identify communist
countries on a map.
8. Describe the
>9.1 Recognize
differences among the
victorious Allied
Powers after World
War II (i.e., capitalist,
communist, military
structure, individual
differences).
>9.3 Locate and label
countries, using a map,
dominated or
threatened by
Communism.
>9.6 Recognize
domestic impact of the
Cold War on American
society (i.e.,
McCarthyism, fear,
conformity,
counterculture,
generation gap,
highway system,
consumerism).
>9.9 Recognize the
altered American
approach to foreign
policy (i.e., Bay of
Pigs, Brinkmanship,
Cuban Missile Crisis,
peaceful coexistence).
>9.11 Read and
Time “1946-1952: Best
Years” video (L) (W)
series (W)
>The Korean War video
(L)
>McCarthy Reconsidered
video (L)
WEEK 2
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__ Yalta Conference
__ Soviet Union’s totalitarianism
__ East Germany and West Germany
__ Potsdam Conference
__ Iron Curtain
__ Berlin airlift
__ Long Telegram
__ containment
__ Truman Doctrine
__ Marshall Plan
__ NATO
__ Red Scare
__ HUAC
__ Rosenberg’s
__ McCarthyism
__ brinkmanship
__ CIA
__ Dwight D. Eisenhower
__ map of communist countries
__ 38th
Parallel
__ Inchon Landing
__ Eisenhower’s farewell speech
__ Kennedy’s inaugural address
__ Goldwater’s 1964 nomination speech

foreign policy goals of
the Soviet Union. interpret Cold War
documents (e.g.,
Truman’s
announcement of the
dropping atomic
bombs, the contrast
between Eisenhower’s
farewell speech and
Kennedy’s speech at
Kennedy’s inaugural,
Goldwater’s 1964 party
nomination acceptance
speech, Johnson’s Gulf
of Tonkin declaration).

Standard 6.0
>Understand how the "baby
boom," suburbanization,
desegregation, and other
social movements affected
American society.
>Understand how Cold War
conformity conflicted with
individual rights and self-
expression.
>Investigate how
technological change
transformed American society
and created popular culture.
Standard 1.0
>Investigate the effects of
desegregation, the Civil
Rights Movement, and the
turbulent 1960s upon
American society.
Standard 4.0
course, and impact of the
Civil Rights Movement.
>Investigate Supreme Court
decisions that affected the
United States from 1945 to the
early 1970s.
1950s & 1960s
1. Explain the
significance of Sputnik.
2. Explain the concept
of conformity.
3. List and describe the
affluence that most
Americans enjoyed
throughout the 1950s.
4. Explain why Rock
‘n’ Roll was feared by
adults and embraced by
teenagers.
that led to the Civil
Rights Movements in
Mississippi and
Alabama.
6. Explain the
significance of sit-ins.
7.Compare/Contrast
the views of MLK and
Malcolm X.
8. Explain the
significance of the
Civil Rights Act of
1964 and the Voting
Rights Act of 1965.
that led to the Watts
Riots/Black Panther
Movement.
10. What was the
long-term influence of
>9.2 Distinguish social
inequalities in America
in the post-World War II
ere (i.e., racial
segregation, generation
conflict, gender equity,
ethnic identification).
>9.4 Recognize the
impact of technological
and cultural changes on
American society (i.e.,
Space Race, Hollywood,
communication
networks, mass media,
medical advances,
interstate highway
system).
>9.6 Recognize
domestic impact of the
Cold War on American
society (i.e.,
McCarthyism, fear,
conformity,
counterculture,
generation gap, highway
system, consumerism).
>9.7 Determine the
effects of the Supreme
Court's decisions on
Civil Rights (i.e., Plessy
v. Ferguson, Brown v.
Board, Miranda v.
Arizona, Gideon v.
>The Untold Story of
Emmett Till DVD (L)
>Freedom Summer DVD
(S)
>movie: Ali (S)
>clips from movie X (S)
>Malcolm X Biography
video (L)
>video The Children’s
March
>Eyes on the Prize video
series (L)
>Milestones of the Civil
Rights Movement DVD
(L)
>A History of the Civil
Rights Movement DVD
(L)
>King: Montgomery to
Memphis video (L)
>Mighty Times: The
Legacy of Rose Parks
video (L)
>United States History:
WEEK 3
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__ conformity
__ GI Bill
__ Truman’s 1947 armed forces
integration order
__ Federal Highway Act
__ Levittown
__ baby boom
__ Jonas Salk
__ rock ‘n’ roll
__ Elvis Presley
__ Grand Ole Opry
__ WSM
__ Nashville music publishing
__ Memphis Sun Studio
__ Stax Records
__ fallout shelters
__ television
__ Sputnik
__ space race
__ Bay of Pigs
__ Cuban Missile Crisis
__ peaceful coexistence
__ Kennedy Assassination
__ sit-ins
__ SNCC
__ SCLC
__ Martin Luther King, Jr.
__ Rosa Parks
__ Malcolm X
__ Civil Rights Act of 1964
__ Plessy v Ferguson
__ Brown v Board of Education
__ Miranda v Arizona
__ Gideon v Wainwright
__ Little Rock Nine
__ Clinton High School integration

housing
developments, such as
Levittown, on
American culture?
11. How did Sun
Studio and Stax
Records impact the
music industry?
12. How did the
Grand Ole Opry
impact the country
music industry?
13. What was the
purpose of the Bay of
Pigs invasion?
14. Outline the events
of the Cuban Missile
Crisis.
15. Interpret King’s
“I have a dream”
speech.
16. What was the
significance of the
Equal Pay Act of
1963?
17. What Supreme
Court decisions
impacted civil rights?
18. Describe the
impact of
McCarthyism?
19. What was the
significance of the
U.S. Interstate
Highway System?
20. What was the
impact of television on
Wainwright).
>9.8 Identify significant
events in the struggle for
Civil Rights (i.e.
integration of Clinton
High School in Clinton,
Tennessee, the Clinton
12 and Governor
Clement’s actions, Little
Rock Central High,
Montgomery Bus
Boycott, Freedom
Riders’ route,
Birmingham bombings,
Nashville lunch
counters, Martin Luther
King's March on
Washington speech,
Civil Rights Act of
1964, Civil Rights Act
of 1968, Escobedo v.
Illinois, Great Society).
>9.9 Recognize the
altered American
approach to foreign
policy (i.e., Bay of Pigs,
Brinkmanship, Cuban
Missile Crisis, peaceful
coexistence).
>9.10 Match leading
figures of the Civil
Rights era with their
respective groups and
goals (i.e., Strom
Civil Rights video (L)
>movie: Pleasantville
(W)
>Blast From the Past
movie clip
>History of Rock ‘n’ Roll
series (W)
Time (W)
series (W)
>Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Soldier and Statesman
video (L)
>The Fabulous ‘60s: An
Overview video (L)
> The Kennedys video (L)
>John F. Kennedy
Biography video (L)
>The Assassination of
JFK video (L)
>The Fabulous 50s: The
Fun and the Fell of
America’s Dream Decade
video (L)
__ Gov. Frank Clement
__ Freedom Riders
__ Little Rock Nine
__ March on Washington
__ Equal Pay Act of 1963
__ Civil Rights Act of 1968
__ Escobedo v Illinois
__ Great Society
__ Stom Thurmond
__ “Bull” Conner
__ George Wallace
__ Diane Nash
__ Albert Gore, Sr.
__ Betty Friedan
__ Stokely Carmichael
__ Black Panthers
__ Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

the American
culture?
21. What was the
significance of
Truman’s integration
order in 1947?
Thurmond, Eugene “
Bull” Conner, George
Wallace, Diane Nash,
Betty Friedan, Martin
Luther King Jr, Malcolm
X, Stokely Carmichael,
Albert Gore, Sr).
>9.12 Identify the
changes in the music
industry brought about
by Tennessee’s
influence (i.e., Grand
Ole Opry, WSM,
Nashville music
publishing, Memphis
Sun Studio, Stax
Records, Elvis Presley).
>9.13 Evaluate socio-
economic impact of the
post-World War II Baby
Boomer generation (i.e.,
media, entertainment,
sports, suburbia,
education, and
counterculture).
Time “1953-1960: Happy
Daze” video (L) (W)
Time “1960-1964:
Poisoned Dreams” video
(L) (W)
>Atomic Café movie clip
(W)
>20th
Century With Mike
Wallace: Conflict in
Cuba (Bay of Pigs &
Cuban Missile Crisis)
video (L)
series (W)
>Rachel Carson’s Silent
Spring DVD (L)

Standard 3.0
>Identify countries dominated
and threatened by communism
after World War II.
>Identify the major areas of
the world in which the United
States was involved after
1945.
Standard 5.0
course, and effects of the Cold
War.
>Investigate and understand
the active theaters of conflict
during the Cold War.
End of Mini Quarter
VIETNAM
1. Explain why there
was a need for the U.
S. to go to war in
Vietnam.
2. Explain the
significance of the
Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution.
3. Why was the Berlin
Airlift necessary?
>9.5 Identify areas
associated with
American containment
policies (i.e., Korea,
Vietnam, Cuba, East
and West Germany).
>10.3 Use a timeline to
identify America's
interest and
participation in
Southeast Asia since
World War II.
Time “1965-1970:
Unpinned” video (L) (W)
series
>Lyndon B. Johnson:
Triumph & Tragedy
Biography video (L)
>Vietnam: Air Power in
Action video (L)
>United States History:
Origins to 2000 (The
Vietnam War) video (L)
>The Vietnam War video
(L)
>Vietnam’s Unseen War
National Geographic
video (L)
>The Fall of Saigon video
(L)
WEEK 4
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__ Ho Chi Minh
__ domino theory
__ Geneva Accords
__ 17th
Parallel
__ Ngo Dinh Diem
__ Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
__ napalm
__ Agent Orange
__ Ho Chi Minh trail
__ William Westmoreland
__ doves and hawks
__ Tet Offensive
__ Henry Kissinger
__ Vietnamization
__ My Lai massacre
__ Kent State
__ Pentagon Papers
__ Saigon evacuation
__ Vietnam timeline

Pacing Guide Fourth 4 ½ weeks WEEK 1
Course Learning
Expectations CLEs
(State Standards)
Checks for
Understanding
Student
Performance
Indicators SPIs
Resources
(Textbook, Videos,
Speakers, Etc.)
Assessments
1970s
1. Explain the concept
of New Federalism.
2. Explain the
significance of Salt I,
Henry Kissenger, Sam
J. Ervin, and John
Dean.
3. Explain the events
that led to Nixon’s
resignation.
4. What were the
arguments for and
against the Equal Pay
Act of 1963?
>10.2 Recognize the
roles of the key figures
of Watergate (i.e.,
administration,
investigators, media).
>The Century:
1975: Approaching The
Apocalypse” video (L)
(W)
>The Century:
1980: Starting Over”
video (L) (W)
>The American
>All the President’s Men
movie (L)
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__ Port Huron Statement
__ Free Speech Movement
__ counterculture
__ “hippies”
__ Woodstock
__ Feminism
__ Betty Friedan
__ Equal Pay Act of 1963
__ NOW
__ Gloria Steinem
__ Equal Rights Amendment
__ Title IX
__ Roe v Wade
__ United Farm Workers
__ Cesar Chavez
__ détente
__ SALT I
__ Watergate
__ White House taping system
__ Sam J. Ervin
__ John Dean
__ plumbers
__ CREEP
__ Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
__ OPEC
__ Camp David Accords
__ Rachel Carson
__ Love Canal
__ Three Mile Island

Standard 4.0:
>Investigate the impact of
political turmoil on American
attitudes toward governance
since 1968.
>Identify the impact of
constitutional change, various
civil rights movements,
feminism, and the Reagan
Revolution.
1980s
1. Explain the
ideologies associated
with liberalism and
conservatism.
2. Explain the
significance of Billy
Graham and other
televangelists.
3. Explain the affect the
Reagan years had on the
U. S. economy.
4. Explain the
significance of the
Reagan Doctrine.
>10.1 Match innovators
or entrepreneurs in the
"new economy" (i.e.,
Sam Walton, Michael
Dell, Ray Kroc, Lee
Iococca, Donald Trump,
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs,
Jeff Bezos).
>United States History
Origins to 2000: U.S.
Politics, 1980-2000
video (L)
>The Century:
1989: A New World”
video (L) (W)
>The American
>Ray Kroc Biography
video (L)
>Bill Gates Biography
video (L)
WEEK 2
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__ liberals and conservatives
__ Billy Graham
__ “televangelists”
__ “Moral Majority”
__ Reaganomics
__ Iran-Contra scandal
__ “mutual assured destruction”
__ Mikhail Gorbachev
__ yuppies
__ Sam Walton
__ Ray Kroc
__ Lee Iococca
__ Donald Trump
__ Bill Gates
__ Jeff Bezos
__ Steve Jobs
__ Michael Dell
__ Challenger
__ AARP
__ perestroika
__ glasnost
__ military spending

Standard 4.0:
>Investigate the impact of
political turmoil on American
attitudes toward governance
since 1968.
>Identify the impact of
constitutional change, various
civil rights movements,
feminism, and the Reagan
Revolution.
1990S TO
PRESENT
1. Why did the United
States think stopping the
spread of weapons of
mass destruction was
linked to the war on
terror?
2. What were the
advantages and
disadvantages of
NAFTA?
3. Compare and contrast
the Reagan, Bush, and
Clinton presidential
administrations.
4. How would a
supporter and opponent
of the WTO argue their
points?
>10.4 Compare and
contrast the Reagan and
George H.W. Bush
administrations with the
Clinton administration
and the nature of their
respective political
opposition (i.e.,
economic, domestic,
budgets, foreign policy,
ethics, and generational
values).
>9.14 Analyze the
advantages and
disadvantages of
increased global trade
and competition on the
U.S. economy
>10.5 Analyze the
advantages and
disadvantages of
increased global trade
and competition on the
U.S. economy (i.e.
NAFTA treaty, import
quotas, free trade
agreements)
>Ronald Reagan: His Life
and Legacy DVD (L)
>George Bush: A Sense of
Duty Biography video (L)
>Bill Clinton: In the
Running Biography video
(L)
>Bill Clinton: Hope,
Charisma & Controversy
DVD (L)
>George W. Bush
Biography video (L)
>United States History
Origins to 2000: U.S.
Politics, 1980-2000 video
(L)
>War in Iraq: The Road
to Baghdad CNN video
(L)
Time “The ‘90s and
Beyond: Then and Now”
video (L) (W)
series (W)
WEEK 3
Weekly Assessment
CHECKLIST
__ Saddam Hussein
__ Bill Clinton’s budget surplus
__ George H.W. Bush
__ Internet
__ health care reform
__ Hillary Clinton
__ AmericaCorps
__ NAFTA
__ World Trade Organization (WTO)
__ immigration reform
__ Al Gore
__ George W. Bush
__ Osama bin Laden
__ al-Qaeda
__ September 11th
attacks
__ weapons of mass destruction
__ Guantanamo Bay

END OF
COURSE
ASSESSMEN
T REVIEW
>game buzzer system (W)
>Millionaire PowerPoint
(W)
>teacher-made practice
assessment (W)
>Coach books
>End of Course Practice
Test (W)
WEEK 4
END OF COURSE ASSESSMENT
PRACTICE
REVIEW GAME BETWEEN
CLASSES
End of MiniQuarter
End of Semester
END OF COURSE ASSESSMENT
FINAL EXAM-

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