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Grade 11, University Preparation
THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM, GRADES 11 AND 12 | Canadian and World Studies
D1.4 describe key developments in American foreign policy during this period, and analyse some of their causes and consequences (e.g., with reference to the Spanish-American War, Dollar Diplomacy, the Roosevelt Corollary, Theodore Roosevelt’s role in the building of the Panama Canal, economic protectionism, isolationism, participation in World War I, the Paris Peace Conference, the Good Neighbor Policy, Lend-Lease, participation in World War II)
Sample questions: “What were some of the long-term consequences of American policy in Latin America during this period?” “Since the League of Nations was a major component of President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, how do you explain the refusal of the United States to join the League?” “How would you account for the fact that American entry into World War II came more than two years after Canada’s declaration of war?” “How did the United States finance its involvement in World War II?”
D2. Communities, Conflict, and Cooperation
FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Continuity and Change
By the end of this course, students will:
D2.1 explain issues underlying some key instances of social conflict in the United States during this period (e.g., the Massacre at Wounded Knee, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, lynching, race riots, the Scopes trial, the Haymarket Riot, the Ludlow Massacre, Bonus Army protests, strikes
by miners or textile workers)
Sample questions: “What was the basis of the conflict in the Scopes trial? What was the out- come of the trial? Did it resolve the debate over evolution versus creationism? In what ways is this debate still relevant in the United States today?” “Why were there race riots in 1919? What issues underlay these riots?”
D2.2 analyse key labour issues in the United States, explaining how they changed during this period (e.g., with reference to child labour; the formation of trade and industrial unions; the struggle for minimum wage / maximum hours legislation; unemployment during the Great Depression; the impact of the Red Scare; the Wagner Act; the role of individuals such as Mary “Mother”Jones, Rose Schneiderman, or Samuel Gompers)
Sample questions: “What impact did the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire have on labour relations in the United States?” “What was the significance of the Wagner Act? In what ways did it mark a change in labour relations in the United States?”
D2.3 describe the issues that motivated various social reform movements in the United States during this period, and assess the contribution of some of these movements, and individuals associated with them, to American society
(e.g., with reference to the women’s suffrage, social gospel, civil rights, Grange, labour, peace, and/or temperance movements; groups such as the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the American Federation of Labor, the Industrial Workers of the World, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP], the National Woman’s Party, the Sierra Club; individuals such as Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Eugene Debs, Margaret Sanger, Norman Thomas, Ida B. Wells)
Sample questions: “Why is the early twentieth century often referred to as the Progressive Era in the United States? Do you think this term accurately reflects this period? Why or why not?”
D2.4 describe issues of concern to African Americans during this period (e.g., systemic oppression and segregation, discrimination, lynching and other forms of violence, poverty and unemployment, housing, voting rights), and analyse contributions of African Americans to American society (e.g., the establishment of the NAACP and/or the Tuskegee Institute; cultural developments such as the birth of blues and jazz or the Harlem Renaissance; the Negro Baseball League; the contributions of individuals such as Mary McLeod Bethune, W. E. B. Du Bois, Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jack Johnson, Elijah McCoy, Garrett Morgan, Booker T. Washington)
Sample questions: “How did sharecropping continue to keep African Americans in the South in servitude?” “What impact did Jim Crow laws have on the status and citizenship rights of African Americans? How did African Americans respond to these laws?”
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