National History Education Clearinghouse

AL.1. Standard: United States History From 1877 to the Present

• 1.1. Objective: Economics/Geography/History/Political Science

  Explain the transition of the United States from an agrarian society to an industrial nation prior to World War I.

  • 1.1.1. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the impact of Manifest Destiny on the economic development of the post-Civil War West, including mining, the cattle industry, railroads, Great Plains farming, and the Grange.

  • 1.1.2. Grade Level Example:

    Contrasting the arguments over the currency issue, including the silver issue, greenbacks, and the gold standard.

  • 1.1.3. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the impact of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Dawes Act on the United States between Reconstruction and World War I.

  • 1.1.4. Grade Level Example:

    Comparing the volume, motives, and settlement patterns of immigrants from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America.

  • 1.1.5. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the impact of entrepreneurship and mutual aid in the lives of African Americans and immigrants.

• 1.2. Objective: Economics/History/Political Science

  Describe the social and political origins, accomplishments, and limitations of Progressivism.

  • 1.2.1. Grade Level Example:

    Explaining the Populist Movement as a forerunner of Progressivism.

  • 1.2.2. Grade Level Example:

    Identifying the impact of the Muckrakers on public opinion during the Progressive Movement.

  • 1.2.3. Grade Level Example:

    Analyzing the political and social motives that shaped the 1901 Alabama Constitution to determine their long-term effect on the politics and economics of Alabama.

  • 1.2.4. Grade Level Example:

    Explaining Supreme Court decisions affecting the Progressive Movement.

  • 1.2.5. Grade Level Example:

    Determining the influence of the Niagara Movement, Booker T. Washington, William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) DuBois, and Carter G. Woodson on the Progressive Era.

  • 1.2.6. Grade Level Example:

    Comparing the presidential leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson in obtaining the passage of measures regarding trust-busting, the Hepburn Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, conservation, and Wilson's foreign relations.

• 1.3. Objective: Economics/Geography/History/Political Science

  Explain the impact of American imperialism, including the geographic changes due to the Open Door Policy and the Roosevelt Corollary, on the foreign policy of the United States between Reconstruction and World War I.

  • 1.3.1. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the causes and consequences of the Spanish-American War, including yellow journalism.

  • 1.3.2. Grade Level Example:

    Identifying Alabama's significant contributions to the United States between Reconstruction and World War I, including those of William Gorgas, Joe Wheeler, and John T. Morgan.

• 1.4. Objective: Economics/Geography/History/Political Science

  Describe the causes and impact of the intervention by the United States in World War I.

  • 1.4.1. Grade Level Example:

    Identifying major events of World War I.

  • 1.4.2. Grade Level Example:

    Explaining how the mobilization of the United States for World.

  • 1.4.3. Grade Level Example:

    War I affected the population of the United States.

  • 1.4.4. Grade Level Example:

    Describing economic, political, and social changes on the home front during World War I.

  • 1.4.5. Grade Level Example:

    Explaining the controversies over the Treaty of Versailles (1919), Fourteen Points, and the League of Nations.

  • 1.4.6. Grade Level Example:

    Comparing the short- and long-term effects of changing boundaries in pre- and post-World War I Europe on European nations.

• 1.5. Objective: Economics/History/Political Science

  Describe the impact of social changes and the influence of key figures in the United States from World War I through the 1920s, including Prohibition, the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the Scopes trial, immigration, the Red Scare, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, W. C. Handy, the Jazz Age, and Zelda Fitzgerald.

  • 1.5.1. Grade Level Example:

    Comparing the domestic policies of Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.

  • 1.5.2. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the impact of American writers, mass entertainment, and technological innovations on the culture of the United States from the end of World War I through the 1920s.

  • 1.5.3. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the changing economic behavior of American consumers.

• 1.6. Objective: Economics/Geography/History/Political Science

  Describe the social and economic conditions from the 1920s through the Great Depression, the factors leading to a deepening crisis, and the successes and failures associated with the programs and policies of the New Deal.

  • 1.6.1. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the impact of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act on the global economy.

  • 1.6.2. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the impact of the TVA, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) on Alabama and the Southeast.

  • 1.6.3. Grade Level Example:

    Analyzing the conditions created by the Dust Bowl for their impact on migration patterns during the Great Depression.

  • 1.6.4. Grade Level Example:

    Identifying notable authors of the period.

• 1.7. Objective: Economics/Geography/History/Political Science

  Explain the entry by the United States into World War II and major military campaigns in the European and Pacific Theaters.

  • 1.7.1. Grade Level Example:

    Identifying the role of significant leaders, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Adolph Hitler.

  • 1.7.2. Grade Level Example:

    Explaining the isolationist debate as it evolved from the 1920s to Pearl Harbor.

  • 1.7.3. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the changing home front, including wartime economic measures, population shifts, racial and ethnic tensions, industrialization, science, and technology.

  • 1.7.4. Grade Level Example:

    Explaining Alabama's participation in World War II, including the Tuskegee Airmen, the Aliceville Prisoner of War (POW) camp, the growth of Mobile, Birmingham steel, and military bases.

  • 1.7.5. Grade Level Example:

    Explaining the events and consequences of war crimes committed during World War II, including the Holocaust, the Bataan March, and the Nuremberg Trials.

  • 1.7.6. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the consequences of World War II on the lives of American citizens.

• 1.8. Objective: Economics/Geography/History/Political Science

  Describe the international role of the United States from 1945 through 1960 relative to the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, and NATO.

  • 1.8.1. Grade Level Example:

    Describing Cold War policies and issues, including the Domino Theory and McCarthyism and their consequences.

  • 1.8.2. Grade Level Example:

    Locating areas of conflict during the Cold War from 1945 to 1960.

• 1.9. Objective: Economics/History/Political Science

  Describe the major domestic events and issues of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.

  • 1.9.1. Grade Level Example:

    Explaining the impact of the New Frontier and the Great Society on the people of the United States.

  • 1.9.2. Grade Level Example:

    Describing Alabama's role in the space program under the New Frontier.

• 1.10. Objective: Geography/History/Political Science

  Describe major foreign events and issues of the Kennedy Presidency, including the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• 1.11. Objective: Geography/History/Political Science

  Trace the course of the involvement of the United States in Vietnam from the 1950s to 1975.

  • 1.11.1. Grade Level Example:

    Locating the divisions of Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and major battle sites.

  • 1.11.2. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the creation of North and South Vietnam.

  • 1.11.3. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the strategies of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, including the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

• 1.12. Objective: Economics/History/Political Science

  Trace the events of the modern Civil Rights Movement from post-World War II to 1970 that resulted in social and economic changes, including the Montgomery bus boycott, the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, the march on Washington, and the Freedom Rides.

  • 1.12.1. Grade Level Example:

    Tracing the federal government's involvement in the modern Civil Rights Movement, including the abolition of the poll tax, the desegregation of the armed forces, the nationalization of state militias, Brown versus Board of Education, the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

  • 1.12.2. Grade Level Example:

    Explaining the contributions of individuals and groups to the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr., James Meredith, Medgar Evers, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

  • 1.12.3. Grade Level Example:

    Identifying people and events in Alabama that influenced the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Rosa Parks, Autherine Lucy, Governor John Patterson, Governor George C. Wallace, Vivian Malone, Fred Shuttlesworth, the Children's March, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, and the Selma-to-Montgomery march.

  • 1.12.4. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the development of a Black Power movement, including the change in focus of the SNCC, the rise of Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panther Movement.

  • 1.12.5. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the impact of African-American entrepreneurs on the Modern Civil Rights movement.

• 1.13. Objective: History/Political Science

  Describe the women's, Hispanic, and Native-American movements during the 1950s and 1960s.

  • 1.13.1. Grade Level Example:

    Describing changing conditions in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s that were influenced by music and cultural and environmental concerns.

• 1.14. Objective: Economics/Geography/History/Political Science

  Trace significant foreign policies and issues of presidential administrations from Nixon to the present.

  • 1.14.1. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the political and economic policies that led to the collapse of Communism and the Cold War.

  • 1.14.2. Grade Level Example:

    Tracing significant domestic policies and issues of presidential administrations from Nixon to the present.

  • 1.14.3. Grade Level Example:

    Describing the technological, social, and economic changes occurring in the United States from the 1970s to the present.