Social Studies HS Guide

as ballot initiatives, recalls, and referendums. ■ U.S. II Standard 2.4: Students will evaluate the short and long term accomplishments and effectiveness of social, economic, and political reform movements. ○ Learning Intention #1: ■ Students will evaluate the short and long term accomplishments and effectiveness of social reform movements. ○ Learning Intention #2: ■ Students will evaluate the short and long term accomplishments and effectiveness of economic reform movements. ○ Learning Intention #3: ■ Students will evaluate the short and long term accomplishments and effectiveness of political reform movements. NOTE: Students should develop skills associated with history to construct arguments using historical thinking skills. Of particular importance in a United States history course is developing the reading, thinking, and writing skills of historians. These skills are vertically aligned throughout the curriculum guide with the intent to support the skills needed for students to become critical thinkers and to think like an historian. ● Historical Thinking Skills: U.S. II Standard 2 ○ Source Analysis • Who wrote this? • What is the author’s perspective? • Why was it written? • When was it written? • Where was it written? • Is this source reliable? Why? Why not? ○ Contextualization • When and where was the document created? • What was different then? • What was the same? • How might the circumstances in which the document was created affect its content? POSSIBLE GUIDING AND INQUIRY QUESTIONS ● Why do people turn to reform movements? ● What conditions must exist for a reform movement to begin? ● Why were some methods used to bring about change more successful than others? ● How have today’s social and political reforms been affected by those that took place from the 1880s to the 1920s? ● How is daily life today in fl uenced by earlier social and political reform movements? ● What process is required to amend the U.S. Constitution? What inferences can we make about U.S. history by studying amendments to the Constitution? CONTENT VOCABULARY ● Suffrage ● Temperance ● Populism

● Progressives ● Amendments ● Unions ● Associations