Students will choose four of the eight eras listed in this guide. Students must choose the Modern Era (1970 – Present), along with three other eras the student feels will illustrate how the focus concept has changed over time.
Role of Women
How has the role of women changed since the end of Reconstruction? What progress have we made as a nation, and in what areas is there still more work to be done?
Unit Overview – Gilded Age: Immigration
- (3C) analyze social issues affecting women, minorities, children, immigrants, urbanization, the
social Gospel, and philanthropy of industrialists
Unit overview – Progressive Era: Progressivism & Reform
- (23B) evaluate various means of achieving equality of political rights, including the 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments and congressional acts such as the American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Unit Overview – Roaring 20s: Social Issues
- (6A) analyze causes and effects of events and social issues such as Social Darwinism, eugenics, race relations, nativism, the Red Scare, Prohibition, and the changing role of women (return of the KKK)
Unit Overview – Rise to World Power: Expansionism & Imperialism
- (4A) explain why significant events, policies, and individuals such as the Spanish-American War, U.S. expansionism, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Theodore Roosevelt, and Sanford B. Dole, moved the United States into the position of a world power
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