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Social Studies: A Changing Society
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November
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8.2e A Changing Society: Political Reform and the Progressive Era
- Reformers known as Progressives tried to end government corruption and limit the influence of big business.
- Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson backed Progressive Reforms
- After decades of effort, women finally won the right to vote.
- African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, and religious minorities all faced challenges.
8.3b.c.d. Expansion and Imperialism: The United States Looks Overseas
- During the last half of the 1800s, the United States acquired territories and built up trade in the Asia-Pacific region.
- A quick U.S. victory in the Spanish-American War of 1898 gave the United States an overseas empire.
- The United States expanded the Monroe Doctrine and became more involved in Latin America.
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8.2e A Changing Society: Political Reform and the Progressive Era
How did society and politics change during the Progressive Era?
- How did reformers try to end government corruption and limit the influence of big business?
- How did the Progressive Presidents extend reforms?
- How did women gain new rights?
- What challenges faced minority groups?
8.3b.c.d. Expansion and Imperialism: The United States Looks Overseas
How did the United States demonstrate its growing interest in the Pacific and in Latin America?
- How did the United States acquire new territory and expand trade in the Asia-Pacific region?
- What were the causes and effect of the Spanish-American War?
- How did the United States use the Monroe Doctrine to justify intervention in Latin America?
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SS.8.2 |
A CHANGING SOCIETY: Industrialization and immigration contributed to the urbanization of America. Problems resulting from these changes sparked the Progressive movement and increased calls for reform. |
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SS.8.3 |
EXPANSION AND IMPERIALISM: Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, economic, political, and cultural factors contributed to a push for westward expansion and more aggressive United States foreign policy. |
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SS.I.1 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York. |
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SS.I.2 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives. |
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SS.I.3 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface. |
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SS.I.4 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms. |
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SS.I.5 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation. |
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College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Skills
Dimension 1: Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries
- D1.5.6-8. Determine the kinds of sources that will be helpful in answering compelling and supporting questions, taking into consideration multiple points of views represented in the sources.
Dimension 2: Applying Disciplinary Concepts and Tools
- Civics D2.Civ.3.6-8. Examine the origins, purposes, and impact of constitutions, laws, treaties, and international agreements.
- Economics D2.Eco.14.6-8. Explain barriers to trade and how those barriers influence trade among nations.
- Geography D2.Geo.4.6-8. Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.
- History D2.His.12.6-8.Use questions generated about multiple historical sources to identify further areas of inquiry and additional sources.
Dimension 3: Evaluating Sources & Using Evidence
- D3.4.6-8. Develop claims and counter claims while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both.
Dimension 4: Communicating Conclusions & Taking Informed Action
- D4.1.6-8.Construct arguments using claims and evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of the arguments.
NCSS Essential Skills for Social Studies
- Select passages that are pertinent to the topic studied
- Read various forms of printed material: books, magazines, newspapers, directories, schedules, journals
- Use visual attack skills: sight recognition, phonetic analysis, structural analysis
- Use appropriate source of information
- Prepare summaries
- Follow directions
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8.2e A Changing Society: Political Reform and the Progressive Era
- civil service
- primary
- recall
- initiative
- referendum
- graduated income tax
- muckraker
- trustbuster
- conservation
- national park
- suffragist
- prohibition
- lynching
- parochial school
- anti-Semitism
8.3b.c.d. Expansion and Imperialism: The United States Looks Overseas
- isolationism
- imperialism
- sphere of influence
- reconcentration
- protectorate
- isthmus
- corollary
- dollar diplomacy
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Do Now Questions
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Socrative Entrance/Exit Tickets
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Polls
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Interactive Readings
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Graphic Organizers
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Thinking Maps
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Common Core Protocols
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Comprehension Assessments
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Writing Assessments
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Map Quiz
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Quizzes
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J. Dodge Differentiated Activities
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Marzano Strategies
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Primary Source Documents
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Political Cartoons
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Constructed Response Questions
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Chapter Test
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ABC Chart
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Web Quest
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Progressive Era Mini Book
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25 Quick Formative Assessments - Judy Dodge
America: History of our Nation - Prentice Hall
OneNote
Interactive Reading
PearsonSuccessNet.com
Differentiated Readings (Prentice Hall)
Big Stick Political Cartoon
The Jungle Upton Sinclair
Toolkit Inquiry: Gilded Age
Toolkit Inquiry: American Expansion
Leveled Texts for Social Studies: The 20th Century - Zamozsky, Conklin, Dugan
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