• Ronald B. Black
    Subject: 7th Grade Social Studies
     
     
     
    Taj Mahal

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    This will be my eleventh year teaching 7th Grade Social Studies at Southeast and my eixth year with the Dragons team.  I am a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and a big fan of the Tar Heels.  I enjoy teaching Social Studies because I find students are always eager to learn more about their world. I coach Boys' Track and NAL during the school year.  We are looking forward to a great year in the Seventh grade.


     

     

     


     

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    Renaissance

    “Rebirth” of classical ideas that led to the development of new ideas about culture and art

    Printing press; Humanism; Art; Italy; Florence; Classical knowledge from Greeks and Romans

    Reformation

    Religious movement to reform the Catholic Church that led to the development of the Protestant Churches

    Indulgences; 95 Theses; Protestantism; Reform; Catholic Church; Corruption

    Exploration

    The exploration of other countries resulted in increased power and wealth for Europe

    Triangular Trade; Gold, God and Glory(reasons for exploration); Competition; Slave Trade; Columbian Exchange

    Scientific Revolution

    New discoveries were being made through the application of the Scientific Method, which changed many beliefs and ideas accepted in the past

    Scientific Method; Natural Laws(Gravity, Motion); Heliocentric vs. Geocentric Model; Microscope; Telescope; Innovation; Francis Bacon; Galileo; Copernicus; Isaac Newton

    Enlightenment and French Revolution

    Philosophers created new ideas about government. These ideas led to political revolutions in many nations when citizens wanted rights and a better life.

    Natural Rights; freedom of speech; Social Contract; Religious tolerance; separation of powers; John Locke; Jean Jacques Rousseau; Baron Montesquieu; Thomas Hobbes; Voltaire

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    Industrial Revolution

    Innovations in technology can affect quality of life

    Factory system; textiles; railroads; agricultural revolution; crop rotation; Enclosure; push-pull factors; urbanization; Steam engine; Labor unions

    Imperialism

    Industrial nations colonize weaker nations to increase power and wealth. Trade relations did not benefit partners equally

    Scramble for Africa(Ethiopia, Liberia); Cash Crop; Open Door policy; Sphere of influence; Mutiny

     

    World War I

    Political alliances can lead to conflict. Improved technology can make war more terrible and can affect war’s outcome

    Nationalism, Alliances; Treaty of Versailles; Russian Revolution(Communist Revolution); Trench Warfare; New weapons; Stalemate; MANIA(Militarism-Alliances-Nationalism-Imperialism-Assassination)

     

    Inter War Years

    Treaty of Versailles left some European nations bitter with WWI’s outcome. Majority of world was politically and economically unstable. Rise of Totalitarian leaders(dictators)

    Fascism(Italy); Nazism(Germany); Stalinism(Soviet Union/Russia); Great Depression; Stock Market Crash; Totalitarianism; Mussolini; Hitler; Stalin; Tojo

     

    World War II

    Dictators in Italy, Germany, and Japan began to build up the military and conquer other nations. Democracies failed to react(Great Britain, France) or were isolationist(US)

    D-Day June 6, 1944; Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941; Invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland; Anti-Semiticism; Holocaust; Battle of Britain; Battle of Stalingrad; Manhattan Project; Atomic Bomb; FDR; Winston Churchill; Stalin

     

    Cold War

    Tensions arose between the US and the Soviet Union and their allies. More of a political rivalry than a war. Economic showdown between capitalism and communism. Many former colonies get independence.

    Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe; Containment; Berlin Airlift; Korean War; Vietnam War; NATO; Warsaw Pact; Détente; Cuban Missile Crisis; John F. Kennedy; Mao Zedong; Fidel Castro; Mohandas Gandhi; Nelson Mandela

     

    New World Order

    World is interconnected and technology driven. Competition and the need for resources. China, India and the former Warsaw Pact join the world economy. Terrorism is a major problem, terrorists may be religious, nationalist, or ideological.

    Developing nation(poor, agricultural economy, little industry, Southern Hemisphere); Developed nation(industrialized, rich, Northern Hemisphere); Third World; terrorism; globalization; Osama bin Laden;