African American History
African American Issues in Contemporary Times (1970s-present): Students will analyze the issues confronting African Americans during the contemporary era in the continued struggle for equality.
Generate resourceThe Modern Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s): Students will analyze the successes and failures of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Generate resourceAfrican American Life during the Great Depression and World War II (1930s-1940s): Students will analyze the contributions and experiences of African Americans during the Great Depression and World War II.
Generate resourceAfrican Americans and the Harlem Renaissance (1920s-1930s): Students will analyze the cultural contributions made by African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance.
Generate resourceAfrican American Life after Emancipation through World War I (1890s-1920s): Students will analyze the rise of Jim Crow laws, achievements of African Americans, the role African Americans played in military endeavors, and the life experiences of African Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Generate resourceAfrican Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1890s): Students will analyze the changing roles of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Generate resourceAfrican American Life Prior to the Civil War (1619-1860): Students will examine the varied experiences of African Americans prior to the Civil War, including the social and cultural contributions of African Americans, the beginnings of the abolition movement, and the life experiences of African Americans. Additionally, students will analyze justifications and ramifications of slavery during this era.
Generate resourceAfrican History and the Origins of the African Slave Trade (pre-1619): Students will analyze the economic, political, and social development of slavery in the United States.
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Generate resourceExplore the legacy of rich African kingdoms such as Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
Generate resourceExplain the diverse political, economic, and social structures of pre-colonialized African communities.
Generate resourceAnalyze the economic, political, and social reasons for focusing the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on the African continent, including the role of Africans, Europeans, and their New World colonies.
Generate resourceAnalyze the role and impact of the slave trade on West Africa and the Thirteen English colonies.
Generate resourceExplore the conditions of the Middle Passage and how it is considered one of the largest forced migrations and examples of enslavement in human history.
Generate resourceDescribe the experiences of free and enslaved Africans living in the Thirteen English colonies and the early United States, including their contributions to the American Revolution.
Generate resourceAnalyze the faults in the economic, social, religious, and legal motivations for the establishment and continuation of slavery.
Generate resourceIdentify the various ways Africans in the United States resisted enslavement (e.g., cultural, religious, and economic methods).
Generate resourceExamine the constitutional references to slavery, and analyze the impact the debate about slavery had in the development of nationalism and sectionalism, including the Fugitive Slave Laws.
Generate resourceAssess the development of the abolitionist movement and its impact on enslavement and the nation, including the efforts of:
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the experiences of African Americans in free states versus slave states in the pre-Civil War era.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford decision and its impact on restricting rights on freed African Americans in the United States.
Generate resourceDescribe and analyze various experiences of enslaved persons and the disruption of the family system in the pre-Civil War era.
Generate resourceDescribe the development of African American institutions, such as religion, education, and benevolent organizations, during the pre-Civil War era.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain contributions to science and the arts from African Americans during the pre- Civil War era.
Generate resourceDescribe the motivations for the Emancipation Proclamation and the lasting impacts of emancipation (i.e., Juneteenth).
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the roles of African American soldiers, spies, and enslaved persons on the war effort in both the North and the South, including the 54th Massachusetts Regiment and the 13th U.S. Colored Troops.
Generate resourceDefine the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and the motivations for their creation.
Generate resourceEvaluate the effects of the Reconstruction Amendments, including southern resistance (e.g., black codes, disenfranchisement, the creation of the Ku Klux Klan).
Generate resourceAnalyze the successes and failures of Reconstruction as they relate to African Americans.
Generate resourceExplain the economic and social impact of Jim Crow laws on African Americans.
Generate resourceAnalyze the ramifications of segregation laws and court decisions (e.g., Plessy v. Ferguson) on American society.
Generate resourceIdentify influential African Americans of the time period, and analyze their impact on American and Tennessee society, including:
Generate resourceDescribe the progress of African American institutions (e.g., religion, education, and benevolent organizations) during the post-Civil War era.
Generate resourceDescribe the economic, cultural, political, and social impact of African American migration within and from the South (e.g., Exodusters, Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, First Great Migration).
Generate resourceIdentify the achievements of African American inventors and entrepreneurs of the post-Civil War era including:
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of African American regiments on the western campaigns, the Spanish- American War, and World War I (e.g., buffalo soldiers, Harlem Hellfighters).
Generate resourceDescribe the African American experience during and after World War I, including:
Generate resourceIdentify literary contributions made by African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance (e.g., Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston).
Generate resourceDescribe the contributions of African Americans to the performing arts during the Harlem
Generate resourceDescribe the contributions of African Americans to the visual arts during the Harlem Renaissance, including the work of William Edmondson.
Generate resourceAnalyze the influence of the Harlem Renaissance on American culture and subsequent assimilation and appropriation.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of the Great Depression and New Deal on the lives of African Americans, including:
Generate resourceDescribe highlights of African American culture of the 1930s and 1940s (e.g., Satchel Page and Negro league baseball, Cab Calloway, Hattie McDaniel, Jessie Owens, and Mississippi Delta blues musicians).
Generate resourceIdentify the contributions of African Americans who served in the military, and compare their experiences to other Americans who served in World War II.
Generate resourceDescribe the experience of African Americans at home during and after World War II, such as unequal access to the G.I. Bill of Rights and VA Loans.
Generate resourceExplain how World War II laid the groundwork for the modern Civil Rights Movement , including
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, and evaluate resistance to the decision and the reactions that followed (e.g., Scarboro 85, Clinton 12, Little Rock 9).
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of the death of Emmett Till as a catalyst in the Civil Rights Movement.
Generate resourceSummarize the Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee, including the Nashville sit-ins, Tent Cities of Haywood and Fayette counties, and the activities of Diane Nash, Jim Lawson, and John Lewis.
Generate resourceIdentify various organizations and their roles in the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., Black Panthers, SCLC, Nation of Islam, Highlander Folk School, SNCC).
Generate resourceIdentify legal victories of the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, 24th Amendment, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas).
Generate resourceDiscuss the impact of the Vietnam War on the Civil Rights Movement, including responses to the draft, disproportionate representation of minority groups, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s response to the war.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the various strategies of the Black Liberation Movement (e.g., Black Panther Party, Angela Davis, Fred Hampton).
Generate resourceDescribe the cultural contributions of African Americans and companies throughout the Civil Rights Movement, including:
Generate resourceIdentify and analyze changes in voting rights, such as the Shelby County v. Holder decision and voter identification laws.
Generate resourceIdentify and evaluate major contemporary economic, social, and political reforms, and the impact they have on African American lives.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of migration on the lives of African Americans in the contemporary United States, including the return to the South.
Generate resourceIdentify and evaluate the diffusion and appropriation of African American culture within American popular culture.
Generate resourceIdentify the major contributions of contemporary African Americans in America.
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:
Generate resourceExtract, summarize, and paraphrase significant ideas and relevant information
Generate resourcePerceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy vs. present- mindedness
Generate resourceEvaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction
Generate resourceIdentifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present
Generate resourceAnalyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity
Generate resourceUsing the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales
Generate resourceAnalyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena
Generate resourceExamining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space
Generate resourceAncient History
Regional Interactions: 1000-1500 AD: Students will examine civilizations and empires of this time period, including interactions through regional trade patterns, social, economic, and political changes, cultural achievements, and developments that impacted each region.
Generate resourcePost-Classical Civilizations: 300-1000 AD: Students will examine post-classical civilizations, including the Byzantine Empire, the Gupta Empire, and Islamic civilizations during the Early Middle Ages, and their impact on Western civilization.
Generate resourceThe Classical Civilizations of Greece and Rome: 1000-500 BC: Students will examine Greece and Rome during the classical period in terms of chronology, geography, social structures, government, economy, religion, and contributions to society.
Generate resourceEarly Civilizations and the Rise of Religious Traditions: 1000 BC-500 AD: Students will examine various early civilizations in terms of chronology, geography, social structures, government, economy, religion, and contributions to later civilizations.
Generate resourceHuman Origins and Early Civilizations: Prehistory to 1000 BC: Students will examine the emergence of early civilizations and the social, geographic, and cultural aspects of ancient civilizations.
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Generate resourceList characteristics typical of hunter-gatherer societies, including their use of tools and fire.
Generate resourceDescribe how the domestication of plants and animals gave rise to stable communities.
Generate resourceExplain how archaeology and new technologies (e.g., 3D imaging and dating tools) inform our understanding of the past.
Generate resourceIdentify and locate on a map early civilizations (e.g., China, Egypt, Indus-Sarasvathi River Valley, Mesopotamia), and explain why civilizations arose in those places.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the rise of early civilizations (e.g., China, Egypt, Indus-Sarasvathi River Valley, Mesopotamia) in terms of social, political, and economic development.
Generate resourceDescribe the origins and central features of Hinduism and its distinctions from other early religious traditions:
Generate resourceDescribe the origins and central features of Judaism and its distinctions from other early religious traditions:
Generate resourceBasic Beliefs: monotheism, Ten Commandments, emphasis on individual worth and personal responsibility
Generate resourceDescribe the diffusion of Judaism, and analyze its religious, social, and legal contributions.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of early civilizations in Persia, including the impact of Zoroastrianism.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of early American civilizations, with emphasis on the Olmecs and Nazcas, in terms of geography, society, economy, and religion.
Generate resourceBasic Beliefs: localized tradition that focuses on ritual practices that are carried out with discipline to maintain connections with ancient past; animism
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of early civilizations in Japan, with emphasis on the impact of Shinto and Buddhist traditions and the influence of Chinese culture.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of early civilizations in China, with emphasis on the development of an empire, the construction of the Great Wall, and the Han Dynasty.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the impact of eastern religions (e.g., Confucianism, Taoism) on cultural traditions and social relationships.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of early civilizations in India, with emphasis on the Aryan migrations and the caste system.
Generate resourceDescribe the geographic, social, economic, and religious characteristics of the ancient African civilization of Axum, including its replacing Kush.
Generate resourceAnalyze the role geography played in the rise of Greek city-states, including their political and economic interactions.
Generate resourceDescribe early Greek society, with an emphasis on social classes, cultural traditions, and religious beliefs.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the city-states of Athens and Sparta, explaining social structures, the significance of citizenship, and rise of early democracy.
Generate resourceExplain the conquest of Greece by Macedonia and the formation and spread of Hellenistic culture by Alexander the Great.
Generate resourceIdentify the significant developments and contributions of Greece to the following:
Generate resourceAnalyze the role and influence of geography on Roman economic, social, and political development.
Generate resourceExplain the social and political structures of the Roman Republic, including enslavement, the significance of citizenship, and the development of democratic features in government.
Generate resourceExplain the spread of Roman culture and the rise of Roman military, and the impact of conquests on political affairs, the economy, and social structures, including the Pax Romana.
Generate resourceAssess the roles of Julius and Augustus Caesar in the collapse of the Roman Republic and the rise of imperial monarchs.
Generate resourceBasic Beliefs: Triune monotheism, sin and forgiveness, eternal life, Jesus as the Messiah
Generate resourceExplain the development and significance of the Christian Church in the late Roman Empire.
Generate resourceIdentify the significant developments and contributions of Rome to the following:
Generate resourceAnalyze the fall of the Western Roman Empire, including difficulty governing its large territory, political corruption, economic instability, and attacks by Germanic tribes, and identify the continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire as the Byzantine Empire.
Generate resourceExplain the reasons for establishing Constantinople as the capital of the Roman Empire (i.e., the Byzantine Empire) in the East.
Generate resourceDescribe the contributions of Justinian (e.g., the codification of Roman law) and the economic and political expansion of the Byzantine Empire.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast Byzantine art and architecture with previous Greek and Roman traditions.
Generate resourceExplain disputes that led to the split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church.
Generate resourceAnalyze the role geography played in the economic, social, and political development of Islamic civilizations.
Generate resourceIdentify historical turning points that affected the diffusion and influence of Islam, with emphasis on the Sunni-Shi’a division and Battle of Tours.
Generate resourceDescribe cultural and scientific contributions and achievements of Islamic civilizations.
Generate resourceExplain how the diffusion of Christianity throughout Europe influenced its development after the decline of the Roman Empire.
Generate resourceExplain the structure of feudal society and its economic, social, and political effects.
Generate resourceExplain the rise of Frankish kings, the Age of Charlemagne, and the revival of the idea of the Roman Empire.
Generate resourceExamine the invasions, settlements, and patterns of interaction of migratory groups, including Angles, Saxons, Magyars, and Vikings.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of civilizations in the Americas, with emphasis on the Incans, in terms of geography, society, economy, and religion.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of civilizations in the Americas, with emphasis on the Maya, in terms of geography, society, economy, and religion.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of the continuation of civilizations in Africa, with emphasis on Axum, Ghana, and Mali, in terms of geography, society, economy/trade, and religion.
Generate resourceDescribe the development of monarchies (e.g., England, France, Russia, and Spain) as foundations for the later emergence of nation-states.
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes, experiences, and consequences of the Crusades during the medieval period.
Generate resourceExplain later conflicts in the Eurasian region, with emphasis on the Mongol conquests, the Hundred Years War, and the fall of Constantinople.
Generate resourceIdentify patterns of crisis and recovery related to the Black Death (i.e., Bubonic Plague).
Generate resourceDescribe social, political, and religious developments in the later medieval period (e.g., Magna Carta, decline of feudalism, and church-state conflicts).
Generate resourceDescribe how preservation and integration of Greek, Roman, Chinese, and Arabic knowledge influenced developments in Western Europe (e.g., philosophy, medicine, and technology).
Generate resourceExplain the rise of Italian city-states and their political development, including Niccolo Machiavelli’s theory of governing as described in The Prince.
Generate resourceExamine how economic growth in the Italian city-states enabled patronage for the arts.
Generate resourceDescribe how Renaissance art, literature, and philosophy (e.g., Petrarch) differed from those in the medieval period.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the Italian and the Northern Renaissances, citing the contributions of writers and artists.
Generate resourceDescribe how economic and technological advances led to networks of trade and cultural interactions between major European civilizations.
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:
Generate resourceExtract, summarize, and paraphrase significant ideas and relevant information
Generate resourcePerceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy vs. present- mindedness
Generate resourceEvaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction
Generate resourceIdentifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present
Generate resourceAnalyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity
Generate resourceUsing the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales
Generate resourceAnalyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena
Generate resourceExamining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space
Generate resourceContemporary Issues
Culture and Innovation: Students will explore the similarities and differences among people, including their beliefs, values, and traditions.
Generate resourcePolitics: Students will analyze and explain how the U.S. government interacts with its citizens and the global community.
Generate resourceHistorical Impacts: Students will explore how historical events continue to have an impact on the contemporary world.
Generate resourceGeography and Environment: Students will see, understand, and appreciate the web of relationships between people, places, and environments using the knowledge, skills, and concepts within the five themes of geography.
Generate resourceSource Analysis Skills: Students will analyze a variety of news sources to demonstrate an understanding of the responsibility of informed citizenship in the age of digital media.
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Generate resourceUnderstand the importance of being well-informed and engaged, including identifying problems or dilemmas, proposing appropriate solutions, formulating action plans, and assessing the positive and negative results of actions taken.
Generate resourceIdentify markers of verification, transparency, accountability, and independence in a news story.
Generate resourceDistinguish between opinion and news, and examine for effective arguments and logical and/or illogical reasoning.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast varying viewpoints, perspectives, and sources on contemporary issues.
Generate resourceDescribe key geographic concepts, such as scale, pattern, sustainability, diffusion, and connectivity.
Generate resourceDescribe how changing physical and human characteristics of a place can influence culture, economics, and politics at the local, national, and global level.
Generate resourceExamine key features of major world regions, and explain how current issues link or divide those regions.
Generate resourceAnalyze how countries are interconnected in the modern world (e.g., improved transportation, communication technology, migration, trade, commodity chains, and multinational organizations).
Generate resourceDiscuss the immediate and lasting impact of human-environment interactions on places and peoples
Generate resourceDescribe the relationships between past and current conflicts, including wars, domestic and global acts of terrorism, and other acts of violence.
Generate resourceDescribe the relationship between historical events and the contemporary world, and analyze the lasting impacts of these events.
Generate resourceExamine the events that unify or challenge state sovereignty and stability (e.g., terrorism, independence movements, internal political/cultural conflict).
Generate resourceDescribe the patterns of stability and change within political governance (e.g., elections, nullification, political representation, societal movements).
Generate resourceDiscuss the evolving role of the United States in international affairs and the impact of current events on American policy.
Generate resourceExamine the diffusion and impact of popular culture on local culture, as well as efforts to preserve local culture.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the diffusion of culture, language, and religion play a role in contemporary issues.
Generate resourceDescribe the effects of scientific, technological, and medical innovations in society.
Generate resourceAnalyze the changing role of media and technology on the spread of information and the effects of global culture.
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:
Generate resourceExtract, summarize, and paraphrase significant ideas and relevant information
Generate resourcePerceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy vs. present- mindedness
Generate resourceEvaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction
Generate resourceIdentifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present
Generate resourceAnalyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity
Generate resourceUsing the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales
Generate resourceAnalyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena
Generate resourceExamining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space
Generate resourceEconomics
Trade: Students will understand why individuals, businesses, and governments trade goods and services and how trade affects the economies of the world.
Generate resourceNational Economic Performance: Students will understand how various models and instruments describe economic performance.
Generate resourceThe Role of Government: Students will analyze perspectives on the roles of government in a market economy and explore means of financing and influencing the economy.
Generate resourceMarket Structures: Students will understand the organization and role of business firms and analyze the various types of market structures in a market economy.
Generate resourceSupply and Demand: Students will understand the role that supply and demand, prices, and profits play in determining production and distribution in a free-market economy.
Generate resourceScarcity and Economic Reasoning: Students will explore how limited resources restrict the goods and services that people may want and how consumers must choose some things and give up others. Students will consider systems and means created to meet and manage the issues of scarcity.
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Generate resourceExplain how consumers and producers confront the condition of scarcity by making choices that involve opportunity costs and tradeoffs.
Generate resourceDefine land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship, and explain why they are necessary for the production of goods and services.
Generate resourceExplain reasons for voluntary exchange, including positive and negative incentives.
Generate resourceDescribe the basic characteristics and explain the functions of money, including its role as a medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast how the various modern economic systems (i.e., market, command, mixed) attempt to answer the following questions: What to produce? How to produce it? To produce it for whom?
Generate resourceUse a production possibilities curve to explain economic concepts, such as choice, productivity, trade- offs, growth, scarcity, unemployment, and opportunity cost.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the theoretical principles of capitalism, socialism, and communism, as expressed through theorists such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx.
Generate resourceDefine supply and demand, provide relevant examples, and consider ceteris paribus (i.e., all things being equal).
Generate resourceUse concepts of price elasticity of demand and supply to explain and predict changes in quantity as prices fluctuate.
Generate resourceDefine market equilibrium, and explain how supply and demand guide prices towards equilibrium to avoid surpluses or shortages, and graph examples on a curve.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the following forms of business organization: sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation.
Generate resourceExplain the function of profit in a market economy as an incentive for entrepreneurs to accept the risks of business failure.
Generate resourceDefine stock, and describe the connections between capital, stock markets, banks, and the economy.
Generate resourceAnalyze the various ways and reasons that firms grow either through reinvestment of financial capital or through horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate mergers.
Generate resourceSummarize the role and historical impact of economic institutions (e.g., labor unions, multinationals, and nonprofit organizations) within market economies.
Generate resourceIdentify the basic characteristics of monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, and perfect competition.
Generate resourceIdentify laws and regulations adopted in the United States to promote competition among firms.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of natural monopolies and the purposes of government regulation of these monopolies, such as utilities.
Generate resourceExplore the roles that research and development, equipment and technology, and the training of workers have in increasing productivity.
Generate resourceDescribe methods of revenue (e.g., taxes, bonds, printing) for governments, and explain ways that they allocate funds.
Generate resourceAnalyze reasons that government deficits, debts, and surpluses are accrued, and examine the differences between government budgets with personal budgets.
Generate resourceDefine progressive, proportional, and regressive taxation, and discuss how federal, state, and local governments utilize them.
Generate resourceAnalyze economic costs and benefits of government policies (e.g., Social Security, Medicare, earned income credits, military expenditures, and public education).
Generate resourceExplore potential national debt management strategies, considering their feasibility and implications.
Generate resourceDefine fiscal and monetary policy, and explain how the government uses these in its efforts to influence the economy.
Generate resourceExplain how price stability, full employment, and economic growth influence fiscal and monetary policy making.
Generate resourceCompare the various schools of thought on governmental intervention in the economy, including classical (Adam Smith), demand-siders (John Maynard Keynes), the Austrian school (Friedrich Hayek), supply-siders (Arthur Laffer), and Monetarists (Milton Friedman).
Generate resourceAnalyze how governments intend to incentivize entrepreneurs through policies (e.g., tax, regulatory, education, research support policies, patents, and copyrights).
Generate resourceDefine gross domestic product (GDP), economic growth, unemployment, and inflation, and explain how they are calculated.
Generate resourceExplain the role of banks and other financial institutions in the U.S. economy.
Generate resourceDifferentiate between different types of unemployment (e.g., structural, frictional, seasonal, underemployment, and cyclical).
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of investment and consumer debt as it relates to the national economy.
Generate resourceDefine and distinguish between absolute and comparative advantage, and explain how most trade occurs because of a comparative advantage.
Generate resourceDescribe causes and consequences of trade barriers (e.g., quotas, tariffs, and subsidies) on consumers and producers.
Generate resourceExplain how changes in exchange rates impact the purchasing power of people in the United States and other countries.
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:
Generate resourceExtract, summarize, and paraphrase significant ideas and relevant information
Generate resourcePerceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy vs. present- mindedness
Generate resourceEvaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction
Generate resourceIdentifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present
Generate resourceAnalyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity
Generate resourceUsing the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales
Generate resourceAnalyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena
Generate resourceExamining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space
Generate resourceGrades 9, 10, 11, 12
Understanding the Contemporary World (1980s- present)
Generate resourceCreation of New States and Decolonization (1940s-1980s)
Generate resourceCold War (1945-1991)
Generate resourceRise of Totalitarianism and World War II (1930s-1945)
Generate resourceWorld War I through the Depression (1910s-1930s)
Generate resourceNationalism and Imperialism (1850-1914)
Generate resourceThe Industrial Revolution (1750s-1900s)
Generate resourceAge of Revolution (1750-1850)
Generate resourceWorld History And Geography
Generate resourceUrbanization
Generate resourceEconomic Development and Interdependence
Generate resourcePopulation and Migration
Generate resourcePolitical Geography
Generate resourceCultural Geography
Generate resourcePhysical Process, Natural Resources, and the Environment
Generate resourceGeographic Skills and Tools
Generate resourceWorld Geography
Generate resourceThe Modern United States (1960s-present)
Generate resourceCivil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s)
Generate resourceA Nation in Transition (1950s-1963)
Generate resourceCold War (1947-1991)
Generate resourceWorld War II (1936-1945)
Generate resourceThe Great Depression and New Deal (1929-1941)
Generate resourceThe 1920s (1920-1929)
Generate resourceImperialism and World War I (1890-1920)
Generate resourceThe Progressive Era (1890-1920)
Generate resourceThe Rise of Industrialization (1877-1900)
Generate resourceUnited States History And Geography
Generate resourceCitizen Participation
Generate resourceTennessee State and Local Government
Generate resourceCivil Liberties
Generate resourceThe Judicial Branch
Generate resourceThe Executive Branch
Generate resourceThe Legislative Branch
Generate resourceFoundations of Constitutional Government
Generate resourceUnited States Government And Civics
Generate resourceTennessee in Modern Times (1945-present)
Generate resourceTennessee: Reform and War (1900-1945)
Generate resourceTennessee in the New South (1880-1890s)
Generate resourceTennessee during Reconstruction (1865-1880)
Generate resourceTennessee: A Time of Troubles (1860-1865)
Generate resourceTennessee's Golden Age (1800-1860)
Generate resourceTennessee's Coming of Age (1796-1812)
Generate resourceFrom Territory to Statehood (1784-1796)
Generate resourceThe Struggle for Tennessee's Frontier (1600s-1700s)
Generate resourceIndigenous Peoples of Tennessee (c. 10,000-1,000 BCE)
Generate resourceTennessee History
Generate resourceStratification and Social Inequality
Generate resourceSelf, Groups, Socialization, and Deviance
Generate resourceFunctions and Structures of Social Institutions
Generate resourceThe Role of Culture in Society
Generate resourceThe Sociological Point of View
Generate resourceSociology
Generate resourcePsychological Disorders
Generate resourceLearning, Memory, and Intelligence
Generate resourceSociocultural Diversity
Generate resourceSocial Interactions
Generate resourceLifespan Development
Generate resourceConsciousness
Generate resourceSensation & Perception
Generate resourceBiological Bases of Behavior
Generate resourceResearch Methods, Measurement, and Statistics
Generate resourcePsychology
Generate resourceTrade
Generate resourceNational Economic Performance
Generate resourceThe Role of Government
Generate resourceMarket Structures
Generate resourceSupply and Demand
Generate resourceScarcity and Economic Reasoning
Generate resourceEconomics
Generate resourceCulture
Generate resourcePolitics
Generate resourceHistory
Generate resourceGeography
Generate resourceContemporary Issues
Generate resourceRegional Interactions: 1000-1500 CE
Generate resourcePost-Classical Civilizations: 300-1000 CE
Generate resourceThe Classical Civilizations of Greece and Rome: 1000-500 BCE
Generate resourceEarly Civilizations and the Rise of Religious Traditions: 1000 BCE-500 CE
Generate resourceHuman Origins and Early Civilizations: Prehistory to 1000 BCE
Generate resourceAncient History
Generate resourceAfrican American Issues in Contemporary Times (1970s-present)
Generate resourceThe Modern Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s)
Generate resourceAfrican American Life during the Great Depression and World War II (1930s-1940s)
Generate resourceAfrican Americans and the Harlem Renaissance (1920s-1930s)
Generate resourceAfrican American Life after Emancipation through World War I (1890s-1920s)
Generate resourceAfrican Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1890s)
Generate resourceAfrican American Life Prior to the Civil War (1619-1860)
Generate resourceThe Beginnings of Slavery and the Slave Trade (pre-1619)
Generate resourceAfrican American History
Generate resourceSocial Studies Practices
Generate resourceAnalyze the economic, political, and social reasons for focusing the slave trade on Africa, including the roles of: Africans, Europeans, and colonists.
Generate resourceAssess the impact of the slave trade on West Africa and North American colonies.
Generate resourceExplain why the Middle Passage is considered to be one of the largest forced migrations in human history.
Generate resourceAnalyze the economic, social, religious, and legal justifications for the establishment and continuation of slavery.
Generate resourceIdentify the various ways Africans in the U.S. resisted slavery as well as their ability to buy their freedom.
Generate resourceAnalyze the role slavery played in the development of nationalism and sectionalism, including the fugitive slave laws.
Generate resourceAssess the development of the abolitionist movement and its impact on slavery and the nation, including the efforts of:<ul><li>American Colonial Society</li><li>Frederick Douglass</li><li>Ralph Waldo Emerson</li><li>William Lloyd Garrison</li><li>Sojourner Truth</li><li>Harriet Tubman</li></ul>
Generate resourceExplain the Underground Railroad, and assess its impact on slavery in the U.S.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast African American communities in the North and South, with emphasis on those in rural and urban areas.
Generate resourceDescribe and analyze various experiences of African American families in the Antebellum U.S.
Generate resourceDescribe the development of African American institutions, such as religion, education, and benevolent organizations, during this era.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain contributions to science and the arts from African Americans during this era.
Generate resourceDescribe the changing status of slaves, freed slaves, and free blacks during and after the Civil War.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the roles of African American soldiers, spies, and slaves in the war effort in both the North and the South, including the 54th Massachusetts Regiment and the 13th U.S. Colored Troops.
Generate resourceIdentify reasons for and effects of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments on African Americans.
Generate resourceAnalyze the effects of Reconstruction on the legal, political, social, cultural, educational, and economic life of freedmen.
Generate resourceAssess the successes and failures of Reconstruction as they relate to African Americans.
Generate resourceAnalyze the legal ramifications of segregation laws and court decisions (e.g., Plessy v. Ferguson) on American society.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast organized responses to Jim Crow laws (e.g., the Niagara Movement, the NAACP, the Urban League, the Atlanta compromise, the Farmers' Alliance, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and the anti-lynching crusade).
Generate resourceIdentify influential African Americans of the time period, and analyze their impact on American and Tennessee society (e.g., Robert R. Church, Samuel McElwee, Randolph Miller, James Napier, Ida B. Wells).
Generate resourceDescribe the progress of African American institutions, such as religion, education, and benevolent organizations, during this era.
Generate resourceDescribe the economic, cultural, political, and social impact of African American migration within and from the South (e.g., Exodusters, Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, First Great Migration).
Generate resourceIdentify the achievements of African American inventors and entrepreneurs of the period (e.g., George Washington Carver, Garrett Morgan, Madam C.J. Walker).
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of African American regiments on the western campaigns, the Spanish-American War, and World War I.
Generate resourceDescribe the African American experience during and after World War I (e.g., economic opportunities, Second Great Migration, resurgence of Ku Klux Klan, etc.).
Generate resourceIdentify literary contributions made by African Americans during this era (e.g., Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston).
Generate resourceDescribe the contributions of African Americans to the performing arts during this era (e.g., DeFord Bailey, Duke Ellington, Fisk Jubilee Singers, W.C. Handy, James Weldon Johnson, John Work III).
Generate resourceDescribe the contributions of African Americans to the visual arts during this era, including the work of William Edmondson.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of the Great Depression and the New Deal on the lives of African Americans.
Generate resourceDescribe highlights of African American culture of the 1930s and 1940s (e.g., Satchel Page and Negro league baseball, Cab Calloway, Mississippi Delta blues musicians).
Generate resourceIdentify the contributions of African Americans who served in the military, and compare their experiences to other Americans who served in World War II.
Generate resourceDescribe the experience of African Americans at home during and after World War II.
Generate resourceExplain how World War II laid the groundwork for the modern Civil Rights Movement (e.g., President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802, CORE, President Harry S. Truman's integration of the military, Columbia Race Riots, etc.).
Generate resourceExplain how legal victories prior to 1954 inspired and propelled the Civil Rights Movement.
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, and evaluate the resistance to the decision and the reactions that followed.
Generate resourceDescribe various methods employed by African Americans to obtain civil rights.
Generate resourceSummarize the Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee, including: the integration of Clinton High School, sit-ins in Nashville, and the activities of Diane Nash and Jim Lawson.
Generate resourceIdentify various organizations and their roles in the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., Black Panthers, Highlander Folk School, SNCC, etc.).
Generate resourceIdentify legal victories of the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, 24th Amendment).
Generate resourceAssess the extent to which the Civil Rights Movement transformed American politics and society.
Generate resourceIdentify and analyze how the changing political environment has impacted civil rights.
Generate resourceDescribe how African Americans have responded to or engaged in political conservatism.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the responses of African Americans to the economic, social, and political challenges in the contemporary U.S.
Generate resourceIdentify and evaluate major contemporary African American issues confronting society (e.g., affirmative action, educational achievement gap, wealth gap, poverty, AIDS, drug epidemic, crime).
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of immigration and migration on the lives of African Americans in the contemporary U.S.
Generate resourceIdentify the major contributions of contemporary African Americans in business, education, the arts, politics, sports, science, technology, and society in general, including those of:<ul><li>President Barack Obama</li><li>Condoleezza Rice</li><li>Wilma Rudolph</li><li>Tina Turner</li><li>Oprah Winfrey</li></ul>
Generate resourceList characteristics typical of hunter-gatherer societies, including their use of tools and fire.
Generate resourceDescribe how the domestication of plants and animals gave rise to stable communities.
Generate resourceExplain how archaeology and new technologies (e.g., 3D imaging and dating tools) inform our understanding of the past.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the rise of early civilizations (e.g., China, Egypt, Indus River Valley, Mesopotamia) in terms of social, political, and economic development.
Generate resourceDescribe the origins and central features of Hinduism and its distinctions from other early religious traditions:<ul><li>Key Person(s): origins in Aryan traditions</li><li>Sacred Texts: The Vedas</li><li>Basic Beliefs: dharma, karma, reincarnation, and moksha</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the origins and central features of Judaism and its distinctions from other early religious traditions:<ul><li>Key Person(s): Abraham, Moses</li><li>Sacred Texts: The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)</li><li>Basic Beliefs: monotheism, Ten Commandments, emphasis on individual worth and personal responsibility</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the diffusion of Judaism, and analyze its religious, social, and legal contributions.
Generate resourceDescribe the origins and central features of Zoroastrianism:<ul><li>Key Person(s): Zoroaster</li><li>Sacred Texts: the Avesta</li><li>Basic Beliefs: monotheism, dualism, and humanity</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of early civilizations in Persia, including the impact of Zoroastrianism.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of early American civilizations, with emphasis on the Mayans and Olmecs, in terms of geography, society, economy, and religion.
Generate resourceDescribe the origins and central features of Shintoism:<ul><li>Key Person(s): No singular founder</li><li>Sacred Texts: No sacred text</li><li>Basic Beliefs: localized tradition that focuses on ritual practices that are carried out with discipline to maintain connections with ancient past; animism</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the origins and central features of Buddhism:<ul><li>Key Person(s): Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)</li><li>Sacred Texts: Tripitaka</li><li>Basic Beliefs: Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, Nirvana</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of early civilizations in Japan, with emphasis on the impact of Shinto and Buddhist traditions and the influence of Chinese culture.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of early civilizations in China, with emphasis on the development of an empire, the construction of the Great Wall, and the Han Dynasty.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the impact of eastern religions (e.g., Confucianism, Taoism) on cultural traditions and social relationships.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of early civilizations in India, with emphasis on the Aryan migrations and the caste system.
Generate resourceDescribe the geographic, social, economic, and religious characteristics of the ancient African civilization of Axum, including its replacing Kush.
Generate resourceAnalyze the role geography played in the rise of Greek city-states, including their political and economic interactions.
Generate resourceDescribe early Greek society, with an emphasis on social classes, cultural traditions, and religious beliefs.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the city-states of Athens and Sparta, explaining social structures, the significance of citizenship, and rise of early democracy.
Generate resourceExplain the conquest of Greece by Macedonia and the formation and spread of Hellenistic culture by Alexander the Great.
Generate resourceIdentify the significant developments and contributions of Greece to the following:<ul><li>Architecture</li><li>Art/Drama</li><li>History</li><li>Language</li><li>Law</li><li>Literature/Poetry</li><li>Medicine</li><li>Philosophy</li><li>Religious institutions</li><li>Science</li><li>Technology</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the role and influence of geography on Roman economic, social, and political development.
Generate resourceExplain the social and political structures of the Roman Republic, including: the role of slavery, significance of citizenship, and development of democratic features in the government.
Generate resourceExplain the rise of the Roman military and impacts of its conquests on political affairs, the economy, social structures, and spread of Roman culture.
Generate resourceAssess the roles of Julius and Augustus Caesar in the collapse of the Roman Republic and the rise of imperial monarchs.
Generate resourceDescribe the origins, central features, and diffusion of Christianity:<ul><li>Key Person(s): Jesus, Paul</li><li>Sacred Texts: The Bible</li><li>Basic Beliefs: monotheism, sin and forgiveness, eternal life, Jesus as the Messiah</li></ul>
Generate resourceExplain the development and significance of the Christian Church in the late Roman Empire.
Generate resourceIdentify the significant developments and contributions of Rome to the following:<ul><li>Architecture</li><li>Art/Drama</li><li>History</li><li>Language</li><li>Law</li><li>Literature/Poetry</li><li>Medicine</li><li>Philosophy</li><li>Religious institutions</li><li>Science</li><li>Technology</li></ul>
Generate resourceExplain the reasons for the establishment of Constantinople as the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Generate resourceDescribe the contributions of Justinian (e.g., the codification of Roman law) and the economic and political expansion of the Byzantine Empire.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast Byzantine art and architecture with previous Greek and Roman traditions.
Generate resourceExplain disputes that led to the split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church.
Generate resourceDescribe the origins, central features, and diffusion of Islam:<ul><li>Key Person(s): Mohammad</li><li>Sacred Texts: The Quran and The Sunnah</li><li>Basic Beliefs: monotheism, Five Pillars</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the role geography played in the economic, social, and political development of Islamic civilizations.
Generate resourceIdentify historical turning points that affected the diffusion and influence of Islam, with emphasis on the Sunni-Shi'a division and Battle of Tours.
Generate resourceDescribe cultural and scientific contributions and achievements of Islamic civilizations.
Generate resourceExplain how the diffusion of Christianity throughout Europe influenced its development after the decline of the Roman Empire.
Generate resourceExplain the structure of feudal society and its economic, social, and political effects.
Generate resourceExplain the rise of Frankish kings, the Age of Charlemagne, and the revival of the idea of the Roman Empire.
Generate resourceExamine the invasions, settlements, and patterns of interaction of migratory groups, including: Angles, Saxons, Magyars, and Vikings.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of civilizations in the Americas, with emphasis on the Maya and Incans, in terms of geography, society, economy, and religion.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of the continuation of civilizations in Africa, with emphasis on Axum, Ghana, and Mali, in terms of geography, society, economy/trade, and religion.
Generate resourceDescribe the development of monarchies (e.g., England, France, Russia, and Spain) as foundations for the later emergence of nation-states.
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes, experiences, and consequences of the Crusades during the medieval period.
Generate resourceExplain later conflicts in the Eurasian region, with emphasis on the Mongol conquests, the Hundred Years War, and the fall of Constantinople.
Generate resourceIdentify patterns of crisis and recovery related to the Black Death (i.e., Bubonic Plague).
Generate resourceDescribe social, political, and religious developments in the later medieval period (e.g., Magna Carta, decline of feudalism, and church-state conflicts).
Generate resourceDescribe how preservation and integration of Greek, Roman, Chinese, and Arabic knowledge influenced developments in Western Europe (e.g., philosophy, medicine, and technology).
Generate resourceExplain the rise of Italian city-states and their political development, including Niccolo Machiavelli's theory of governing as described in The Prince.
Generate resourceExamine how economic growth in the Italian city-states enabled patronage for the arts.
Generate resourceDescribe how Renaissance art, literature, and philosophy (e.g., Petrarch) differed from those in the medieval period.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the Italian and the Northern Renaissances, citing the contributions of writers and artists.
Generate resourceDescribe how economic and technological advances led to networks of trade and cultural interactions between major European civilizations.
Generate resourceExplain the five themes of geography (i.e., location, place, human environment and interaction, movement, region).
Generate resourceLocate world regions, and explain how location affects events (e.g., climate, place, resources, globalization, urbanization, cultural diffusion, etc.).
Generate resourceAnalyze how cultural characteristics (e.g., language, religion, ethnicity, gender roles) link, divide, and/or define regions.
Generate resourceExplain and analyze reasons and methods for the creation of different political divisions (e.g., state, nation-state, federal states, electoral districts, multi-national organizations, etc.).
Generate resourceExplain how technology and globalization shape new methods of human interaction.
Generate resourceAnalyze the relationship between historical facts and historical interpretation.
Generate resourceAnalyze how causal factors (e.g., cultural differences, boundary disputes, imperialism, and religious conflicts) fostered past and current conflicts.
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes and effects of extremism, and identify the historical roots of terrorist attacks (e.g., PLO, IRA, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS, the Black Hand, KKK, etc.).
Generate resourceDescribe the relationship and causal factors between historic events and contemporary issues (e.g., 2011 Japanese earthquake, Chernobyl, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Great Chicago Fire, world epidemics).
Generate resourceAnalyze the lasting impact of history on contemporary issues (e.g., Treaty of Versailles, Cold War, ethnic cleansing, urbanization, human rights, immigration, modern medicine, etc.).
Generate resourceDescribe the protections offered by the Bill of Rights and their changing interpretations within American society.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast American civil liberties and protections, as defined by the Bill of Rights, to those of other nations.
Generate resourceExamine factors that influence elections, such as political ideologies, media technologies, social media, societal movements, and other factors.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast current economic issues, such as wealth disparity, trade imbalances, developed and developing nations, and over-consumption.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast world religions (e.g., Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism), and analyze how they complement or conflict with each other in the contemporary world.
Generate resourceAnalyze the changing role of media and technology on the spread of information and the effects on global culture.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast folk and/or traditional culture with popular culture, and analyze efforts to preserve folk culture amid the spread of popular culture.
Generate resourceAnalyze language's role in defining national identity and culture, and examine the role of English as a lingua franca.
Generate resourceExplain multiculturalism, and analyze trends in acculturation and assimilation.
Generate resourceIdentify public health efforts, and explain their effects in the U.S. and around the world today (e.g., sanitation, vaccinations, birth and death rates, disease prevention, pandemic research).
Generate resourceIdentify and explain groups and individuals involved in current U.S. and Tennessee issues.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain groups and individuals involved in current global issues.
Generate resourceExplain how consumers and producers confront the condition of scarcity by making choices that involve opportunity costs and tradeoffs.
Generate resourceDefine land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship, and explain why they are necessary for the production of goods and services.
Generate resourceExplain reasons for voluntary exchange, including positive and negative incentives.
Generate resourceDescribe the basic characteristics and explain the functions of money, including its role as a medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast how the various modern economic systems (i.e., market, command, mixed) attempt to answer the following questions: What to produce? How to produce it? To produce it for whom?
Generate resourceUse a production possibilities curve to explain the concepts of:<ul><li>Choice</li><li>Growth</li><li>Opportunity cost</li><li>Productivity</li><li>Scarcity</li><li>Tradeoffs</li><li>Unemployment</li></ul>
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the theoretical principles of capitalism, socialism, and communism, as expressed through theorists such as Adam Smith and Karl Marx
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the following broad goals of economic policy:<ul><li>Efficiency</li><li>Equity</li><li>Freedom</li><li>Full employment</li><li>Growth</li><li>Price stability</li><li>Security</li></ul>
Generate resourceDefine supply and demand, provide relevant examples, and consider ceteris paribus (i.e., all things being equal).
Generate resourceUse concepts of price elasticity of demand and supply to explain and predict changes in quantity as prices fluctuate.
Generate resourceDefine market equilibrium, and explain how supply and demand guide prices towards equilibrium to avoid surpluses or shortages.
Generate resourceDescribe how supply and demand determine equilibrium price, and graph examples on a curve.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the following forms of business organization: sole proprietorship, partnership, and corporation.
Generate resourceExplain the function of profit in a market economy as an incentive for entrepreneurs to accept the risks of business failure.
Generate resourceDefine stock, and describe the connections between capital, stock markets, banks, and the economy.
Generate resourceAnalyze the various ways and reasons that firms grow either through reinvestment of financial capital or through horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate mergers.
Generate resourceSummarize the role and historical impact of economic institutions (such as labor unions, multinationals, and nonprofit organizations) within market economies.
Generate resourceIdentify the basic characteristics of monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, and perfect competition.
Generate resourceIdentify laws and regulations adopted in the U.S. to promote competition among firms.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of natural monopolies and the purposes of government regulation of these monopolies (such as utilities).
Generate resourceExplore the roles that research and development, equipment and technology, and the training of workers have in increasing productivity.
Generate resourceDescribe methods of revenue (e.g., taxes and bonds) for governments, and explain ways that they allocate funds.
Generate resourceAnalyze reasons that government deficits, debts, and surpluses are accrued, and compare and contrast government budgets with personal budgets.
Generate resourceDefine progressive, proportional, and regressive taxation, and discuss how federal, state, and local governments utilize them.
Generate resourceAnalyze economic costs and benefits of government policies (e.g., Social Security, Medicare, earned income credits, military expenditures, and public education).
Generate resourceExplore potential national debt management strategies, considering their feasibility and implications.
Generate resourceDefine fiscal and monetary policy, and explain how the government uses these in its efforts to influence the economy.
Generate resourceExplain how price stability, full employment, and economic growth influence fiscal and monetary policy making.
Generate resourceCompare the various schools of thought on governmental intervention in the economy, including: classical (Adam Smith), demand-siders (John Maynard Keynes), the Austrian school (Friedrich Hayek), supply-siders (Arthur Laffer), and Monetarists (Milton Friedman).
Generate resourceAnalyze how governments intend to incentivize entrepreneurs through policies (e.g., tax, regulatory, education, research support policies, patents, and copyrights).
Generate resourceDefine gross domestic product (GDP), economic growth, unemployment, and inflation, and explain how they are calculated.
Generate resourceExplain the role of banks and other financial institutions in the U.S. economy.
Generate resourceDifferentiate between different types of unemployment (e.g., structural, functional, seasonal, underemployment, and cyclical).
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of investment and consumer debt as it relates to the national economy.
Generate resourceDefine and distinguish between absolute and comparative advantage, and explain how most trade occurs because of a comparative advantage.
Generate resourceDescribe causes and consequences of trade barriers (e.g., quotas, tariffs, and subsidies) on consumers and producers.
Generate resourceExplain how changes in exchange rates impact the purchasing power of people in the U.S. and other countries.
Generate resourceExamine the influences of leading European thinkers (e.g., John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Thomas Hobbes) and other roots of American government (e.g., Greek democracy, Roman republic, Magna Carta).
Generate resourceExamine the Declaration of Independence and American grievances against British rule.
Generate resourceDiscuss the Constitutional Convention of 1787, including the Great Compromise and the ensuing debate over ratification between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
Generate resourceDescribe the purposes and functions of government as outlined in the Preamble of the Constitution.
Generate resourceDescribe limited government within the Constitution, including:<ul><li>Checks and balances</li><li>Civilian control of the military</li><li>Federalism</li><li>Judicial review</li><li>Popular sovereignty</li><li>Rule of law</li><li>Separation of powers</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze how the Bill of Rights limits the powers of the government and ensures individual rights. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1028)
Generate resourceDefine the concepts of democracy and republic, and examine the relationship between the two.
Generate resourceAnalyze Article I and the 17th Amendment of the Constitution as they relate to the legislative branch, including: eligibility for office, roles, length of terms, and election to office for representatives and senators, respectively.
Generate resourceDescribe the census and its role in redistricting and reapportionment, including the role of Baker v. Carr.
Generate resourceIdentify leadership positions of the legislative branch, including:<ul><li>Majority and minority leaders</li><li>President pro tempore</li><li>Role of the vice president</li><li>Speaker of the House</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the powers of U.S. Congress, including:<ul><li>Appropriations</li><li>Commerce</li><li>Confirmations</li><li>Declaration of war</li><li>Implied powers</li><li>Necessary and proper clause</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze Article II of the Constitution as it relates to the executive branch, including:<ul><li>Appointments</li><li>Commander-in-chief of the military</li><li>Eligibility for office</li><li>Executive orders</li><li>Length of term (22nd Amendment)</li><li>Oath of office</li><li>Powers of the president</li><li>Succession (25th Amendment)</li><li>Treaties</li></ul>
Generate resourceIdentify major departments of the executive branch, including:<ul><li>Defense</li><li>Education</li><li>Justice</li><li>State</li><li>Treasury</li></ul>
Generate resourceExplain the Electoral College system, and compare and contrast arguments for and against it.
Generate resourceAnalyze Article III of the Constitution as it relates to judicial power, including the length of terms and the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Generate resourceExplain the processes of selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices.
Generate resourceDescribe the Supreme Court's role in determining the constitutionality of laws and acts of the legislative and executive branches.
Generate resourceEvaluate the Supreme Court's interpretations of the freedoms articulated in the 1st Amendment, including:<ul><li>Schenck v. United States</li><li>Engel v. Vitale</li><li>Tinker v. Des Moines</li><li>Lemon v. Kurtzman</li><li>New York Times v. United States</li><li>Miller v. California</li><li>Texas v. Johnson</li></ul>
Generate resourceEvaluate the Supreme Court's interpretations of freedoms in the 4th through 8th Amendments, including:<ul><li>Mapp v. Ohio</li><li>Gideon v. Wainwright</li><li>Miranda v. Arizona</li></ul>
Generate resourceEvaluate the Supreme Court's interpretations of the freedoms in the 14th Amendment, equal protection, and due process clauses, including:<ul><li>Plessy v. Ferguson</li><li>Gitlow v. New York</li><li>Brown v. Board of Education</li><li>Roe v. Wade</li><li>Obergefell v. Hodges</li></ul>
Generate resourceIdentify and explain legislation and legal precedents that established rights for the underserved, including Title IX and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Generate resourceIdentify the functions of departments and agencies of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches in the state of Tennessee.
Generate resourceExplain the differences among the types of local governments in Tennessee, including county, city, and metro governments, as well as the legal, fiscal, and operational relationships between them and the state government.
Generate resourceIdentify the current governor of Tennessee and the representatives in the General Assembly (for a student's respective district).
Generate resourceDescribe what should be reasonably expected from any citizen or resident of the U.S., and explain why it is important for the well-being of the nation, including:<ul><li>Being informed on civic issues</li><li>Obeying the law</li><li>Paying taxes</li><li>Respecting the rights of others</li><li>Serving as a juror</li><li>Serving in the military or alternative service</li><li>Volunteering and performing public service</li><li>Voting</li></ul>
Generate resourceExplain the role of political parties in the nomination process for presidential candidates and the importance of and difference between primaries, caucuses, and general elections.
Generate resourceDescribe the role of the media as a means of communicating information and how it influences the importance of issues and public opinion.
Generate resourceDescribe the means that citizens use to participate in the political process, including:<ul><li>Campaigning</li><li>Demonstrating</li><li>Lobbying</li><li>Petitioning</li><li>Running for office</li><li>Voting</li></ul>
Generate resourceExplain the requirements to be considered a natural-born U.S. citizen, and describe the process of naturalization, including the knowledge required by the Naturalization Test.
Generate resourceDescribe and compare a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods, including:<ul><li>Correlations</li><li>Experiments</li><li>Focus groups</li><li>Interviews</li><li>Narratives</li><li>Surveys</li></ul>
Generate resourceExplain systematic procedures used to improve the validity of research findings, including external validity.
Generate resourceDescribe how and why psychologists use animal subjects in research, and identify ethical guidelines to follow in performing this type of research.
Generate resourceIdentify ethical standards psychologists must follow regarding research with human participants.
Generate resourceExplain descriptive statistics and qualitative data and how they are used by psychological scientists.
Generate resourceInterpret graphical representations of data, as used in both quantitative and qualitative methods, and explain other statistical concepts, such as statistical significance and effect size.
Generate resourceExplain how validity and reliability of observation and measurements relate to data analysis.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe the methodology, including the tools, used to study the brain.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe the structure and function of the endocrine system and its impact on human behavior, including hormonal effects on the immune system.
Generate resourceDescribe other sensory systems (including olfaction and gustation), and identify skin senses, kinesthesis, and vestibular sense.
Generate resourceExplain how culture and expectations influence the use of drugs, including psychoactive drugs and their effects.
Generate resourceDescribe the use of hypnosis, meditation, and relaxation techniques, including the effects of each.
Generate resourceExplain the interaction between environmental and biological factors in lifespan development, including the role of the brain in all aspects of development.
Generate resourceDescribe physical development from conception through birth, and identify influences on prenatal development.
Generate resourceDescribe the physical, motor, cognitive, and moral changes that occur during adolescence.
Generate resourceDescribe the major physical, cognitive, and social changes that accompany adulthood and aging.
Generate resourceDescribe the relationship between attitudes (implicit and explicit) and behavior, including attributes associated with different types of behavior.
Generate resourceDescribe the situational effects and group dynamics associated with individual behavior, including how an individual can influence group norms.
Generate resourceExamine cultural change, including variations within and across nations, and consider the following factors using psychological research: gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and societal norms.
Generate resourceExplain how social power structures relate to stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.
Generate resourceExamine how perspectives influence stereotypes and the treatment of minority and majority groups in society.
Generate resourceInterpret psychological research to examine differences in individual, cognitive, and physical abilities.
Generate resourceExplain the process of learning, including principles of operant and classical conditioning as well as methods of observation.
Generate resourceDescribe the differences between learning, reflexes, and fixed-action patterns.
Generate resourceIdentify the types of memory, and describe memory disorders, including amnesias and dementias.
Generate resourceDescribe the factors that influence how memories are retrieved and strategies for improving the retrieval of memories.
Generate resourceDiscuss intelligence as a general factor in examining human growth and development.
Generate resourceIdentify current methods of assessing human abilities, including the role of reliability and validity in determining appropriate assessments.
Generate resourceDiscuss the influences of biological, cultural, and environmental factors on intelligence.
Generate resourceDescribe and discuss psychologically abnormal behavior, and examine how the stigma impacts relationships.
Generate resourceDescribe historical and cross-cultural views of abnormality and major models of abnormality.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of psychological disorders on the individual, family, and society.
Generate resourceDescribe the availability of treatment for psychological disorders and the impact of treatment options on society.
Generate resourceExplain how hypothesis testing is applied in sociology, including the concepts of dependent and independent variables.
Generate resourceEvaluate the strengths and weaknesses of major methods of sociological research (i.e., surveys and interviews, experiments, observations, content analysis, etc.).
Generate resourceDifferentiate among various sociological perspectives or theories on social life (i.e., functionalist perspective, conflict theory, symbolic interaction, etc.).
Generate resourceEvaluate various ethical issues in the study of sociology (e.g., confidentiality, consent, anonymity, and risk of harm).
Generate resourceDescribe components of culture (e.g., nonmaterial culture, norms and values, material culture, subcultures, etc.).
Generate resourceDefine and give examples of cultural norms (e.g., folkways, morality, taboos, laws, social expectations, manners, etc.).
Generate resourceExplain how language reflects and transmits culture (e.g., code switching, slang, regional differences, etc.).
Generate resourceAnalyze how culture influences individuals (e.g., ethnocentrism, cultural relativity, culture shock, American values, etc.).
Generate resourceIdentify and evaluate the functions of social institutions (e.g., family, education, religion, economy, government, etc.).
Generate resourceExplain how social problems can be a result of ineffective institutions (e.g., crime, poverty, etc.).
Generate resourceExplain how social institutions and cultures change and evolve due to historical changes, globalization, the Internet age, countercultures, and social movements.
Generate resourceDefine and distinguish among social groups, formal organizations, and social institutions.
Generate resourceClassify types of social groups that exist in society (i.e., reference groups, primary groups, secondary groups, in-groups, out-groups, etc.).
Generate resourceExplain the process of the social construction of the self (e.g., I and Me, role-taking, generalized other, identity, etc.).
Generate resourceDefine socialization, and describe the primary agents of socialization (i.e., family, peers, media, schools, religion, etc.).
Generate resourceDefine deviance, and describe conformity with and deviation from cultural norms.
Generate resourceDifferentiate among various explanations or theories for deviant behavior (i.e., control theory, anomie theory, differential association theory, labeling theory, etc.).
Generate resourceAnalyze various social control techniques (e.g., informal social control, formal social control, stigma, criminalization, etc.).
Generate resourceIdentify common patterns of social inequality (i.e., privilege, poverty, power, race, ethnicity, class, gender, etc.).
Generate resourceAnalyze effects of social inequality on groups and individuals (e.g., life chances, social problems, achievement, education, inter- and intra- group conflict among groups and individuals, etc.).
Generate resourceExplain how social institutions distribute power among groups and individuals and how institutions can produce, reinforce, or challenge inequality.
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:<ul><li>Printed materials (e.g., literary texts, newspapers, autobiographies, speeches, interviews, letters, personal journals)</li><li>Graphic representations (e.g., maps, timelines, charts, political cartoons, photographs, artwork)</li><li>Field observations/landscape analysis</li><li>Artifacts</li><li>Media and technology sources</li></ul>
Generate resourceCritically examine a primary or secondary source in order to:<ul><li>Extract and paraphrase significant ideas</li><li>Discern differences between evidence and assertion</li><li>Draw inferences and conclusions</li><li>Recognize author's purpose, point of view, and potential bias</li><li>Assess the strengths and limitations of arguments</li></ul>
Generate resourceSynthesize data from a variety of sources in order to:<ul><li>Establish accuracy and validity by comparing sources to each other</li><li>Recognize disparities among multiple accounts</li><li>Frame appropriate questions for further investigation</li></ul>
Generate resourceConstruct and communicate arguments citing supporting evidence to: <ul><li>Demonstrate and defend an understanding of ideas</li> <li>Compare and contrast viewpoints</li> <li>Illustrate cause and effect</li> <li>Predict likely outcomes</li> <li>Devise new outcomes or solutions</li></ul>
Generate resourceDevelop historical awareness by:<ul><li>Recognizing how and why historical accounts change over time</li> <li>Perceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy rather than present-mindedness</li><li>Evaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction</li> <li>Identifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present</li></ul>
Generate resourceDevelop geographic awareness by:<ul><li>Using the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales (e.g., local, national, global)</li> <li>Analyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity</li> <li>Analyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena</li> <li>Examining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space</li> <li>Analyzing interaction between humans and the physical environment</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe changes in life in the Tennessee region from the late ice age through the Archaic period.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast features of life in the Tennessee region during the Woodland and Mississippian periods.
Generate resourceAnalyze the customs and traditions of American Indians located in the Tennessee region prior to European contact, including:<ul><li>Cherokee</li><li>Chickasaw</li><li>Creek</li><li>Iroquois</li><li>Shawnee</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of European exploration in the Tennessee region, including the significance of Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto, and Juan Pardo.
Generate resourceDescribe the influx of British and French settlers and fur traders in the Tennessee region and their impact on American Indian tribes.
Generate resourceExplain the contest between the British, the French, and American Indians for land in the Tennessee region prior to the French and Indian War.
Generate resourceDescribe the effects of migration into the Tennessee region, including the development of the Watauga and Cumberland Settlements.
Generate resourceIdentify episodes of fighting that occurred in the Tennessee region during the American Revolution (e.g., Battle of Kings Mountain) and the effects of American victory on the area.
Generate resourceIdentify reasons for the foundation and failure of the independent state of Franklin in 1784.
Generate resourceAnalyze the effects of land speculation on settlement in the Territory South of the River Ohio (i.e., the Southwest Territory).
Generate resourceDescribe the events and trace the process of Tennessee achieving statehood in 1796.
Generate resourceDescribe major features of the Tennessee Constitution of 1796. (T.C.A. §49-6-1028)
Generate resourceAnalyze the growth of Middle Tennessee in the early 1800s in power and influence, including the relocation of the capital.
Generate resourceDescribe the distribution of slaves between the three grand divisions of Tennessee, the lives of free blacks and slaves, and the role of Tennesseans in the early abolition movement (e.g., Elihu Embree).
Generate resourceDescribe aspects of farm life, work, religion, and community for families in early Tennessee.
Generate resourceDescribe the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12 and the resulting effects on the land and culture of Tennessee.
Generate resourceDescribe Tennessee's involvement in the War of 1812 (e.g., Tennessee volunteers, Felix Grundy, Andrew Jackson, etc.), and analyze the role of American Indians during the war.
Generate resourceDescribe the significance of the Mississippi River, the Jackson Purchase, and the introduction of cotton in the rapid growth of Memphis and West Tennessee.
Generate resourceExplain the importance of transportation, technology, and geography in Tennessee's growing involvement in the national economy after the War of 1812, including the significance of:<ul><li>Cash crops (e.g., cotton, tobacco)</li><li>Natchez Trace</li><li>Road improvements</li><li>Steamboats</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the contributions of Presidents Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk to Tennessee and American history.
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears on Tennessee.
Generate resourceDiscuss the contributions of important figures during Tennessee's "golden age", including:<ul><li>John Bell</li><li>Newton Cannon</li><li>William Carroll</li><li>David Crockett</li><li>Ephraim Foster</li><li>Sam Houston</li><li>James C. Jones</li><li>Sequoyah</li><li>Hugh Lawson White</li></ul>
Generate resourceIdentify the significance of the Tennessee Constitution of 1834. (T.C.A. §49-6-1028)
Generate resourceDescribe the development of slavery in Tennessee from 1800 to 1860, including the distribution of slaves and conflicting attitudes among the three grand divisions.
Generate resourceDiscuss the importance of the Nashoba Community and Free Hill as settlements for freed slaves.
Generate resourceExplain the causes of the Civil War and how geographic and political divisions impacted Tennessee's secession.
Generate resourceDescribe Tennessee's role in the Civil War, including:<ul><li>Sieges of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson</li><li>Battle of Shiloh</li><li>Battle of Stones River</li><li>Chattanooga Campaign</li><li>Johnsonville Campaign</li><li>Battle of Franklin</li><li>Battle of Nashville</li></ul>
Generate resourceIdentify the contributions of Tennesseans during the Civil War, including:<ul><li>Sam Davis</li><li>William Driver</li><li>David Farragut</li><li>Nathan Bedford Forrest</li><li>Isham Harris</li><li>Andrew Johnson</li><li>Sam Watkins</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe how the Civil War impacted various populations in Tennessee (e.g., African Americans, American Indians, and women).
Generate resourceDiscuss the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and its impact both nationally and in Tennessee.
Generate resourceDescribe the rise, influence, and opposition of the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee.
Generate resourceExplain the development and efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau schools, including Fisk University.
Generate resourceIdentify early elected black lawmakers and leaders in Tennessee (e.g., Sampson Keeble and William Yardley), and determine their significance.
Generate resourceExplain the development of the 1870 Tennessee Constitution. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1028)
Generate resourceIdentify exodusters (e.g., Benjamin "Pap" Singleton), and describe their experiences.
Generate resourceExplain developments in Tennessee's farming during the late 19th century as a result of industrialization.
Generate resourceDescribe the social, economic, and political changes to Tennessee in the post-Reconstruction era, and identify the laws put in place to exclude black lawmakers by 1890.
Generate resourceDescribe the events that led to the Coal Creek Wars in Anderson and the surrounding counties over the state of Tennessee's decision to replace coal miners with prisoners.
Generate resourceAnalyze the effect of Jim Crow laws on Tennessee, and identify the efforts of advocates for African Americans, including the significance of: W.E.B. Du Bois, James Napier, and Mary Church Terrell.
Generate resourceSummarize the influence of and reactions to the temperance movement in Tennessee, including the murder of Senator Edward Carmack.
Generate resourceDescribe Tennessee's impact on the suffrage movement, including the following: "Perfect 36", Harry Burn, Anne Dallas Dudley, and A.H. Roberts.
Generate resourceExplain Tennessee's connection to World War I, including the impact of Alvin C. York and the Alcoa plant.
Generate resourceIdentify Governor Austin Peay and his influence on Tennessee's infrastructure and education.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the Scopes Trial reflected societal tension between tradition and modernity.
Generate resourceDescribe major developments in country music (e.g., Grand Ole Opry, WSM, and the Carter family) and blues music (e.g., W.C. Handy and Bessie Smith) in Tennessee during this era.
Generate resourceDescribe how the Great Depression and New Deal programs impacted Tennesseans, including the significance of: the Agricultural Adjustment Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Tennessee Valley Authority, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact Tennessee innovators (e.g., David Crosthwait and Clarence Saunders) had on the nation.
Generate resourceEvaluate Tennessee's contributions during World War II, including the impact of Camp Forrest, Camp Tyson, and Oak Ridge as well as the influence of Tennesseans during the war (e.g., Cornelia Fort and Cordell Hull).
Generate resourceDescribe major agricultural shifts in Tennessee post-World War II and their impact economically and socially.
Generate resourceAnalyze the significance of key Tennesseans on both the state and national level during the 1950s and 1960s, including: Frank Clement, Ed Crump, Al Gore, Sr., Estes Kefauver, and John Seigenthaler.
Generate resourceDescribe Tennessee's role in the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., sit-ins and Diane Nash, Highlander Folk School, Tent City Movement of Fayette County, Columbia Race Riots, and the Clinton Twelve).
Generate resourceIdentify major Tennessee figures involved in the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., Rev. James Lawson, Kelly Miller Smith).
Generate resourceDescribe the purpose of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s presence in Memphis, the circumstances leading to his assassination, and the significance of the placement of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel.
Generate resourceDiscuss the development of rock 'n' roll music in Tennessee and its impact on the changing American culture, including the significance of: Elvis Presley, Stax Records, and Sun Studio.
Generate resourceDescribe cultural developments in Tennessee during the 1970s and 1980s, including: Country Music Hall of Fame, Music Row, Opryland, and the 1982 World's Fair.
Generate resourceIdentify the contributions of influential Tennesseans of the era, including:<ul><li>Lamar Alexander</li><li>Howard Baker</li><li>Al Gore, Jr.</li><li>Alex Haley</li><li>Dolly Parton</li><li>Wilma Rudolph</li><li>Pat Summitt</li><li>Fred Thompson</li><li>Oprah Winfrey</li></ul>
Generate resourceIdentify major attractions and events that fuel the tourism industry in Tennessee, including the impact of:<ul><li>Bristol Motor Speedway</li><li>Civil War sites</li><li>CMA Music Festival</li><li>Graceland</li><li>Pigeon Forge (Gatlinburg)</li><li>State and national parks</li><li>Tennessee Aquarium</li></ul>
Generate resourceDiscuss the impact of major businesses in Tennessee, such as:<ul><li>AutoZone</li><li>Eastman</li><li>FedEx</li><li>HCA</li><li>Nissan</li><li>Toyota</li><li>Volkswagen</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe significant and/or unique products from Tennessee (e.g., Cracker Barrel, Goo Goo Cluster, Moon Pie, Mountain Dew).
Generate resourceExplain how the Homestead Act and the Transcontinental Railroad impacted the settlement of the West.
Generate resourceExamine federal policies toward American Indians, including: the movement to reservations, assimilation, boarding schools, and the Dawes Act.
Generate resourceExplain the impact of the Compromise of 1877, including: Jim Crow laws, lynching, disenfranchisement methods, the efforts of Benjamin "Pap" Singleton and the Exodusters, and the Plessy v. Ferguson decision. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes and consequences of Gilded Age politics and economics as well as the significance of the rise of political machines, major scandals, civil service reform, and the economic difference between farmers, wage earners, and industrial capitalists, including the following:<ul><li>Boss Tweed</li><li>Thomas Nast</li><li>Credit Mobilier</li><li>Spoils system and President James A. Garfield's assassination</li><li>Pendleton Act</li><li>Interstate Commerce Act</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the changes in American life that resulted from the inventions and innovations of business leaders and entrepreneurs of the period, including the significance of:<ul><li>Alexander Graham Bell</li><li>Henry Bessemer</li><li>Andrew Carnegie</li><li>Thomas Edison</li><li>J.P. Morgan</li><li>John D. Rockefeller</li><li>Nikola Tesla</li><li>Cornelius Vanderbilt</li><li>Madam C.J. Walker</li></ul>
Generate resourceLocate the following major industrial centers, and describe how industrialization influenced the movement of people from rural to urban areas:<ul><li>Boston</li><li>Chicago</li><li>New York City</li><li>Pittsburgh</li><li>San Francisco</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the differences between "old" and "new" immigrants, analyze the assimilation process for "new" immigrants, and determine the impacts of increased migration on American society, including:<ul><li>Angel Island</li><li>Ellis Island</li><li>Push and pull factors</li><li>Ethnic clusters</li><li>Jane Addams</li><li>Competition for jobs</li><li>Rise of nativism</li><li>Jacob Riis</li><li>Chinese Exclusion Act and Gentleman's Agreement</li></ul>
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the ideas and philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceExplain the characteristics and impact of the Granger movement and populism, emphasizing the conflicts between farmers and the railroads.
Generate resourceExplain the rise of the labor movement, union tactics (e.g., strikes), the role of leaders (e.g., Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers), the unjust use of prison labor (e.g., Coal Creek labor saga), and the responses of management and government.
Generate resourceDescribe the rise of trusts and monopolies, their impact on consumers and workers, and the government's response, including the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914.
Generate resourceDescribe working conditions in industries during this era, including the use of labor by women and children.
Generate resourceExplain the roles played by muckrakers and progressive idealists, including:<ul><li>Robert M. La Follette, Sr.</li><li>President Theodore Roosevelt</li><li>Upton Sinclair</li><li>Lincoln Steffens</li><li>Ida Tarbell</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the goals and achievements of the Progressive movement, including:<ul><li>Adoption of the initiative, referendum, and recall</li><li>Adoption of the primary system</li><li>16th Amendment</li><li>17th Amendment</li><li>18th Amendment</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the significant progressive achievements during President Theodore Roosevelt's administration, including:<ul><li>Square Deal</li><li>"Trust-busting"</li><li>Pure Food and Drug Act</li><li>Meat Inspection Act</li><li>Support for conservation</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the significant progressive achievements during President Woodrow Wilson's administration, including: the New Freedom, the Federal Reserve Act, and the creation of the National Park Service.
Generate resourceDescribe the movement to achieve suffrage for women, including: the significance of leaders such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Anne Dallas Dudley, and Alice Paul, the activities of suffragettes, the passage of the 19th Amendment, and the role of Tennessee as the "Perfect 36".
Generate resourceAssess the causes of American imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including: the desire for raw materials and new markets, the desire to spread American democratic and moral ideals, and yellow journalism.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the arguments of interventionists and non-interventionists of the period.
Generate resourceDescribe the causes of the Spanish-American War and the outcomes of American imperialism, including:<ul><li>Annexation of Hawaii</li><li>Philippine Insurrection</li><li>Roosevelt Corollary</li><li>Panama Canal</li><li>Access to Cuba</li></ul>
Generate resourceCompare and contrast President Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick diplomacy, President William Howard Taft's Dollar Diplomacy, and President Woodrow Wilson's Moral Diplomacy.
Generate resourceExplain the causes of World War I and the reasons for the initial declaration of U.S. neutrality.
Generate resourceExplain the reasons for American entry into World War I, including: the use of unrestricted submarine warfare, the Zimmerman Telegram, the defense of democracy, and economic motivations.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the impact of the following on World War I (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006):<ul><li>Trench warfare</li><li>Use of new weapons and technology</li><li>Harlem Hell Fighters</li><li>Herbert Hoover</li><li>John J. Pershing</li><li>Alvin C. York</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the political, economic, and social ramifications of World War I on the home front, including:<ul><li>Role played by women and minorities</li><li>Voluntary rationing</li><li>Committee on Public Information</li><li>Opposition by conscientious objectors</li><li>Schenck v. United States decision</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the significance of President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, the causes and effects of the U.S. rejection of the League of Nations, and the subsequent impact on world politics.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of the Great Migration of African Americans that began in the early 1900s from the rural South to the industrial regions of the Northeast and Midwest. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceDescribe the growth and effects that radio and movies played in the emergence of popular culture as epitomized by celebrities such as Charlie Chaplin, Charles Lindbergh, and Babe Ruth.
Generate resourceExamine the growth and popularity of country and blues music, including the rise of: the Grand Ole Opry, W.C. Handy, and Bessie Smith. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of new technologies of the era, including the advent of air travel and spread of electricity.
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of Henry T. Ford, the automobile, and the mass production of automobiles on the American economy and society.
Generate resourceDescribe the Harlem Renaissance, its impact, and important figures, including (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006):<ul><li>Louis Armstrong</li><li>Duke Ellington</li><li>Langston Hughes</li><li>Zora Neale Hurston</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe changes in the social and economic status of women during this era, including: flappers, birth control, clerical and office jobs, and the rise of women's colleges.
Generate resourceExamine challenges related to civil liberties and racial/ethnic tensions during this era, including (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006):<ul><li>First Red Scare</li><li>Immigration Quota Acts of the 1920s</li><li>Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan</li><li>Efforts of Ida B. Wells</li><li>Emergence of Garveyism</li><li>Rise of the NAACP</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the Scopes Trial of 1925, including: the major figures, two sides of the controversy, the outcome, and legacy.
Generate resourceDescribe the impacts of Prohibition on American society, including: the rise of organized crime, bootlegging, and speakeasies.
Generate resourceAnalyze the changes in the economy and culture of the U.S. as a result of credit expansion, consumerism, and financial speculation.
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes of the Great Depression, including:<ul><li>Bank failures</li><li>Buying on margin</li><li>Crash of the stock market</li><li>Excess consumerism</li><li>High tariffs</li><li>Laissez-faire politics</li><li>Overextension of credit</li><li>Overproduction in agriculture and manufacturing</li><li>Rising unemployment</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes of the Dust Bowl, and explain the social, geographic, and economic impacts.
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of the Great Depression on the American people, including: mass unemployment, migration, and Hoovervilles.
Generate resourceDescribe the steps taken by President Herbert Hoover to address the depression, including his: philosophy of "Rugged Individualism", public works projects, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and response to the "Bonus Army".
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of the relief, recovery, and reform efforts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs, including:<ul><li>Agricultural Adjustment Act</li><li>Civilian Conservation Corps</li><li>Fair Labor Standards Act</li><li>Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation</li><li>National Recovery Administration</li><li>Securities and Exchange Commission</li><li>Social Security</li><li>Tennessee Valley Authority</li><li>Works Progress Administration</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies, including charges of socialism and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" attempt.
Generate resourceDescribe the competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in arms development, economic dominance, and ideology, including the roles of NATO, SEATO, and the Warsaw Pact.
Generate resourceExplain the Cold War policies of containment and the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and Berlin Airlift.
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes and effects of the Second Red Scare, including: Americans' attitudes toward McCarthyism, blacklisting, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Generate resourceDescribe the causes, course, and consequences of the Korean War, including:<ul><li>Domino theory</li><li>38th parallel</li><li>Battle of Inchon</li><li>Entry of the communist Chinese</li><li>Final disposition of the Koreas</li></ul>
Generate resourceExplain Cold War policies during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration, including brinksmanship and "peaceful coexistence".
Generate resourceExplain the fears of Americans surrounding nuclear holocaust and debates over stockpiling and the use of nuclear weapons, including:<ul><li>Atomic testing</li><li>Civil defense</li><li>Fallout shelters</li><li>Impact of Sputnik</li><li>Mutual assured destruction</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the relationship between Cuba and the U.S., including the Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis.
Generate resourceDescribe the causes, course, and consequences of the Vietnam War, including:<ul><li>Geneva Accords</li><li>Gulf of Tonkin Resolution</li><li>Tet Offensive</li><li>Vietnamization</li><li>Ho Chi Minh</li><li>Bombing of Cambodia</li><li>Napalm and Agent Orange</li></ul>
Generate resourceCompare the policies and practices of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon and their impacts on the continuation of the Vietnam War.
Generate resourceEvaluate the impact of the Vietnam War on the home front, including: the anti-war movement, draft by lottery, and the role of television and the media.
Generate resourceDescribe the competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union for superiority in space.
Generate resourceExplain developments that eased tensions during the Cold War, including:<ul><li>President Richard Nixon's detente</li><li>President Jimmy Carter's SALT Treaties</li><li>President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev's INF Treaty</li><li>The fall of the Berlin Wall</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of prosperity and consumerism in the 1950s, including: the growth of white-collar jobs, the "suburban ideal", the impact of the G.I. Bill, and the increased reliance on foreign oil.
Generate resourceExplain the impact of the baby boomer generation on the American economy and culture.
Generate resourceDescribe domestic developments during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration, including advances in medicine and the creation of the Interstate Highway System.
Generate resourceDescribe the growing influence of the automobile on American society, including the growth of: suburbia, fast food chains, and the hotel industry.
Generate resourceAnalyze the increasing impact of television and mass media on the American home, politics, and economy.
Generate resourceDescribe the emergence of a youth culture, including beatniks and the progression of popular music (from swing to rhythm and blues to rock 'n' roll), and the impact of Tennessee on the music industry, including the influence of B.B. King, Elvis Presley, Stax Records, and Sun Studio. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceDescribe President John F. Kennedy's New Frontier programs to improve education, end racial discrimination, create the Peace Corps, and put a man on the moon.
Generate resourceExamine the decision and impact of Brown v. Board of Education on desegregation. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceExamine the roles and actions of civil rights advocates (e.g., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks) and opponents (e.g., Bull Connor, Orval Faubus, Strom Thurmond) and how they coincided with, confronted, and challenged each other. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceDescribe the significant events in the struggle to secure civil rights for African Americans, including: (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)<ul><li>Montgomery Bus Boycott</li><li>Integration of Clinton High School in Clinton, TN</li><li>Integration of Central High School in Little Rock, AR</li><li>Freedom Riders</li><li>Tent City in Fayette County, TN</li><li>Marches, demonstrations, boycotts, and sit-ins (e.g., Nashville)</li><li>March on Washington, D.C.</li><li>Birmingham bombings of 1963</li><li>Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.</li><li>Highlander Folk School</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze civil and voting rights legislation, including: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (e.g., Fair Housing Act), and the 24th Amendment. (T.C.A. § 49-6- 1006)
Generate resourceAnalyze how the American Indian Movement, Chicano Movement, and Feminist Movement are related to the Civil Rights Movement in advancing equality across the broader spectrum of American society during this time period.
Generate resourceEvaluate the impact of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs, including: Medicare, urban renewal, and the War on Poverty.
Generate resourceAnalyze different points of view that reflect the rise of social activism and the growth of counterculture, including: generation gap, hippies, and Woodstock.
Generate resourceExplain significant achievements of President Richard Nixon's administration, including his appeal to the "silent majority" and his major foreign policy actions.
Generate resourceExamine the Watergate scandal, including:<ul><li>Background of the break-in</li><li>Changing role of media and journalism</li><li>Controversy surrounding President Gerald Ford's pardon</li><li>Legacy of distrust</li><li>United States v. Nixon</li></ul>
Generate resourceExplain the emergence of environmentalism, including the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and disasters such as Love Canal and Three Mile Island.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the significant events of President Jimmy Carter's administration, including:<ul><li>Poor economy</li><li>Panama Canal Treaty</li><li>Camp David Accords</li><li>Energy crisis</li><li>Iran Hostage Crisis</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the significance of President Ronald Reagan's administration, including:<ul><li>Revitalization of national pride</li><li>Reaganomics</li><li>Iran-Contra affair</li><li>"War on Drugs"</li><li>Strategic Defense Initiative</li><li>AIDS epidemic</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the significant events of President George H.W. Bush's administration, including the invasion of Panama and the Gulf War.
Generate resourceSummarize the events of President Bill Clinton's administration, including:<ul><li>Welfare-to-work</li><li>Balanced budget</li><li>NAFTA</li><li>Scandals and subsequent impeachment hearings</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, including: the response of President George W. Bush, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and continued efforts to combat terrorism globally.
Generate resourceDescribe the increasing role of women and minorities in the American military, politics, and economy, including (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006):<ul><li>Hillary Clinton</li><li>Sandra Day O'Connor</li><li>Nancy Pelosi</li><li>Colin Powell</li><li>Condoleezza Rice</li></ul>
Generate resourceCompare and contrast commonly used methods of communication from 1970 to today, and analyze the impact they have had on society.
Generate resourceDescribe the achievements and setbacks of President Barack Obama's administration.
Generate resourceDescribe the concept of the divine right of kings as well as the features, strengths, and weaknesses of European absolutism, including: Louis XIV, Versailles, and Peter the Great.
Generate resourceCompare documents that establish limits on government in response to absolute monarchy (e.g., the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights).
Generate resourceCompare the major ideas of philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment, such as Charles-Louis de Montesquieu, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Generate resourceIdentify the major causes of the French Revolution, including the impact of:<ul><li>The American Revolution</li><li>Conflicting social classes</li><li>Economic factors</li><li>Enlightenment political thought</li><li>Government corruption and weakness</li></ul>
Generate resourceSummarize the major events of the French Revolution (e.g., storming of the Bastille, execution of Louis XVI, reign of terror), and trace the evolution of France's government from constitutional monarchy to democratic despotism to the Napoleonic Empire.
Generate resourceAnalyze the geographic, political, and social factors that contributed to the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte's empire.
Generate resourceIdentify how the ideas of the Enlightenment inspired Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, and compare the American Revolution with the French Revolution.
Generate resourceExplain the effects of the French Revolution on Europe and the world, including the influence of: the Napoleonic Code, Concert of Europe, and Haitian Revolution.
Generate resourceExplain how the Agricultural Revolution, mechanization, and the "enclosure movement" led to rapid population growth, rural to urban migration, and the growth of major cities in Europe and North America.
Generate resourceExplain the geographic and economic reasons why the Industrial Revolution began in England, including: natural resources, entrepreneurship, labor, and access to capital.
Generate resourceAnalyze how geographic and cultural features were an advantage or disadvantage to the diffusion of the Industrial Revolution.
Generate resourceDescribe the geographic scale, trade routes, and conditions of the forced migration of Africans to the Western Hemisphere, including connections between slave labor and the growth of industrial economies.
Generate resourceExplain how scientific and technological innovations (e.g., the steam engine, new textile technology, steel processing, medical advances, electricity, and new methods of transportation) led to massive social, economic, cultural, and demographic changes.
Generate resourceEvaluate the industrialization of Europe in terms of:<ul><li>Social benefits (e.g., increases in productivity and life expectancy)</li><li>Social costs (e.g., harsh working and living conditions, pollution, child labor, and income inequality)</li><li>Attempts to address these costs (e.g., political reform, urban planning, philanthropy, labor unionism, education reform, and public health and sanitation)</li></ul>
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the rise of the following economic theories as a result of industrialization: capitalism, communism, and socialism.
Generate resourceDefine nationalism, and explain how nationalism, cultural geography, and physical geography contributed to the unification of nations, such as Germany and Italy.
Generate resourceDefine imperialism, and analyze reasons for 19th century imperialism, including: competition between empires, cultural justifications, and the search for natural resources and new markets in response to rapid industrialization.
Generate resourceDescribe the natural resources and geographic features of Africa, their role in attracting European economic interests, and their impact on global trade.
Generate resourceAnalyze the outcomes of the Berlin Conference and the impact of superimposed boundaries on African indigenous populations, and compare the geographic progression of imperialistic claims on the African continent by European empires.
Generate resourceDescribe successful (e.g., Ethiopia) and unsuccessful (e.g., Zulu Wars and Ashanti Wars) examples of African resistance to European imperialism.
Generate resourceDescribe the importance of India to the British Empire, the Suez Canal as a connection between Great Britain and India, and India's reaction to British rule.
Generate resourceExplain the growing influence of western powers on China from the Opium Wars through the Boxer Rebellion.
Generate resourceExplain cultural diffusion, and describe the diffusion of cultures between Europe, Africa, and Asia as a result of European imperialism.
Generate resourceAnalyze Japan's abandonment of isolationism, its embrace of technological and political changes, and its consequent rise as an imperial power in the late 19th century.
Generate resourceDescribe the natural resources and geographic features of Central and South America, their role in attracting American and European economic interests, and their impact on global trade.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the impact of economic imperialism on Central and South America with the impact of imperialism on other parts of the world.
Generate resourceExplain how tensions between nations and states contributed to regional conflicts of the era.
Generate resourceExplain how the rise of militarism, alliances, imperialistic rivalries, and growing nationalism led to the outbreak of World War I.
Generate resourceDescribe how trench warfare, the resulting stalemate, war of attrition, and advances in weaponry (e.g., chemical weapons, machine guns, submarines, tanks) affected the course and outcome of World War I.
Generate resourceAnalyze the importance of geographic factors in military decision-making, and determine the principal theaters and significance of major battles in World War I (e.g., Battles of the Marne, Verdun, the Somme, etc.).
Generate resourceExplain how the entrance of the United States and the exit of Russia affected the course and outcome of World War I.
Generate resourceDefine total war, and describe its effect on European civilian populations, including:<ul><li>Food shortages</li><li>Industrial production of war materials</li><li>Naval/submarine blockades</li><li>Women as war workers</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the effects of World War I, including the significance of:<ul><li>Armenian Genocide</li><li>Collapse of major empires</li><li>Economic losses</li><li>Environmental changes</li><li>Loss of human life</li><li>Movement of populations</li><li>Spread of disease</li></ul>
Generate resourceCompare the goals of leading nations (i.e., U.S., France, Great Britain, Italy, and Japan) at the Paris Peace Conference with the outcomes of the Treaty of Versailles and its impact on Germany.
Generate resourceAnalyze the shifts in geopolitical boundaries post-World War I resulting from the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations mandate system.
Generate resourceDetermine the causes and consequences of the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War.
Generate resourceDescribe the collapse of international economies in 1929 that led to the Great Depression, including the significance of:<ul><li>Overproduction</li><li>Unemployment</li><li>Inflation</li><li>Restrictive trade policies</li><li>Post-war economic relationships between the U.S. and Europe</li></ul>
Generate resourceExplain how economic instability, nationalism, and political disillusionment in Germany and Japan led to the rise of totalitarian regimes.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the rise to power, goals, and characteristics of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regimes.
Generate resourceAnalyze the role of geographic features and natural resources in increasing tensions prior to and during World War II.
Generate resourceCompare the Italian, German, and Japanese efforts to expand their empires in the 1930s, including: the invasion of Ethiopia, German militarism, and atrocities in China.
Generate resourceExplain the role of military alliances, appeasement, isolationism, and the domestic distractions in Europe and the U.S. prior to the outbreak of World War II.
Generate resourceDescribe how geography and technology (e.g., airplanes, advanced medicine, propaganda, radar) influenced wartime strategies, including: blitzkrieg, "island hopping", kamikaze, and strategic bombing.
Generate resourceDescribe the geography and outcomes of major battles and turning points of World War II in both the European and Pacific theaters, including:<ul><li>Battle of Britain</li><li>Battle of Midway</li><li>Battle of Stalingrad</li><li>Battle of Normandy</li><li>Battle of the Bulge</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the roles of leaders during World War II, including the significance of:<ul><li>Winston Churchill</li><li>Adolf Hitler</li><li>Benito Mussolini</li><li>President Franklin D. Roosevelt</li><li>Joseph Stalin</li><li>Hideki Tojo</li><li>President Harry S. Truman</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the persecution of Jews and other targeted groups in Europe leading up to World War II, and explain why many people were unable to leave and their efforts to resist persecution.
Generate resourceExplain the state-sponsored mass murder of the Jews in Nazi-controlled lands, and describe the varied experiences of Holocaust survivors and victims.
Generate resourceExplain the decisions made in the Atlantic Charter and at the Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam Conferences.
Generate resourceDescribe the development of atomic bombs, and evaluate both the decisions to use them and the impact of their use.
Generate resourceDescribe the cultural, economic, geographic, and political effects of World War II, including:<ul><li>Casualties of the war (military and civilian)</li><li>Changes to geopolitical boundaries</li><li>Creation of the United Nations</li><li>Destruction of cultural heritage</li><li>Division of Germany</li><li>Impact of the Nuremberg trials</li><li>Refugees and displaced populations</li></ul>
Generate resourceSummarize the nature of reconstruction in Europe after 1945, including both the economic and political purposes of the Marshall Plan.
Generate resourceExplain the origins and significance of the establishment of the State of Israel, and describe the reactions by surrounding Arab countries to the United Nations' decision to establish Israel.
Generate resourceDescribe the economic and military power shift at the end of World War II, such as Soviet control over Eastern Europe and the economic recoveries of Germany and Japan.
Generate resourceAnalyze the rise of communism and Mao Zedong in China, as well as the related political, social, and economic impacts on China.
Generate resourceDescribe the characteristics of the Cold War, and explain reasons for the rising tensions between the Soviet Union and former Allied powers.
Generate resourceSummarize the functions of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, including their roles in organizing post-war Europe.
Generate resourceDescribe methods of Soviet control in Eastern Europe and the role of Berlin as a focal point in escalating Cold War tensions.
Generate resourceExplain the role of the nuclear arms race, mutual assured destruction, and arms control agreements within the context of rising tensions between the Soviet Union and U.S.
Generate resourceDescribe examples of national uprisings against the Soviet Union (e.g., Hungary and Czechoslovakia), and explain why they were unsuccessful.
Generate resourceDescribe the competition in Asia between the Soviet Union and U.S., including the wars in Korea and Vietnam as examples of proxy wars.
Generate resourceExplain reasons for the rapid decline of communist systems in the late 1980s, including:<ul><li>Economic inefficiency</li><li>Unsustainable military spending</li><li>Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms</li><li>Mass protests in Eastern Europe and China</li><li>1991 Soviet coup d'état</li></ul>
Generate resourceAnalyze the political, economic, social, and geographic consequences of the collapse of communist governments in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Generate resourceExplain the reasons for and the effects of the partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan in 1947.
Generate resourceExplain the factors that led to the creation of a lasting democratic government in India as well as the roles of political leaders (e.g., Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi).
Generate resourceDescribe the development, goals, and outcomes of nationalist movements in Africa, including the ideas and roles of nationalist leaders (e.g., Jomo Kenyatta, Patrice Lumumba, and Gamal Abdel Nasser).
Generate resourceExplain the fight against and dismantling of the apartheid system in South Africa, including the roles of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress.
Generate resourceAnalyze the political, economic, ethnic, and military challenges faced by newly-created countries in post-imperial Africa (e.g., civil war, genocide, corruption).
Generate resourceExplain how ideological conflicts between capitalism and communism led to armed insurgencies, revolutions, and military dictatorships in Latin American nations, including: Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
Generate resourceDescribe how competing national, ethnic, and religious interests led to conflict and the establishment of new countries in the Balkans.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the causes and effects of modern genocide, including in: Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia.
Generate resourceExplain the causes and effects of German reunification on both West and East Germany.
Generate resourceAnalyze the response of Arab countries to the creation of the State of Israel and the peace processes in the Middle East, including the Camp David and Oslo Accords.
Generate resourceAnalyze the demographic changes of countries in post-World War II regions, using population pyramids and census data.
Generate resourceExplain the challenges of rapid population growth on developing countries (e.g., China and India) and of population decline in developed countries (e.g., Germany, Japan, and Sweden), and give examples of policies implemented to both slow and increase population growth.
Generate resourceDescribe the cultural, economic, geographic, and political effects of significant technological, ideological, medical, and scientific developments and breakthroughs of the era.
Generate resourceEvaluate the impact of geospatial technologies (such as GPS and GIS) on retail, military, transportation, city planning, and communication.
Generate resourceAnalyze the economic, political, and social impacts of drug and human trafficking in the contemporary era.
Generate resourceAnalyze how technology has intensified patterns of globalization and led to the idea of space-time compression, containerization, and computer technology.
Generate resourceExplain the goals and consequences of trade organizations and treaties and how they have played a role in the growing global economic system.
Generate resourceIdentify examples of supranational organizations, and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of membership.
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes and effects of an increased role of South and East Asian countries in the global economy.
Generate resourceDescribe the international importance and rapid economic development of the oil-rich Persian Gulf states.
Generate resourceExplain implications of the transition from the use of fossil fuels to alternative and renewable energy sources.
Generate resourceDescribe governing ideologies, conflicts among nations (e.g., Persian Gulf War), and popular religious or democratic movements in the Middle East/North Africa.
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes and consequences of terrorism and international efforts to counteract it.
Generate resourceExplain geography as a field of inquiry, differentiate between physical and human geography, describe the importance of the spatial perspective, and use spatial thinking skills to analyze global issues.
Generate resourceSynthesize geographic information from a variety of sources to analyze both human and physical processes in the world's regions, countries, and cities.
Generate resourceExplain the use of major geographic concepts (e.g., globalization, location, pattern, place, region, scale, site, and situation).
Generate resourceDefine the concept of region, identify different types (e.g., formal, functional, perceptual), and give examples.
Generate resourceRead and interpret maps and globes using cardinal directions, latitude and longitude, legends, map scale, and title.
Generate resourceIdentify, use, and evaluate the usefulness of different types of map projections (e.g., Mercator, Robinson, Goode's Homolosine).
Generate resourceCreate and compare physical, political, and thematic maps (e.g., choropleth, dot density, proportional symbol, isoline, cartogram).
Generate resourceAnalyze patterns and processes at different scales (e.g., local, national, regional, global).
Generate resourceDescribe the importance of geospatial technologies (i.e., GIS, GPS, remote sensing), and apply them in relevant contexts.
Generate resourceUse geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives to analyze problems and make decisions.
Generate resourceRelate current events to the physical and human characteristics of place and regions.
Generate resourceDescribe ways in which different types of physical and natural processes create and shape the surface of the Earth.
Generate resourceDescribe how unique weather patterns impact geography and population distribution of a region (e.g., drought, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes).
Generate resourceDescribe how societies modify and adapt to the environment, and explain how technology impacts the ability to do so.
Generate resourceAnalyze how people interact with and modify the environment to satisfy basic needs and solve challenges (e.g., access to fresh water, energy resources, irrigation, transportation, type of housing).
Generate resourceExplain how humans are affected by and depend on the physical environment and its resources.
Generate resourceAnalyze the distribution of natural resources, how they have impacted the economies of various world regions, and their connections to global trade.
Generate resourceDefine the concept of culture and its components (e.g., culture hearth, culture traits, material and nonmaterial culture, etc.).
Generate resourceExplain how physical geography and economic practices shape the cultural landscapes of various regions.
Generate resourceLocate, describe, and compare major cultural characteristics in the regions of North, Central, and South America.
Generate resourceLocate, describe, and compare major cultural characteristics in the regions of Europe.
Generate resourceLocate, describe, and compare major cultural characteristics in the regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Generate resourceLocate, describe, and compare major cultural characteristics in the regions of North Africa and Southwest Asia.
Generate resourceLocate, describe, and compare major cultural characteristics in the regions of East, South, and Southeast Asia.
Generate resourceLocate, describe, and compare major cultural characteristics of regions in the South Pacific and Oceania.
Generate resourceAnalyze how cultural characteristics (e.g., ethnicity, gender roles, identity, language, religion) link and/or divide regions or societies.
Generate resourceDescribe the challenges of clearly defining cultural regions around the world.
Generate resourceExplain and analyze the reasons for the creation of different political divisions (e.g., state, nation-state, federal states, unitary states, electoral districts).
Generate resourceDescribe different types of political boundaries (i.e., cultural and physical) and shapes (e.g., compact, fragmented, elongated, prorupted, perforated), and explain benefits and drawbacks associated with each.
Generate resourceAnalyze the changes between historical political maps and modern political maps, explain how and why political borders change, and describe the impact of these changes on populations (e.g., the former Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia, Israel, South Asia, Africa, etc.).
Generate resourceDefine, give examples, and evaluate supranational organizations and their roles (e.g., the United Nations, European Union, NATO, etc.).
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the distribution, growth rates, and characteristics of human populations at different scales in terms of settlement patterns and access to natural and economic resources.
Generate resourceAnalyze the characteristics (e.g., age, gender, life expectancy, natural increase rate) of populations at different scales (e.g., local, national, global) using census data and population pyramids.
Generate resourceDefine and give examples of economic, social, political, and environmental push and pull factors.
Generate resourceDefine and give examples of voluntary, forced, interregional, and intraregional migration patterns.
Generate resourceAnalyze past and present trends in human migration and the role of intervening obstacles and opportunities (e.g., economic, social, political, and environmental).
Generate resourceDescribe the impact and challenges of migration on both the sending and receiving countries.
Generate resourceDifferentiate between developed and developing countries, and evaluate how economic and social indicators are used to determine a country's level of development.
Generate resourceAnalyze the spatial distribution and patterns of developed and developing countries.
Generate resourceDefine comparative advantage, and evaluate how a country leverages its access to land, labor, and capital to expand trade.
Generate resourceIdentify physical, economic, cultural, and political factors that influence the locations and patterns of economic activities, trade, and economic development.
Generate resourceDescribe how goods and services are exchanged on local, national, and global levels, including: bartering, monetary exchange, and transportation.
Generate resourceInterpret and analyze a chart, graph, or resource map of major imports and exports of goods and services.
Generate resourceAnalyze the global patterns and networks of economic interdependence (e.g., dependence on resources, use of low cost labor, the new international division of labor, etc.).
Generate resourceLocate, describe, and evaluate the formation of trade blocs throughout the world (e.g., EU, NAFTA. ASEAN, CARICOM, etc.).
Generate resourceDescribe reasons for increasing urbanization around the world and the economic, social, and political implications.
Generate resourceLocate both the largest and fastest growing cities in the world, and analyze their locations using the concepts of site and situation.
Generate resourceExplain how the function and role of towns and cities change over time, applying the concepts of urban hierarchy and central place theory.
Generate resourceDescribe how cities are structured, including their unique roles and characteristics.
Generate resourceDescribe the challenges of urban areas (e.g., access to public services, affordability of housing, discrimination, gentrification, overpopulation, pollution, sprawl, transportation, zones of abandonment).
Generate resourceExplain the rise and spread of fascism, communism, and totalitarianism internationally.
Generate resourceExplain President Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to world crises, including: the Quarantine Speech, the Four Freedoms speech, the Atlantic Charter, and the Lend-Lease Act.
Generate resourceAnalyze the response of the U.S. to the plight of European Jews before the start of the war, the U.S. liberation of concentration camps during the war, and the immigration of Holocaust survivors after the war.
Generate resourceExplain the reasons for American entry into World War II, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Generate resourceIdentify the roles and the significant actions of the following individuals in World War II:<ul><li>Winston Churchill</li><li>Dwight D. Eisenhower</li><li>Adolf Hitler</li><li>Douglas MacArthur</li><li>George C. Marshall</li><li>Benito Mussolini</li><li>President Franklin D. Roosevelt</li><li>Joseph Stalin</li><li>Hideki Tojo</li><li>President Harry S. Truman</li></ul>
Generate resourceExplain the role of geographic and military factors on the outcomes of battles in the Pacific and European theaters of war, including the Battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and D-Day.
Generate resourceIdentify the roles and sacrifices of individual American soldiers, as well as the unique contributions of special fighting forces such as the Tuskegee Airmen, the 442nd Regimental Combat team, the 101st Airborne, and the Navajo Code Talkers.
Generate resourceExamine and explain the entry of large numbers of women into the workforce and armed forces during World War II and the subsequent impact on American society.
Generate resourceExamine the impact of World War II on economic and social conditions for African Americans, including the Fair Employment Practices Committee and the eventual integration of the armed forces by President Harry S. Truman. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceDescribe the constitutional issues and impact of the internment of Japanese Americans on the U.S., including the Fred Korematsu v. United States of America decision.
Generate resourceDescribe the war's impact on the home front, including:<ul><li>Rationing</li><li>Bond drives</li><li>Propaganda</li><li>Movement to cities and industrial centers</li><li>Bracero program</li><li>Conversion of factories for wartime production</li><li>Location of prisoner of war camps in Tennessee</li></ul>
Generate resourceDescribe the Manhattan Project, and explain the rationale for using the atomic bomb to end the war.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the reasons for the founding of the United Nations, including the role of Cordell Hull.
Generate resourcePsychology
Psychological Disorders: Students will explore perspectives on abnormal behavior and categories of psychological disorders.
Generate resourceLearning, Memory, and Intelligence: Students will explore the process of learning as well as the process, types, disorders, and retrieval of memory. Students will also describe and discuss cognitive processes and intelligence along with their roles within human development.
Generate resourceSociocultural Diversity: Students will examine social and cultural diversity and diversity among individuals.
Generate resourceSocial Interactions: Students will explore social cognition, social influence, and social relations.
Generate resourceLifespan Development: Students will examine and describe methods, issues, and theories in lifespan development, including prenatal development, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and aging.
Generate resourceConsciousness: Students will examine both consciousness and unconsciousness, focusing on sleeping patterns, functions and disorders, and the impact of drugs and relaxation techniques on consciousness.
Generate resourceSensation & Perception: Students will explain the processes of sensation and perception and describe the interaction between people and the environment to determine perception.
Generate resourceBiopsychology Domain Biological Bases of Behavior: Students will explore the structure and function of the nervous system in humans, the interaction between biological factors and experience, and methods and issues related to biological advances.
Generate resourceResearch Methods, Measurement, and Statistics: Students will describe research methods and measurements used to study behavior and mental processes. Students will identify ethical issues in research with human and animal subjects. Students will also explain basic concepts of data analysis.
Generate resourceSocial Studies Practices
Generate resourceDescribe and compare a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods, including:
Generate resourceExplain systematic procedures used to improve the validity of research findings, including external validity.
Generate resourceDescribe how and why psychologists use animal subjects in research, and identify ethical guidelines to follow in performing this type of research.
Generate resourceIdentify ethical standards psychologists must follow regarding research with human participants.
Generate resourceExplain descriptive statistics and qualitative data and how they are used by psychological scientists.
Generate resourceInterpret graphical representations of data, as used in both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Generate resourceExplain statistical concepts, such as statistical significance, confidence intervals, limitations, and effect size.
Generate resourceExplain how validity and reliability of observation and measurements relate to data analysis and interpretation.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe the methodology, including the tools, used to study the brain.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe the structure and function of the endocrine system and its impact on human behavior, including hormonal effects on the immune system.
Generate resourceDescribe and discuss the interaction between the processes of sensation and perception.
Generate resourceDescribe other sensory systems (including olfaction and gustation), and identify skin senses, kinesthesis, and vestibular sense.
Generate resourceDistinguish between conscious and unconscious processes, and describe their relationship.
Generate resourceIdentify the contributions of significant researchers in the study of consciousness (e.g., Sigmund Freud).
Generate resourceDescribe the circadian rhythm, its relation to sleep, and how it changes throughout the human life.
Generate resourceExplain how culture and expectations influence the use of drugs, including psychoactive drugs and their effects.
Generate resourceDescribe the use of hypnosis, meditation, and relaxation techniques, including the effects of each.
Generate resourceExplain the interaction between environmental and biological factors in lifespan development, including the role of the brain in all aspects of development.
Generate resourceDescribe physical development from conception through birth, and identify influences on prenatal development.
Generate resourceDescribe the physical, motor, cognitive, and moral changes that occur during adolescence.
Generate resourceDescribe the major physical, cognitive, and social changes that accompany adulthood and aging.
Generate resourceDescribe the relationship between attitudes (i.e., implicit and explicit) and behavior, including attributes associated with different types of behavior.
Generate resourceDescribe the situational effects and group dynamics associated with individual behavior, including how an individual can influence group norms.
Generate resourceExamine cultural change, including variations within and across nations, and consider the following factors using psychological research: gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and societal norms.
Generate resourceInterpret psychological research to examine differences in individual cognitive and physical abilities.
Generate resourceExplain the process of learning, including principles of operant and classical conditioning as well as methods of observation.
Generate resourceDescribe the differences between learning, reflexes, and fixed-action patterns.
Generate resourceIdentify the types of memory, and describe memory disorders, including amnesias and dementias.
Generate resourceDescribe the factors that influence how memories are retrieved and strategies for improving the retrieval of memories.
Generate resourceDiscuss intelligence as a general factor in examining human growth and development.
Generate resourceIdentify current methods of assessing human abilities, including the role of reliability and validity in determining appropriate assessments.
Generate resourceDescribe and discuss psychologically abnormal behavior, and examine how stigma can effect relationships and individual choices.
Generate resourceDescribe major models of abnormality (i.e., biological, socio-cultural, psychodynamic, cognitive, and behavioral).
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of psychological disorders (e.g., addiction) on the individual, family, and society.
Generate resourceDescribe the availability of treatment for psychological disorders and the impact of treatment options on society.
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:
Generate resourceExtract, summarize, and paraphrase significant ideas and relevant information
Generate resourcePerceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy vs. present- mindedness
Generate resourceEvaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction
Generate resourceIdentifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present
Generate resourceAnalyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity
Generate resourceUsing the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales
Generate resourceAnalyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena
Generate resourceExamining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space
Generate resourceSociology
The Role of Culture in Society: Students will analyze the nature of culture and the role it plays for the individual and society.
Generate resourceThe Sociological Point of View: Students will be introduced to the study of sociology and the sociological perspective, including major theoretical perspectives and methods of sociological research.
Generate resourceSocial Studies Practices
Generate resourceExplain the origins of sociology and significant contributions of its founders.
Generate resourceDistinguish between quantitative and qualitative methods of research, and determine the parts of research.
Generate resourceEvaluate the strengths and weaknesses of major methods of sociological research (i.e., surveys and interviews, experiments, observations, content analysis).
Generate resourceDifferentiate among various sociological perspectives or theories on social life (i.e., functionalist perspective, conflict theory, symbolic interaction).
Generate resourceExamine ethical practices in sociological research as recommended by the American Sociological Association.
Generate resourceDefine and give examples of cultural norms (e.g., folkways, mores, taboos, laws).
Generate resourceAnalyze how culture influences individuals (e.g., ethnocentrism, cultural relativity, culture shock).
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:
Generate resourceExtract, summarize, and paraphrase significant ideas and relevant information
Generate resourcePerceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy vs. present- mindedness
Generate resourceEvaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction
Generate resourceIdentifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present
Generate resourceAnalyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity
Generate resourceUsing the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales
Generate resourceAnalyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena
Generate resourceExamining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space
Generate resourceTennessee History
Tennessee in Modern Times (1945-present): Students will learn about Tennessee in modern times, including the significance of Tennesseans, key economic and social developments of Tennessee, and Tennessee’s entertainment and business industry.
Generate resourceTennessee: Reform and War (1900-1945): Students will learn about the major events, people, and moments in Tennessee history in the first half of the 20th century and the effects they had on the state and the United States.
Generate resourceTennessee in the New South (1880-1890s): Students will identify the changesin Tennessee post-Reconstruction.
Generate resourceTennessee during Reconstruction (1865-1880): Students will analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Tennessee, including the effects on the population, rise of the Ku Klux Klan, efforts of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and writing of a new state constitution.
Generate resourceTennessee: A Time of Troubles (1860-1865): Students will examine the role of Tennessee and important Tennesseans during the Civil War.
Generate resourceTennessee’s Coming of Age (1796-1812): Students will evaluate reasons for the growth of the three grand divisions of Tennessee, the lives of various populations found therein, and the role of Tennessee in the War of 1812.
Generate resourceFrom Territory to Statehood (1784-1796): Students will identify reasonsfor the settlement of Tennessee, discuss conflicts between settlers and American Indians, and examine the process of Tennessee becoming a state.
Generate resourceThe Struggle for Tennessee’s Frontier (1600s-1700s): Students will discuss settlement in the Tennessee region, evaluate the effects of trade and migration on the region, and analyze Tennessee’s role in the American Revolution.
Generate resourceIndigenous Peoples of Tennessee (c. 10,000-1,000 BC): Students will examine the indigenous peoples of Tennessee and the impact of European exploration on the region.
Generate resourceSocial Studies Practices
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:
Generate resourceExtract, summarize, and paraphrase significant ideas and relevant information
Generate resourcePerceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy vs. present- mindedness
Generate resourceEvaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction
Generate resourceIdentifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present
Generate resourceAnalyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity
Generate resourceUsing the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales
Generate resourceAnalyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena
Generate resourceExamining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space
Generate resourceDescribe the geographic features that make up the three grand divisions of Tennessee (i.e., East, Middle, and West).
Generate resourceDescribe changes in life in the Tennessee region from the late ice age through the Archaic period.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast features of life in the Tennessee region during the Woodland and Mississippian periods.
Generate resourceAnalyze the customs and traditions of American Indians present in the Tennessee region prior to European contact, including:
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of European exploration in the Tennessee region, including the significance of Christopher Columbus, Hernando de Soto, and Juan Pardo.
Generate resourceDescribe the influx of British and French settlers and fur traders in the Tennessee region and their impact on American Indian tribes.
Generate resourceExplain the conflict between the British, the French, and American Indians for land in the Tennessee region prior to the French and Indian War.
Generate resourceDescribe the effects of migration into the Tennessee region, including the development of the Watauga and Cumberland Settlements.
Generate resourceIdentify episodes of fighting that occurred in the Tennessee region during the American Revolution (e.g., Battle of Kings Mountain) and the effects of American victory on the area.
Generate resourceIdentify reasons for the foundation and failure of the independent state of Franklin in 1784.
Generate resourceAnalyze the effects of land speculation on settlement in the Southwest Territory (i.e., the Territory South of the River Ohio).
Generate resourceDescribe major features of the Tennessee Constitution of 1796. (T.C.A. §49-6-1028)
Generate resourceAnalyze the growth of Middle Tennessee in the early 1800sin power and influence, including the relocation of the capital.
Generate resourceDescribe the trafficking of enslaved persons between the three grand divisions of Tennessee, the lives of free blacks and enslaved persons, and the role of Tennesseeans in the early abolition movement (e.g., Elihu Embree).
Generate resourceDescribe aspects of farm life, work, religion, and community for families in the early 19th Century.
Generate resourceDescribe the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12 and the resulting effects on the land and culture of Tennessee.
Generate resourceDescribe the significance of the Mississippi River, the Jackson Purchase, and the introduction of cotton in the rapid growth of Memphis and West Tennessee.
Generate resourceExplain the importance of transportation, technology, and geography in Tennessee’s growing involvement in the national economy after the War of 1812, including the significance of:
Generate resourceDescribe the influences of Presidents Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk on American history.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears on Tennessee.
Generate resourceDiscuss the contributions of important figures during Tennessee’s “golden age,” including:
Generate resourceIdentify the significance of the Tennessee Constitution of 1834. (T.C.A. §49-6-1028)
Generate resourceDescribe the development of slavery in Tennessee from 1800 to 1860, including the distribution of enslaved persons and conflicting attitudes among the three grand divisions.
Generate resourceDiscuss the importance of the Nashoba Community and Free Hill as settlements for formerly enslaved people.
Generate resourceExplain the causes of the Civil War and how geographic and political divisions impacted Tennessee’s secession.
Generate resourceDescribe the importance of the Medal of Honor, its origins in Tennessee, and its continued legacy to present-day.
Generate resourceDescribe how the Civil War impacted various populations in Tennessee (e.g., African Americans, American Indians, and women).
Generate resourceDescribe the rise, influence, and opposition of the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee.
Generate resourceExplain the development and efforts of the Freedmen’s Bureau schools, including Fisk University.
Generate resourceIdentify and describe the significance of of early elected black lawmakers and leaders (e.g., John W. Boyd, Sampson Keeble, and William Yardley).
Generate resourceExplain the development, legacy, and changes of the 1870 Tennessee Constitution. (T.C.A. § 49-6- 1028)
Generate resourceExplain developments in Tennessee’s farming during the late 19th century as a result of industrialization.
Generate resourceDescribe the social, economic, and political changes to Tennessee in the post-Reconstruction era, and identify the laws put in place to exclude black lawmakers by 1890.
Generate resourceDescribe the events that led to the Coal Creek Wars in Anderson and the surrounding counties over the state of Tennessee’s decision to replace coal miners with prisoners.
Generate resourceAnalyze the effects of Jim Crow laws on Tennessee, including the efforts of advocates for African Americans:
Generate resourceSummarize the influence of and reactions to the temperance movement in Tennessee, including the murder of Senator Edward Carmack.
Generate resourceDescribe Tennessee’s impact on the suffrage movement, including Harry Burn, Anne Dallas Dudley, and A.H. Roberts.
Generate resourceExplain Tennessee’s connection to World War I, including the impact of Alvin C. York and the Alcoa plant.
Generate resourceIdentify Governor Austin Peay and hisinfluence on Tennessee’sinfrastructure and education.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the Scopes Trial reflected societal tension between tradition and modernity.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the Great Depression and New Deal programs impacted Tennesseans, including:
Generate resourceExplain the impact Tennessee innovators had on the nation (e.g., David Crosthwait and Clarence Saunders).
Generate resourceDescribe Tennessee’s contributions during World War II, including the impact of Camp Forrest, Camp Tyson, and Oak Ridge (e.g., Manhattan Project) as well as the influence of Tennesseans during the war (e.g., Cornelia Fort and Cordell Hull).
Generate resourceDescribe major agricultural shiftsin Tennessee post-World War II and their impact economically and socially.
Generate resourceAnalyze the significance of key Tennesseans on both state and national levels during the 1950s and 1960s, including:
Generate resourceIdentify major Tennessee figuresinvolved in the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., Rev. James Lawson, Kelly Miller Smith). (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceDescribe the purpose of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s presence in Memphis, the circumstances leading to his assassination, and the significance of the placement of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceDiscuss the development of rock ‘n’ roll music in Tennessee and its impact on the changing American culture, including the significance of Elvis Presley, Stax Records, and Sun Studio.
Generate resourceDescribe cultural developments in Tennessee during the 1970s and 1980s, including the Country Music Hall of Fame, Music Row, Opryland, and the 1982 World’s Fair.
Generate resourceIdentify major attractions and events that fuel the tourism industry in Tennessee, including the impact of:
Generate resourceDescribe significant and/or unique products from Tennessee (e.g., Cracker Barrel, Goo Goo Cluster, Moon Pie, Mountain Dew, Jack Daniels/Uncle Nearest).
Generate resourceUnited States Government and Civics
Citizen Participation: Students will examine the responsibilities and opportunities of a citizen of the United States.
Generate resourceTennessee State and Local Government: Students will identify state leaders and explain state and local governance in Tennessee through exploration of the various structures and functions of government.
Generate resourceCivil Rights and Civil Liberties: Students will identify variousliberties that are ensured through the Constitution and analyze court cases that have impacted the ways our liberties are protected.
Generate resourceThe Judicial Branch: Students will analyze the functions of the judicial branch of the federal government
Generate resourceThe Executive Branch: Students will analyze the functions of the executive branch of the federal government.
Generate resourceThe Legislative Branch: Students will analyze the functions of the legislative branch of the federal government.
Generate resourceFoundations of Constitutional Government: Students will explain the fundamental principles of American government, as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American federalism.
Generate resourceSocial Studies Practices
Generate resourceCompare and contrast different forms of government, such as monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, and republic.
Generate resourceAnalyze the influence of various thinkers on the formation of U.S. government, such as William Blackstone, John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, and Thomas Hobbes.
Generate resourceAnalyze the influence of past governments on the formation of the United States, such as Greek democracy, Roman republic, the Magna Carta, and the Mayflower Compact.
Generate resourceExamine the Declaration of Independence and American grievances against British rule.
Generate resourceDiscuss the Constitutional Convention of 1787, including major compromises (e.g., Great Compromise, Three-Fifths Compromise, importation of enslaved people, and the electoral college).
Generate resourceIdentify key debates surrounding the ratification of the constitution between the Federalists (e.g., Federalist Papers) and Anti-federalists (e.g., Brutus Papers).
Generate resourceDescribe the purposes of government as outlined in the Preamble of the Constitution.
Generate resourceDescribe principles of limited government in the U.S. Constitution, including:
Generate resourceAnalyze Article I and the 17th Amendment of the Constitution as they relate to the legislative branch, including:
Generate resourceDescribe the census and its role in redistricting and reapportionment, including the role of Baker v. Carr and Shaw v. Reno.
Generate resourceIdentify leadership positions in the legislative branch and describe their roles, including:
Generate resourceDescribe the legislative process from the introduction of a bill to a presidential action.
Generate resourceIdentify Tennessee’s U.S. Senators and the representative for the student’s respective district.
Generate resourceExplain the process and significance of congressional elections (e.g., mid-term elections).
Generate resourceIdentify the arguments in Federalist Paper #70 that addresses the establishment of the executive office.
Generate resourceAnalyze Article II of the Constitution as it relates to the executive branch, including:
Generate resourceIdentify and describe the functions of executive branch departments and agencies (e.g., bureaucracies) in the United States, including:
Generate resourceTrace the sequence of a presidential election from initial candidacy through inauguration.
Generate resourceExplain the Electoral College system, and compare and contrast arguments for and against it.
Generate resourceIdentify the arguments in Federalist Paper #78 that addresses the establishment of the federal courts system.
Generate resourceAnalyze Article III of the Constitution as it relates to judicial power, including the length of terms and the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Generate resourceExplain the processes of selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices.
Generate resourceExplain the principle of judicial review established by Marbury v. Madison, and how it is used as a check on other branches of federal and state governments.
Generate resourceAnalyze how the Bill of Rights limits the powers of the government and ensures individual rights. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1028)
Generate resourceAnalyze the First Amendment and its application to freedom of speech in historical and contemporary Supreme Court cases, including Schenck v. United States and Tinker v. Des Moines.
Generate resourceAnalyze the First Amendment and its application to freedom of religion in historical and contemporary Supreme Court cases, including Engel v. Vitale and Wisconsin v. Yoder
Generate resourceAnalyze the First Amendment and its application to freedom of press in historical and contemporary Supreme Court cases, including New York Times Co. v. United States and Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier.
Generate resourceDescribe the Supreme Court’s interpretations of the Second Amendment, including:
Generate resourceDescribe the Supreme Court’s interpretations of freedoms in the Fourth through Eighth Amendments, including:
Generate resourceDescribe the Supreme Court’s interpretations of the freedoms in the 14th Amendment, equal protection, and due process clauses, including:
Generate resourceExplain how constitutional provisions have supported and motivated social movements to expand the rights for under-represented groups.
Generate resourceExplain how the government has responded to social movements (e.g., Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX, Americans with Disabilities Act).
Generate resourceExplain developments in voting rights over time (e.g., 15th amendment, 19th amendment, Citizenship Act of 1924, Voting Rights Act of 1965, 24th Amendment, 26th Amendment, Shelby County v. Holder).
Generate resourceIdentify the structures and functions of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments in the state of Tennessee.
Generate resourceExplain the differences among the types of local governments in Tennessee, including county, city, and metro governments, as well as the legal, fiscal, and operational relationships between them and the state government.
Generate resourceDescribe what should be reasonably expected from any citizen or resident of the United States, and explain why it is important for the well-being of the nation, including:
Generate resourceExplain why civic engagement is important for the well-being of the nation and local communities.
Generate resourceEvaluate the benefits and challenges of digital news and social media to a democratic society.
Generate resourceExplain methods for evaluating information and opinion in print and online media (e.g., identifying author's purpose, determining the credibility of news articles, analyzing the messages of editorials and op-ep commentaries, assessing the validity of claims and sufficiency of evidence).
Generate resourceDescribe opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process and to monitor and influence government, including:
Generate resourceExplain the requirements to be considered a U.S. citizen, and describe the process of naturalization, including the knowledge required by the Naturalization Test.
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:
Generate resourceExtract, summarize, and paraphrase significant ideas and relevant information
Generate resourcePerceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy vs. present- mindedness
Generate resourceEvaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction
Generate resourceIdentifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present
Generate resourceAnalyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity
Generate resourceUsing the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales
Generate resourceAnalyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena
Generate resourceExamining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space
Generate resourceUnited States History and Geography
The Modern United States (1970s-present): Students will examine important events and trendsfrom the 1970s to the present.
Generate resourceThe Vietnam War (1950s-1970s): Students will analyze the path of the United States participation in the Vietnam War and examine the implications for the nation at home and abroad.
Generate resourceCivil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s): Students will examine the origins, goals, key events, and accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceKennedy and Johnson Years (1961-1969): Students will examine American cultural, economic, political, and societal developments during the administrations of President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Generate resource1950s at Home (1950s-1963): Students will examine American cultural, economic, political, and societal developments following World War II at home.
Generate resourceCold War (1947-1991): Students will analyze the response of the United States to communism after World War II.
Generate resourceWorld War II (1936-1945): Students will analyze the United States’ path to and participation in World War II and examine the implications for the nation at home and abroad.
Generate resourceThe Great Depression and New Deal (1929-1941): Students will analyze the causes and effects of the Great Depression and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the U.S. government.
Generate resourceThe 1920s (1920-1929): Students will describe how the battle between traditionalism and modernism manifested in the major historical trends and events post-World War I.
Generate resourceImperialism and World War I (1890-1920): Students will trace the rise of the United States as a world power during the 20th century and examine the country’s role in World War I.
Generate resourceThe Progressive Era (1890-1920): Students will analyze the changing national landscape, including the growth of cities and the demand for political, economic, and social reforms, during the early 20th century.
Generate resourceGilded Age
Generate resourceWestward Expansion
Generate resourceReconstruction
Generate resourceThe Rise of Industrialization (1877-1900): Students will analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the rise of industrialization, large scale rural-to-urban migration, and mass immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia.
Generate resourceSocial Studies Practices
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:
Generate resourceExtract, summarize, and paraphrase significant ideas and relevant information
Generate resourcePerceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy vs. present- mindedness
Generate resourceEvaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction
Generate resourceIdentifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present
Generate resourceAnalyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity
Generate resourceUsing the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales
Generate resourceAnalyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena
Generate resourceExamining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space
Generate resourceSummarize the major events of Reconstruction, and explain the impact of the Compromise of 1877, including the founding of the Ku Klux Klan and lynching.
Generate resourceIdentify the rights provided by the 14th and 15th amendments, and analyze the efforts to resist them, including Jim Crow laws, disenfranchisement methods, and the Plessy v. Ferguson decision. (T.C.A. § 49 -6-1006)
Generate resourceExplain how the Homestead Act and the Transcontinental Railroad impacted the settlement and physical landscape of the West.
Generate resourceExamine federal policies toward American Indians, including the movement to reservations, assimilation, boarding schools, and the Dawes Act.
Generate resourceExplain the characteristics and impact of the Granger movement and populism, emphasizing the conflicts between farmers and the railroads (i.e., credit mobilier and Interstate Commerce Act).
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes and consequences of Gilded Age politics and economics as well as the significance of the rise of political machines, major scandals, civil service reform, and the economic difference between wage earners and industrial capitalists, including the following:
Generate resourceDescribe the changes in American life that resulted from the inventions and innovations of business leaders and entrepreneurs of the period, and evaluate the business practices of:
Generate resourceDetermine the impacts of increased immigration on American society, including:
Generate resourceDescribe the rise of trusts and monopolies, their impact on consumers and workers, and the government’s response, including the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
Generate resourceDescribe working conditions in industries during this era, including the use of women and children as a labor source.
Generate resourceExplain the rise of the labor movement, union tactics (e.g., strikes), the role of leaders (e.g., Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers), and the responses of management and government.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the ideas and philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceAnalyze the significant progressive achievements during Theodore Roosevelt’s administration, including:
Generate resourceAnalyze the significant progressive achievements during President Woodrow Wilson’s administration, including:
Generate resourceDescribe the movement to achieve suffrage for women, including the significance of:
Generate resourceAssess the causes of American imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the desire for raw materials and new markets, American nationalism, and yellow journalism.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the arguments of imperialists and non-imperialists of the period.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the motivations behind President Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick diplomacy (i.e., militarism/expansionism), President William Howard Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy (i.e., economics), and President Woodrow Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy (i.e., nationalism).
Generate resourceExplain the causes of World War I, including militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism, assassination, and the reasons for the initial declaration of U.S. neutrality.
Generate resourceExplain the reasons for U.S. entry into World War I, including the use of unrestricted submarine warfare, the Zimmerman Telegram, the defense of democracy, and economic motivations.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the impact of the following on World War I (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006):
Generate resourceAnalyze the political, economic, and social ramifications of World War I on the home front, including:
Generate resourceAnalyze the significance of President Woodrow Wilson’s contributions to the Treaty of Versailles, including the Fourteen Points, the causes and effects of the U.S. rejection of the League of Nations, and the subsequent impact on world politics.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of the Great Migration of African Americans that began in the post-World War I era from the rural South to the industrial regions of the Northeast and Midwest. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceDescribe the growth and effects that radio and movies played in the emergence of popular culture, such as advertising, celebrities, news, and entertainment.
Generate resourceExamine how the use of the radio helped grow the popularity of country and blues music, including the rise of the Grand Ole Opry, W.C. Handy, and Bessie Smith. (T.C.A. § 49 -6-1006)
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of new technologies of the era, including the advent of air travel and spread of electricity.
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of Henry T. Ford, the automobile, and the mass production of automobiles on the American economy and society.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of the Harlem Renaissance and its important figures on American culture, including (T.C.A. § 49- 6-1006):
Generate resourceDescribe changes and limitations in the social and economic status of women during this era, including flappers, birth control, clerical and office jobs, and the rise of women’s colleges.
Generate resourceExamine challenges and advancements related to the push for civil liberties, including (T.C.A. § 49-6- 1006):
Generate resourceDescribe the Scopes Trial of 1925, including the major figures (i.e., John Scopes, William Jennings Bryan, and Clarence Darrow), two sides of the controversy (i.e., fundamentalism and modernism), the outcome, and the legacy.
Generate resourceDescribe the impacts of the 18th Amendment and Prohibition on American society, including the rise of organized crime, bootlegging, speakeasies, and the eventual repeal with the 21st Amendment.
Generate resourceAnalyze the advantages and disadvantages of President Warren G. Harding's and President Calvin Coolidge's economic policies and their impact on culture of the United States as a result of credit expansion, consumerism, and financial speculation.
Generate resourceExplain the causes of the Dust Bowl, and its social, geographic, and economic impacts.
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of the Great Depression on the American people, including mass unemployment, migration, and Hoovervilles.
Generate resourceDescribe the steps taken by President Herbert Hoover to address the depression, including his philosophy of “Rugged Individualism,” public works projects, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and response to the “Bonus Army.”
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of the relief, recovery, and reform efforts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, including:
Generate resourceAnalyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies, including charges of socialism and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “court packing” attempt.
Generate resourceExplain the rise and spread of fascism, communism, and totalitarianism internationally, including the following leaders:
Generate resourceExplain the progression of key events and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response to world crises that lead to U.S. entry into World War II, including the Quarantine Speech, the Four Freedoms Speech, the Atlantic Charter, the Lend-Lease Act, and Pearl Harbor.
Generate resourceAnalyze the response of the United States to the plight of European Jews before the start of the war, the U.S. liberation of concentration camps during the war, and the immigration of Holocaust survivors after the war.
Generate resourceExplain the role of key figures, geography and military factors on the outcomes of battles in the Pacific, European, and North African theaters of war, including:
Generate resourceIdentify the roles and sacrifices of individual American soldiers, as well as the unique contributions of special fighting forces such as the Tuskegee Airmen, the 442nd Regimental Combat team, and the Navajo Code Talkers.
Generate resourceExamine the impact of World War II on economic and social conditions for African Americans, including the Fair Employment Practices Committee and the eventual integration of the armed forces by President Harry S. Truman. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceExplore the effects of the large-scale growth of women entering the work force and military during World War II and the subsequent impact on American society, including Rosie the Riveter, Cornelia Fort, and the Women's Army Corp.
Generate resourceDescribe the constitutional issues, conditions, and impact of the internment of Japanese Americans on the United States, including the Fred Korematsu v. United States of America decision.
Generate resourceDescribe the Manhattan Project, including Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Hanford, and explain President Truman's rationale for using the atomic bomb to end the war.
Generate resourceExplain the major outcomes of the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences (e.g., the separation of Germany, emergence of the threat of the atomic bomb, dispersal of Eastern European nations, and rising tensions between the United States and Soviet Union).
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the reasons for the founding of the United Nations, including the role of Cordell Hull.
Generate resourceDescribe the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in arms development, economic dominance, and ideology, including the roles of the United Nations, NATO, and the Warsaw Pact.
Generate resourceAnalyze the Cold War policies of containment and the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and Berlin Airlift.
Generate resourceExplain how containment influenced Cold War policies during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration, including brinksmanship, “peaceful coexistence,” and the issue of the military-industrial complex.
Generate resourceAnalyze the causes and effects of the Second Red Scare, including Americans' attitudes toward McCarthyism, blacklisting, House Un-American Activities Committee (i.e., HUAC), and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of prosperity and consumerism in the 1950s, including the growth of white-collar jobs, the “suburban ideal,” the impacts of and disproportionate access to the G.I. Bill, and the increased reliance on foreign oil.
Generate resourceExplain the impact of the baby boomer generation on the U.S. economy and culture.
Generate resourceDescribe domestic developments during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration, including:
Generate resourceAnalyze the increasing impact of television and mass media on American homes, politics, and the economy.
Generate resourceDescribe the emergence of a youth culture, including beatniks and the progression of popular music (from swing to rhythm and blues to rock ‘n’ roll), and the impact of Tennessee on the music industry, including the influence of B.B. King, Elvis Presley, Stax Records, and Sun Studio. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceExplain the fears of Americans surrounding nuclear holocaust, debates over stockpiling, and the use of nuclear weapons, including:
Generate resourceDescribe the relationship between Cuba and the United States, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis.
Generate resourceDescribe the competition between the United States and Soviet Union for superiority in space (i.e., Sputnik and the development of NASA, Operation Paperclip), including its effects on the American education system and industry.
Generate resourceDescribe the goals of President John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier programs to improve education, end racial discrimination, create the Peace Corps, and put a man on the moon.
Generate resourceDescribe the goals of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs, including Medicare, urban renewal, and the War on Poverty.
Generate resourceExamine the decision and impacts of Brown v. Board of Education on the desegregation of schools, such as Scarboro 85, Clinton 12 and Little Rock 9. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceAnalyze the impact of Emmitt Till's murder and the use of mass media on the trajectory of the Civil Rights Movement.
Generate resourceExamine the roles and actions of civil rights advocates (e.g., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, John Lewis, Diane Nash, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks) and opponents (e.g., Bull Connor, Orval Faubus, George Wallace, Strom Thurmond). (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceDescribe the significant events in the struggle to secure civil rights for African Americans, including: (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceAnalyze civil and voting rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (i.e., Fair Housing Act), and the 24th Amendment. (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006)
Generate resourceAnalyze how the American Indian Movement, Chicano Movement, and Feminist Movement are related to the Civil Rights Movement in advancing equality across the broader spectrum of American society during this time period.
Generate resourceDescribe the policies of Presidents' Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, and the causes, consequences, and progression of the Vietnam War, including:
Generate resourceAnalyze different points of view that reflect the rise of social activism and the growth counterculture, including generation gap, hippies, and Woodstock.
Generate resourceExplain the events of President Richard Nixon’s administration, including his appeal to the “silent majority," detente, SALT, and open relationship with China.
Generate resourceExplain the emergence of environmentalism, including the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and disasters such as Love Canal and Three Mile Island.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the events of President Ronald Reagan’s administration, including:
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the events of President George H. W. Bush’s administration, including:
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the events of President Bill Clinton’s administration, including:
Generate resourceDescribe the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, including the response of President George W. Bush and the USA PATRIOT Act.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the events of President George W. Bush’s administration, including:
Generate resourceDescribe the increasing role of women and minorities in American military, politics, and economy, including (T.C.A. § 49-6-1006):
Generate resourceExplain how the legislative and judicial branches expanded the scope of the 14th amendment including:
Generate resourceWorld Geography
Urbanization: Students will analyze trends and patterns of urban growth around the world, explore reasons for urban growth in certain locations, and evaluate the challenges that result from urban growth and decline.
Generate resourceEconomic Development and Interdependence: Students will examine global patterns of economic development, the impact of physical geographic features on global patterns, and patterns of economic interdependence between countries and regions.
Generate resourcePolitical Geography: Students will analyze the political divisions of the Earth’s surface as well as differentiate between the types of political divisions and how those divisions create opportunities for conflict and cooperation among people.
Generate resourceRegional Geography: Students will study culture from a geographic perspective by identifying the predominant culture traits that shape the cultural landscape in each major world region. Students will then use this knowledge to make comparisons between regions and analyze changing cultural patterns.
Generate resourcePopulation and Migration: Students will examine factors that affect the distribution, growth, and movement of human populations around the world and population and migration patterns across major world regions.
Generate resourcePhysical Process, Natural Resources, and the Environment: Students will examine the concepts and elements of physical geography, how physical processes have shaped the Earth’s surface, and how the presence of natural resources (or lack thereof) influences the distribution of human populations and activities.
Generate resourceGeographic Skills and Tools: Students will learn foundational geographic concepts, including how to use maps, globes, and geospatial technologies, and utilize their geographic content knowledge within the study of world regions and processes.
Generate resourceSocial Studies Practices
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:
Generate resourceExtract, summarize, and paraphrase significant ideas and relevant information
Generate resourcePerceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy vs. present- mindedness
Generate resourceEvaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction
Generate resourceIdentifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present
Generate resourceAnalyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity
Generate resourceUsing the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales
Generate resourceAnalyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena
Generate resourceExamining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space
Generate resourceExplain geography as a field of inquiry, differentiate between physical and human geography, describe the importance of the spatial perspective, and use spatial thinking skills to analyze global issues.
Generate resourceExplain how geographers synthesize geographic information from a variety of sources to analyze both human and physical processes in the world's regions, countries, and cities.
Generate resourceDefine and explain the use of major geographic concepts (e.g., location, pattern, place, region, scale, site, and situation).
Generate resourceDefine the concept of region, identify different types (e.g., formal, functional, perceptual), and give examples.
Generate resourceRead and interpret maps and globes using cardinal directions, latitude and longitude, legends, map scale, and title.
Generate resourceIdentify, use, and evaluate the usefulness of different types of map projections (e.g., Mercator, Robinson, Goode's Homolosine, and Peterson).
Generate resourceCompare the use of physical, political, and thematic maps (e.g., choropleth, dot density, proportional symbol, isoline, cartogram).
Generate resourceAnalyze patterns and processes at different scales(e.g., local, national, regional, global).
Generate resourceDescribe the purposes and uses of geospatial technologies (i.e., GIS, GPS, remote sensing), and apply them in relevant contexts.
Generate resourceExplain how geographers use geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives to analyze problems and make decisions.
Generate resourceExplain how current events are related to the physical and human characteristics of place and regions.
Generate resourceDescribe ways in which different types of physical and natural processes create and shape the surface of the Earth.
Generate resourceDescribe how unique weather patterns impact geography and population distribution of a region (e.g., drought, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes).
Generate resourceAnalyze how people interact with and modify the environment to satisfy basic needs and solve challenges. (e.g., access to fresh water, energy resources, irrigation, transportation, types of housing, and infrastructure).
Generate resourceAnalyze the distribution of natural resources, how they have impacted the economies of various world regions, and their connections to global trade.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the distribution, growth rates, and characteristics of human populations at different scales in terms of settlement patterns and access to natural and economic resources.
Generate resourceAnalyze the characteristics (e.g., age, gender, life expectancy, natural increase rate) of populations at different scales (e.g., local, national, global), and how they are demonstrated in census data and population pyramids.
Generate resourceDefine and give examples of economic, social, political, and environmental push and pull factors.
Generate resourceDefine and give examples of voluntary, forced, interregional, and intraregional migration patterns.
Generate resourceAnalyze past and present trends in human migration and the role of intervening obstacles and opportunities (e.g., economic, social, political, and environmental).
Generate resourceDescribe the impact and challenges of migration on both the sending and receiving countries.
Generate resourceDefine the cultural landscape, such as culture hearth, culture traits, and material and nonmaterial culture.
Generate resourceDescribe major cultural characteristics, physical geography, and economic practices in the regions of North, Central, and South America.
Generate resourceDescribe major cultural characteristics, physical geography, and economic practices in the regions of Europe.
Generate resourceDescribe major cultural characteristics, physical geography, and economic practices in the regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Generate resourceDescribe major cultural characteristics, physical geography, and economic practices in the regions of North Africa and Southwest Asia.
Generate resourceDescribe major cultural characteristics, physical geography, and economic practices in the regions of East, South, and Southeast Asia.
Generate resourceDescribe major cultural characteristics, physical geography, and economic practices in the regions in the South Pacific and Oceania.
Generate resourceAnalyze how cultural characteristics (e.g., ethnicity, gender roles, identity, language, religion) link and/or divide regions or societies.
Generate resourceExplain the differences between different types of governments (e.g., unitary and federal), and their relationships to subnational units.
Generate resourceDescribe different types of political boundaries (i.e., relic, superimposed, subsequent, antecedent, geometric, and consequent boundaries).
Generate resourceExplain the purpose and impact of political border changes as a result of decolonization, devolution, and the breakup of states (e.g., the former Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia, Israel, South Asia, Africa).
Generate resourceDefine, give examples, and evaluate supranational organizations and their roles (e.g., the United Nations, European Union, NATO).
Generate resourceDifferentiate between developed and developing countries, and evaluate how economic and social indicators are used to determine a country’s level of development.
Generate resourceDefine comparative advantage, and evaluate how a country leverages its access to land, labor, and capital to expand trade.
Generate resourceIdentify physical, economic, cultural, and political factors that influence the locations and patterns of economic activities, trade, and economic development.
Generate resourceExplain the difference between the formal and informal economy at different scales.
Generate resourceLocate, describe, and evaluate the formation of trade blocs throughout the world (e.g., EU, NAFTA, ASEAN, CARICOM).
Generate resourceDescribe reasons for increasing urbanization around the world and the economic, social, and political implications.
Generate resourceDefine and identify world megacities, and explain reasons for their location and rapid growth.
Generate resourceIdentify and explain the concepts of Central Place Theory and urban hierarchy.
Generate resourceDescribe urban infrastructure and how it relates to local economics, politics, and the environment.
Generate resourceDescribe the challenges of urban areas (e.g., access to public services, affordability of housing, discrimination, gentrification, overpopulation, pollution, sprawl, transportation, zones of abandonment, and food deserts).
Generate resourceWorld History and Geography
Understanding the Contemporary World (1980s- present): Students will analyze the major developments and globalization in the world since the end of the Cold War.
Generate resourceCreation of New States, Decolonization and the Creation of New States (1940s-1980s): Students will analyze the development of new states that resulted from post-World War II decolonization, migration, political change, economic development, and ideological conflict.
Generate resourceCold War (1945-1991): Students will analyze events and changes that resulted from the post-World War II rivalry between communist and democratic governments.
Generate resourceRise of Totalitarianism and World War II (1930s-1945): Students will analyze the rise of fascism and totalitarianism after World War I, the causes and course of World War II, and the military, economic, and political effects of the war.
Generate resourceWorld War I through the Depression (1910s-1930s): Students will analyze the causes and course of World War I, the military, economic, and political effects of the war, and the causes and consequences of the global depression of the 1930s.
Generate resourceNationalism and Imperialism (1850-1914): Students will analyze patterns of European nationalism and imperialism, including the cultural, geographic, and political effects on colonized regions.
Generate resourceThe Industrial Revolution (1750s-1900s): Students will analyze the emergence of the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the geographic, economic, political, and social implications of the changes that resulted from it.
Generate resourceAge of Revolution (1750-1850): Students will analyze English efforts to limit the power of monarchs, the Age of Enlightenment, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution and discuss their enduring effects on political expectations for self-government and individual liberty.
Generate resourceSocial Studies Practices
Generate resourceCollect data and information from a variety of primary and secondary sources, including:
Generate resourceExtract, summarize, and paraphrase significant ideas and relevant information
Generate resourcePerceiving and presenting past events and issues as they might have been experienced by the people of the time, with historical empathy vs. present- mindedness
Generate resourceEvaluating how unique circumstances of time and place create context and contribute to action and reaction
Generate resourceIdentifying patterns of continuity and change over time, making connections to the present
Generate resourceAnalyzing and determining the use of diverse types of maps based on the origin, authority, structure, context, and validity
Generate resourceUsing the geographic perspective to analyze relationships, patterns, and diffusion across space at multiple scales
Generate resourceAnalyzing locations, conditions, and connections of places and using maps to investigate spatial associations among phenomena
Generate resourceExamining how geographers use regions and how perceptions of regions are fluid across time and space
Generate resourceDescribe the types of kingdoms, leaders, and government systems in major world regions during the 18th century.
Generate resourceCompare major contributions of philosophers and scientists during the Age of Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution, such as:
Generate resourceIdentify the major causes (e.g., social, political, economic) of the French Revolution, and trace the evolution of France's government, including Enlightenment political thought, storming of the Bastille, execution of Louis XVI, and the reign of terror.
Generate resourceExplain the geographic, political, and social factors that contributed to the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire.
Generate resourceDescribe social and economic tensions within colonized regions in Latin America.
Generate resourceExplain the global effects of Latin American revolutions, including those in Haiti, Bolivia, Argentina, and Mexico.
Generate resourceExplain how the Agricultural Revolution, mechanization, and the “enclosure movement” led to rapid population growth, rural to urban migration, and the growth of major cities in Europe and North America.
Generate resourceExplain the geographic and economic reasons why the Industrial Revolution began in England, including natural resources, entrepreneurship, labor, and access to capital.
Generate resourceExplain why the diffusion of the Industrial Revolution primarily spread within the Western world.
Generate resourceDescribe the geographic scale, trade routes, and conditions of the forced migration of Africans to the Western Hemisphere, including connections between enslaved labor and the growth of industrial economies.
Generate resourceExplain how scientific and technological innovations (e.g., the steam engine, new textile technology, steel processing, medical advances, electricity, and new methods of transportation) led to massive social, economic, cultural, and demographic changes.
Generate resourceSocial costs(e.g., harsh working and living conditions, pollution, child labor, and income inequality)
Generate resourceAttempts to address these costs (e.g., political reform, urban planning, philanthropy, labor unions, education reform, and public health and sanitation)
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the rise of economic theories as a result of industrialization, including capitalism, communism, and socialism.
Generate resourceDefine nationalism, and explain how national identity and political geography contributed to the unification of nations such as Germany and Italy.
Generate resourceDefine and analyze reasons for imperialism, including competition between empires, cultural justifications, and the search for natural resources and new markets in response to rapid industrialization.
Generate resourceDistinguish the differences between colonies, protectorates, spheres of influence, and economic imperialism.
Generate resourceDescribe the cultural and political structures throughout the regions of the African continent.
Generate resourceDescribe the natural resources and geographic features throughout the regions of the African continent and their impacts on global trade.
Generate resourceAnalyze the outcomes of the Berlin Conference and the impact of superimposed boundaries on African indigenous populations, and compare the geographic progression of imperialistic claims on the African continent by European empires.
Generate resourceDescribe the various strategies and outcomes of African resistance to European imperialism (e.g., Ethiopia, Zulu Wars, Ashanti Wars).
Generate resourceDescribe cultural, political, and economic structures throughout the regions of the subcontinent of India.
Generate resourceExplain why India was important to the British empire, including role of the Suez Canal.
Generate resourceDescribe cultural, political, and economic structures throughout regions of China.
Generate resourceExplain why China was important to western powers, including the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion.
Generate resourceDescribe the cultural, economic, and political context of Japan, including the role of isolationism and its rise as an imperial power in the late 19th century.
Generate resourceDescribe cultural, political, and economic structures throughout the regions of Central and South America.
Generate resourceDefine cultural diffusion, and describe how imperialism facilitates cultural diffusion.
Generate resourceExplain how the rise of militarism, alliances, imperialistic rivalry, and growing nationalism led to the outbreak of World War I triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Generate resourceDescribe how trench warfare, the resulting stalemate, war of attrition, and advances in weaponry (e.g., chemical weapons, machine guns, submarines, tanks) affected the course and outcome of World War I.
Generate resourceExplain how battles of World War I (e.g., Marne and Somme) illustrate the scope of the war, and describe the impact on European colonies around the world.
Generate resourceExplain why Russia exited and the United States entered World War I, and describe the effects.
Generate resourceIdentify the causes and consequences of the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War.
Generate resourceDefine total war, and describe its immediate and lasting effects on European civilian populations, including:
Generate resourceAnalyze the aims and negotiating roles of world leaders at the Paris Peace Conference and their impact on Germany, the League of Nations, and the creation of new states and the Mandate System.
Generate resourceDescribe the collapse of international economies in 1929 that led to the Great Depression, including the significance of:
Generate resourceExplain how economic instability, nationalism, and political disillusionment in Germany, Italy, Japan led to the rise of totalitarian regimes.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the rise to power, goals, and characteristics of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian regimes.
Generate resourceAnalyze the role of geographic features and regional conflicts (i.e., Spanish Civil War) in increasing tensions prior to World War II.
Generate resourceExplain the role of military alliances, appeasement, isolationism, and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.
Generate resourceDescribe the roles of leaders during World War II, including the significance of:
Generate resourceDescribe the persecution of Jews and other targeted groups in Europe leading up to World War II, and explain why many people were unable to leave and their efforts to resist persecution.
Generate resourceExplain the state-sponsored mass murder of targeted groups (e.g., Hitler’s Final Solution to the Jewish Question) in Nazi-controlled lands, and describe the varied experiences of Holocaust survivors and victims.
Generate resourceExplain the decisions made in the Atlantic Charter and at the Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam Conferences.
Generate resourceDescribe the development of atomic bombs, and evaluate both the decisions to use them and the impact of their use.
Generate resourceDescribe the cultural, economic, geographic, and political effects of World War II, including:
Generate resourceExplain the nature of reconstruction in Europe and Asia after 1945, including the influence of the United States
Generate resourceExplain the origins and significance of the United Nations establishment of the State of Israel, and describe the reactions by surrounding Arab countries.
Generate resourceDescribe the economic and military power shift at the end of World War II, including rising tensions between the Soviet Union and former Allied Powers.
Generate resourceAnalyze the rise of communism and Mao Zedong in China, as well as the related political, social, and economic impacts on China.
Generate resourceSummarize the functions of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, including their roles in organizing post-war Europe.
Generate resourceDescribe methods of Soviet control in Eastern Europe and the role of Berlin as a focal point in escalating Cold War tensions.
Generate resourceExplain the role of the nuclear arms race, mutual assured destruction, and arms control agreements within the context of rising tensions between the Soviet Union and United States (e.g., Cuban Missile Crisis).
Generate resourceDescribe examples of national uprisings against the Soviet Union (e.g., Hungary and Czechoslovakia), and explain why they were unsuccessful.
Generate resourceDescribe the competition in Asia between the Soviet Union and United States, including the wars in Korea and Vietnam as examples of proxy wars.
Generate resourceAnalyze the political, economic, social, and geographic consequences of the collapse of communist governments and restructure of nation states in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (e.g., Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Armenia).
Generate resourceExplain the causes and effects of German reunification on both West and East Germany.
Generate resourceDescribe how competing national, ethnic, and religious interests led to conflict and the establishment of new countries in the Balkans.
Generate resourceExplain the reasons for and the effects of the partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan in 1947.
Generate resourceExplain the factors that led to the creation of a lasting democratic government in India as well as the roles of political leaders (e.g., Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi).
Generate resourceDescribe the development, goals, and outcomes of nationalist movements in Africa, including the ideas and roles of nationalist leaders (e.g., Jomo Kenyatta, Patrice Lumumba, and Gamal Abdel Nasser).
Generate resourceExplain the fight against and dismantling of the apartheid system in South Africa, including the roles of Nelson and Winnie Mandela and the African National Congress.
Generate resourceAnalyze the political, economic, ethnic, geographic (i.e., boundaries and features) and military challenges faced by newly-created countries in post-imperial Africa (e.g., civil war, genocide, corruption).
Generate resourceExplain how ideological conflicts between capitalism and communism led to armed insurgencies, revolutions, and military dictatorships in Latin American nations, including Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, and Nicaragua.
Generate resourceAnalyze the ongoing Arab-Israeli Conflict and the peace processes in the Middle East, including Camp David Accords.
Generate resourceCompare and contrast the causes and effects of modern genocide, including in Cambodia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia.
Generate resourceDescribe patterns of globalization and its impact in the contemporary world, such as:
Generate resourceDescribe significant social and political issues in the contemporary world, such as:
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