American History 8
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Course Description:
The eighth grade social studies course is the second year of a two-year program. It is based on the social studies standards and is chronologically organized. Topics to be studied include Reconstruction, Business and Industry, Immigration, The Progressive Era, Imperialism, World War I, the 1920s, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Document Based questions are integrated into the coursework. Students are required to take the New York State Grade Eight Social Studies Exam in June.
1. Reconstruction- Beginning of first quarter
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Presidential Reconstruction
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Radical Reconstruction
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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Effect on African Americans: Jim Crown and Plessy vs. Ferguson
HYPERLINK "http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~ljones/Jimcrow/" http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~ljones/Jimcrow/ Jump Jim Crow
HYPERLINK "http://chnm.gmu.edu/us/search.taf?_function=detail&layout_0_uid1=33202&_UserReference=AF42390EA8AEA5A3BEE9D906" http://chnm.gmu.edu/us/search.taf?_function=detail&layout_0_uid1=33202&_UserReference=AF42390EA8AEA5A3BEE9D906 Johnson’s Impeachment
HYPERLINK "http://www.harpweek.com" www.harpweek.com Harper’s Weekly
2. Business and Industry- End of first quarter
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Growth and power of business
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Impact of industrialization on workers and farmers
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Rise of the labor movement
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Inventions
HYPERLINK "http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/HomesteadStrike1892/" http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/HomesteadStrike1892/ Homestead Strike
HYPERLINK "http://www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/index.html" http://www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/index.html Haymarket Affair
HYPERLINK "http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/" http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ Triangle Fire
HYPERLINK "http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/Lessons_US/Gilded_Age/Coal_Mining/default.htm" http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/Lessons_US/Gilded_Age/Coal_Mining/default.htm miners’ lives
HYPERLINK "http://library.thinkquest.org/C002942/home.shtml?tqskip=1" http://library.thinkquest.org/C002942/home.shtml?tqskip=1 Greatest Inventions
3. Immigration- Beginning of second quarter
q Push and pull factors
q The “New” immigrants
q Ethnic groups and neighborhoods
q Growth and change in cities
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Assimilation and citizenship
HYPERLINK "http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/port/start.html" http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/port/start.html Port of Entry Webquest
HYPERLINK "http://www.tenement.org/" http://www.tenement.org/ Lower East Side
Tenement Museum
4. Progressive Era- Middle of second quarter
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Suffrage, temperance and the growing role of women in
American society
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Muckrakers examine and fight to change social ills
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Scandals and progressive change in government and
society
HYPERLINK "http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/episode3/topic6/e3_topic6.html" http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/episode3/topic6/e3_topic6.html Tammany Hall
HYPERLINK
"http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/Contents.htm"
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/prohibition/Contents.htm Temperance
HYPERLINK "http://www.huntington.org/vfw/index.html" http://www.huntington.org/vfw/index.html Votes for Women
HYPERLINK "http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/" http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/ AntiSaloon League
HYPERLINK "http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/suffrage/intro.html" http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/99/suffrage/intro.html Women, the Vote, and Nothing Less
HYPERLINK
"http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/suf_intro.html" http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/suf_intro.html Suffrage Cartoons
5. Imperialism- End of second quarter
q Isolation
q Imperialism
q Spanish-American War
q US acquires Alaska, Hawaii
q Panama Canal
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Big Stick Policy/Roosevelt Corollary
HYPERLINK
"http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html" http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html Imperialism
HYPERLINK "http://www.pbs.org/crucible/" http://www.pbs.org/crucible/ The Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War
HYPERLINK "http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/intro.html" http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/intro.html The World of 1898
HYPERLINK "http://home.earthlink.net/~srduncombe/imp.htm"
http://home.earthlink.net/~srduncombe/imp.htm
Imperialism Primary sources
6. World War I- Beginning of third quarter
q Immediate causes of war
q Allied and Central Powers
q Causes of U.S. involvement
q The Home Front
q Fighting in Europe
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Plans for peace: 14 Points, Treaty of Versailles,
League of Nations
HYPERLINK "http://www.worldwar1.com/" http://www.worldwar1.com/ Trenches on the Web
HYPERLINK "http://www.people.virginia.edu/~egl2r/wwi.html" http://www.people.virginia.edu/~egl2r/wwi.html In the Trenches (links)
HYPERLINK "http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/"
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/ WWI Document Archive
7. The 1920s- Middle of third quarter
q Return to Normalcy
q The booming economy
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The “Jazz Age”
HYPERLINK
"http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/" http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/ Jazz
HYPERLINK "http://www.louisville.edu/~kprayb01/1920s.html" http://www.louisville.edu/~kprayb01/1920s.html The 1920s
HYPERLINK "http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/" http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/ Flapper culture and style
8. The Great Depression- End of third quarter
q Stock Market Crash of 1929
q Other causes of the Great Depression
q Effects on America
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FDR and the New Deal
HYPERLINK "http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/ Surviving the Dustbowl
HYPERLINK "http://www.nara.gov/exhall/picturing_the_century/galleries/greatdep.html" http://www.nara.gov/exhall/picturing_the_century/galleries/greatdep.html Picturing the Century: The Great Depression and the New Deal
HYPERLINK "http://newdeal.feri.org/" http://newdeal.feri.org/ The New Deal Network
9. World War II- Beginning of fourth quarter
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The Holocaust
HYPERLINK "http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/posters/poster.html" http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/posters/poster.html Powers of Persuasion
HYPERLINK "http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm" http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm World War II: Documents
HYPERLINK "http://www.nara.gov/exhall/people/people.html" http://www.nara.gov/exhall/people/people.html A People at War
10. The Cold War- Middle of fourth quarter
q Vietnam War
q Korean War
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McCarthyism
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Arms Race and nuclear proliferation
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End of the cold War
HYPERLINK "http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/" http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/ Battlefield: Vietnam
HYPERLINK "http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/ Vietnam Online
HYPERLINK "http://webcorp.com/mccarthy/" http://webcorp.com/mccarthy/ Senator Joe McCarthy
HYPERLINK "http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/coldwar0.html" http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/coldwar0.html Cold War Politics
11. The Civil Rights Movement- End of fourth quarter
q Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
q Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and passive resistance
q Increasing rights for minority groups and women
HYPERLINK "http://www.tolerance.org" http://www.tolerance.org
HYPERLINK "http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html" http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html The Civil Rights Era
HYPERLINK "http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/" http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/ The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project