American History Second Semester Final Exam
Anchor Text: FDR’s First Inaugural Address
Essential Questions
 How did Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech lay the foundation for expanding the role of the national
government?
 How did FDR’s policies shape the American economy?
Enduring Understandings
 Reality of Democracy
 Economics in America
Content Knowledge
Executive power
Causes of depression
Effects of depression
Conservative policies of the 1920s
Political spectrum
New Deal
Fireside Chat
Anchor Text: FDR’s “Date of Infamy”
Essential Questions
 How does Roosevelt's speech act as a call to action?
 How does America relate to the world?
 How does armed conflict shape America’s role in the world and its own development?
Enduring Understandings
 America in the World
Content Knowledge
Isolationism
Internationalism
Mobilization
Fascism
Expansion
Foreign policy
Appeasement
Home Front
Neutrality
Propaganda
Anchor Text: Herbert Block cartoon “Hunting Communists”
Essential Questions
 How does propaganda shape the American identity?
 How does propaganda change the relationship between people and the government?
Enduring Understandings
 American Identity
 Reality of Democracy
Content Knowledge
Ideological differences
Distrust
Postwar foreign policy
Containment
Domino theory
Red Scare/McCarthyism
Arms race
Brinkmanship
Anchor Text: “I Have a Dream” Speech
Essential Questions
 How does the speech capture the African American struggle for the essential rights and freedoms
promised in our founding documents?
 How is the evolving definition of citizenship reflected in the speech and the Civil Rights movement?
 What call to action is demanded by King for our society and our government?
 How does the I Have a Dream Speech illustrate the continuing struggle to achieve (attain) equal rights
for all American citizens?
Enduring Understandings
 American Identity
 Reality of Democracy
 The Struggle for Equality
Content Knowledge
Civil Rights Movement
Civil Disobedience
Militancy
Catalysts
Segregation/integration
Discrimination
Brown v. Board of Education
Lyndon B. Johnson-Great Society
Black Power
Jim Crow laws
Anchor Text: Protest Music of the Vietnam Era -- Options
“Fortunate Son” by Credence Clearwater Revival; “Fixin’ To Die Rag” by Country Joe & the Fish;
“Ohio” by CSNY; “Eve of Destruction” by Barry McGuire
Essential Questions
 How does protest music reveal the changing relationship between the government and their people?
 How has the relationship between the people and the government changed?
 How does the Vietnam conflict alter and shape America’s global role?
Enduring Understandings
 Reality of Democracy
 America in the World
Content Knowledge
Dissent
Conformity
Counter-culture
Escalation
Draft
Hawks vs Doves
Patriotism
Youth culture
Credibility gap
Lyndon B. Johnson’s foreign policy
Vietnamization Kent State