Rise of American Power

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Students will recall content learned in unit 6 and organize and align content according to the three unit themes (foreign policy, change, government).  Students will then use this content as evidence to answer the unit 6 essential questions.

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Four introductory vocabulary routines to introduce content and concepts.

Activity reviewing relevant content, students complete a mad - libs style reading worksheet 

Teachers can use this chart to review relevant unit vocabulary prior to teaching the unit.

Teachers can use this chart to review relevant unit vocabulary prior to teaching the unit.

Students will use a durable learning routine, images draw you in, to think conceptually about unit themes and essential questions. 

Students will examine a timeline and three documents to contextualize US foreign policy up to the turn of the century. 

Students analyze a number of primary source documents related to the annexation of Hawaii and reflect on the historical circumstances surrounding the annexation. 

Students will use evidence from the documents to analyze why America invaded Cuba in 1898. 

Students will compare and contrast articles from the New York Times and New York Journal to learn how to critically analyze news media. 

Why did the US annex the Philippines? How did Filipinos react to American Imperialism? 

Students will compare and contrast Kipling's poem with two images, looking for evidence of the concept of "white man's burden".  

Evaluating Sources: What was the "White Man's Burden"? What does it tell us about imperialist views in the early 1900's?

Students will analyze three documents from leaders amongst the African American community and their response to American Imperialism abroad. 

Students analyze speeches by William Jennings Bryan and Albert Beveridge to gain a better understanding of the debate over American Imperialism following the Spanish American War. 

Students will analyze excerpts of the Roosevelt Corollary and a political cartoon on the same subject.  

What motivated the United States to build the Panama Canal? 

Students will review content from Global History and Geography to contextualize US involvement in World War 1. 

What did the Zimmerman Telegram say? Why is the sourcing information and context surrounding the Zimmerman telegram important to notice?

Students analyze President Woodrow Wilson's speech asking US congress for a declaration of war in 1917.  

Using Evidence: What was President Wilson's desired political message surrounding US involvement in World War 1? 

Students will analyze the text of the 14 Points of Peace.

Infographic reviewing steps for the US ratification of a treaty. 

NYS Regents Style DBQ analyzing the following question and associated documents: 

Explain how a treaty is ratified in the United States.

Explain why Woodrow Wilson believed the League of Nations was critical to future peace.  

Explain two arguments made against ratifying the Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations.  

Describe what ultimately happened to the Treaty of Versailles.  

Students will analyze the social, political, and economic effects of World War 1 and describe the five main causes of US participation in World War 1. 

An activity to characterize the impact of World War I on women, immigrants, African Americans; as well as the impact of World War 1 on American society including the issuance of bonds, rations, limits on Civil Liberties, the Red Scare, and the Military Draft. 

Students will analyze the historical context around the creation of World War 1 posters, the different types of posters and the two rhetorical devices they used; finally, students will analyze the nature of the propaganda posters. 

Students will engage in a jigsaw activity and then write an opinion on the case adopting the perspective of a US supreme court justice.  

Students will analyze a poem, a map, and two primary source documents to understand the causes and effects of the Great Migration.  

Students will contextualize the Red Summer Race Riots of 1919 by looking at both historical and geographical context.  Students will then review excerpts of 6 primary sources to complete a writing task. 

Students will recall content learned in unit 6 and organize and align content according to the three unit themes (foreign policy, change, government).  Students will then use this content as evidence to answer the unit 6 essential questions.