Concepts:

There is ample evidence to indicate that high-school adolescents are very much concerned about social relationships and have a somewhat humanitarian outlook on life. They are being asked from all directions to be reflective thinkers, have inquiring minds, and be active problem solvers. The very serious problems in the United States that existed between the 1880s and 1921 resemble the problems that students will later have to confront and solve as adults. A study of the nature of those earlier problems and the various approaches to their solution provides an opportunity for students to test their current commitments to social well-being and their ability to find solutions to difficult social problems.

The role-playing activity related to foreign policy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to engage in a simulation of the political process. Students should see that they can and will approach that process at many levels in responding to the same problem.

Lesson 1
A Crossroads Resource: Populists and Progressives
A Crossroads Resource: Populists and Progressives: Suggested Resources
Lesson 2
A Crossroads Resource: Performance Assessment: All Students
A Crossroads Resource: Senate Foreign Relations Committee
A Crossroads Resource: Foreign Policy Experts
A Crossroads Resource: Situations in Brief: Cuba
A Crossroads Resource: Situations in Brief: China
A Crossroads Resource: Situations in Brief: Panama
A Crossroads Resource: Situations in Brief: Europe