analyze and evaluate the text, intent, meaning, and importance of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution,
including the Bill of Rights, and identify the full text of the first three paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence
US.1(B)^ analyze and evaluate the application of these founding principles to historical events in U.S. history
US.1(C) explain the contributions of the Founding Fathers such as Benjamin Rush, John Hancock, John Jay, John Witherspoon, John
Peter Muhlenberg, Charles Carroll, and Jonathan Trumbull Sr.
US.2(A)^ identify the major characteristics that define an historical era
US.2(C)^ apply absolute and relative chronology through the sequencing of significant individuals, events, and time periods
US.2(D)^ explain the significance of the following years as turning points: 1898 (Spanish‐American War), 1914–1918 (World War I), 1929
(the Great Depression begins), 1939–1945 (World War II), 1957 (Sputnik launch ignites U.S.–Soviet space race), 1968–1969
(Martin Luther King Jr. assassination and U.S. lands on the moon), 1991 (Cold War ends), 2001 (terrorist attacks on World Trade
Center and the Pentagon), and 2008 (election of first black president, Barack Obama)
US.3(D) describe the optimism of the many immigrants who sought a better life in America
US.4(B) evaluate American expansionism, including acquisitions such as Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico
US.4(D) understand the contributions of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) led by General John J. Pershing
US.4(E) analyze the impact of significant technological innovations in World War I such as machine guns, airplanes, tanks, poison gas,
and trench warfare that resulted in the stalemate on the Western Front
US.4(G) analyze significant events such as the Battle of Argonne Forest
US.5(B) evaluate the impact of muckrakers and reform leaders such as Upton Sinclair, Susan B. Anthony, Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B.
DuBois on American society
US.5(C) evaluate the impact of third parties, including the Populist and Progressive parties
US.6(B) analyze the impact of significant individuals such as Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, Henry Ford, Glenn Curtiss, Marcus
Garvey, and Charles A. Lindbergh
US.7(B) evaluate the domestic and international leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman during World War II, including
the U.S. relationship with its allies and domestic industry’s rapid mobilization for the war effort
US.7(C) analyze the function of the U.S. Office of War Information
US.7(E) analyze major military events of World War II, including the Battle of Midway, the U.S. military advancement through the Pacific
Islands, the Bataan Death March, the invasion of Normandy, fighting the war on multiple fronts, and the liberation of
concentration camps
US.7(F) evaluate the military contributions of leaders during World War II, including Omar Bradley, Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas
MacArthur, Chester A. Nimitz, George Marshall, and George Patton
US.8(B) describe how Cold War tensions were intensified by the arms race, the space race, McCarthyism, and the House Un‐American
Activities Committee (HUAC), the findings of which were confirmed by the Venona Papers
US.8(E) analyze the major issues and events of the Vietnam War such as the Tet Offensive, the escalation of forces, Vietnamization, and
the fall of Saigon
US.9(B) describe the roles of political organizations that promoted civil rights, including ones from African American, Chicano, American
Indian, women’s, and other civil rights movements
US.9(C) identify the roles of significant leaders who supported various rights movements, including Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez,
Rosa Parks, Hector P. Garcia, and Betty Friedan
US.9(D) compare and contrast the approach taken by some civil rights groups such as the Black Panthers with the nonviolent approach
of Martin Luther King Jr.
US.9(E) discuss the impact of the writings of Martin Luther King Jr. such as his “I Have a Dream” speech and “Letter from Birmingham
Jail” on the civil rights movement
US.9(G) describe the role of individuals such as governors George Wallace, Orval Faubus, and Lester Maddox and groups, including the
Congressional bloc of southern Democrats, that sought to maintain the status quo
US.9(I) describe how litigation such as the landmark cases of Brown v. Board of Education, Mendez v. Westminster, Hernandez v. Texas,
Delgado v. Bastrop I.S.D., Edgewood I.S.D. v. Kirby, and Sweatt v. Painter played a role in protecting the rights of the minority
during the civil rights movement
US.10(A) describe Richard M. Nixon’s leadership in the normalization of
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