America in Transition

USH.2A identify the major characteristics that define an historical era;

USH.2B identify the major eras in U.S. history from 1877 to the present and describe their defining characteristics;

USH.2C apply absolute and relative chronology through the sequencing of significant individuals, events, and time periods;

USH.3A analyze political issues such as Indian policies, the growth of political machines, civil service reform, and the beginnings of Populism

USH.3B analyze economic issues such as industrialization, the growth of railroads, the growth of labor unions, farm issues, the cattle industry boom, the rise of entrepreneurship,free enterprise, and the pros and cons of big business;

USH.3C analyze social issues affecting women, minorities, children, immigrants, urbanization, the Social Gospel, and philanthropy of industrialists

USH.3D describe the optimism of the many immigrants who sought a better life in America.

USH.12A analyze the impact of physical and human geographic factors on the settlement of the Great Plains, the Klondike Gold Rush, the Panama Canal, the Dust Bowl,and the levee failure in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

USH.13A analyze the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from migration within the United States, including western expansion, rural tourban, the Great Migration, and the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt;

USH.13B analyze the causes and effects of changing demographic patterns resulting from legal and illegal immigration to the United States

USH.14A identify the effects of population growth and distribution on the physical environment;

USH.26B discuss the Americanization movement to assimilate immigrants and American Indians into

American culture

USH.23B evaluate various means of achieving equality of political rights, including the 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments and congressional acts such as the American IndianCitizenship Act of 1924;

USH.15A describe how the economic impact of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Homestead Act contributed to the close of the frontier in the late 19th century;

USH.15C explain how foreign policies affected economic issues such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the Open Door Policy, Dollar Diplomacy, and immigration quotas;

P: 29A, 29B, 29D, 29G, 29H, 30B, 31B