Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Many political, social, and economic changes have occurred in the United States over the past 100 years.
- Alabama played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement.
- Alabama's role in contemporary world trade includes being a major exporter of poultry, steel, and machinery, in addition to attracting many international companies to the state.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Investigate social changes and their impact in the U.S. and Alabama during the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Investigate economic changes and their impact in the U.S. and Alabama during the 20th and 21st centuries.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There have been many social and economic changes in the past 100 years and Alabama has been at the forefront of many of these changes.
Vocabulary
- social conditions
- economic conditions
- world trade
- Civil Rights Movement
- voting rights
