1. Following World War II, the United States experienced a struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil rights.

   2.  The postwar economic boom, greatly affected by advances in science, produced epic changes in American life.

  3.  The continuing population flow from cities to suburbs, the internal migrations from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt and the increase in immigration resulting from passage of the 1965 Immigration Act have had social and political effects.

  4.  Political debates focused on the extent of the role of government in the economy, environmental protection, social welfare and national security. 

1. I can explain the segregation system in the South.

2. I can explain the legal hurdles that were needed to be jumped to move Civil Rights forward.

3. I can explain the NAACP’s legal strategy to promote Civil Rights

4. I can explain the significance of the Brown vs. Board Supreme Court decision and the South’s reaction to it.

5. I can identify major Civil Rights Leaders and their importance to the movement.

6. I can compare and contrast MLK Jr.’s strategy in the movement with other major leaders of the time.

7. I can identify major Civil Rights organizations and the strategies they used.

8. I can explain the events and legacy of Freedom Summer.

9. I can identify and explain key pieces of Civil Rights Legislation.

10. I can explain why the Civil Rights movement became more proactive/militant and the affect that MLK Jr.’s assassination had on America.

11. I can explain how the success of African Americans leads others to fight for their civil rights as well.

12. I can identify major Latino civil rights organizations and their importance to the movement.

13. I can explain the successes and set backs experienced by Latinos in their fight for civil rights.

14. I can explain the importance of the Immigration Act of 1965. [politically as well as socially] 

15. I can explain how Native American groups pushed for their civil rights.

16. I can describe how women pushed for equality and important figures/groups that helped women’s liberation.

17. I can compare and contrast previous civil rights movements with modern civil rights movements of the day.

1. I can explain how the GI Bill of Rights helped returning servicemen assimilate back into American Life.

2. I can explain how improvements in construction and production paved the way for the growth of the suburbs. [Levittown and Automobiles]

3. I can explain how WWII left America as a Superpower both militarily and economically.

4. I can explain the key figures and issues of the 1948 Election.

5. I can explain how consumerism and the Baby Boom provided economic growth for America.

6. I can explain how modern innovations and inventions improved American life. [i.e. vaccines, medical advances, communications, energy, transportation]

7. I can explain how the modern corporation and franchises emerged.

8. I can identify and explain key pop culture icons on the 1950s.

9. I can explain how mass media impacted American Life.

10. I can explain major domestic policies of IKE’s administration and the impact those policies had on American Life.

11. I can explain how the “Beat Movements” of the 1950s grew into the counter culture movements of the 1960s.

12. I can explain the key figures and issues of the Election of 1960.

13. I can explain major domestic concerns for JFK’s New Frontier.

14. I can explain the events surrounding the JFK assassination and why is still sparks controversy.

15. I can explain the impact of Johnson’s “Great Society” and “War on Poverty.”

16. I can explain the impact Supreme Court decision had on the rights of the accused and politics in general.  [name specific cases and their outcomes]

17. I can explain how the debate on the government’s role to protect the environment was expressed with new governmental agencies to oversee and protect the environment.

18. I can explain how the population shifted in the States to change American politics. [Sun Belt, Rust Belt, reapportionment]

19. I can explain how Supreme Court decision and several decades of controversy pushed American’s into a conservative mood.

20. I can identify and explain key issues for Reagan’s Administration domestically.

21. I can identify and explain key issues for Reagan’s foreign policy, outside of the Cold War.

US Primary Sources Document

 Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)

• Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (1957)

• Official Program for the March on Washington (1963)

• Civil Rights Act (1964)

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)

• Social Security Act Amendments (1965)

• Voting Rights Act (1965)