Standard(s):
[SS2010] USS6 (6) 9 : 9 ) Critique major social and cultural changes in the United States since World War II.
• Identifying key persons and events of the modern Civil Rights Movement
Examples: persons—Martin Luther King Jr.; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis (Alabama)
events—Brown versus Board of Education, Montgomery Bus Boycott, student protests, Freedom Rides, Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, political assassinations (Alabama)
• Describing the changing role of women in United States' society and how it affected the family unit
Examples: women in the workplace, latchkey children
• Recognizing the impact of music genres and artists on United States' culture since World War II
Examples: genres—protest songs; Motown, rock and roll, rap, folk, and country music
artists—Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Hank Williams (Alabama)
• Identifying the impact of media, including newspapers, AM and FM radio, television, twenty-four hour sports and news programming, talk radio, and Internet social networking, on United States' culture since World War II
[SS2010] US11 (11) 2 : 2 ) Evaluate social and political origins, accomplishments, and limitations of Progressivism. [A.1.a., A.1.b., A.1.c., A.1.d., A.1.e., A.1.f., A.1.i., A.1.k.]
• Explaining the impact of the Populist Movement on the role of the federal government in American society
• Assessing the impact of muckrakers on public opinion during the Progressive movement, including Upton Sinclair, Jacob A. Riis, and Ida M. Tarbell
Examples: women's suffrage, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, temperance movement
• Explaining national legislation affecting the Progressive movement, including the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act
• Determining the influence of the Niagara Movement, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Carter G. Woodson on the Progressive Era
• Assessing the significance of the public education movement initiated by Horace Mann
• Comparing the presidential leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson in obtaining passage of measures regarding trust-busting, the Hepburn Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Act, and conservation
[SS2010] PSY (9-12) 18 : 18 ) Explain how culture and gender influence behavior.
• Identifying gender differences and similarities
• Explaining ways in which gender differences are developed
• Describing ways in which gender roles are assigned in different cultures
[SS2010] SOC (9-12) 9 : 9 ) Explain the purpose of social systems and institutions, including schools, churches, voluntary associations, and governments.
• Describing origins and beliefs of various religions
• Distinguishing among the concepts of power, coercion, and authority
• Comparing charismatic, traditional, and rational-legal authority
[SS2010] SOC (9-12) 10 : 10 ) Describe social movement and social change.
• Comparing various forms of collective behavior, including mobs, riots, fads, and crowds
• Identifying major ethical and social issues facing modern society
Examples: technological, governmental, medical
• Explaining the impact of the modern Civil Rights Movement, the women's movement, the gun rights movement, the green movement, and other minority movements in the United States
[SS2010] CWI (9-12) 5 : 5 ) Analyze cultural elements, including language, art, music, literature, and belief systems, to determine how they facilitate global understanding or misunderstanding.
[SS2010] HGEO (9-12) 3 : 3 ) Identify the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth's cultural mosaics.
• Explaining essential aspects of culture, including social structure, languages, belief systems, customs, religion, traditions, art, food, architecture, and technology
