Blog Post: Americans Experience Mexico, circa 1890-1945

Grade Range: 8-12
Resource Type(s): Reference Materials
Date Posted: 7/13/2012

In this blog post, students will learn some of the ways in which Americans learned about Mexico from some examples in the Archives Center's collections. In the years prior to World War II, most Americans had limited first-hand experience of Mexico. Mexico primarily was known as a place for American financial investment and as a land of frequent political turmoil. Written Craig Orr, Aquistions Archivist at the Archives Center, this post is published on the Museum's "O Say Can You See?" blog.


National Standards

Historical Thinking Standards (Grades K-4)

Standards in History (Grades K-4)

United States History Standards (Grades 5-12)

World History Standards (Grades 5-12)

Historical Thinking Standards (Grades 5-12)

College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (Grades K-2)

2: Applying Disciplinary Tools and Concepts

D2.Civ.1.K-2. (Civics): Describe roles and responsibilities of people in authority.
 
D2.Civ.2.K-2. (Civics): Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.
 
D2.Civ.3.K-2. (Civics): Explain the need for and purposes of rules in various settings inside and outside of school.
 
D2.Civ.5.K-2. (Civics): Explain what governments are and some of their functions.
 
D2.Civ.6.K-2. (Civics): Describe how communities work to accomplish common tasks, establish responsibilities, and fulfill roles of authority.
 
D2.Civ.7.K-2. (Civics): Apply civic virtues when participating in school settings.
 
D2.Civ.8.K-2. (Civics): Describe democratic principles such as equality, fairness, and respect for legitimate authority and rules.
 
D2.Civ.9.K-2 (Civics): Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions while responding attentively to others when addressing ideas and making decisions as a group.
 
D2.Civ.10.K-2. (Civics): Compare their own point of view with others' perspectives.
 
D2.Civ.11.K-2. (Civics): Explain how people can work together to make decisions in the classroom.
 
D2.Civ.12.K-2. (Civics): Identify and explain how rules function in public (classroom and school) settings.
 
D2.Civ.14.K-2. (Civics): Describe how people have tried to improve their communities over time.
 
D2.Eco.1.K-2. (Economics): Explain how scarcity necessitates decision making.
 
D2.Eco.2.K-2. (Economics): Identify the benefits and costs of making various personal decisions.
 
D2.Eco.3.K-2. (Economics): Describe the skills and knowledge required to produce certain goods and services.
 
D2.Eco.4.K-2. (Economics): Describe the goods and services that people in the local community produce and those that are produced in other communities.
 
D2.Eco.5.K-2. (Economics): Identify prices of products in a local market.
 
D2.Eco.6.K-2. (Economics): Explain how people earn income.
 
D2.Eco.7.K-2. (Economics): Describe examples of costs of production.
 
D2.Eco.9.K-2. (Economics): Describe the role of banks in an economy.
 
D2.Eco.10.K-2. (Economics): Explain why people save.
 
D2.Eco.12.K-2. (Economics): Describe examples of the goods and services that governments provide.
 
D2.Eco.13.K-2. (Economics): Describe examples of capital goods and human capital.
 
D2.Eco.14.K-2. (Economics): Describe why people in one country trade goods and services with people in other countries.
 
D2.Eco.15.K-2. (Economics): Describe products that are produced abroad and sold domestically and products that are produced domestically and sold abroad.
 
D2.Geo.1.K-2. (Geography): Construct maps, graphs, and other representations of familiar places.
 
D2.Geo.2.K-2. (Geography): Use maps, graphs, photographs, and other representations to describe places and the relationships and interactions that shape them.
 
D2.Geo.3.K-2. (Geography): Use maps, globes, and other simple geographic models to identify cultural and environmental characteristics of places.
 
D2.Geo.4.K-2. (Geography): Explain how weather, climate, and other environmental characteristics affect people's lives in a place or region.
 
D2.Geo.5.K-2. (Geography): Describe how human activities affect the cultural and environmental characteristics of places or regions.
 
D2.Geo.6.K-2. (Geography): Identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of specific places.
 
D2.Geo.7.K-2. (Geography): Explain why and how people, goods, and ideas move from place to place.
 
D2.Geo.8.K-2. (Geography): Compare how people in different types of communities use local and distant environments to meet their daily needs.
 
D2.Geo.9.K-2. (Geography): Describe the connections between the physical environment of a place and the economic activities found there.
 
D2.Geo.10.K-2.(Geography): Describe changes in the physical and cultural characteristics of various world regions.
 
D2.Geo.11.K-2. (Geography): Explain how the consumption of products connects people to distant places.
 
D2.Geo.12.K-2. (Geography): Identify ways that a catastrophic disaster may affect people living in a place.
 
D2.His.1.K-2. (History): Create a chronological sequence of multiple events.
 
D2.His.2.K-2.(History): Compare life in the past to life today.
 
D2.His.3.K-2. (History): Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped a significant historical change.
 
D2.His.4.K-2. (History): Compare perspectives of people in the past to those of people in the present.
 
D2.His.6.K-2 (History): Compare different accounts of the same historical event.
 
D2.His.9.K-2. (History): Identify different kinds of historical sources.
 
D2.His.10.K-2. (History): Explain how historical sources can be used to study the past.
 
D2.His.11.K-2. (History): Identify the maker, date, and place of origin for a historical source from information within the source itself.
 
D2.His.12.K-2. (History): Generate questions about a particular historical source as it relates to a particular historical event or development.
 
D2.His.14.K-2. (History): Generate possible reasons for an event or development in the past.
 
D2.His.16.K-2. (History): Select which reasons might be more likely than others to explain a historical event or development.