Learning Objectives Students are able to ...
In the Concept Outline ID-4
Explain how conceptions of group identity and autonomy emerged out of cultural interactions between colonizing groups, Africans, and American Indians in the colonial era.
ID-5 Analyze the role of economic, political, social, and ethnic factors on the formation of regional identities in what would become the United States from the colonial period through the 19th century.
ID-6 Analyze how migration patterns to, and migration within, the United States have influenced the growth of racial and ethnic identities and conflicts over ethnic assimilation and distinctiveness.
ID-7 Analyze how changes in class identity and gender roles have related to economic, social, and cultural transformations since the late 19th century.
ID-8 Explain how civil rights activism in the 20th century affected the growth of African American and other identity-based political and social movements.
Peopling (PEO) This theme focuses on why and how the various people who moved to, from, and within the United States adapted to their new social and physical environments. Students examine migration across borders and long distances, including the slave trade and internal migration, and how both newcomers and indigenous inhabitants transformed North America. The theme also illustrates how people responded when “borders crossed them.” Students explore the ideas, beliefs, traditions, technologies, religions, and gender roles that migrants/immigrants and annexed peoples brought with them and the impact these factors had on both these peoples and on U.S. society.
If one is a minority there is no place on the planet to be as free to be as different as you want as America.
