Quick Guide to Modern American History Standards 6.1 How the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed the American people 6.2 Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity 6.3 The rise of the American labor movement and how political issues reflected social and economic changes 6.4 Federal Indian policy and 7.1 How Progressives and others addressed problems of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and political corruption 7.2 The changing role of the 7.3 How the 8.1 The causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society 8.2 How the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state 8.3 The causes and course of World War II, the character of the war at home and abroad, and its reshaping of the U.S. role in world affairs 9.1 The economic boom and social transformation of postwar 9.2 How the Cold War and conflicts in 9.3 Domestic policies after World War II 9.4 The struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil liberties 10.1 Recent developments in foreign policy and domestic politics 10.2 Economic, social, and cultural developments in contemporary   |
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