OUSD | De Tocqueville's Ghost : American History Project

OUSD K-12 History / Social Studies Standards
GRADE 11 CONTENT STANDARDS
TOPICS FROM THE CALIFORNIA STATE HISTORY / SOCIAL SCIENCE FRAMEWORK

Grade 11 Topics | Grade 11 : OUSD Sample Assignments | Grade 11 OUSD Model Unit

I. REVIEW: THE NATION'S BEGINNINGS

" Demonstrate an understanding of major ideals that influenced the founding of the United States.

VII. GREAT DEPRESSION

" Demonstrate an understanding of the causes of the Great Depression and how the New Deal affected society and changedAmerican federalism.

II.REVIEW: US TO 1900

" Understand the effects of Civil War and Reconstruction.

VIII. WORLD WAR II

" Understand the role of the United States in World War II and the impact of the war on the home front.

III. RELIGION IN AMERICA

" Analyze the role religion played in the development of American society.

" Discuss the contributions of various religious groups.

" Examine incidents of religious intolerance in the United States.

IX. POST WORLD WAR II

" Analyze the economic and social transformations of the United States from WWII to 1965.

IV. INDUSTRIALIZATION

" Explain how industrialization, immigration, and expansion transformed the United States in the period from 1877-1914.

" Describe how Progressives addressed the excesses of the Gilded Age, urbanization, and political corruption.

X. FOREIGN POLICY FROM 1945 - 1989

" Understand the Cold War's impact on American foreign policy, including Korea, Vietnam, and relationships with Latin America.

" Examine the relationship between American foreign policy and the McCarthy Era.

" Analyze the movements protesting foreign policy and their impact on America's subsequent role in world events. Include the movements against the war in Vietnam and movement against nuclear weapons.

V. UNITED STATES AS A WORLD POWER

" Trace the rise of the US as a world power in the 20th-century including an examination of the Open Door Policy, and the Spanish American War.

" Examine foreign policies of the Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson administrations.

" Understand the political, economic, and social ramifications of World War I.

XI. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

" Demonstrate an understanding of the struggle for racial equality and the extension of civil rights and civil liberties.

VI. THE JAZZ AGE

" Demonstrate an understanding of major political, social, economic, and cultural developments of the 1920s.

XII. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SOCIETY

" Demonstrate an understanding of the significant political, social and economic changes in the united States from 1965 to the present.