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May 2004

Segregation and Progressivism

1SS-P11. Analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution, with emphasis on:

PO 1. the forces behind the quick and successful growth of the United States, including geographic security, abundant natural resources, heavy foreign investment, individual and economic freedoms, skilled but cheap and mobile labor, and use of tariffs and subsidie
PO 2. innovations in technology, evolution of marketing techniques, and changes to the standard of living
PO 3. the development of monopolies and their impact on economic and political policies, including laissez faire economics and the ideas of Social Darwinism
PO 4. the growth of cities created by the influx of immigrants and rural-to-urban migrations of Americans and the racial and ethnic conflicts that resulted
PO 5. the efforts of workers to improve working conditions, including organizing labor unions and strikes, and the reaction of business, including strikebreakers, and the Bisbee Deportation
PO 6. Populism and William Jennings Bryan, Jane Addams, muckrakers, and the economic problems faced by farmers
PO 7. Theodore Roosevelt's reforms in trustbusting and conservation of natural resources such as national parks like the Grand Canyon and reclamation projects like the Salt River Project
PO 8. progressive reforms, including the national income tax, direct election of Senators, women's Suffrage, Prohibition, and Arizona's Constitution

· 1SS-P13. Analyze the United States' expanding role in the world during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with emphasis on:

PO 1. the causes for a change in foreign policy from isolationism to intervention
PO 2. the debate between pro- and anti-imperialists over taking the Philippines
PO 3. the results of the Spanish American War
PO 4. the expanding influence in the Western hemisphere, including the Panama Canal
PO 5. the events that led to United States involvement in World War I and the United States' impact on the outcome
PO 6. the impact of World War I on the United States, including the Red Scare
PO 7. Wilson's involvement in the peace process and the United States rejection of the League of Nations