Eleventh
Grade: California Social Science Standards
11.1 Students analyze the
significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize
the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.
1. Describe the Enlightenment
and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was
founded.
2. Analyze the ideological
origins of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers’ philosophy of
divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights, the debates on the drafting and
ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights.
3. Understand the history of
the Constitution after 1787 with emphasis on federal versus state authority and
growing democratization.
4. Examine the effects of
the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the industrial revolution, including
demographic shifts and the emergence in the late nineteenth century of the
United States as a world power.
11.2 Students analyze the
relationship among the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban
migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
1. Know the effects of
industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of
working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
2. Describe the changing
landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and trade, and the
development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class.
3. Trace the effect of the
Americanization movement.
4. Analyze the effect of urban
political machines and responses to them by immigrants and middle-class
reformers.
5. Discuss corporate mergers
that produced trusts and cartels and the economic and political policies of
industrial leaders.
6. Trace the economic
development of the United States and its emergence as a major industrial power,
including its gains from trade and the advantages of its physical geography.
7. Analyze the similarities
and differences between the ideologies of Social Darwinism and Social Gospel
(e.g., using biographies of William Graham Sumner, Billy Sunday, Dwight L.
Moody).
8. Examine the effect of
political programs and activities of Populists.
9. Understand the effect of
political programs and activities of the Progressives (e.g., federal regulation
of railroad transport, Children’s Bureau, the Sixteenth Amendment, Theodore
Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson).
11.3 Students analyze the
role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting moral, social, and
political impacts, and issues regarding religious liberty.
1. Describe the
contributions of various religious groups to American civic principles and
social reform movements (e.g., civil and human rights, individual
responsibility and the work ethic, antimonarchy and self-rule, worker
protection, family-centered communities).
2. Analyze the great
religious revivals and the leaders involved in them, including the First Great
Awakening, the Second Great Awakening, the Civil War revivals, the Social
Gospel Movement, the rise of Christian liberal theology in the nineteenth
century, the impact of the Second Vatican Council, and the rise of Christian
fundamentalism in current times.
3. Cite incidences of
religious intolerance in the United States (e.g., persecution of Mormons,
anti-Catholic sentiment, anti-Semitism).
4. Discuss the expanding
religious pluralism in the U.S. and California that resulted from large-scale
immigration in the twentieth century.
5. Describe the principles
of religious liberty found in the Establishment and Free
Exercise clauses of the
First Amendment, including the debate on the issue of separation of church and
state.
11.4 Students trace the
rise of the United States to its role as a world power in the twentieth
century.
1. List the purpose and the
effects of the Open Door policy.
2. Describe the
Spanish-American War and U.S. expansion in the South Pacific.
3. Discuss America’s role in
the Panama Revolution and the building of the Panama Canal.
4. Explain Theodore
Roosevelt’s Big Stick diplomacy, William Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy, and Woodrow Wilson’s
Moral Diplomacy, drawing on relevant speeches.
5. Analyze the political,
economic, and social ramifications of World War I on the home front.
6. Trace the declining role
of Great Britain and the expanding role of the United States in world affairs
after World War II.
11.5 Students analyze the
major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of
the 1920s.
1. Discuss the policies of
Presidents Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.
2. Analyze the international
and domestic events, interests, and philosophies that prompted attacks on civil
liberties, including the Palmer Raids, Marcus Garvey’s “back-to-Africa”
movement, the Ku Klux Klan, and immigration quotas and the responses of
organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Anti-Defamation
League to those attacks.
3. Examine the passage of
the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act.
4. Analyze the passage of
the Nineteenth Amendment and the changing role of women in society.
5. Describe the Harlem
Renaissance and new trends in literature, music, and art, with special
attention to the work of writers (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes).
6. Trace the growth and
effects of radio and movies and their role in the worldwide diffusion of
popular culture.
7. Discuss the rise of mass
production techniques, the growth of cities, the impact of new technologies
(e.g., the automobile, electricity), and the resulting prosperity and effect on
the American landscape.
11.6 Students analyze the
different explanations for the Great Depression and how the New Deal
fundamentally changed the role of the federal government.
1. Describe the monetary
issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that gave rise to
the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the weaknesses in key sectors of
the economy in the late 1920s.
2. Understand the
explanations of the principal causes of the Great Depression and the steps
taken by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and Presidents Herbert Hoover and
Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat the economic crisis.
3. Discuss the human toll of
the Depression, natural disasters, and unwise agricultural practices and their
effects on the depopulation of rural regions and on political movements of the
left and right, with particular attention to the Dust Bowl refugees and their
social and economic impacts in California.
4. Analyze the effects of
and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies and the expanded
role of the federal government in society and the economy since the 1930s
(e.g., Works Progress Administration, Social Security, National Labor Relations
Board, farm programs, regional development policies, and energy development
projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, California Central Valley
Project, and Bonneville Dam).
5. Trace the advances and
retreats of organized labor, from the creation of the American Federation of
Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations to current issues of a
postindustrial, multinational economy, including the United Farm Workers in
California.
11.7 Students analyze
America’s participation in World War II.
1. Examine the origins of
American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events that
precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor.
2. Explain U.S. and Allied
wartime strategy, including the major battles of Midway, Normandy, Iwo Jima,
Okinawa, and the Battle of the Bulge.
3. Identify the roles and
sacrifices of individual American soldiers, as well as the unique contributions
of the special fighting forces (e.g., the Tuskegee Airmen, the 442nd Regimental
Combat team, the Navajo Code Talkers).
4. Analyze Roosevelt’s
foreign policy during World War II (e.g., Four Freedoms speech).
5. Discuss the
constitutional issues and impact of events on the U.S. home front, including
the internment of Japanese Americans (e.g., Fred Korematsu v. United
States of America) and the restrictions on German and Italian resident
aliens; the response of the administration to Hitler’s atrocities against Jews
and other groups; the roles of women in military production; and the roles and
growing political demands of African Americans.
6. Describe major
developments in aviation, weaponry, communication, and medicine and the war’s
impact on the location of American industry and use of resources.
7. Discuss the decision to
drop atomic bombs and the consequences of the decision (Hiroshima and
Nagasaki).
8. Analyze the effect of
massive aid given to Western Europe under the Marshall Plan to rebuild itself
after the war and the importance of a rebuilt Europe to the U.S. economy.
11.8 Students analyze the
economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.
1. Trace the growth of
service sector, white collar, and professional sector jobs in business and
government.
2. Describe the significance
of Mexican immigration and its relationship to the agricultural economy,
especially in California.
3. Examine Truman’s labor
policy and congressional reaction to it.
4. Analyze new federal
government spending on defense, welfare, interest on the national debt, and
federal and state spending on education, including the California Master Plan.
5. Describe the increased
powers of the presidency in response to the Great Depression, World War II, and
the Cold War.
6. Discuss the diverse
environmental regions of North America, their relationship to local economies,
and the origins and prospects of environmental problems in those regions.
7. Describe the effects on
society and the economy of technological developments since 1945, including the
computer revolution, changes in communication, advances in medicine, and
improvements in agricultural technology.
8. Discuss forms of popular
culture, with emphasis on their origins and geographic diffusion (e.g., jazz
and other forms of popular music, professional sports, architectural and
artistic styles).
11.9 Students analyze U.S.
foreign policy since World War II.
1. Discuss the establishment
of the United Nations and International Declaration of Human Rights,
International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade (GATT) and their importance in shaping modern Europe and maintaining
peace and international order.
2. Understand the role of
military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring communist aggression
and maintaining security during the Cold War.
3. Trace the origins and
geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and
containment policy, including the following: he era of McCarthyism, instances
of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and blacklisting, the Truman Doctrine,
the Berlin Blockade, the Korean War, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban
Missile Crisis, atomic testing in the American West, the “mutual assured
destruction” doctrine, and disarmament policies, the Vietnam War, and Latin
American policy
4. List the effects of
foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa (e.g., protests during the
war in Vietnam, the “nuclear freeze” movement).
5. Analyze the role of the
Reagan administration and other factors in the victory of the West in the Cold
War.
6. Describe U.S. Middle East
policy and its strategic, political, and economic interests, including those
related to the Gulf War.
7. Examine relations between
the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century, including key economic,
political, immigration, and environmental issues.
11.10 Students analyze the
development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
1. Explain how demands of
African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rights, including
President Roosevelt’s ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in
1941, and how African Americans’ service in World War II produced a stimulus
for President Truman’s decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948.
2. Examine and analyze the
key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civil rights,
including Dred Scott v. Sandford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown
v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke,
and California Proposition 209.
3. Describe the
collaboration on legal strategy between African American and white civil rights
lawyers to end racial segregation in higher education.
4. Examine the roles of
civil rights advocates (e.g., A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Malcom X, Thurgood Marshall, James Farmer, Rosa Parks), including the
significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “I
Have a Dream” speech.
5. Discuss the diffusion of
the civil rights movement of African Americans from the churches of the rural
South and the urban North, including the resistance to racial desegregation in
Little Rock and Birmingham, and how the advances influenced the agendas,
strategies, and effectiveness of the quests of American Indians, Asian
Americans, and Hispanic Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities.
6. Analyze the passage and
effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (e.g., 1964 Civil Rights
Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, with an
emphasis on equality of access to education and to the political process.
7. Analyze the women’s
rights movement from the era of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony and the
passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the movement launched in the 1960s,
including differing perspectives on the roles of women.
11.11 Students analyze the
major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American
society.
1. Discuss the reasons for
the nation’s changing immigration policy, with emphasis on how the Immigration
Act of 1965 and successor acts have transformed American society.
2. Discuss the significant
domestic policy speeches of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon,
Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton (e.g., with regard to education, civil
rights, economic policy, environmental policy).
3. Describe the changing
roles of women in society as reflected in the entry of more women into the
labor force and the changing family structure.
4. Explain the
constitutional crisis originating from the Watergate scandal.
5. Trace the impact of, need
for, and controversies associated with environmental conservation, expansion of
the national park system, and the development of environmental protection laws,
with particular attention to the interaction between environmental protection
advocates and property rights advocates.
6. Analyze the persistence
of poverty and how different analyses of this issue influence welfare reform,
health insurance reform, and other social policies.
7. Explain how the federal,
state, and local governments have responded to demo-graphic and social changes
such as population shifts to the suburbs, racial concentrations in the cities,
Frostbelt-to-Sunbelt migration, international migration, decline of family farms,
increases in out-of-wedlock births, and drug abuse.