Student Learning Map

  • Topic:Age of Limits
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:10
  • Grade(s):11
Key Learning: During the Age of Limits, Presidents focused on political challenges like the Watergate scandal, economic challenges like the Energy Crisis, and environmental challenges like Earth Day and Three Mile Island.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
How can the President lose or restore the nation's trust?
   
Concept: New Federalism
Concept: Effects of Watergate
Concept: Foreign Issues
Lesson Essential Question(s):

Why did President Nixon adopt a southern strategy in his efforts to lead the United States toward a New Conservatism?

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What was the significance of Nixon\'s reaching out to the communist powers of Russia and the People\'s Republic of China?

(A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

Why did the involvement of President Nixon in the Watergate scandal force him to become the first President to resign from office? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What roles did the Helsinki Accords, the Mayaguez incident, a human rights foreign policy, the Camp David Accords, and the Iran hostage crisis play in the success or failure of the Ford or Carter administrations? (A)

Concept:

Domestic Issues under Carter and Ford

SS.A.5.4.8

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Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did economics, energy, the environment and human rights define the presidencies of Ford and Carter?

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Additional Info:

History of the Twentieth Century (DVD series), History Alive, Maps, The Americans chapter 24, Venn diagrams, timelines, charts

Resources:

Vocabulary Report

  • New Federalism -
  • Gerald Ford -
  • Committee to Reelect the President -
  • tight money policy -
  • Jimmy Carter -
  • impeachment -
  • revenue sharing -
  • Helsinki Accords -
  • National Energy Act -
  • Saturday Night Massacre -
  • southern strategy -
  • human rights -
  • Watergate -
  • stagflation -
  • human rights -
  • Camp David Accords -
  • OPEC -
  • "Silent Spring" -
  • Earth Day -
  • Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini -
  • realpolitik -
  • Environmental Protection Agency -
  • detente -
  • Panama Canal Treaties (1977) -
  • Salt I Treaty -
  • Three Mile Island -